{"id":35,"date":"2015-10-16T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/?p=35"},"modified":"2015-10-16T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:52:05","slug":"nitpicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/2015\/10\/16\/nitpicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitpicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting Tom, LII director, who was channeling Frank Wagner, the longest serving Reporter of Decisions for the US Supreme Court,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u201cThe work of a legal publisher is an exercise in serial nitpicking.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No quibbles with that. I&#8217;ve been indulging in some nitpicking. Until this morning, this is what a portion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/cfr\/text\/26\/1.263A-3?qt-cfr_tabs=1#qt-cfr_tabs\">26 CFR 1.263A-3<\/a> looked like on the eCFR tab:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/files\/2015\/10\/bolding-bug1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/files\/2015\/10\/bolding-bug1.png\" alt=\"Enumerator and its enclosing braces are not properly bolded.\" width=\"891\" height=\"758\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note how the enumerators 1, i, ii, 2, and their enclosing braces are not properly bolded. Not good! Since I am the sort that deems suspicious, anyone who posts a Craigslist advertisement with grammatical errors, I can see why someone would take issue with a publisher improperly rendering the bolding on a piece of text. So, it&#8217;s fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, since I am also basking in the euphoria induced by fixing this presentation problem, I will not bore anyone with the details of negative look-ahead, greedy, non-greedy, capturing, and non-capturing pattern matching with regular expressions in python, while carrying my laptop, uphill, both ways to and from my office, &hellip;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting Tom, LII director, who was channeling Frank Wagner, the longest serving Reporter of Decisions for the US Supreme Court, \u201cThe work of a legal publisher is an exercise in serial nitpicking.\u201d No quibbles with that. I&#8217;ve been indulging in some nitpicking. Until this morning, this is what a portion of 26 CFR 1.263A-3 looked <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/2015\/10\/16\/nitpicking\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[322],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}