@PeterGrill I don't think silence can do anything for xparse and LaTeX3 packages in general: they use a completely different method for warnings from LaTeX2e.
@PeterGrill well I could do with 200 to catch up Jake and Joseph, so I was wondering if I should do another marginpar something and steal your points. Trouble is it's not obvious how to do something better:(
@DavidCarlisle Well I don't think I am going to get the bounty for that unless the OP specifically does that. I think that since my answer was before the bounty it won't be given the bounty by default.
@DavidCarlisle Another one of those things I learned the hard way when I tried to award a bounty and I think it disappeared, or perhaps it was one I thought I would get the bounty -- can;t recall...
@percusse (Coming late to this discussion, I know) This is where it's very important that the comment be written carefully. I think the "possible duplicate" text on the "Text Building Blocks" is good as it signals both to the OP and to the rest of the community that there is a window of opportunity for the OP to see if they can make the duplicate work for them.
I'll often leave that comment without voting to close as a duplicate when I suspect that it is but want to be sure that the OP can use the suggestion before actually closing.
The Community Promotion Ads - 2013 question has recently appeared on meta. In a comment there, tohecz points out that the stats for the 2012 ads show that older ads get far fewer clicks than newer ones. This raises the question of how many ads to reuse, and more generally what makes a good ad. Th...
@lockstep ... which I totally second. I just got my first bronze tag badge as badge no. 60 or so. If the badge colors mean anything, this goes to show the tag badges are too difficult to attain (as I mainly answer questions).
I'm having a break, so I can chime in. Not only the font is unacceptable, but the station celebrates a dreadful event for us: a consequence of the Campoformio treaty was that Veneto (until then Republic of Venice) passed under Austrian domination. :(
Hi all Is there anything wrong with the main site? I was trying to put my answer to one question and before I could completely upload the site says we are offline!
@egreg The site hanged before I could put that option too. Trying again! And same thing even for comments an error occured Errrrrr.
@StephanLehmke ah leaders the whole box, ooooh yes (multiple writes whatsits is OK in fact in the example there were two one from the label and one from the caption but leaders would be better
@AndrewStacey I'm trying to keep consistent too but though we have a coherent etiquette it's not always easy to not to forget about them. And sometimes you just don't think what you are commenting on. So I agree but I also fail occasionally. Having said that some users are not willing to cooperate and have this strange attitude of fake coolness and I'm trying hard to understand the root of the problem for such behavior.
Looking for help with attitude doesn't compute for me
@percusse What I meant was that if those of us who are aware of the problem are careful to leave a comment then those who aren't aware of this sites peculiarities might (eventually) get the idea. We need to be aggressively nice - it isn't enough to be passively agreeable.
Trying to find a better way to put the black dot in the figure of the question Separating edges starting from same node I tried adding the dot as a marking decoration in the path.
However, marking decorations destroy the path, so the manual recommends to use postaction={decorate} to ensure that ...
@percusse @AndrewStacey I'm not quite sure if this fits into your current conversation, but for example for this question here (tex.stackexchange.com/q/86529/11984) I fail to understand why the OP is aggressive towards me and/or if I should mention something about it in the comments
@JLDiaz Reading the manual about postactions again, it makes sense. When the path has been completely constructed and is about to be used, a scope is created. Inside this scope, the path is used but not with the original path options. I don't even understand it well but but it works. And the markings examples in the manual all use postaction.
Well, I cannot reproduce my original problem, but since, after all, everything is now working as described in the manual, the question has no sense. I'll delete it
@hpesoj626 Never mind, I got my rep cap anyway :-)
@StephanLehmke TeX ignores \write, \openout, and \closeout whatsits that appear within boxes governed by leaders. If you are upset about this, you shouldn't be. (D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, 1983)
@egreg No I was delighted. It was one of the nicer obfuscations behind TeXPower (if I only could have found an equally elegant solution to avoid unbalancing the colour stack ;-)
@Jörg Looks to me like a "Take a deep breath and step away from the computer" situation. I think the questioner was getting extremely frustrated by the situation they'd gotten into and was taking it out (probably unconciously) on you. This is where you need to be aggressively nice!
