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12:06 AM
@egreg Now I'm having trouble getting the text centered from the top and bottom like I want :s
 
@Gnintendo No code no help. ;-)
 
@egreg
\begin{document}
    %\pagecolor[cmyk]{.22,.36,.51,.08} %This will set the color of your entire card
    \begin{Spacing}{0.75}%
    \noindent
    \textbf{Person~Name}\\
    \rule{74mm}{1mm}\\
    \begin{minipage}[t][0.4\textheight][t]{0.4\linewidth}
    \centering%
    \vfill\includegraphics[width=0.9\columnwidth]{success.eps}\vfill
    \end{minipage}% %you HAVE to have this % here to avoid inserting an unwanted space
    \begin{minipage}[t][0.4\textheight][t]{0.6\linewidth}
        \vfill%
        \scriptsize%
 
@Gnintendo Preamble?
 
Mmmmh.. It's possible that \input{} command messes up the layout of my text (put after the command)?
 
@egreg same as earlier
@egreg witht he addition of your \parindent code
@egreg Hmm, I think it was the first Spacing{0.75} that was messing things up
 
12:11 AM
@Gnintendo No. That hasn't the class (which probably is memoir) and no \pagestyle command, which I guess you're setting to empty. But I need to know the height of the image, because I haven't it.
 
@egreg or not... :s?
 
@Gnintendo Of course it is.
 
@egreg one sec let me get you the full code after I'm done making some tweaks :P
@egreg Here's an image (code coming):
here's full code:
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{memoir}

\setstocksize{55mm}{84mm}
\setpagecc{55mm}{84mm}{*}
\settypeblocksize{45mm}{74mm}{*}
\setulmargins{5mm}{*}{*}
\setlrmargins{5mm}{*}{*}
\setheadfoot{0pt}{0pt}
\setheaderspaces{0pt}{*}{*}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\checkandfixthelayout[fixed]
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
    %\pagecolor[cmyk]{.22,.36,.51,.08} %This will set the color of your entire card
    \noindent
    \textbf{Person~Name}\\
    \rule{74mm}{1mm}\\
I want the image and the text centered between the two lines :s
 
Well.. don't care.. See ya tomorrow guys, thanks again for the help.. Goodnight!
 
@egreg Does that make sense what I'm trying to do? :s
 
12:24 AM
@Gnintendo Not much
\documentclass{memoir}
\setstocksize{55mm}{84mm}
\setpagecc{55mm}{84mm}{*}
\settypeblocksize{45mm}{74mm}{*}
\setulmargins{5mm}{*}{*}
\setlrmargins{5mm}{*}{*}
\setheadfoot{0pt}{0pt}
\setheaderspaces{0pt}{*}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{adjustbox,array}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}
    %\pagecolor[cmyk]{.22,.36,.51,.08} %This will set the color of your entire card
    \textbf{Person~Name}\\
    \rule{\textwidth}{1mm}

    \vfill
@Gnintendo I had to guess a height for the image.
A tabular is surely better.
 
@egreg wait you mean you HAVE to have a height?
it won't just scale it 1:1?
:s
 
@Gnintendo For my example, with the demo option: I don't have your image, so I can't know its height. You don't have to specify the height
 
o
in the tabular environment, what exactly is {0.7\textwidth} the width of?
 
@Gnintendo 70% of the total text width.
 
@egreg No, I mean, I know that, but what does it end up being in the produced image?
and what does the & do?
 
12:33 AM
@Gnintendo 70% of the total text width. The & separates the columns, of course
 
@egreg but what becomes 70%, the entire tabular environment?
if that's the case, then I want it to be the full text width?
 
@Gnintendo The second column of the tabular.
@Gnintendo This is nonsense! You have the image to accomodate, don't you?
 
but I thought the image is part of the tabular? I don't even? is this a guessing game, then?
 
@Gnintendo The image takes 0.3 of the text width, and this is the first column; the second column takes up the rest.
 
@egreg That's what I originally thought, but if I make the tabular 0.6 and the image 0.4, why does text still bleed off the right?:
 
12:39 AM
@Gnintendo Please, try following what I'm saying. Or let's finish here.
@Gnintendo How wide do you want the image with respect to the text width?
 
