@DavidCarlisle -- no more or less, actually, than i've been expecting. really, to let us do our job effectively, since we've been bequeathed this mess by the se management, i feel strongly that they should at least help us identify the bogus entries that they so generously created. you've provided a reasonable search pattern that mere users can't apply, but they can. i'm very unhappy with their lack of attention to our plight.
i know we're a small community, but a genuine web-wide resource, and i think that does deserve some consideration.
@barbarabeeton yes probably true, probably it was just too late at night to be presented with a list that long for a single tag:-) I'll probably do some more later.
Well, you asked for creative, you didn't say practical:
Gravitational lensing. Place the card edge on and behind a sufficiently massive body. Position the card and camera correctly and both faces will be visible, albeit substantially redshifted, one side worse than the other.
Obtaining the su...
@DavidCarlisle I'm still trying to figure out what is wrong with it. Still haven't found it. But now I know the eqnos does not just disappear in thin air. There is just a box that ends up with the wrong size in a certain special case.
@PauloCereda They confirmed the slate comes from near Lavagna (near Genoa), so this is a real lavagna. This is the term we use for blackboard, because slate is also known as “pietra di Lavagna” and all blackboards used to be made with slate.
@PauloCereda I should have decorated it with the Palmeiras scarf.
@egreg awesome! My uncle is a carpenter and told me how they produced blackboards thirty years ago. Contrary to popular belief, this is a very detailed work.
@PauloCereda In UK English we separate out the temperature from the atmospheric conditions: I suspect the same is true in US English but @barbarabeeton will know
@egreg -- wow!!!! i'm impressed! even if it is in two pieces. must weigh a ton (or the equivalent in kilos; an exaggeration, actually, but i don't think i could lift it). all it lacks is a chalk tray. someone should give you a big box of multicolored chalk as a "blackboard-warming" present.
@JosephWright -- yes, "sunny" is not equated with temperature, although on a day when there is snow on the ground, the sun on one's face feels good. (but be sure to wear sunglasses and good sunscreen -- one could go blind from the glare, and sunburn is never fun.)
@JosephWright -- that prognostication looks terribly uniform. around here, it's been bouncing back and forth between -10 and +18. the poor daffodils are very confused.
@PauloCereda Regex help needed: I have a bunch of words with a \foo suffix e.g. This is a sentence\foo and a word\foo etc. and I want to match just the word and the suffix. Using \b(.*?)\\foo grabs too much before the \foo.
@PauloCereda I copied some text from another document, but the macro definition I used in the new document was different than the old one, and much hilarity ensued: so word\foo word ended up being rendered as word^1w ord instead of word^1 word. :)
@MarcoDaniel Thanks. It doesn't make any practical difference, I guess, apart from the first of running just one rm for all files instead of a rm for each file. To be honest, I'd favour one for all, but that's just me... :)
@MarcoDaniel Nicola is the next in sucession, it seems. :) She did a wonderful job! Check her book: dickimaw-books.com/latex/adminarara4.0 heavy usage. :)
Hey. Does anyone know how to make a global command with multiple required arguments and multiple optional arguments? The complexity is overwhelming me.
@egreg I'm writing a command that makes an approvals page and lists 3 to 5 names below a form, and has signature lines for two names. Each name has at least one comma in it for the titles of each individual
I'm developing a template and I have a janky but working way of making the approvals page:
I define various macros in the main document:
\newcommand{\advisor}{Name, Degrees}
%uncomment the following line to add a second advisor
%\newcommand{\advisortwo}{Name, Degrees}
\newcommand{\dean}{Name,...
@MarcoDaniel I'm aware that it's too specific to my use-case but I have no idea how to minimize it further. I already took out a lot of things that weren't relevant.
@egreg: In your answer tex.stackexchange.com/a/348057/5239 you should change \foo[\textbf]{a,b;c} to \foo{a,b;c}[\textbf] (Or you can change the definition of \foo ;-)
I have been using XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.99992 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) with fontspec 2015/03/14 v2.4c and recently I have also installed MiKTeX-XeTeX 2.9.6216 with fontspec 2017/01/02 v2.5c. This slowed down things considerably. As suggested in other posts I have tried to cache the fonts by runnin...
Well, you asked for creative, you didn't say practical:
Gravitational lensing. Place the card edge on and behind a sufficiently massive body. Position the card and camera correctly and both faces will be visible, albeit substantially redshifted, one side worse than the other.
Obtaining the su...
I'm developing a template and I have a janky but working way of making the approvals page:
I define various macros in the main document:
\newcommand{\advisor}{Name, Degrees}
%uncomment the following line to add a second advisor
%\newcommand{\advisortwo}{Name, Degrees}
\newcommand{\dean}{Name,...
