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.


342 Answers

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32
\dots versus \ldots - is there a difference?
oct 15 at 14:48
31
Best choice between using \\ or leaving space after each paragraph to end the paragraph
aug 9 at 17:14
29
What is the most bizarre thing you have seen done with TeX
mar 25 at 18:55
26
Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?
may 14 at 20:18
26
A MiKTeX update removed amsmath as obsolete – can I use another package or get it back?
feb 4 at 22:04
25
Why does TeX Live “require” yearly updates?
apr 5 at 14:25
21
TeX & Troff a reflection on the history of Computer Typography
dec 27 '11 at 20:39
21
What to do with this hyperref note on amsmath?
aug 5 '10 at 21:51
20
What happened to Textures and Bluesky Research?
apr 16 at 15:29
19
How was TeX output visualised on screen, back in the day?
apr 30 at 14:54
19
Is it possible to generate sudoku games with LaTeX?
feb 2 '12 at 19:59
19
Non italic text in theorems, definitions, examples
dec 14 '11 at 13:31
19
Making a new environment combining equation and split
sep 17 '10 at 15:29
18
When to use math mode?
dec 5 '11 at 15:00
17
Where can I find a list of English hyphenation exceptions?
jul 12 '11 at 17:43
17
Are the original CM fonts better than the current type1 fonts?
mar 22 '12 at 16:00
16
How to achieve correct spacing for arithmetic/geometric sequences?
nov 4 at 19:21
16
No hyphen for a word
aug 17 at 14:53
14
Why do arguments to nested \tilde or \breve commands reappear when amsmath is used?
oct 3 '11 at 13:18
14
Use of \small in the equation environment
mar 27 '11 at 18:54
13
What is the capital Greek letter for tau?
apr 30 at 13:48
13
The TeXbook: Spiral or hard-cover binding?
mar 24 at 20:58
13
Reasons for saving a box?
dec 16 at 14:48
13
Who *doesn't* use e-TeX?
jun 16 '12 at 17:42
13
mathop shifts the baseline, DeclareMathOperator doesn't
jan 16 '12 at 15:30
13
Is TeX as word and logo a trade mark?
oct 3 '11 at 13:56
13
Can I see a plain TeX source file please?
dec 3 '10 at 22:08
12
emph ignores the page margin
may 29 at 14:43
12
Why is there a \, space at the beginning of the “aligned” environment?
mar 22 at 21:00
12
Making a LaTeX version of a textual logotype
may 9 at 13:08
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