TeX, LaTeX and Friends

7:10 AM

@Qrrbrbirlbel No idea

9:31 AM

England need 504 to win

@DavidCarlisle At least it's not soccer ;-)

9:51 AM

@StephanLehmke we'd have a better chance of scoring 504 at soccer

10:25 AM

Extreme response to non scalable bitmap fonts: tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/32870

Forkrul Assail

11:32 AM

statwonk.github.io/blog/2013/12/15/…

Interesting article.

12:49 PM

@DavidCarlisle The anonymous user didn't like loading fix-cm and was protesting against LaTeX being tied to such an old model where fonts are not freely scalable! Freedom!

@DavidCarlisle Ten runs for 50 overs?

@egreg well no chance of that, the only chance is if they don't try to make any runs at all or do anything clever and just survive for a day then it will be a draw. But the same was true at this stage in the last test, and we were all out within an hour of start of play:-)

@DavidCarlisle Bad batters or bad runners?

@egreg well the batsmen do the running, but their batting wasn't good (it turned out that almost all of them were out to balls that if they had just stood still and not done anything, would have missed the wicket, but because they tried to hit it, the ball flew off and they got caught out:-)

@DavidCarlisle Teach them how to bat, then. ;-)

@egreg maybe we should give up on cricket and concentrate on beating Italy in the Football world cup.

1:00 PM

@DavidCarlisle Illusion.

1:14 PM

And today is my 999th day on TeX.SX

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@egreg Well, since the best British goalkeeper is Czech, your chances are low :P

@tohecz He doesn't play for England. ;-)

@egreg well, obviously, he plays for Czechia :)

now excuse me, time for a 2nd coffee :)

1:48 PM

If I klick on "I love HATS", will something strange happen which I can't undo?

2:11 PM

@egreg I used to get palindromes but then some vim user downvoted my emacs answer on a day I wasn't rep capped so now I'm out of sync:(

@StephanLehmke I think your icon gets a stupid hat attached if you meet any of the criteria

2:27 PM

@egreg congratulations, and you are more than 999/699 ahead of me:-)

@DavidCarlisle You just need 250000 rep, then you can become palindrome again.

@DavidCarlisle I took advantage of % at end of lines and of bugs in colortbl

@egreg or just annoying more vim users is probably easier and more satisfying

@DavidCarlisle Ah, Ok. So I assume nobody here klicked on that. Will we also get sleighs again?

@StephanLehmke no idea:-)

@DavidCarlisle Well you'll be more flexible in the last digit with asking and accepting questions but I assume that's not an option ;-)

2:40 PM

@StephanLehmke how do you do that? I asked egreg but (typically) didn't get a coherent answer.

@DavidCarlisle @Stephan This. I clicked the other thing. On some sites, the hats seem to be enabled by default, and I managed to disable them under the snowflake icon, so I think it's safe to click it.

3:03 PM

Huh, some people are really tough (after I suggested mathtools' \DeclarePairedDelimiter):

Thanks, I will check it out. But I'm still interested in how to implement it by myself since I try to avoid extra packages. I believe that the solution isn't much more complex that the code snippet given in my question. — Gregory 3 mins ago

@DavidCarlisle First of all, you must find something you don't know, so I guess the procedure will fail already at that step ;-)

@StephanLehmke LOL!!!

3:19 PM

@StephanLehmke don't you believe it:-)

@tohecz Read my answer. ;-)

@egreg and I thought I was doing an impression of you by answering saying he'd missed a % at end of line

@DavidCarlisle well, I'm getting closer and closer to being a Copy Editor by correcting backticks in your answers ;)

@tohecz thanks (or adding \makeatlletter:-) in that case I thought about that at the time but thought people shouldn't be setting up chapter title formatting in the preamble....

@DavidCarlisle well, he should redefine \chapter, however, it's quite an advanced task, to hande *[] correctly.

4:11 PM

Anyone gone for the hats business?

Cortizol

Can I adjust size of only first column in table? Because first column is just numbering, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. It's
\begin{table}
\footnotesize
\centering
\begin{tabular}{*{11}{c}}
\toprule
etc.

Johannes_B

@Cortizol Are you aware of the p-column type? But to give an answer without guessing, we need more information, possibly in form of a minimal working example.

4:36 PM

@JosephWright Here. To my great relief it turns out I can decide to not wear one ;-)

@StephanLehmke We didn't opt-in (that I know of), so I guess the Powers just decided everyone was in

@JosephWright Well you probably also didn't opt-in to the new top bar either ;-)

@StephanLehmke No, but in previous years the Bash (hats) was opt-in

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Thanks for noticing my little mistake with acmtog.cls over at latex-community.

@Johannes_B No problem

6:19 PM

hi

@ppr Hola.

I was wondering what is the purpose of the rule "add only one author (with @name) in a comment"

sound for me stupid

@ppr I don't know, actually. Multipe @-mentions work in chat, but not on the main site.

I just tried to answer to two person in a comment (I'm the author of the question) and I can only indicate one @.

yes it weird...

You speak French?

Je viens de lire ton profil....

@ppr Well, I understood that.

6:23 PM

You should pratice and come for vacation in our beautiful country

J'ai oublié beaucoup de ma français.

not bad

@ppr I was in France at the beginning of this summer, but I was with a bunch of English-speaking friends so I wasn't speaking much French. When I did try to talk French, I was horrified at how much I'd forgotten.

