TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2012-10-22 (page 2 of 3)

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5:00 PM

@PauloCereda :-)

@AndrewStacey :-)

@PeterGrill yes I'm not sure how coherent the talk is out of context:-) It was pitched at a dozen people all sat round the same table so is rather less formal then had it been in a lecture setting, but in a recorded/multilingual setting a more formal presentation would probably work better...

@DavidCarlisle Nah, have you watched the TUG ones?

@JosephWright only one or two to be honest:-)

@DavidCarlisle I've done the 'full house' for about 4 years. No recordings this year :-(

Except Frank's, of course

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A: "Edits must be at least 6 characters″ – Why?

Because.

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Hint: click the edit button.

This is the best answer ever made in our meta site. :)

5:13 PM

Hey, this package looked like a useful one to use one helping people

ctan.org/pkg/adhocfilelist

@PauloCereda There's a duck in it!

@egreg Patrick's fault! :) Mine is the bunny. :)

Today I told someone to use \mathop{\operatorname{\cdots}}\limits^{\smash\vdots}_{\smash\vdots} but I swear I was in a hurry!! :P

OCD sufferers can add two more \cdot before and after :)

Can we make a snake with cdots, vdots and so on? :)

5:29 PM

@PauloCereda Only if you have a #### Nokia phone.

@percusse LOL

Are there any windows users with java and ghostscript installed who wouldn't mind testing my jmakepdfx app? (Available on CTAN and dickimaw-books.com/apps/jmakepdfx) I've had a report that "it doesn't work" on windows. I could do with some slightly more informative diagnostic messages.

@NicolaTalbot Sure! Booting my Windows machine right now. :)

@PauloCereda Thanks :-)

@NicolaTalbot I got this :)

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5:39 PM

@NicolaTalbot: what kind of error was reported?

@percusse You need JRE 7. :)

You probably have JRE 6. :)

@PauloCereda Apparently ghostscript wrote some "gibberish" messages.

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@NicolaTalbot GS seems to be complaining about something.

@PauloCereda I wonder if it's the backslashes in the filename that's causing it.

@PauloCereda Java has 65 different environment versions so I lost track of it since 2003 or something...

@NicolaTalbot Do you mind if I take a look at the source? :)

@percusse LOL

5:43 PM

I mean WTF? have a look at this page and expect a proper output from Java: oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

@PauloCereda Sure, it should be available with the app

@percusse I would've preferred to stick with JRE6, but I needed some of the JRE7 classes.

@NicolaTalbot Oh please, no need for explanation. It's my usual software rant time (mostly originates from the MATLAB anger :) )

Maybe I should rewrite the app in TeX ;-)

@NicolaTalbot I don't talk to smart people sorry.... :P

@percusse :-)

5:53 PM

@NicolaTalbot: I have some suspicions, but it might take a while for me to set up my dev environment in Windows. :)

@PauloCereda There's a debug mode that should print messages to stdout (jmakepdfxc -debug)

@PauloCereda and platform independence down the drain :P

@NicolaTalbot I like the hardcore mode. :)

@PauloCereda What's that?

@NicolaTalbot oops, typo. :) I meant hardcore. :)

Jesus, another tpyo.

:)

5:58 PM

I think you like the panic mode more...

@Nicola: I'll compile the code here. :)

@PauloCereda sounds a bit risqu\'e!

@NicolaTalbot Don't worry. :) later, explosion :)

If it helps, I've worked out the error gets thrown on line 1961 of Jmakepdfx.java

I suspect it`s filename = filename.replaceAll("\\\\", "/"); Can windows cope with a forward slash as directory divider?

@NicolaTalbot: a bad fix could be: replace line 1927

String filename = pdfFile.getAbsolutePath();

by

String filename = pdfFile.toURI().toString();
filename = filename.replace("file:/", "");

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Well, not in that line, but perhaps inside the path separator might be better. :)

6:13 PM

@PauloCereda That's great, thanks!

