Hello fellow peeps.

Hi @Alenanno

@Johannes_B Yo!

@Alenanno I overslept, need coffee.

@Alenanno Buongiorno!

@Johannes_B I need coffee too because reasons. :)

@PauloCereda Bom dia!

@PauloCereda :-)

@Alenanno o.O

@PauloCereda O_o

@Alenanno <3

@PauloCereda Boas?

lol

@Alenanno Aha, this is European Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese. :)

Gotcha!

:P

Ahahah

@PauloCereda Although as a (fairly low-level) polyglot, I love all languages, I have to admit Portuguese is not up in my list. :( Maybe I haven't heard it enough! It's weird because I like all languages lol

Like it enough to learn it I mean. :P

@Alenanno @DavidCarlisle is the language expert here, he knows all languages known to mankind (where mankind = Google). :)

@PauloCereda Then you have two now. :P

@PauloCereda Eu não vejo por que as pessoas acham línguas tão difíceis.

When Big Hero meets Frozen:

I LOL'd so much. :)

@DavidCarlisle Uau!

@Canageek washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/15/…

@egreg: no new voting corrected event?

@PauloCereda Not today

@egreg and haven't your older ones been adjusted not to show a negative score?

@DavidCarlisle Yes, they have. But it's harassment nonetheless.

@egreg but means they took note in a way, probably even if they don't say so

@egreg So I'm the one to blame.

@PauloCereda Which would be foolish.

@egreg :(

@Canageek -- not the west coast, but a lot farther west than waterloo, and reliable, if often busy: tug.ctan.org (univ of utah). if you can manage with an "ordinary" mirror, please do so, but if you absolutely need an authoritative mirror, this one is.

Yay @clemens is back!

@PauloCereda :) Yes, here I am.

@PauloCereda How are you?

@clemens In a hurry, as always. :) And you?

@PauloCereda A lazy weekend lies before me, so: good :)

@clemens ooh :)

@DavidCarlisle How exactly do I send a message to such list? Are there multiple lists? xparse seems related to LaTeX3 list.

@Manuel LaTeX-L is the list for discussion of LaTeX generally

@Manuel listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0=LATEX-L

My travel companions:

@StefanKottwitz awwww

@PauloCereda On a cruise ship since a week, so not often here. Too busy here :-)

@PauloCereda "Mein Schiff 4" is a new German cruise ship

@PauloCereda I got only a page in German: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Schiff_4

@StefanKottwitz ooh

good evening from Paris :-)

@yo' Bonsoir, Tom!

@PauloCereda One week more to go! Product launch cruises. Which means, the cruise ship is full with 2.500 travel agency employees. Imagine the m/f relations, age profile, and fun on party all inclusive cruises :-)

@PauloCereda Hello. Sorry I fell asleep, it was a short night and a very long day.

@yo' You are here with us. <3

@barbarabeeton Univ of Washiongton was on the list, which is just south of me.

@Alenanno Except that I'm Canadian, and our dollar is very weak vs the US or Euro right now.

@Canageek -- that's probably still a good site; the people i used to know there have moved on. i know the person "in charge" at utah, which is why i suggested that site. (it's the one i go to when i need an authoritative update, even if it's two time zones away.)

@JosephWright Does that mean I should or I shouldn't write there? It's about xparse (creating new type of arguments), so you can tell me :)

@barbarabeeton Ah, I usually load whatever is closest. I wish there was a script like Debian has that downloads a few kb from each server and finds the best one for you

@Johannes_B Okey, I “registered” there.

Now I guess I have just to write a mail to LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE

@Manuel I mean of course you should: the list is for discussion of LaTeX-related topics including but not limited to LaTeX2e, LaTeX3, ...

@Manuel Yup

@JosephWright Okey, thanks.

Hi how are you? Tex is very beautiful, agree?

@kwyip Hi, yes :-)

@Canageek Oh :P

@PauloCereda Game over. :)

@JosephWright How do I read the list? like news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.latex.latex3

@egreg wooooohooooo

1:2 Juve. :)

@JosephWright Sorry if this souns too dumb, but it's a new universe to me.

