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12:15 AM

@percusse You're probably referring to Jon Skeet.

@percusse I think we have some very enthusiastic voters here. Perhaps even one in particular. :-) One thing that is also clear is that none of the SE people are willing to discuss the specifics of the case, even with our own mods.

@AlanMunn I understand the need to keep the details of their algorithm secret, but I don't like that distrust towards our mods.

@GonzaloMedina Right. I agree. And they steadfastly didn't even respond to my request for them to do so, which is a typical strategic move, but very annoying. (I have a Dean like that.)

@percusse Nobody else has lost any votes here, only egreg.

Yay, my first comp.text.tex message!

My guess is that since egreg posts so many answers, enthusiastic voters who bookmark answers for later (since they use up their daily vote limit) can easily trigger the fraud algorithm when they go through their backlog.

12:30 AM

@AlanMunn Brooklyn accent You talkin' to me? :P (Munn, 2012)

@PauloCereda :-) enthusiasm is your middle name.

@AlanMunn Yay! I drink too much coffee. :)

Kannappan Sampath

Will someone tell me if the packages, enumitem and enumerate clash with each other?

BTW guys, I lost upvotes. :( About 300.

Not rep, but upvotes.

Kannappan Sampath

@PauloCereda That's sad. Is that because you capped, or this is case of egreg's kind?

12:34 AM

@KannappanSampath It's entirely likely, since they both mess with lists. enumitem can emulate enumerate's syntax though, so if you have legacy lists, you can probably just use enumitem.

@AlanMunn What I meant is that if the points gets nullified I think the # of upvote gets down I guess.

@PauloCereda Yep, that's what I wanted to say to @AlanMunn

I can see that you were way ahead of me now I have more upvotes than you.

@KannappanSampath Unfortunately I guess my voting profile was classified as "serial voting", so SE removed a bunch of them. :)

@PauloCereda Confess to really being a voting bot! ;-)

Kannappan Sampath

@AlanMunn For instance, enumitem gets angry with me when I said, \begin{enumerate}[(a)]....

By the way we are voting like crazy wow :) I think I need to take a break from TeX.SX this is getting dangerous :)

12:37 AM

@percusse I'm gonna vote all over again. :D

@PauloCereda Somehow I knew it ;p

@GonzaloMedina (Oh no, they discovered the truth! What do I do?! Act casual) Hm I'm a human... I guess. :P

Kannappan Sampath

@PauloCereda This is what I call a case of egreg's kind after several misclassifications that led to egreg losing rep. : )

I'm probably more close to a baked potato, but I'm mostly human.

@KannappanSampath load enumitem like this: \usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}

12:38 AM

@KannappanSampath :)

@PauloCereda You mean temporally or spatially ?

:)

@percusse Certainly temporally. :P

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Still, the compiler shouts at me. : (

are you loading enumerate and enumitem at the same time?

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Yes.

12:41 AM

@KannappanSampath Only load enumitem (using the shortlabels option).

Kannappan Sampath

I removed the enumerate still to see the same errors. :/

Try this simple test code: \documentclass{article}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item test
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Do you still get errors?

Puhahaha @lockstep is the Santa. He is worth 120000 StackExchange \tokens according to his vote number.

We should all fav' egreg's question in meta, so SE will see we are interested in the answer. /evil

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@percusse Oh my! :D

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina No. Now it is fine. This short one shows no error.

12:45 AM

@KannappanSampath Then there's something else going on in your document and I am afraid that without a MWE, it's really hard to guess where the problem might be.

Please reduce your document to a MWE reproducing the problem.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Shall I give you a link to my TeX file? Will you look at it?

@KannappanSampath If it is a reduced version, then yes.

@KannappanSampath When your computer gets angry, what does it shout?

Kannappan Sampath

@AlanMunn It shouts in 0's and 1's. : )

It's a loud red noise that your eyes will have a tough time with.

@KannappanSampath Is it really 101s? maybe it's lolling you :)

Kannappan Sampath

12:49 AM

Well, yes, let me see why it gets angry now.