@NicolaTalbot I'm not sure if it will fix correctly, I'll take a look later on today. :) We might fix Windows, but break Unix. :P

Paths are complicated. :(

@NicolaTalbot: your code is very well written. :)

@PauloCereda Ah, yes it has stopped working (at least on Fedora).

@NicolaTalbot ooh another Fedora user! gasp

:)

@PauloCereda Thanks :-) I know I'm not very good at commenting though.

@PauloCereda :-)

@NicolaTalbot I usually comment my code because my future self won't like if my past self didn't comment the code. And the work has to be done by my current self. :P

6:20 PM

Worked out why it's stopped working. The path has lost the leading slash.

@PauloCereda My future self always rails at my past self for not commenting. Why on earth did I do that?

@NicolaTalbot Ouch, sorry! :) the URI has the leading slash, even in Windows: file:/C..... We could add an else branch in the path separator test: if Windows, replace file:/, else replace file:

@NicolaTalbot Hmm everybody's talking selvish here.

@NicolaTalbot :P

:-)

@PauloCereda I think that's the best fix. Thanks!

@percusse Java goes into a bar. The bartender then asks, "what do you want?", and Java says, "I want a java.lang.Exception: no drink request found.

@NicolaTalbot My pleasure. :) I hope it works. :)

6:26 PM

@PauloCereda Yeah, it works :-) I'll bundle it up and upload to CTAN.

This is the best accepted answer I've seen so far: tex.stackexchange.com/q/78693/3954

@NicolaTalbot I think there's another block in which we have to do the same checking. Did you take a look at the GS conversion?

@PauloCereda hehehehe let me fix that for you; Java goes into a bar. java.lang.Exception: no door found.

@percusse LOL

@GonzaloMedina LOL

@PauloCereda No, I didn't. thanks for picking that up. I'll get that fixed and bundle it up.

6:28 PM

It was so cheerful, I can't see why it shouldn't be accepted! :)

@NicolaTalbot :)

@PauloCereda Oh, why didn't I comment my code! As far as I can tell, I need to do the same for iccFileName, defFileName, fileName and outputFileName in toPdfX()

Coo, I've got another badge. Apparently I'm talkative.

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot HTH :)

@NicolaTalbot We could write a helper method to correct the path and then replace the code blocks by the method call. :)

@PauloCereda That would be very sensible. I'm lapsing into my dotage!

@Brent.Longborough "hope that works" or "how the hell?" :-)

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot Hope That Help(s|ed)

6:39 PM

@NicolaTalbot Not at all, we are in the same boat. :) I'll look closely at the jmakepdfx code.

Brent.Longborough

@PauloCereda Of course, if you wrote in Python, you wouldn't have to worry, I think. :P

@Brent.Longborough Why did I think HTH stood for "hope that *w*orks"?

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot You were probably thinking in some obscure Eastern European language, likw Welsh

@Brent.Longborough You'd only need to worry with the dozen series of Python which have incompatibilites and annoyances with each other. :P

@Brent.Longborough :-)

Brent.Longborough

6:41 PM

@PauloCereda Just like Java, only easier to debug.

@Brent.Longborough De... bug?! What's that?! :P

Brent.Longborough

And, of course, your path is made easier by

`from future import <feature>`

@Brent.Longborough ooh time travel! :)

@PauloCereda That's great. At least jmakepdfx passed the Lightning Source test (my printer and distributer). That saved me (a) buying Adobe whatsit and (b) finding out if Adobe whatsit works with wine.

Brent.Longborough

@PauloCereda It's true!

6:44 PM

@NicolaTalbot Awesome! :)

@Brent.Longborough I know. :)

@Brent: we could create a jmakepdfx rule for arara. :)

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot I think this is more like Wumpus, as in "you fell into a pit and broke every bone in your body"... :)

@PauloCereda Indeed we could (or, of course, inject it into latexmk)

@Brent.Longborough Yes, we could... WAIT A MINUTE.

