{"id":267,"date":"2000-10-26T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/26\/a_plea_to_the_n\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:24:15","slug":"a_plea_to_the_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/26\/a_plea_to_the_n\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plea to the Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you have a math or science background?<\/strong> If so, maybe you can give your old pal Sparky a hand. I&#8217;ll gladly barter trinkets or prominently featured links to your web site You see, in a little while I&#8217;m going to be a doing a week-long consulting gig for <a href=\"http:\/\/pup.princeton.edu\" >Princeton University Press<\/a>, configuring certain features of their typesetting system and showing them how to set equations, formulas, and other kinds of mathematical notation. I&#8217;m trying to collect examples of as many kinds of mathematical typesetting as I can find to use as examples and reference materials for them, but most of what I&#8217;m familiar with is specific to the needs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asme.org\"  title=\"ASME\">mechanical engineers<\/a>. Do you have any textbooks or academic publications you could browse through for me? Any photocopies or scans would be totally fantastic. <i><a href=\"mailto:Sparky@ultrasparky.org?subject=Here's the stuff, Sparky - What do I get?\">I&#8217;d really appreciate it.<\/a><\/i> Also, any pointers toward a chart on the Web listing the names of various math characters would be cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On a less geeky topic,<\/strong> I&#8217;m trying to track down this incredible punk cover I once heard of the song &#8220;Find It,&#8221; sung by the Carrie Nations in <i>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.<\/i> Does ay one know who did the cover? Know where to find it? <a href=\"mailto:Sparky@ultrasparky.org?subject=Here's the stuff, Sparky - What do I get?\">Lemme know!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a math or science background? If so, maybe you can give your old pal Sparky a hand. I&#8217;ll gladly barter trinkets or prominently featured links to your web site You see, in a little while I&#8217;m going to be a doing a week-long consulting gig for Princeton University Press, configuring certain features &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/26\/a_plea_to_the_n\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Plea to the Nerds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultranerdy","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70855,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/70855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}