0.4
and I want the text to take up the rest
but I would also like to understand how to adjust this
 
\begin{tabular}{@{}cm{\dimexpr0.6\textwidth-2\tabcolsep\relax}@{}}
 
I should mention that even your original code let the text bleed off, now that I've tried it
 
\adjustbox{valign=c}{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{success.eps}}
\begin{tabular}{@{}cm{\dimexpr0.6\textwidth-2\tabcolsep\relax}@{}}
\adjustbox{valign=c}{\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{success.eps}}
&
\linespread{1.5}\scriptsize
\textbf{Network Researcher}\newline
Computing Department\newline
University
\end{tabular}
 
oh, that tabular line made it behave as expected :s
 
12:42 AM
@Gnintendo Well, 0.4+0.6=1.
 
@egreg Right, I get that, I just thought I had misunderstood what it was since the text was still bleeding off to the right, clearly I was missing something
 
Bed time. Always try tabular before resorting to align minipages. :)
 
@egreg The last \rule is higher up on the card than I expected, what is controlling this?
(last thing) :P
also, thanks <3
 
1:41 AM
 
@JosephWright Looking at it the second time around, this looks like a duplicate. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89237/…. I suggest to close it but what do I do with my answer?
 
 
2 hours later…
Max
3:50 AM
someone still awake and wants to tell me how \@input@ works?
 
4:45 AM
@Max It's more or less the same as \input, only it requires {}, it doesn't automatically add .tex, and it doesn't give an error but just a warning message if the file doesn't exist.
 
 
3 hours later…
7:51 AM
@hpesoj626 We can merge questions, but that never seems to be that satisfactory (the moved answers always end up out-of-context). So I'd just go with duping and leave the answer where it is.
@tohecz No, but hopefully we'll spot it's no longer relevant!
 
8:16 AM
Yay, @YiannisLazarides is around! Welcome!
 
The search interface has changed... anyone notices?
The change is good, I think.
 
user19161
8:36 AM
A change I hope to see is that they let registered users choose the colour theme of each site.
 
user19161
One can change the theme just like in gmail or in your OS to have a new set of colours easily.
 
user19161
Of course, I was told that one can use CSS to achieve this, but that's too much of a bother.
 
8:56 AM
@JasperLoy I've always found that extremely annoying: designers choose a colour scheme and then non-professionals think they know better!
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Q: Slight changes to Harvard's agsm.bst

Oscar LazoI've been writing my thesis and using bibtex, unfortunately I could not find a .bst to match the required format. It requires some particles to change from English to Spanish, as well as some changes in formatting. The most similar style I could find was Harvard's agsm. Authors to be listed wi...

I think this should be split up into individual parts, so they can be useful to other people. Anyone else got an opinion?
 
9:08 AM
Is everyone ready for Answer the Unanswered?
There seem to be a lot of questions on the list: I suspect I'll be closing an awful lot!
 
9:38 AM
@JosephWright Oh my, I forgot about the session. :)
 
 
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11:13 AM
btw, you know what is the biggest fear of @Paulo? That one day, the site traffic'll become lower than 40 posts/day
 
11:25 AM
@tohecz Oh no!
 
@PauloCereda I should have said "the site traffic would become" ;)
 
11:40 AM
!!/david
Psmith, the TeX bot: The wise David Carlisle once said: You've got to love "Annoy the hell out of the Unicode Technical Committee!" as a headline feature in a software release note.
!!/david
Psmith, the TeX bot: The wise David Carlisle once said: If I stay up for 4 more minutes will I see flying reindeer?
!!/david
Psmith, the TeX bot: The wise David Carlisle once said: thanks for teh typo correctshun
 
12:22 PM
Good morning @PauloCereda :(
 
@DavidCarlisle Hi David! <3
It's teh bot. :)
 
@PauloCereda so do you hand pick them or is it just searching for starred messages or?
 
@DavidCarlisle A semi-automatic process: I had to write a extractor which gets all the starred messages from you (there's no RSS nor API from StackExchange to help us) which adds entries to a database, then there's a second script which fetches the database. :)
 
@PauloCereda are you sure the result is worth the effort:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle <3
!!/david
Psmith, the TeX bot: The wise David Carlisle once said: Maybe it's because you were discussing TeX instead of cricket.
^^ see
 
1:17 PM
Did people see the bounty on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50162/…? I'm not sure that this 'has not received enough attention', really.
 
