TeX, LaTeX and Friends

David Carlisle

12:02 AM

phew only lasted about 10 seconds:

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tohecz

12:32 AM

@DavidCarlisle 728?

David Carlisle

@tohecz 728?

percusse

@tohecz @DavidCarlisle 728?

David Carlisle

@percusse 42 ?

percusse

12:50 AM

@DavidCarlisle

So you are reinventing roman numerals in calendar context? — percusse 12 secs ago

David Carlisle

@percusse I have no idea what that code's doing I just made it do whatever it did globally:-)

percusse

@DavidCarlisle Same here.

Heiko Oberdiek

6:20 AM

@DavidCarlisle Nice number.

@DavidCarlisle $222222_3 = 1000000_3 - 1 = 3^6 - 1 = 729 -1 = 728$

Nasser

6:32 AM

the wonderful world of Indesign and Math exporting to HTML forums.adobe.com/thread/1641083 maybe they should switch to using tex4ht :)

tohecz

8:08 AM

@DavidCarlisle @percusse It seems that non-standard bases are popular now, so I made it base-3 ;)

Johannes_B

@DavidCarlisle I just sent you a mail. It is not very important tough.

David Carlisle

@HeikoOberdiek @tohecz ah I guessed base 2 but it clearly wasn't that so I gave up:-)

tohecz

8:44 AM

@DavidCarlisle well, only mad mathematicians like I use the digit 2 in base-2 system :)

David Carlisle

9:04 AM

@tohecz well as I said, it clearly wasn't base 2 :-)

Paulo Cereda

12:39 PM

Phew, my internet is back!

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda where did it go to?

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle To Oxford, I suspect. :) There were biscuits. :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda they all got eaten: we had so much time to kill

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle o.O

/sob

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda so you didn't see my video clip reference?

Paulo Cereda

12:46 PM

@DavidCarlisle hm?

David Carlisle

22 hours ago, by David Carlisle

@PauloCereda just how far are you from "darkest Peru" ? See http://ml5vid.mymovies.net/filmmedia/film/fid6823/features/avfid17187/html5/1200‌.mp4 (see around 3:20 :-)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh hold on.

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda we went to watch that at the cinema yesterday;-)

Andrew Swann

Can the moderators or someone help with sorting out

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A: "Flatten" macros prior to sharing LaTeX file

The de-macro routine does not work on Windows, if one follows its readme file. I had posted some advice on how to solve this problem, but some expert moderators deleted the post. So I don't dare posting it again. If you need a solution for this problem you can send me a message. Or maybe Signor F...

I don't want to flag this as not an answer again as the user seems to be well-intended.

David Carlisle

@AndrewSwann they aren't here so you probably should flag or at least @ ping Joseph here

Paulo Cereda

1:09 PM

@DavidCarlisle A DUCK!

egreg

@PauloCereda This question might have an arara answer

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Q: Within the .tex file, a loop to compile to multiple PDFs recycling content according to language

I bet there are lots of loops using external processing, but I was hoping to get a preamble hack that would pdflatex out three outputs - suffixed according to Language selected - of the following MWE: (I use emacs With AUCTeX, maybe it is easier to customize a command from within there?) % The...

Paulo Cereda

@egreg If arara 4.0 were ready, you'd love my answer. :P

actually, s/ready/published on CTAN/g

Andrew Swann

@DavidCarlisle Thanks. I have decide to write a comment on the posting itself.

David Carlisle

1:26 PM

It is nice to see @egreg not even on the first row for the month.

tex.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=month

egreg

@DavidCarlisle Be patient.

Paulo Cereda

1:49 PM

@DavidCarlisle: ^^ looks like a cricket accident. :)

percusse

2:23 PM

@PauloCereda I watched interstellar this weekend. It's like a bimbo. Amazing view until you slowly find out that there is nothing inside. But you keep enjoying the view :P

Paulo Cereda

@percusse LOL

percusse

Some parts are flat out nonsense.

David Carlisle

2:38 PM

@percusse see you should have gone to see paddington instead:-)

percusse

@DavidCarlisle I should have indeed

David Carlisle

@percusse did interstellar feature a rubber duck?

percusse

@DavidCarlisle rubber yes duck no. But some jokes were quite good. I recommend guardians of the galaxy though. That is close to Hitchhiker's Guide (the movie not the book) level

Christian Hupfer

3:06 PM

Good maen

Johannes_B

3:27 PM

Hi @christian

Paulo Cereda

The Wall turns 35 today!

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: Sorry, I am a little bit distracted right now :D

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Can't stop looking at the falling camera man?

Christian Hupfer

3:42 PM

@Johannes_B: For sure ;-) No, am correcting/improving a solution of mine I posted yesterday

David Carlisle

4:24 PM

who wants to answer this one?

