Sinn Féin councillor suspended over alleged inappropriate messages
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Update: The title of this post was originally a knowing nod to the considered harmful cliché. I thought it might be amusing and get a bit of attention. However it was brought to my attention by a few people I respect that the title as written might be harmful in itself, so I changed it. However I believe that the subtle point I’m trying to make still stands:
When did we start using the ch unit to specify the maximum length for a line of text? Many places you look nowadays you'll see a variation on:
.prose {
max-inline-size: 60ch;
}
Is it because of a direct reading of Bringhurst and people (like me) who’ve quoted him:
Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size. The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal. For multiple column work, a better average is 40 to 50 characters.
I get it: there’s all that talk of ’characters’. But that’s not what Bringhurst means literally. I’ll come back to that shortly.
Firstly let’s remind ourselves about the CSS ch
unit. While ch
sounds like it should equate to a number of characters or a character width, that’s not strictly the case. The ch
unit specifically refers to the width of the zero ’0’ character within the selected font, or 0.5em
if no ’0’ is present. So unless you have a line made up entirely of zeroes, or are using a monospaced font, a width of 66ch
will probably not give you a line containing 66 characters. What’s more, the rendered width of that line will vary with the font design, sometimes significantly.
The important part of Bringhurst’s guideline is not the ’66-characters’ but the ’satisfactory length’. This is about readability, and readability is affected by the length of a line more so than the number of characters in it.
A consistent finding is that long line lengths on screen are least preferred or judged as least easy to read [my emphasis]
With that in mind, restricting your line length using rem
would be a far more appropriate unit to use:
.prose {
max-inline-size: 30rem;
}
This would give you a line length accessibly tied to text size, but independent of font design.
Bringhurst’s guideline includes this little caveat: a page set in a serifed text face in a text size.
This enables him to equate the number of characters in a line with its length. So if you are using a fairly standard typeface for your text then you’ll probably be fine. However that ’standard typeface’ assumption is implicit anytime you use ch
to set the width of a column of text. Using rem
removes that assumption and gives you what you are probably really after – a consistent, predictable limit on line length.
It didn’t surprise me to find that Eric Meyer had written about this six years ago. I’ll leave you with an important observation from his post:
If you’re working with multiple typefaces, say one for headlines and another for body copy, be careful about setting
ch
measures and thinking they’ll be equivalent between the two fonts. The odds are very, very high they won’t be.
So is using ch harmful? At the risk of saying it depends, it might not be harmful, but it could be, and there is a far more reliable and appropriate unit to use by way of the rem
when it comes to limiting line length in a column of text.
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The reaction between a racemic mixture of (R,S)-fixolide and 4-methylthiosemicarbazide in ethanol with a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio and catalysed with HCl, yielded the title compound, C20H31N3S [common name: (R,S)-fixolide 4-methylthiosemicarbazone]. There is one crystallographically independent molecule in the asymmetric unit, which is disordered over the aliphatic ring [site-occupancy ratio = 0.667 (13):0.333 (13)]. The disorder includes the chiral C atom, the neighbouring methylene group and the methyl H atoms of the methyl group bonded to the chiral C atom. The maximum deviations from the mean plane through the disordered aliphatic ring amount to 0.328 (6) and −0.334 (6) Å [r.m.s.d. = 0.2061 Å], and −0.3677 (12) and 0.3380 (12) Å [r.m.s.d. = 0.2198 Å] for the two different sites. Both fragments show a half-chair conformation. Additionally, the N—N—C(=S)—N entity is approximately planar, with the maximum deviation from the mean plane through the selected atoms being 0.0135 (18) Å [r.m.s.d. = 0.0100 Å]. The molecule is not planar due to the dihedral angle between the thiosemicarbazone entity and the aromatic ring, which amounts to 51.8 (1)°, and due to the sp3-hybridized carbon atoms of the fixolide fragment. In the crystal, the molecules are connected by H⋯S interactions with graph-set motif C(4), forming a mono-periodic hydrogen-bonded ribbon along [100]. The Hirshfeld surface analysis suggests that the major contributions for the crystal cohesion are [(R,S)-isomers considered separately] H⋯H (75.7%), H⋯S/S⋯H (11.6%), H⋯C/C⋯H (8.3% and H⋯N/N⋯H (4.4% for both of them).
