« first day (1511 days earlier)      last day (3414 days later) » 

12:07 AM
@yo' Hey! When did you change your name?
 
@yo' Why?
 
yo'
@egreg just now :)
 
@yo' Too much beer?
 
@egreg Tom probably wants to add some gangsta style to any replies directed to him. :)
 
yo'
@egreg why?
@PauloCereda LOL
 
12:12 AM
@yo' Since when we are closing fun questions ?
especially past 40 votes?
 
yo'
@percusse this one doesn't look fun to me at all :-/ The answers are just a list of mostly unrelated things, and hardly any of them really answers the question
 
@yo' yo yo and a bottle of rum!
@egreg: ^^ see :)
Well pirate style. :)
 
@yo' Do you believe that I like xkcd question?
200+ something
 
yo'
@PauloCereda you mean the QUORHUM 23 I have as a Christmas gift for my mom? :)
 
@yo' lolwut :)
 
yo'
12:14 AM
@percusse well, the XKCD question is a good one, since it can be really well answered
 
@percusse: Today: Someone: you need to ask if this particular Turing machine halts. Me: Surely, but... will it blend? :)
 
@yo' I think you have overreacted on that one. But I'm saying it in a very very casual way. I don't object to it but stil I think 40 something is too much to object
that's perfect english
@PauloCereda In my university we have a Schmuring completeness index
If someone invokes Turing completeness we invoke Schmuring completeness. How difficult to integrate \tan(\sqrt(\theta)) from 0 to 1?
 
yo'
@percusse well, maybe it'll get eventually re-opened. I probably won't object. It's a boundary case. And sorry, I tend to quite ignore the popularity of the question in question
 
@yo' No problem at all.
 
@percusse I wub you sir. Can I buy a T-shirt? :)
 
12:18 AM
@PauloCereda It's no joke. If someone from CS comes over we really do invoke that.
 
@percusse AFAICS the answers drifted from “recent advances” to advantages/disadvantages, which was not the question.
 
Guys, it's 22:00+ here, it's probably past midnight to most you guys. Shouldn't you be in bed? :)
 
Can you code that integral in <insert your favorite thingy here>
 
@percusse ooh like some mantra. :)
 
@PauloCereda 1:18 here, but there's Beethoven's symphony n. 1 on air.
 
12:19 AM
@egreg ooh! :)
 
@egreg I know it really isn't a good question at all. But it's hard to ignore too. For my taste it should have been closed immeadiately but we were too late so it doesn't feel like closing now because it's center of attention, good publicity for TeX.SE :P
 
yo'
@PauloCereda I should, but .... but I should as well tidy up .... and I do neither :P
@percusse or we should come and massively downvote all the answers but the one good one.
 
I think this needs still some work. Some randomness and connection to R. Probably, adjust fireworks according to a building. Should we open a new thread for Firework Christmas card? — Masi Dec 15 at 20:58
@yo' tell me what to do whith that?
I have no idea
 
@percusse R ewwww
:)
 
yo'
@percusse what do you mean?
 
12:22 AM
I don't even understand the problem
 
yo'
@percusse most of the answers do attempt to answer the question, but they fail to do so. Such answers deserve -10 and automatic deletion, don't they? :)
 
It's a similar popular question. draw-it-for-me to be precise.
but R?
 
yo'
@percusse ah you speak about the fireworks one, and I speak about the recent one.
 
@TorbjørnT. back in the day it was fun to have a few TikZ stupidity as you might remember. But we are more straightjacketed recently. So I'm having hard time to do justice.
 
yo'
the fireworks one is much much much better than 50% of TikZ questions
 
12:27 AM
It's tough to judge especially if you need only 5 votes in a 50+ active reviewing community.
 
yo'
because frankly, once you have the fireworks, I can imagine people using it on their Xmas cards. That's not the case with some funny drawings people demand sometimes
 
@yo' So you are not shocked to see the connection to R as much as I did?
 
yo'
@percusse well, I'm waiting for the first OS being written in R ... :D
 
12:43 AM
0
Q: Problem with LaTeX

Diego Silvera\documentclass[10pt,A4paper, twoside]{report} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor} \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,amsthm,amscd,latexsym,cancel,graphicx,multirow,array,color,fancyhdr,tikz,makeidx,lmodern,tabularx} \...

