barbara beeton

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staff specialist, composition systems, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI

maintainer of AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and AMSFonts bug/request lists, at tech-support@ams.org

TeX Users Group, founding board member; editor, TUGboat

TeX entomologist (bug collector) for Donald Knuth's Computers & Typesetting

symbol collector for the STIX project, and conduit to Unicode for math symbols

NOTE: answers to questions will be posted in lowercase unless i am answering in an official capacity for my employer. The reasons are given in the last item in an interview on the TeX Users Group web site.

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31	Best choice between using \\ or leaving space after each paragraph to end the paragraph
28	What is the most bizarre thing you have seen done with TeX
27	\dots versus \ldots - is there a difference?
26	A MiKTeX update removed amsmath as obsolete – can I use another package or get it back?
25	Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?

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+10	Is it possible to generate sudoku games with LaTeX?
+10	Best choice between using \\ or leaving space after each paragraph to end the paragraph
+60	Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?
+15	How to fix interline skip in LaTeX?

2 Questions

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22	is there a “size-independent” method for overlaying two symbols to form a composite?
16	how to suppress “Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) … while \output is active”?

199 Tags

243 amsmath × 37	130 line-breaking × 18
212 math-mode × 43	130 best-practices × 11
202 equations × 36	104 align × 27
141 spacing × 27	101 tex-core × 13
139 theorems × 26	92 horizontal-alignment × 22

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