@JosephWright It is not the first time when she's offered a bounty on a question where her answer is low-voted
 
Goodbye article, hello scrartcl. <3
 
1:32 PM
@PauloCereda lawlz :D
 
@Brent.Longborough Let me know about the torture options for @PauloCereda
 
@percusse Hey!
<3
 
@tohecz Well, 350 views mean good attention. Perhaps he (well, or she) should have added what may would be desired.
 
@StefanKottwitz Yeah, it is a strange behaviour IMHO. But I'm liberal, whatever blows her mind ;)
 
KOMA = German. Epic.
I wanna be German.
:(
 
1:38 PM
There is a weird thing in tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi.
 
Is there a similar picture search feature anywhere? such as a google feature?
Well, I'll look later. Some TeX to do :-)
 
!!/ctan
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@AdorableCreature Clairvoyance ;-)
 
1:45 PM
@StephanLehmke Thanks, now I saw the photo button for linking, uploading, works fine!
 
!!/answer define clairvoyance.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: noun | apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
Oh.
 
@StephanLehmke Herbert's clock runs too fast.
@percusse A nice TikZ animation.
 
@AdorableCreature Heheh.
 
2:03 PM
@PauloCereda arara = Brazilian. Epic.
 
@tohecz aww <3
 
2:24 PM
Rep cap. I'm ready for tonight's session. :)
 
@egreg Cool
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Q: Change in the header for the handout

N NikI am running into a weird problem. When I run my code in beamer mode, the logo that I use in each slide (in the right top corner) stays there and doesnt move. When I try to make handouts, the logo changes its position and goes to a weird place. Any thought? Help? Here is my MWE: \documentclass [...

My feeling here is that textpos is the problem: would that make sense as an answer?
 
3:10 PM
@JosephWright Of course textpos does precisely what it's supposed to do. Placing an image in the header of a slide should be done with beamer's facilities.
 
@egreg My thoughts too
 
@JosephWright You're the beamer expert. ;-)
 
Does anybody here like Nightwish?
 
Max
3:25 PM
Is someone knowledgable about xindy/glossaries. I started looking at this last night and still haven't got a clue.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89405/distinct-formatted-page-numbers-with-glossaries-and-xindy
I am rather sure the problem is in the way glossaries works. It really only seems to wrap a very small subset of what xindy is capable of. The op's request is for the definition of a glossary entry to be distinguished by markup is pretty straightforward and would best be achieved by adding :addition but I don't think glossaries doesn't support this kind of semantic markup
s/addition/definition/
 
@Max @NicolaTalbot, author of glossaries, visits the chat now and then, at least.
@Max By the way, you can actually edit chat messages for a short period of time. Tap the up-arrow on the keyboard, or click the down-pointing arrow that appears to the left of the message on mouseover, and click edit.
 
Max
I realized the former and thanks for the latter
 
 
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4:50 PM
!!/help
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!!/list
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@DavidCarlisle: I removed your quotes database. :)
 
!!/david
 
@egreg Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command david does not exist.
 
@PauloCereda Oh, no!
 
@egreg I removed David's quotes. Apparently it was upsetting him. :)
 
@PauloCereda I can understand.
 
4:51 PM
(The command will actually be back, I'll make it better) :)
@egreg I'll try to come up with an AI sentence generator based on David's quotes. :)
Think of a bot with David's personality. :)
 
@PauloCereda It would pass the Turing test.
 
@egreg For sure! :)
 
!!/eightball Most knowledgeable Oracle, will a bot with David's personality pass the Turing test?
 
@egreg Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: don't count on it.
Uh-oh!
 
@PauloCereda The various bot programs are jealous of one another.
 
4:57 PM
@egreg There's a conflict of interests. :)
 
5:12 PM
@PauloCereda not upset, just storing up issues for revenge later, remember you still have your interview to survive.....
 
@DavidCarlisle Uh-oh.
 
