I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins.
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg For our last paper, I regularly went through the draft and corrected all these little inconsistencies. I was taught that way by a postdoc during my PhD (my PhD advisor was also the "badly readable scribbles on PDF" type).
My new prof. calls himself a "typography nerd", but it basically means that he likes this one font and he will notice every single character in the paper that is not this font. -
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$km/s$:
"e.g. something":
"(\cite{REF})":
@vicgrinberg @knud and just keep changing the text until all underfull hboxes are gone!
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg I seem to have a limit for the frequency of this kind of error above which I cannot take in the content anymore. I only see the errors after that.
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@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life
@mxk @vicgrinberg Me carefully sizing my window to take a screencap of this joke with good linebreaks.
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@mxk @vicgrinberg Me carefully sizing my window to take a screencap of this joke with good linebreaks.
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@vicgrinberg @knud and just keep changing the text until all underfull hboxes are gone!
@baszoetekouw @knud pssst, nobody admits to this loudly...
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@vicgrinberg I seem to have a limit for the frequency of this kind of error above which I cannot take in the content anymore. I only see the errors after that.
@hmwilker ahah, yes
Or at least I get really pissy in my comments - and I have a few collaborators who are really terrible and don't even try -
I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg we have linting / style guide enforcement tools for programming languages, do we have similar tools for TeX?
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@vicgrinberg we have linting / style guide enforcement tools for programming languages, do we have similar tools for TeX?
@ShadSterling I don't think this would work with a technical solution since this is context dependent on what the text actually days. And there already are rules...
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg Why stopping?
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@vicgrinberg Why stopping?
@sci_photos because it takes time and brain power (and I'm in constant lack of both, with too many things to do) & feels also useless correcting something if the other does not care and keeps doing it.
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@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life
Bad keming is a curse
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg my t shirt is raising questions already answered by my t shirt
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@vicgrinberg my t shirt is raising questions already answered by my t shirt
@ricci ahaha, absolutely love this!
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg I hate the empty faces around me whenever I say LaTeX. While they play around with Canva and Word, I use InkScape and LaTeX. And don't get me started on social media: I say Mastodon and get looked at as if I had an illness. To cut it short: Be happy about LaTeX errors, at least you have some healthy nerdy people around you.
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@vicgrinberg teach a person typography and they will suffer from seeing bad typography for life
@mxk @vicgrinberg Teaching singers to sightread can have similar consequences.
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@sci_photos because it takes time and brain power (and I'm in constant lack of both, with too many things to do) & feels also useless correcting something if the other does not care and keeps doing it.
@vicgrinberg Yes, I feel that; but reading poorly formatted math takes sooo much brain power, too
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@vicgrinberg I hate the empty faces around me whenever I say LaTeX. While they play around with Canva and Word, I use InkScape and LaTeX. And don't get me started on social media: I say Mastodon and get looked at as if I had an illness. To cut it short: Be happy about LaTeX errors, at least you have some healthy nerdy people around you.
@janhelms well, it's not about being (healthy) nerdy - in my research field it's a requirement, all big astrophysics journals require the paper submissions to be in LaTeX, using their respective style files. So very different context.
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I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
@vicgrinberg
relatable but never a problem I had because before I was a grad student my wife and I met while working for a book typesetting company the used TeX/LaTeX. -
I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?
Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...
It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*
This post and comments thread are just
Thanks @vicgrinberg and all who contributed. You made my day.
