Sorry, you are right. It did not occur to me that texvc could have such a weird incompatibility with standard TeX. — Emil J. 10:04, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

VERY SORRY --Factuarius (talk) 16:32, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I hope that our little misunderstanding is now resolved. — Emil J. 16:52, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Please don't mark non-minor edits as minor, like this one. See Help:Minor edit:

"When not to mark an edit as minor:

• Adding content to an article
• Removing content from an article"

Thanks for adding the information on JSL to the linked article, to avoid surprising the readers who click through the dab page. -- JHunterJ (talk) 11:07, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Emil. After your quick counter-example to my naive hint here I happened to think a bit on it. Here is an obvious but nice construction of a monotone (wrto inclusion) family of subsets of ${\displaystyle \textstyle \mathbb {N} }$ ${\displaystyle \textstyle \{S_{x}\}_{x\in [0,1]},}$ such that ${\displaystyle S_{x}}$ has density ${\displaystyle x}$.

Consider an equidistributed sequence ${\displaystyle \{\alpha _{n}\}_{n\in \mathbb {N} }}$ in ${\displaystyle [0,1],}$ and define

${\displaystyle S_{x}:=\{n\in \mathbb {N} \,:\,\alpha _{n}<x\}.}$

Then, by definition, ${\displaystyle S_{x}\subset S_{y}}$ for all ${\displaystyle x<y}$ and ${\displaystyle d(S_{x})=x}$ for all ${\displaystyle x}$. As a consequence, in any finite collection of ${\displaystyle S_{x}}$, one of them is not covered by the others (so their characteristic functions are linearly independent &c). --pma (talk) 07:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, this sounds right. — Emil J. 11:24, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Capitalization rules of Wikipedia are followed by other pages, such as flOw. Just because a name isn't capitalized and is widely spelled a certain way doesn't exempt it from the standardization. Talk to me, Rbpolsen♦☺♦ 04:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

You misunderstand Wikipedia naming conventions. The most fundamental rule is that articles are normally titled using the most common English-language name of a person or thing that is the subject of the article. So, yes, the fact that the name is widely spelled a certain way does in fact make it the title of choice. The MOS:TM guideline you quoted merely elaborates on this convention by stressing that if there is a discrepancy between common English usage and a trademark, the common English name prevails. This rule is actually redundant (it already follows from the first rule), and in any case, it is not applicable to TeX, because here the common English usage agrees with the trademark. — Emil J. 11:47, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

You said, Fix your computer instead of breaking it for all other people. In what way does my computer need to be fixed? I've never seen this problem on any other article, and I've edited several thousand. Jehochman ^Talk 13:09, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

First of all, what problem are you talking about? I can't even try to tell you what needs to be fixed before you tell us how is it broken for you. However, since the pronunciation info is a simple string of Unicode characters, most likely it is due to missing or incorrect fonts. — Emil J. 13:18, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

That I can see because many of the characters appear as little squares. My system has all the default US-English Windows fonts. I did not remove any. This is a problem I have not noticed on any other article ever. For instance, the template works fine for me on Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Jehochman ^Talk 13:21, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

The sets of characters used in transcriptions of the two names happen to be almost disjoint, so this does not say much. Did you check what characters you do or don't see at WP:IPA for German? Anyway, I can't help you much with Windows fonts, you should direct your question to WP:VPT or WP:RD/C. — Emil J. 13:41, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

About your question: "is there any particular reason why [I] keep making [my] posts one-element unnumbered lists?" Well, I'd noticed that the sys-ops were starting their posts like this on a certain page. I can't seem to find the page right now. I think it makes it easier to see where my posts begin. If we all adopted it then it would work much better. At the moment we have some messages following each other with the same number of indents and the signature is the only clue as to where one post ends and another starts. I hope it's not too offensive to your eyes. ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 17:25, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

If we all adopted it: maybe, maybe. The catch is, we didn't. The standard on WP talk pages is to use colons rather than bullets, and then if there is a lone post starting with a bullet in the middle of a thread, it has rather the opposite effect from what you intend: it makes it harder to figure out where the post fits in, as it is misaligned with the rest, as well as simply looking unusual. Bulleted (or sometimes even numbered) lists are generally used only in polls (like WP:AfD) and similar situations, where it helps to quickly numerically gauge the current consensus. — Emil J. 18:14, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, if you feel so strongly about it then I'll have to reconsider. ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 18:16, 8 October 2009 (UTC)