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[Watno]

Somehow this guys' videos amuse me more than they should:

[Tables]

Somehow this guys' videos amuse me more than they should:

My favourite part is the cube flying up from the floor onto the cube.

[Awaclus]

I just noticed this in my profile:

Posts: 3440 (5 per day)

This is the first time I see an integer there.

[Kuildeous]

I kind of cry a little bit when I send a Word document to someone who dislikes the Track Changes feature and wants me to mark all the changes in manual redline instead. It hurts so, so much.

[soulnet]

I kind of cry a little bit when I send a Word document to someone who dislikes the Track Changes feature and wants me to mark all the changes in manual redline instead. It hurts so, so much.

Well... use a revision control system + LaTeX and problem solved. Plus, your documents will look better and be more portable. Although, if even biologists still insist on using Word...

[Witherweaver]

I just noticed this in my profile:

Posts: 3440 (5 per day)

This is the first time I see an integer there.

Now you must post exactly five posts every day.

[Kirian]

I kind of cry a little bit when I send a Word document to someone who dislikes the Track Changes feature and wants me to mark all the changes in manual redline instead. It hurts so, so much.

Well... use a revision control system + LaTeX and problem solved. Plus, your documents will look better and be more portable. Although, if even biologists still insist on using Word...

LaTeX is the best document creation software that no one uses.

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?  Chemists certainly don't use it.

[Titandrake]

Really? I though pretty much all science research papers were written in LateX. Although now that I think about it, I've only read Math/CS/Physics ones. The one Biology one I read doesn't count because it's the "Tai's Method" paper.

LaTeX is very clean and pretty, but it has some really obscure errors that may or may not actually affect the final rendering, and gets annoying to debug at times.

[eHalcyon]

I think this is the best video I've watched in the last several months.  Couldn't help smiling through the whole thing.

[soulnet]

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?

I would say it is for CSists and mathematicians and physicists take advantage of it. It is still a shame nobody else does. I mean, you can use a wysiwyg editor if you want something that looks like your regular word processor.

[eHalcyon]

What is "Sarnath"?  I keep seeing people say it instead of "ninja'd".  Is it some ninja from pop culture that I am unaware of?

[Axxle]

I think this is the best video I've watched in the last several months.  Couldn't help smiling through the whole thing.

...

Turn that smile upside-down!

[jonts26]

Latex was widely used in grad school by most STEM majors I knew.

[Awaclus]

What is "Sarnath"?  I keep seeing people say it instead of "ninja'd".  Is it some ninja from pop culture that I am unaware of?

He was a MiseTings (an MTG site/forum) user who was known for often beating people to the punch.

[GeoLib]

I would say Latex is used most by CS, then math, then physics, then chem. Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it, and a chemistry paper I'm working on right now is in latex (granted it is a computational chemistry paper). I use it for my proof-based problem sets and I'm currently using it for a chemistry lab report. Successfully got BibTex working, modified the ACS style guide to not mark corresponding author, and added subschemes! (those were my primary accomplishments this morning, as opposed to, say, writing anything)

[soulnet]

I would say Latex is used most by CS, then math, then physics, then chem. Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it, and a chemistry paper I'm working on right now is in latex (granted it is a computational chemistry paper). I use it for my proof-based problem sets and I'm currently using it for a chemistry lab report. Successfully got BibTex working, modified the ACS style guide to not mark corresponding author, and added subschemes! (those were my primary accomplishments this morning, as opposed to, say, writing anything)

Well, that's not nothing. I spend my last year of undergrad and my entire PhD trying to make a Babel style for my research group and failed at doing anything but a reusable .tex template.

[eHalcyon]

Is this the first meme to become a legitimate movie?

I can't believe they got Aubrey Plaza to sign on.  Perhaps I am overestimating her stardom.

[Kirian]

Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it

Huh, that appears to have been added in the 2006 style guide; mine is from an earlier time...

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?

I would say it is for CSists and mathematicians and physicists take advantage of it. It is still a shame nobody else does. I mean, you can use a wysiwyg editor if you want something that looks like your regular word processor.

I didn't know there was a WYSIWYG editor for it.  Interesting...

[Kirian]

Is this the first meme to become a legitimate movie?

[inigomontoya.jpg]

It's on Lifetime.

[GeoLib]

Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it

Huh, that appears to have been added in the 2006 style guide; mine is from an earlier time...

