fosstodon.org is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.

Administered by:

Server stats:

9.8K
active users

Trying to meet a journal's style requirements with #Rmd 😭
Apparently #APA 7 now says if there are two authors they should have "and" between them if in the main text, but "&" if they're in parentheses.
@zotero's (otherwise excellent) APA .csl files do "and" or "&" everywhere instead of having the differentiation the journal wants.
Anybody got a #CSL file that does this?

Programming languages, APIs, and documentation are usually in English; coding is pretty overtly anglo-centric. But there are more insidious biases too.

e.g. in #MarkDown in general and #Rmd in particular, a block of code starts/ends with ``` which is 3 taps on the same key on a US English keyboard. On a Latin American keyboard, it's a careful sequence of 9 keystrokes. Similarly some #Emacs keystrokes are a nightmare.

Presumably other conventions cause non-anglophone coding annoyances?