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@ChristianHupfer What are cool classes?

@ChristianHupfer Not that I know of. ;-)

@ChristianHupfer My knowledge of Tolkien is inexistent (I had to google for it).

@Johannes_B: Classes which don't run away when hearing 'Mathematics' or 'Physics' ... more adult students, having a Ausbildung and go ahead for FH - Reife, for example

@egreg: I will never talk to you again...

egreg will not get 300k rep on LordOfTheRings.SX! ;-)

@ChristianHupfer One challenge i saw in school: Grundkurs and Leistungskurs were teached in one class. Terrible.

@Johannes_B: Unfortunately we don't have such Grund- and Leistungskurs any longer :-(

8:05 PM

@ChristianHupfer My chemistry lessons, sitting there to wait for the basic level students all of the time.

@ChristianHupfer Definitely not. I tried many years ago to read “The Lord of the Rings”, but I was bored to death after twenty pages or so.

@egreg You got to read twenty pages of the lord of the rings? I never got this far. Sooo boring.

@egreg: You should read it in the Klingon original version :D

Well, there are just two persons I should never talk to again :D

@egreg: Well, that's true for the first, say, 50 pages, and sometimes in between, but after that...

@ChristianHupfer … it's worse

@egreg Sorry, had to star this because it seems to be the truth.

8:09 PM

@egreg: wrong answer :D

@egreg: I read about 400 pages in English language of LOTR while being on a conference ten years ago in Cambridge, UK ... well, it does say something on the conference too :D

Henri Menke

Just a kind of philosophical question: Is there a primitive that takes more than one argument?

So is it true that the TUG meeting 2015 will be in Darmstadt, Germany? Already saving money to get there.

@HenriMenke It depends on what you consider as argument to a primitive such as \hskip

Henri Menke

@egreg True. This one isn't even delimited in the usual way, but I guess that also counts as one.

Sorry guys, but I have to return to my work...

8:13 PM

@JosephWright Being a moderator is more of beinig a janitor. Do you agree?

@ChristianHupfer See you.

To cite Arnold: I'll be back :D

@Johannes_B Now that I'm employed by a big airline company, distance doesn't matter so much for me :-) Can get tickets for much less.

@Johannes_B: Not if I see you before ;-)

@HenriMenke \def takes three arguments: the macro to be defined, the parameter text and the replacement text.

So i guess @StefanKottwitz will get to the coference by helicopter?

Henri Menke

8:15 PM

@egreg Ah, of course. Thank you!

@Johannes_B Just if no cruise ship takes that route. Still working for cruise ship companies behalf of that airline tech part, a good combination. No helicopter though yet.

@StefanKottwitz Keep on doing the good work. The cruiseship will take you down the Rhine, the chopper will do the rest. ;-)

This is the boat @StefanKottwitz will arrive to Darmstadt with

@Johannes_B River cruise ships are among our customers, so the Rhine would fit as a route

@Stefan: Hi Stefan! I have news, just wait a couple of days. :)

8:18 PM

@PauloCereda Baby boy or baby girl? :-D

@StefanKottwitz btw: did you get my mail on the cookbook?

@PauloCereda I have news too, just wait a couple of months >:-)

@StefanKottwitz LOL a system. :)

@StefanKottwitz Oh my!

@PauloCereda Just to check, would arara be a boys or a girls name?

@Johannes_B Yes, I got it, thanks! Must reply soon. :-) Procrastinated by posting on latex-community.org

8:20 PM

@Johannes_B No one in perfect mind would name a person arara, but it's a feminine noun. :)

basic question on \date{}. I write \date{\today} in almost all my files. But this picks the date the file is compiled/changed at (ofcourse) not the date the document was originally written. Is there a good practice to include both the date the document was originally written, and the date it was compiled later on? May be something like \date{oct 1, 2009\\\today} or something like this. What is the correct way to include both dates, that is what I am asking.

@StefanKottwitz I'm trying my best to keep the site tidied up.

@PauloCereda Thank god, i am not in perfect mind ;-)

@Johannes_B Neither am I. :)

I do not want to lose the date the document was originally written at, but I also like to see the date the document was last changed or just compiled (I have makefile that I run which builds many files all over sometimes). Should both data be included in the title? what do folks do?

@PauloCereda If Keith Richards can name his daugther Dandelion i can ...

tohecz

8:23 PM

@StefanKottwitz lol :)

@Johannes_B Oh my. But Keith once smoke his father's ashes... :P

@Johannes_B That's great! It's an idealist's job without points and badges :-)

@PauloCereda I'm curious, hard to wait, I will ask you in a few days!

@StefanKottwitz :)

@PauloCereda My father is still alive, but even if weren't, ... no sir!

@Johannes_B o.O

8:25 PM

@StefanKottwitz I wasn't put on this earth to gain badges ;-)

Sometimes I do this:
\author{me, July 8 2007}
\date{\small{\today}}
to include both dates.

Guys, i am going to sleep. Have a nice time.

@Johannes_B Good night!

@Johannes_B Good night! :)

@Nasser: I think you could use, say, datetime and create a \newdate.

@PauloCereda thank. did not know about this package. Looking at it now.