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Q: Can't figure out how to cite a website properly using BibDesk

9:08 AM

Not constructive

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I have tried using the Website category dropdown and filling in the fields and also tried using the web import feature (which doesn't even have a category for the url?). When I try to display the bibliography in Lyx it shows up as a blank reference. I would like to cite it in Harvard format. I'm...

10:09 AM

Oh my, I got a downvote! :)

Dear downvoter, care to explain why my answer deserves your criticism? :) — Paulo Cereda 36 secs ago

@PauloCereda I linked to this question few minutes ago ;-) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100663/…

@MarcoDaniel :)

10:27 AM

need a vote ;-) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/100092/…

@lockstep: Do you understand the issue of the OP. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/77997/…

@MarcoDaniel up or down?

@DavidCarlisle It's equal ;-) -- only 9 unanswered questions for the tag bibtex ;-)

TL?

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Q: LaTeXila bibliography

I am a new user in Ubuntu and I have installed 12.10. I am trying to find tutorials on how to use LaTeX (LaTeXila) but unfortunately I can find almost nothing. Does anyone know how to create a .bib file in LaTeXila? On Windows I used to create a .bib file at the end of the document by inserting t...

bibtex

10:47 AM

@NicolaTalbot: I set all my virtual machines: :)

11:55 AM

huhu

Nicola Talbot

12:08 PM

@PauloCereda :-)

I think I'm almost up and running now :-)

Alan Munn

2:05 PM

Ok so the birthday iPad is now in need of a TeX app. From the reviews, it looks like TeXWriter is better than TeXpad. Comments, iPad users?

@AlanMunn Oh, did the birthday really bring an iPad?

Alan Munn

@egreg Yes. I'm playing with it now. (Although not typing in chat with it.)

@AlanMunn Oh I don't have TeX in my iPad. :(

Install games now. :)

I play during homilies. /ducks

Alan Munn

@PauloCereda This will make the gift giver quite unhappy.

@AlanMunn Oh! Plan B, hold on. :)

2:24 PM

Hi all. Can someone remind me of the name of the Tikz package for drawing simple things like 'four nodes in a circle'. IFIRC, it's by Claudio Fiandrino

Stefan Kottwitz

@Brent.Longborough it's smartdiagram

@StefanKottwitz Ah! Hi, Stefan, vielen dank.

2:37 PM

ooh I answered an arara answer! Stop the press!

@PauloCereda ohh I answered a Tikz question! Without begin{tikzpicture}

@Brent.Longborough Oh my! :)

@PauloCereda Oh dear! To paraphrase the Monopoly game, "Go to H**l. Go directly to H**l. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200"

@PauloCereda Yay! a complete solution in just five lines of LaTeX, including \documentclass, \begin{document}, and \end{document}. I feel like a cheat.

2:53 PM

@Brent.Longborough I added a picture.

@egreg Thank you. I've put a citation in a comment...

@egreg BTW, how's Italy these days? Getting ready to elect an antipope; the B-person riding the democratic(?) wave; all kinds of shock and awe...

@Brent.Longborough We're waiting for a couple of clowns to ruin the country.

@egreg What sort of clowns? Pagliacci, or buffoni?

@Brent.Longborough Both apply to the guys I have in mind.

@egreg Is the system in Italy first-past-the-post, or proportional representation?

@egreg Do the voters have their share of the blame? (Not you, of course :-P)

3:02 PM

@PauloCereda: In my deleted comment to this arara question I had the same idea. Egred pointed out that this solution unfortunately doesn't handle all compilation rules of the main file. This is the reason for the new rule. -- Sorry

@Brent.Longborough It's a mess, actually. It's proportional with "majority bonus". The problem is that the majority bonus is computed on the whole nation for the "camera dei deputati", but region by region for the "senato". The new clown didn't get any bonus, the old one did in some highly populated regions, so there's no possible majority coalition possible in the "senato", while the "partito democratico" has the majority in the "camera".

Since in our system both houses have the same powers, we have a problem.

@MarcoDaniel Why sorry? It's a great rule. :)

@PauloCereda Thanks. Rules can be expanded ;-)

@egreg Yes, I'm not convinced that proportional is at all a good thing. With FPTP, "your" side can "lose unfairly", but at least you usually get a strong government.

@egreg BTW, Which one is the "new clown", Grillo?

@Brent.Longborough I agree. This system was devised by the old clown some years ago, because he knew he was going to lose the elections, but still had majority in some regions and the law was just meant to make things difficult for the other side. OTOH, if a side has a strong voting majority (which happened at the subsequent elections), it would get a very large majority in the Parliament.

@Brent.Longborough Right.