:)

Brent.Longborough

@PauloCereda Oh, and I only need to have one version of Python installed at a time, in contrast to the seventeen versions of java that are empestilhando my environment.

@Brent.Longborough <3

The paths, don't forget the paths! :)

@Brent.Longborough I hadn't heard of Wumpus. I've missed out!

@Brent.Longborough Maybe I should write a command line version. Something like jmakepdfx -cymk -in infile -out outfile that doesn't use the gui.

7:26 PM

Final upload made: all UK-TUG 2012 videos now available at vimeo.com/uktug

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@NicolaTalbot: on a second thought, I see that URI generates "safe" locations with, say, spaces as %20, so it might not be a good idea to use it. Maybe a regex is more suitable.

Today my new MacBook arrived. YEAH

@MarcoDaniel Yay! Don't tell me you are gonna install ubuntu!

@PauloCereda ;-) You know me

@MarcoDaniel LOL

7:30 PM

@NicolaTalbot Welcome.

@PauloCereda Ah, a pox on paths with spaces!

@MarcoDaniel Thanks :-)

@PauloCereda First of all I must setup an account for my wife ;(

@NicolaTalbot Now I remember why I used URI: I was sanitizing the path, but at the end of the day, I was playing with files directly. :) I'll think of another approach. :)

@MarcoDaniel boo! :)

Tell your wife to wait until you install TeX and arara. :)

@Marco: Speaking of which, and the marathon? :)

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot Indeed, a murrain. 'Program Files' -- humph!

@PauloCereda The whole week I wasn't running -- I declare this week as relaxing week ;-)

7:33 PM

@MarcoDaniel No! No pain, no gain! Go run now! :)

@PauloCereda Run Marco Run ;-)

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot The Wumpus I played at IBM ran under CMS. Not very sophisticated when compared to its PC incarnations with graphics as well as words. But then someone installed Colossal Cave...

@MarcoDaniel youtube.com/watch?v=hwhvByj8YG8 (Don't fail me now, GEMA)

@Brent.Longborough boo! :)

@PauloCereda You beat GEMA ;-)

@MarcoDaniel YEAAAAHHHHHH!

7:36 PM

MacTeX 4 mins left

@MarcoDaniel How fast is your internet connection?! o.O

@PauloCereda 32000 kbit/s

it's ok

@MarcoDaniel You are kidding. You gotta be kidding. You have to be kidding. Please tell me you are kidding. :)

@Brent.Longborough What about the word processor files that supply the default file name from the first line of the document and it has pipes and ampersands in it! (Not to mention less than and greater than.)

@MarcoDaniel: can you point a satellite dish to Brazil? I want to steal your internet.

7:40 PM

Is there something obvious here that I am missing, or some other complexity of why the label is not in blue:

@PauloCereda My Internet's too slow to watch it. It's bad enough not being able to watch iplayer, but not being able to watch a short youtube isn't great!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\tikzset{My Rectangle/.style={%
	rectangle, draw=brown, fill=yellow, thick,
	every label/.style={below, color=blue, font=\itshape}
	}
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
	\node [My Rectangle, label=foo] at (2,0) {$z$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot Sorry, I gave up on word processors after Wordstar

@PauloCereda LOL -- It's one of the benefits living in Hamburg. Some years ago I lived in a small town and I had to live with 2000 kbit/s

@Brent.Longborough I wouldn't be sorry about it :-)

7:41 PM

@NicolaTalbot Oh! :(

@MarcoDaniel Hey, it's my speed. :)

Brent.Longborough

@NicolaTalbot Just "sorry I could not engage with your pain" :)

@Brent.Longborough :-)

@PauloCereda I got a new offer with 100 000kbit/s but this is really useless. It's expensive and I don't download MacTeX every day :-)

@MarcoDaniel Oh my!

Buy antenna... point to Brazil...

