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Archive for March 5th, 2025

Unicode subscripts and superscripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA tables; Source: Small caps: Unicode – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/05

I originally searched for the tables below to see if I could get the visualisations of TeX and LaTeX right for infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994..

Didn’t work, neither did using plain html super and subscript. The only thing that worked was using CSS styles (I chose to embed them, as separate CSS files are a huge premium over the WordPress plan), which also preserves actual meaning for screen readers:

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Posted in accessibility (a11y), CSS, Development, HTML, Power User, Software Development, Unicode, URL Encoding, User Experience (ux), Web Development | Leave a Comment »

On my list of thigs to play around with: ISSUE_TEMPLATE and other GitHub templates/settings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/05

Somehow I never consciously thought through how on many GitHub repositories, some of the issue reporting steps started with nice templates.

That is, until I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind which has:

  1. a folder [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind with Markdown files for different kinds of issues (bug report, feature request and question).
  2. a file [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

So from [Wayback/Archive] ISSUE_TEMPLATE – Google Search a few results for me to get started:

--jeroen

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