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3:21 AM
Funny! This user (a bot, maybe) tex.stackexchange.com/users/49929/user49929 registered 7 days ago and just now opens a span thread. Difficult to detect this kind of spam beforehand.
 
 
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5:22 AM
@GonzaloMedina and he even registered at mathematica as well, these bots are getting way too clever :P
@GonzaloMedina maybe one day they'll only post spam after having reached 1000 rep by intelligently googling and creating solutions to the really simple questions ;)
 
 
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7:01 AM
@GonzaloMedina I've destroyed the user
 
 
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9:26 AM
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A: Big Parenthesis in an Equation

KaranI want a answer of my query but in this site they are trying to fool the peoples. They don't have any knowledge about of html 5 or css. This is such a billshit site. The developer of this site is don't have any knowledge fuck off this bloody site. All of you related of this site please first get ...

 
@LaRiFaRi I guess it will be zapped in a few minutes, if not seconds. ;-)
 
Says, we are "fooling the people"... even more me (as a not native) that's funny
 
@LaRiFaRi But it earned me an upvote. ;-)
 
@egreg, yeah, seems like there are many readers here on Easter monday
Happy Easter to everyone, btw. wasn't here yesterday
"fooling the peoples" ah, I accidentally corrected it.
 
@LaRiFaRi I hope you enjoyed your Easter Sunday.
 
9:29 AM
a lot. Thanks.
 
@LaRiFaRi A question with 100k+ views always attracts people.
 
9:40 AM
@egreg From me as well.
 
@PauloCereda Good morning!
 
@egreg Good morning! :) How was Easter? :)
 
@PauloCereda Very good! There were two of my sisters with their family. And also two (70% cocoa) chocolate eggs. ;-)
 
@egreg Yay! :)
Guys, am I crazy?
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Chorus}

\begin{document}

``Hello world.''

\end{document}
The quotes don't look correct.
Ah forget it. Ligatures=TeX did the trick. :)
My daily RTFM. :P
 
10:43 AM
@PauloCereda a little :P but those Ligatures don't always work, lualatex (or more specific luaotfload) doesn't like them very much, I'm using csquotes/\enquote now ;)
 
@hugovdberg Ah.
 
@PauloCereda I actually like csquotes since it automatically handles inner/outer quotes, and can use language specific quotes, even in multilingual documents :) if only polyglossia would provide an interface to detect language variants as well.. :P
 
@hugovdberg I thought \selectlanguage{foo} could be used for that. :(
 
@PauloCereda polyglossia can set languages and variants just fine, but provides no way for csquotes or other packages to detect which variant is selected
@PauloCereda if you first set variant=american, and later variant=british, csquotes will notice no difference as it only sees language=english
 
@hugovdberg Ah I see.
 
11:37 AM
@PauloCereda — funnily enough I just implemented a new feature in fontspec that will enable Ligatures=TeX by default for \setmainfont and \setsansfont…
 
@WillRobertson Hi Will! :) Really? That's awesome! :)
 
I'm the one to blame since I have no experience with [Xe|Lua]TeX. :)
 
@PauloCereda I hope so! I'm worried it will confuse people and of course it could "break" old documents, but it's bugged me for a long time
 
@egreg I must admit I don't exactly understand the piece of code you wrote setting the digits for math mode, but would it be possible to use something like this: tex.stackexchange.com/a/9600/46598 instead?
 
11:41 AM
@WillRobertson (to the tune of Frozen's "Let it go") Let it break, let it break, can't hold it back anymore. :)
 
or perhaps @WillRobertson can help, since you apparently work on fontspec :)
 
@hugovdberg Will is the evil mastermind behind fontspec. :)
 
the code I'm referring to is in this question:
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Q: How to make lualatex select the correct OpenType features in math mode?

hugovdbergAfter fiddling around with egreg's answer to my previous question, I finally discovered that lualatex is not selecting the tnum OpenType features, that is it uses the default numerals instead of the monospaced lining, whereas xelatex does select the correct numerals. The Goal To use the Calluna...

 
Speaking of fonts and stuff, I might add some font checking in my upcoming predictive interface for arara. :)
 
@hugovdberg This might be something I forgot to document some time in the distant past… does adding Renderer=Basic to the font options help?
 
11:48 AM
@WillRobertson perhaps I should also link this github request: github.com/lualatex/luaotfload/issues/204
 
Oh, except it looks like you're already using that.
 
@WillRobertson Renderer=Basic sort of helps in mathmode, but it still doesn't select all necessary fontfeatures
 
Hmm, from the github conversation it looks like you know far more of what's going than I do… I only do the "dumb" stuff in fontspec — your problem is in the layer below mine.
 