@PauloCereda LOL

7:43 PM

@PeterGrill When the style is passed to tikzpicture it works:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\tikzset{My Rectangle/.style={%
	rectangle, draw=brown, fill=yellow, thick,
	}
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[every label/.style={below, color=blue, font=\itshape}]
	\node [My Rectangle, label=foo] at (2,0) {$z$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

@PauloCereda I believe Brazil has a better infrastructure than Germany. I know India is much butter.

@GonzaloMedina Yeah, but the OP does not want it applied to every label, just some labels.

@MarcoDaniel Brazil? Not. Even. Close. :) I don't know what will be of this country during the World Cup and the Olympic Games. Next time I go to São Paulo, I'll record a video for you to understand what I'm talking about. :)

@MarcoDaniel: I know something you can't download. :)

@PauloCereda I hope we all will meet us earlier at the "TeX.sx Meeting" ;-)

@PauloCereda a youtube video which is protected by GEMA :-)

@MarcoDaniel I'll bring a lot of ducks. :)

7:48 PM

@PauloCereda It's over 20 years since I went to S\~ao Paulo!

@MarcoDaniel No. :) You can't download a dinosaur! :)

@PauloCereda lol

@NicolaTalbot The next Olympic Games will be a good time for you next visit

@NicolaTalbot The city is growing nonstop. :) And the traffic is terrible.

Thankfully I live in the countryside.

@PauloCereda It reminded me of Detroit.

But the countryside I liked :-)

@NicolaTalbot :)

7:52 PM

@PauloCereda and mine:-)

Hi everyone

@unNaturhal Hi :-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@unNaturhal 'ello! :)

:)

Could I ask for a bit of help?

@unNaturhal What's up?

7:56 PM

@NicolaTalbot I have to prepare a thesis for an exam of my university class, and the professor want that we use latex.. but I haven't used it before, and I dunno how to install it and start doing something..

@unNaturhal I've got a guide for beginners that should help you get started: dickimaw-books.com/latex/novices

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@Nicola: ooh a potential reader! :)

@PauloCereda :-) Now I just need to finish rewriting volume 2!

@DavidCarlisle: I am watching your presentation and it sounds you had fun ;-)

@MarcoDaniel @DavidCarlisle was a great choice to open

8:02 PM

@NicolaTalbot: you won't believe what I found. :)

@PauloCereda What? Do tell!

Please, not a bug!

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@NicolaTalbot 273 pages? :P I have to prepare the thesis in 2 months.. unfortunately I can't study so many page (because I also have to study for 3 exams other than the thesis..)

Is this 20 questions?

@JosephWright Next time I'd like to be a fly on the wall.

@unNaturhal Just read the chapter "Writing a thesis in 2 months" ;-)

8:04 PM

Deserves a procrastination:

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Q: How to make a plus sign with arrowheads on each of the four endpoints?

There is a common operation in the sparse-direct literature (see pg. 7) called an "extend-add", and it is usually denoted with a particular symbol that looks like a large plus sign with arrowheads on each tip. I falsely assumed that I could simply overlap $\updownarrow$ and $\leftrightarrow$ ...

math-mode symbols

@unNaturhal What operating system are you using?

@NicolaTalbot Your original code is correct, except for a tiny confusion (I did that a lot in the past). :) File.pathSeparator isn't the path separator we are thinking, it's the separator between paths, that is, : in Linux and ; in Windows. What you need to use is File.separator separator instead, and your code should work like a charm. :)

@PauloCereda D'oh! Thanks!

(Thank goodness for version control!)

@NicolaTalbot Just replace the occurrence and hopefully jmakepdfx can have a new version. :)

Sorry for not noticing that before. :(

@NicolaTalbot Windows

@GonzaloMedina There is a chapter like this? :p

8:07 PM

@PauloCereda I should've noticed it. I've made that mistake before!

@NicolaTalbot Sorry, Windows 7, 64bit :)

@GonzaloMedina LOL

@unNaturhal In which case you've got a choice of proTeXt tug.org/protext or TeXLive (can't remember the link to that).

