TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Paulo Cereda

12:34 AM

@DavidCarlisle Now I'm afraid of committing stuff. :)

@tohecz In the South Park universe, the word is marklar. :)

cyanide-based food

1:31 AM

@StefanKottwitz OK. Thanks. :-)

Johannes_B

6:40 AM

Smurf

egreg

9:21 AM

@Johannes_B Schtroumpf

egreg

9:41 AM

@PauloCereda Remember to add a PythonTeX rule for the new Nightingale.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Sure thing! :) Good morning! :)

@egreg: any plans for a tour today?

egreg

@PauloCereda No, we have a marriage today: my cousin's daughter.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg cool! :)

egreg

@PauloCereda This is the church where they'll marry, the oldest one in the town

Chiesa di San Nicolò dell'Isola

La chiesa di San Nicolò dell'Isola è un edificio religioso sito in via Penisola a Sestri Levante, nel Golfo del Tigullio in provincia di Genova. Fu sede parrocchiale fino ai primi anni del XVII secolo quando fu edificata l'odierna basilica di Santa Maria di Nazareth che ne ereditò il titolo. == Storia == Sede di una delle prime comunità parrocchiali di Sestri Levante fu edificata, secondo alcune fonti storiche, intorno al 1151 nei pressi del promontorio sestrese - detto "Isola" - molto probabilmente su un preesistente edificio di culto cristiano eretto dai monaci colombaniani di Bobbio. Divenuta...

Paulo Cereda

9:58 AM

@egreg Wow! It looks beautiful!

egreg

@PauloCereda The church is now mainly used for marriages. Sestri Levante (where I come for holiday since I was one year old) has the peculiarity of having “two seas”: the old town was on a small island that, during the centuries, become connected to the land; so the town has a small delicious bay at the East and the peninsula is the eastern end of the Golfo del Tigullio, the western end being the mountain above Portofino.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg How nice, the place looks amazing. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda It is.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg I really need to send papers to Europe. :P

@egreg: speaking of which, I'm gonna travel to Campo Grande in the middle of September. Two days and airplane thingy, yay! :)

Paulo Cereda

11:19 AM

I changed my Siri settings to German. Let the fun begin. :)

Paulo Cereda

12:09 PM

@egreg, @JosephWright, @DavidCarlisle: lords.org/mcc/laws-of-cricket/laws-of-cricket-animations/… :)

Christian Hupfer

1:45 PM

Good MAEN again...

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Hallo. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Ah, Paulo, my friend ....how are you today?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Fine, thanks. :) And you?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I'm a little bit tired... organzing a move..., thanks

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Oh, everything will be fine. :)

Christian Hupfer

1:51 PM

@PauloCereda: And I had not my daily dosage of the best medicament right now: TeX.SX :D

@PauloCereda: Did I miss anything during the last hours? I am too lazy to scroll right now :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I don't know either. I'm also lazy. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: ;-)

Johannes_B

2:08 PM

@ChristianHupfer Nothing important, but i posted an answer to the KOMA-headsepline-color-question.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: let me see...

@Johannes_B: quite nice...

Another 'brilliant' question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/197594/…

Johannes_B

2:49 PM

@ChristianHupfer I left a comment there, i think he is looking for section

Christian Hupfer

3:00 PM

@Johannes_B: Seen it... the question allows for many solutions... I would not stick to \parts too, but I've posted a solution with \parts for the moment

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer I just left a comment. I don't like leaving answers in a hurry. :-)

@ChristianHupfer Also, my battery is almost dead, and offline i can't react to comments/request. Sad Sad.

Paulo Cereda

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Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: I wrote you once: There is something like a plug for your computer ;-)

@PauloCereda: One of your favourite records, I assume, from your collection? ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Almost 5TB of pristine songs. :)

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Re comment on the \part question: was just trying to point out to the OP that this is really an abuse of the LaTeX structuring commands

Johannes_B

3:08 PM

@JosephWright Dito!

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Yes, I didn't take it as criticizing me

Joseph Wright

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Q: Beginner Concepts about how latex works

I'm a beginner in latex, I understand that latex requires a Tex editor to compile the code and a distribution to get the libraries installed. However, there are many concepts that still I want expert to clarify. Situation: I'm typing up a CV, which uses a package called fontspec, and a thing cal...

Each part of this has been covered by good quality answers to other questions: what to do?

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Regarding the `\parts.... question... I will add some remarks to my answer and add a better (???) solution later on...

@JosephWright: The question is problematic as it contains multiple subquestions/issues...

Paulo Cereda

@Christian: you can see a live version of that song here, in the Hall of some guy named Albert: :)

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Quite

@PauloCereda You know this guy is locked up for various unpleasant things, yes?

