@JosephWright I have a cover page for course packets which includes meta-data for the module i.e. my name, the module name, date, university etc. I hoped to put this in a coffin which I could then use, possibly with different alignment. I need multiple covers as the packets have to be distributed in parts. (Can't staple more than 50 sheets.) I thought if I saved it in a coffin, I could replace it on subsequent cover pages. However, the coffin is assembled within a group, because it is put ...

... together when the front cover for part 1 is typeset and I use a group there in case of accidents. So I wanted to make the coffin global, but I can't. So right now, I just typeset it in a box and save the box. This works OK right now, which means I could use a box in the first place, but I would prefer to have the flexibility of a coffin because the class code should ideally be compatible with my redesigning the cover pages, even mid-document.

@JosephWright I'm not sure that counts as a use-case. Do you want code? I could, obviously, save all the bits of information and remake the coffin for each cover page. I was doing that, until I had the idea of being more efficient and using a coffin, at which point all my data disappeared from all covers bar the first. And I realised that \g..._coffin didn't make sense, according to the manual. But probably you will say that I should just use a box which would, as I say, work for now....

I find coffins easier than boxes, I guess, so I'll probably keep typesetting my coffin in a box rather than trying to figure out how to get its content into a box without a coffin. But I agree this doesn't make sense and I wouldn't have done it this way if I'd read the manual first.

@DavidCarlisle They'd be wasted on emacs users.

@cfr Still online?

@Dr.ManuelKuehner Why?

@cfr You left a comment and I wanted to avoid comment ping pong - that's all

@cfr But it is sorted out now. I already replied to your comment.

@Dr.ManuelKuehner The yellow is drawn and not filled. Whether TikZ respects this properly, I'm not sure, but the Adobe picture is definitely how it should look.

@cfr Give me a minute. I have to think about it.

@cfr Can you see the screenshot? I used a so-called color picker to check the red in the Adobe version. It should be [255,0,0] bis it is not.

@cfr bis --> but

@cfr I am going to bed now. If you think that it is necessary then we can close the question. I think that I shouldn't delete it because others may have a similar problem.

@cfr And even with draw opacity = 1.0 the problem remains.

Is the following question off-topic?

@Dr.ManuelKuehner Is it possible that it is an effect color profiles processing?

@DavidCarlisle nope. :)

@PauloCereda agreed

@yo' <3

funny thing: in my new job, I went to the IT guy to fix the internet connection, get me a monitor, and create an account. The world here is way too small: he was a scout at my old place (I didn't remember him, I was 8 when we were at a camp together) :-) But most importantly, he uses vim of course :-)

@yo' ooh

@PauloCereda Life before LaTeX ^^^ My grandma is the black-dressed girl on the left.

@CarLaTeX ooh!

See also here: tex.stackexchange.com/a/349721/101651

@CarLaTeX Fantastic! <3

@PauloCereda I was watching the memories from my grandmother!

@CarLaTeX I love calligraphy!

@PauloCereda Once it was important because they had to write everything by hand! I have a very bad handwriting, unfortunately. I haven't inherited that from my grandma!

@CarLaTeX Indeed! My handwriting is terrible, although I must admit I had improved over the years. :)

@PauloCereda I have to practice with my grandma's notebooks, then!

@CarLaTeX I love using fountain pens, but being left-handed I cover every word I just wrote and thus everything gets blurred. :(

@PauloCereda Isn't there some specific tool for left-handed?

@CarLaTeX I don't know. :) I still have problems using scissors and can openers. :)

@PauloCereda I know there are scissors for left-handed, you have to search for on the internet :)

@CarLaTeX ooh

@egreg Do you like this: tex.stackexchange.com/a/349721/101651?

@PauloCereda سيكون من الأفضل أن تكتب باللغة العربية.

@DavidCarlisle ooh I see what you did there

@PauloCereda there are also can openers for lefties :) or you can use this victorinox thingy that is symmetric

@yo' That one I know. :)

And for the fountain pens, you just have to learn to work with the blotter paper...

@yo' ooh

@DavidCarlisle Yes.

@PauloCereda good answer

@CarLaTeX Very nice

@egreg I have a lot of things like those from my grandma!

@ChristianHupfer A user has changed his nickname, but not the quality of his questions.

@CarLaTeX You could give a talk in the GuIT meeting.