@KannappanSampath It's dinner time, so I will be out for half an hour.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina So, I'll wait till then, if I don't figure out why. If I did I'll drop in a message here. Have a delicious meal. : )

@KannappanSampath I meant what error do you get?

Kannappan Sampath

@AlanMunn It says, I missed some $ or } and all that.

But, this happens only after I loaded enumitem package and happens exactly at the first instance of \begin{enumerate}[(a)].

Hmph, I cannot reduce this to a MWE. :/

@KannappanSampath You're using an interface that is provided by the enumerate package, not enumitem.

You need to use \begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)].

Their interfaces differ.

Kannappan Sampath

12:59 AM

@Werner I am not sure, but what I was suggested to do was to load enumitem as \usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem} and this worked well in a MWE.

@Werner Yes, but enumitem can emulate enumerate labels.

@KannappanSampath This is true, but if it's not too much trouble, maybe you could just switch to the proper enumitem syntax and @Werner suggests. (Although I suspect that's not the source of your error.)

Kannappan Sampath

I think I now have a minimal non-working example, shall I link it here?

@AlanMunn

@Werner the shortlabels package option lets you use enumerate-like labels with enumitem.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Finished your dinner so quickly?

@KannappanSampath Sure. I will smoke my after-dinner cigarette and will be back in 7 min.

Kannappan Sampath

1:13 AM

@GonzaloMedina Yeah, I will wait. : )

@KannappanSampath We usually have a light dinner.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina I see. : )

@KannappanSampath I'm back.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Here is a link. mediafire.com/?ufux9qodtjli4ud

Thanks for looking. : )

1:32 AM

@KannappanSampath There's a problem with this definition: \def\empty{\varnothing} and near the end, there's a superfluous \end{defn}; comment out the definition and delete the \end{defn} and your document will have no errors.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Oh, so, I cannot redefine things like that?

@GonzaloMedina But I must thank you for patiently going through that. I think that must have been painful.

@KannappanSampath Sure you can; but you cannot use the name \empty (not sure why right now); use another name.

\empty is defined in the LaTeX kernel and should expand to empty text.

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina I see. Thanks for saying.

Had you used \newcommand instead of \def, you would get a redefinition error.

Kannappan Sampath

1:37 AM

@AndreyVihrov Oh, I see. I have to come up with something new. sigh

@KannappanSampath No problem; there are other details with your code, but they are not relevant to this particular issue, so I won't mention them at this moment.

@AndreyVihrov yes, but isn't \def supposed to overwrite any previous redefinition?

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina I'll be happy to know if you tell me all of them. Please tell me.

@GonzaloMedina Yes, and now everything that expects \empty to be empty will fail.

@AndreyVihrov Ah, of course! Silly me! Thank you.

@KannappanSampath You are using \` in some places where you shouldn't: right before the first enumerate` and between consecutive \items.

Argh!!! the formatting went wrong I meant "You are using \\"

@KannappanSampath: You have overwritten a few more commands with \def (though it's not so critical). Use \newcommand!

Kannappan Sampath

1:42 AM

@GonzaloMedina But, I'd really like to have a line of space between two consecutive items or before bullets. What do I do?

@AndreyVihrov Yes, I was about to do the same remark.

@KannappanSampath: Also see tex.stackexchange.com/questions/196/eqnarray-vs-align

Kannappan Sampath

@AndreyVihrov Is this fine? \newcommand \C {\mathbb C}

@KannappanSampath You can learn the syntax, for example, in lshort

@KannappanSampath To increase the vertical space between items you can use enumitem (refer to the documentation) and before the enumerate environment you can use \smallskip, \medskip, or \bigskip.

Kannappan Sampath

1:47 AM

@GonzaloMedina Thanks for the help. I'll peep into that in a moment.

@AndreyVihrov Thank You. : )

@KannappanSampath No problem. I have to go now. Bye!

Kannappan Sampath

@GonzaloMedina Sure, Good night. Bye. : )

2:05 AM

Wondering if this too much hackery: tex.stackexchange.com/a/47336/4301

7 hours later…

Patrick Gundlach

8:54 AM

currently listening to @StefanKottwitz on the DANTE 2012 meeting in Leipzig, Germany!