OK, here it is: mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip

One of another it's the same? :p

@unNaturhal TeXLive takes a lot longer to install, but you'll have everything. proTeXt (which is a bundled up MikTeX) is quicker to install but you won't have everything, but you can install missing packages on the fly.

8:12 PM

@NicolaTalbot So texlive is the choice :)

@unNaturhal I'd say so

It's enough that I install it, or there are other things to install apart?

@unNaturhal It's all you need. It comes with TeXworks (the editor).

(But, or course, if you want to, you can download and install another editor).

Ok I'm downloading this mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl.zip :)

@unNaturhal You don't have to read the whole book. You might want to start with the section on using TeXWorks dickimaw-books.com/latex/novices/html/texworks.html

8:17 PM

@unNaturhal Ah, I though you were downloading the .iso file; this is just the installer; you'll need to unpack it and run it to install everything.

@NicolaTalbot Okey :)

All you need is TeX,
All you need is TeX,
All you need is TeX, TeX
TeX is all you need.

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@GonzaloMedina Oh don't worry :) no matter the filetype, I think to can install it without problems :)

@PauloCereda Did you ever hear of a shipwreck that was off the coast of Rio for the most part of last century? I think it finally went under in the 1980s or 90s.

@NicolaTalbot I'm afraid I don't know any. :( I remember I saw a documentary about a ship named Bateau Mouche 4 which sank in the Guanabara bay in the end of 80s.

8:27 PM

@PauloCereda That might be it. If so, it was my great-grandfather's ship.

(Which is how come my mother was born in Brazil.)

@NicolaTalbot It was a tourism ship, so I don't think it might be it. I'll investigate another shipwrecks. :)

@NicolaTalbot You have a link to Brazil. :)

@PauloCereda It must have been a different one. He was a merchant captain.

@PauloCereda :-) My great-grandfather broke both his legs in the wreck, so he got a job in Rio and brought his family over. Apparently he started up a cricket team in Rio.

Actually, that smiley looks like I'm smiling about his broken legs, which seems terribly heartless!

@NicolaTalbot Oh. :(

@PauloCereda My grandfather wrote his autobiography of his life in Brazil from the 1920s up to the early 1960s when he retired and moved back to England.

@NicolaTalbot Can I ask his name? :)

Sorry for the curiosity.

8:39 PM

@PauloCereda Basil Coxwell.

He didn't get it published. I typeset it for my mum. I was experimenting with hand book binding, and thought I'd give it a go and bound it myself.

@NicolaTalbot: Do you remember the ship name?

@PauloCereda No, I'll have to ask my mum if she remembers.

@NicolaTalbot One ship that I found that seems to fit the description is Highland Scot.

16th May 1918.

Coming from England.

@PauloCereda That might be it. I know that both my grandfather and his father worked for the Royal Mail Shipping Line.

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8:54 PM

@PauloCereda Thanks for posting that :-)

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@NicolaTalbot This one is better (no watermark). :)

@PauloCereda Definitely.

Is there a preferred etiquette for asking someone to add a mwe?

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Q: Make the glossary title upper case in header

I'm using the report class with twoside parameter. I'm using fancyhdr to configure the headers/footer. I'm using the glossaries package to generate a glossary. The glossary is the only chapter in my document for which the title does not appear in upper case in the header. Here is how I print t...

glossaries fancyhdr report

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Q: Text building blocks

There are some replies that are used quite often. For example, the first reply to many questions is a demand for a minimal example. These replies should typically include a link with additional information. So I thought that it might be useful to collect some standard replies for quick copy&p...

discussion comments new-users big-list

@NicolaTalbot We have a list of "building blocks" to make it easy to put a comment on a question/answer that contains a link to more information. There's one for MWEs. The idea isn't that these are what you must use, they're there to make it easy to be polite - after you've asked 1000 times for someone to leave a MWE the temptation is to be a bit ... short with them.

We have a load of "information posts" on the meta site that are useful for linking to to explain why various things are done or are helpful. The building blocks contain links to most of them.

