'Shindig'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash. The endash looked the same as a minus sign; next to the other minus sign in the formula, it scanned weird. The emdash, although technically wrong, looked better.
HTML perfectionism
Tell me about it. When we were designing the board, I spent way too much time laying out the left column here (esp. the yellow bordered boxes). It's an illness.
Yeah, pi has an uppercase and a lowercase; luckily,they are like pi and pi junior. (Other Greek letters = much more confusing.)
My favourite's delta. (He's a perfect triangle. She's a tiny circle with Elvis' hair. They fight constantly!)
It's an illness.
But a good one, and one that I share.
So are you also responsible for the little red pluses?
But a very foamy one, Jon...
That didn't come out quite right...
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash.
I was just about to point that out, Jon, but I was too slow.
Em dashes are the best dash there is, though.
I'm just shocked that no one's yet pointed out that I used an emdash, rather than an endash.
I wrote the post saying that and then got called away. I am of the opinion as well that em dashes shouldn't have spaces around them when typsetting (I always put spaces around my dashes here though because I'm a lazy SOB who doesn't know how to make a proper em dash). I'm not gonna stare at it everyday and let it drive me mad or anything though.
Helping with the general entertaining nitpickery - maybe "Nilly, could this be mathier?" instead? Sounds more natural, you know?
Natter 18 should be
Natter 18: General Entertaining Nitpickery
I am of the opinion as well that em dashes shouldn't have spaces around them when typsetting
Ack!!!! Go space! Choose space!
I don't remember who thought up the red plus signs. I know that I figured out that the only way to line up all the text was to have invisible plus signs in front of the rest of the rows. (check it out!)