I think I'll probably go again next summer, but alone, which will force me to speak some French. Perhaps it'll come back to me.

Yeah the language is quite hard to learn and difficult to remember.

and a lot of French aren't welcoming foreigner... (unfortunately)

@ppr Heh. Try Irish.

6:26 PM

@ppr Technical limitation I suppose. The owner of the question/answer is always notified. Some meta-links: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45273/… meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/164681/…

@TorbjørnT. thanks

My dad's weird. He very rarely has occasion to talk French, and might not talk the language from one end of the year to the next, but when he does need it, he's still perfectly fluent. Somehow he just doesn't forget it.

@TorbjørnT. Ah. Notification. I was searching MSO for comment mentions and couldn't dig up anything useful.

@TRiG it probably related to the way of learning and your level.

in The Library, Jan 18 at 19:09, by TRiG

@JackDouglas Terminology. It matters.

@TorbjørnT. so, according to your link, everyone agrees to say it's a stupid limitation and there is nobody to change it ?

@TRiG ?

6:31 PM

@ppr I was using search terms which turned up nothing useful, because I wasn't aware of the standard terminology (notification, not mention).

ok I have to go. See you next time!

au revoir

@ppr Well, I haven't read all of it, but it seems the owners doesn't want to implement it at least.

Canageek

6:55 PM

Hum

I'm disappointed in the number of entries in my contest

At least judging will be easy

I thought maxing out the bounty would get more

7:08 PM

@Canageek Bounties seem to be pretty ineffective, at least here

Canageek

@JosephWright No kidding, but they seem to be the only way to get answers on some other ones

Probably as all the top people here have so much reputation they don't care

topskip

7:19 PM

@egreg I've just missed my 1111st day ...

pls can anyone here help me understand the answer I got for a question, it might be someone here more acquainted with the TexStudio and labels?

@doctorate Huh?

Q: How to fix showing table labels in TeXstudio when using ctable package?

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In TeXstudio editor one can easily choose which labels to reference as soon as you type the cross-referencing-macro you intended to use, for instance, \cref{} of the cleveref package (see image below). One problem, though, when you use ctable package to create a table, a user-friendly packag...

that would be very nice, the answer was cryptic for me.

@doctorate The second option should just be included in your document, for example within the table environment next to you ctable.

7:35 PM

you mean this: \iffalse\label{tab:somelabel}\fi???

@TorbjørnT., where to put this line then: \ctablewithlabel{<label>}[<other options>]{<arg 1>}{<arg 2>}{<arg 3>}

@doctorate Yeah, the \iffalse means that the \label wont be read by LaTeX when you compile, but TeXStudio will still find the label so it's available for auto-completion.

@TorbjørnT., aha good, and where to write this: \ctablewithlabel{<label>}[<other options>]{<arg 1>}{<arg 2>}{<arg 3>}

@doctorate Don't know exactly, not that familiar with TeXstudio.

@doctorate Give me a second, no need to ask twice.

@doctorate You don't need both of course.

@TorbjørnT., thank you sir anyway. that was very kind of you.

Paulo Cereda

8:20 PM

Hello from the bus returning from São Paulo... Paulo via his smartphone which doesn't seem to be smart at all.

Thankfully I don't have emacs here. :)

So I was coding while waiting for my bus... a girl sat near me, looked at my screen and said, "ooh that's vim!"... needless to say, I was shocked... then she took a closer look and exclaimed, "that is LaTeX, isn't it? I oughtta learn it someday..." What are the odds?! I almost said, "Marry me. Now." :P

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8:57 PM

@PauloCereda “I know a very good LaTeX teacher, he's from Italy and you should run and know him” should have been the answer.

I use Emacs, though.

9:23 PM

@Canageek maybe they were so scared of my krampus, they dare not enter:-)

Q: How did Jabba become such a powerful crime lord?

9:47 PM

Everytime I think I got this internet thing under control something pops up on the side bar

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After re-watching Return of the Jedi recently, I started to wonder about Jabba and his criminal empire. All the sources I've read agree that Jabba is immensely powerful, and his influence was such that even the Imperial forces were reluctant to cross him. But physically, Hutts just don't seem p...

star-wars jabba-the-hutt

Who are these experts? What do they eat at breakfast?

As if they analyze Baltimore drug traffic

@percusse I suppose they eat the same as their object of study:

wiki.answers.com/Q/…

@DavidCarlisle Heheh, how about this kli.org

A: Multiple documents from a single dtx

@percusse as used by our site mods:-)

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My answers is split in two parts: first I show how DTX files, i.e. docstrip tags, can be used to extract different parts for different language and then I discuss the issue that you have in a real DTX file for a package. In general you can use the docstrip tags <*lang1> ... </lang1> to mark all ...

@DavidCarlisle Without googling I can guarantee that somebody wrote a spell-checker for that

@percusse you can also use bing translate (good to know Microsoft are doing some service:-)

10:00 PM

@DavidCarlisle You probably need Windows Genuine Tool Wizard of the Brotherhood or something for that

@percusse I only happened to notice it yesterday as I was looking around for alternative translation services so I could translate @egreg's insults (he'd slipped into Venetian dialect to make things more challenging than Italian:-)

@DavidCarlisle In Italian we'd say presa per i fondelli rather than "insult"