User talk:Will Orrick

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[edit] Welcome

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Hi, Will. Thanks for the new article. It's very nice. I did notice one little thing, which I'll fix up in just a minute here – in accordance with Wikipedia style conventions your first sentence really ought to read

In mathematics a regular Hadamard matrix is a Hadamard matrix whose row and column sums are all equal.

In other words, the article's title ought to appear as bold-faced type in the first sentence of the lead paragraph. Not a big deal, but good to know.

Have a great day! DavidCBryant 16:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Line breaks

Hi, Will. I got your message.

In general, browsers won't break to a new line until they hit a space or a new-line character in the rendered text. So if you wrote the formula as E(H) with no intervening spaces you shouldn't get a break between the E and the left parenthesis. I'm not sure if your particular issue is browser specific, or not. With which article did you have the problem? Which browser and OS are you using? Or is the problem as simple as breaking at a space?

When I'm coding formulas in HTML I (usually) take some care to think about breaks at spaces. The non-breaking space character (coded  ) is useful for this purpose. For instance, there's a difference between coding

''a'' = ''b''

and coding

''a'' = ''b''

These should both render the same way (a = b, and a = b), but the second version should not break across two lines (if your browser's working correctly). Oh – there's also an HTML entity   which stands for a "thin space" and also comes in handy in some circumstances.

Sorry to be so long-winded. I hope I've answered your question. DavidCBryant 11:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

It must be a browser issue. I'm running Internet Explorer 6.0 on Microsoft Windows XP. Since I'm travelling, I don't have easy access to a variety of machines and browsers on which to test the rendering. The page in which the issue is occurring is regular Hadamard matrix. I typed E(H) as ‘‘E‘‘(‘‘H‘‘) without spaces. Moving or eliminating the quote marks doesn't alter the behavior. If I go to other pages that use function notation, such as function (mathematics), for example, I am able to produce the same phenomenon by resizing the browser window. --Will Orrick 15:05, 23 May 2007 (UTC)