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12:08 AM
@tohecz Hi Tom!
 
 
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6:29 AM
Good MAEN again
 
 
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11:42 AM
Oh no, a snapshot of the LaTeX3 code has been submitted to CTAN! /runs, /panics
 
@PauloCereda lol :)
 
@PauloCereda LaTeX-L?
 
@tohecz Hey Tom! <3
 
@PauloCereda hi there :)
 
@JosephWright Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project. :) This list has glamour. :)
@Joseph: An email from this bloke Joseph Wright. :)
 
11:45 AM
I know I shouldn't rant when @Paulo is here because my situation is quite fine, but can anybody explain me why an item costs $200 on amazon including import taxes and PnP to Czechia, and it's €250 here?
 
@tohecz Speaking of Amazon, they opened a Brazilian site recently, only selling a couple of books and a lot of ebooks. It's quite amusing because IMHO the majority of Brazilians do not like to read. Let alone titles in other languages. :(
 
@PauloCereda I would say that this is a starter: e-books are the most easy thing to distribute, and books come tax-free quite often, so the price difference is not so eye-catching.
 
@PauloCereda Indeed
 
12:01 PM
@tohecz :)
@JosephWright Next time ask @David to make the announcement: new code on CTAN, read changelog. :)
 
@PauloCereda it's even worse that the item costs $150, and I pay $15 PnP and $35 VAT :-/ If I went to the US, I would have paid only $150
 
12:21 PM
@tohecz :(
 
12:54 PM
@PauloCereda too wordy
 
@DavidCarlisle :)
 
 
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2:16 PM
Hi all, I want to make my question at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/197704/… more appealing (for answers). What can I do to the format to do so?
 
 
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5:22 PM
Quiet day, it seems.
 
5:57 PM
@PauloCereda Everybody on vacation.
 
@egreg :)
@egreg David is on his bike, I guess. :P
 
 
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7:27 PM
@1010011010 I jhust clicked on your link, and it almost crashed my system. Is the graphic that big or is there something else going on? Might be a turn off for answerers if it happens to them as well.
@1010011010 But i heard, giving a bounty is always nice ;-)
 
7:45 PM
Hi, I'm wondering how to shift one node in a matrix of nodes (tikz)
\begin{tikzpicture}
\matrix (m) [matrix of nodes, ampersand replacement=\&nodes={anchor=center}]{
A \& B \& C\\
};
\end{tikzpicture}
erf add a comma between \& nodes =
in a regular syntax this would work \node[shift={(x,y)}] at (0,0) {A}; would work but what about inside a matrix?
 
@s__C |[xshift=x]| A
 
@TorbjørnT. but shift={(x,y)} doesn't work?
 
Good MAEN;-)
 
@s__C Sorry, sure it does. The point was to write |[<whatever node options you want>]| at the start of the cell.
 
mhh and what if the node is \draw pic {whatevername} ?
 
8:02 PM
@s__C Then it's not an automatically generated node such as in the example you gave above (see e.g. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/163319/…), so that syntax doesn't apply. I don't know at the moment.
 
@PauloCereda too wet to go out of the door bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/28925525
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh. :(
 
@s__C You could of course add the node after/outside the matrix, I guess something like \draw (m-1-1.south east) pic {stuff}; would work
 
@PauloCereda typical weather for a bank (national) holiday weekend:-)
 
@PauloCereda: Good evening ;-)
 
8:16 PM
@ChristianHupfer Hi!
 
hello!
 
@PauloCereda: How are you today?
@tohecz: Hello... still in Prague?
 
@tohecz hey Tom!
 
@ChristianHupfer yep
 
@ChristianHupfer Pretty sick, not feeling well. But tomorrow is another day. :)
 
8:20 PM
@PauloCereda how do you do?
@PauloCereda ah :(
 
@tohecz not so good ATM. :)
 
@PauloCereda “Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn” ;-)
 
@PauloCereda: Sorry to hear that... Hope you will get better soon!
 
