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12:14 AM
I'm sure this has been asked before, but i can't find it, how do I change references indent at ToC ?
 
@G.Bay ?
 
@DavidCarlisle Every chapter and section is indented because of the numbering, but the references must not have number, then it begins at the num position
 
@G.Bay too late to think about it in the abstract, make a proper MWE and ask a question on site, then someone can answer while I sleep:-) (the details depend a lot on which class you are using and how you are formatting toc entries already)
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes sir, I will, again thanks for helping, good night.
 
 
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8:15 AM
Good maen
 
8:28 AM
How can I obtain the count(er) register number if I use plain TeX's \newcount\foo without using \meaning\foo?. \the\foo or \number\foo print the content, but of course not the register number
 
@egreg @DavidCarlisle: So \nobreakspace it will be. But sometimes expl3 is odd ;-). You can insert special chars like \c_dollar_str, build complicated boxes and coffins, define all sort of keys and do strings manipulation and then you have to fall back to some latex2e command or tex primitive for a simple non-breaking space ;-(.
 
@DavidCarlisle I added a plain TeX example. I'm not going to subscribe to the LuaTeX list just to post it, though. tex.stackexchange.com/a/276445/4427
 
@UlrikeFischer Different levels. At present we don't really have much for 'typesetting' (beyond some rather basic box functions). At the same time, I'm not entirely clear if you are building up something that should look like document syntax anyway, in which case you'd still want the appropriate document-level stuff even if we did have a code-level version.
 
9:04 AM
@JosephWright In my eyes penalties aren't really connected to high-level "typesetting", they are rather simple objects that I insert in the output list like other things starting with \c_dollar_str, \c_space_tl, \skip_horizontal:N, numbers, contents of token lists or sequences or boxes. At the end all these are output and so affect the typesetting.
 
@UlrikeFischer Raise on LaTeX-L :-)
 
@UlrikeFischer they are not so simple in vertical mode, so you at least would want to hide the primitves and make some horizontal mode commands.
 
@DavidCarlisle l3galley does do the vertical mode ones :-)
@UlrikeFischer, @DavidCarlisle Building for CTAN now :-)
 
9:42 AM
@UlrikeFischer Upload sent to CTAN
 
10:17 AM
@JosephWright If that is a bug, shouldn't the question be closed? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/275992/…
 
 
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11:51 AM
@egreg I have added a few extra information at the end of the thesis-template-history-confusion-stuff from yesterday. Any thoughts on that?
 
12:25 PM
@Johannes_B: Ja klar ;-)
Looking at the code is enough for me ;-) — Johannes_B 3 mins ago
 
@ChristianHupfer When i want a quick look, i am not going to pick up the book. Especially when i am not in the library.
 
12:41 PM
Another poor soul fallen to the dark side :-((((
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Q: Coverting Latex into Word with equations, tables and figures

user3285148This question is possibly a duplicate but so far I haven't found any up to date and detailed answer to the following question: could you list step by step the best free procedure (if any) to convert a LATEX file (containing tables, figures, equations) into a Word file?

 
Still, not any wiser :-(
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Q: calculate difference between two strings

staticxI would like to write an equation to calculate the difference between two strings using the sum operator. These two strings have the same length. Example: I have "abc" and "abd". I want to write an equation that goes from 0 to 3 and it calculates the sum of symmetric differences (1 for this exa...

 
@Johannes_B Commented there ... I believe he wants to have \sum\limits_{i=0}^{3} or something like that
 
@ChristianHupfer I really don't know.
 
@Johannes_B is definitely wrong there ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer I wonder if the system just randomly puts tags in questions. Or if users just randomly pick tags the system suggests.
 
12:50 PM
@Johannes_B Sometimes the system is more intelligent than the user ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer I wouldn't bet on that.
 
@ChristianHupfer Which is why I removed it. You often see new users adding completely irrelevant tags.
 
@Johannes_B depends on the user :-D
@TorbjørnT. Thanks!
@Johannes_B: Here's the next unclear question (by a German (speaking) user, apparently
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Q: define todonotes preamble

user80497I want to define the following in my preamble, to write in my .tex file just \begin{Anmerkung}...\end{Anmerkung} \reversemarginpar\todo[noline,bordercolor=white]{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}{\textbf{Anmerkung}}} \definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0,0.3,0.7} \begin{Document} \begin{Anmerkung}some text \end...