@PauloCereda actually if you work a bit harder maybe you could get Psmith to stand in for you and be interviewed and we won't notice....
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh a proxy bot! :)
 
@PauloCereda should be easy to program, in answer to any question make some enigmatic reply referring to ducks, and the interviewers won't suspect a thing.
 
@DavidCarlisle LOL
I could use @egreg's kantlipsum and replace a some parts with ducks.
 
5:19 PM
So if I knew how to ask a question I might ask what's the best way to get the mathcode of an implicit character eg \let\qchar=q then if passed a real q I can do \count@=\mathcode`q but what if passed \qchar currently I am using \meaning then stripping off the letter to get an actual q token, but this seems a bit of a long way round..... (one for @egreg:-)
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@DavidCarlisle Can it be assumed that it's only an implicit character?
 
@egreg try \bm{\qchar} :-) #1 is a single token tested with \ifcat and known to be category 11 or 12, so bm thought it safe to use the backtick to get the character code...
current fix is
\def\bm@getcharcode#1 #2 {`}

    \xdef\meaning@{\meaning#1}%
    \count@\mathcode\expandafter\bm@getcharcode\meaning@\relax
 
@DavidCarlisle A big problem is that you can't know whether it's a control sequence with \ifcat or \if
 
@egreg wel in 20 years of \bm it's never been a control sequence:-) but it turns out that unicode-math does this all over the place (as there are a lot more reasonable characters that you'd want to \let in this way) but the issue really is there for classic tex not just xe/luatex
 
@DavidCarlisle I suggest you read l3token :-)
 
5:32 PM
@JosephWright you mean actually read the doc, rather than run an example through tracingall, I suppose I could try that:-) Thanks for the pointer
 
@DavidCarlisle Well, as you want to recode these things in 'traditional' TeX you might have to trace them, but the business with the conditional-returns might be confusing. I'm sure @egreg or I can translate :-)
@DavidCarlisle Bruno put quite a bit of effort into the edge cases, etc.
 
Folks from Berlin made it with a perfect twist! Compressorhead hahaha
 
@JosephWright in this case though even if I know it is an implicit character token \let to a non active character, I still don't see a good way to get the mathcode. (looking at l3token that basically uses \meaning, so it's same as I have I think)
 
@DavidCarlisle I don't think there are other ways. The backquote syntax wants an explicit character.
 
@egreg yes I came to that conclusion I think. TeX is a rubbish programming language.
 
5:40 PM
@DavidCarlisle Quite possibly: my point really was that if we've not found a better way in the L3 code then there probably isn't one: there is a lot of collected wisdom in the code
 
@DavidCarlisle Some aspects need some ironing. :)
 
@JosephWright a lot of german beer too:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Quite possibly: not from my end :-)
 
@DavidCarlisle An implicit character basically shows its nature in the stomach.
 
@egreg which would be OK if there was an actual command to access the character code instead of the backtick nonsense which is at the wrong level.
 
5:43 PM
@DavidCarlisle I agree
 
@DavidCarlisle Complain to DEK
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@egreg Probably there is some Lua-based approach
 
@JosephWright Nah easier to complain to you and then you can bother the lua and xe lists and get those engines at least extended
 
@DavidCarlisle Sigh True
@DavidCarlisle Or get Bruno to write some clever wrapper around the entire process
 
OK so \meaning it will have to be, thanks all. Now on to work out what exactly unicode-math does with fonts and where I might find a bold font (having got bm not to crash I suppose people will want it to do something useful)
 
!!/eightball Is DEK wrong?
 
5:48 PM
@DavidCarlisle I suspect that a nested \if is not feasible with Unicode math (but it would be only 256 nested ifs for traditional TeX). :)
 
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: yes, definitely.
 
@egreg yes I contemplated that, but the first place I hit this for real was \bm\sum which is character 8721 and I don't fancy that many nested ifs
 
@DavidCarlisle You are mean. :)
 
@DavidCarlisle \the\sum gives the number in traditional TeX; however not in Unicode-math, I think
 
@egreg oooooh
 
5:52 PM
If the cs is defined with mathchardef it works.
But, again, (Xe|Lua)TeX add (XeTeX|U)mathchardef which are less tractable.
 
