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Q: Why are 'mistaken' questions marked off-topic?

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Fairly often I see questions which are in fact about Tex & friends but are closed & marked off-topic. One reason I see listed in the comments is: This question is off-topic because it simply stems from a misinterpretation of the [insert-pkg-name-here] documentation. Isn't the appropriate ac...

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@1010011010 that is exactly what \expandafter is for

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Sounds allright.

Related, but in a different place:

groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.text.tex/gS8x1GJJR50

8:06 AM

@HeikoOberdiek I've recently noticed \luafunction as a new LuaTeX primitive. At the moment I guess no-one has sorted out an allocator for managing functions: any plans to add such a thing to your LuaTeX support packages?

8:40 AM

Spam: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/183252/…

Hi there. Does anyone know, if it isn't possible any more to use a \node inside a tikz-cd? Just tried using something like \node[draw,circle]{A}; \ar[r] & ... which I thought would work. Does this have something to do with the ampersand bug I read somewhere some time ago? Maybe you heard something, if not, I'll do a real question on this. Thanks.

9:01 AM

@LaRiFaRi I believe to have already seen something on the site about constructions in tikz-cd not working any more with TikZ/PGF 3

@egreg yeah, me too. Not sure where and when. Maybe I will ask the maintainers, if there is something ongoing. Can't believe, they dropped this feature by purpose

@LaRiFaRi I think it was this one: tex.stackexchange.com/a/163957/4427

@LaRiFaRi By the way, this

\begin{tikzcd}
X \arrow{r} & \node[draw,circle]{A}; \arrow{r} & Y
\end{tikzcd}

works only with TL2012, not with 2011 or 2013

@egreg Yes, this seems to be the post, I have been reading. Wasn't sure, if my approach is already called "nesting". What a pity.

@egreg I am on MikTeX here. Is your example somehow different to mine? \node[draw,circle]{A}; \ar[r] & ... Just other syntax... isn't it?

@LaRiFaRi I'm not a fan of the \ar[r,<other options>] syntax: the arrow's direction is a mandatory argument.

@egreg ok. I understand. guess I got that from xy-pic

@egreg Just fixed the problem. Something unorthodox about this? `\begin{tikzcd}
\tikz{\node[draw,circle]{1}} \ar[r] & \tikz{\node[draw,circle]{2}}`

9:14 AM

@egreg Again spam: tex.stackexchange.com/a/183259/16967 (same spammer)

@egreg up to your old tricks again I see

@JosephWright Spam account: tex.stackexchange.com/users/52691/user52691

@LaRiFaRi I guess it's good. I'd like something like \arrow[above=<label>,below=<label>,<other options>]{<direction>} instead of the clumsy swap

@egreg Just changing everything :-) I understood your point. Makes sense.

@DavidCarlisle Why proposing a bad solution when a better one is available? ;-)

9:18 AM

@egreg Thanks like always for your time and patience.

@egreg because it answered the question asked?

@JosephWright The last spam answer even got an upvote!

@DavidCarlisle You know that I answer the questions that should have been asked

1010011010

@DavidCarlisle To make the question a little more concrete.. Imagine I have a macro \a. If I just use it like that: \a, I wish \a to expand to \q. Now if I have another macro \b which I use in this fashion \a\b, then I want to instead expand the entirity of \a\b to \r.

@JosephWright Thanks for alerting. \luafunction should also be supported in luatexbase.

1010011010

The macro will also have arguments, but this notation is to make it a little more readable.

9:29 AM

@egreg Zapped

@HeikoOberdiek Cool

@1010011010 \newcommand{\a}{\@ifnextchar\b{\expandafter\r\@gobble}{\q}}

@JosephWright And user removed, it seems

@egreg Yes: I meant 'user zapped'

Whoa, user name in cyrillic.

Тимофей Ломоносов

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bibtex cyrillic packages tables

I mean, it's an open world with unicode and all, but if this is the future for all users to use their accustomed script, then I guess the significance of user names is going to decline ;-)

Spam: tex.stackexchange.com/q/183265/16967 @JosephWright Spam account: tex.stackexchange.com/users/54028/ling

@HeikoOberdiek Dealt with

9:48 AM

@StephanLehmke you mean as opposed to standard English names like 1010011010 or user3004698 ?

@1010011010 define \a to look ahead for \b

1010011010

@egreg @DavidCarlisle Thanks :-)

@JosephWright Interestingly, the content of the spam messages is quite similar. I assume hundreds, if not thousands of these are raining down all over the SE network. Intriguing that there is no filtering based on statistical content analysis in place like it's usual for email.