Perhaps a \listfiles is in order? This is the first I've heard of a TeX document that "used to work"
 
@SeanAllred doubt it he's got a control character in some file so it stopped working because he typed C-qC-@C-xC-s or some such
 
@DavidCarlisle Do you think he's using emacs?
/me re-reads question
 
@SeanAllred I think everyone uses emacs (I always think good of people until prove otherwise)
 
But the successful copypasta to an online compiler would suggest something fishy going on
@DavidCarlisle :)
 
@SeanAllred maybe the control character didn't survive the clipboard or (possibly more likely) it was in la corrupted aux file that was never copied or...
 
12:49 AM
etc. etc. etc., yeah…
 
@SeanAllred I just asked that he post the log
 
@SeanAllred Nice preamble, isn't it? Good night.
 
@egreg I whimpered silently to myself. I feel (and know from experiences with my professors) that a lot of people view the preamble as something they should lug around with them from document to document.
I just look at each line and ask, "oh, where was your home little buddy?"
 
@SeanAllred :)
 
@PauloCereda vvv
51
Vi and vim

Proposed Q&A site for people using vi and vim

Currently in definition.

 
cfr
1:01 AM
@SeanAllred It's a nMWnE but could be worse. Could be a nMnWnE. (Wouldn't necessarily make it a nMnWE if it failed to compile for a different reason, would it?) I'm going to see how many more variations on the acronym I can use...
 
@cfr Took me a while to figure out what you were doing :)
I remember seeing a nMWnEs a week or so back :)
 
which language is this?
 
@percusse ?
 
yo'
@DavidCarlisle problem solved
 
1:26 AM
@SeanAllred nMnWnE,
 
1:43 AM
@percusse non-Minimal, non-Working non-Example, etc. :)
 
cfr
1:55 AM
@SeanAllred ;)
 
2:05 AM
48
Q: LaTeX vs Word; improvements of LaTeX over the years

studentWhen comparing MS Word vs LaTeX the proponents of Word often say that many advantages of LaTeX over Word from say 1997 disappeared over the years as Word evolved to the current 2013 version. For example, Word no longer has a binary format, the files are just zipped XML files; Word is capable of...

I recognize how many votes it has, but I'm really on the fence about whether it should remain closed / be re-opened
Does anybody have strong opinions on this?
 
 
4 hours later…
6:29 AM
@yo' If I might ask, what prompted the name change?
 
 
3 hours later…
9:02 AM
@SeanAllred David will surely join. :) But once you join this Q&A site, you might not get out easily. :P
 
9:19 AM
user image
3
This is seriously my first chapter of the upcoming arara manual. :)
@SeanAllred: ^^ :)
 
@SeanAllred Interesting discussions linked through from there (the ones deleted by the Powers but available via an archive)
@PauloCereda Good plan
 
@JosephWright With a great step-by-step ugrade guide. :)
@Joseph: check the epigraph. :)
 
I took one of my semi-regular looks over the stats on stackexchange.com/sites
I see we are still top-ten for questions per day (stackexchange.com/sites#questionsperday) :-)
 
@JosephWright We are doing good. :)
 
@PauloCereda Also top 15 for traffic: a few newer sites have more traffic on fewer questions
@PauloCereda Indeed
@PauloCereda Only site in the top ten for questions only needing three mods :-)
 
9:22 AM
@JosephWright And with no problems at all. :)
 
@PauloCereda There are occasional ones, but not to the point where we need more cover
@PauloCereda The ones we do have wouldn't be helped by having more people in any case: it's much more about dealing with people carefully
 
@JosephWright Indeed.
2
A: shapes inside the figure

David CarlisleYou can use any latex drawing package to draw over an image, tikz, pstricks or here I just use the standard latex picture commands, enhanced via the pict2e package. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{pict2e} \begin{document} Original: \includegraphics{man} enhanced...

For answers like this one, @DavidCarlisle is a true legend! ^^ :)
 
10:09 AM
Worth reading over the Emacs/Vim discussion even if (like me) you don't regularly use either: we get named-checked quite a lot
 
@JosephWright Where?
 
11:02 AM
@egreg You're crying in despair, hence your eyes are filled with tears, hence you don't see anything, hence you don't see how awful this is, hence you aren't crying in despair, hence your eyes are not filled with tears, hence you see everything, hence you see how awful this is, hence you're crying in despair,... Argh, you entered an infinite loop! :) — Denis Bitouzé 11 mins ago
 
 
2 hours later…
1:01 PM
@M.Borck-Elsner ?
 