Great to meet him in person (60k reputation ATM)

Yiannis Lazarides

@PatrickGundlach You guys enjoy it, have a beer for me as well:)

Patrick Gundlach

@YiannisLazarides We had many beers. Enough for every user here on tex.sx :)

Yiannis Lazarides

@PatrickGundlach Aargh! I wish I could attend one of these meetings!

Patrick Gundlach

@StefanKottwitz explains how latex-community.org works. Impressive!

Yiannis Lazarides

@PatrickGundlach You think you could get Lua to print all nodes for this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9683/…?

@PatrickGundlach Never joined latex-community.com, but it seems like a good community.

Patrick Gundlach

9:08 AM

@YiannisLazarides You mean to make them visible?

user image

Now @StefanKottwitz shows tex.sx live :)

@PatrickGundlach: This one

Stack Exchange TeX Blog: Bringing together TeX users online

Stefan Kottwitz on October 23, 2011

As I promised in the daily reports on the TeX User Group Conference 2011, here’s the presentation I made on that meeting.

You can directly download it as PDF file: TeX Online Communities

Or visit texblog.net to for viewing it within your browser.

This presentation is about TeX online communities, such as discussion groups, mailing lists and web forums. During this talk I introduced the TeX Q&A site tex.stackexchange.com and showed some of its features which make it a good choice for developing and sharing TeX contents, for building a TeX knowledge base besides just discussing. Finally I compared those systems. …

Patrick Gundlach

@MarcoDaniel yes

@PatrickGundlach tex.stackexchange will get new members ;-)

Marc van Dongen

@AndrewStacey Thanks for your comments. I must have misunderstood some of your comments. Happy TeXing.

Yiannis Lazarides

@PatrickGundlach Yes!

Patrick Gundlach

9:20 AM

@YiannisLazarides do the following: \usepackage{lua-visual-debug} - it's a new package on CTAN and in texlive and run it with lualatex.

Yiannis Lazarides

@PatrickGundlach Thanks a lot, will give it a try.

9:37 AM

@MarcvanDongen Welcome back. (And I hope it really is a "welcome back", not just a brief return.) Looking at your comment on the birds question then, yes, you did misunderstand my comment there - but you're not alone, the user Ben did as well. I actually really like these challenge questions! But I worry that they can be mistaken for "Draw this for me" questions so I prefer it if the challenger (in this case, you) defines the terms of the challenge a little more precisely than you did. (ctd)

(ctd) That was all my comment was asking for. The bit "So before I try to better it" was meant to show that I intended having a shot at answering it, but felt that I needed a slightly more precise target. Having clicked on the link that Altermundus provided, I feel I now understand a lot better why and a bit better what you might be looking for. That link would have been useful in the original question.

So once again, I apologise for the situation. Unfortunately, by the time Ben's comment was left (so I got a glimmering of how some might have interpreted my comment - though I don't think the voters for it interpreted it that way), the damage had been done. If it's alright by you, I'd like to leave a clarifying comment. I might still have a stab at answering it if I get a good idea.

Yiannis Lazarides

@PatrickGundlach Worked very nicely.

Patrick Gundlach

@YiannisLazarides glad to hear! Thanks

10:07 AM

Will Stefan show our chatroom? :)

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda No, he didn't. But he mentioned you and your question printer :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@PauloCereda :-D

@PatrickGundlach Oh my!

Hi @Stefan! :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel We had an interesting discussion about Stack Exchange and how this modern interface works

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda I guess he was just too afraid of what could go on in the chat (yoda pictures for example)

10:14 AM

@PatrickGundlach Indeed, it's too dangerous. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@PatrickGundlach Yes you never know ;-) but I explicitely talked about the chat and that often there's interesting expert's talk

Patrick Gundlach

@StefanKottwitz I should have listened carefully ;-)

@StefanKottwitz Really ;-) and I can't be there. I am a little bit frustrated. Yesterday at 9pm my event for today was canceled.

