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12:02 AM
@HarishKumar Alive and kicking :P
 
@Werner 2nd version added:-)
 
@percusse: Hi Thought it was late night for you. I was trying to get your excellent solution for tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64864/…. I saw Dr. @Christian's comment on row predicate. My attempts have failed/failing gloriously (as I am not that good in using xstring or similar, syntax errors) I just wanted to convey my idea to you and see if you could help. .
 
@HarishKumar I'm actually looking into it but extracting row numbers turned out to be more difficult
 
@percusse: idea is to put N/A and check using row predicate for N/A and if found simply go to the next row (some kind of \relax for just one row).
 
@HarishKumar Yes but row predicate looks for row numbers to be omitted not the content so I need to build the row numbers manually based on content.
 
12:11 AM
Aargh. It is. Another idea is to modify your code using xstring (any way it searches for some matches) so that it searches for N/A?
 
@HarishKumar Yep, that's what I'm trying whenever I have time. But the initial attempt is not fruitful I need to plug this in when the N/A is placed to avoid redundant runs over the columns.
So while putting N/A a number is added to an existing array. Then I'll try to pass that array to row predicate.
But there is another problem namely row predicate works on ranges. And suppose there is one N/A then a number and 3 more N/A on the list. I don't know how to parse the ranges. I need to check if previous lline was N/A or not to delay the array entry.
 
@percusse: Well that seems to be the idea. And every thing comes at a price (regarding redundant runs) Or is there a way to avoid N/A and put this dirextly. I mean instead of adding N/A can we \relax that entry altogether?)
 
@HarishKumar N/A won't be typeset if I can omit the lines anyway so that was something as an initial solution (better than nothing).
@HarishKumar Now I have to externalize my figures in my article because IEEE office rasterized all my images. Then I'll look into it a little more.
 
@percusse: Sure. You should be really doing that work first. (You know I am a supervisor too, I know that it should be the first job) Please carry on. Meet you later. Any progress from my side I will intimate to you. Please try it when you are free.
 
@HarishKumar No problem. It's a nice way to procrastinate too :)
 
12:27 AM
@percusse: Thank you. Have a good time in externalization. bye for now.
 
12:57 AM
@HarishKumar Oh an icon! :) I have an .ico file used in the .exe wrapper: github.com/cereda/arara/raw/master/wrappers/application/…
 
@PauloCereda: I will check it up. Thank you
 
@HarishKumar My pleasure. :) If you need a .png file, just tell me. :)
 
@PauloCereda: .png will be even better. Can you pl mail it to me?
 
@HarishKumar Sure! Any particular size?
 
@PauloCereda: 24x24 or pl. mail all those available sizes so that I can choose. I am not that good in those things.
 
1:09 AM
@HarishKumar Done, sent. :)
 
@PauloCereda: Thanks, I got them. Bye for now. Got to get my kids to school.
 
@HarishKumar Bye, Harish! :) Have a nice day! (here's still Monday 10:12PM. :P)
 
@PauloCereda: OOps. Here in India, it is morning 6.30 am. See you. Good night.
 
@HarishKumar hehe thanks. :)
@JosephWright: I noticed some new posts disappeared from texdev. Any DB problem?
 
 
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6:39 AM
@PauloCereda Something is clearly up: I will need to pursue this with my web hosts. There was some take of moving material between servers.
I have backups, of course, so there should be no issue if I need to do a restore (other than my time!)
 
 
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8:04 AM
We should start a new poll: "How many domains with 'tex' in the name do you own?" :)
 
 
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9:14 AM
Good morning
 
9:35 AM
Good afternoon -:)
 
@N3buchadnezzar, @LaiJiangshan Hello
 
 
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11:12 AM
@JosephWright Oh I hope everything is ok. :)
 
@PauloCereda I've had a message from my web hosts. They are working on it.
 
@JosephWright Oh cool. :)
 
11:37 AM
Just learnt about kpsewhich -all, very useful indeed. I'd installed a package or two from CTAN which are now in TL so needed to delete my local copies. kpsewhich -all was useful in figuring out that this was what had happened as it found both my local copies and the TL ones.
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A: What is the quickest way to check whether I already have a given package?

Stefan KottwitzThe standard tool works not only on Linux but also on Windows systems: at the command prompt, the command kpsewhich name.sty prints path and file name of one file name.sty if it can be found, otherwise nothing. kpsewhich -all name.sty prints all occurences if there are several (try kpsewhic...

(Not that Stefan needs more reputation ...)
 