@PauloCereda given that last time they went on the thames, the d of e spent a week in hospital recovering, I suspect they are not in any hurry (was the jubilee 60 years on the throne)
@DavidCarlisle Well switching to \nullfont doesn't seem to produce any glyphs in the PDF... (or I'm doing something wrong). Should {\nullfont abc} paste to abc?
@StephanLehmke Ah, reverse logic again. You wrote "All else fails => Read the documentation" but you meant to say "Read the documentation => All else fails"
@AndrewStacey Don't confuse that question with the linked one. The other question asked "How can I get a LaTeX document from a PDF", but I understand the one I answered as "how can I make PDF paste back as LaTeX", which is a different matter.
@StephanLehmke I think that the asked question is ambiguous, yes there is an example generated from LaTeX but I suspect that it is simply an example. And the fact that it is ambiguous makes me suspect that the questioner is asking the other question: given any PDF, can I get LaTeX code to generate it.
@StephanLehmke Yes. And if you're wrong, I recommend that you ask-and-answer your own question to add this answer. I think that folks searching for what you've done would find it easier to know what you've done with a more specific question.
(And, in case it's not clear, I'm pretty impressed by what you've done.)
@Gnintendo There's a -repository flag. The default is the CTAN mirror.
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If you want to override that, the location value can be a url starting with ftp:, http:, or file:/, or a plain directory path. (When giving an http: or ftp: location, trailing ‘/’ characters and/or a trailing ‘/tlpkg’ component are ignored.)
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@tohecz Never tried thinking to it. Maybe it's possible to know the total upvotes with some magic query to the database. But Jon Skeet would be at 10M or so.
@tohecz I'm not questioning the likely downvoter, but rather saying that some people will do this 'on behalf of a wronged third party', even if said third party would not like it!
@JosephWright ok, well I generally don't care about rep, I just say it's a bit annoying, and I'm glad that @Paulo and @egreg are happily having fun of it :D
@JosephWright I'm creating a new data-structure (a graph). I'm trying to follow convention here. I see sequences and such have _new functions that return a variable. But variables are (I believe) not really explained in the docs. I know there are specific argument specifiers for variables, but what makes something a variable and how do I make one?
@JosephWright Are variables just 'macros' with a value? I assumed they would be more structured somehow so they interact well with functions.
@mhelvens TeX does not really 'do' variables, so it's largely a convention thing. At the TeX level, tl, clist, seq and prop are macros, int, skip, dim and muskip are registers
@JosephWright Is there anything I need to do to make them 'follow the rules'. (I don't know, how much the need to be expanded, etc.) To make them interact properly with the v argument specifier?
@JosephWright Many (all?) programming languages have variables that can hold complex data-structures. Certainly mathematical sequences are sometimes considered values. I suggest you document the intended purpose of v and V a bit more clearly. The current description suggests a much wider scope.
@JosephWright Or at least use consistent terminology. The 'complex datastructure' modules say they can create 'variables'. v says it can pass variables as arguments. It's not a stretch to come to a mistaken conclusion.
@mhelvens Well, at a technical level it can. That could be used by the team, but we don't do it as it's not a great idea to expose the 'internals' of a variable type. I'll look to update the docs.
@JosephWright All depends on your definitions, right? But for a mathematician it can be anything. Certainly property-lists can be mathematically represented as functions, which are considered values. Also in functional programming languages.
@JosephWright If I wanted to create a 'struct' (C terminology) as the root of my new data-type, what would you use? @percusse seems to be suggesting l3keys, but might l3prop not be more suitable? The former seems to be concerned mostly with the user-interface, whereas the latter seems more 'internal representation'y.
