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> a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong Been there, experienced that. Like this one poor guy who dared to ask at the TeX.StackOve
by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong
Been there, experienced that. Like this one poor guy who dared to ask at the TeX.StackOverflow help desk—"what can I do to get this and that vertical line in my table", only to get lectured by one acolyte, "Oh noes, don't, vertical lines bad, only horizontal lines in tables, proven to be the only way to go". Which totally throws centuries of finely typeset mathematical, astronomical and nautical tables out of the window while not answering the question.
To be fair, there are quite a few people on the TeXSO that go to incredible lengths to give extensive answers—expositions really—to hairy questions ('hairy' being a technical term here which translates to 'daily' in the context of TeX).