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>No, it's an en space, which is something quite different. This sort of mixup doesn't exactly inspire confidence. There appear to be numerous mixups that likel
by cge 5y ago
>No, it's an en space, which is something quite different. This sort of mixup doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
There appear to be numerous mixups that likely come from copying examples without understanding them.
One example that stood out to me was with block equations. The author points out that the paragraph after an equation is not indented, something they likely copied from LaTeX. It's true that, if you simply look at many LaTeX documents visually, the text after an equation is often not indented. But that is because for LaTeX, and the styles it is built around, a block equation is considered to be part of a paragraph. For some people, they are outright considered part of sentences, put on their own line only for clarity, with commas or full stops at the end to make the sentences grammatically correct. The point of not indenting the text after an equation is to indicate to the reader that the text is not a new paragraph. An actual new paragraph after an equation in LaTeX is indented by default.
The author appears to have seen some documents with equations, not understanding this distinction, and noticing the lack of indentation after most equations, copied the visual result without understanding the meaning.
- oefrha 5y ago> But that is because LaTeX, and the styles it is built around, a block equation is considered to be part of a paragraph. For some people, they are outright considered part of sentences, put on their own line only for clarity, with commas or full stops at the end to make the sentences grammatically correct. As someone once trained as a mathematician, I can confirm that's exactly the case. Simple example: Newton's second law states that $$F = ma,$$ where $F$, $m$ and $a$ are the force, mass, and acceleration, respectively. Of course you don't indent the rest of the sentence.