On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 04:28:30 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Nov 23, 2004, at 4:10 AM, Gerrit wrote:
Some of the mathematical representation on [[Knuth's up-arrow notation]] is broken. There is too much whitespace.
Have you tried removing some of the quad-spaces? [...] Presumably this is meant to align things just so, but it creates, well, a bunch of whitespace.
Yes, I think this is just a good example of abusing layout syntax - your use of ASCII art is to the point. Rather than using a table with multiple columns, somebody has used a table with 2 rows but 1 column, and put a lot of spaces in so that the text on the bottom lines up with a particular part above it. I'm going to try and fix things up now. [Not that I have any experience with TeX, this just seems to "make sense"]