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user19161

12:02 AM

@Ariel I don't think the user will receive your message unless he has been in the chat room recently or if you reply directly to one of his messages. In the former case when you use @ and try to type the first letter you will see options for autocomplete.

Ariel

@JasperLoy thanks, I think s/he has noticed! :)

user19161

@Ariel Oh but maybe I am wrong, and these SE algorithms change all the time.

Ariel

@JasperLoy heh. I have no idea. My life is already too complicated to figure out even more things! ;-)

user19161

@Ariel Er, wait till you hear about mine...

Ariel

@JasperLoy In another piece of good news, I got a new orange-ginger-ceylon blend today. its absolutely amazing (and I do not plan to spill any of it!)

user19161

12:13 AM

@Ariel Oh I think I would prefer the plain teas. When I used to frequent starbucks in the past I got earl grey.

user19161

@Ariel Another piece? What was the first piece?

Ariel

12:30 AM

@JasperLoy oh I was just saying that... like a newscaster. "And in another sensational piece of news today, @JasperLoy admitted he prefers plain teas. Oh, the horrors!"

user19161

@Ariel Ah yes I suspected. How is your dissertation coming along? If you need to complete it you should not be chatting!

Ariel

@JasperLoy we call it charbucks as in they always burn their coffee or fivebucks. Nothing is below $5. Its adds up after a while. One of my charbucks addicted officemates estimated spending close to $700 a year on coffee/tea alone. insane.

@JasperLoy damn! you too???! Yes, I really need to get back! See you later! :)

user19161

@Ariel My earl grey is the cheapest drink there I believe.

user19161

@Ariel Good luck!

tohecz

7:12 AM

33333 rep for @PeterGrill !!!

percusse

8:10 AM

Based on the OP's comment we can close this one as too localized

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Q: Beamer slide table with data tool

I'm trying to include in a beamer presentation a table automatically loaded from a csv file. I'm doing the following \usepackage{datatool} \usepackage{siunitx} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{ctable} \usepackage{bm} \begin{frame}{Shotlist} \DTLloaddb[ noheader,% headers={% \shortstack...

Joseph Wright

@percusse Done

David Carlisle

So.... after a discussion here yesterday about how rep capping works, I has a whole pile of upvotes. I nearly commented at the time that they are not that helpful and would probably be reversed and this morning:

Patrick Gundlach

Anybody here who will attend the EuroTeX meeting in the Netherlands? ntg.nl/eurotex2012/index.html

David Carlisle

It's not that transparent how the rep counting works (and why they came off today rather than retrospectively from the day they were added, but please don't upvote answers so fast that there is clearly no time to actually read them.....

Patrick Gundlach

BTW: DANTE members get 50 Euro off!

Joseph Wright

8:28 AM

@PatrickGundlach As do UK-TUG members :-)

Patrick Gundlach

Well, DANTE members get an extra discount :-))

so it's 350 Euro

Or did I miss something?

Joseph Wright

@PatrickGundlach Oh, perhaps you do. I was just going on the '400 euro for Local TeX User Group (LUG) members' bit

Can't see the bit about DANTE

Patrick Gundlach

It's hidden: "Note: Dante members will receive an extra discount of 50 EUR." somewhere in the table

Joseph Wright

@PatrickGundlach Oh, so it is

Patrick Gundlach

@JosephWright So you're attending?

Joseph Wright

8:35 AM

@PatrickGundlach You are joking, right? I enjoy my TeX as a hobby, but EURO 350 + travel + ... is a bit much

Plus the week's holiday I'd have to take, which is right at the start of term

percusse

8:49 AM

@JosephWright Thank you

cmhughes

9:16 AM

@egreg I didn't understand your comment on my answer to vref? :)

egreg

@cmhughes If you use \eqref in the statement of a theorem (or any other italic context), the number and the parentheses will be upright anyway, which doesn't happen with your macro.

cmhughes

@egreg ah, I see. I hadn't thought of that.

it's not really my macro, it's from the documentation :)

Martin Scharrer

While writing the text for my second solution I figured that it doesn't work in some cases. I think I have to implement a stack or a multi-level buffer ...

