The most wonderful time of the year! Where the sun is bright and hot and the soil is sandy and the dust is present… and the bucket price is not the same as the per-pound price.
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
CEFR Research
This is just some links I collected on reading about CEFR.
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/cefr/
Ketoconazole
For several years I have from time to time used Ketoconazole shampoo for my itchy face under my beard, and for my scalp, which can also itch. For about eight months now I have been using white vinegar instead. It seems to work better, last longer between treatments and in general cost less. Your mileage may vary. 
LaTeX Journeys
There are some really nice templates out there for Latex... I need to look at xLingPaper and then take a look at what I want to do and if I want to create a look-alike template in LaTeX. All things considered XLingPaper still pulls data nicely from FLEx. But I haven't used FLEx in a bit.
I really like CharisSIL and Linux Libertine. ACM two-column format really looks nice, in Libertine, but I haven't checked the linguistic symbols with it recently.
I'm a big Chicago (autor-date) fan...
https://abidsikder.com/blog/chicago-style-citation-and-bibliography-in-latex.html
https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chicago/doc/biblatex-chicago.pdf
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/the-chicago-citation-style-with-biblatex/pdqqrmwtdqpc
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6275/how-can-i-create-a-chicago-manual-of-style-formatted-document-in-latex
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/bibliography-chicago-author-date-doi-suppressed/drrhkmbbmtbx
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/examples/bgu-endnotes-chicago-history-dept-template/hqycfypwjbwy
The taylor & Francis Interact template is really nice
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/taylor-and-francis-latex-template-for-authors-interact-layout-plus-chicago-reference-style/jfkyqxkxqhrs
https://eddelbuettel.github.io/rticles-gallery/tf_demo.pdf
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/taylor-and-francis-latex-template-for-authors-interact-layout-plus-chicago-reference-style/jfkyqxkxqhrs.pdf
Compiling a Proceedings in LaTeX
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124942/constructing-conference-proceedings
Collection aboutness in OLAC
Defining aboutness of a collection is a challenge. From a philosophical point of view, this is even harder for collections in anthropological linguistics. These kinds of collections are not assembled for the sake of their "about-ness" but rather for the sake of their "is-ness". A collection in a museum might be about 19th century trains but such collections rarely contain the trains themselves. So, does this mean that linguistic collections are really about the people groups the speech is representing? and then the of-ness is the speech? Then linguists come along and write about the grammar of the language, and that is about the language? Often original stories will have an aboutness meaning which is never recorded in metadata. This needs to change.
This thought needs to be explored with MARC 655 $x and $v sub-fields. see: https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd655.html
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd650.html
see email: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/FMfcgzGsmrDLzSSBqXVPfKphwmdGhcZC
Our First Concert
We did it. We went to our first concert! Katja’s violin teachers were in the orchestra. So Katja and I went for the full effect of seeing the violin in use.
Zotero Pains… The “pre-print”
The massive pre-print industry has influenced Zotero to make their a specific category for pre-print. This is a cognitive fallacy which only exacerbates the citation and reference chaos.
Pre-prints are manuscripts.... There are hand-written manuscripts, there are typescript manuscripts and there are computer generated manuscripts... Zotero already has manuscripts as a category... no need to add a new category.
To make matters worse, Zotero imports PDFs when it can find open access versions of them. The problem is that it imports them to the article/publication type when they are pre-prints rather than to the pre-print item type. This make authority version management in Zotero nightmare. Classic case (try importing) : https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663914565848
I am still hopeful that Zotero staff will find a clean and easy way to automatically link pre-prints to their authority version records within Zotero.