@WillRobertson :( I did learn a lot about OpenType because of this problem :P
 
It's fascinating stuff!! But only so much time in the day. Speaking of which… see you next time :)
 
12:00 PM
@hugovdberg Maybe. Try it.
 
 
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1:54 PM
@egreg Thanks. The first three weeks are over and I am really tired but also happy.
 
@MarcoDaniel Happy to see you here! Congratulations again! What's the name of the child?
 
@MarcoDaniel Hi Marco! Congrats! :)
 
@PauloCereda Maybe the child needs attention, so Marco had to go. ;-)
 
@egreg Ah indeed. Some chapters of the TeXbook are indeed tricky. :P
 
@egreg: I'm looking for an answer of yours that deals with header/footers...
 
2:09 PM
@Werner There's plenty of them, I guess.
 
...specifically it was one that I answered and then deleted the answers since you're solved a problem for sections that where located at the break of the page.
I think it may have dealt with the use of \thesection in the header/footer.
You can't just use \thesection straight up.
Does it ring a bell?
 
@Werner Is it this one?
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Q: Only show header if section number > 0

user3389757The current section name + chapter.section number is shown in the header. This is normal behaviour (what I want). Example: How can I remove the header text, if there is no section on the page. The following example illustrate my problem. The header is "1.0" but I want to show nothing. Exampl...

 
@WillRobertson Drat, I missed you :-)
 
3:18 PM
@JosephWright Mention fontspec, it might help. :)
Playlist now features Demi Lovato.
 
3:55 PM
Hi guys
@DavidCarlisle, I'm trying to get a figure out of a PDF document. I tried using the windows snipping tool or the pdf built-in "take snapshot", but the results are poor (seems it is transformed to .png). I did see there is a trim and clip option in the graphicx package, but I'm not sure how to specify the figure in the pdf
 
4:18 PM
@MarioS.E. there are commandline tools but with pdftex you should be able to use \includegraphics[trim= .....,page=4,clip]{file.pdf} to include that page of the pdf file, then trim it
 
@DavidCarlisle I saw it in the documentation :) , but trim takes 4 arguments in (bp)... how do I say "ignore all the white space in the page"?
 
@MarioS.E. you don't:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle so? what do I write?
 
5:00 PM
@MarioS.E. you have to write the exact lengths you want to trim, by measuring the page (eg with a physical rule on paper) or just by eye/trial and error.
 
@DavidCarlisle Can I give the lentghs in centimeters, or do i have to use bp?
 
@egreg Yes! Thanks!
 
5:44 PM
@MarioS.E. any unit (it just uses bp if you supply no units so you can use trim= 1in 3pt 4cm 5bp if you want
 
@DavidCarlisle Imperial ones too? :)
 
@PauloCereda The empire fights back
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh! :)
 
6:00 PM
@PauloCereda Note that a pint is much more than half a liter (or litre): 1 Imperial pint = 0.568261485 litres
 
@egreg Oh my!
 
@PauloCereda This is the main reason why Britons resist against SI.
 
Ok, overlooking something here - anyone know the command to make natbib give the citation index without the formatting that \citep puts on? I am using superscripted references, but I want to refer to reference "n" in-line in my text
 
The slug is an English unit of mass. It’s defined as the mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s² when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it (14.5939 kg). Simple, right?
 
@PauloCereda Half a litre of ale would be too small.
 
6:02 PM
@egreg LOL
 
@egreg we'd have to drink litres
 
@DavidCarlisle Like Bavarians. Maybe that's the reason.
 
@egreg, @PauloCereda have you noticed we have a visitor discussing TeX here ?
 
@DavidCarlisle You sorta co-invented TeX, do something.
:)
 
@PauloCereda drink a litre of beer?
 
6:05 PM
@repurposer I'm not sure you can do it, if superscript citations are used.
@repurposer Which is the worst possible style, in my opinion.
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh! :)
 
I'm writing a chemistry article, it's the style.
 
Mar 24 at 9:58, by David Carlisle
@JosephWright chemists are weird
 
@repurposer Make a question on the site, it doesn't seem a quick shot.
 
@DavidCarlisle LOL you are mean. :)
 
6:09 PM
@repurposer Isn't it just \citenum?
That's what I've got noted in the achemso demo file
 
@JosephWright works. I thought I had seen it somewhere, thanks!
 