 
@TorbjørnT. I think i am just as confused as you are on that question :-)
 
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Q: calculate difference between two strings

staticxI would like to write an equation to calculate the difference between two strings using the sum operator. These two strings have the same length. Example: I have "abc" and "abd". I want to write an equation that goes from 0 to 3 and it calculates the sum of symmetric differences (1 for this exa...

Someone suggests this for him. ^^ :)
 
12:56 PM
@PauloCereda rep hunter :D
@Johannes_B: I like my tag invention: ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer I am just a naïve duck. :)
 
@ChristianHupfer The do something or do something else question just made me laugh which was followed by a headache. Did you really get what s/he is asking for?
 
Just finished installing Fedora 23. I have everything I need. ^^ @DavidCarlisle :P
 
@PauloCereda @DavidCarlisle don't believe him -- he made that 'screen shot' with MS paint -- vim was expelled from Fedora...
 
@ChristianHupfer you are mean to me. :)
 
1:01 PM
In information theory and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of single-character edits (i.e. insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other. It is named after Vladimir Levenshtein, who considered this distance in 1965. Levenshtein distance may also be referred to as edit distance, although that may also denote a larger family of distance metrics. It is closely related to pairwise string alignments. =...
 
@PauloCereda I am sorry not sorry :-P
 
@DavidCarlisle Exactly. :)
@ChristianHupfer :)
 
@PauloCereda No one from Brazil has looked at my site, according to google analytics:(
 
@DavidCarlisle link?
 
@PauloCereda: correcting myself: vim is only expelled on my system :D --- Banned on my install list:D
 
1:03 PM
@ChristianHupfer BioInformatics? You should be the one working with Vel, not me ;-)
 
@PauloCereda souldern.org :-)
 
@ChristianHupfer alias emacs=vim
@DavidCarlisle ooh maybe because I disable tracking in my browser?
 
@PauloCereda No if google says you haven't visited, you haven't visited. It is always 100% accurate, just as for translation.
 
@Johannes_B Unfortunately I left that school three years ago... no more DNA sequences, introns, splicings etc.
 
@David: the place looks great, it is the kind of place I want to live. :)
Look at that majestic bird going from one side to the other!
 
1:05 PM
@ChristianHupfer Good thin is, 4 Pull requests already merged.
 
@PauloCereda see the announcement page, if you find 5 of them there is money to be had
 
@DavidCarlisle oooooooh
You sir are the most epic person in the world.
 
@PauloCereda you have to claim to be under 15, but you shouldn't find that hard
 
@DavidCarlisle Herbert was 15. :)
 
@PauloCereda so was I, once
 
1:09 PM
@Johannes_B 4 Pull requests for what? I'll give you a push -- even unrequested :D
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh I already found 2!
 
@ChristianHupfer One is still open. I thought about adding a comment to the code: % yes Christian, KOMA script just to annoy you :-p
 
@DavidCarlisle: souldern.org/parish-church this looks like a location I saw in a Doctor Who episode. :) Beautiful landscape!
 
@Johannes_B I am not teaching bio informatics to pupils any longer -- I don't need that stuff
@Johannes_B And after that line: I will never use that stuff if it uses KOMA ...
 
@ChristianHupfer :-)
@ChristianHupfer If you could oonly see my amusement
 
1:12 PM
Drat, I am missing a bird!
I am so close of winning this 15-year old contest. :)
 
@Johannes_B would be another nice tag :D
 
@ChristianHupfer That happened when searching for a template.
 
@PauloCereda M found all 5 but the "terms and conditions" are basically that I can disqualify anyone I like, so he was disqualified for being a relation:-)
 
@PauloCereda That's because you wanted to cheat
 
@DavidCarlisle :)
@ChristianHupfer :)
 
1:24 PM
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@PauloCereda: My new 'project' ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer ooh :)
 
@PauloCereda I don't want to reveal to much details, but it will deal with counters -- don't spread this secret ;-) confidential information
 
@ChristianHupfer @PauloCereda @Johannes_B The string difference guy has updated, can any of you make sense of it?
 