@StephanLehmke I think it's mainly IP-based as e-mail address isn't actually required

@DavidCarlisle Well I guess if we also had users 1010010110, 1001011010, and 1010101010 the same would apply :-) And for user3004698, well, that's anonymous on purpose. So if the intention is anonymity, then all is well ;-)

@DavidCarlisle But you're right; maybe the idea that a user name has any significance is fundamentally flawed. At least, everyone knows your name is really Alfred E. Neuman.

10:05 AM

@StephanLehmke LOL

I thought he was Donald P. Cnuth. :)

Less than a week to the World Cup, the SP subway is on strike! Yay! :)

But I'm not in SP today. :P

@PauloCereda It will feel extra relaxing this time to sit back on the sofa and watch it all on TV :-)

2006 I had a more direct experience as a couple of world cup games were taking place in Dortmund.

@StephanLehmke I had this feeling for Sochi :)

@StephanLehmke I wish I could do the same. :)

I just want to watch the opening ceremony to see what Dr. Nicolelis did with the Robocop thingy.

@tohecz I watched the skating because of the cute girls and also because it was the first time Brazil had a girl on that event. :)

I want a new TV!

@PauloCereda lol

the summer olympics are certainly better in this sense ;)

Hi everybody

I have a simple question for you,

10:19 AM

@tohecz I also watched curling because hey it's very crazy so it was fun. :)

@PauloCereda I love that sport!

I can't find it on Tex SE but I am sure when I will write the question it will be set to duplicate

@tohecz Me too! :) Specially with the ladies. :)

@Alji hit us! :)

I have a snippet of code in Java

10:20 AM

@tohecz not too hard. :)

and I would like to add it to my latex beamer presentation

@PauloCereda It already is hard #java

but in pretty way

@tohecz Uh-oh. :)

@Alji fragile + listings? :)

I found it :D

10:22 AM

@PauloCereda this ;)

\usepackage{listings}

@Paulo

@PauloCereda I found it before you tell me :p

@Alji and you should probably use \begin{frame}[fragile]

@Alji I is slow today.

hhh

okey noticed @tohecz

goodbye

@egreg: tex.stackexchange.com/a/183267/3094 Comic Sans and Russian. :)

10:35 AM

@StephanLehmke oh no that was supposed to be a secret

@PauloCereda haha

cgnieder

10:59 AM

@StefanKottwitz texwelt.de/blog is not reachable. It says Fehler beim Aufbau einer Datenbankverbindung

11:30 AM

Comic Sans? Gasp! ;-) — egreg 24 secs ago

@egreg Upvoted. :)

@PauloCereda Today I recalled the students not to blindly rely on calculator telling them the story about diagonalization. A student's exam reported: “The 3x3 matrix is diagonalizable, because it has 3 distinct eigenvalues, namely 1, 2+0.000000001*i, 2-0.000000001*i”

@egreg Oh my!

@PauloCereda Guess how the exercise was graded. ;-)

@egreg :)

@egreg: I bought an used book last month that is a jewel of computer arithmetics. If it were not a rare book, I'd carry it around and hit people with it everytime I see calculator/computer arguments on calculus. :)

11:43 AM

@DavidCarlisle Green tick stolen, mission accomplished. :P

@egreg there is no justice in the world

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12:49 PM

@cgnieder Farouk probably pulled the server cord in @Stefan's kitchen. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

2:51 PM

@cgnieder Thank you, I fixed it!

4:34 PM

@DavidCarlisle, @JosephWright: youtube.com/watch?v=BUY6HGqYweQ :)

@PauloCereda I had to install Debian/jessie just to understand what was going wrong with fonts and XeLaTeX

@egreg Oh my! Did it go well?

@PauloCereda Yes, without a glitch on VirtualBox.

@egreg Debian grrrr. :) At least it's not Ubuntu. :)

@egreg Good stuff

@PauloCereda Question is about Debian

Exciting times on the LaTeX team list!

4:42 PM

@JosephWright oh. :)

@JosephWright xor is released?!?!?!!

/faints

@PauloCereda I wish

@JosephWright I did that on purpose. :)

Frank does seem to be up to something, though

@JosephWright ooh a secret!

@PauloCereda Keeps asking me l3keys questions: I've ended up as the 'keyval man'

4:44 PM

@PauloCereda not from everybody

@DavidCarlisle :P

@JosephWright cool! :)

@JosephWright I expected worse, but the window manager is slim and, as I don't have to do much with it, I can bear having it occupy some space on my disk.