wanderer

If the following is not well known to electrical engineers, I would appreciate a little explanation of how it is done:

"Thus, analog ICs are designed so only the ratio of resistors matters, not the absolute values, since the ratios remain nearly constant"

If it well known, a reference would be helpful.

(K. Shirriff, your posts offer a lot, even to those of us who do not have a technical background. Thank you.)

How about "ScienceWrite" or "Science Writer"?

Default LaTeX fonts give me a nasty uncomfortable feeling in the stomach by reminding me of Math and CS tests

Me too. The formulas look so dark. Do you know of any typefaces where the mathematics and physics formulas look lighter, and, at least to some of us, less imposing?

You might want to look at the review of the Facebook Portal by Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac in NY Times (November 2018).

It seems to make conversation between two people more natural.

I hope others will comment here on features that might improve the "sociability" of meetings via zoom-like applications.

I wonder if the author realizes the Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to be drafted. In World War II Germany, they paid dearly for this refusal. Belief in a flat earth seems like a minor failing compared to the moral strength the Witnesses have shown in resisting one of the demands of "civilization" on its members.

I do understand the workflow you outlined, but I don't follow it, because I don't like it. In InDesign, I just open up a text box and start typing. Once I am within a text box, however, my irritation begins. I don't want to use tabs to align text. I suggested an alternative in my first post.

Thank you for getting back to me.

a stilted compromise

Not to me. I was so happy when I tried MacWrite on my new (early 1984) Macintosh. I enjoy "fighting myself" because I am very unwilling to separate content and appearance. InDesign provides me with some succor but nowhere near what I would like. It is not visual enough. Why can't I align text by dragging a vertical line onto the text and request alignment to that? After all, this can be done with figures in InDesign, and unlike tabs, you get an immediate sense of what the result of the alignment will look like.

(A sad setback in word processing is Apple's Pages. It has two modes "word processing" and "page layout". I hope Larry Tesler never encountered it.)

In the Demon Seed (1977), the master isn't killed, but the mistress (played by Julie Christie) is assaulted by their smart home.

Eddie(Text Editor) by Pavel Císler has a worksheet like that.

I think Xiki might help me escape the editing environment of the shell and REPLs provided via the shell (specifically the bash shell of Mac OS X Terminal, and various Scheme REPLs.) I want to work just as I can in TextEdit, or for that matter in the humble HTML textarea: put the cursor anywhere and start typing or deleting. The Mac OS X program Eddie permits some of this.

I want to agree with po from an entirely different point of view--a non-programmer often trying to figure out how a particular program (in a language I don't know) works. If I spot the "my" or "my-" prefix, I take it that the corresponding token (e.g. "mypref", "my-limit") is not a reserved term of the language, but one the programmer is defining or assigning. So the "my" prefix can be helpful (at least to some non-programmers) and I don't want it co-opted to become a reserved word.

I would like a webkit based browser that can only open local files. I want to be free of the security restrictions (as I understand them) which do not allow me (for example) to save the text I enter in a textarea to a file on my desktop. Finally, I do not want to use a local server.

I do not want to deal with local servers either