I’ll be quick today, because it’s already an hour later than it was at this time last week. Daylight saving started here this weekend, and my 7pm class moved to 8pm because I run it at the same time for students in Asia. So over the summer I finish quite late on Sundays now.
I worked mostly on more slides for my photography engineering presentation. I’m getting there… nearly done. Hopefully I can finish tomorrow. Then I’ll need to send it to the lecturer to make sure it works on a Windows machine. Especially the equations, which I know from experience in the past tend to get munged doing that moving from MacOS.
New content today:
My funniest (in retrospective) experience with equations in software is when I was studying in the Uni. I was on a lab course, and had to provide written reports of the assignments. I wrote them in Word in one of the computer rooms.
Then when I went to print the final report, I went to the room with a printer (this was a long time ago, so printers were not common and cheap enough to be in every class). I logged on the computer, and started up Word.
Only to realize than it was a different version of Word, and the computer might have had different fonts installed, so the equations didn’t show up properly. I panicked a bit, but then I tried to open the files in Word Perfect, and there the equations showed up correctly and I could print the report.
After that I learned LaTeX and wrote all my suff in it, including my thesis (for which I made a new class file, which I know at least some other people used, too). Sadly I haven’t used it since, though I was happy to realize my kid’s school software for writing equations uses it behind the scenes.
Keynote on MacOS uses LaTeX under the hood too. I typed the equation in using LaTeX code. I think the problem may be that MS products don’t support it.