Thanks to both of you for the help. This is the problem with TikZ: there always seems to be 100 different ways to do the same thing. Not to mention little details like adding [yshift=...] inside a coordinate, which I never knew about.
@GarbageCollector You might try asking this as a question on Meta. The original logo was decided there and more people who might know read it. @@Jin (tex.stackexchange.com/users/3/jin) should have the logo for sure, and he does read meta sometimes (probably depending on the tags).
@PauloCereda Up to a degree this is true, but a good theoretical beckground helps a lot. You tend to think first about problem complexity and abstraced concepts for data and algorithms. Actually implementing the stuff is then like working with a blueprint.
@PauloCereda I wasn't thinking so much about actually writing down a complete mathematical model on paper. But even in everyday programming you usually first think the problem at hand through on the abstract level, then write down the code.
@JosephWright /blushes thanks for suggesting me. :) I think we have some members that really deserve the indication, and I'd be glad to not nominate myself in favour of a greater good, that is, our community. :)
@egreg One eye on the TV, and the other on the chat. :)
@JosephWright: speaking of TUG, as soon as I finish the manual for v3, I'll try to write an article about arara for the TUGBoat and Ars TeXnica (Karl also suggested me to write an article about my songbook project). Perhaps one for Baskerville too?
@JosephWright yes the one time I was "guest editor" I had to write half the articles under my name and ghost write the other articles in order to get enough content to make an issue:(
@JosephWright: how about pinging the current users to see if they want to keep their membership? I think they should have priority of claiming the slots. :)
@PauloCereda I suspect most of them have already seen it (certainly @StefanKottwitz and @Caramdir have!)
To be on the safe side @MartinScharrer, @lockstep, @topskip, @AndrewStacey, @AlanMunn, @ℝaphink: the call for sponsored TUG members for 2013 is open (meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2906/…), so don't forget to add you name if you want to continue as one of our 'representatives'
@PauloCereda Please nominate now. I'll certainly vote for you. The basic idea of the "election" is that not you get to decide who will get a subscription, but "the community". :-)
@JosephWright That's the point. So anybody who knows he'd have chances to be "elected" but doesn't nominate, is in some sense taking "democracy" in their own hands... ;-)
What is worth noting is that we do want a 'full house' of eight takers. StackExchange are paying $500 for the privilege of being an institutional member, so it's important that full advantage is taken.
@JosephWright Re mod tools: why if I start in the "Review" tab I get notification of 0 questions with closing votes, while one pops out in the "Tools" tab?
Hi Joseph. Whenver I try typing the symbol @ in a comment to refer to someone, e.g., "@Joseph", it disappears once I click on "Add comment". Am I doing something wrong?
@NunoNunes Ah don't worry. :) You are doing absolutely right. The problem relies on the SE framework, which removes the person's name when you are the only one in the conversation. If one more person enters the comment party, the @ reference is now allowed once again. :)
@AlanMunn Thanks, Alan. I might write a nomination, but as I mentioned to Joseph, I would be glad to not nominate myself in favour of our community. :)
@AlanMunn The question of RTL typesetting has come up on the LaTeX3 (internal) list. We could do with someone who's willing to give us some thoughts on what is needed on a practical level.
@JosephWright Although possibly not the easiest person to deal with, but Vafa Khalighi would be a good person to contact, since he is the author of bidi. Asking on the XeTeX mailing list would also be a good place to start, since many XeTeX users are also RTL language users.
@AlanMunn Vafa occurred to me, but I'm not sure of his position as he's moved bidi to XeTeX-only and moved on to LuaTeX-only code but commercially
@AlanMunn One issue is the pdfTeX/XeTeX/LuaTeX differences, another is what the different traditions are (for example, are numbers RTL in some languages, and what does that actually mean!)
@JosephWright I think the numbering issue mainly comes up in things like section numbers, which are commonly set RTL (depending on the language) on the premise that they are not actually numbers, but stand for some linguistic object like "Section 1 subsection 2.". Even in Arabic, real numbers are set LTR I think.
@JosephWright Right. And with respect to Arabic numerals glyphs, from what I know they are still written LTR. But there's always a possibility that for some historical texts the direction was RTL.
Why Arabic numbers are written "LTR" instead that "RTL"? This has to do with the Arabic language: I'm told that they read numbers starting from units, then tens, then hundreds and so on. The Indians instead used the same as in Latin, starting from the highest order (a common characteristic in Indoeuropean languages). So the Arabs wrote the numbers just like the Indians did. When Fibonacci introduced the Indic figures in the West, he used the same order as the Arabs from whom he learnt them.
@egreg Yes, I think that's right, basically the numbers are composed using conjunctions and starting from the units. So 25 is roughly "five and twenty" etc.
@AlanMunn I experimented with a student who came from Morocco. They study French in school since first grade and of course learn to write numbers with different digits. I asked her to write something with a number first in Italian, then in Arabic. She wasn't even aware of the strange fact that, apart from the form of the digits, the numbers were the same.
@JosephWright @egreg Also there are lots of languages that are written with the Arabic script that have nothing to do with Arabic linguistically: Persian, Malay, Urdu, Pashto etc. so their numeral syntax is likely not like Arabic's.
@egreg In writing, probably, but not because it matches the syntax, then.
@JosephWright Another person to contact might be Mike Maxwell casl.umd.edu/michael-maxwell who does a lot of multilingual typesetting in tons of languages and scripts using XeTeX.
@kan What we do in ours (in Italian) is based on that book: the rank is the dimension of the column space; with the help of Gauss elimination it can be computed from the echelon form. And from this, the fact that a matrix and its transpose have the same rank is quite easy.
@egreg OK, hopefully, the same treatment will carry over to rings with unity, except, that, we might have to redefine pivot so as to allow any non-zero element?
@kan You find something about that in Jacobson's "Basic Algebra I" (it was my textbook in my first year): he basically proves the theorem on invariants of finitely generated modules over a PID with the elimination.
@JosephWright Arabs have less problems in doing additions and multiplications in columns: they don't need to leave padding space on the left, as we do.
I'm curious about the factors that influence voting.
One of my motivations is the number of '0-score' answers there are. Indeed, even @egreg has one page of '0-score' answers- I find this really interesting.
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I took a look at stackexchange.com/sites, and found that based on questions asked per day, we are sixth across the whole network. Why was I looking? I was thinking about reverse elections, and wanted to see how many mods other sites have. All those 'above' us on questions-per-day have many more mods than us.
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If you look based on traffic, we are a bit lower down, but only one site 'above' us has three mods (Android).
@JosephWright Thanks for the mention. I must say I haven't been active at all as a TUG member, by lack of time to invest in conferences etc., so I think someone else would probably be a better fit for it.
If it's fine that I'm only posting on the blog once in the while and participating here (and talking about LaTeX when people want me to use Open/Libre/MSOffice), then I'm happy to keep receiving TUGBoat ;-)
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I'm curious about the factors that influence voting.
One of my motivations is the number of '0-score' answers there are. Indeed, even @egreg has one page of '0-score' answers- I find this really interesting.
I've been an active member on the site for over a year- I love the community that we ...
