@AlexanderGruber Erase all the auxiliary files, and then add \nofiles to your preamble.

You won't be able to produce \label-\refs, nor a ToC....

@Werner thanks :)

I'll just turn it off for my short stuff and take that out for longer things like papers and books.

@Werner Agreed

@JosephWright latex-community.org/forum/… This post contains a Link to a commercial website/advertisement. Remove just the Link, the whole post (it is not bad)? What do you think?

@Johannes_B It's an ad: I'd remove (where is the actual useful content?)

@JosephWright I have mistaken the question for another one. It's right, it doesn't add anything useful to this question. But it might be worth in a Why LaTeX sense.

Good Morning @ all

@Serthy Good morning

hi guys

@AlexanderGruber in the end, you'll regret doing this:-) Almost always when people hide or move aux files something goes wrong somewhere. The directory I use for tex for this site has around a thousand files in it, which is actually less than I expected, but it's a newish machine so i haven't accumulated so much as before, why does it matter?

a friend of mine is having a problem with ebgaramond: pdflatex inserts an extra space after each legature

@Johannes_B Such ads appear from time to time. People promoting their service google for thesis and such, find a thread and add a something just to place a link to their service. I removed that post, besides the advertisement it was just chat and not referring to the actual topic

his .tex works on my machine, i'm on linux and he's on windows, both using texlive

@StefanKottwitz Thanks, there are other posts by this author without an add, but also a little off topic.

@izabera Problems like “on my machine it does so and so, on another one it doesn't” are usually difficult to solve. Same version of TeX Live?

we both use tl 2014

i told him to send me his ebgaramond files and they're different from what i have installed

apparently mine are newer

(he's updating his tl right now)

@izabera The problem might be in the font having been installed among the system fonts. Different versions of fonts are a sure source for headaches.

@Werner Well, some users actively support spam on this site by approving in public review activity. So let's stay civilized and not point the finger to protect the "privacy" of their avatar here and don't hurt their feelings. No need to enter direct public talk with them. Why people should personally talk about what they visibly do on a public community site.

@PauloCereda you should downvote this, misuse of your trademark (as well as suspected % at eol problems:-) tex.stackexchange.com/a/203072/1090

@egreg :-)

@DavidCarlisle Added before I saw your insinuations here. :P

@egreg so you say

@DavidCarlisle :)

@egreg damn, you are right. I had the feeling it was the whitespace when trying to get it running.

@egreg Well, I,ll delete that and wait for the MWE. I think, I can not really see the error in the OP's snippet

@LaRiFaRi Well, if the example runs, it's difficult to find an error. ;-)

yeah, it did not run in the beginng. Maybe something in an old .aux... I dunno.

@DavidCarlisle I have the impression @PauloCereda disobeyed to your advice.

@DavidCarlisle Probably he saw the duck and lost his head.

@egreg maybe he downvoted the wrong answer because of so many ducks confusing him

I will upvote the poor answer... Not a nice welcome to have -1 for starting

Close based on last comment?

@JosephWright Voted

@egreg thank you for your quick answer

@egreg: I rewrote 90% of arara without any testings/runs so far. Either I'm insanely confident or confidently insane. :)

@PauloCereda should we vote?

@DavidCarlisle <3

no one here uses bash do they? bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29361794

@DavidCarlisle ouch

@DavidCarlisle Details?

@JosephWright I don't know anything other than that link..

@DavidCarlisle A job for SlashDot: linux-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/09/24/1638207/…

@JosephWright ah well just telling cygwin to update everything seems like a good idea:-)

We've got a few of these: perhaps a generic 'natbib localisation' question is needed

@egreg wow you are fast :-D

@Serthy Did you look at my profile? Pronto prontissimo son come il fulmine: sono il factotum della città.