@egreg Also broken up to recently in LuaTeX :-)
 
@egreg yes mathchardef I handle but its the implict char that's harder, I suppose meaning isn't do bad really as I already use that to get the mathchar code from a mathchardef
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, in unicode-math, \show\sum says \sum=the character ∑
 
@egreg yes I'm adding the support for xetexmathchar(num) right now (hence the current interest in mathchar tokens:-) Think Ive have that part just about working but the initial phase of bm which interrogates teh NFSS font tables needs to know what fontspec and unicode-math have done to Frank's code
@egreg I know, that's where I started:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Good question. :)
@DavidCarlisle So you know that the mathcode of ∑ is "8000
 
6:06 PM
!!/answer What is a mathcode?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Wolfram Mathematica
LOL
 
Lo :-)
Happy new year everyone :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot Hi Nicola! We miss you!
Happy new year!
 
I've been busy writing a new package. It took me rather longer than I expected.
Want to play with some experimental code?
 
@egreg well actually bm doesn't need to know that, once it stopped giving an error about bad alphabetic constant bm allows it to expand and then fell over because a whole lot of unexpected L3 code testing for limits switches in:-)
@NicolaTalbot I'm still working on bm after 20 years:-(
 
@NicolaTalbot I heard that longtable is still experimental. :P
!!/answer tell me a joke.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Q: What is lavender and commutes? A: An Abelian semigrape. :: (according to what passes for mathematical humor (sorry, I only know mathematical jokes), drawn from several sources but primarily from P. Renteln and A. Dundes in their paper "Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor" in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, pp. 24-34, 2005)
 
6:10 PM
@DavidCarlisle I've been using textcase :-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Basically it becomes \sum_sym that does \sumop and then decides whether \sum appears in the list for the \nolimits addition.
 
@egreg yes but I had to add
    \@namedef{tl_if_in:NnT}##1##2##3{%
       \unvcopy{\csname tl_if_in:NnT\endcsname ##1{##2}##3}}%
in bm's pre-pass stage as that requires expansion-only and tl_if_in does some edefs somewhere:(
 
If anyone wants to try out an experimental version of datatool it's at dickimaw-books.com/expl
If all goes well, I'll probably upload it to CTAN in the next week or so.
 
@NicolaTalbot sorry, we're not ignoring you but I'm just in the middle of an important task of tricking @egreg into handling the bug reports for bm.
 
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
6:20 PM
@PauloCereda hi Paulo! :) Is Psmith active?
 
@Max I don't think either xindy or makeindex like identical locations with different formats. The new experimental datagidx should be able to cope, but it has its limitations.
 
@cmhughes Hi Chris! He is. :)
 
@PauloCereda sweet, let me see if I can ask a question....
 
@cmhughes Go ahead. :)
 
!!/list
 
6:23 PM
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!!/question What day is it?
 
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command question does not exist.
@cmhughes Go with answer instead of question. :)
 
!!/answer what day is it?
 
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!!/answer who is Wooster's servant?
 
6:25 PM
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!!/answer what is the average velocity of a swallow?
 
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!!/answer how's the weather in Portland, Oregon, United States?
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!!answer african or european?
 
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!!/answer african or european?
 
6:27 PM
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: Algeria | Angola | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | ... (total: 58)
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!!/answer what is your name?
 
Psmith is stateless. :P
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: My name is Wolfram|Alpha.
 
!!/answer is she a witch?
 
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm sorry, no answers.
 
!!/answer do ducks float?
 
6:30 PM
Did Psmith die?
!!/help
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Try again, @cmhughes. :)
 
!!/answer do ducks float?
 
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!!/eightball is she a witch?
 
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: outlook not so good.
!!/answer Why do ducks float?
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@PauloCereda \def\duck{\@float{duck}}
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6:33 PM
@tohecz <3
 
!!/answer do you know what this means?
 
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm sorry, no answers.
!!/answer Stop!
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Hammer time! :: (according to MC Hammer's signature song "U Can't Touch This" from his 1990 album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em)
 
!!/answer what is 2+2?
 
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: 4
!!/answer Last prime until 1 billion.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: 999999937
 
!!answer are you sure?
 
6:41 PM
@cmhughes Psmith, the TeX bot: I could not understand answer are you sure?
 
!!/answer are you sure?
 
