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12:02 AM

@Speravir Yet noticed several times by other users. Alas, the old avatars are not saved. Cf. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4308077#4308077 and chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4396623#4396623 and chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5239088#5239088

Do you still know his chinese variant of “garbage collector”?

Torbjørn T.

Oct 18 at 14:58, by Jasper Loy

@ガベージコレクタ I still recognize you even though you changed your name Garbage Collector!

Speravir

@TorbjørnT. Ha, nice catch!

Torbjørn T.

@Speravir Just searched the chat for garbage, it was quite high in the list of results.

Speravir

@TorbjørnT. Oh, this I didn’t try! Searching only for the older nicks.

user19161

4:09 AM

@Speravir That is not Chinese but Japanese man!

Speravir

@JasperLoy Oops, sorry! And thanks, Jasper or what ever else ;-), for the hint!

user19161

@Speravir Anyway, can you actually distinguish between Chinese and Japanese characters?

Speravir

@JasperLoy Nope!

user19161

Many of them are very similar, but if the passage is long enough, one can tell the difference.

user19161

But Korean is more different, so that one should be easier.

Speravir

4:16 AM

@JasperLoy I’m not familiar with these, but I remember, I’ve seen some texts, where I guessed right.

Bye for now.

codebeard

4:46 AM

@DavidCarlisle correct, that is me. We were hoping to have finished the first version by October but I had some health problems.

@JasperLoy actually, Japanese and Chinese share a section of the unicode plane, so individual characters cannot always be distinguished. The main difference is that Japanese uses another set of characters for its grammar, Hiragana, which are easily identified by being only a few strokes with a lot of curvature. Those characters are used to “glue” words together in Japanese sentences

@Speravir oops, that msg was for you I think

Stephan Lehmke

5:07 AM

@Speravir When I don't know a word, I always look it up at dict.cc/?s=revamp

Stephan Lehmke

6:57 AM

Is there any clear sign a macro expansion text in a log file has ended?

\size@update ->\baselineskip \f@baselineskip \relax \baselineskip \f@linespread
\baselineskip \normalbaselineskip \baselineskip \setbox \strutbox \hbox {\vrul
e \@height .7\baselineskip \@depth .3\baselineskip \@width \z@ }\let \size@upda
te \relax
{\baselineskip}

In the above example, I'd like to read the text from \size@update -> until \relax.

Also, will TeX ever output more than two lines in a situation like this?

{into \box23=
\vbox(548.5+0.0)x390.0, glue set 505.11273fil []}

\showboxxy doesn't seem to influence it.

user19161

7:34 AM

@StephanLehmke Your photo is one of the most handsome ones on TeX, Stephan!

user19161

@Speravir Nah, such things should not be done for user privacy. Anyway, I think it is a she and not a he, but that is just a guess.

Werner

!!/ texdef \@chapter

user19161

@Werner This problem is SE wide. People write part of the question in the title and part in the body. But actually, the body should be self contained and the title a concise yet descriptive summary of it.

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