TeX, LaTeX and Friends

12:08 AM

@AlanMunn Oh, dear. I do hope the user name is a lie..... It also scares me that another answer which recommends briefly boiling eggs to sanitise the outside of the shell has 5 upvotes. Do people really not know that washing an egg makes it less safe? [I assume the claims made in the thread that US regulations require eggs sold in the US to be washed (unlike those dirty eggs found in European shops) are false. At least, I hope so.

yo'

5:09 AM

@cfr Just to make it clear, I wasn't really serious that it's mean. Or maybe I was serious, but I didn't mind it :D

Will Robertson

8:20 AM

@PauloCereda Nah, just coz we're the best looking

Joseph Wright

@WillRobertson :-)

Paulo Cereda

10:16 AM

@WillRobertson :)

Paulo Cereda

10:44 AM

The chat messages show the timestamp in my timezone. We could suggest the SE people to include the GMT thingy and/or local time as well. :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda I have that keyboard chat thing active. Every message has a timestamp including seconds and an 8 digit identifier.

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B ooh

But it's your local timestamp, I guess.

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda Seems like it, but i don't mind.

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda What time is it in Brazil right now?

Paulo Cereda

10:48 AM

@Johannes_B 7:48AM

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda You are an early birdy. :-)

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Quack. :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda Quack <3

Paulo Cereda

When I went to Spain, I was shocked to see people waking up only after 10:00. :)

Hi @StephanLehmke! :)

Stephan Lehmke

11:06 AM

@PauloCereda Hi! Just came back from holidays in the vincinity of Silandro, Italy. Probably an area which @egreg has explored numerous times on his scooter :-) Near Dolomites mountains.

Paulo Cereda

@StephanLehmke oooh welcome back! :) The landscape looks amazing!

Stephan Lehmke

A view from the walking tour I did towards the mountain "Ortler".

yo'

11:19 AM

Can I safely remove the doc subdir of the older TL installs? (And good Sunday afternoon, btw :-) )

egreg

12:46 PM

@StephanLehmke Never been so far in that valley. Only Meran.

Paulo Cereda

3:36 PM

Sundaaaaaaaaaay

michal.h21

@PauloCereda and only 33 °C :(

Paulo Cereda

@michal.h21 Oh my!

yo'

@michal.h21 ONLY?!

michal.h21

if you compare it with what was yesterday (39 °C), or what's coming (about 38 again), then it is relatively cool :D

btw I 've found really weird thing on Youtube (I have nothing in common with it):

Evolution of tex4ebook (Gource Visualization)

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Paulo Cereda

@michal.h21 gource? :) I know this tool. :)

michal.h21

3:43 PM

@PauloCereda I mean what is visualised :) but it seems funny

Paulo Cereda

@michal.h21 Oh. :)

yo'

3:57 PM

@michal.h21 with the emphasis on relatively. :D

michal.h21

@yo' sure :) I am going to 64 km long hike in Ore mountains next Saturday, I am not sure whether I can survive that if it's going to be this wather :D

yo'

@michal.h21 Ore mountains -- sounds promising :)

michal.h21

@yo' yeah, I was on trek from Kraslice to Děčín few weeks ago, and it was really nice :)

barbara beeton

4:13 PM

@Danu -- this may be simpler: \begin{proof}[Solution]. that will simply substitute "Solution" for "Proof" as the heading. as long as you don't want to suppress or change the shape of the \qedsymbol it's hardly worth the effort and possibility of messing things up to clone the definition.

Johannes_B

Another resumeclass on CTAN: ctan.org/pkg/gradstudentresume

Alan Munn

@Johannes_B That's fantastic. Too bad I'm not a grad student any more, I'd start using it right away.

Johannes_B

:23316310 Really? Really?

barbara beeton

@ChristianHupfer -- a proof is actually quite different from a theorem, and publication specs at least sometimes require different heading styles. (and for sure, a proof should never be set in italic.) granted, there is an open request to add "tombstones" to theorem-class objects, but that's relatively rare and relatively recent in actual usage (in ams experience anyhow). hence the dichotomy.

Johannes_B

@AlanMunn It loads package anysize to deal with margins. And you can find stuff like \newcommand{\sectionheading}[1]{\noindent{\large{\sc{#1}}} \\ \sectionrule}

Alan Munn

4:20 PM

@Johannes_B Absolutely, I can't think of a single thing ~~right~~ wrong with it.

