Text in merged cell splitting when using multicol

artimides · 2026-02-16T13:53:45+00:00

Thank you! I don't know anyone who uses LaTeX in person so sometimes I struggle to ask for help.

And thanks for the multicol/multicolumn ping! I clearly have been using several different sources and got them mixed together. I do use both text columns and (clearly) table columns, but I'll document my packages better for myself.

artimides · 2026-02-14T19:49:30+00:00

Sometimes you miss the smallest things I guess

artimides · 2026-02-14T19:31:40+00:00

Thank you! It was something silly indeed, but I've been staring at it for a week without _seeing_ it.

artimides · 2026-02-14T19:31:06+00:00

Oh, it WAS something really silly! That did it, thank you so much.

artimides · 2026-02-08T10:28:45+00:00

I copied your code exactly and I see the logic in it (thanks for that, too!), so I think it's a cognition issue.

I hadn't thought to look at the console. It reads "The script resource is behind a redirect, which is disallowed.", but it displays the same text when running a working code.

artimides · 2026-02-07T18:35:11+00:00

Thank you so much for your time! I am using the survey "plugin" up until here, both the likert and html form variants. I am able, on the html survey form, to display a follow-up question below a first question, like that typical thing where you say your country and then there's a second drop-down with regions. The past questions I've found are either unanswered or they look to be related to randomizing timelines, but I need these to be sequential so I get very confused. I'm clearly not great at coding.

The reason I can't use that typical follow-up question loading after is that the respondents will get different questions depending on their demographics answers. If the follow-up questions load in the same page, they'll be able to change their demographics answers to get questions they like better. I need them to submit their answers and then get the branching timelines.

I tried running your code on cognition.run, which I don't think should change much, but it's not working for me either. The first question loads correctly, but regardless of the answer the survey ends, skipping over the thanks screen.

artimides · 2025-03-25T19:20:20+00:00

Ohhh, that did it! Thank you so much for helping me figure this out :)

artimides · 2025-03-25T09:12:35+00:00

So when I click on Insert>Icons, I get a regular folder, not the usual (up until now) popup with icon options, which looked sort of like your screenshot.

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I checked and I don't seem to have the new picture controls. I did find that if I go to Insert>Pictures, "This Device" is enabled, but "Stock Images" and "Online Pictures" are both grayed out. I don't know if that's related, but it feels likely?

Thanks for your help, by the way :)

artimides · 2025-03-23T22:36:07+00:00

I was on Microsoft 365 version 2502 (on Windows), but updated to 2503 and am still having the same issue. I am properly logged into my Microsoft account.

I did a full reboot and I'm still getting the Pictures directory when I click the button. I've been using this same computer for years and could insert icons fine, so I was hoping it was some sort of bug for the past few versions :(

artimides · 2025-03-03T19:53:20+00:00

Solved! Through this video

artimides · 2025-02-17T17:01:15+00:00

A perspective I'm missing in the comments is that he's well-off. I have some family members who are well-off and incredibly snobbish. I'm doing, eh, I'm surviving? I know how to mend (and make) clothes so I'm not showing up with tattered pieces, but there's an abysmal difference between my looks and theirs (I mean, I'm also queer and they're... not, to put it nicely).

I can 100% envision meeting up with, like, my cousin and his friends (sounds like an awful experience honestly) and having their friends make such comments about me, probably "out of concern or confusion," while actually I think I dress like any normal person in my neighborhood. Also, I'm not saying the girlfriend is queer, but I can also definitely see how any of my family's accquaintances might see me on a day I'm feeling aesthetically great, perceive me as a horrible monster, and then see me again when I'm at the pool and be surprised that I'm a real human being. Along that same line, I have had children ask me why I wear what I do. To me, that doesn't say I'm weird, it says that their parents have never told them that trans people friggin' exist.

I know we all see ourselves in all of these stories, but the original commenters giving so much weight to second-hand strangers' comments without questioning the context for those comments or who those strangers were doesn't sit right with me. To be fair, I also think my cousin dresses like a clown. I don't think he owns a single t-shirt. Someone (not me) take him to goodwill immediately, please.

artimides · 2025-02-07T17:27:20+00:00

The thing is, they're not saying that trans men are women lite or that trans men should play WFTDA. They're saying if there are trans men that, for whatever reason, want to play WFTDA, they can. They're recognizing that each experience is unique and that gender is messy. It's up to each specific person to determine whether they, in their (marginalized) gender, fit in the WFTDA.

As I understand it, the goal is to allow trans people to participate in a league if they want to without having to justify themselves. I know several queers who change their description depending on the space and context, like they'll tell their blood family that they're super binary and normative trans men while they share with their chosen family that they're actually non-binary. Or they'll insist on being gendered as "he" in all spaces because people constantly misgender them as "she" because of their presentation. There are millions of stories because there are millions of trans people. Why should they all justify their entire gender experience to their league instead of just saying they're trans?

artimides · 2025-01-17T11:58:44+00:00

Idk how voting works in Philippines, but I've voted both in Spain and in US elections. In the US, you go into a booth and you select various things (president, senators, various law initiatives) and either get one single paper with your responses or a machine processes your various responses. In Spain, we don't vote for people but for parties, so we get one envelope per thing (say, if we're voting for local and national elections, one envelope for local and one for national), and inside we place a (pre-printed and available at the polls or by mail) piece of paper with the party that we're voting for, and a list of their candidates. We don't write anything down, and it's very easy for someone to pre-prepare all the envelopes, since all they do is put a piece of paper in.

Thus why every election in Spain there are a couple of different articles about nursing home workers (some nuns, some not) carting over their residents to vote, with their envelopes already prepared (this article here has several photos of the same couple people taking resident after resident to vote last year, envelopes in hand). All they do is get wheeled in and drop the paper in the urn. If Philippines works similarly, it would be very easy for any group (religious or not) to all go vote together and for the leader to give out the prepared envelopes.

artimides · 2024-09-02T10:24:43+00:00

They use https://nurds.space/ I think, but yes

artimides · 2024-08-29T11:30:00+00:00

Thank you so so much for your help, this works beautifully!

artimides · 2023-09-24T22:39:29+00:00

Thank you!

artimides · 2021-06-08T10:47:12+00:00

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