1:35 PM
Good maen
 
1:47 PM
@ChristianHupfer Hi, have a question.
 
@Johannes_B: Hello... go ahead
 
@ChristianHupfer Over at TexWelt, i am thinking of retagging some questions that box. I can't decide between Kasten und Rahmen. box should be for TeX-boxes.
 
@Johannes_B: Yes, it seems to be quite natural to classify this way
 
@ChristianHupfer Kasten oder rahmen?
 
@Johannes_B: Rahmen
 
1:51 PM
@ChristianHupfer Ok. Sitting in the library.
Not many people around.
 
@Johannes_B: Get a life :-P
 
@ChristianHupfer Or a working connection to the world at home.
 
@Johannes_B: Yes, the whole world can be a visitor to your home through the internet
 
@ChristianHupfer I just have a tiny place, it would be really crowded. :-)
 
@Johannes_B: I have lost a little bit the connection to TeX.SX during the last weeks... too much work ...
 
1:56 PM
@ChristianHupfer Don't worry, i was busy taking lost questions back from the dead.
 
2:16 PM
@Johannes_B: Did you just upvote two of my "old" answers? ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer ¡Si!
 
@Johannes_B: Please upvote only if the answers are good ... not just to kick the question from the unupvoted answers list....
@Johannes_B: No, no, always upvote my answers :-D
 
@ChristianHupfer They were good, i checked.
 
@Johannes_B: Well, thanks then ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer Do you know what to eat on christmas?
 
2:23 PM
Does anybody know how I can hide a web page in a Wordpress setup, i.e. such that it does not appear on the top menu and can only be accessed using the permalink .... I don't mean "private" mode and ... and it should be password protected too, as the content is restricted to my colleagues only
@Johannes_B: We plan a very moderate christmas dinner, not too greasy etc...
 
@ChristianHupfer I have no idea what i am going to eat.
 
@Johannes_B: Some menu with liver? ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer I like liver; nomnom
@ChristianHupfer Could be worse though: seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/02/…
 
@Johannes_B: The traditional Xmas menu: Sliced liver, fried and served with French Fries :-P
@Johannes_B: Hell, no...
 
@ChristianHupfer I have to say, that sounds like a plan.
the liver, not the penis
 
2:29 PM
@Johannes_B: I hope everybody is looking after that link otherwise they would wonder about our conversation here ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer Right, this reads strange, even for my eyes
 
@Johannes_B: My fiancée just listens to "Last Christmas" ... I am going to hell...
 
@ChristianHupfer I am listening to songs on youtube via mpsyt. It is great.
@ChristianHupfer change it to black sabbath, heaven and hell.
 
@Johannes_B: Yes, what's more christmas - like than Black Sabbath.... I feel like I'm paranoid ... ;-)
@Johannes_B: What's mpsyt?
 
@ChristianHupfer paranoid? ^^^
@ChristianHupfer github.com/np1/mps-youtube
 
2:39 PM
@Johannes_B: Lol... cool version :D .. (compared to the other stuff by Cindy and Bert :D)
 
@ChristianHupfer To be honest, this is the only one i know of them.
 
@Johannes_B: Don't look after other stuff of them ... it's worse than hell
 
@ChristianHupfer Just listening to the original. Much better; next will be heaven and hell, again.
@ChristianHupfer I am just googling for LaTeX templates and Vorlagen
 
@Johannes_B: You're the Holy Spanish Inquisition for LaTeX templates ... Nobody expects you ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer Do you know any free game i could play over the next few days. As stupid as possible to get my head clear again.
Or with a nice story i can enjoy.
 
2:52 PM
@Johannes_B: Sorry, not at the moment... Buy one of those magazines concerning games ... most times there is a DVD attached with two games on it...
@Johannes_B: I am addicted to Cindy and Bert :D
 
@ChristianHupfer I bet they aren't good this month. Let me check.
@ChristianHupfer Don't let you fiancée know
 
What about the Software Pyramid.... Oblivion is quite old but still cool , just for 10 euro
 
@ChristianHupfer I think i want to build something.
@ChristianHupfer I had quite some fun playing Der Planer 4
 
@Johannes_B: I don't know that
 
@ChristianHupfer Or i'll just stick to fallout.
 