@egreg im impressed :-)

@Serthy oh don't flatter him:-)

@egreg: great news, arara is almost ready. :)

Anyone know what /pgf/number format/int detect is supposed to turn on and off? With an up-to-date install, it doesn't seem to cause any variation with integer input!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf}
\begin{document}
\pgfmathprintnumber{15.0}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{20}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{20.4}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{0.01}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{0}

\pgfkeys{/pgf/number format/.cd,int detect,precision=2}
\pgfmathprintnumber{15.0}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{20}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{20.4}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{0.01}\hspace{1em}
\pgfmathprintnumber{0}
\end{document}

(I'm working on siunitx and thinking about number processing: I'd like to be able to cover everything pgf can and then some. Complex numbers are a pain, of course, but I am getting a plan together for the revisions.)

Also, anyone about who uses complex numbers for physics-like stuff (electric fields, etc.): I could do with some 'real world' examples of how they get used and typeset.

@PauloCereda Testing left to the incautious user?

@egreg Probably. :)

@egreg I was expecting a comment from you

@DavidCarlisle Unfortunately I had to go to department offices, so I couldn't spot it.

@egreg no, but you spotted the comment:-)

@DavidCarlisle You see, missing % for me are like honey for bears.

paulo@alexandria Arara$ java -jar arara.jar teste.tex
  __ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _
 / _` | '__/ _` | '__/ _` |
| (_| | | | (_| | | | (_| |
 \__,_|_|  \__,_|_|  \__,_|

Processing 'teste.tex' (size: 89 bytes, last modified: 09/25/2014
10:41:53), please wait.

(PDFLaTeX) PDF engine ................................... SUCCESS

Total: 0.63 seconds

@egreg: ^^ :)

@PauloCereda What do you think about this comment? math.stackexchange.com/questions/944956/…

Good maen ;-)

@egreg Amazing. :)

@ChristianHupfer Hello!

OH MY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE @ IN CHAT?

Cool! :)

@egreg: Oh look, you have an upvote. :P

@PauloCereda Possibly they hadn't explained well what's the purpose of homework

@PauloCereda :)

@egreg I have an account there, you know. :)

@PauloCereda The voting champion in SE

@egreg yet no gold badge for me. :P

@PauloCereda Why, you have four!

@egreg One for grandma, one for duck. :)

@PauloCereda: Sorry, the door bell, I had to go to answer it ;-)

@StefanKottwitz I think our site is still small enough that individual bans would do the trick (hopefully).

@Werner Fingers crossed

@Werner Ideally, of course, just discussing things is as far as it ever needs to go

@JosephWright Yes. I don't enjoy "spying" and seeing people "abuse" certain things. The hope is that people receive their personal benefit (like badges and reputation) not at a cost of the community. I feel the great majority of community members would do this.

Personally, I would find it somewhat awkward to "have a talk" with someone on the site about their usage of the site.

But that's part of being here, I suppose.

@Werner One of the moderator jobs is to be prepared to do this from time to time

@JosephWright True, true... And with that position comes the occasional oddity of electronic confrontation.

@Werner Sure, a bit manual action has to compensate what technical features cannot perfectly accomplish.

With the aspect, that we are on the Internet here, it's very peaceful anyway :-)

@Werner tex.stackexchange.com/q/203161/37907 <- the boldface markup ** is still in the code.

@Johannes_B Thanks... I've updated it.

@egreg: I questioned whether that was a duplicate that I answered...

...and looking back at it, it was a duplicate.

:-|

Oh well.

@egreg: Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (¡) or question mark (¿)?

...tit for tat... :)

@Werner: Someone was banned?

@ChristianHupfer Possible robo-reviews...

@Werner: The one you mentioned yesterday? ;-)

@Werner The case is slightly different, because \texttt should be used.

@ChristianHupfer Yes.

@Werner: So that guy is banned forever from reviewing? Or it's only temporarily?

I just read about the 'shellshock' bug in bash :-(

@ChristianHupfer It depends on what the moderators decided. Either way, it is possible to ban someone from certain things, but in this case it may have just been a re-mention of the topic of not just hunting for badges.