12:13 PM
@PatrickGundlach also have you deleted all the aux files after adding hyperrerf? (hyperrerf changes the internal ref/label format to have four fields instead of 2)
 
@DavidCarlisle interesting. This is a message that a tex4ht run gives. But strangely this is not the first \ref it encounters. I will re check tonight (the run takes quite some time)
 
TEX4HT!! :-) you didn't mention that:-) well if \ref internals try to grab 4 things instead of two whether or not you get a run away argument error depends on what the next two things are:=) (doesn't tex4ht require to be run in dvi mode it was a custom dvi-driver back then, but that warning says it is in pdfmode)
 
@DavidCarlisle It's so hot here, my brain just stopped working. I will re check tonight.
 
12:36 PM
@JosephWright oh yes:-)
 
 
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2:37 PM
Hmm
My files suddenly does not want to compile, I just switched to TL2012 sigh
 
@PauloCereda: I just sent a mail to you. pl. check and say something.
 
 
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4:07 PM
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Q: Mixing some math fonts

FormlessCloudI want the symbols such \int or \sum from the Latin Modern Math font but the \hbar from the Asana Math and the \partial from the Adobe Garamond Pro in which is called partialdiff. \nabla and all the greek letter such \alpha \beta \psi ecc from the Latin Modern Math. How can i do? \documentclass{...

'Do not do this', perhaps?
 
@JosephWright Indeed. :)
 
Kitten killing in progress
 
4:25 PM
@egreg: birthday detected?! :)
 
4:46 PM
@PauloCereda It seems so. :)
 
@egreg Yay, happy birthday! :) I wish you all the best, my friend! :)
 
@egreg now you are much older than me
 
@DavidCarlisle I'll remain here and wait. :)
 
@egreg happy birthday
 
5:13 PM
@egreg Gracias
 
@egreg happy birthday
 
5:35 PM
@PauloCereda On my blog issues: my hosts claim to have restored from backups, but that's not worked. So I need to restore my SQL data, but my login has been messed up :-( So I've had to report a second issue.
 
6:22 PM
@JosephWright Oh. :( If you need any help, just tell me. :)
 
@PauloCereda It's frustrating. I'm going have to to work through the SQL 'by hand'. I've got other things to do, so it may be tomorrow.
 
@JosephWright Frustrating indeed. Dealing with SQL by hand is quite tedious, not to mention error-prone. :(
 
@PauloCereda It's not exactly by hand. This happened before, and I found that restoring backups is a bit tricky.
 
Ah I see.
 
6:44 PM
Joseph Wright has added an event to this room's schedule.
 
@PauloCereda Quick registration :-)
 
@JosephWright I'm close to 10k - half trusted user. :) I'll soon have half of my credit card back. :)
 
@PauloCereda Do you want a general question about arara ;-)
@StackExchange It's time for this event.
 
@MarcoDaniel Not too soon. :P
 
Speaking of unanswered, a vote for this CW answer will get it off the (rather long) list.
 
6:53 PM
@TorbjørnT. Done
 
7:15 PM
@PauloCereda I hope it's the half with the chip. Or, at least, the mag stripe...
@PauloCereda BTW, Congratulations, you're leaving me way behind, I've still a little way to go to crack 8192
@egreg Very happy birthday. I've only just realised -- you've never asked any questions! Is there a badge for that?
 
7:36 PM
@Brent.Longborough :)
 
@egreg Gefeliciteerd !! :P
 
@PatrickGundlach We will need a new tag for that here
 
7:54 PM
@PatrickGundlach Once my blog is fixed, I think this deserves an entry :-)
@PatrickGundlach Or perhaps a community one for us?
 
@JosephWright Please do so ;-)
 
@PatrickGundlach I meant 'Perhaps a community one for us written by one of the people with my typographic experience than I have' ;-)
 
@JosephWright glad I don't have much typographic experience
 
@PatrickGundlach @Brent.Longborough seems to be our man :-)
 
@JosephWright Beat me with a second
Next week on typography : Yoda discusses Adobe Source Sans Pro!
 
7:58 PM
/me is currently learning "go" (golang.org). Perhaps the next TeX will be goTeX. Or TeX to Go
 
@PatrickGundlach Cool. :) But I'll probably try Groovy first. :)
 
@PauloCereda That's using the JVM, right? I need an easy to distribute, cross platform, command line language with a usable standard library. If groovy didn't have the JVM dependency, I'd give it a try.
 
@PatrickGundlach It's under the JVM, I'm afraid (so does Scala too). :( A friend of mine suggested me to try Erlang too, but I'll probably stick with JVM-languages for now. Maybe I'll try go in the future. :)
 
@PauloCereda "Go" for it ;-))
But it's really hard to google for information about "go"
 
8:18 PM
@PatrickGundlach Names are problematic. Try to look for arara with Google Brazil. :D
 
9:03 PM
@PatrickGundlach Thanks for the information. I tried the font and the first impression is good ;-)
 
9:26 PM
@MarcoDaniel I downloaded the font, but I didn't installed yet. Any monospace font? :)
 
@PauloCereda There is a comment on the blog about it being 'experimental'
 
@JosephWright Oops, my bad. I missed that part.
 