3:05 PM
@Johannes_B: Ah yes, Fallout... I know that... haven't played it for two years now...
 
3:26 PM
@ChristianHupfer Just looking at a template tu-ilmenau.de/wt/lehre/wsw-studiengaenge/…; the names of the guys modiying it along with dates. last updated in 2013. Uses package ae.
And it issues \normalsize 8 times between chapters.
{\fontseries{b}\fontsize{25pt}{20} \selectfont{%
   TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT ILMENAU}}\\[1ex]
{\fontsize{15pt}{13} \selectfont{%
\centerline{Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik}}}\\
 
@Johannes_B: I am just about to transform my WP site to a "Fortbildungsmanagement" - Seite ... I am not sure it's the right CMS at the moment
 
Hey guys, do you know if this site does not participate to the winter bash thing this year?
I see it already started in all the other sites where I'm subscribed, but not here.
 
@ChristianHupfer I don't know any of that stuff, can't help you there, sorry.
@dcmst No Winterbash here
 
@Johannes_B: It was more of an information ;-)
 
@Johannes_B So it's official?
 
3:34 PM
@dcmst yes, just looking for the accompanying QA
 
@dcmst: Winter bash sites have a snowflake on the top menu, right to the 'your achievments' icon
 
14
Q: Do all sites have Winterbash?

WernerThe Winterbash FAQ mentions: I'm on Stack Overflow (or on one of a few other sites). Where are my hats? Users on these sites have to choose to opt-in individually. Just click the "Winter Bash" popup at the top and click "I love hats!", and you'll be able to earn hats and see other hat-lo...

 
@Johannes_B thank you, I was not aware of that question. :(
 
cfr
3:49 PM
@SeanAllred I think it is a bad question because it invites bad answers. I voted against re-opening it. The question itself is framed in terms which seem to assume a certain perspective, and a lot of it will be a matter of opinion.
It is a matter of opinion, for example, whether A is 'easier' than B. At least, in this case it is, because LaTeX and Word are so different in terms of approach. It isn't as if you can say LaTeX is harder because it involves more steps through menus and dialog boxes, or Word is easier because its commands use a key-value syntax. Or whatever.
I'm not sure that a question can be judged on-topic or whatever just because it gets a lot of votes. That should be a consideration but not definitive.
@dcmst If you go back in chat a couple of days, I asked about this and got a response from a moderator. Yes, it is official. The difference is that in prior years the site didn't opt in. This year they opted out (because that's what they were asked). So, whereas in previous years individuals could enable hats - they just weren't default - this year, we don't have that option.
 
Oh no please don't bring over the hats here :P
It will trigger all kinds of nonsense to get a stupid picture.
we have enough badge hunters
 
4:07 PM
@ChristianHupfer Zum Einfügen eines Bildes wird die minipage-Umgebung genutzt, da die Bilder so gut positioniert werden können.
 
@Johannes_B: Steht das in der Beschreibung des Templates?
 
@Johannes_B ;-) Ich frage mich, wie ich jemals ohne Vorlage meine Diplomarbeit, meine Diss. und meine Staatsexamensarbeit schreiben konnte... :D Ach ja, das war ja vor fast 10 Jahren, als es noch nicht so viele (schreckliche) Templates gab
 
@ChristianHupfer Right now, 5 were i got made or even started to laugh, two were i said: ok, das geht noch.
 
@Johannes_B \vspace{1em}\begin{table}[!h] is a nice pearl for my collection!
 
4:11 PM
@egreg I wonder why he doesn't use minipages there.
btw: This made 6 : 2
 
@Johannes_B: Sorry, I am just looking with only a quarter of my eyes on chat right now, I am still trying to modify my webpage to something like a workgroup administration site ...
 
@PauloCereda Oh my goodness this is amazing! :D It will probably ease the pain, no doubt :)
@JosephWright Yeah, I saw! There was one discussion that was particularly interesting – the original question was downvoted into oblivion, but the comments were an interesting read.
 
@SeanAllred Yes, they are
@SeanAllred Did you pick up the bit about the commercial interests of StackExchange?
 