@egreg LOL I was wondering if someone would spot the reference. :)
@ChristianHupfer Thanks! :)
 
@PauloCereda It was on TV some days ago.
 
8:23 PM
@egreg Really? It's been ages since they broadcasted it for the last time.
 
It is very quiet here... in chat...
 
8:42 PM
@ChristianHupfer that's 'cause @Paulo is sick
 
@tohecz: Unfortunately :-(
 
@Johannes_B Seems to me like a text book example of poor coding, a bug, a memory leak or all of the aforementioned. :-D
 
9:05 PM
I am off... have a nice time
 
@ChristianHupfer byebye
 
9:45 PM
hello
:)
I have a strange issue here (somewhat still logically I guess)

I am using a doublepage layout with \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}\pagestyle{fancy}
to enumerate my pages
after title page, the counting is in the inner part, not in the outer part
how can I adjust the position of page numbers (to get them "outside")
I am using \geometry{textwidth=15.75cm, textheight=23.4cm, marginratio={4:6,5:7}}, so the inner part is broader than the outer part (for printing purposes)
 
@Jens are you sure? Remember that when PDF viewers show the pages two-up, they're exchanged
 
@Jens I was just going to say what @tohecz said;-) the number should be at the left of even pages (that is, pages with an even page number, not necessarily an even number of sheets into the document)
 
@Jens You're telling that the outer side is wider than the inner side (4:6)
 
@egreg yes, and this.
 
@Jens There's bindingoffset for keeping the binding space into account
 
9:56 PM
I took the ratio from here
1
Q: Proper page aspect ratio?

JensI have a question regarding the aspect ratio of my pages. I wonder if the given aspect ratio in my example is a good choice or if I should change any values to achieve a better print space. Experts, what do you think? :) \documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{article} \usepackage[a4paper,margin=2cm]{geom...

\geometry{textwidth=15.75cm, textheight=23.4cm, marginratio={4:6,5:7}}
is it still an appropriate setting? or should the inner part be larger than the outer part?
 
@Jens the outer margin should be larger, but don't forget that you need to count the binding into the inner margin
 
is my chosen margin too small?
 
@Jens well, I always specify the margins, not the textarea :-/
another way is to ensure you have c. 60 characters per line in average
 
thats what it looks alike now
I might have logic troubles now, but somewhat it seems to be confused: if the printing is starting double paged, it will be 1-2, 3-4....
thus, its interior-interior
 
@Jens looks fine to me. How are you going to bind it?
 
10:04 PM
Today, I went to copy shop
and the guy told me, its wrong, because the page numbering should be outside
 
@Jens well, the question is, how are you going to bind it? Because that significantly influences the layout
 
@Jens depending on print system you may need to insert a blank page at teh start to ensure the odd pages are on the right
 
since its 200 pages, book style
 
@Jens The numbers are on the outside, aren't they?
 
@Jens The numbers are on the outside in your image above
 
10:07 PM
yes, but the initial page (page 1) must be printed as single page?
 
@Jens The question is, what is the binding technology? how much paper does it take out of the inner margin.
 
I dunno.
:)
 
@Jens well in that case you shouldn't be fine tuning the margin settings to account for the binding.....
 
@Joseph, @David: Now I'm watching QI like a madman. Thank you, British television. :P
 
@PauloCereda the point scoring there is about as rational as the scoring system here...
@PauloCereda "like" ?
 
10:11 PM
@DavidCarlisle That's probably why I got addicted. :)
@DavidCarlisle LOL
 
ok, 1 last question (to explain it to the noobish printer guy)
 
@Jens hit us! :)
 
(some of you may already lol :D )
is this a proper explaination of how to get it right?
 
@Jens Booklet.
 
@Jens well, page 1 needs to be on the right not on the left, which seems to be your case
 
10:16 PM
@Jens if you should be able to use \clearrpage to arrange that latex outputs the title page a blank sheet then page 1 etc, so you just need to ensure that they print odd pages on the right
 
and the inner margin should be smaller. However, if the binding (gluing, sewing, putting into a spiral, steppling, whatever) eats some paper, you have to enlarge the inner margin because of that
 
@Jens Also, it would be great if you could have a total number of pages being multiple of 4.
 
