TeX, LaTeX and Friends

6:50 AM

@Max ask a question (with a proper example) on teh site, that's what it is there for!

@RomainPicot possibly not spam but you can always flag for moderator attention, they can have a word with the user if they are abusing the site

@JosephWright odd, that missing number error report for ltluatex

@DavidCarlisle I've let a comment to one of his answer, saying that this could be considered as spam and he apologies. I think it's fine so

@RomainPicot OK all's well then:-)

Max

7:25 AM

@DavidCarlisle I will, I usually try to rule out idiotic mistakes on my part before I open a question here.

@DavidCarlisle Yes: I wonder if it's due to the things we did between 2015/01/01 and the two patch levels

7:48 AM

@DavidCarlisle I don't see it with 2015/10/01 PL1 or 2015/01/01 PL2

@JosephWright just got in to work, see no further info. Most of the PL1 patch just concerned latexrelease.sty (and \newtoks) but who knows...

@Max don't do that! @egreg, relies on a steady stream of easy questions to keep his rep count up.

@DavidCarlisle Or ones that require a deep knowledge of the TeXbook. :P

@RomainPicot The problem is that the advertised site does exactly nothing to the input pasted in the box.

@RomainPicot I left a comment on one of the answers.

@egreg oh Igor again, I see, we should just buy him a copy of the book:-)

@DavidCarlisle I believe he owns one.

@egreg I must say that I haven't tried. I'm at work and may have some proxy problems

8:03 AM

@RomainPicot If you're at work you should be working! ;-) @DavidCarlisle is never at work, so it's not a problem if he's chatting here. :P

@egreg I'm working on an article so with LaTeX, so it's part of my work :P

@egreg "pot calling the kettle black" my mother would say

@DavidCarlisle I have never claimed to be at work. Maybe to be in my office, which doesn't mean be working. :P

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@egreg :-)

8:19 AM

@DavidCarlisle And I promise I won't be chatting or answering during my lecture. ;-)

Assuming the train will take me to destination: it's taking quite a longer time than usual. :)

9:19 AM

Good maen

9:46 AM

Hello!

Q: I am new to LaTex/Tex/XeLaTex.. How to Learn?

10:04 AM

Hi guys.

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New to LaTeX Coding. I am using typesetting(using latex coding) for math equations in IEEE Projects. I want to learn end to end latex coding.

learning

Wouldn't this be a good dupe of

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Q: What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?

Which book (free or otherwise) was the most useful to you when you started learning LaTeX? I am frequently asked this question by friends who want to learn LaTeX, and I recommend the book which got me started, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε, but I feel that there might be better option...

books big-list learning tutorials

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Hallo there

Hi @Manofzelego

Hi.... I have a problem in vertical spacing in my CV document...

The space after ordinary paragraphs is much more than space after the lists....

Is there any option to adjust and equal these globally?

@Johannes_B Seems for me

@Johannes_B Yeah I agree

10:06 AM

@EnthusiasticStudent Impossible to answer. We need to see a sample document, there are many many many CV examples out there. Please ask a question on site, easier to give advice there.

@Johannes_B Yes. Is it possible that I am using this option on my permeable? \setlist[enumerate]{topsep=0pt,after=\vspace{2\baselineskip}}

Man this is a really nice chat application heh

@EnthusiasticStudent In principle, yes.

@Johannes_B Ah... I omitted that syntax and everything looks fine now!

Thanks by the way and sorry for interrupting and wasting your time...

@Manofzelego Indeedz, one of the bestest and mostest undervalued features of SE :-)

10:15 AM

@yo' Now I can ask questions before asking questions! Wonderful! :D

@Manofzelego But please, do not do that too much. It seems easier to ask a poorly stated question in the chat. However, if the question is not really trivial, it is really more time consuming for everybody; also, no other people than you can profit from it.

@yo' true..