@JosephWright I was honestly kicked out of the office before I could finish reading (I work in a secure facility and don't have the necessary privileges, etc., to close up)
 
@SeanAllred I'll try to find the right bit
 
4:26 PM
@cfr For the record, I agree. I think a resource that gives this information would be good, but it really isn't a fit for StackExchange's model. As you say, it does invite bad answers (notwithstanding the good ones there).
@cfr You're right to say that the two are incomparable, really – not only in the end product (though that gap may be closing ever so slowly – and this is A Good Thing™), but in the basic premises of what a document is.
 
Can anyone reproduce this?
1
Q: Misalignment of badges/numbers on user-profile page

WernerThe current user-profile page shows the badges/numbers looking like this: Here is a similar view of the top-bar: I think the vertical alignment of the badges in the user-profile view should match that of the top-bar. Tested on: Chrome 39.0.2171.95 m Firefox 34.0.5 Internet Explorer 11.0....

 
@Werner I can
 
4:55 PM
@Werner Safari is OK
 
I think we are going to need to watch this Emacs/Vim situation pretty carefully for any wider implications
 
5:13 PM
@JosephWright Agreed. It may be the case that Emacs.SE needs to open up to all general-purpose plaintext editors – having a single-product site (or something that appears as such; emacs is very much its own ecosystem) would cause…problems.
 
@SeanAllred That's not what is worrying me
 
@JosephWright What's on your mind?
 
@SeanAllred Two things
@SeanAllred First (and I'm still trying to track it down) the statement I spotted about the commercial thinking for the company
@SeanAllred Second, the implication in meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/271989/… that spin-offs don't add benefit (those figures might be correct but I find it hard to believe they are particularly relevant)
 
@JosephWright: so emacs.sx is a bad idea after all (not the editor, I mean't the general idea behind a supporting community -- (of course the editor is a bad idea :)?
 
@PauloCereda Watch it, buster :)
 
5:18 PM
@SeanAllred <3
@Sean: I wouldn't use vim if I could not make fun of a great editor as well. :P
 
@PauloCereda It seems that the Powers, or at least a subset, have a feeling that it is
 
@JosephWright Quite complex, isn't it?
 
@PauloCereda All in good fun :)
 
@SeanAllred Of course. :)
 
It's an interesting dynamic that's going to be played out
 
5:20 PM
Should AUCTeX, in this case, be handled by us?
 
@PauloCereda It's an interesting point we've talked about over at Emacs.SE
@PauloCereda I'm of the opinion that most AUCTeX questions aren't questions on TeX, but rather questions on Emacs Lisp.
 
@PauloCereda The position is usually with these borderline cases that provided it's on-topic where asked it stays there: it's down to the person asking to make that call
 
@SeanAllred Oh my!
@JosephWright Got it.
 
@PauloCereda And yes, as @JosephWright says, it very much depends. It's weird… the questions asked here on AUCTeX are useful for the community, so it's not like they should be moved to be more useful.
It's really getting tangled up.
It's similar I suppose to Physics/Mathematica SEs – each is often useful for the other, but each can support their own site easily.
 
5:44 PM
@PauloCereda Why is emacs.sx a bad idea?
 
@FaheemMitha vim/emacs discussion.
 
@PauloCereda Hmm? Can you elaborate?
 
@FaheemMitha Read all of the discussion about the Vim proposal :-)
 
@JosephWright In this room, or elsewhere?
 
@FaheemMitha There's clearly some tensions at the company about the fact that Emacs is used mainly by programmers, so that makes it on-topic for SO
@FaheemMitha Area51
 
5:46 PM
@FaheemMitha Sure. :) A new proposal got promoted, so emacs.sx was born. On the same lines, people suggested vim.sx, and then people started discussing if having stuff around an specific editor is healthy.
 
@JosephWright Oh. I thought the Vim proposal was closed. Is this a new one? Do you have a link?
@PauloCereda Define "healthy".
 
53
Vi and vim

Proposed Q&A site for people using vi and vim

Currently in definition.

 
@JosephWright Thanks
 
@FaheemMitha What makes say Emacs need a separate site from SO
@FaheemMitha We need to be worried or at least keep an eye on this as it impacts on us
 
@JosephWright It's its own special ecosystem. Why isn't really programming centric.
@JosephWright Worried? Why? And how would it impact you?
 
5:48 PM
@FaheemMitha That's the argument in favour of a separate site
 
@JosephWright Which I mostly agree with. One could make similar arguments about tex.sx. But it is its own separate site. TeX questions used to be asked on SO. To some extent they still are.
 
