@tohecz Interesting remark. When I remarked more or less the same here recently, I got answers in the direction of "we don't disagree with others here" and "just hit skip". I stopped reviewing after that.
@StephanLehmke This is a little out of context, don't you think: two users said they skipped, one of whom is quite a new user. And the "we don't disagree with others" sentiment, if expressed at all was surely personal not prescriptive.
@AlanMunn The interesting part was that there were no sentiments to the contrary expressed. While it may make sense to press one's personal "good judgement" against a majority in a political context, it's rarely a good idea in a community like this because harmonic balance is often brittle.
@StephanLehmke Of course you're free to stop reviewing for whatever reason, but it seems to me that you may have overreacted a bit. How many other sentiments were expressed surely depends on who was in chat at the time. Isn't this why we have meta? :)
@StephanLehmke Are you generally in favour of early or late closing? Or were you talking about other kinds of flags?
@AlanMunn I thought meta was more for questions interesting to the community as a whole. I was just trying to get an impression what to do about my apparently being "out of sync" with more than half of existing flags and votes. Also, this happened in a low-traffic time of day, so the exchange was visible to a lot of people coming later.
@AlanMunn Mostly the flags and votes I disagree with are of the kind where no comment is left and hence, no chance for the OP to improve their question/answer.
@StephanLehmke Ok, that's what I thought. Then you and I probably agree on most things. :) The reason I mentioned meta is that I think that some of these issues arise from people not having thought much about why they are flagging or closing, but just agreeing semi-blindly. So having a discussion on meta about that might be helpful. See e.g. meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/4048/2693
Also, I find that often incorrect or imprecise answers are flagged "not an answer" when I'd prefer downvoting. But that may be a side effect of the "no downvoting" policy here :-)
@StephanLehmke So mainly I think you may have given up on reviewing a bit too hastily. On the other hand, I'm a pretty sporadic reviewer myself; maybe if we both reviewed more we'd be more helpful, I don't really know.
@AlanMunn Yep, the "no hope for improvement" clause is another factor which makes me disagree with a flag on an answer where not even a comment pointing out the problems has been given.
@StephanLehmke Ok. Good luck with that. I have a lot to do tomorrow, so sleeping at a reasonable hour is required. Good night. It's always nice chatting with you.
I am trying to change the TexStudio colour scheme as in this post: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/108315/anyone-willing-to-share-his-her-custom-dark-theme-for-texstudio
Does anyone know where I would locate the file to make this change on windows 7/8?
@JosephWright Yep. I can appreciate that someone may think the answer is outdated or something, but considering the question, even "As far as I know, LaTeX does not support including SVG files directly" is a valid answer, and AFAIK we don't have special treatment for duplicate answers...
@StephanLehmke Not necessarily. It's always tricky with the 'Is this possible? No' cases, as in many ways they feel like they should stay unanswered, but that doesn't necessarily help the reader.
I guess the think with the flagged answer is that not only is it rather short, and phrased in some ways as a comment on another answer, but also the link is bust.
I'll probably wait to see what @StefanKottwitz and @MartinScharrer think
@StephanLehmke Over time you can re-evaluate things. Stuff from early on in the life of the site might be treated differently if it were posted now.
I might have just found the ultimate solution to the tex->html conversion problem (pdf2htmlEX) : github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX it looks really nice. Article is in the latest TUG report also about it. page 313-324
@CodeMocker The dante server is down today due to maintanance. From c.t.t.:
Saturday, January 18, the operating system of DANTE's server will
be upgraded. Owing to this, CTAN Web site and other associated CTAN
services may be interrupted or may be unavailable for some time.
I hope that we don't cause any inconveniences by that update; but
the overhaul is long overdue.
I've created my environment, and modified the enumerate command:
\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\arabic{enumi}.}
\renewcommand{\labelenumii}{\arabic{enumi}.\arabic{enumii}.}
\renewcommand{\labelenumiii}{\arabic{enumi}.\arabic{enumii}.\arabic{enumiii}.}
\newenvironment{packed_enum}{
\begin{enumerate...
Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was
good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's
unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd
happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After
a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file,
and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do
a compile.
(By ewt@tipper.oit.unc.edu (Erik Troan)
@DavidCarlisle It's a useful answer. It occurs to me that if I use \detokenize in glossaries users should be able to use utf8 characters in entry labels.
@NicolaTalbot What I didn't mention though is that adding it is a backwards incompatible change. if \foo puts #1 in csname then currently after \def\zz{abc} you can use \foo{\zz} but of \foo is changed to use detokenize then \foo{\zz} makes \\zz rather than \abc. On th eother hand you should be able to use utf8 without this.
@NicolaTalbot do you need \fooifdef do work by expansion as now? Normally I'd say best would be to use \edef (or better \@protected@edef ) to expand any user supplied text then to \detokenize the result to make it safe for csname. That is no problem for your definition command \setfoo as it is doing a \def anyway, but doing it on the test makes it a non expandable rather than expandable test. If you require expandable tests it is harder to accept so much stuff
I just started using LaTex in vim and immediately ran into problems. I'm using the vim-latex plugin and it's completely screwing up the tutorial I'm trying to follow. There's a useful shortcut for writing something in the exponent. But when I use it vim shows everything in superscript automatical...
