mbork

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I am a mathematician by profession and quite a long-time (since around 1995 - as of now [2012], this means almost half of my life) TeX user by hobby.

I started with plain TeX, and much later (in the early 2000s) moved to LaTeX; I still use plain TeX occasionally (and when writing LaTeX classes/packages). Quite recently I also started to use ConTeXt.

I have a blog about (among others) TeX and friends, located at http://mbork.pl/Content_AND_Presentation.

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Mar 17	comment	What are the main advantages to using the multicol package over the twocolumn documentclass option? disadvantage: licence (see e.g. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40920/…)
Mar 17	comment	What are the main advantages to using the multicol package over the twocolumn documentclass option? balancing columns, changing the number of columns on one page.
Mar 16	comment	Is it possible to use the pipe character, \|, to separate cells in a table? Nice, but redefining the catcode of `\|` is just as fragile as using `&` (assuming one does not use `\|` anywhere else, which is quite probable. In fact, even `\verb&verbatim text&` works under the normal LaTeX catcode regime, by the way, so David's answer does not conflict with the usual `\verb\|blah\|`.)
Mar 16	comment	Most efficient method to strip all of the LaTeX code from a document? One note that came to my mind just after posting this: "being comfortable with Emacs" may take more than a few days. Depending (less) on your learning speed and (more) of your notion of "comfortable", it might as well be a few years;).
Mar 16	answered	Most efficient method to strip all of the LaTeX code from a document?
Mar 16	comment	Ensuring a paragraph uses at least a given height? What about putting the precis in a box and measuring its height? (I don't know how `memoir` handles it, though, so it might not be an easy option.)
Mar 15	revised	LaTeX symbol for table sorting Added a link to Detexify
Mar 15	comment	LaTeX symbol for table sorting Good point, @texenthusiast! Done.
Mar 15	answered	LaTeX symbol for table sorting
Mar 15	comment	LaTeX symbol for table sorting Thanks, @nunos and @texenthusiast!
Mar 15	comment	Producing \right and \left not related Works for me. Of course, the closing `\}` should be deleted.
Mar 15	comment	Dice symbols for digits up to 9 @azimut: definitely, TikZ is the way to go. Using Metafont and ifsym restricts you to bitmap fonts (unless you want to learn Metatype1, which you don't;)), epsdice is a Postscript solution so it might be nontrivial to get it to work with pdflatex, and TikZ is both supported by pdflatex and easy to learn/use.
Mar 14	comment	LaTeX symbol for table sorting Very nice question. I'm wondering whether an hour will be enough for a tikz answer to appear;)... Meanwhile, let me suggest `\vartriangle`/`\triangledown` or `\blacktriangle`/`\blacktriangledown` from `amssymb`.
Mar 13	comment	Text and figure side by side in a list in ConTeXt I struggled with a similar problem some time ago. Did you try using `\startitem ... \stopitem` instead of `\item ...` and putting your figure between items? (I didn't test this, just had this idea.)
Mar 13	answered	Converting LaTeX into Unicode for email
Mar 13	comment	Why \nointerlineskip if background of Beamer-color frametitle is empty? After skimming through beamer sources, it seems that hypothesis (2) is very probable. If nobody wants to answer this question, I'll probably be able to answer it myself in some time;)...
Mar 13	comment	Why \nointerlineskip if background of Beamer-color frametitle is empty? @egreg: I know that, but the frametitle seems to be at the very top of the page anyway. After asking the question, I gave it a little thinking, and I have two hypotheses: (1) maybe `\nointerlineskip` suppresses `\topskip`? (I don't think so.) (2) maybe `beamercolorbox` puts some kind of a box above its contents (probably yes, though it'll take some time for me to analyse its code).
Mar 13	asked	Why \nointerlineskip if background of Beamer-color frametitle is empty?
Mar 12	comment	bodegraph on Ubuntu 10.04 Just my 2 cents: you don't have to uninstall Ubuntu's TeXlive 2009, it's enough to make sure that your installation's executable path comes earlier in `$PATH`.
Mar 12	comment	Sloppy \left and \right? Well, actually... no. The TeXbook has a bunch of examples where `\left` and `\right` give clearly wrong size (sometimes too big, sometimes too small). IMHO, their main use is for delimiters bigger than `\Bigg...`. Equations will need tuning if you want them too look good anyway.