Christian Hupfer

3:13 PM

@JosephWright: Who's that guy?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I actually do. :(

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Rolf Harris

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Never heard of him... I am quite uneducated ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright twelve charges of indecent assault. :(

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer I know: StackExchange model means it's probably 'too broad' or 'unclear' as a result

@PauloCereda Sounds about right

@ChristianHupfer Famous in the UK and Australia

Paulo Cereda

3:14 PM

@JosephWright Perhaps it's wise to remove the video above. Could you do it? :)

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Just used Wikipedia.... unpleasant things, yes.... but never heard of him... his fame seems to be restricted to UK/US and Australia

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Done

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I just know this song of him, actually. To be honest, I was watching one episode of QI (@JosephWright: gotta love Stephen Fry!) and of the buzzers just played this tune. It was quite a catchy song, that's why I brought it up. :)

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Yes: I doubt he's known in the US, to be honest

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Thank you, kind sir. :)

@Joseph: in other news, I was having fun with Siri by setting other languages. I do not understand why almost all voices are female but the UK. :)

And he doesn't sound English at all.

Joseph Wright

3:17 PM

@PauloCereda Really?

@PauloCereda You've got an iPhone?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright an iPad actually. :)

Christian Hupfer

egreg ... a MAC user, Paulo ... an ipad user ... my world is shattered :-(

/crying

/sobbing desparately

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I actually have two Mac machines, four Linux machines, two tablets (an iPad and a Galaxy Tab), but no Windows. at all. :)

Siri with American Spanish accent is so cute. I wanna marry her. :)

Joseph Wright

Anyone free to pop over to chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/16648/… to help out on the XeTeX question business?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Four linux machines? Your own cluster? :D

Paulo Cereda

3:23 PM

I asked her to marry me, but I got tabletzoned. :(

@ChristianHupfer I wish. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Doing the numerical simulation for my PhD thesis, I built a small cluster of three linux machines with Pentium 4 HT, ten years ago... It was definitely faster than Sun Ultra Sparc rubbish :D

@JosephWright: I am not a Xe(La)TeX user at all, so can't say anything about that

@PauloCereda: My dear... Siri is something like Kate, hm?

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer No problem: just making people aware of the room I've set up

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer :)

@ChristianHupfer er... Kate?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: My package is on TL finally...

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Yay, congrats! :)

Christian Hupfer

3:31 PM

@PauloCereda: Kate of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew ...(Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, German Translation)

@PauloCereda: Thanks... I will improve it... according to Macbeth: "The greatest is behind" :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer The Mating of the Wersh?

(@Joseph: let's see if he's worthy ^^)

C'mon @Christian, you can do it. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: A tiny contribution to LaTeX ;-)

Paulo Cereda

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Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Oh yes, Rapesheake ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer But there's no chance of us knowing more about MP than @JosephWright. :)

Christian Hupfer

3:44 PM

@PauloCereda: Does he know each line by heart?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Ask him. :P

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I will do ... but for the moment I believe you... temporarily ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I'm a trusted source.~\cite{paulo:2014}

Undefined reference: paulo:2014

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda

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@PauloCereda: One of my favourites :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I love this one. :) Goooood niiiiiiiight. :)

Christian Hupfer

3:47 PM

@PauloCereda: 5 4 3 2 1

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Another one ;-)

@PauloCereda: Did you know, that J. Cleese was the first one ever to say f... on a funeral eulogy?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I know. :) And Eric Idle wanted to be the last person to say it in the very same service. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I wonder, what would have happened if Chapman had not died that early... A quicker reunion?

Sad... my favourite footclub lost the match...

Paulo Cereda

4:07 PM

@ChristianHupfer Schalke?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: No... :D Freiburg... Well, I am not a real fan of football at all, but Freiburg is (or was?) a underdog team all the time

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Oh, I thought of trying ( Frei | Augs ) burg, but then I thought it could be Schalke. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I was born in Freiburg, did my alternative civilian service there, studied there... and I live about 60 km away from that town... and in some weeks it will be only 30 km ...

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Cool! :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: It was a nice town in the past, but it declined in the last decade, in my point of view... too much crime, a lot of murders recently, drugs, burglaries...

Paulo Cereda

4:13 PM

@ChristianHupfer Quite a worldwide tendency. Where I live is not that different, although we still have very few people in here compared to great capitals. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Illusionary rents for small flats...

@PauloCereda: Unfortunately ...

@PauloCereda: Well, anyway, I will move back to my home village... no tall buildings, 'no' crime...

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Back to the good times. :)

The city I live has nearby 4k people. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda.... Yes... and no ... 4k ... that's not much... my home village belongs to a city....altogether about 8k inhabitants

@PauloCereda: Currently I live in a 60k town... it's dirty, smelly, strange

@PauloCereda: I can remember, that your place is about 250 km from SP?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Don't worry, I study in a city of just 12 million people. :)

@ChristianHupfer Yep! :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: 12 Mio... that's really much... I believe, the largest city I ever have been to was London...