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel Hopefully the slides of the interesting presentations will soon be online

I even got a travel guide with phrases in German here. :P

Patrick Gundlach

10:21 AM

We'll soon hear Philipp Poll, the creator of Linux Libertine. Looking forward to that talk.

@PatrickGundlach How nice! :)

@Patrick: We'd like to hear your talk too. :)

Patrick Gundlach

Too late, it was 2 hours ago (and another one yesterday) :)

Oh. :(

Patrick Gundlach

I presented how I solved

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Q: How can I visualize boxes?

This question led to a new package: lua-visual-debug Some of you may know the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox that can outline the block level elements of a page like this: Is there a way to do something similar with TeX boxes for a complete document?

@StefanKottwitz I am interested in the arguments of the discuss ;-)

Patrick Gundlach

10:25 AM

and my software about XML -> PDF workflow, which is written in LuaTeX but has not much with TeX in common

@PatrickGundlach Your package is awesome! :)

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda It is much simpler to implement than it seems from the output.

@PatrickGundlach :)

Will the presentations be available?

Patrick Gundlach

now I am thinking of it - I shouldn't have presented the implementation because people are impressed by the output and once they see how small the code is, they know I am not a wizard but a mere mortal who just knows how to program a simple loop

@PatrickGundlach You are the Lua(TeX) expert. :)

Patrick Gundlach

10:32 AM

Well, I know the documentation by heart and I like to answer questions here. But there are people more enlightened than me.

@Patrick: speaking of Lua, egreg and I wrote a Lua script for checking unused and undefined references in aux/bib files. It was very fun, Lua is a nice language. :)

My first Lua code. <3

Yiannis Lazarides

@PauloCereda It will be nice if you add in the manual the color coding scheme. The outcome is very musical! Music of the boxes:) tex.stackexchange.com/a/47361/963

@YiannisLazarides Wow! How nice! I love it! :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel Well, yesterday we talked about the stagnation of the German TeX FAQ wiki. Today I showed the dynamically evolving TeX.SX automated FAQ tab for questions & tags/topics.

Yiannis Lazarides

@PauloCereda It is really amazing:) I propose the golden eagle badge for Patrick. It also worked first time, no issues.

10:45 AM

Ich hätte gern ein Bier, bitte. Yay this guide has everything.

@StefanKottwitz In my opinion it's really pity that the FAQ lost their standings in the community. I think you can't compare the tag/topic of tex.sx with the FAQ. One reason for this trend is that many users become lazy and they want special solutions for their problems. You can see this on MrUnix and Matheplanet. They don't read any introductions.

@YiannisLazarides Bruno had a plan to generate midi with LaTeX. We could associate the colorscheme and the boxes measures to notes and generate a musical representation of the document. :P

@PauloCereda Wovon ;-)

Yiannis Lazarides

@PauloCereda Oh, yes I remember that, it was from the talking pdf post;)

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel It wasn't like sth is better. More like combining a static FAQ with inspiration from a dynamic and living FAQ which we got here, for improving the edited FAQ

10:49 AM

@MarcoDaniel Uh-oh, now I'm stuck. :P

@YiannisLazarides Yes, that one! :)

@StefanKottwitz That's a nice idea which needs a lot of care.

Heya! =)

Hi! :)

I was thinking about asking a question, but I am not sure if it is a dupe or not.

@N3buchadnezzar What's it about?

10:52 AM

I need to make rectangles (left and right sums) under functions.

I know there is a question about using the middle sum, but I absolutely must have the right and left sums. (For educational purposes.)

I just welcomed Ulrik Vieth who has registered on the site. :)

@N3buchadnezzar It's not very clear what you're meaning

@N3buchadnezzar I can't remember any questions about that, and a quick search didn't reveal anything. Could still exist of course, but just ask the question. If it turns out to be a dupe, you could always delete it (unless someone answers of course).

@egreg Interesting

@N3buchadnezzar Oh, you want to visualize Riemann sums?

@TorbjørnT Okay =)

@egreg Yes =)

10:59 AM

@MarcoDaniel Stefan's talk has done good! :)

@N3buchadnezzar Gotta run, bye.

@egreg Indeed ;-)

@TorbjørnT Bye have fun at svalbard, or wherever you are!