@Johannes_B Starting with the stellar documentation.

Johannes_B

4:42 PM

Did anybody read or knows a review for this LaTeX novice tutorial?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Know of it, but attempts to get a review copy failed

Johannes_B

@JosephWright The author hyped his book in the LaTeX group on facebook today. I recommended @Nicola's free books :-)

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Yes, that's where I'd noticed it before

@Johannes_B @Nicola's books are good

Paulo Cereda

Jim Henson vs Stan Lee. Epic Rap Battles of History. Season 4

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Johannes_B

@JosephWright Indeed :-)

Sean Allred

6:54 PM

@PauloCereda That got dark real fast at the end.

Paulo Cereda

@SeanAllred :(

Sean Allred

@PauloCereda "Gaze upon my empire of joy!!"

Paulo Cereda

@SeanAllred With three circles, I can rule the world!

Sean Allred

@PauloCereda It's terrifyingly true! XD

Paulo Cereda

:)

Sean Allred

6:57 PM

@PauloCereda Have you hopped on github lately, by the way?

Paulo Cereda

@SeanAllred I did, and I am so sorry for the delay. :( I will write something for you and everybody else soon. :)

Sean Allred

>"And everybody else" ? Are we talking about the same thing?

@PauloCereda Ahh, you're probably talking about the open issue

Paulo Cereda

@SeanAllred I also saw the private thingy. :)

Sean Allred

@PauloCereda oh yis :)

(private only because I don't want to cause a ruckus :P)

Paulo Cereda

@SeanAllred :)

user4035

7:17 PM

@tohuwawohu Hi

tohuwawohu

@user4035 - hi - ready to debug ;-)

user4035

@tohuwawohu ~/music/out-dir $ dvipdf steps.dvi
Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file--
Operand stack:
(/usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/CenturySchL-Roma.otf) (r)
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostri…

@tohuwawohu I think, my LaTeX is too old. It's 2012

Let me try on another machine, it has 2015

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda Have you ever eaten capybara?

tohuwawohu

aw - is there a way to provide the tex source file so i could check in on my box?

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Heavens forbid. :) No. :)

@Johannes: imagens.usp.br/?p=24851

This is inside the campus, in the middle of the city. :)

user4035

7:20 PM

need to boot it

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda So, they are more like pets for you?

tohuwawohu

@user4035 ok

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Oh no, I don't play with them. :)

user4035

@tohuwawohu Just use the one from the question. It's the simplest sample

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda They look a bit terrifying.

Paulo Cereda

7:21 PM

@Johannes_B I suspect they bite a lot. :)

tohuwawohu

@user4035: ok - i did alerady. I can definitely confirm that it works on a current Ubuntu system with standard texlive / lilypond packages.

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda They remind me of fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mole_rat

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B spooky. :)

user4035

@tohuwawohu Tried on TeXLive 2014 - other mochine doesn't work

@tohuwawohu Let me try the simple file you use.

tohuwawohu

@user4035 i've used your example from tex.stackexchange.org... :-( maybe adding a gs option would help? see bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691743 - is there a way to provide dvipdf with -dNOSAFER ?

user4035

7:27 PM

@tohuwawohu What command should I write?

@tohuwawohu "dvipdf file.dvi "gives error

Something is with this file: CenturySchL-Roma.otf

tohuwawohu

@user4035 does "dvipdf -dNOSAFER file.dvi" change anything?

user4035

@tohuwawohu Yes, now it works

Let me see with the big one

tohuwawohu

@user4035 the problem is that i can't reproduce the error here. So i can't debug it. If the -dNOSAFER option doesn't work, you may install a virtual machine running Ubuntu Vivid and use that system to compile the lilypond/tex sources.

user4035

@tohuwawohu I understand. I use Slackware 14.0

@tohuwawohu Now it works

@tohuwawohu :))

tohuwawohu

@user4035: yeeehaa :-))))

user4035

7:33 PM

@tohuwawohu I edited your answer a little bit, adding the parameter

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda @ChristianHupfer I wish i had the time, money and computer to play that: youtube.com/watch?v=0lWNdcbq3EU

tohuwawohu