@JosephWright: Is there any way to bring this meta question to SE's attention: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/844/86 It's a bit scandalous that this hasn't received any acknowledgement from the SE lot. The linked question on meta.SO has no evidence of one of the overlords seeing it either.
@TorbjornT Good idea. I've just done that. The email address that I used suggests that the TeX moderators will get a copy.
@JosephWright (and anyone else): How long do we usually wait before closing a question where the questioner hasn't responded to comments asking for clarification? I'm thinking of tex.stackexchange.com/q/27930/86
@AndrewStacey I forgot to say that I'd close it now. 10 days should be enough with an urgent problem. There is almost no additional work for the OP to open another question.
"It's just gone noon, half-past monsoon, on the banks of the river Nile. Here comes the boat, only half afloat, barely reaching the last half-mile." (Or something like that)
@MartinScharrer It seems to me that the following question does not deal with hiding some parts during typesetting, but rather to strip off the unwanted lines at submission time.
Suppose I have a LaTeX document, which uses a conditional. Ie.
\ifdefined\submit
[....]
\else
[....]
\fi
So, if we have, say, defined
\def\submit{}
then the first part of the conditional is parsed (or whatever the right term is), otherwise the second part is.
Is there some way with...
@egreg I guess you could do a beamer-frame-gobbling trick which examines lines for an \ifsubmit and toggles between writing them to a file or not writing them to a file.
Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed. So how do I install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian/Ubuntu? Also how do I make dpkg aware that I have TeXLive installed?
Etiquette question: on this question, tex.stackexchange.com/q/29082/86, an answer to another question sufficed. I didn't think that the actual questions were duplicates, and thought that for "housekeeping" it would be good to have the code in both places, so I copied the code over (it was my answer on the original one). How does this sit with everyone? It is okay etiquette? Or am I clearly just angling for double rep for half the work!
@MartinScharrer It shouldn't be too difficult for a Unix guru to prepare a script along those lines. I'm not; but all the tests done tell me that it works.
@MartinScharrer It's 2010 in the TUGboat and ArsTeXnica versions. I'll add a better caveat.
@MartinScharrer I was thinking to an automated script that could either connect to a predownloaded ISO image or to the network installation. Maybe it could be distributed as a Debian/RedHat/whatever package, but only on unofficial servers.
@MartinScharrer Crazy idea: what if you create a Makefile with a proper install target (finding the local tree, copying the files) and use the checkinstall app to generate the deb file based on the Makefile?
@egreg They didn't teach me "Bier", only "Wasser". Worse, they taught me "Mineralwasser". :-P
@egreg haha! I love that line! I have that movie in my collection, I never get tired of watching it. :-)
@egreg: It's fun how brazilians communicate with foreigners without knowing their languages. There's a funny story about a guy who was bitten by a dog, a tourist's dog. The guy said to the owner (probably an american): "Your dog nhac-nhac my leg!", where "nhac-nhac" is some sort of onomatopoeic sound of a dog bite. :-)
@egreg: speaking of Bela Lugosi, I heard somewhere that he didn't know how to speak English when he was chosen to star Dracula. He learned the phonetic of the words and how he should pronounce them in a phrase.
@PauloCereda I really don't know, but according to Wikipedia he staged on a Broadway play in 1922, five years earlier than his first Dracula, again a Broadway play. The movie was shot in 1931. He had been in the US for ten years, at the time.
To bring this back to typography, what do people think about the layout on this page: mathsnotes.math.ntnu.no/mathsnotes/show/… (don't worry, no horrible pop-ups). To make it vaguely TeX-related, I should say that the original version of that is pure TeX (with the margin notes as footnotes).
@egreg For a more advanced course, or a less technical proof, then I would consider that. Also, I tend to prefer only CSS solutions (rather than Javascript) so I'd need to find a way to do that that wasn't too distracting (if you look at the "contents" at the top of the page then that has a box that appears/disappears but the rest of the text jumps around as it does so.).
@egreg I agree, but I'd like to do so in a way that the main text didn't "jump" when the new stuff was revealed. So I need to limit the width of the main text whilst allowing the margin notes to be in the margin. I need to look up some stuff in CSS to see if this is possible.
@AndrewStacey Very nice layout. I know you said you prefer to stick with CSS solutions, but I see your page as a great potential and useful showcase of a "JS website tour" concept. Something like this one: tympanus.net/Development/WebsiteTour
@PauloCereda I partly prefer CSS simply because I understand it better! Also, JS solutions require deeper coding (since the pages are automatically generated).
Palindrome-related news: egreg's in base 12, Herbert's in base 34, Stefan's in base 21, Raphink's in base 20, Andrey's in base 17, and Seamus' in base 32.
Ok. Was looking at the meta thread about TUG memberships and noticed you had commented but not posted so I figured that was the case. Just wanted to make sure as a mod you had the opportunity. (:
@RebeccaChernoff I'm not currently a TUG member, but I was waiting to see if there are others with more need. I wouldn't mind having one of the memberships, though.
I just asked this question at meta.programmers.stackexchange.com when I realized I have the same problem over here as well.
When I ask a question (and every answer has a check mark next to it for me to select one as my accepted answer), it's very hard for me to tell the difference between the ch...
@StefanKottwitz Technically yes, but our current editor is stepping down next month, and finding content is pretty hard (as most English-language stuff goes to TUGboat)
@StefanKottwitz UK-TUG is a small organisation (unlike say DANTE), and so getting help for anything is something of a challenge. For example, I know that we are loosing 2 committee members at least at the AGM, and I suspect they'll not be replaced.
I may have to lean on some of the people who help with LaTeX training, but then they are all ex-committee members anyway
@StefanKottwitz Our main aims are (1) training and (2) supporting projects where we can. There's also the CTAN node in Cambridge to worry about, for example when the hardware needs replacing (we paid for the current system some years ago).
Suppose I have a LaTeX document, which uses a conditional. Ie.
\ifdefined\submit
[....]
\else
[....]
\fi
So, if we have, say, defined
\def\submit{}
then the first part of the conditional is parsed (or whatever the right term is), otherwise the second part is.
Is there some way with...
Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed. So how do I install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian/Ubuntu? Also how do I make dpkg aware that I have TeXLive installed?