11:12 AM

@PauloCereda A contribution also to comp.text.tex! :)

1 hour later…

12:35 PM

@egreg Yay! :)

Usenet is cool. Where's the upvote button? :P

user image

(Not mine, percusse's)

@AndrewStacey Wow!

12:53 PM

@PauloCereda This question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47388/…

@MarcoDaniel And it seemed such an innocent question at first sight.

@MarcoDaniel Awesome! For some reason, there's now a "nananananananana Batman!" playing nonstop inside my head. :)

@PauloCereda Bang -- Boom ;-)

Why not simply plot the batman curve?

@AndrewStacey Indeed. First I thought the same.

@RoelofSpijker You can answer.

12:59 PM

@RoelofSpijker Wow!

@AndrewStacey Your comment is awesome

also over at our friends at math.sx: math.stackexchange.com/questions/54506/…

@RoelofSpijker I feel that answering that spoils the moment ... but I'll do so anyway. The questioner wanted to learn about TikZ. Plotting the batman curve (which is a load of nonsense) doesn't really teach a lot about drawing general diagrams. Drawing an arc from here to there does. So I think that the OP asked the right question, here. Nonetheless, I would love to see a TikZ version of the batman curve so vær så godt

@RoelofSpijker Just added the cross link.

@AndrewStacey: I completely agree. My intent was merely humourous :)

@RoelofSpijker Ah, sorry ... misunderstood.

1:06 PM

@N3buchadnezzar Bergen, actually. Will do my master here.

@RoelofSpijker Tell you what, if you plot half of the batman curve then I'll do the other half.

@TorbjørnT Just 700 km from Trondheim, a nice walk. :)

@AndrewStacey: Let me have a look :)

It would be awesome if we had a user "Adam West" replying to the Batman question. :P

@AndrewStacey: It's symmetrical, so drawing half would actually be harder than drawing all :P

1:11 PM

@RoelofSpijker Two possible responses to that: "My intent was merely humourous :)" and "Depends which way you split it."

well, to split it truely in half would be more difficult then drawing it completely, I think

since the different parts have symmetries over different axes

You could draw half of it using \clip (0,-5) rectangle (5,5); \draw batman; (note that you have to have \usetikzlibrary{batman} in the preamble for this to work)

@AndrewStacey: How awesome would it be if that existed :d

Hello everyone!

1:19 PM

Hi! :)

I got a warning which the FAQ says is due to multiple page numbers. Multiple page numbers are not visible, but I have Title page, Empty page, i, ii, iii, iv, ..., 1, 2, 3, ...

I'm using the memoir class

Do you have any hints on what might be wrong or how I might make the warning go away?

To be fair, there aren't any problems with the hyperlinks I have, but I'd still like to make the warning go away.

Wait, I misunderstood something in the FAQ, let me check one more thing ...

Can I add a batman tag to that question? Please please pretty please.

OK, I read through the two FAQ entries, and made sure that hyperref is the last package loaded, and also that plainpages=false and pdfpagelabels are passed to it. The warning is still there. The FAQ entry says:

The recipe isn’t perfect: it relies on \thepage being different for every page in the document. A common problem arises when there is an unnumbered title page, after which page numbers are reset: the PDFTeX warning of “duplicate destinations” will happen in this case, regardless of the options.

Does this mean that I should just ignore the warning as it's not possible to make it go away?

@egreg It probably would be a nice walk, though I'm not sure why you mention Trondheim ...

Wow I am slowly getting afraid of asking. It can be so... ...humbling... :)
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47225/how-to-remove-double-contents-heading-generated-by-memoir/47226#47226

1:35 PM

@jonalv Ah don't worry. :) We are all friends here. When in doubt, ask. :)

@Szabolcs As this says, it's probably due to having a couple of unnumbered pages. I would just ignore the warning, as it's pretty harmless in this case.

Yes, the title page and the following empty one are unnumbered.

@TorbjørnT It's where N3buchadnezzar lives, if I'm not wrong.

@egreg Ah, yes, that is true.

