TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2012-03-17 (page 2 of 2)

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Joseph Wright

7:00 PM

@egreg Yup

egreg

@JosephWright By the way, Italy beat Scotland in the game with the egg-shaped ball.

Joseph Wright

@egreg Yes, I heard that

Paulo Cereda

I have no idea how to play cricket. Is it similar to the backyard cricket? That one I know how to play - kind of. :)

egreg

@JosephWright And Brent will surely be happy, today. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Explaining cricket is always fun. For people from say the US, it's okay as they understand baseball. But for people from places without the 'two teams doing different things' idea getting the concept is hard

Paulo Cereda

7:06 PM

@JosephWright haha I see. :P Even now I get confused when watching rugby or football on TV. :P

Paulo Cereda

7:17 PM

I'll organize a TeX soccer game when TUG will be hosted here. :)

Brent.Longborough

@egreg Yep, the Catholics beat the Protestants (approximately) (:-))

Hail and farewell, I'm busy setting up a new laptop. TeXLive plus 48 other bits and bobs to install. Sigh

Paulo Cereda

@BrentLongborough It took me ages to install and update TeXLive in my netbook. :P

Joseph Wright

@BrentLongborough I assume you got the DVD?

Brent.Longborough

@JosephWright Yes, thank you, Joseph. Now for a tongue-in-cheek dig: I assume you got the email thanking you for the DVD? ROTFL

Joseph Wright

@BrentLongborough :-)

Brent.Longborough

7:30 PM

@PauloCereda Yes, in my case it was the install, then overwrote everything from my master install on the desktop.

Anyone know if I have to run TeXLive Manager as admin in order to get the file extension associations set up (Windows 7)?

Paulo Cereda

@BrentLongborough I don't think it's necessary. :)

@JosephWright: UK TUG is still in my ToDo list. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda :-)

Brent.Longborough

Oh, grump. It doesn't seem to have worked here. I double-click on a TeX file and windows asks me what I want to do with it. I might try it as admin when the backup's finished

Paulo Cereda

@BrentLongborough Odd. TeXworks should be automatically associated with tex files.

Game time!

Brent.Longborough

@FaheemMitha (On TeX users as civilised): I take it you mean plain TeX. LaTeX users sometimes get a bit hot under the collar with things like tufte-latex.

And then there's LaTeX's equivalent of the Schleswig-Holstein question: memoir or komascript. There, I've even caused a furore by not writing them in alphabetical order...

@PauloCereda That's worth a quote from Shakespeare: « So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long... » -- King Richard III (III, i, 79)

Faheem Mitha

8:00 PM

@BrentLongborough : No, it was a general comment. Eg. the denizens of tex.sx.

Incidentally, I have no idea what tufte-latex is.

Hmm, LaTeX classes for producing handouts and books according to the style of Edward R. Tufte and Richard Feynman.

Didn't know Feyman has a style.

What's controversial about tufte-latex?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg: goal! :)

@BrentLongborough Ah. :)

@StefanKottwitz: Thanks for the mention in the main page, but it's not necessary. I'm really happy to help a friend. :)

Brent.Longborough

@FaheemMitha Nothing really, it's just that I find it ugly.

Stefan Kottwitz

@PauloCereda I think it's necessary :)

@PauloCereda What will we make tomorrow?

Paulo Cereda

@StefanKottwitz I have no idea. Maybe trying to take over the world? :)

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Stefan Kottwitz

@PauloCereda Sure! As we did today.

I was tempted to provide texgrep texblog.net/latex-archive/linux/shell-scripts-linux-unix on the server, but it would make the server vulnerable for dos attacks

if it cannot be limited - perhaps it may be

Paulo Cereda

8:17 PM

@StefanKottwitz Ah it's dangerous. :(

@egreg: goal! :)

Stefan Kottwitz

nice thought though - a text field and a search resulting in all tex distri files containing the string

perhaps we need it to pre-index and provide a database ;)

Paulo Cereda

Good idea. :) (oops wrong emoticon)

Stefan Kottwitz

I would understand the wrong one ;)

Paulo Cereda

haha <3

Stefan Kottwitz

8:33 PM

@PauloCereda I sent you something, hope you smile when you see it :-D

egreg

@PauloCereda A good game, until now. :)

Paulo Cereda

@StefanKottwitz I'm curious to see! I'm refreshing the email like crazy. :)

@egreg Indeed. What was Cerci thinking? He got a red card. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@PauloCereda Thunderbird stalled at 96% - process killed, restarted, retyped :D and resent

Paulo Cereda

@StefanKottwitz Replied. :)

Paulo Cereda

9:11 PM

@egreg: goal! (I'm late!)

@egreg: Goal!

@egreg: Yay, another goal! :P

Paulo Cereda

9:39 PM

@egreg: great game!

And Palmeiras 2:0 Ponte Preta now. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda Too much of a good thing … :)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Vučinić was the best player today.

egreg

@PauloCereda You're forgetting Pirlo.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Ah Pirlo played very well too. :)

@egreg: During the broadcast, one of the narrators said, "Vučinić should go back to Rome". In the end of the game, he said, "As I was saying, Borriello should go back to Rome". :)

OH MY, I'M LATE FOR THE MASS! :-|

Stefan Kottwitz

10:10 PM

hurry!

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Alan Munn

11:11 PM

@GonzaloMedina Hey, you're poaching my qtree questions. :)

J G

11:24 PM

@AlanMunn. Hi. Random question: Do you use poisson regressions?

Alan Munn

@JG Hi, No. Sorry.

J G

@AlanMunn. It is ok, thanks. How are you doing?

Alan Munn

@JG Fine, how are you?

J G

@AlanMunn. Plugging away.

Alan Munn

@JG Good.

Gonzalo Medina

11:42 PM

@AlanMunn Won't do it again ;-)

Can someone with 16 rep. edit his/her original question?

Alan Munn

@GonzaloMedina I think so. I don't see anything in the privileges that would disallow it. But sometimes if your account isn't registered, it can be a problem.

Gonzalo Medina

@AlanMunn Then the qtree question will probably have a continuation.

Alan Munn

@GonzaloMedina And I can swoop in to the rescue? ;-) You seem to be doing fine on your own, however.

Gonzalo Medina

@AlanMunn Whether or not I will keep doing fine will depend on the new information that the OP was requested to add to his original question. If I need help, I'll let you know ;-) And of course, you can swoop in anytime.

Alan Munn

@GonzaloMedina I'm inclined to add a tikz-qtree answer, but I'll wait until the OP posts his example.