@mhelvens Don't know C, but the keys module is really about more interface-level things, and so does not pack everything into one csname. If the prop module works, use that, but if not then the tl module would make sense.
@DavidCarlisle: Wow, and you also did xspace!! I guess I must have missed that when I looked at your list of packages... No wonder I can't keep up with you. :-)
Have a question: Any particular cygwin I should install?? Seems that using ls, grep, and sort in LaTeX is so much faster than using datatool so with this I should be able to be able run on a PC as well.
@PeterGrill you can get individual unix tools like grep etc for windows but cygwin is just a big massive blob of posix emulation. i use it for everything.
@PeterGrill well you have a choice, you can just use windows tex or cygwin comes with a cygwin-compiled tl2012, not cygwin binaries are not windows exe files they are specific unix-like applications that only run over th ecygwin layer
@PeterGrill well the main think you have to juggle if mixing native windows and linux binaries is paths cygwin has it's own virtual filesystem with it's own root so what cygwin apps see as /usr/local/texlive will appear to a windows app as c:\cygwin\usr\local\texlive
@PeterGrill well no, as I say you can use a windows tex and arrange the paths to use cygwin grep etc, or you can install a full cygwin texlive
I only need cygwin for TeX on Windows for comparability. So it seems that using the cygwin with the specific precomputed TL2012 would be the least amount of trouble in running on both platforms.
@PeterGrill well I haven't used it as I always have cygwin (and you don't want both) but some projects at work use it as it is much easier to use mingw tools to compile "normal" windows executables, if you build with cygwin you end up with dependencies on the cygwin runtime unless you are very careful
@PeterGrill no don't think so, you just add the folder with the mingw executables into your system path and then you have grep etc available on the windows commandline, but as I say this is second hand info, I' a cygwin devotee:-)
@PeterGrill Well, I guess that California wine is better than American beer. Once I asked in a Iowa drinking place if they had a good American beer. "Guinness", replied the waiter.
@egreg :-) Yeah Guinness is a great american beer. :-) Just like the great american system of measuring distances in miles, and temperature in Fahrenheit...
@PeterGrill I have never tasted a beer worse than Bud. Temperatures in Fahrenheit have the merit that it's more difficult to go below 0 (by the way, we're at -1, now). Converting miles in yards and vice versa must be a nightmare for young schoolers.
@egreg actually you more or less never convert miles to yards even as school tests, they just get used at different scales, just as you don't often convert metres to light years. Actually (in the UK, probably not the US) the problem is that young (and not so young) children only get taught the metric system at school, but all social conversation (and road signs) are in imperial units
@egreg well (apart from road signs) that's basically what they did it's illegal to sell loose fruit and vegetables etc in imperial units, but that doesn't stop people still asking for a pound of carrots:-) petrol has been sold in litres for 30 years or so but car efficiency is still given as miles per gallon
@egreg My problem with having a different system for measurements is that it just adds more complexity to the world without any added benefit. I know someone who worked at Lockheed Martin and the exact reason as to why one of the Mars probes just crashed into the ground was that Lockeed in Sunnyvale and JPL in Pasadena were working together and yet one was using imperial units and the other was using metric -- problem was never noticed until they went to figure out what went wrong...
So this person teaches Math and if you get the correct numerical answer and don't put units you get 9/15. And he cites this reason as to why units are important. :-)
@PeterGrill my math(s) teacher would always add "furlongs per fortnight" as the unit if you missed it off (and then mark the question wrong) after a while you learned not to omit the units (well except when we missed them on purpose:-)
@egreg Oh, and there was a similar incident in Canada, shortly after the switch to metric where the amount of fuel added was not enough. So, in mid air they ran out of fuel.. Luckily: 1. This was one of the few large passenger planes that could glide for a short distance, 2. The pilot happened to know of an abandoned air field coming up, so they were able to land safely...
@egreg :-) Reminds me of: Why do the French have a different word for everything? Instead of "hat" they use "chapeau". Isn't is easier just to use "hat"? :-)
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