@jonalv Don't worry: searching among the questions can be difficult; finding a duplicate sometimes requires that one who has answered a similar question reads the new one.

1:45 PM

@egreg: This question is a typical example. Therefor the package has never been developing.

@MarcoDaniel This is an example of another issue: that sometimes questioners are afraid to tell what their need is.

It's quite surprising that one wants to use mdframed just to box a box. :(

@egreg Nothing is surprising after a while

@DavidCarlisle @egreg: I am to young for this ;-)

@DavidCarlisle I know, I know. /Usual quotation from "Do electric sheep..."

@MarcoDaniel I must say, I don't normally see chat flags asking for a spelling fix. ;)

1:57 PM

@MarcoDaniel just wait 20 years and you're still fielding the same questions except that you can't remember how the thing works or if you wrote it at all

@jrg Ok. First and last time ;-)

2:12 PM

@egreg: I discovered how to easly run our script in TL, it's very simple. I tried and it worked. :) Now I'll test on my Linux box. :)

Thankfully we chose Lua, it's very easy. :)

@PauloCereda Nice!

What's the correct form at a German chat forum or in a German chat forum?

@MarcoDaniel: I'd say on instead, actually

@DamienWalters I quickly start to dislike Batman :D

I thought chatrooms and forums were different things.

2:25 PM

@RoelofSpijker Of course we can expand the list ;-)

@Szabolcs: I assumed it was a German forum about chatting

@MarcoDaniel in not at.

@AlanMunn The prepositions in English are difficult ;-) For tense i am using a look up table: ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/tenses

I don't think they're any more difficult than in other languages.

It's just that one has to learn the preposition that goes with each noun ... if that differs from how your language does it, then it's difficult.

in a room / in a chatroom / on a webpage / on a forum (as in bbs) / at the station

I always write "on figure 2". It is incredibly difficult to break the habit, even though I know that "in figure" is correct.

I always go through whatever I write and search for "on figure" to correct it.

@MarcoDaniel That's not a bad first resource. It misses some subtleties but for most things should serve you well.

2:34 PM

@Szabolcs You are completely right. Just I am learning English. The same as on Monday but at the weekend ;-)

isn't it "in the weekend"?

I don't know :)

Yes, you are right, it's difficult

back to work ...

@MarcoDaniel Of course, you can be N. American an say "on the weekend". ("at the weekend" is British, I think.)

@Szabolcs I hope note. It's an example of my learning platform.

@AlanMunn Thanks

Are you German?

@Szabolcs Yes

2:47 PM

@Szabolcs it's at the weekend (the rules in English are very simple, there's only really one rule: use the one that sounds right:-)

@DavidCarlisle If you're speaking British English. Here it's "on the weekend".

@DavidCarlisle And which inevitably doesn't sound right to the non native speaker.

/The two sides of the pond are at war

@DavidCarlisle That's what my first English teacher said to me. :)

@DavidCarlisle In this example at the weekend sounds right ;-)

3:20 PM

@egreg: we simply put checkcites.lua under texmf/scripts/checkcites, then run mktexlsr. On Windows, we can run the script by issuing runscript checkcites, or even better, go to the bin directory and make a copy of runscript.exe and renaming it checkcites.exe; that way, we simply call checkcites in the command line. On Linux/Unix, we go to the bin directory and create a symlink checkcites pointing to the original file inside the scripts directory. :)

@PatrickGundlach: do you think it's better to use #!/usr/bin/env lua or #!/usr/bin/env texlua in our script? It's compatible with both, I think.

@PauloCereda Whoever has TeX has also texlua, but they needn't have lua

@egreg Ah good point!

@AndrewStacey You really want DC Comics to come after me, right? :D I will try to make a shape out of it soon.

@percusse It shouldn't be all that hard. Since you've used path primitives, you can just cut-and-paste that into the node definition. Make it depend on the text-box width and height, inherit anchors from the ellipse shape, and Albert's your butler, as the saying goes.

I've been asked to bolden an author name in the reference list. I am using BibTeX. Is there any way to do this while using BibTeX, or do I need to resort to manually copying the BibTeX output into the tex file and boldening it there?