Chat must stay a place to speak about food, duck and nothing related to (La)TeX. Obvious for TeX.SE chat :-)

ducks? :D

Ducks are the best

@Manofzelego of course :-)

10:27 AM

I'm still not sure why I have that stupid site bookmarked... >.>

Q: How can I define a unique vertical spacing value for all parts of my document which has lists and paragraphs?

10:45 AM

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I am trying to make my CV in LaTeX and I am not using a specific package for CV. I am coding it myself. My problem is that the space after normal paragraphs and the space after the lists are not the same. (spaces which are shown with red arrows in picture.) Also, the vertical space between my l...

spacing sectioning vertical-alignment paragraphs

Question posted...

@RomainPicot You missed cricket :-)

@Johannes_B Is there any specific cricket match going on these days? Because all the people specifically in TeX chatroom are talking about cricket! :))

@EnthusiasticStudent Not that i am aware of, i am not a cricket guy. I can tell you about delicious food ;-)

@Johannes_B I love cooking and food....

@EnthusiasticStudent Food's good.

11:03 AM

@EnthusiasticStudent we keep bringing cricket up to fill any gaps in the conversation, otherwise people are tempted to chat about TeX, which is so dull. The original reason for introducing it was to interrupt @egreg and @PauloCereda's never ending discussions about football.

@DavidCarlisle wise decision for introducing it... but I prefer volleyball more... :)

@DavidCarlisle Hmm, I don't sportsball very good :p

11:35 AM

@EnthusiasticStudent OMG! No!

12:18 PM

@JosephWright Maybe a short comment by a mod? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/268325/…

12:28 PM

@JosephWright had to mention it somewhere:

+1 but in the current (2015/10/01) latex release luatexbase-mcb is not needed, the relevant luatex support is built in to the format. — David Carlisle 1 min ago

1:16 PM

@HarishKumar I just discovered I'll have an Indian student in my Axiomatic Geometry course. He's from Kolkata.

1:59 PM

@JosephWright github.com/qw3rtman/git-fire

2:28 PM

@egreg I would increase the margin of the orange box; then it would be perfect :-)

@yo' That's the version I'll hang to my office door. :)

@egreg You use git but not github?

@yo' Neither. :)

@egreg ach so

2:42 PM

It is clearly safer to use svn than git: you'd only need to commit.

Quack!

@PauloCereda :)

@DavidCarlisle Of you install git-fire :-)

@DavidCarlisle rsync

Harish Kumar

3:26 PM

@egreg Wow. A Bengali!

4:22 PM

@DavidCarlisle :-)

@DavidCarlisle I see you solved the ltluatex mystery

4:52 PM

@DavidCarlisle Your comment and upvote also caused the green tick to come home. ;-)

5:04 PM

@JosephWright: Do you use Parallels Desktop?

5:30 PM

@DavidCarlisle: I've think I've understood now your \@elt code ... The list itself is recursively built up, with \@elt as 'separator' (macro or chopper) -- is this true?

@ChristianHupfer well not really recursive but yes, the idea is you define \@elt to do whatever you need (in latex for example, either reset to zero, or write the value to the aux file for include) then you just execute \@elt{countera}\@elt{counterb} and it does \@elt on each of them, typically it's a lot more efficient than a "loop" macro, at the cost of storing an extra separator token per element in the list

@DavidCarlisle: Yes, thanks ... basically a macro separated list ... I should have looked some days ago to this but I had no time

@ChristianHupfer @ChristianHupfer @egreg vtc the syntax changed question? It is off-topic i think.

@Johannes_B I am just one person :D

@ChristianHupfer I am one person as well. But so many voices in my head ... ;-)

5:42 PM

@Johannes_B Forgot your pills this morning? ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Nope. But i was changing diapers today.

@PauloCereda Yes

@JosephWright chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24515343#24515343 What do you think?

@Johannes_B too much information for me

@ChristianHupfer We ate for dinner what you had for lunch yesterday. Yum Yum.

5:45 PM

@Johannes_B I was ahead of you in time concerning food ... I am a foodlike vector :D

@ChristianHupfer Was no lunch today :-( But a late breakfast.