@PauloCereda Database restored from backup :-)
 
@JosephWright Yay! :D
 
@PauloCereda Hi, Paulo! And hi, everybody!
 
9:43 PM
@PauloCereda I've fixed a few typos in the blog draft
 
@GonzaloMedina Hi Gonzalo! :) How are you?
@JosephWright Thanks! :) I have a new feature for this interview: I wrote a code to convert the interview format. :)
Lazy developers FTW. <3
 
@PauloCereda Fine, and as always, in need of your help. Do you have some time for a gmail chat?
 
@GonzaloMedina Sure! In a minute!
 
@PauloCereda Thank you very much!
 
@GonzaloMedina My pleasure. :)
 
9:46 PM
@PauloCereda I saw that
 
@JosephWright I'll even record a video. :P
 
Still trying to find out about the blog registration changes
 
@JosephWright I had the very same doubt. They seemed to integrate the blog system with SE.
 
Oh activity =)
 
@PauloCereda Well yes and no. Still WordPress, still have to set up registrations I think
 
9:49 PM
@JosephWright Oh.
@N3buchadnezzar We are too quiet these days, we need to revert the situation. :)
We need to sing happy birthday to egreg. :)
 
Tanti auguri a-te
Tanti auguri a-te
Tanti auguri a-te
Tanti auguri egreg
Tanti auguri a-te
I do not longer see tex code, I only see blondes, brunettes and redheads.
 
10:05 PM
@JosephWright Why siunitx option range-units= brackets produce parenthesis? I try the following for [0,1000]N/m
\SIrange[per-mode=symbol,range-units=brackets,range-phrase={,}]{0}{1000}{\newton\per\metre}
But I get parentheses.
 
@percusse The opens have always used brackets to me 'some form of bracketing, depending on what is set in the bracket-storing options'
@percusse I.e. it does not mean 'square brackets' but 'some form of brackets'
 
@JosephWright I see. Thanks. Do you remember by heart, any way to plug into the open close pairs?
@JosephWright I think I missed some part of the manual.
 
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{open-bracket=[,close-bracket=]}
\begin{document}
\SIrange[per-mode=symbol,range-units=brackets,range-phrase={,}]{0}{1000}
  {\newton\per\metre}
\end{document}
(I did have to check: there are about 150 options)
 
@JosephWright Ah I remember the openrange one but it's changed. Sorry about that. IEEE halved my IQ while I'm correcting the corrections.
 
@percusse I tried to get the various bracketing options tided up between v1 and v2. They were too complex and I don't think particularly helpful.
 
10:15 PM
@JosephWright I think the v2 ones are much more clear. Great package by the way. Indispensable for me. (Unrelated anectode: IEEE person didn't like per-mode=frac so hard-coded every unit again like N/m).
 
@percusse IEEE persons misses whole point of siunitx :-(
 
@JosephWright Ah, that's tip of the iceberg. You should see what happened to my inline TikZ pictures. A lot of kittens committed suicide after that.
 
10:29 PM
@PauloCereda What do you mean with installation. I copied the otf files into the folder ~/.fonts/Source-Sans-Pro and used \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Source Sans Pro} :-)
 
Anoother question for native English speakers: The proof readers of IEEE corrected every instance of discussed above to discussed previously but they didn't touch as shown below. Is this a convention?
 
10:45 PM
@PauloCereda: Goog evening
 
11:05 PM
@DavidCarlisle: Since we have a long weekend coming up here in BC (Canada), I thought it might be a good time for you to fully implement nested tabular stacks, \multicolumn and \multirow adjustments for your answer...
...or not. :-|
 
@HarishKumar Hi! :) I was replying to your email in this very instant. :)
@MarcoDaniel Oh!
 
11:32 PM
@PauloCereda: Thank you. Reply sent. Now experimenting with inlage.
 
@HarishKumar Cool. :)
 
11:49 PM
@Werner blkarray and tabularx and probably lots of other places:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh geez...
 
% \item Maintaining a stack of previous values. Corresponding to a
% macro, "\X", is a macro"\Xstack" which consists of a list of the
% values of "\X" in all outer environments.
 
@DavidCarlisle Yet another weird crystal-ball question: What might be the most probable macro candidate that IEEE uses to make the word stretching tighter? Apparently it applies to the whole document.
 

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