3:29 PM

@Szabolcs I'm pretty sure to have seen a similar question on the site

Sorry ...

@AndrewStacey No problem. I think I did the general structure and the rest is cosmetics which I don't have time soon, since my heart still beats for my thesis these days. But will put something as an initial attempt these days nevertheless.

what kind of English is this? Argh...

@egreg: script updated. :)

@egreg If you could point me to it, I would appreciate it very much! The problem is that only a certain name needs to be boldened.

@Szabolcs Here's one

7

Q: Underline my name in the bibliography

For several documents I'm preparing, I need to highlight (or underline) occurences of my name within the bibliography. Is there an easy way of doing this?

bibliographies formatting highlighting

3:35 PM

@PauloCereda Is there a way to run the script without calling texlua? something like makeindex?

Thank you, this was very helpful!

@MarcoDaniel I'm afraid not. :( If I'm not mistaken, makeindex is written in C, so the output is a native compiled code. A possible approach is to "embed" the interpreter with the script - I once used Ocra to generate an .exe from a Ruby .rb source code - but I don't think it's necessary. The shebang line in the script + texlua being shipped with both MiKTeX and TeX Live make the call to the script transparent. :)

4:24 PM

@MarcoDaniel A very long question and a very short answer. :)

@egreg ;-)

I expand the answer ;-)

OK this is strange I see that I gave two down votes that I have not put. Is this a SE conspiracy again?

is there any way to see those down votes?

@percusse Did you try revoking an upvote? If you want to do this, you have to click on the upvote arrow again, rather than on the downvote arrow.

I don't think it's possible to track down the answers or questions one has voted for.

4:40 PM

@percusse There's no way to do that without losing the anonymity of voting, I would think.

you should be able to find the questions on which you voted down. Try the "activity" list on your user pages

@egreg Hmm, let me see. I don't recall removing any upvotes, I don't even consider it since it's a virtual thing :)

@AndrewStacey No, the activity pages don't report votes

@egreg I must see -2 points per down vote right?

@percusse Oh, yes! It should appear on your reputation page, unless they were downvotes to questions, that don't cost rep.

4:57 PM

Nothing until July... Strange indeed.

aha got one. I can swear that I didn't do it anyway maybe a misfare of a mouse click.

nope I see that I removed that one maybe for the badge tryout.

never mind :) Not a biggie anyway.

5:43 PM

Friends, is there any special class to write a manual for a script to go on CTAN, or can I use article?

@PauloCereda Any standard class is good, if you're not going to use a .dtx file (which in this case seems not to be important).

@PauloCereda You can always use article.

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@egreg, @Gonzalo: Thanks! :)

@egreg: any new information on the lost reputation issue?

5:58 PM

@GonzaloMedina No.

6:08 PM

I love when questions are followed by a musical theme: click here before viewing this question and click here before viewing this question. :P

@PauloCereda Not when I've the third Brandenburg Concerto on!

@egreg Oh I'm sorry. :)

@PauloCereda Is your German improving?

@egreg I learned two more phrases. :)

@egreg Are you learning German?

6:15 PM

And I need to learn Spanish too, as Gonzalo will host TUG'2013. :)

@PauloCereda That will have to wait :(

@GonzaloMedina Oh. :(

At least, I don't starve to death: Me pone la tostada com mantequilla. :)

@GonzaloMedina No, I find LaTeX3 quite easier.

@PauloCereda "con" y en Colombia es mejor decir "me trae" instead of "me pone" (otherwise you could end up with the toast over your head) ;-)

@PauloCereda: I have an earworm: youtube.com/watch?v=yUH9jZlv7tM

6:19 PM

@GonzaloMedina Uh-oh! International problems. :P

@egreg Sorry; the question should have been addressed to Paulo.

Are you learning German, @PauloCereda?

@Gonzalo: I tried to learn German, but I gave up. :) I know only two or three phrases in German. But I'd like to try it again, the language is very rich. I like the way words are constructed. :)

Oh my, I said "I put the bread and butter!" in Spanish!

@PauloCereda I learned German for half a year and liked it more than English. But the articles were pure hell…

@MarcoDaniel No please, not him! I would punch that guy in the face! :D

@PauloCereda These word constructions are terrible.

