this has been driving me crazy for months, so i thought i’d just post something in case anybody else has this problem. i’ve been using the examples.sty package that comes with the sp document class and something that i can’t quite figure out is why within the examples, line breaks just don’t happen. you can, of course, force a line break, but it often looks clunky (and more like something you’d get if you’d been editing your document in word). now, the hack solution would be to never have an example sentence that was longer than a line, but since my current work on adnominal emphatic reflexives requires quite a bit of contextual information, that won’t do.
enter \parbox, which fixes the problem. for my document, which has 1in margins, \parbox[t]{6in}{text} does the trick (you’ll have to play around with that second argument if you have different margin sizes, of course). since i’m using this a lot in my paper (with the many long examples), i wrote up a command to automate some of this: \newcommand{\exalign}[1]{\parbox[t]{6in}{#1}}. so now i can just call \exalign on any piece of multi-line text within \examples.
this weekend brendan and i started our second batch of beer, which we’re calling “steam some!” as it’s a california common lager, which is also known as steam beer. unfortunately i didn’t document our first brew, an oak aged imperial stout that actually turned out to be quite tasty! brewing is turning out to be a really enjoyable. i’m hoping to make an IPA next.
while i was at the basement brewhaus, i also picked up a couple of rhizomes for hops growing. i’ll be putting them in the new and improved garden sometime this week and i’m really excited to see what happens!
we’ve been doing some spring gardening over at 116 gov, and today, my 3 mantis egg sacs arrived !! stay tuned for more updates on this thrilling new addition to my family.
snews, or the southern new england workshop in semantics, is being hosted by umass amherst this saturday. i’ll be there with bells and whistles and also a talk about the work i’ve been doing for my major paper.
below, a live performance by aa-cell, self-proclaimed “live coding duo”. these are the guys behind impromptu, which remains one of my favorite things. ever.
waaah, being sick is terrible. congested nose, shortness of breath. it probably didn’t help that i spent about an hour and a half today practicing flute and trying to modify the sax part of “sinister minister” to be a flute part. dizziness ensued.
but! tomorrow we’re stuffing about 200 balloons with color-changing LEDs in anticipation of bunny fair, which promises to be lotsa fun!! i was over there tonight helping set up and install some art, and it’s looking great! plenty of awesome art to buy (including the giant ear & q-tip pictured), a mini golf course, and a super cool 100% eco-friendly building. come check it out!
special bonus! snews abstracts are going up soon. for the semantically-inclined and northeasterly-located, snews will be at umass amherst next saturday. yours truly will be presenting some recent work on self-intensifiers. woo!
riding high on the heels of last weekend’s adventures, comes bunny fair, a party/art sale brought to you by the same folks behind woolly fair. tomorrow promises to be one of those gorgeous spring days, so put on your art party best and come on down to castle wolcott! this is providence at its best.
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