« first day (1265 days earlier)      last day (3661 days later) » 

8:28 AM
@PauloCereda don't worry, its the rabbit. :-)
I rejected the duck, but i cant save all animals.
 
 
1 hour later…
9:54 AM
@Johannes_B Phew, the duck is saved. :)
 
10:10 AM
@egreg: I was reading news on the Pope and holy week, then I found a name that is probably well known by you: Raniero Cantalamessa. Does it ring a bell? :)
 
@PauloCereda I believe he's doing something on TV.
 
@egreg My advisor was talking about him the other day. He's the official preacher to the papal household. I was recommended to read some homilies of him (after of course reading technical papers on CS).
 
10:23 AM
No food to eat? Why don't taste "ampo" which is a snack made from soil?
 
 
1 hour later…
11:44 AM
5
Q: LaTeX is crossing its limits

kamalbangaPardon for the funny title. I have a large report in the middle of which there is a sentence Let $\mathcal{L}$ : $\mathcal{O}$ $\rightarrow$ $\mathcal{S}$ be a function This shows in the report as in the third line of the following image. Now I want the function declaration L:O->S to be in o...

Personally, I'm not liking the way this question is being answered so far.
 
12:13 PM
Hello everyone
 
12:35 PM
hey, prepping lecture notes last minute...so quick help would be appreciated...anyone know the right parameter to adjust with enumitem to increase whitespace at the bottom, but not top of the list? \topsep gives me what I want for the last item (space beneath it) but gives me unwanted space before the first item. Anyone know what to do?
 
That I'm aware of, there are only four possible vertical spacing commands with `enumitem` :
topsep
partopsep
parsepitemsep
*parsep
itemsep
 
@MarioS.E. Yea that's what I've come across too. I wound up just hacking what I wanted with a negative vspace before the first item but I can't help but think there must be a "better" way.
 
@Dennis perhaps parsep is your huckleberry
 
@MarioS.E. huh, you're right it seems to be working now...i wonder what i messed up when i first tried it
@MarioS.E. (out of curiosity what is the meaning/origin of "is your huckleberry"? Haven't heard that phrase before)
 
12:52 PM
@Dennis There is a movie with Val Kilmer.... it's a western. The guy has typhoid, but is a hell of a shooter, and a friend of his is about to get in a duel with the bad guy... so Val Kilmer says "I'm your huckleberry" so the bad guy fights him instead of his friend
 
@MarioS.E. Ah, so "I'm your huckleberry"="I'm the one you want"
 
@Dennis yeah, something like that... like "I'm the prize/match you have been looking for"
@Dennis Personally, this is the best scene from the movie: youtube.com/watch?v=LRVhtVCfzo8
 
1:29 PM
@PauloCereda Neither do I.
@PauloCereda But I'm putting on the Matthäuspassion and don't want to bother.
 
1:59 PM
@egreg Really? Me too!
 
@PauloCereda The function will be at 7pm, so I have time to finish hearing it.
 
@egreg 11AM right now, so I have 4 hours until the function. :)
 
@PauloCereda It's a version directed by Gustav Leonhardt
 
@egreg Mine's this one:
 
Anyone know what the deal is with this site: techques.com/question/31-62188/…
 
2:04 PM
@PauloCereda I haven't it; I only have the Johannespassion with Gardiner.
 
it seems they just swipe questions from TeX.SX and host them there....
 
@Dennis An excuse to put in advertising.
 
Meta.StackExchange launched! blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/…
Now I gotta go, it's Passion time in 2 hours and I have yet to practice the organ :)
 
@tohecz Try G minor and let them follow you. :P
 
@tohecz Have fun
@Dennis One of those places that grabs the raw data and reformats
 
2:09 PM
@PauloCereda G minor is likely on the list, too. We'll sing 10 pieces
 
@tohecz ooh! :)
 
Bye!
 
2:23 PM
@tohecz See ya, Tom!
Oh no, someone gave me a Bible in German. :)
The last time I tried to learn German, I had a good motivation: the teacher was a cute girl. :)
 
Switching to TL2014 :-)
 
@JosephWright Boo! :)
 
@PauloCereda Pretesting to do!
 