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Q: array, table, tabular, tabularx, longtable

What is the difference between array , table, tabular, tabularx in terms of syntax , typesetting , ease of use, and appearance after compiling. In short, where will you use each of them and what are merits and disadvantages of each of them. This is general question and may be useful to many. Kind...

tables longtable tabularx supertabular longtabu

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle Me! Use Word. :)

@David: did you use your emacs buffer in your talk? :P

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda not during, but 30 seconds before, as I had to adjust the font sizes a bit for the projector resolution. Of course since I was using html/css restyling was instantaneous, none of this beamer nonsense:-)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle LOL

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda also of course on the bus into oxford to write my slides:-)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh!

@David: so you go by bus and @egreg goes by train. Hmmm.

David Carlisle

4:33 PM

@PauloCereda well I drove 90% of the way but taking a car into Oxford is pointless (there's nowhere to park), so I dumped the car at the council's car park and just got the "park and ride" in to town.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle is one of those cool buses I see on television? :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda probably not (depends what you find "cool" I guess) standard double decker, no wifi

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh double decker!

I want to ride one of those.

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda ^^

@PauloCereda it wasn't this one ^^^

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh!

egreg

4:48 PM

@PauloCereda You'll probably try to jump on them from the wrong side.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg It's not my fault, they drive in the wrong side. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda Indeed!

Paulo Cereda

@egreg David didn't ask me a question in the talk. :(

David Carlisle

5:04 PM

@PauloCereda I left at the vim reference

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle :(

I feel powerful now. I just pwned an Apple genius. :P

Manuel

5:30 PM

What's the best way to stop a compulsive reviewer? What I sually do is reject one of the edits writing them a message like: “Altough the edits may be correct, editing too many questions at once disturbs the correct functioning of the site.”

Paulo Cereda

@Manuel We can ask a moderator to ping him/her to chat so we can tell him/her directly. :)

Manuel

It's not perfect, and I don't know if they receive the message. But I think two or three edits in a row is not wrong, but after that I tend to do that. Any suggestion.

But then we have to wait for a mod to come here.

Paulo Cereda

@Manuel @Joseph has a great uptime.

percusse

Can we please not accept all linguistic tag edits? Most of them are forest stuff. OTherwise we have to mark all contextual tikz questions too and we'll get a lot of papiros

David Carlisle

5:46 PM

@Manuel is it an edit of your text?

Papiro

@percusse or a lot of percusses... I love you too ;)

percusse

@Papiro Your existence sometimes makes things easier such as giving examples.

Papiro

@percusse thank you. you are welcome. Use but not abuse :-)

@PauloCereda congratulations for you nice interview.

Paulo Cereda

@Papiro Thank you. :) /blushes

Papiro

@PauloCereda I vote to Claudio Fiandrino for the next.

David Carlisle

5:53 PM

@PauloCereda so stop hiding it and publish the thing:-)

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@PauloCereda otherwise we have to revert to plan b which was to publish this:

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=duck&user=6485&room=41

Manuel

@DavidCarlisle Mmm.. no.

@DavidCarlisle Why?

David Carlisle

@Manuel I take a different approach to edits in general to edits of my own text (which I just roll back if I don't like them:-)

Papiro

Bye. I just came here to send a hug to my friend @percusse.

Manuel

@DavidCarlisle Yeah. I mean, (what @percusse said). I see one edit, and find it acceptable, and click okey. Then a second one and accept it. Then a third one and it gets annoying, and on the fourth I tend to reject it (altough it's right) because of the “editing spree”. But I don't know what's the best approach. May be next time I will simply Skip and wait for anyone to solve / stop it.

barznjy

Hi

Paulo Cereda

6:04 PM

@DavidCarlisle Oh no!

@barznjy Hi!

@percusse, @Papiro /group hug

barznjy

I updated MikTeX, but now I have a problem. when I want to compile my latex file I can't see pictures, which means it can't be compiled.
I should convert pictures to (jpg) format so that I will be able to compile it.
what shall I do so that I can compile my file that I have (eps) picture format?

David Carlisle

6:37 PM

@barznjy latex will include eps or if you use pdflatex convert it to pdf or these days I think it should shell escape and automatically convert it. There are loads of example on site

percusse

7:33 PM

do you also catch these? pap iro

tohecz

8:02 PM

@percusse seems yes :) hi, btw :)

@DavidCarlisle @PauloCereda How many starred comments will the interview yet generate? :)

btw, mail sent @Paulo :)

@DavidCarlisle btw, more interestingly, it's 316 messages by @Paulo out of 918 messages altogether ;)

Paulo Cereda

8:41 PM

@tohecz Oh my!

@tohecz Oh my²! :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda I'll probably have your video done today

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Oh no!

Guys, have you heard Finland will stop teaching handwriting to kids in school?

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda No

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30146160

Joseph Wright

8:57 PM

@PauloCereda I don't see that being a good idea

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Neither do I. :(

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Odd: Finland is usually held up in the UK as being quite good education-wise

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I love cursive handwriting. :)

@Joseph: once they do that, handwriting will be finnish-ed. :)

^^ bad pun

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Yes

Joseph Wright

9:27 PM

@PauloCereda Sending to Vimeo now

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Oh no!

