User:Mattb112885
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[edit] About me
My name is Matthew Benedict, I'm currently pursuing an undergraduate chemical engineering degree at the University of Connecticut. I am also very interested in molecular and cell biology.
Besides editing wikibooks entries, I enjoy singing, playing the guitar, and listening to classic rock.
I'm a red sox fan (hopeful for this year!), root for the dolphins whenever they're on TV in Connecticut, and could care less about the NBA.
[edit] Contributions
I'm willing to contribute to anything I know something about but have been focusing on writing the stoichiometry book mostly, that and boring maintenance stuff that no one else wants to do (fixing double redirects and naming conventions).
In the past I made a pretty large number of contributions to the Matlab modules, they're in OK shape but I've reached my limit on how far I can take that with what I know (except maybe for some format improvements). I'll continue to watch it and see how it develops.
I've started a book on Stoichiometry (steady state energy and mass balances) for chemical engineers, since the chemical engineering bookshelf has nothing in it, and that's too bad. I've also done some work with User:Whiteknight on the Scientific Method book, though I confess it hasn't been my highest priority, I will get more done on it in the future.
BTW I know almost nothing about HTML, CSS, javascript, and whatever else people use in these projects (though I am starting to get the hang of TeX!) so please bear with me if I ask you lots of silly questions about it :). You can probably tell this from the mess I've created at the top of my userpage...
[edit] Milestones
1000th edit (fixed a double redirect, wooo)
2000th edit (fixed naming convention, just as exciting)
2500th edit (welcome to an IP!)
500 pagemoves
Nothing compared to User:Herbythyme, User:Whiteknight, or a whole bunch of others though, hahaha. See Special:Statistics for an interesting read for people who like numbers.
[edit] Plans
Trying to do these things later...
- Finish the stoichiometry book and copyedit to make sure everything is consistent (this will take a long time).
- Work on Scientific Method book.
- Eventually I'd like the category for books to be renamed to be empty. At least puzzles is finally done.
[edit] Links (for my reference)
Sandbox (I want to test something I'll put it here, anyone else is welcomed to put stuff in here too if they want!)
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Processes (ICEP also redirects here)
/monobook.js (I have no idea what this is about but its pretty cool)
[edit] How to cite references
In the text use <ref> and </ref> tags around what you want to appear somewhere below, which appears like this: [1]. Then add a <references/> tag to where you want the reference to go on the page:
[edit] Templates
Templates (not mine, but ones I use):
{{Test}}
{{GFDL}}
{{example}}
{{box}}
{{problem}}
{{todo}}
{{NOTE}}
{{subst:welcome}}
[edit] Commonly used math syntax
a\mbox{ space here} --> a space here
\dot= --> 
\rightarrow --> 
[edit] Directions for making a print version (for later reference!)
First things first, you can create the page for your print version at
That's the preferred way to name a printable version. Once you have created the page, copy+paste this tag into your new page:
And copy+paste this tag into your TOC:
- {{Print version}}
Now that you have your tags lined up, you want to copy+paste your entire TOC into your print version page. What you want to change is "[[Book/Chapter]]" links so that they say "{{:Book/Chapter}}". The curly brackets and the colon will cause the chapter to be included into the print version automatically. Now, what you will end up with is your entire book on a single page (which can take a long time to load in your browser). If your book has a cover page or a page with a list of authors, or whatever, you can use the same kind of link to include those pages into your print version as well. At the end of your print version, include the following tag:
- {{:GFDL}}
And that will cause the GFDL license to appear in your book as well (which is needed for legal reasons). Once your print version is all completed, you can direct your browser to:
to see the final product. I'll see if I can find some good examples that you can follow for this. Let me know if you need anything else. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 19:31, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
