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I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
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I just figured my browser wasn't configured properly...weird.
The diamond indicates a link. It's a great convention once you understand it, but it's not at all obvious.
I find both of these conventions very irritating. If you want to be edgy with your link styling, I find Wired's use of a thick, light underline (e.g. http://www.wired.com/2015/02/microsoft-third-party-cloud-ser...) to be both pleasant and not confusing.
Compare: https://medium.com/@willgossin/the-uncanny-valley-race-merit...
To:
http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html
[Edit: Also - no HTTPS? And No Favicon?]
My favorite writing tool of all time is, without a question in my mind, LyX. It manages to find the perfect balance of minimal barriers to productivity, absolute power when I need it, and seriously professional grade results. It's like writing with iAWriter or similar tools, except I still have some basic structural options in the interface, and the end result generated is downright professional grade. I think the "W…
Have you written any long documents or a book with LyX? Any recommendations on resources for learning LyX or LaTeX? There are a lot of Markdown-based publishing tools being promoted these days.
As for the LaTeX underneath, well, I've seldom needed to muck with it. LyX abstracts out a lot of the undercarriage and lets me get on with things in a more GUI-friendly way, though the fallback is always there if I need it (usually just a few extra tags here and there). If I were doing more custom template work though, I probably would need to dig more into LaTeX proper.
"If they sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
You left out the diamond - it made reading this article very strange, since I haven't trained myself not to vocalize it. "If they ♢ sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
Is it just my MacBook Air + OS X, or is the Font (ironically) on that site painful to read? Compare: https://medium.com/@willgossin/the-uncanny-valley-race-merit... To: http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html [Edit: Also - no HTTPS? And No Favicon?]
Is it just my MacBook Air + OS X, or is the Font (ironically) on that site painful to read? Compare: https://medium.com/@willgossin/the-uncanny-valley-race-merit... To: http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html [Edit: Also - no HTTPS? And No Favicon?]