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?

I would say it is for CSists and mathematicians and physicists take advantage of it. It is still a shame nobody else does. I mean, you can use a wysiwyg editor if you want something that looks like your regular word processor.

I didn't know there was a WYSIWYG editor for it.  Interesting...

I didn't know these existed either. Cool. Really I just want to find an editor that will use a different color for math mode. The number of times I've had to do binary search on a document to figure out where my "missing or extra $" was...

[Witherweaver]

Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it

Huh, that appears to have been added in the 2006 style guide; mine is from an earlier time...

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?

I would say it is for CSists and mathematicians and physicists take advantage of it. It is still a shame nobody else does. I mean, you can use a wysiwyg editor if you want something that looks like your regular word processor.

I didn't know there was a WYSIWYG editor for it.  Interesting...

It's called LyX, but it sucks.

[Witherweaver]

Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it

Huh, that appears to have been added in the 2006 style guide; mine is from an earlier time...

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?

I would say it is for CSists and mathematicians and physicists take advantage of it. It is still a shame nobody else does. I mean, you can use a wysiwyg editor if you want something that looks like your regular word processor.

I didn't know there was a WYSIWYG editor for it.  Interesting...

I didn't know these existed either. Cool. Really I just want to find an editor that will use a different color for math mode. The number of times I've had to do binary search on a document to figure out where my "missing or extra $" was...

Um... lots of editors will syntax highlight.  I generally use MiKTeX as my LaTeX installation, which comes with the TeXWorks editor.   It generally works well, and syntax coloring is helpful.

Oh.. I just realized you probably meant highlight everything inside mathmode.  I don't know of any that do this, though I don't see why there couldn't be one.  But it would require some overhead of parsing your document as you type.

[GeoLib]

Certainly ACS (American Chemical Society) has style guides and stuff for it

Huh, that appears to have been added in the 2006 style guide; mine is from an earlier time...

Seriously though, it's basically for mathematicians and physicists, with maybe some computer scientists?

I would say it is for CSists and mathematicians and physicists take advantage of it. It is still a shame nobody else does. I mean, you can use a wysiwyg editor if you want something that looks like your regular word processor.

I didn't know there was a WYSIWYG editor for it.  Interesting...

I didn't know these existed either. Cool. Really I just want to find an editor that will use a different color for math mode. The number of times I've had to do binary search on a document to figure out where my "missing or extra $" was...

Um... lots of editors will syntax highlight.  I generally use MiKTeX as my LaTeX installation, which comes with the TeXWorks editor.   It generally works well, and syntax coloring is helpful.

Oh.. I just realized you probably meant highlight everything inside mathmode.  I don't know of any that do this, though I don't see why there couldn't be one.  But it would require some overhead of parsing your document as you type.

Yeah, I use TeXWorks too. I haven't actually searched for one that does what I want, but it's on my to-do list.

[soulnet]

Um... lots of editors will syntax highlight.  I generally use MiKTeX as my LaTeX installation, which comes with the TeXWorks editor.   It generally works well, and syntax coloring is helpful.

Oh.. I just realized you probably meant highlight everything inside mathmode.  I don't know of any that do this, though I don't see why there couldn't be one.  But it would require some overhead of parsing your document as you type.

So, you will use LaTeX, but still cling on to windows? Why would you do that?

BTW, Geany syntax highlights all sorts of stuff, including LaTeX.

I prefer to write the code, but many people I know use Kyle, which has both syntax highlighting and WYSIWYG.

[Witherweaver]

Um... lots of editors will syntax highlight.  I generally use MiKTeX as my LaTeX installation, which comes with the TeXWorks editor.   It generally works well, and syntax coloring is helpful.

Oh.. I just realized you probably meant highlight everything inside mathmode.  I don't know of any that do this, though I don't see why there couldn't be one.  But it would require some overhead of parsing your document as you type.

So, you will use LaTeX, but still cling on to windows? Why would you do that?

BTW, Geany syntax highlights all sorts of stuff, including LaTeX.

I prefer to write the code, but many people I know use Kyle, which has both syntax highlighting and WYSIWYG.

Work systems are Windows-based.  I had Ubuntu on my PC, but it died and I got a laptop.  Haven't bothered to put anything else on it.  Linux is only really aesthetic for me . there isn't much more of an advantage for what I do except that I like the look and feel.