@egreg yes I'd just done the \newline in minipage one when I saw your comment, I thought at first you meant that one but you meant the weird math in multicols one I suppose:-)
@SeanAllred (and others) Found that sentence I was concerned about reading the Vim/Emacs stuff. It's in discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/q/17923/4481: ... splitting off Emacs questions runs counter to our current thinking about what's best for our company and (we suspect) the users of Stack Overflow
Emacs is a programming language, but SO does not correctly highlight emacs questions.
Emacs is a tool, so many questions will be closed on SO as being out-of-context by individuals who aren't familiar with it.
Emacs has competitors, true, but this is true of TeX too. Does having tex.SE risk tha...
@1010011010 The errors of TeX are cryptic indeed, but most LaTeX errors are pretty understandable (if you make an effort in reading the error message and thinking about it).
@1010011010 I saw a person a while back struggling with an andefined command for about 15 minutes while i was helping another person. After i realized that she was still looking at the screen in confusion, i said: Did you check for spelling mistakes? She gave me a look as if i called her brain dead. »Happens to me all the time :-)« She looked closer and smiled. It was a spelling mistake.
@1010011010 Or to put it in another way: As an architect, you need to give clear instructions to the workers. Difference is: If you write »two steal beams« a human being might say »Steal? I bet the guy meant steel« A computer program is stupid by definition and the programmer gives it some intelligence reporting a message, that steal is not a valid buildiing material.
Recently Willie Wong announced that he is retiring as moderator. A moderator election just started, in which there are 3 available positions. This makes me wonder:
Are other moderator retirements expected soon? Will we have an increase in the number of moderators? How was the number 3 deter...
It's a quite old question, but I'll add my answer anyway, as the method I suggest didn't appear in the others
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
Foo bar & \begin{tabular}[x]{@{}c@{}}Foo\\bar\end{tabular} & Foo bar \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
where x is either t, c, or b to force the desired vertical ...
Usually, spaces at the beginning of a line are ignored by TeX. However, this is not the case when writing in a verbatim like context. Tabulators at the beginning of a line are ignored as well.
Whitespace characters like NO-BREAK SPACE (U+00A0) behave in a different way. To use them properly, a ...
@PauloCereda They'll close for the christmas break in 15 minutes anyway. Closed till kanuary fifth.
% By formally declaring documents to be composed of mark-up elements
% grouped into objects, which are interpreted and typeset with a set of
% templates, each of which has one or more instances with which to
% compose each and every semantic unit of the text, we can cleanly
% separate the components of document construction.
@JosephWright I find myself actually in agreement that Emacs.SE (and possibly even TeX.SE) should be rolled into SO. It would require a drastic change in how the site is moderated though, with users only seeing questions in their queue with tags they have reputation in or related tags thereof. I'm not even sure StackExchange keeps this information, though.
@SeanAllred It all depends on how far you want to stretch 'programming'. For example, I'm a chemist so if I were not on the kernel team my need for 'programming' would be very slight, but using (La)TeX would still be sensible
@JosephWright And using Mathematica would be, as well. The problem I think is that when we start defining boundaries like this, we run into the problem of opinions dominating the organization of the network. Opinions differ and thus we have fragmentation.
@JosephWright There is no easy answer.
As an aside, anyone who wants true inbox / notification support in sx.el should upvote this question on StackApps vvv
I'm aware of this question, but it applied to an older (readonly) api version.
Given that API 2.2 is read/write, I figured this might be possible now.
Is there any way for an application using the API to mark as read those items returned by the inbox/unread method?
I would be inclined to think...
@SeanAllred SO is about programming, so it comes down to a balance of how much programming a particular topic needs. For TeX, I'd say we have for most end-users very little programming (they might use some code but not really follow it) and we have quite a bit of 'other stuff'.
@JosephWright Unfortunately the argument carries quite handily for Emacs/Vim – there are many people who use these tools who have no knowledge nor need of knowledge for programming.
@percusse This is exactly the problem :/ I hate matlab and I think Mathematica is a superior language on all counts, but if Mathematica has a right to exist as a site, so should matlab.
@JosephWright That's the ideal, yes – but many proposals are shut down for being 'invalid'. I had a text editors proposal some time back that was shut down for being within SO.
@SeanAllred Well I don't agree about the language part but yes or they should have merged it. But because the model is successful they want specialized clans. If you combine those two. Every question will be a battleground.