@JosephWright: get Life goes on on Steam.
@JosephWright No one needs pretesting. :P
@David: you see, I recommend games for Joseph. :) I could give some advice on stuff for M as well. Like a good editor. :P
 
2:41 PM
@JosephWright Still no MacTeX pretest
 
@egreg No, but for pretesting that's not really useful anyway
 
@JosephWright I'll try in a few days.
 
@egreg Holiday here, so a good opportunity to update my system
Also work on various things :-)
 
3:12 PM
@egreg, @DavidCarlisle (or indeed anyone else) Do either of you know the full details of how kpsewhich, etc. decide where to look for files? I'm trying to understand which formats will find .sty files inside tex/latex as opposed to tex/generic, and my experiments are currently confusing!
 
@JosephWright texdoc kpathsea
@JosephWright But also texdoc texlive
 
@egreg Thanks
@egreg Still doesn't quite make sense (but I have an idea why)
 
@JosephWright For instance, tex has TEXINPUTS.tex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// while pdflatex has TEXINPUTS.pdflatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}//
 
@egreg That bit makes sense, but try ConTeXt (MkII vs MkIV) :-)
 
@JosephWright I'm scared. ;-) I've never been able to understand how ConTeXt works.
6
 
3:24 PM
@egreg ConTeXt MkII behaves as one would expect: it doesn't find a .sty file in tex/latex. On the other hand, MkIV does. My feeling is that this is because MkIV uses a callback for \input, and this uses the Lua interface for the search library, which probably doesn't 'know' which format is active and so returns the same as the command line kpsewhich.
@egreg Being on the LaTeX team I do occasionally have to try to follow ConTeXt stuff :-)
BTW, LaTeX2e update being prepared for TL2014
@DavidCarlisle Enjoying the 'bug spam' from Frank? ;-)
 
@JosephWright Did David fix some bugs he planted?
 
@egreg Frank did mention David a few times, certainly
 
3:56 PM
@JosephWright I used to know the details, what bit's confusing?
@JosephWright just saw a long list of mail headers, not looked yet:-)
 
4:25 PM
Britons may enjoy my answer here
2
Q: how to get square brackets with \SIrange{}{}{}?

WobbyWindowsI'd like to get something like this: [-40 ; 80] °C Instead I'm getting: Below is a MWE. I've tried to include all necessary packages for siunitx, as written in its documentation; there are more, perhaps they are conflicting with the ones siunitx requires... \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scra...

 
@egreg See my comment
 
@JosephWright Fixed the explanation, thanks
 
 
3 hours later…
7:53 PM
Lots of exciting LaTeX work to get done before the TL2014 release!
Well, perhaps not that exciting
@DavidCarlisle Working through Frank's e-mails?
 
8:09 PM
@JosephWright Anything significant new in tlpretest?
 
@StefanKottwitz Not yet
 
@JosephWright what are some plans for the new release? At least I did not notice something new in the official documentation
 
@StefanKottwitz Frank is working on a new LaTeX2e release, which is of course bug-fixes, but the point is that there will be an update :-)
@StefanKottwitz We've also got some expl3 updates hopefully to be added soon
 
@JosephWright So good maintainance work and food for advances L3 users
did Karl mention something regarding tlmgr or infrastructure?
 
8:29 PM
@StefanKottwitz Something like that
 
9:16 PM
@PauloCereda Now I'm on the Johannespassion at “Es ist vollbracht”. The alto voice is René Jacobs: great singer.
 
@egreg :)
 
@PauloCereda Great musician, I should say.
 
@egreg Indeed. :)
@egreg: how was the function? :)
 
@PauloCereda Very long, as usual. But the reading from Isaiah was very good. ;-)
 
@egreg Ah the first reading. :)
 
9:23 PM
@PauloCereda Especially the reader.
 
@egreg let me guess: you. :)
@egreg: the Eucharistic adoration script today was powered by LaTeX and TeX Gyre Pagella. :)
 
@PauloCereda :) No Comic Sans?
Yes, I've seen booklets for Mass with CS in them.
 
@egreg Heaven forbid. :) The seminarian loves Comic Sans, though. He writes booklets with it.
@egreg Ouch, me too. :) ^^
 
@PauloCereda REPENT!
(Boldface and italics)
 
@egreg Penitenziagite! :)
@egreg It means business. :)
 
10:17 PM
@egreg: Comic Neue has no accents, so we are safe. :)
 
10:45 PM
!!/battle
 

« first day (1265 days earlier)      last day (3661 days later) »