User:Laurawisewell

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Hiya, I'm Laura.

I'm Scottish, born in Coatbridge, Strathclyde and brought up in Glenrothes, Fife. I've lived in London and Cambridge and Edinburgh while at universities, and I'm now a pure mathematician at Glasgow University. [1]

I play the cello. Right now my landlord doesn't allow pets, but I love cats and very much hope to have one of my own again sometime. What else? I'm a Christian, of no particular denomination although my current church is Salvation Army. I have an interest in mental health, and when I lived in London was a volunteer for a mental health helpline. I was for a few years an admin on a large internet support group and I'm still a member of MindLink. I'm a vegetarian, mainly for reasons of animal welfare, and I care a lot about matters such as fair trade.

My computer is a macintosh, specifically an imac G5, which has a lovely big screen for using the vertical interface. I proof in Safari, and for post-processing I use GuiGuts, SubEthaEdit, Preview and Gimp. At work my computer runs Suse Linux, and from there I preview my HTML in Konqueror. Since acquiring a couple of hundred old maths books, I've got into content providing. My scanner is an EPSON Perfection 3490 Photo, I use GraphicConverter for image processing, and ReadIris for OCR (though I wouldn't really recommend it).

On DP I like to work on non-fiction books, especially Science (anything from maths to medicine) and Religion/Philosophy and anything connected with Scotland. I have a page showing the books I have PPed or PPVed. NOTE! As a PPer I am quite willing to tackle old R1/R2 projects, or to request that projects skip P3. If you are a PM and you have a project stuck in a queue that you think I might enjoy, drop me a line and maybe you can assign me as PPer.

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Bits and Pieces

• The "Content Method" for pagenums in HTML
• My content providing workflow
• A bit of minute-taking: Round-balancing proposals
• In-progress wiki stuff, mostly destined for Accessibility Recipes
• Other in-progress/to-do:
  • Put some project comments for Sur les principes fondamentaux de la théorie des nombres et de la géométrie {LaTeX} {F2 skipped}
  • LaTeX Lite:
    • work out some Guidelines for "DP Formatting plus equation markup"
    • try this out on Scientific papers, vol. V {LaTeX}
    • learn Perl, write something like the GG HTML autogenerate that takes this markup and generates LaTeX
  • Finish the illustrations for Manual of Surgery (6th ed.) (2 of 3): Extremities, Head, Neck (1921) -- the first 180 are in a file in my dpscans folder.
  • Wait for the smoothread deadline, then upload Assimilative Memory. A zip of the HTML, UTF-8 and Latin1 (versions incorporating susan's smoothread) can be found in my dpscans folder laurawisewell/memory.zip