@DavidCarlisle \newcommand*{\thingy}[1]{\scantokens{#1\noexpand}} seems to work except for the section, so I could just do something like that in glossaries and add a note in the manual to say that entries with utf8 labels can't be used in sectioning commands.
@NicolaTalbot \newcommand{\foo}[1]{\protected@edef\tmp{@foo@#1}\csname\expandafter\detokenize\expandafter{\tmp}\endcsname} ? expands user definitions in the input then uses detoekize to make sure its safe for csname
@egreg and @DavidCarlisle Thanks for your suggestions. I can't use \detokenize otherwise commands like \glsaddall will stop working and \scantokens causes issues in \section etc. So I've decided to add \newcommand*{\glsdetoklabel}[1]{#1} and use this when referencing glossary entries. If a user really desperately wants to have UTF8 labels, they can do \renewcommand*{\glsdetoklabel}[1]{\scantokens{#1\noexpand}} but they take on the responsibility if things go wrong!
Running the minimal example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTICLE{example,
author = {Other, Anthony Norman},
title = {Some things I did},
year = {2014},
journal = {J.~Irrep. Res.},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages ...
Did I mention that after trying to convince a student to use LaTeX for her thesis, the process of watching her boyfriend struggle with Word has done the job :-)
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I'm going to suggest arara to her on Monday
@cmhughes Problem is that depending on your editor, build tools are not necessarily trivial to set up
@JosephWright If I recall correctly, Marco once opened a thread in the TeXworks issues list asking the inclusion of arara. Marco is the guy that pushes me to write insane code. :) Thank God I didn't explained the Pandora's Box of a possible expression language added to arara. :)
@JosephWright Uh-oh!
@cmhughes Still arara, but probably invoked with --editor. :)
The interesting thing with that student is that the combination of modern packages (biblatex, pgfplots, ...), binaries (biber, lualatex), tools (TeXworks, arara) and distros (TeX Live) makes using LaTeX smooth and knocks the 'competition' into a cocked hat.
'lo all. I'm having trouble connecting to CTAN. It appears to be dante that's down but that's what I get redirected to by the mirroring service. I want to upload an update, so I can do that via cam, but what's the direct address?
@JosephWright Botheration. I thought I could hijack the cambridge link and avoid dante. I guess the world will have to wait a little longer for the next version of hobby (which uses l3fps atan function!).
@PauloCereda Yeah, been trying to cut back on my TeX-SX addiction ...
@AlanMunn That's what it felt like, but confirmation from you is always welcome. (Been too long out of England - am slowly forgetting all my English ...)
Ok, is there a good guide to teaching auctex about the macros provided by some particular package so that it can (semi)-auto-insertion and syntax highlighting?
@JosephWright This shows up as a reply to Andrew's comment about using emacs over vim. It looks like you're suggesting FTP as an alternative, which is really funny!
@egreg Ok. So I give up. I thought I could point someone who commented on one of my answers somewhere, neither you nor Andrew actually use auctex to the degree that it is supposed to be famous.
I'm trying to start with TeX, but the site the download page of MiKTeX points to (ctan.org) is down :( anyone know of an alternative mirror? (Or a better TeX implementation for Windows :P)
@PauloCereda yes, I do, on a computer I won't see for 2 weeks. However, I have bigger problems now. Do you know any way how to track where smoke is comming from in my room?
@DoorknobofSnow I've never liked MikTeX, but that's quite a personal feeling. TeXlive seems to be more robust, MikTeX's package installer knows to have breakdowns
How many votes can one get for a question that is basically "I've found a bug in a package" and an answer that is "Yes, that's a bug. I'll fix it in the next version."?
okay, I'm changing the default repository (I feel so official saying that :P) to mirror.utexas.edu/ctan, because the default one is ctan.org which doesn't work.
@PauloCereda Still, this doesn't solve the fact that something is burning in my room, I don't know what is it, and it could easily bring down this building full of wooden structures and all the 3 neighboring buildings, too.
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@DoorknobofSnow: but the most important command for us is the texdef one (this is useful for TeX and friends). :)
in JS chat they've created an entirely different user for the bot (Caprica Six) so that it doesn't get hit with the "you can perform this action in n seconds" rate limit; maybe you should do that :P
@DoorknobofSnow welcome to the club :) btw, if the install terminates because of losing connection, running it again should continue where it stopped :) so don't panic ;)
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If I've learned one thing so far about this chat, it's to not mention anything off-topic to @egreg unless you want to talk about it for the next hour ;)
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I've created my environment, and modified the enumerate command:
\renewcommand{\labelenumi}{\arabic{enumi}.}
\renewcommand{\labelenumii}{\arabic{enumi}.\arabic{enumii}.}
\renewcommand{\labelenumiii}{\arabic{enumi}.\arabic{enumii}.\arabic{enumiii}.}
\newenvironment{packed_enum}{
\begin{enumerate...
Running the minimal example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTICLE{example,
author = {Other, Anthony Norman},
title = {Some things I did},
year = {2014},
journal = {J.~Irrep. Res.},
volume = {1},
number = {1},
pages ...