@PauloCereda Nooooo, I'm too shy!

@CarLaTeX Me too! But you could use your friendly duck to help you!

@egreg: ^^ help me convince her to give a talk. :)

@PauloCereda We can ask @egreg to bring Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck with him on the reading desk when he does his talk!

@CarLaTeX wait a minute...

@CarLaTeX: is this the duck's name?!

@PauloCereda Of course!

@CarLaTeX Oh my! <3

@CarLaTeX: you should bring the duck in the GuIT meeting. :)

@PauloCereda That's sure!

@CarLaTeX Yay!

@PauloCereda @CarLaTeX By the way, have you ever seen this?

@egreg oh my

@egreg No, ahahahah, where is that place?

@CarLaTeX It's the pass that connects Fiera di Primiero with Agordo

@egreg I'll go there my next vacations! Hahaha!

@PauloCereda The last time I did it, it was raining. :(

@egreg oh no

@egreg Last September I went to Gallipoli and it had been raining for two weeks!

It never rains in Apulia except when I went there!

@egreg The quality is high as usual, I suppose then? ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Judge for yourself: the stated problem was completely unrelated to the real one.

@PauloCereda Once my brother, my sister and I climbed that pass with an old Citroën 2CV; it was quite an achievement. :)

@egreg I suppose nickname lookup won't work then; what's the user id? :)

@yo' 13173

@DavidCarlisle Hi David, this ping found me.

@egreg thanks

@egreg goodness (or maybe the typo gooness was more proper...)

@egreg The question was almost the first thing today i laid eyes on. Not a good experience.

@Johannes_B go soap your eyes quickly!

@egreg I know whom you mean...

@egreg ooh

@egreg: Regarding the quality of his question: There's a German proverb: "Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen" ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Never heard of this.

@Johannes_B You're just some years younger than me ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Ein Apfel ein Day keeps the Doktor away. :)

@DavidCarlisle ^^ Flawless German

@PauloCereda Deutschglish

@yo' Ja!

@PauloCereda Jes

@yo' ooh

@wilx Good morning :). The original question is here tex.stackexchange.com/questions/349696. Apparently, the problem is because Adobe uses CYMK instead of RGB or something.

@DavidCarlisle It did ping me xD Don’t know who else it should have pinged …

@yo' and @PauloCereda -- there at least used to be calligraphy pens (broad-edge nib) for lefties -- the angle of the writing edge is different from those for right-handers. don't know if they're still available, but if they are, they're likely to be more expensive than the "normal" ones.

@CarLaTeX -- your grandma's certificates and workbooks are fabulous!. studying them and using them as practice exercises is a good idea. but a personal caution ... i can produce some uninspired but competent calligraphy (i studied with a good calligrapher for a few years, at least partly in the hope that it would improve my handwriting), but my handwriting is still execrable. (but it's still a worthwhile pursuit.)

@egreg -- i see that another item has been added to the "double backslash" question on meta. do you know whether the "powers" have been prodded? maybe it's too much to ask that existing problems be fixed automatically, but it would be a real improvement if new postings aren't similarly polluted.

@PauloCereda Strange language you speak. Much to learn you still have ;-)

@barbarabeeton If I cannot improve my handwriting I can always improve my LaTeX typesetting! :):):)

@CarLaTeX -- also a worthy goal! (there's always something new to learn.)

@barbarabeeton I have a lot to learn! :)

@barbarabeeton I think @JosephWright sent an alert.

@StefanKottwitz You kicked the user?

@StefanKottwitz Or is there some automation behind it? Several posts within short time, deleting bby mod, so the account gets a spam flag and is auto-kicked?

@DavidCarlisle Working on Javier's issue: it's something in the 2e SVN, not l3build (phew)

@Johannes_B I deleted the spammer account. I'm reading the LaTeX Community forum every few minutes ;-)

@StefanKottwitz That is good to know.

@StefanKottwitz I commented about the hot chocolate to kinda disturb the discussion with qwertyu.

@Johannes_B I made a test q&a site some weeks ago. Nowhere mentioned or linked. It now has 14967 user registrations (without posts, dumb bots). LC and TW are pretty safe.

@StefanKottwitz 15k? Wow.