@FaheemMitha There are a few direct 'spin offs' from the main site. They all have some element of programming but also 'other stuff'. That includes us.
 
@JosephWright And emacs too, imo
Anyway, was this discussion in any particular thread?
 
@FaheemMitha But the question is then Is this enough
 
@JosephWright Is what enough?
 
@JosephWright ok
 
I suffered so much to come up with flyers/pamphlets in the past and 5 minutes ago I found leaflet. My life is complete. :P
 
@FaheemMitha Is say the Emacs 'eco-system' enough to make it need a separate site from SO (general programming). See in particular that meta post and the stats that are suggested.
 
@JosephWright I've asked two questions on emacs. neither of them was a programming question. fwiw.
 
For the Powers it's all about views, really, and the meta thread suggests to some extent that people get more 'help' from SO than the spin outs. I don't think that's true for TeX when you look at the direct interactions.
 
5:52 PM
@JosephWright Ok. Right, there clearly has to be some cutoff or else there will be 10,000 sites.
@JosephWright Well, TeX is clearly "special", in some sense. To some degree, that is also true of Emacs.
 
@JosephWright With our own @Jubobs for the awesome rebuttal :)
 
@FaheemMitha Well I agree that TeX is better served by a dedicated site. However, we've always known we need to be mindful of what the Powers feel.
 
@JosephWright What Powers are those? You presumably don't mean the Holy Trinity.
 
@FaheemMitha And true of Vim, and of Sublime, and of… where does it stop? :(
 
@SeanAllred Sublime?
That's an editor?
 
5:54 PM
@FaheemMitha The StackExchange staff
 
Well, there does need to be a critical mass of users interested in the topic.
 
@FaheemMitha SublimeText. I wouldn't call it a true editor, but I'm elitist :) It's a very popular editor with my generation (under 25 crowd)
 
@JosephWright They're supposed to let the users decide.
@SeanAllred Ok
 
@FaheemMitha No: it's not a democracy. Important to remember that
 
@JosephWright Well, it should try to be.
 
5:56 PM
Note that blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/merging-season has been raised: see comment by 'Duncan' for something to be wary of
 
XD > Yahoo! Answers. Monumentally popular, enormous traffic, and containing absolutely no useful information, Yahoo! Answers is actually more of a teenage chat room than a place to get real answers.
 
@JosephWright I actually disagree that SO is such a big success. It seems to be becoming an increasingly hostile and anonymous place.
 
@FaheemMitha Think money!
 
@JosephWright ?
 
@FaheemMitha The ad money to pay for things comes in somewhere, and that place is SO
 
6:00 PM
@JosephWright Oh, good point. But nobody is advocating splitting up SO.
 
@FaheemMitha No
 
Vi/Vim are so engrained in programmer culture, they might as well be. I can see the point they're making, though I disagree in this case (and acknowledge my own inconsistency in doing so)
 
@SeanAllred I'm not saying they are wrong, I'm just wary of any knock-on
 
@JosephWright I totally understand
 
@SeanAllred Worth noting the comments back when TeX-sx was set up (area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2148?phase=definition): some useful reasons why we don't fit well into SO
 
6:03 PM
@SeanAllred: s/Scots/vim users/g: youtube.com/watch?v=K5lYXaVkA0U :)
 
@PauloCereda I already know what that is and I don't even have to click it XD
 
@SeanAllred I wub you. :)
 
@PauloCereda I watched it anyway and now I'm just sitting here on the couch giggling like an idiot :)
 
@SeanAllred LOL
 
I think this really does exemplify our particular community, though :) vvv Particularly Juan's comment :)
 
6:07 PM
@JosephWright I'm sure to become the highest rep user also there. Oh, wait! Must one actually use vim to join the site?
2
 
@egreg Oh, you.
 
I have the standard answer for the site: "Use Emacs".
 
@egreg I think it would be helpful, but not strictly necessary.
 
@SeanAllred Yes, I believe nobody really uses vim.
 
@egreg Vim is all but featureless; what's there to use?
(I kid, I kid – spf13 is an awesome project to that end)
 
6:09 PM
@egreg David got a TikZ badge without any TikZ code, so I'm sure you'll do fine. :)
@SeanAllred Indeed, I dropped all my configs in favour of spf13. :)
 
@PauloCereda It's a tempting package, though I'm personally not sure where I'd be anymore without Helm :)
 
@SeanAllred I completely understand. :)
 
@PauloCereda Out of curiosity, do you Vim guys have anything like Magit?
Or is that more-or-less not in the spirit of Vim?
 