Werner

9:46 PM

3

...that's odd. Well, maybe not. :P

David Carlisle

@Werner such a low number:-)

egreg

10:03 PM

@Werner Nice: you are 112288 points behind me. ;-)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: YADI?

egreg

@Werner And you've been overtaken!

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Nope. :)

Werner

@DavidCarlisle Crab-apples... Now you can go on holiday, for sure!

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Yet another duck image :D?

David Carlisle

10:06 PM

@Werner christmas is coming up I understand.

Werner

@DavidCarlisle Oooooo... presents (aka bounties) issued by you to all competing answers - great! I'm reading waaaay to much between the lines. :)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer It's a Christmas tree, no duck. :P

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Drat your HTML slides

David Carlisle

@JosephWright welcome to the 21st century:-)

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Suggestions on how to convert each page to some form of image without having to hand-crop?

David Carlisle

10:09 PM

@JosephWright what aspect ratio?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Oh my ... :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer <3

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle I guess SVGA

David Carlisle

@JosephWright I'll send you something

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Cool: screenshots then removing the chrome not an attractive approach

tohecz

10:12 PM

@JosephWright well, once you have the screenshots, you can call imagemagick to rescue with the cropping

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Yes (or IrfanView), but I'd have to manually trim off the web browser edges

David Carlisle

@JosephWright well if you use full screen (F11) in the browser there is nothing to crop is there?

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle At least with FF on Mac, full screen still has toolbars

David Carlisle

@JosephWright you should get a proper operating system:-)

@JosephWright you really can't make the browser display pages (or videos) full screen? strange.

@JosephWright but I'll make some 4x3 aspect ratio ones anyway

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Stuff in the browser can ask for full screen (E.g. iPlayer), but there's not an option for me to do that with HTML

David Carlisle

10:16 PM

@JosephWright on windows all the browsers go full screen on F11 I think

tohecz

@JosephWright you can automate this

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Still page-by-page, which is the more painful part (I can just split PDF-based presentations into separate pages)

@tohecz Possibly

@DavidCarlisle Definitely try to get a splitter for next year!

percusse

@DavidCarlisle I think you would be the appropriate person to share with

jex.im/regulex/#!embed=false&flags=&re=%28a|b%29

oops backslashes are causing problem but type in any regexp :)

I tried stuff like this

\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:\/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}‌\/)(?:(?:[^\s()<>.]+[.]?)+|\((?:[^\s()<>]+|(?:\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\((?:[^\s()‌<>]+|(?:\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s

!()[]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))`

and it is pretty quick

Joseph Wright

vimeo.com/113328301

tohecz

@JosephWright Have you got an idea if this'll have any subsequent effects on blog.TeX.SX?

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Q: We're no longer starting new individual site Community Blogs - here's why

We've learned a lot by creating these per-site blogs for any site which asked for them. However, we at Stack Exchange have not been doing enough to make blogs work - neither for the contributors nor for the communities that are associated with them. On our network, any site will have generated s...

discussion blog-overflow

Joseph Wright

10:29 PM

@tohecz Will have to read up on it

tohecz

kk

David Carlisle

@percusse looks nice, not sure the railroad diagrams are really easier to understand than the regex though:-)

percusse

@DavidCarlisle I don't see anything regular with regex

Joseph Wright

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Q: In FoilTeX, with sans serif font, \emph gives serif font

I'm using the foils class. I'd like all the text to be serif, so I added \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault} to the preamble. However, when I use \emph{}, it displays italicised SANS serif! MWE: \documentclass[landscape]{foils} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault} \begin{document} \...

sans-serif emphasis

One for @DavidCarlisle, obviously

David Carlisle

@tohecz we need to get @PauloCereda to post his pending blog article before the blog gets archived for inactivity

@JosephWright foiltex, not seen that for a while

tohecz

10:39 PM

@DavidCarlisle AFAIK we're not the ones that caused the decision. The blog seems to get couple posts a year. If that's considered not enough, I'm going to fight for it :) (like I do for PH index now :D )

percusse

@JosephWright Are you also uploading other talks? They are really nice to have online. So thanks for the previous ones too.

Joseph Wright

@percusse Yes: I just have to merge the audio and slides

@percusse Will take a few days

egreg

foils.cls! Oh, dear!

And, before somebody says something, I've never used foils.cls until today for answering the question.

David Carlisle

There was I downloading foiltex do do as @JosephWright instructed and return to the site to post an answer only to find @egreg has nipped in first. The man has no shame:-)

Christian Hupfer

@egreg: I am definitely too young to know foils.cls :D

egreg

10:53 PM

@DavidCarlisle I thought you were a big expert in foils.

David Carlisle

@egreg expert enough to download it from ctan and find it's redefined \em :-)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle And a curious substitution rule: fcmr/m/sl becomes fcmss/m/sl

David Carlisle

@egreg yes well it was one of the first contributed classes to use NFSS declarations, so looking a bit odd with hindsight is not surprising:-)

egreg