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A: Why won't my macros work properly?

The issue you seem to have is that you have empty lines in the second argument of you \showxxxx macros. This empty lines cause a paragraph break, i.e. a \par is added. This means you have to test for three different things: argument is completely empty, argument is a space, argument is a space pl...

\showsection{Multiple levels 1}
\showsubsection{Multiple levels 1a}
\showsubsection{Multiple levels 1b}
\showsubsubsection{Multiple levels 1bI}
\showsubsubsection{Multiple levels 1bII}
\showsubsection{Multiple levels 1c}
    test

Should show 1 and 1c, but only shows 1c at the moment

egreg

@cmhughes \makeatletter\labelformat{equation}{\tagform@{#1}}\makeatother is what you need (requires amsmath).

cmhughes

@egreg much appreciated, I was just looking into it... I'll make the edit

egreg

9:24 AM

@cmhughes And I'll remove the comment. :)

cmhughes

@egreg many thanks, I've taken care of it.

percusse

Is it Ask your TikZ questions! day ?

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cmhughes

@percusse it's crazy- and so few MWE! 'draw-this-for-me'

tohecz

@MartinScharrer Maybe a double-pass? Because you have some nodes of the "nesting graph" and you "only" need to include all its ancestors with it...

Patrick Gundlach

@percusse Glad I ignore the tikz-pgf tag :)

percusse

9:39 AM

@PatrickGundlach Ahaha, maybe I should become a LaTeX guru like you and ignore TikZ too. Yeah, let me do that :)

Martin Scharrer

@tohecz I need to reset the buffer to an earlier state, i.e. remove everything till the parent of the next sectioning command. Maybe I apply grouping to achieve this.

Martin Scharrer

10:38 AM

@tohecz I updated my solution now with multi-level buffers.

Have a look

user19161

10:50 AM

@DavidCarlisle That is why when I try to give people "presents", I usually do three at a time only!

tohecz

@MartinScharrer speechless

Martin Scharrer

@tohecz I'm looking forward to the responds of the OP. He had already issues with the original solution which was much simpler.

Faheem Mitha

11:09 AM

@JosephWright I asked this yesterday, but you might actually have an answer. Is there anyone in the world who gets paid to work fulltime on TeX?

Please feel free to ignore if you don't feel like replying.

user19161

@FaheemMitha This question is ambiguous.

Martin Scharrer

@PatrickGundlach You miss out on 1/3 of all question then ;-)

user19161

@FaheemMitha Do you mean working to polish the TeX release or just working full-time in a TeX related job?

Faheem Mitha

Question: is it possible to have like a subdocument embedded inside a LaTeX document? It doesn't look like it. Is embedding a PDF file as part of a LaTeX compilation possible as an alternative?

@JasperLoy How so?

@MartinScharrer That many?

@JasperLoy : Working on TeX development. Not a job that just uses TeX. The latter would describe many people, e.g. secretaries and technical writers.

Martin Scharrer

@FaheemMitha Ok, I checked now. It's just about 1/9 of all questions so far.

Faheem Mitha

11:13 AM

@MartinScharrer Ah, that sounds plausible.

Martin Scharrer

18,618 questions in total, 1,912 tagged with tikz-pgf

Faheem Mitha

Wow, that's a lot of tikz questions.

This site must be the number one place for tikz information now.

Martin Scharrer

But I think TikZ questions are getting more popular so the fraction of new question should be higher than this.

Patrick Gundlach

@MartinScharrer That's true, but still so many (great) questions to read.

David Carlisle

@MartinScharrer we should have a cricket rule for the site as well as this chat room, after every 2 tikz questions you have to ask about cricket

Faheem Mitha

11:19 AM

@DavidCarlisle Er, why?

user19161

@MartinScharrer Well, I think pstricks deserves more attention!

David Carlisle

@FaheemMitha well in the case of this chatroom it is to stop egreg and paulo talking about football all day;-)

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Martin Scharrer

@JasperLoy Ha Ha Good one!

user19161

@MartinScharrer It is a difficult decision, but I think I will stick to pstricks because of its 3D capabilities, eg pst-solides3d.

