@DavidCarlisle It's a fun game with just enough skill for a good player to win consistently, but just enough chance for a not so good player to think s/he still has a chance. (Dangerous if playing for money...)
@GonzaloMedina @DavidCarlisle I can't believe it. I had tikzpagenodes.sty at three places (my misadventures ;-)...) causing trouble. It is resolved now. Thanks David and Gonzalo. :)
@GonzaloMedina Somehow I don't want to abandon miktex :-)
@AlanMunn I guess, if playing for money, every experienced player of any game will play in such a way that a not so good player will consistently think s/he still has a chance ;-)
@GonzaloMedina @cmhughes Thanks. It's been fun. But I've been so busy lately this year that I haven't really had time to finish it. The main thing is to fix the move parser to use the standard syntax that backgammon folk are used to. My initial version used my own syntax.
@AlanMunn I'm only recreational too :) I'm trying to become more proficient- I'm currently reading Magriel's book, some folks call it 'the bible of backgammon'
Anyone know much about CSS? I'm trying to work out if it handles conditional formatting, but all of my searches pick up engine conditionals. I'm after for example 'Space after h1 should be 1 em unless followed by another heading, in which case ...'
@JosephWright I suppose you want me to make a MWE:-) Need to do a bit of work stuff but will post a tested example later (with css you always need to test:-)
@JosephWright not really as there isn't (in css 2) any kind of pseudo element for "heading" so although you may think of h1 h2 h3 as logically related, to css they are not. You could of course list them all, or of course use something like .head and then if you have <b class="head"> then that would be a heading too.
Context is I'm thinking about how to handle the same thing in an L3 situation. There has been a lot of work on CSS, and I'm wondering how easy it would be to pick up the same ideas.
do you know of another (nont-times) serif font that goes well with maths ? I am using txfonts at the moment, but I don't really like the look of the text all that much
@DavidCarlisle, @dıʞsdoʇ Another question. I take it that you can only specify stuff in CSSS based on what follows, not what comes before. So you can't say 'if h2 is preceded by an h1, the skip above should be reduced ...'.
@JosephWright I think some of the ideas (and even perhaps some of the syntax) of css can be ported but I wouldn't try a too literal copying of the semantics or syntax, the context is so different. The syntax of the more expressive selectors is very warped by the needs of backward compatibility, and the semantics is optimised towards rapid reflow in the face of dynamic updates to the page elements. Neither really apply to L3. Although the basic idea of a declarative way to style is same in css and ldb
@JosephWright you might want to look at the CSS3 flexbox model, that's a new css layout algorithm (implemented in webkit and I think firefox now as well) that is rather more tex-like in its nature. w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox
Does anyone (using KOMA or just typearea) know if there is a document level command that prints out the calculated DIV values etc. ? I notice in typearea.sty there is \ta@layoutinfo which seems to do it, but is there a wrapper for it somewhere ? scrguide was of little use
@NicolaTalbot: Hi Nicola! :) I was reading some news this morning and I found out this new game being developed: kotaku.com/… I think we might start copyrighting our ideas. What comes next?! A duck game?! :)
@DavidCarlisle Stuff on CSS3 is interesting: now have a much better idea of how it works. Will be raising on the team list at some stage: hopefully you'll have useful input!
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\def\ps@pain{\gdef\familydefault{phv}\selectfont\ps@plain}
\makeatother
\pagestyle{pain}
\begin{document}
This is text
\end{document}
@DominicMichaelis That's as horrible as I can bear.
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@DavidCarlisle, @JosephWright: I saw in BBC how the British press is shocked by how Brazilian law works. :) Suddenly, Brazil vs. England game will happen after all. :)
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@MarioS.E. If I recall correctly, Italy plays blue because that was the color of the Italian royalty. When Italy became a republic, the croce di Savoia was replaced by the colours of the Italian flag (@egreg can confirm or rebut this story). Now, Brazil's first uniform was green, and changed to yellow later on. :) For some reason, yellow and blue match perfectly. :) >>>
And the second uniform (blue and white) has a religious background, since it's the colour of the mantle of Our Lady Aparecida, patron saint of Brazil. :)
@PauloCereda I'm not saying it's false. Only that the reason is very plausible, but it may be a post facto explanation. It's possible that they chose to play with a blue uniform for some other reason and then decided to keep it because it was also Savoy's family color.
@egreg: I was watching the Calcio one day (I think it was a Palermo game) and the commentator said that Palermo's uniform (pink) was originally red, but since the quality of the fabric was quite poor at those times, the colours faded and turned into pink. :) Sounds more like a urban legend to me. :)
Just saw this on Lifehacker: Apparently Mac OSes have a porn incognito mode for folders, if you want to hide a folder from Spotlight, simply add .noindex to the folder name and everything inside it won't pop up in Spotlight.
@JosephWright Yes, I tried to edit the question but the duplicate text doesn't show up. (I thought it might for you.) I seem to recall being able to edit that text in earlier times, but maybe I'm mistaken.
I've left a comment to that question and if we upvote the comment it will bounce relatively high on the list.
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@AlanMunn I'd forgotten about that package. I wonder if they'd be any point in putting it on CTAN. I'm not sure if they'd be any demand for it, but you never know.
Guys, maybe you can help me... I want to make a gray box. I'm trying to make a module (a box) with three submodules... Is there any package for this? I'm guessing Tikz... but perhaps there is something a little "easier"?
@MarioS.E. if you want rounded corners tikz (or ready made solutions like mdframed ot tcolorbox) otherwise color package and \colorbox[gray]{0.5}{stuff in the box}
@MarioS.E. The key keywords in this case are 'fit' and 'background'. Be careful with the TikZ manual, though. The code fragments never tell you which libraries are required for the code to work, it assumes you've been reading the whole text, so sometimes you have to hunt a bit to find the right library to make any particular fragment work.
@AlanMunn I'm sorry, but my inexperienced eye is not able to see a big difference in the output... are there any advantages involved of using Jake's code?
@Jake Any special advantages of using your code over Allan's?
@MarioS.E. I think a lot depends on the rest of the diagram, and whether you want to connect the modules with arrows or whatever. In my solution, each module gets a symbolic node name, in Jake's solution, each module is referable via a coordinate system internal to the matrix. So assuming the matrix was called modules the nodes would be (modules-1-1), (modules-1-2) etc.
In my solution, doing things with particular nodes is simple; in Jake's it's slightly more cumbersome. However, Jake's solution lends itself to automation in a way that mine doesn't (or at least not so much.)
@Jake Right, I left that out so as not to complicate matters overly. And to do that with every node sort of defeats the purpose of using matrix in the first place, I think.
@MarioS.E. You can refer to the matrix like to any other node, so you could place the text using \node at (matrix.south east) [anchor=south east, font=\small] {A comment.};
@MarioS.E. @Jake forgot to name his matrix in the code he posted. So first you need to add \matrix (matrix) ... instead of just \matrix in his code. Then you can add the line adding the text after the whole matrix code.
(The name is the element in ( ) and can be anything you like.)
@MarioS.E. If you put the text in braces you can use \\ inside and it should align properly. Make sure that you have align=center in the nodes specification of the matrix.