@PauloCereda: Ok, SP has about 4 Mio. people more than London ... You won :D

Paulo Cereda

4:22 PM

@ChristianHupfer Just 4 million.... get ready, I didn't even mention Greater SP. :)

Greater SP has 20 million people.

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: You won even more :D

Paulo Cereda won the "His study town has more inhabitants" badge :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Not my town. :) I lose with my town. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Better? :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=422612

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Ah, Portuguese... sometimes quite similar to Spanish

Paulo Cereda

4:26 PM

@ChristianHupfer There are lots of photos, that's why I linked. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I am looking right now..., hold on ;-)

@PauloCereda: Very nice region... how tall are the mountains at the horizon?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer About 140 meters, I guess.

The region itself has some greater mountains too. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Only 140 meters?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I need to find out. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I mean for example the "rock" in this image (Cidade ao longe), 4th from top

Paulo Cereda

4:33 PM

@ChristianHupfer Ah. :) The problem is that since the land is not even, the best measurement would be sea level thingy, so we could precisely tell the height. But from the "ground", that place is no more than 140 meters.

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Ok... perhaps it's the viewing point of the camera from that image....

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Beats me. :) Anyway, when I organize the TUG meeting here, you all are invited to be my guests, so we can tour. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: TUG meeting? In SP? When?

@PauloCereda: Every participant is hosted in your home, right? :D

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer It's just a dream so far, but maybe one day. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I have marked it in my calendar, on one day ;-)

@PauloCereda: I am off for a while... see you later perhaps

Paulo Cereda

5:32 PM

@ChristianHupfer oopsie sorry, I had to go for a while. Have a nice day! :)

Paulo Cereda

7:01 PM

On another reading of tex.stackexchange.com/questions/197325 now I think it would be subject of meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2763 .

tohecz

7:25 PM

I think I've been a victim of serial upvoting :)

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz ooh. :)

tohecz

7:41 PM

@PauloCereda btw, getting a headset mic soon I think (soon = for Xmas or maybe during the spring, I won't need it sooner and the prices will likely drop ;) )

Johannes_B

I just got an upvote for tex.stackexchange.com/a/197624/37907

This isn't really an answer. Should i have made it community wiki?

tohecz

@Johannes_B it's IMHO fine. It doesn't precisely answer the question, but it provides a solution for both the OP and eventual future visitors :) I would just be nice to show that myfigure can appear inside solutions.

Johannes_B

@tohecz Floats lost. I need to take a look at this. :-(

tohecz

@Johannes_B I was afraid of this :(

Johannes_B

@tohecz Thanks for the hint. But right now Feierabend ;-)

@tohecz and all the others cu you soon.

tohecz

7:56 PM

@Johannes_B what?

well, doesn't matter probably

Johannes_B

@tohecz Thanks for making me aware that there will be som smurfy stuff.

@tohecz And feierabend means, work is over. ;-)

tohecz

@Johannes_B ah ok :)

Paulo Cereda

8:15 PM

@tohecz Yay! :)

tohecz

@PauloCereda it's tricky though, as always, to balance price and quality, and to get as good stuff as possible as cheap as possible

(oh my, that makes four asses!)

I'll probably get a microphone with not optimal frequency response, and a reasonable cheap mixer to provide power and to equalize the mic

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

if I scale down pages included with pdfpages and set a frame, the frame is not scaled down too... i there a way to do tthis?

tohecz

8:40 PM

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez sorry, what is a "frame"?

and Hi, btw! :) (oh my, a guy with 70k math.SE rep!)

Johannes_B

@tohecz I added some remarks to the comment.

tohecz

@Johannes_B I see :)

Johannes_B

@tohecz Everyone should be treated the same ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Nope. I demand a duck. :)

@tohecz And a neighbour! :)

@Mariano: I'm your neighbour. :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda :-)

Paulo Cereda

8:52 PM

@Johannes_B Quaaaaaaack. :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda arara

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

@tohecz \includepdf has a frame option which puts a frame around included pdf pages.

@PauloCereda :-)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda I really should record my little girl saying this. :-)

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B :)

Early mass time, be back later! Quaaaack. :)

Johannes_B

QUAAAACK :-)

tohecz

8:56 PM

@PauloCereda cool :)

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez and the frame works improperly with scaling?

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

9:08 PM

well, that depends on what one means by properly, of course :-)
The frame does not scale with the included page, so I would say it does not work correctly

tohecz

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez it would be best checked with an MWE, but I'm afraid you met a bug which would be OT for the site :(

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

yup, that was my guess. i have already written the email to the author, just wanted to know if there is a known way to fix it :-)

tohecz

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez I don't think so :( however, the last version of the package is only 1 year old, so I think Andreas should be available and respond within a reasonable time :)

tohecz

10:14 PM

oh so quiet

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Björk?