@SeanAllred Good question, I think fugitive is something along these lines. :)
It's from nobody else than Tim Pope himself: github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
 
6:24 PM
4
Q: TeX command with argument BEFORE the command

GausslerIs it possible to do some TeX magic to get a command \mycmd which takes one argument before the command and one afterwards. So something like <arg1>\mycmd<arg2>. I tried \documentclass{memoir} \def#1\mycmd#2{Hello World of #1 and #2} \begon{document} {foo}\mycmd{bar} \end{document} but obvio...

Haven't we had this before?
 
@JosephWright Perhaps
5
Q: Is a command with an argument before and after the command possible?

user19024I'm trying to create a LaTeX3 command that works the same whether its argument comes before or after the command. For example, I'd like to define \squared to be used as either \m\squared or \squared\m where \m is defined as \mathrm{m}. Both should yield $\mathrm{m}^2$. Here's the markup I've been...

@JosephWright But it's not really the same as the present question
 
6:46 PM
@egreg Hmm, no
 
@percusse Sorry, I haven't really been following the site the last few weeks, any particular reason for pinging me? I see what you mean though.
 
ooh LEGO Batman 3 is awesome, I can play as Alfred!
 
yo'
@PauloCereda lol
 
@yo' :)
 
7:04 PM
@PauloCereda: Who is Robin then? :-P
 
@ChristianHupfer Tom Tim Drake. :)
 
@PauloCereda: WTF is Tim Drake? :D
 
@ChristianHupfer Third Robin. :)
 
@TorbjørnT. Yes I am stupid :) I was trying to ping tohecz but he changed the nick to 'yo and you are the first name that Tab key replaces after typing @t and hitting Tab key :)
 
@PauloCereda: There was more than one Robin? (Apart from different actors? :D)
 
7:07 PM
@ChristianHupfer Yes, there were. :) And this fellow is a robin as well. :)
 
@PauloCereda: That's a Rotkehlchen in Germany :-P I like that robin more than all of those Batman Robins....
 
@ChristianHupfer :)
 
yo'
@PauloCereda <3
 
@yo' <3
LEGO ducks!
 
yo'
@PauloCereda oh my
 
7:28 PM
@percusse Aha, I see.
 
Looking at the Emacs site to see what is going on, I stumbled across
10
A: What steps are necessary to start contributing to Emacs proper?

lunaryornThere are no steps that you need to take yourself prior to actually contributing. Just go ahead and start. Pick a bug, or a feature, that you'd like to have implemented, and do it. If you go for a larger feature, it's a good idea to ask emacs-devel first, though, since there might be objection...

Interesting how formal the Emacs people are compared to the TeX world
 
yo'
8:12 PM
@JosephWright you mean with the copyright policy?
 
@yo' That for a start
@yo' I was thinking more 'having any paperwork at all'
 
yo'
@JosephWright ah yeah. However, Emacs has much smaller code than TL, so it's probably bearable
 
@yo' I was thinking specifically of the LaTeX team
@yo' But CTAN of course too
 
yo'
@JosephWright well, the point is that with LaTeX you have the trustworthy "core" (probably dealing with the similar dataflow as the whole Emacs team), and then the contributors (possibly not trustworthy).
With Emacs, you likely have to be more careful about things
 
9:04 PM
@JosephWright hey looky there
 
9:19 PM
Hi there,
I'm pretty sure there was a question and answer
about simulating a "marker" using tikz
(I mean, giving some text fragment a semi-transparent background,
such that it does not prevent line breaking)
Anybody could possibly help me find this? (I googled, but to no avail.)
 
9:57 PM
@mbork I'm assuming not something like \tikzmark? Can you elaborate? What are you using it for?
 
cfr
10:48 PM
@mbork There was a question about that - though I don't remember if it was TiKZ or not. Maybe 2 questions even.
 
11:31 PM
@DavidCarlisle I left the easy question with the misused \\ to you. ;-)
 
@egreg +well I realise that as it's not about % it's a bit hard for you.
 

« first day (1511 days earlier)      last day (3414 days later) »