6:25 PM
@DavidCarlisle: Joseph is a hero. :) ^^
 
@PauloCereda nah, he's a chemist
 
6:47 PM
@DavidCarlisle :)
@egreg: Yay, @MarcoDaniel is back! :)
 
@DavidCarlisle Tar
Forgot to say: was at a conference last week: saw a talk using beamer!
One of my former bosses was not keen on the content of said talk (I thought it was OK)
@DavidCarlisle Any thoughts on the ongoing expl3 discussions?
 
7:43 PM
Did people see the TeXworks news?
 
@JosephWright I might be in the modernish part of the field. I only see beamer produced talks recently. Very little no of .ppt talks
 
@DavidCarlisle Cool, thanks! :)
 
@percusse Ah, but you are not a chemist, are you
 
@JosephWright Oh my, no :)
Is beamer smelling bad? What's the problem that avoids switching to TeX based presentations?
 
8:05 PM
@percusse LaTeX is very rare for chemistry
@percusse Visual layout is also not so easy in LaTeX
 
@JosephWright That's really surprising. All those technical stuff goes to MS Word then? What a waste
 
@percusse Yes: I'm far from popular for using LaTeX
@percusse Our publishers generally prefer Word
@percusse Given the fact everything is re-typeset anyway, I guess it makes little difference
 
If I cared, it would be definitely this question to get an account. Noooo, don't confuse the younglings......
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Q: Non-linear dynamics vs Chaos

albedoI am confusing between non linear dynamics and chaos. Chaos is also a non-linear dynamics right? then what is the difference between chaos and non-linear dynamics? What I understood about chaos is that, it is some errors or small deviations which repeat itself in space-time and with time it ampl...

 
8:27 PM
@JosephWright My previous answer/email to you was lost, I remember I got a mail by your provider that my address has been "greylisted".
 
@StefanKottwitz Odd
@StefanKottwitz Do you have my work e-mail?
 
@JosephWright Not so imnportant, just the confirmation that I added your examples and with compat=newest as in the original code, the reasons a good
 
@StefanKottwitz Ah, right
 
@JosephWright Btw. today I started pstricks.net , Asymptote and MetaPost galleries may come at some time too
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An old DNS entry could show to a simple feed page, today's update points to 176.9.212.187
@JosephWright (edited, I meant PSTricks)
 
@StefanKottwitz Worked that out :-)
Anyone standing in the SU election?
 
8:42 PM
@JosephWright yes although I was trying to catch up with Frank's bug spam (and "someone" had borrowed my machine:-) It depends a bit why doing it, in the end need something loadable into virtex for a latex3 format so that's useful, making it work with context is neighbourly but in practice i wonder if the overlap is large enough that it's ever used. I don't really have a lot of sympathy for documents using plain, if people want to do that they shoudl be able to figure out what's needed:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle VirTeX been sorted for years: one of my early tasks on the team (when writing the batch scripts and so on) was getting that properly functional: make format :-)
Not that it does much, but I do test from time to time
 
@JosephWright yes and of course initially they only worked in that form:-) so why can't plain users load that?
 
@DavidCarlisle E.g. includes the register allocation code, which is not compatible with that in plain
Also we don't ship to CTAN in extracted form
 
@JosephWright If I was setting it up I'd probably have an something.tex that is like minilttx in that it defines some core functionality (together with a guard so that it is only loaded once) then have wrapper .tex files for each of the latex packages so you have xparse.tex that is exactly \input something \input xparse.sty
 
@DavidCarlisle We're only talking about expl3, luckily :-)
 
8:52 PM
@JosephWright at the moment?
 
@DavidCarlisle I think 'for the duration': something like xparse would clearly be 'wrong' on any other format
Let alone any of the more complex stuff (l3galley, for example)
Anyway, I think I have a plan, but need to see what everyone feels
 
Is the network playing up or is it my connectivity? need 3 or 4 "retry" for each comment at present...
@JosephWright your plan sounded reasonable, so my plan was to concentrate on reducing the open bug list then complain about the details once I saw the implementation:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle :-)
@DavidCarlisle I stick to the 'I don't do LaTeX2e' line as far as possible!
 
@JosephWright much of xparse is a generic expansion control system, although I admit the surface syntax with []=optional is latex
 
9:10 PM
Somebody with sufficient rep, please vote for undeleting: tex.stackexchange.com/a/172704/4427
 
@egreg Deleted by owner
 
@JosephWright I know; but it should be undeleted, see comment on my answer
 
10:01 PM
@egreg a bit late to reply, but I would try it if I understood that piece of code a little better, especially the \Umathcode command
but I'll try and figure it out next weekend, starting my internship at the local drinking water facility tomorrow, so won't have much time I guess
see you guys later :) goodnight!
 

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