@NicolaTalbot: I think we really found the ship: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?146226 "Nelson was bought up by Royal Mail Steam Packet in 1913 but retained name and flag. [...]"

@AndrewStacey Thanks.

@PauloCereda I'm sure that must be it.

9:06 PM

@NicolaTalbot Me too.

@PauloCereda I'd try to practice my Portuguese, but it's limited to "Onde o banheiro", which isn't much use in a conversation.

@NicolaTalbot It's a start. :)

@PauloCereda Mind you, I tried it in Salvador and got directed to the Gents!

Which was somewhat embarrassing.

@NicolaTalbot Uh-oh. I stayed in Salvador for a week or so, but I didn't like the place at all.

@PauloCereda It wasn't nearly as bad as Manaus.

9:16 PM

@PeterGrill I think the following is enough to keep it enough to be confined in a group locally.

\tikzset{My Rectangle/.style={rectangle, draw=brown, fill=yellow, thick,
prefix after command= {\pgfextra{\tikzset{every label/.style={blue}}}}}}


\begin{tikzpicture}
    \node [rectangle,    label=black text] at (1,0) {$z$};
    \node [My Rectangle, label={blue text} ] at (3,0) {$z$};
    \node [rectangle, label={blue text} ] at (5,0) {$z$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

@MarcoDaniel :-)

@NicolaTalbot I've never been to Manaus. I think I'd melt there. :P

@PauloCereda I'm surprised I didn't. If you ever do go, don't stay in the hotel I stayed in! I've never heard such a racket as the air conditioning unit made during the night, but if I switched it off, it was too hot to sleep. We left Manaus in shorts and arrived in Iguaçu in the middle of a thunderstorm. It was nice to be cool again!

Ehm..

It's normal that tex live is istalling yet?

@unNaturhal How did the install go?

9:20 PM

@percusse Yep that works. You should post that as an answer. You can copy any useful part out of deleted answer.

@NicolaTalbot Very very slowing..

@unNaturhal 2 hours or so. A nice cup of coffee is recommended. :)

@NicolaTalbot Wow, from Manaus to Iguaçu? You travelled a lot. :)

@PeterGrill Oh come on. Just undelete yours I'm feeling lazy. Besides it's just one line.

:P

(also 5 votes are too many to be wasted)

Ok. :-) I thought I could get out of some work :-)

@PeterGrill Eheh, work those finger abs (?, off to google to find the name for those things)

9:24 PM

Actually, it's still only a partial solution, as it still requires you to use MyRectangle instead of just using rectangle. I'll see if I can adapt that to work without requiring a another style.

@percusse I can't find Peter Grill's post you refer to, but this is exactly the answer to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78689/…

@PauloCereda Yes, I went with one of my brothers to visit family (in 1991, I think). We stayed a month, mostly with relatives and friends of the family, but we thought we may as well see the Amazon and Iguaçu while we were there. Actually we stopped off in Brasilia for a couple of hours en route, so it wasn't a direct journey from Manaus.

Or it is how I would've done it, had I known of prefix after command and the like.

@PauloCereda Oh my god :S

@NicolaTalbot Ah how nice! :) I've never been to Brasília, but I've heard good references. You are invited to visit the countryside region of São Paulo. :)

9:26 PM

I have to go to sleep xD

@PeterGrill Aha! he wants the rectangles? Well, first I wouldn't do that because rectangle is not a style but anyways :) everybody is allowed to shoot themselves in the foot.

@percusse No, that's just me. The OP did not specify a rectangle, I just used that as an example.

@Qrrbrbirlbel I can still see the deleted answers. That's why I mentioned it

@unNaturhal Actually, the installer can tell you. :)

@PauloCereda What do you mean?

9:28 PM

@PauloCereda Thanks! Likewise if you ever want to come to Norfolk.

@PeterGrill So if there is a style name, then you just add the prefix to the existing style without touching anything else. Am I getting it wrong?

@percusse So, why is it deleted?

@percusse Yeah I think that would work, just got to try it.