@TorbjørnT. No, not really, I don't understand the question yet (or never will ;-))
 
@TorbjørnT. I may have understood the question: he wants to know if \bigtriangleup is typographically right for his problem (which I did not understand)
 
1:36 PM
@TorbjørnT. No :-( But i left another comment.
 
@TorbjørnT. No. :) I can't understand. Besides, sets have no order.
 
@PauloCereda yay. I will install it as soon as I can sit for more than 10 minutes :(
 
@michal.h21 Beware, for RPM Fusion is not updated yet. :) A lot of stuff I use is only available through that repo. There's a F23 link there, but it still points to Rawhide.
@michal: overall, the system looks way better than my previous one, stability-wise.
 
@PauloCereda have you tried Wayland session? I tried it on F21, but it wasn't usable yet
@PauloCereda I will have to wait for some weeks anyway, it seems
 
@michal.h21 I tried it too, it's indeed not usable yet. I am not sure how it went in this version.
@michal.h21 I won't say weeks, but a couple of days. :)
 
1:42 PM
@PauloCereda no, I can't install it because of my broken spine for some weeks :(
 
@michal.h21 OH MY!
I am so sorry to hear.
@michal: what happened, pal?
 
memoir emulates tocloft by default -- an undesirable feature of memoir, in my point of view — Christian Hupfer 7 mins ago
@ChristianHupfer Why?
 
@PauloCereda I run downstairs to catch a subway, and the
n fell down
 
Oh no! :(
 
but it isn"t serious, I can walk, but I shouldn!t sit
 
1:51 PM
@ChristianHupfer -- see if you can slip "counterfeit" into that. (also, "how to shoot myself in the foot" is a shorter, and completely acceptable, way of phrasing that proto-tag. i like the idea.)
 
@TorbjørnT. @ChristianHupfer to simplify my question : how to write a cardinality of a set in Latex.
 
yo'
@michal.h21 oh! I hope you'll be ok. Btw, a fun fact (sarcastically), our NTK has no working eduroam ... welcome in the 21st century :-)
 
@yo' I should be OK, it even doesn't hurt much, only sometimes :) I think NTK should have Eduroam, it has some ČVUT lessons in the building!
 
yo'
@michal.h21 there is one here, but (as they put it) it works only for somebody :) So I had to pay CZK 25 for 6 months to get a login for their local wifi.
 
2:10 PM
@Johannes_B I'm an oceanographer turned physicist, I don't even know what that is. Think I'll leave that question to someone else.
 
@TorbjørnT. I don't know what this is either :-)
 
2:30 PM
@Johannes_B Still the 'latexdiff' question?
@TorbjørnT. cardinality is the number of elements in a set, if I remember my lectures in maths (oops, twenty years ago ;-))
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Q: Define todo notes in preamble

user80497I want to define the todo notes in my preamble to use it in the document. \reversemarginpar\todo[noline,bordercolor=white]{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}{\textbf{Note}}} \definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0,0.3,0.7} \begin{Document} \begin{Note}texttext texttext text \end{Note} \end{Document} Currently i ...

@Johannes_B: Do you have some remembrance? ;-)
 
 
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3:36 PM
@barbarabeeton counterfeit ;-) I will think about that :D
 
4:12 PM
@G.Bay: I've posted a (possible) answer to your ToC question
 
@ChristianHupfer :D thanks, I will have a look in short. Just bumb into a hyperref mysterious error...
 