3:11 PM

@egreg But he's not even eligible to sit, is he, because he's an ex-criminal?

@egreg Hmm, here in the UK we stitch up the elections by altering the constituency boundaries.

@Brent.Longborough This is according to the rules of his movement. He was convicted of "involuntary homicide" some years ago, but the law doesn't prohibit elections for this kind of crimes.

@egreg OK. We get rather superficial reporting over here.

Q: Code in \lstlisting breaks document (compile error)

3:27 PM

Can be closed

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I want to show a JSON object in my document. If I do the following, it works: \begin{lstlisting} { "id": "5", "key": "discardedCard" } \end{lstlisting} But if I extend the code to the following, then there are only errors when compiling the document: \begin{lstlisting} { "id": "5", "k...

errors compiling code lstlisting document

TL

4:17 PM

Yay, @JosephWright is here! :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Hello

@JosephWright How's your health going?

Joseph Wright

@egreg 'flu cleared up, just a cough remains

@JosephWright Good news! Be careful!

5:09 PM

@PauloCereda did you get it right though?

@DavidCarlisle I'm not sure. :) I just wrote the software, I don't know if it works. :)

soandos

Does anyone know where I can get a ConText compiler that I can use in WinEdt?

@DavidCarlisle @egreg You are actually serious about this TikZ/pgfplots gold badge thing right? Ah our peaceful rep point days gone..... Thancked be fortune, it hath been otherwise.... Twenty tymes better; but ons in speciall...

@percusse Maybe I can reduce the expected time from three years to two if I start studying the manual. ;-)

@percusse For now I'm chasing the tables gold badge: I can't stand @DavidCarlisle being the only one owning it.

@egreg Reading the manual is OK, my fear is that you'll start reading the code and answer all questions here.

5:22 PM

@egreg or \tracingall :)

@egreg no stay firm, don't succumb to pressure:-)

@PauloCereda With a moderately complicated TikZ picture, \tracingall risks to fill my hard disk.

@egreg Now you'll have a new Macbook. :) Problem solved. :)

@PauloCereda Just a 512 GiB SSD, not so much. ;-)

@egreg Wow.

5:25 PM

@DavidCarlisle Three answers to go. :)

Zip bomb

A zip bomb, also known as a Zip of Death or decompression bomb, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. It is often employed to disable antivirus software to create an opening for more traditional viruses. Rather than hijacking the normal operation of the program, a zip bomb allows the program to work as intended, but the archive is carefully crafted so that unpacking it (e.g. by a virus scanner in order to scan for viruses) requires inordinate amounts of time, disk space or memory. Details and use A zip bomb is usually a small ...

@percusse ooh dirty!

@egreg just find some old tables questions you haven't answered make an answer get a revival badge and a gold table badge at same time:-)

@PauloCereda 400kB zip file when extracted becomes 3-4 petabytes :)

might be \tracingall bomb too...

@percusse With a taste of xii.tex...

5:27 PM

@PauloCereda on the 2^{64}th day of christmas....

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@DavidCarlisle <3

hello :)

@DominicMichaelis 'ello

mh i am thinking about to post the question if it is possible to draw homer simpson with TikZ

Torbjørn T.

@DominicMichaelis It's possible, just not very convenient.

5:38 PM

@DominicMichaelis Inkscape is your friend. Check @PauloCereda's drawings.

I want to learn TikZ so i thought about doing something difficult to learn all the tricks

maybe if i ask it at reference request it will be fine

Torbjørn T.

@DominicMichaelis TikZ really isn't the right tool for a drawing of Homer, I think.

@DominicMichaelis As @TorbjørnT. says, TikZ is good for drawings with structure, known coordinates, well-defined shapes, curves etc. Otherwise you'll be hacking, tweaking forever to get one hair right via fine-tuned curves etc.

mh ok do you have an idea what is a good project to learn tikz

@DominicMichaelis Three tutorials in the manual gives you a head start for most of the stuff needed. The rest is up to your curiosity.

5:46 PM

@DominicMichaelis There used to be a Simpsons font on CTAN, but I believe it's been withdrawn for copyright reasons.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\definecolor{cffff00}{RGB}{255,255,0}
\definecolor{cffffff}{RGB}{255,255,255}
\definecolor{cdeaa87}{RGB}{222,170,135}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.80pt, x=0.8pt,yscale=-1, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt]
  \path[draw=black,fill=cffff00,line join=miter,line cap=butt,line width=0.800pt]
    (188.8475,629.4108) .. controls (200.5805,592.8140) and (210.0709,548.3682) ..
    (220.1359,505.9336) .. controls (196.5155,503.2551) and (187.9365,470.5939) ..

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