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!!/answer are you sure?
 
@DavidCarlisle Prod Will to get on with l3fss
 
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Phew, only Wolfram died.
 
@DavidCarlisle You can't do an 'in' test expandably
 
6:43 PM
@PauloCereda Poor guy
 
@egreg He'll be back. :)
 
@cmhughes She turned me into a newt?
 
@JosephWright we want.... a shrubbery
 
@cmhughes :-)
 
Ni!
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6:45 PM
eky eky eky!
 
@PauloCereda Ni!
 
@JosephWright :)
but...
 
7:00 PM
@JosephWright yes well I know that but bm didn' t(also I'm not sure why it is defined that way why define \sum to look itself up in a list to see if it needs \nolimits, or \limits why not just do it?
 
@DavidCarlisle Probably different symbols or something: you're the Unicode expert
 
Run, rabbit, run! (from Time, Pink Floyd)
 
Max
7:23 PM
@NicolaTalbot I believe the technical report I read says otherwise. There is a whole discussion about it.
http://xindy.sourceforge.net/doc/xindy-tr.pdf page 12 for example
 
@Max Okay. I must have missed that.
 
7:42 PM
Building up a good set of people of Answer the Unanswered, but no sign of @lockstep at the moment
@FrankMittelbach Any thoughts on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88535/…?
 
@JosephWright I'm here for teh ducks. :)
 
@PauloCereda Well obviously ...
 
@JosephWright :)
 
8:07 PM
Can I switch off the chat animations?
 
8:24 PM
@JosephWright Once again. :)
 
@DavidCarlisle interesting
 
@DavidCarlisle As I keep saying, prod Frank to get xor sorted :-)
 
@tohecz I haven't tried it but Frank knows something about that code so it probably works:-)
 
@JosephWright yes, exactly ;)
 
8:34 PM
@JosephWright yes well obviously I'm in a strong position to lecture people on getting l3 work finished
 
@DavidCarlisle ok, well, I'm quite happy about my solution
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm after everyone else on the team :-)
@DavidCarlisle For example, @brunolefloch is supposed to be finalising l3fp
 
@tohecz yes sure Franks code has a lot of ifs and buts as to when it is applicable as well. Doing a proper job needs a new output routine, if only @JosephWright would stop messing around doing chemistry and get it finished
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm yet to find a task for Robin other than 'install updates on CTAN' ;-)
@DavidCarlisle True, but I have a few jobs on l3galley outstanding (display material)
@DavidCarlisle Then there is RTL
Don't you love the timekeeping of the banner on the site :-)
 
meanwhile back in 2e-land I'm on the edge of getting bm working (or at least not totally failing) on unicode fonts (I think)
 
8:38 PM
@DavidCarlisle Cool
@DavidCarlisle I believe that (in broad terms) is the excuse for not working on L3: 'the team is committed to maintaining LaTeX2e'
 
@JosephWright that and playing with lego
 
@DavidCarlisle of course
 
@DavidCarlisle lol
 
Right, everyone read for Answer the Unanswered?
I see that @StefanKottwitz is lurking, so there are two of us to handle the mod-hammer requests
Anyone new to the event?
 
/me brings a beer keg
Me! Me! Me!
<3
 
8:49 PM
673 questions with no answer.
 
@egreg 719 questions with no upvoted answers :-(
 
@JosephWright This means 46 to look at and possibly upvote.
 
@egreg Yup
 
@JosephWright I can't upvote them today. :(
 
@PauloCereda Is there even a way of doing the appropriate search?
 
8:53 PM
@PauloCereda so cannot I
 
@JosephWright For non-upvoted answers?
 
@PauloCereda Yes
 
@JosephWright Something along the lines of is:answer score:0
 
you don't want this I think
you want more something like answersscore:0
btw, the current score is unbelievably large: 719
 
@tohecz Quite: I think I'll be busy. Hence hoping @lockstep shows up!
 
8:57 PM
I have mass right now, but the bot will be here.
!!/help
 
@PauloCereda See you a bit later
 
@JosephWright See ya. :)
 
Eeek, no @lockstep, no @PauloCereda, that leaves me in charge of Answer the Unanswered. Drat!
 
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I came to add to the confusion. =)
 

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