@SeanAllred, @percusse I'm mainly going to watch the Emacs/Vim situation because I'm worried where it might lead rather than having anything to do with those editors
Emacs with AUCTeX — emacs auctex
Platforms: Windows, Mac (incl. Aquamacs fork), Unix
License: Free software (GPL)
Languages: de, dk, fr, is, it, jp, nl, pl, se, sk are supported by AUCTeX language styles
Unicode: Yes, from Emacs 23, characters are represented using Unicode
RTL/bidirectional sup...
@percusse Emacs is a meta-tool that can be learned for a variety of applications. I've shown (some people who I used to be roommates with) org-mode and they loved it. They have no programming experience whatsoever
@SeanAllred If you are not using to the max which is all the buffers, shortcut keys etc. it is an ugly terminal. And the point is is it really bringing enough benefits or you are becoming a keyboard player.
@JosephWright I don't think that matters for the argument – Emacs is just an editor: it's not a programmer's editor, it's not a scientist's editor, etc., etc. – it is an editor.
Many people don't have a use for writing documents. That's fine – you don't need to use a good tool for that. Word is perfectly good for the occasional flyer for a yard-sale, etc.
But if you want to start writing for a living, use a tool that will help you get the job done.
@percusse Not quite – you said coding for an hour a day :)
I don't push it onto people – same with TeX – I find people who would have a use and I casually demonstrate that use until they ask me what I'm doing :)
@SeanAllred Here is a map: Emacs is almighty -> you can do a lot of stuff -> Not everybody does a lot of stuff -> Many people do occasionally emacs-worthy operations -> Emacs is not needed in general
Don't take coding literally, TeX is also coding in this context
If you are not typing/coding/whatever, this emacs/vim business is really very specific to a particular group of people who also happen to be dominating the SO network.
I wouldn't expect it to be separate than superuser or SO
@DavidCarlisle On tex.stackexchange.com/questions/218983/…, that code is copy-pasted but I think in the source #2 is always one token and I think is always a letter
@SeanAllred Just my 2 cents: Org-mode spreadsheets and Calc. I do many of my spreadsheets in Emacs, and if I have to do some number-crunching on my computer, I usually use Emacs, too. (Just sayin'.)
[paulo@satyagraha ~] $ which emacs
/usr/bin/which: no emacs in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/home/paulo/.local/bin:/home/paulo/bin)
@mbork I do like me some org-mode spreadsheets, but there are some things that would be too complicated to set up right now with it (e.g. conditional formatting)
@DavidCarlisle It randomly happens in one of Gonzalo's fancy Tables of contents. I fixed it randomly before but surprise.. it gives up on me one and a half hour before the deadline.
@StefanKottwitz It seems like a classic case of exceeded TeX capacity. I can't isolate anything other than the number of elements in my document. If I get rid of a graph, it works fine. If I get rid of an infobox, it's fine.
Where do I increase TeX capacity again? So I can just test run it with larger numbers.
I use many many drop shadows in my document, which might be a clue as to why it's happening. I don't know.
@1010011010 so make a mwe just containing those by starting with a bad document and remove everthing else chances are you have a \setbox without a preceding \leavevmode but without a test file hard to find
@Felix Consider that I can't read Chinese, Japanese or Korean; but I searched for space in the documentation, found the option and tried it. :) — egreg1 hour ago
For some reason, there's a recursive definition in this MWE. Who can find where it goes wrong?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{refcount}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
...
@1010011010 `\par` sometimes means end of paragraph primitive but in latex.ltx you will find `\let\par\@empty` `\def\par{#1}\def\@par{#1}` `\def\@restorepar{\def\par{\@par}}` ` \@setpar{\if@newlist \advance\par@deathcycles \@ne \ifnum \par@deathcycles >\@m \@noitemerr {\@@par}% \fi \else {\@@par}% \fi}% ` and other things....
Emacs is a programming language, but SO does not correctly highlight emacs questions.
Emacs is a tool, so many questions will be closed on SO as being out-of-context by individuals who aren't familiar with it.
Emacs has competitors, true, but this is true of TeX too. Does having tex.SE risk tha...
Recently Willie Wong announced that he is retiring as moderator. A moderator election just started, in which there are 3 available positions. This makes me wonder:
Are other moderator retirements expected soon? Will we have an increase in the number of moderators? How was the number 3 deter...
I'm aware of this question, but it applied to an older (readonly) api version.
Given that API 2.2 is read/write, I figured this might be possible now.
Is there any way for an application using the API to mark as read those items returned by the inbox/unread method?
I would be inclined to think...
For some reason, there's a recursive definition in this MWE. Who can find where it goes wrong?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{refcount}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
...