@Johannes_B I wanted to delete the offtopic comments but somebody may feel insulted, so I let it be

@Johannes_B 300 per day and more, now imagine that for a visible forum

@StefanKottwitz I'll delete mine once the others clear. I was confused the last days, as it seems the qwertyu user has deleted comments. There where replies of saputello/Tichy. I was confused.

it's all about disturbing bots, human spammers are pretty rare

@StefanKottwitz Who invests time in setting up those bots?

@Johannes_B SEO idiots trying to generate backlinks for some business sites

@Johannes_B Abandoned forums or dead blogs collect thousands and maybe millions of spam posts if the admin doesn't take a look

@StefanKottwitz Oh :-(

even the TeX.SE blog had spam comments, some inactive TeX blogs have too

sometimes I am unobservant and a site of me gets 10.000 or so spam posts :-o I had to deactivate the comment feature on texample.net and others, also at the latex-community.org articles

and when I launch a wordpress site without spam protection, the database is rapidly growing with that garbage

@StefanKottwitz Makes me sad.

@Johannes_B Me too. You put something great on the Internet for all: you get attacked all the time and hacked. You let users respond with posts or comments: all incoming channels are spammed.

@JosephWright map files?

@DavidCarlisle Working through everything: I think there are at least a couple of changes that are involved

@PauloCereda @UlrikeFischer @barbarabeeton Milan city tour with Herr Professor Paulinho van Duck. He likes the city very much! :):):)

Tracking down a few test file oddities ...

... whilst watching the snooker

@cfr On the question about \includeonly: I was commenting on why I thought you said it wouldn't work

@JosephWright how's it going? (no TV here, no eurosport subscription)

@yo' 2:2, just restarted after the interval

@yo' Some issues with our test files fixed, a few more to look at

@JosephWright thanks

@DavidCarlisle Moved on from babel to the oddities in base

my problem is, I like both these guys so I'm not sure who I prefer to see in the final...

@yo' At the moment I'd say Hawkins is playing marginally better

@JosephWright he was great against Selby!

on the other hand, Joe's long shots were fabulous!

@JosephWright Berry aiming at 2:3 I see :-)

I'm just wondering how to change the font size of the text in the footer?

I can use \large, but it seems there must be a different approach

@baxx why not use \large?

idk, just seemed like the kind of thing that might be frowned at / have an easier approach to ?

@baxx not sure what you mean, the whole point of named sizes as opposed to using \fontsize{20pt}{25pt}\selectfont which would be the only real alternative is that it encourages the use of a smallish consistent set of sizes for all the document elements.

hrm ok - no worries, if it doesn't seem bad with you then it isn't really

i just thought that it might be a 'thing' and thought i'd ask :)

@yo' Looks like it's only going one way

@JosephWright was 2-2 but we had dinner and now it's 2-4 :-)

@DavidCarlisle 2-5

@JosephWright and 0-1

@CarLaTeX Duccata milanese!

@JosephWright quite

Joe trying to prolong the match? :) oh not really :D

(don't get me wrong, I don't see the game, just the scores)

@yo' Has a chance to take this frame

@JosephWright I thought so (the bad thing is I can't see the available score)

@yo' Got the snooker he needed

@yo' Taken the frame

@UlrikeFischer You have invented a neologism, hahaha!

@JosephWright ah he needed a snooker (that's exactly the sort of thing I can't see)

@yo' 4-5

@JosephWright I see, wow!

will it be 5-5 soon? :)

@yo' Yes

@yo' Is now

@JosephWright oh really!

so the tiebreaker is up? :)

@yo' Yes

@DavidCarlisle Doing the uploads now

Barry at 50, how does the table look like?

@yo' Open if someone can get in

@JosephWright so if it's Barry, it's pretty much over, right?

@yo' Yes, should be but he just missed a potable red

Ah Joe's in

@yo' Yes

@yo' He's got enough to get ahead: not sure he can win at this visit

@JosephWright ok

@yo' Tricky shot coming up

@JosephWright potted -- was it a yellow?

@yo' Brown

@yo' Perry's missed the pink!

@JosephWright then the internet score must have been wrong...

@JosephWright oh!

how many reds left?

@yo' Perry has won

@JosephWright oh! (My internet went down at the very moment :( )

@JosephWright anyway, thanks for being my eyes and I'm off. I wonder what chances Joe has against Ronnie; depends mostly on Ronnie's mood tomorrow :)

@JosephWright Oh, I see. I thought you were commenting on why you thought I'd down-voted, which I didn't.