@unNaturhal The progress bar tells you something like [10:00/2:00:00]. The first clock tells you how many time has passed, and the second time tells you the total time of the install. When clock 1 = clock 2, success. :)

@Qrrbrbirlbel Because Peter is a perfectionist (meaning he deleted his own answer)

9:29 PM

@Qrrbrbirlbel I had deleted it, and cleaning it up.

But yous answer is still useful.

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@NicolaTalbot: My city. :)

@PeterGrill What does not work with your answer? When I use it with my examples, it works.

@PauloCereda I can't see clocks, but it's near to the half..

@PauloCereda I like that :-)

@unNaturhal Not a clock, but a time markup, in the form [xx:xx/yy:yy]. :)

9:31 PM

@PeterGrill Well, all my “does not work”s are a silly compared to your answer :\

Is this any use: tex.stackexchange.com/q/49096/86 (@PeterGrill etc)

@PauloCereda I can see only the progressbar..

@unNaturhal oops, I don't know then.

3 days to typeset the circuit diagram, 3 minutes to build it. Sounds about right for a theoretician.

@AndrewStacey LOL

9:33 PM

I'm going to head off to bed before I fall asleep on the keyboard. Thanks for the help with jmakepdfx :-)

@PauloCereda The installer in Windows only shows a progress bar, I think.

@AndrewStacey Yep, looked thru that but was not able to make it work with percusse's help.

@PauloCereda Wow, that's nice.

@NicolaTalbot My pleasure. :) Thanks for joining our chatroom, we hope to see you here everyday from now on. :) Have a good night. :)

@GonzaloMedina Oh I didn't know about that. :)

@PeterGrill Nature at its best. :)

@PauloCereda Yep.. Almost a nice as Yosemite. Hey, how do you include an image in chat?

@PeterGrill Button "upload..."?

9:37 PM

Actually better to just go to yosemitepark.com. The main page is all you need.

@PeterGrill You can paste the image link in a line of its own (like we usually do with questions or answers), or use the upload button to upload a image to imgur.com; the image is automatically displayed.

@AndrewStacey hahahaha

@AndrewStacey Yeah but without the careful typesetting it would have take a lot longer, might even have taken up to 10 minutes!!

@PeterGrill Wow, it's so beautiful!

@PeterGrill Last year I did the Route 1 with my girlfriend. It was indeed wonderful . Big Sur is also really nice.

9:39 PM

@PauloCereda It really the only place I have ever been to where I can just relax (not quite the right word, but hope you know what I mean).

@percusse Next time you are out here, let me know -- Well, at least SF area -- LA is quite far.

@PeterGrill Such places are wonderful.

@PeterGrill Sure. I got a bunch of friends there in Palo Alto. I'll visit them again so I'll drop by to ask a few LaTeX3 stuff :)

@percusse You can't ask me any LaTeX3 -- I have not yet dived into that..

Be back later... Gotta go for now...

@PeterGrill :) Later

"Beware of the gigantic volcano in Yellowstone that's gonna explode everything and kill everybody..." - I hate when National Geographic tries to scare me.

9:44 PM

@PauloCereda :) Actually there is a typo there, Yellowstone IS the volcano.

@percusse It is?! o.O

Oh no!!!!

Thanks to Bill Bryson I'm filled with huge amount of useless information

@percusse LOL

@PauloCereda I recommend it

amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything-Illustrated/dp/…

@percusse Cool! And it's already translated to Portuguese. :)

9:50 PM

@PauloCereda Indeed it --- + was + --- is an international success. Especially this illustrated edition.

hmm doesn't work in chat

Master @Brent.Longborough is indeed the master :)

@percusse (hint --- + word + ---)

aaarrggh

why am I so stupid?

@percusse No +, only the three - in both sides. :)

ok I'll leave it as a proof of my stupidity.

Together with the word. :)

@percusse noooooo! try ---hi---.

9:52 PM

~~Too late~~

:)

Yay!

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