TeX, LaTeX and Friends

2:46 AM

0

Q: Use abbreviations for 1000+ score in linked posts

I don't really enjoy the ragged view of linked posts: This feature request is to use a format that suggested in Related questions with over 99 score display incorrectly; something that matches the user-profile tags page in terms of the tally: That is, use abbreviations for 1000+ (k for 1,00...

Joseph Wright

7:54 AM

@Werner Voted

Morning all

henry

8:30 AM

Morning.

Joseph Wright

@henry Yo!

henry

@JosephWright Yo!

Hm, was that a hint at that app?

Joseph Wright

@henry Huh?

henry

Yo (app)

Yo is a social application for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. The app's only function was to send the user's friends the word "yo" as a text and audio notification, but it has since been updated to include user profiles and other types of notification. == History == Yo was created by Or Arbel in eight hours, being launched on April Fools Day 2014 for Android (operating system) and iOS. Originally chief technology officer of stock trading platform Stox, Arbel quit his job and has since begun working on the app full time. The app has received USD$1 million in investment from a group of investors...

But never mind. I appreciate your sense of comradery among bros.

... *goof *goof *goof .

Joseph Wright

@henry Never heard of it

henry

8:40 AM

@JosephWright Ok. :)

eiterorm

9:34 AM

Hello to you all.

Does anyone have a good suggestion as to how I should handle boldface small caps?

I know that this is a combination of styles that doesn't exist in Computer Modern, and that the need for this combination is limited.

However, I'm using small caps for initialisms, and boldface is the default chapter/section title style. So when I use an initialism in a chapter or section title, the small caps are ignored.

Torbjørn T.

@eiterorm Have you seen tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27411/small-caps-and-bold-face?

eiterorm

@TorbjørnT. That really doesn't seem to answer anything, though.

Torbjørn T.

@eiterorm \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} seems like an answer. At least, with \documentclass{article}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\begin{document}\scshape AbcsletLIHN \bfseries AbcsletLIHN \end{document} it works, removing fontenc and it doesn't.

eiterorm

9:50 AM

@TorbjørnT. That doesn't work here. The \scshape is ignored.

Torbjørn T.

@eiterorm Oh, perhaps cm-super isn't installed then.

eiterorm

@TorbjørnT. It works with article, but not with scrreprt, which I'm using.

Torbjørn T.

@eiterorm Works with both here.

1010011010

@egreg In regard to my question: so your suggestion would be something along the lines of

\documentclass{extarticle}

%\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{p{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}p{\dimexpr.5\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}}
    \textcolor{lightgray}{\hrule height .5pt depth .5pt} & \textcolor{lightgray}{\hrule height .5pt depth .5pt} \\
    \smallskip \textsc{K E Y W O R D S}
    &
    \smallskip \textsc{A B S T R A C T}
    \lipsum[2]\\
    \textcolor{lightgray}{\hrule height .5pt depth .5pt} & \textcolor{lightgray}{\hrule height .5pt depth .5pt}\\

egreg

@1010011010 No.

eiterorm

9:56 AM

@TorbjørnT. I just checked a few more things. It works with both for me too. However, it doesn't work in my document. Now I just have to run through the dozens of packages I'm using to find out where the problem is. =P

@TorbjørnT. Ok, I found it rather quickly. lmodern is the culprit. However, I've been adviced that I should use lmodern to ensure having vectorized fonts. What are the pros and cons about lmodern?

Torbjørn T.

@eiterorm Don't know, to be honest. lmodern is mentioned in the question I mentioned earlier by the way.

eiterorm

@TorbjørnT. Apparently, the main advantage with lmodern is the number of glyphs.

76

Q: Latin Modern vs cm-super?

I've read various answers to questions on here that suggest the original Computer Modern fonts have been superceded. Sometimes it is suggested we use the cm-super package, sometimes that we instead use latin modern fonts. Which is better? Which is easier to get working? (getting new fonts to work...

fonts computer-modern latin-modern

Paulo Cereda

10:41 AM

@DavidCarlisle: I'm still harvesting points from the grandma question. :)

Frank Mittelbach

10:59 AM

@PauloCereda yeah sometimes that's find of funny

hi guys, is there really no taker for tex.stackexchange.com/questions/200989/… ?

Nicola Talbot

What's the best way of citing a specific answer on tex.sx? The suggestion in meta.tex.stackexchange.com/a/3283 has a bib entry that uses the question as the title with the questioner as the author. If I want to cite a particular answer, it seems more appropriate to have the answerer as the author, but that doesn't really fit with the question as the title. Any suggestions?

Paulo Cereda

11:16 AM

@FrankMittelbach :)

Frank Mittelbach

@NicolaTalbot I would probably use title = "Answer to: QUESTION-Title", use the person answering as the author and link directly to the answer not to the question (though that makes the url a bit long) ... just a thought

Torbjørn T.

11:35 AM

@FrankMittelbach There are short URLs for answers, click the share link just below an answer.

Paulo Cereda

11:46 AM

For those who love command line stuff, I highly suggest mps-youtube (installed via sudo pip install mps-youtube). It's a YouTube audio command line player (from yesterday's screenshot). :)

Nicola Talbot

12:06 PM

@FrankMittelbach Thanks, I'll do that.

@PauloCereda Cool. Does it come with a nightingale directive :-)

Frank Mittelbach

12:52 PM

@TorbjørnT. ah, good info. never looked there

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot :)

Nicola Talbot

@PauloCereda Have you seen the results from this year's ig noble awards? improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2014

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, for the medical techniques described in their report "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam" — techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck. WHAT

And PROBABILITY PRIZE: Bert Tolkamp [UK, the NETHERLANDS], Marie Haskell [UK], Fritha Langford [UK, CANADA], David Roberts [UK], and Colin Morgan [UK], for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and Second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again. LOL

Frank Mittelbach

@PauloCereda oh my

Nicola Talbot

PHYSICS PRIZE [JAPAN]: Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that's on the floor.

Paulo Cereda

1:02 PM

@NicolaTalbot LOL I wonder their test lab. :P

Nicola Talbot

@PauloCereda Important research for slapstick comedy :-)

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot LOL

Nicola Talbot

ART PRIZE [ITALY]: Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, for measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot [in the hand] by a powerful laser beam. I wonder how they managed to get volunteers for that research.

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot LOL Please look at this painting /gets laserbeam ready. :)

David Carlisle

1:54 PM

@PauloCereda I got +30 this morning too

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle :)

eiterorm

2:13 PM

Ig Nobel prizes are great.

ARCTIC SCIENCE PRIZE [NORWAY, GERMANY]: Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears.

Transcript for

TeX, LaTeX and Friends

$TeX - LaTeX$ TeX, LaTeX and Friends