@JosephWright partially it still leaves the question of whether you do get an error on an unpatched 2015/01/01 but the number of people who have that format and manage to install ltluatex without updating latex must be pretty small so I'm going to ignore it..

6:10 PM

@DavidCarlisle Indeed

@Johannes_B Could be, but too broad is also OK I think

@JosephWright we broke reledmac (again) although I've sent him a fix (check version and don't load etex)

@DavidCarlisle MWE?

@PauloCereda travis-ci.org/josephwright/siunitx

7:36 PM

@JosephWright load memoir then try \requirepackage{etex}\reserveinserts{32} fails now because the new extended float list meant there were not 32 slots left to reserve.

user2692669

Does anyone know how to compile when I'm inside a chapter? I have to save the file each time, go to the main.tex file and then press compile. (I'm using Texmaker)

@DavidCarlisle This is all your fault

Torbjørn T.

@user2692669 Open the master file, do Options -> Define current document as master document.

user2692669

@TorbjørnT. Works like a charm <3

8:49 PM

@JosephWright @DavidCarlisle: Is \cs_set_eq:NN basically the same as \let regarding its effect, not the internal code of course

9:00 PM

@ChristianHupfer It's almost exactly \let

@JosephWright Thanks -- I just wanted to have a confirm ;-)

@JosephWright no doubt.

\cs_show:N \cs_set_eq:NN
> \cs_set_eq:NN=\protected\long macro:#1->\tex_let:D #1= .

@ChristianHupfer tex.stackexchange.com/questions/171490/…

9:22 PM

@egreg Thanks, should have used that ;-)

@Johannes_B You've won a Revival Badge ;-)

@Johannes_B: tex.stackexchange.com/a/245043/31729 ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Did I?

@Johannes_B 2 upvotes for an old question, being the first one to answer it, even with CW.

@ChristianHupfer Oh, ok.

@Johannes_B: Thanks for the other one -- I found that underrated and no reaction by the OP :-( (And he's an Astrophysicist or claims to be one ;-))

9:46 PM

Hi @ChristianHupfer

Thanks for your answer on my question

may I ask a further question here?

@EnthusiasticStudent No worries... But I would not use that style personally ;-)

@EnthusiasticStudent You've asked already ;-)

@ChristianHupfer :))

@ChristianHupfer What's the problem with the style?

@EnthusiasticStudent I personally find it confusing if an inner list continues with 4 (or whatever value), but's that's my personal opinion. I've upvoted the question anyway ;-)

@ChristianHupfer My question here is; I have three sets of lists out of the list described in question

and then this big list comes with inner minor lists

how can I use the resume feature in those continuous outer lists?

@EnthusiasticStudent If I understood your question well it's the same: series=myfirstlist (where the first list starts etc) and then \begin{enumerate}[resume=myfirstlist]` etc.

user3502615

9:52 PM

hi

i have a question for latex

@ChristianHupfer I think I understand your point... I need some time to test it on my document...

user3502615

i want to format equations in a way that the background of the equation (and the equation only, with padding) is a grayish color

@user3502615 Package tcolorbox and its align feature, for example.

@user3502615 Package empheq

@StefanKottwitz Seems the texwelt database has some errors.

Stefan Kottwitz

9:57 PM

@Johannes_B I know, I'm on it right now. Somebody causes opening database connections until the limit is reached.

@ChristianHupfer what's this {1} for in \newlist{outerenum}{enumerate}{1}

@EnthusiasticStudent One new enumerate list with only one level of depth, if you want more depths you have to define the labels one your own again. But that's not really difficult

Stefan Kottwitz

@Johannes_B not even database shutdown possible (log shows the too much connections), still investigating from where it comes (netstat etc) but slow responses

@ChristianHupfer Thank you so much... your solution works perfectly...

Stefan Kottwitz

@Johannes_B restarted, but may happen again until I found the attacker and blocked

10:04 PM

@EnthusiasticStudent You're welcome ...

@JosephWright Yay!