The reaction of ethane-1,2-diamine (en, C2H8N2), the sodium salt of naphthalene-1,5-disulfonic acid (H2NDS, C10H8O6S2), and nickel sulfate in an aqueous solution resulted in the formation of the title salt, [Ni(C2H8N2)(H2O)4](C10H6O6S2)·2H2O or [Ni(en)(H2O)4](NDS)·2H2O. In the asymmetric unit, one half of an [Ni(en)(H2O)4]2+ cation and one half of an NDS2− anion, and one water molecule of crystallization are present. The Ni2+ cation in the complex is positioned on a twofold rotation axis and exhibits a slight tetragonal distortion of the cis-NiO4N2 octahedron, with an Ni—N bond length of 2.0782 (16) Å, and Ni—O bond lengths of 2.1170 (13) Å and 2.0648 (14) Å. The anion is completed by inversion symmetry. In the extended structure, the cations, anions, and non-coordinating water molecules are connected by intermolecular N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen bonding, as well as C—H⋯π interactions, forming a three-dimensional network.
The title compound, C17H17BN3I, is a type of diazaborinane featuring substitution at the 1, 2, and 3 positions of the nitrogen–boron six-membered heterocycle. The organic molecule has a planar structure, the dihedral angle between the pyridyl ring and the fused ring system being 3.46 (4)°. In the crystal, molecules are stacked in a head-to-tail manner. The iodide ion makes close contacts with three organic molecules and supports the alternating stack.
The cation of the title hydrated salt, C17H17BN3+·I−·H2O, is a diazaborinane featuring substitution at the 1, 2, and 3 positions in the nitrogen–boron six-membered heterocycle. The cation is approximately planar with a dihedral angle between the pyridyl ring and the diazaborinane ring system of 5.40 (5)°. In the crystal, the cations stack along [100] in an alternating head-to-tail manner, while the iodide ion and water molecule form one-dimensional hydrogen-bonded chains beside the cation stack. The cation stacks and I−–water chains are crosslinked by N—H⋯I and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonds.
The interaction between 8-hydroxyquinoline (8HQ, C9H7NO) and naphthalene-1,5-disulfonic acid (H2NDS, C10H8O6S2) in aqueous media results in the formation of the salt hydrate bis(8-hydroxyquinolinium) naphthalene-1,5-disulfonate tetrahydrate, 2C9H8NO+·C10H6O6S22−·4H2O. The asymmetric unit comprises one protonated 8HQ+ cation, half of an NDS2– dianion symmetrically disposed around a center of inversion, and two water molecules. Within the crystal structure, these components are organized into chains along the [010] and [10overline{1}] directions through O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding interactions, forming a di-periodic network parallel to (101). Additional stabilizing interactions such as C—H⋯O, C—H⋯π, and π–π interactions extend this arrangement into a tri-periodic network structure
The title compound, C15H12BN3, is a type of diazaborinane featuring substitution at 1, 2, and 3 positions in the nitrogen–boron six-membered heterocycle. It is comprised of two almost planar units, the pyridyl ring and the Bdan (dan = 1,8-diaminonaphtho) group, which subtend a dihedral angle of 24.57 (5)°. In the crystal, the molecules are linked into R44(28) hydrogen-bonding networks around the fourfold inversion axis, giving cyclic tetramers. The molecules form columnar stacks along the c axis.
The molecular structure of C18H28O4, (+)-diplodiatoxin, is described, whereby the absolute configuration of the structure of diplodiatoxin has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Diplodiatoxin crystallizes in the chiral P43212 space group with one molecule in the asymmetric unit.
Serial crystallography, born from groundbreaking experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source in 2009, has evolved into a pivotal technique in structural biology. Initially pioneered at X-ray free-electron laser facilities, it has now expanded to synchrotron-radiation facilities globally, with dedicated experimental stations enhancing its accessibility. This review gives an overview of current developments in serial crystallography, emphasizing recent results in time-resolved crystallography, and discussing challenges and shortcomings.