Comment on critical latex mod

lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pratchett said the insanity of person can be judged by an excessive use of exclamation points, yet he haven’t lived long enough to see the pure morbidity of someone who frequently uses double spaces and, coincidentially, contributes to LaTeX.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In some ways, that’s somebody that made a great effort to let the computer find and correct double spaces…

    It’s just a very strong case of that “scratch your own itch” of FOSS.

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• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.

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• vale@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It looks like it’s typographically aligned “justified”, meaning it has a standard width and will automatically add gaps between words to make it fit the page. It looks cleaner and used in many legal and academic documents.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re the second person who thinks I’m talking about the sample article in the image. I was talking about the mod description below the image.

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• Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Latex formats lines like newspapers where the left and right side of the text box make clean vertical lines and the width of a space isn’t guaranteed, which might be what you’re referring to. Actually, I’m pretty sure accidentally typing a double space is impossible, latex will remove them and reformat the words as it sees fit.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But that text is not justified and the spaces are not evenly distributed. All spaces are equal except those few double spaces (which are also equal to each-other).

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    • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re referring to the tweet text? Latex can’t help you there.

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