@Manuel If you want to see the archive, or you can log into the mail server itself

@Manuel You'll get mail when people answer, it's a mailing list :-)

@JosephWright There's no interface like that of gmane? It's nice to have everything classified like that.

@Manuel What do you mean? Your mail interface is down to you

@JosephWright Okey, but my mail interface is just Google and it doesn't show the structure that nice :(

@Manuel That's your choice!

@JosephWright Well, I never thought about this. Never knew that I could think/use another interfaces (I don't use mail that much hehe). Reading on gmane was nice, and I thought every list had that. Thank you in any case.

@Manuel We got a mail from you. :)

@egreg What alternatives are there to iteratively use \setbox without the need of counters for an unknown amount of iterations?

@egreg You said I'd be abusing register counts by saying \setbox\count6 so... I'm willing to change the algorithm but I need to know how :-)

@Manuel: I was in Spain two weeks ago, it was a lovely experience!

@PauloCereda Okey, that's good news. First thing I hate, I can't correct typos…

@1010011010 Sorry, but this is too vague. I can't understand what your purpose with those sidenotes is. And I'm not going into studying that code.

@PauloCereda So they say :P But Madrid is not in its “cleanest” days, one could say.

@egreg Don't think about the code, just think about setting a box every time a command is issued, then typesetting the boxes during \output

@Manuel I noticed that. :) I stayed 3 days in Madrid and 5 in Barcelona.

@1010011010 That's what \insert is for. But it requires changing the output routine.

@PauloCereda Never been to Barcelona, but definitely want to go there. It looks like a beautiful city. Madrid now has lots of “dirt” (I don't know if that's a fine way to say in english) in the streets, they are too dirty.

@Manuel :(

@DavidCarlisle: I have a new duck, how do you like him? :)

A LaTeX output routine change a day, keeps the doctor away..

@PauloCereda just got back from bike ride along the canal, the ducks and geese there are better than your feeble plastic imitations:-)

@DavidCarlisle Sad quack. :)

@PauloCereda I like the new pic :-)

@PauloCereda No more cricket?

@egreg For now. :) The cricketeer duck will be back. :)

@Johannes_B Quack. <3

@egreg we get rid of all of our best players

@PauloCereda I was helping a friend of a friend to move, there were little ducks. Nice ducks, i said. They start to glow when you touch them; she said. Caressed it just a little bit and it started glowing. I almost asked her to marry me. :-)

@Johannes_B oooh :)

There is a user png-file that messes everything up. Originally posted as bib-related, there is that image that identifies itself as a png when opened with vim. exiftool tells me that its pixel units are in meters, (Image Size: 892x1254) and even ImageMagick refused to do anything. How can a simple png get this messed up?

@DavidCarlisle 'Best' here meaning in the absence of any team mates!

@DavidCarlisle Tell him to wear a duck beak, maybe they'll call him again.

@JosephWright I just ran a diff on OPs log and my own. Turns out, there are even more cfg files in my dir potentially messing stuff up. Not good. Not good.

@JosephWright yes well I left out some of the back story:-)

@DavidCarlisle :-)

I am working to make some of my documents more modular.

To do this, I'd like to remove explicit section commands such as \chapter, \section, etc.

coseoul helps, but it lacks an "obvious" feature:

I would like to be able to import sub-documents and have the currentlevel counter reset to where it was before the import.

If I pass 5 as the third argument, I go into the subimport and exit the subimport at level 5, which is what we normally get with \section

However, I'd like to be able to have the current level detected automatically, rather than passed in as an argument.

Something like this:

The problem, of course, is that foo could be modified by the contents of the imported code. Is there a way to avoid this?

The problem is that currentlevel can get changed by the imported code.

Is there a way to make a local variable which can't get modified by the imported code? Since TeX is a macro language, I assume the only way to do that has to do with expansion order, but I'm having trouble understanding how that works.

Ice Hockey Semifinals: 3 of the 4 largest countries in the world and Czechia :)

How to use Tikz in a0 size poster? Is the coordinate the same as A4 paper?

Is there a way to expand a macro now?

@yo' But lost to Canada. :(

@DanielSank By putting an \expandafter before the token that precedes it? xD

@DanielSank What do you mean?