TeX, LaTeX and Friends

12:48 AM

Congratulations to user "Jonathan M Davis" for asking no questions, providing no answers, yet earning the "Fanatic" badge.

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Alan Munn

@lockstep Maybe we need a "Lurker" badge.

@lockstep Do you know of a biblatex style I could look at that has code for plural vs. singular editors? (i.e. J. Smith, ed. vs. J. Smith and B. Jones, eds.)

lockstep

@AlanMunn He earned exactly 0 bronze badges, 1 silver badge ("Enthusiast") and 1 gold badge ("Fanatic").

@AlanMunn Maybe @domwass's "biblatex-dw" styles. But I don't know if they provide automatic solutions.

Alan Munn

1:03 AM

@lockstep Thanks. I know it's doable, I just wanted to look at some sample code to see the best way to do it. I'll look at Dominik's stuff. I just wondered if you'd come across such code seeing as you seem also to be a bit of a biblatexpert.

lockstep

@AlanMunn I like the "biblatexpert" term. :-)

Alan Munn

@lockstep I have no idea how to pronounce it though. :-)

Martin Scharrer

9:07 AM

They have updated the style in the Users section.

Hendrik Vogt

9:53 AM

@MartinScharrer Do you like it? I don't, to me it looks cluttered.

Martin Scharrer

10:20 AM

@HendrikVogt No, not really. I liked the older one better. Ok, you can change the order now, but this was already possible at stackexchange.com/leagues/29/week/tex

Hendrik Vogt

10:45 AM

@MartinScharrer In my opinion they could just have included that option for ordering in the old style.

Hendrik Vogt

11:09 AM

OK, here's the relevant link to meta.SO:

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Q: Redesigning the /users page

After 2.5 years of being almost entirely unchanged, we're thinking about redesigning http://stackoverflow.com/users This page is kind of underutilized real estate at the moment: It is rather monotonous, since it always shows the same list and Jon Skeet is always on top. (Although to be fair, ...

Seamus

12:07 PM

Is there an easy command to make TeX print thin lines around all the boxes it uses? I've seen that sort of thing in package documentation and in TUGBoat...

Martin Scharrer

1:42 PM

@Seamus I always thought they are drawn manually, but if there is an automatic command I would be very interested in it as well!

Matthew Leingang

@Seamus, @MartinScharrer I believe it's described in the TeXBook

Reputation manipulation WIN i.imgur.com/Ak7oa.png

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Martin Scharrer

@MatthewLeingang :-)

@MatthewLeingang Does it describe how to do it manually or automatically?

Matthew Leingang

@MartinScharrer I seem to remember it being an exercise that would "turn on" the replacement of all hbox/vboxes with drawn boxes.

@MartinScharrer See Exercise 11.5 in the TeXBook. It's called \demobox. Maybe not exactly what @Seamus wanted but hackable

Martin Scharrer

2:10 PM

@MatthewLeingang Thanks. Looks like a good start.

Maybe redefining \hbox to draw a border around itself might do the trick.

Hendrik Vogt

3:02 PM

@MartinScharrer We are not alone:

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Q: The new user page layout requires some work

I quite like the idea of the new user page, but the design is horrible. It looks incredibly messy. Understandably it's hard to get dynamic content perfect in every scenario, but the page just looks like it can be improved. I think that no text should ever be under the profile image as that's a m...

discussion user-interface users so-design

Martin Scharrer

@HendrikVogt Thanks

Faheem Mitha

4:38 PM

hi. anyone here ever tried lout?

Martin Scharrer

5:34 PM

@FaheemMitha Links are always appreciated: The Lout Document Formatting System

Faheem Mitha

@Martin: I assumed people who had used it would know what it was.

Martin Scharrer

@FaheemMitha I didn't even knew what are you talking about until I search it in Google. At least put "lout" in quotes so people which don't know it yet know that it is a subject not a verb. I was first thinking you talk (a) about some chat function which lets you "speak lout" or (b) you misspelled something.

Faheem Mitha

@Martin: Fair enough. I guess that sentence was lacking context.

Seamus

@JosephWright Is the fact that \celsius in siunitx does not obeyfamily a status-bydesign?

Martin Scharrer

Anyway, about "lout": What I don't like on its FAQ is 1. it has the mandatory entry "Why use Lout instead of LaTeX [or troff]?" at the very end, not at the beginning where I expected it :-), and 2. It lists totally outdated information about LaTeX ("in LaTeX by including Postscript files generated by utility programs such as xfig, you have to specify the size of each included figure, losing a lot of Lout's flexibility.")

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