Semi automated: I use TextExpander, and have a couple of snippets to create the superscript and the footnote markup, including an anchor which is autogenerated with the time and date to avoid possible clashes with other anchors. In other words, I type 'fn1' then space, and it expands into the full markup. The method was copied from John Gruber at Daring Fireball, but the snippets makes it much more convenient to use.
ajcarr
· 1 year ago
So, do you wear a cap of dignity (otherwise known as a mortarboard) or the Oxford women's soft square cap? Either way, consider that you would look *more* ridiculous in a Tudor doctor's bonnet (which I always think makes the wearer look like a mushroom).
And at least as an Oxford D.Phil. you don't have to worry about trying to keep your hood straight like the rest of us. :-)
bsag
· 1 year ago
I wore a mortarboard (I never seem to get given the option of the square cap), but I can assure you that there was nothing dignified about it! I did also have a hood, I think - at least, there was something attached to my shirt button, gradually rising up and threatening to strangle me! At least you chaps have a tie to tuck the strap of the hood under.
ajcarr
· 1 year ago
I thought that it was custom and practice for Oxford (and Aberdeen) Doctors not to wear hoods with their dress gown (unlike pretty much everywhere else). I *think* you get to wear your hood with convocation habit (undress, i.e. black gimp) gown with a scarlet chimere on top. I have three colleagues in my school who are Oxford D.Phil.s and none of them wear hoods.
As you've guessed, I'm an academic dress bore who's even contemplated joining the Burgon Society (google for it). :-)
Jonathan Briggs
· 1 year ago
I've got "O" Level Art (1961) and wear my hair upon my head, unless I've been sailing, when it could be seagull's shhhhhhhhhhhhould I be talking about this?
bsag
· 1 year ago
:-D
Jonathan Briggs
· 1 year ago
The chronology of the posts is all over the place, very confusing.
ajcarr
· 1 year ago
That's because replies are to individual posts, not to the top level of the item itself. Or perhaps the server is trapped close to the event horizon of a black hole, and time is all messed up. :-)
Saltation
· 1 year ago
when you mentioned the solemn music of the processionary, the first thing that leapt into my mind was "(wooo-aa-ooooh) black betty"
but then i thought: that beautiful plangent twang, of that long lanky american girl, singing her scintillating country&western classic that starts: "i just SPENT my last ten dollars on condoms and beer. things were so much SIMpler when i was sober and queeer"
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You often do this thing where you make <sup>superscripts<sup> and then link them to a footnote below.
When I do this it is pretty typing–intensive, do you have an automated way that you're doing this?
Footnotes
<ol>
<li>SuperscriptSuperscript reference[BACK]</li>
</ol>
And at least as an Oxford D.Phil. you don't have to worry about trying to keep your hood straight like the rest of us. :-)
As you've guessed, I'm an academic dress bore who's even contemplated joining the Burgon Society (google for it). :-)
"(wooo-aa-ooooh) black betty"
but then i thought: that beautiful plangent twang, of that long lanky american girl, singing her scintillating country&western classic that starts:
"i just SPENT my last ten dollars
on condoms and beer.
things were so much SIMpler when
i was sober and queeer"
*sniff*
beautiful