@G.Bay hyperref never produces errors ;-)
 
lol
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\let
l.447 \usepackage{hyperref}
% pra user o \autoref{•} %
The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
I'm not quite sure what is causing
 
@G.Bay: The strange characters in \autoref{...} perhaps? ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer yes, that must have been one of my subfiles improting with different enconding... trying to find out wich section of wich chapter
 
4:19 PM
@G.Bay it must a label name, of course
 
@ChristianHupfer Maybe I should change every include to subfile again, it was working before
 
@G.Bay Hm, do you know \includeonly? You can selectively disable includes then and find the error this way (i.e. in which included file it does occur)
 
@ChristianHupfer That was my idea when I replaced the subfile. Problem is include doesn't seem to like nested documents. I like like Main.tex calling Textual.tex wich is calling capter1.tex
 
@G.Bay: I don't like subfile or include -- I use input rather. Nesting is weird
"to simplify my question : how to write a cardinality of a set in Latex." If that is the question (answer: $|x|$ normally) then could you edit the question and the title, which is currently apparently asking how to calculate a set difference (which is a mathematical question and off topic for this site) — David Carlisle 1 hour ago
@DavidCarlisle: I am inclined to VOT (vote due to off-topic)
 
4:41 PM
@ChristianHupfer As usual on this kind of error, the mistake was so stupid... One of the files was missing "begin document".
but that wasnt enough :(
 
@G.Bay You have \begin{document} in your \include{...} files?
 
@G.Bay it doesn't, you can use \input for the nested levels.
@ChristianHupfer If it isn't clarified by tomorrow, I'd vote "unclear"
 
4:57 PM
@DavidCarlisle I voted already ...
@DavidCarlisle: Is it possible to extract the count register number of \newcount\foo without using \meaning\foo?
 
@ChristianHupfer subfiles thats it
As wierd as it can be, the whole problem is related to a part of the code which is... commented! :/
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\let
l.447 \usepackage{hyperref}

The control sequence marked <to be read again> should
not appear between \csname and \endcsname.
 
5:23 PM
@G.Bay Don't use special characters in labels. Something like \label{Ööç} is not going to work.
 
I did comment all my subfile commands, so basiclly only the preamble and dumbtext is been compiled but I still get the error
@egreg I never use that on my labels :( unless I did by mistake and didn't notice
 
@G.Bay I saw \autoref{•} which looks suspicious.
 
@egreg that was a commented part! I left comment just as a reminder why I added hyperref etc
 
@G.Bay Without an example of code producing the error it's quite difficult to guess.
 
I did remove now, still got errors, yeah I know. I can't reproduce with MWE either, lol.
 
5:44 PM
@ChristianHupfer you shouldn't need to, but \meaning is probably the way to do it if you must. (or luatex)
 
@DavidCarlisle It's rather code golfing ;-) I do not intend to manipulate counter registers directly.
 
@G.Bay you probably wrote a corrupted aux file so as well as commenting out the offending command you need to remove the .aux (and .toc and any other files that were written)
 
@DavidCarlisle I will try that, tahsnk David.
@DavidCarlisle Nop, same thing :/, but I g et no errors on my MWE. I will try to load all packages and stuff, comment one by one.
Lol, what a shame... I had a\DeclareFloat something alone without any arguments... deleted that line and bang working 100%.
I think most of the times doing a MWE itself is part of the solution.
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yo'
6:51 PM
Help a duck get a golden badge for being a serial upvoter! :D @Paulo
 
@yo' oh my!
<3
 
yo'
@PauloCereda :)
 
@ChristianHupfer I see he deleted both questions :-(
 
7:13 PM
Adagio from KV 595 just started. :D I already had my wine. What else should I want?
 
@egreg Easy questions :-)
 
@JosephWright Just solved a bidi bug. ;-)
 
@egreg Cool
@egreg I'm bothering the team with format-mode emails
@egreg And CTAN with updates (to keep @UlrikeFischer happy ;-)
 
@JosephWright :)
 
7:39 PM
@Johannes_B Yes, apparently
 
@ChristianHupfer Nice, the plonk has gone again :-(
@ChristianHupfer @clemens Another very difficult question on TeXwelt.
We just go times assume that all the basic introductions * poof * are burned and we are back at the primeval slime. Google translated that for me.
 
 
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10:12 PM
@DavidCarlisle Enjoying L3 spam?
 
@JosephWright just got in, went from work to a meeting at school...
 
10:42 PM
@Johannes_B The plonk has been disabled by me about one year ago ;-)
@Bernard your pzackage is full of eels ;-) — Christian Hupfer 5 hours ago
@Christian Hupfer: My hovercraft … — Bernard 4 hours ago
 

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