@PauloCereda just add some pom in the end, or include an XKCD joke, preferably the one with content trustworthy by file extension :D
 
:D
 
@tohecz LOL
 
10:18 PM
@PauloCereda well only if it's being sewn in signatures, if they are going to take a stack of a4 sheets and splodge glue down the edge and wrap in a binding it doesn't matter (and a lot less paper is lost in the inner margins)
 
@DavidCarlisle Ah indeed.
 
I'm actually solving a similar problem: I'll make a booklet and I have to see how much is my duplex printer off-set
 
this printing technique doesn't look like a problem to me
regarding inner margins
 
Underline?!
Did I see an underline?!
Oh my I did see an underline!!
:(
 
yes you see this because that's the bachelor thesis done with word :)
:D
 
10:25 PM
@Jens Ah we will spare you this time. :P
 
haha :) it's my first work with LaTeX and I am in love^^
thanks for your quick responses - I will go back to printing store tomorrow and give the printer guy the advices from here :) and the figure to show what I want haha
 
@Jens Take a cricket bat with you, just in case the printer dude needs some support.
 
well, he failed today
hopefully he can understand tomorrow
 
@Jens Hit harder. :P
 
yes, I will
like this?
(a slightly tasteless picture I just stumbled upon)
 
10:31 PM
@Jens well, just ask him how much space the binding takes. That's the only thing you need to know
 
ok
I also wondered why he was confused about unequal inner and outer margins
 
@Jens because he probably mostly binds bachelor projects from students, made in W@#$%
 
yes!
i guess so
ok, that are relaxing news
thanks folks!
 
@Jens welcome
the unfortunate thing is that currently, with the amount of things quick-published, there're only few people who do really good typography. Even I don't do good typography when typesetting the stuff, since I basically get 10-15 minutes per page in average to do it :-/
 
yes, you are right
i think, the printer guys are mostly standard technicans who are executing the same things over and over again
and most times with low quality typography
so there is no sense for guys like him to aquire deeper knowledge in typography.
(since they are basically printing)
 
10:43 PM
@Jens well, he's not paid for typography, he's paid for printing and binding whatever smurf in the shortest possible time
 
@tohecz gotta love the smurf generic placeholder. :)
 
@PauloCereda :) yeah, I smurf that smurfy smurf, but on the other hand, I completely smurf the other smurfy smurf, no matter how smurfy this smurf is.
 
10:56 PM
@PauloCereda anyways, if you're sick, you should go to bed soon, and have a smurfy night :)
 
@tohecz Aww thanks for your smurfy concern. <3 I'm feeling better now, I'll watch just a couple of QI episodes then go to bed. I need to smurf to SP tomorrow. :P
 
@PauloCereda ah! Smurfy voyage then :)
 
@tohecz děkuji můj příteli. :)
 
@PauloCereda s/el/eli/ ;)
 
@tohecz Sorry, I blame online translators. :)
 
11:04 PM
@PauloCereda well, this is a nutshell, because it's the 5th case
 
@tohecz o.O
 
@PauloCereda (we have 7 cases in 4 genders and 3 numbers you know)
 
@tohecz Wow! And almost no vowels. :P
 
@PauloCereda :p
like:
1 oko, 2 oči, 3 oči, 4 oči, 5 očí, ..., 21 oko, 22 oči, 23 oči, ..., 30 očí, ...
1 oko, 2 oka, 3 oka, 4 oka, 5 ok, ..., 21 oko, 22 oka, 23 oka, ..., 30 ok, ...
 
@tohecz ooh.
 
11:12 PM
@PauloCereda it's all very confusing :)
 
11:46 PM
@Johannes_B I think I found out why it almost crashed your computer. The image is somehow size 10190x7265. Don't ask me how this happened.
 

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