@PauloCereda He is in our charts

6:25 PM

@AndreyVihrov I tried to watch Deutsche Welle, but I could not understand a single word. And Angela Merkel scares me. :)

@PauloCereda She also scares the Greek. :)

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@PauloCereda Me too ;-)

@MarcoDaniel I can only count to ten, I guess. I love the way numbers are constructed. :)

@egreg Oh! :)

@PauloCereda False; if you can count uo to two, you can count to any number (in base two),

@GonzaloMedina Ah true, but it might take a while. :P

I have a T-shirt with the following text:

6:30 PM

@MarcoDaniel Noooooo!

$ man woman
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I almost got in trouble when a friend of mine (a woman) asked the meaning of it. :)

@GonzaloMedina As I came home the song was played in the radio ;-)

Yiannis Lazarides

@Paulo Paid my tax:) Third question in the unanswered list knocked off today:) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40709/…

@GonzaloMedina Welcome back:)

@YiannisLazarides How nice! It's in my upvote list. :) (I'm out of votes)

@YiannisLazarides Hi, Yiannis! Thank you!

6:53 PM

@JosephWright: We have an example for NewDocumentCommandCS ;-)

@PauloCereda Be careful! :)

@egreg Indeed! :) I'm a serial voter. :D

Yiannis Lazarides

@PauloCereda As long as they are not cursed votes:)

7:09 PM

@MarcoDaniel A "macros" tagged question is something I can't pass on. :)

21 to go for the gold badge, you know. :)

@egreg ;-)

@MarcoDaniel The 1000 upvotes are already in my pocket.

@egreg And you earn it ;-)

Yiannis Lazarides

This question needs upvotes, just for the OP inserting images for the keys tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47443/…

@egreg I have the following suggestion: You can expand the command with \cs_if_exist:NTF

7:23 PM

Should we close the following question as too localised?

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Q: Getting natbib to follow IEEE numeric citation format

I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a better way to tweak natbib to generate numeric references that follow IEEE's citation reference guide and style manual. Specifically, IEEE wants each of a group of citations in separate brackets (like this: [1], [2]), but natbib seems to insist on grouping th...

citing natbib ieeetran

@MarcoDaniel I don't think it's too localized. It's a reasonable question I think.

@AlanMunn I know -- the question is unanswered and the comments are very clear.

@egreg: You have won the pot ;-)

@AlanMunn I provided a cw

8:18 PM

I am playing answer the unanswered ;-) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/46880/…

@MarcoDaniel No, because the variable already exists

@MarcoDaniel I looked at that and since I can't be bothered to use minted I didn't feel comfortable suggesting upquote.

@egreg I thought of something like this:

\RequirePackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\NewResettableCommand}{ m }
 {
  \cs_if_exist:nTF { #1 }
  {
    \tl_new:c { l_nrc_#1_tl }
    \cs_new:cpn { #1 } ##1 { \tl_set:cn { l_nrc_#1_tl } { ##1 } }
    \cs_new:cpn { print #1 }
      {
       \tl_if_empty:cF { l_nrc_#1_tl } { \tl_use:c { l_nrc_#1_tl } }
      }
   }
   {Variable~#1~exists}
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff

@AlanMunn A short but important package ;-)

@MarcoDaniel Written originally by a linguist. :-)

@AlanMunn Are you one of the authors? ;-)

8:30 PM

@MarcoDaniel No, it's from before my time. It was written by Michael Covington, who is a computational linguist at the University of Georgia. Subsequently updated by Frank Mittelbach.

@AlanMunn The world becomes smaller and smaller ;-)

@MarcoDaniel This might be; it depends on how the OP wants to manage duplicate definitions.

8:52 PM

@egreg Of course.

Every time I imagine a world without CS guys, I end up with lots of people hanging out while singing Get together. (come on, people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now)

@PauloCereda What is a CS guy

@MarcoDaniel a computer scientist. :)

@PauloCereda I thought Counter Strike ;-)

@MarcoDaniel haha good choice! :)

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