Faheem Mitha

@DavidCarlisle Well, there are lots of things one could talk about. E.g. opera. So, what do people think of The Magic Flute?

Martin Scharrer

11:21 AM

@JasperLoy Well you can use both, you know.

@FaheemMitha Is that a plugin for Opera? ;-)

user19161

@MartinScharrer Yes, just like we can dual boot Debian and Ubuntu! But I still prefer Debian.

Faheem Mitha

@MartinScharrer Nope. :-)

@JasperLoy Yay for Debian.

debian/rules.

percusse

@JasperLoy Do you know how to draw a shaded sphere without the meridians or whatever it is called in the documentation (which is not at its best currently)? If yes, can you add it to the sphere question?

user19161

@FaheemMitha Is that the one with the crazy "hahahahahahahahaha" soprano aria?

percusse

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Q: How to draw a shaded sphere?

Andrew Stacey pointed out that the Rosetta Code entry "Draw a Sphere" doesn't have a TikZ entry yet. Is there a way to draw a "properly" shaded sphere using TikZ? The ball shading would seem an obvious choice, but it uses a circular highlight, which is not what it would look like in reality. So:...

tikz-pgf shading

Martin Scharrer

11:23 AM

@JasperLoy @FaheemMitha Tried Debian once, didn't liked it, wiped the partition, kept using Gentoo until Ubuntu came along.

user19161

@percusse No, I am a novice. I just mean that I will learn pstricks, not that I know pstricks!

Faheem Mitha

@JasperLoy Yes, that would be the Queen of the Night aria.

@MartinScharrer Oh, so sad. :-(

user19161

@FaheemMitha Ah yes, forgot the name there. I never really listen to French or German operas, but I like Italian ones. I am a baritone myself.

percusse

I still don't understand how the advanced Linux distros still keep the TeXLive update frequency once a year(even longer maybe). It's almost similar to Microsoft updates :p

user19161

@percusse Er, there are microsoft updates every day!

Faheem Mitha

11:27 AM

@JasperLoy I believe it is this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

percusse

@JasperLoy Yes but functionality related ones come with the frequency of the Halley comet.

user19161

@MartinScharrer I am too scared to try Slackware/Arch/Gentoo.

Faheem Mitha

Along with a handy audio recording. Gotta love the internet.

user19161

@percusse That is why it might be better to stick to vanilla TL.

Faheem Mitha

@percusse Packaging TeX Live is hard. And people don't want to do heavy lifting.

The Debian TeX Live effort is a nearly one man effort by Norbert, for example.

percusse

11:30 AM

@JasperLoy Oh, try sending that to a journal with a message explaining which version you have. You get a mail with cut/pasted letters threatening you.

Faheem Mitha

Also, lots of people don't see the point of packaging TeX Live, which means even less manpower on average.

percusse

@FaheemMitha But MikTeX is pretty succesful I would say, and as far as I know that's one man show too.

Faheem Mitha

@percusse Really?

@percusse Hmm. I dunno about Windows stuff. How often is that updated?

percusse

@FaheemMitha Pretty fast but I don't know the exact delay. The nice thing is that it allows you to update package-by-package which allows you to choose.

Faheem Mitha

@percusse What about inter-package dependencies?

percusse

11:36 AM

@FaheemMitha I think that's a burden on the package authors. Ok, I did an update query and it shows that I have, say siunitx from 17 April and now there is a version from 27 april.

user19161

@DavidCarlisle Oh I must have remembered wrongly. I thought you were involved as well!

Martin Scharrer

@JasperLoy Well I started to be too busy to maintain a Gentoo installation myself.

percusse

This one looks like resolved by the OP

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Q: Change token of biblatex alphabetic style

I have used biblatex for some time with the alphabetic style for my work. But now I have to change the token (e.g. [KK09]) in front of the items of the bibliography to a longer version: On two authors it should look like this: [Author1 Author2, Year] With three or more authors: [Author1 et. al....

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