I can only speculate.

@Werner Can they disable my voting capabilities?

@ChristianHupfer Reviewing is a privilege earned from rep. As a result, mods can only suspend for a fixed period, not permanently revoke, this right.

@PauloCereda That would cause the site to not function anymore... so I doubt it.

@PauloCereda: No, you are the voting idol... no one will cut your voting capabilities ;-)

Feel free and click away, like you mean it!

@Werner <3

@ChristianHupfer <3

@JosephWright: one for you too. <3

@Werner: 99 % of all votes in TeX.SX came from @Paulo, for sure ;-)

@JosephWright: If some one is on the hunt for badges, it's hard to stop him (apart from banning him for some period), but it's not possible to retract a "Looks Ok" or a "No action needed" if somebody clicked to fast and regrets this decision afterwards. This should be changed, in my point of view, giving the reviewer the chance to revoke a decision, after a short, limited time interval, say, after 15 minutes.

By the way, did anybody notice that our almost-everywhere-topvoter changes his avatar almost daily or even more often? ;-)

@PauloCereda: Not directly connected to ducks, but perhaps you like it;-)

Sorry, phone...

stackexchange.com/sites#questionsperday

Did people notice that math-sx is now #2 for questions asked per day?

We are at #6 :-)

@ChristianHupfer ooh. :)

@ChristianHupfer Chickens? We haven't seen chickens on this site for ages!

@egreg There was a bloke in some Christmas with a chicken avatar. Stephan wanted him and Joseph to have a avatar sleigh race: chicken vs. duck. :)

Bah, yum wants to update bash. I won't. :P

@egreg: A funny advertisement which was shown exclusively in cinemas throughout in Germany

@egreg Oh I forgot about her!

Who can give me some nice documentation on the usage of \setbox? I want to do something slightly more complicated than normal

Preferrably without having to \hbox{} every single line and adjusting spacing..

@1010011010 TeX by Topic

@1010011010 Or The TeXbook

Thanks. So if I understand this correctly, I'd have to use a sequence of either vertical or horizontal boxes to make this work...?

@1010011010 Boxes are either hmode or vmode, yes

@1010011010 Of course, I don't know what you are trying to do

I'll post a question. Maybe it's interesting, maybe I'm just not being very smart. We'll see.

@1010011010 everything in tex is a vertical or horizontal list, so the fact that's what a box holds isn't much of a restriction

@DavidCarlisle Honestly, I'm hoping you know a really easy and elegant solution. :-)

@1010011010 you haven't said what the problem is so it's hard to guess a solution

@DavidCarlisle In the question?

@1010011010 oh you posted on the main site? will look

The correct width of the minipage is explained through the fact a minipage is an unbreakable horizontal and vertical box...

@1010011010 Why do you need to measure that part?

@1010011010 "extensive use of \hbox and \vbox. It also required me to replace every instance of \hrule with a \leaders variant, w" can't guess what you'd mean here there is essentially no difference (apart from floats) what can go on the main vertical list on the page and what can go in a vbox, why change rules to leaders etc (but you don't want a box at all probably just use \pdfsavepos

@egreg I want to do the three column layout with flowfram (because of other parts of the document) aaaand I basically don't think it's a good idea to redo the entire layout every time I add a line to the abstract or anything else that increases the height of the box.

@1010011010 in 30 years of tex use I don't think I'v e ever used \valign really there is so much weird code in your example it's hard to guess the intention or suggest alternatives

@DavidCarlisle You've hit your quotum for compile errors for today? :-(

Sorry, that sounded funnier in my head. Anyway, I liked the valign outside the box.

@1010011010 You betcha!

@egreg No, really. I actually liked it. I didn't even know something like that existed, but I see the use for it. Well, obviously I do, but I just think this is a really fun way of applying it. Whatever. You get it.

Well, got to go. Will take a look at this later on or something.