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12:05 AM
I wonder what most LaTeX users would get on True Colours? I'm guessing Green-Gold like myself: Green: Likes problem solving, Gold: Likes rules, organization, order.
 
@GonzaloMedina Of course. How could it behave differently? That's TeX's way to tokenize input and ConTeXt can't change it.
Well, they might make the backslash active and scan until finding a defined macro; but then, how could they have \ab and \abc? (Non existent commands, of course, but they show the problem)
 
 
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1:13 AM
@egreg If it is just TeX+something, how is it non-package supporting? Aren't packages just something you paste at the start of a TeX file?
 
 
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5:30 AM
OMG Clippy has reincarnated into a unicorn.
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5:47 AM
@AlanMunn I was really scared by this thing. After it appeared all my scores were set to 0. I thought "WTF has my account been hacked" :-)
 
@AlanMunn These mla questions are a pain.
 
6:04 AM
@AlanMunn I saw it for the first time also. What is it suppose to do?
 
@YiannisLazarides I'm guessing it's an April Fools' prank.
 
@Audrey Aargh! They got me:) Didn't even realize today is April 1st.
 
@YiannisLazarides I only saw the unicorn. I wish I saw my rep at zero. That would've been funny.
 
@Audrey Yesterday I disabled my anti-virus as I had problems installing some software and for sure I thought I caught something horrible:)
 
@YiannisLazarides I thought that for a second, too, but then I looked at the time. Speaking of time, I should get some sleep. Goodnight/morning!
 
6:17 AM
@Audrey It was just a new day, a new week, and a new month. So all the scores in the little popup read "0". I'm new here so I was surprised at first ;-)
 
@Audrey Have a good night's sleep, I am off for a morning walk (I am on holiday).
 
7:09 AM
Great news! The maintainers of LuaTeX have decided to use the forward slash / as the escape character, because on most keyboards this is easier to type than the backslash `\`. So we can type our LuaTeX documents faster.
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@PatrickGundlach Example?
 
/section instead of \section
 
@PatrickGundlach How does this help? Do you still need to protect from TeX expansion, or does this only apply when Lua parses the code?
 
@PatrickGundlach Rather obvious april fool's, isn't it?
 
@StephanLehmke Is it April 1st already? ;)
 
7:14 AM
btw, won't most people have a keyboard where ` is as easy to type as /`?
argh how do i type a codified \
 
I don't know if most people can type the \ easier than / - on the american/english keyboards for sure, but most people I assume have non-english keyboards
@StephanLehmke don't know either
 
 
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9:20 AM
! Missing = inserted for \ifnum WTF!
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@PatrickGundlach MWE?
:-)
 
what is a MWE? ;-)
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@PatrickGundlach You're asking to be starred with a comment like that :-)
 
@PatrickGundlach I had the same error just yesterday trying to compare a (macro containing a) length with \ifnum.
 
I am currently playing with some patches to the libertine package and I get that error. But my TeX knowledge is so limited, that I now check the diffs manually (because the document was OK before these patches)
 
9:29 AM
@all Herbert Voss asked me to write a short dtk article about my pullquote solution. Hence I'd like to invite constructive criticism of the code. I'd like to avoid publishing any obvious blunders or avoidable inefficiencies or imprecisions.
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A: Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX

Stephan LehmkeProposed Answer I'd like to state that my DBP system DocScape can do what you describe, with a very similar algorithm. It's a basic property of text frames in DocScape. I should note that DocScape has an 'informed' page model where an explicit "page grid" is kept for every page including allocat...

 
@StephanLehmke Interesting stuff. I'll take a look either later today or tomorrow, then shameless rip it off for the LaTeX3 galley if I can :-)
 
I've found the error, a broken date format in \ProvidesPackage{}[xxx ...]
 
@PatrickGundlach What I said at the first lecture of the LaTeX course: you can buy a keyboard with any layout you want, as long as it's International.
 
@StephanLehmke Will you add a few more explanatory notes on the answer? This could help with comments etc. I will provide feedback in a couple of days.
 
@YiannisLazarides I put some comments into the code. What kind of notes are you thinking of? An explanation of the method in the answer text?
 
9:36 AM
@egreg I leaned Unix on an international keyboard. Then I was so used to having the control key at my left pinky (left of the "A"), so I chose my Operation System by the ability to map the control key to the caps lock key on a German keyboard
 
@StephanLehmke Yes a bit more in the text and a longer explanation of what an informed page model is.
@StephanLehmke This morning I also answered tex.stackexchange.com/a/50295/963, which can also provide the basis of an alternative algorithm.
 
@YiannisLazarides Ok, I'll try to give more explanations. But the part about the informed page model is really unrelated. I'm thinking about deleting the shameless DocScape plug as it is really redundant now. It was meant as a placeholder until I could present some real code for the problem at hand ;-)
@YiannisLazarides I'd be interested to see how this approach might turn out.
 
@PatrickGundlach I learned to use computers on one that hadn't a "control" key! :) The Macintosh didn't until the Macintosh SE came out. But the keyboard was "American", so it had braces and everything one needs for TeX. For accented characters there were easy to remember dead keys. By the way, the first dead key I saw was on a German typewriter of the 50's: the Umlaut key didn't advance the carriage.
 
10:06 AM
Happy Holy Week!
I need to find a palm. Thankfully there's a tree a few meters from my house. :)
 
@StephanLehmke given that the "shameless plug" :-) is there, are you willing to give the LaTeX3 team an evaluation license?
 
@FrankMittelbach I don't see much of a problem here, but I'm afraid "my" has to be replaced by "QuinScape's" whenever I'm talking about DocScape; I'm only the author ;-)
 
@FrankMittelbach Given your comments on that question will you be able if you get sometime to write up an alternative solution?
 
@StephanLehmke I would certainly be interested
 
We did give an "academic" version to the univ. of Stuttgart once. It would be best to write me an "official" email with this request.
 
10:16 AM
@StephanLehmke can do. do I know your email address or can you ping me on mine? thanks
 
@FrankMittelbach It's in my profile.
 
@YiannisLazarides I have a couple of thought in that direction. Basically the first step is to rid yourself of preformatted vertical material without needing to stored everything fully unprocessed. once you have that then the rest is largely like Stephan outlined (and implemented)
 
@PauloCereda Well Leslie does work for MS nowdays :-)
 
@PauloCereda They can't kern it properly, can they?
 
10:19 AM
@JosephWright Really?
@egreg I'm afraid they can't. :( But they have cliparts. :)
 
Leslie Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in New York City) is an American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Early life and education A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations. Career Professiona...
 
@StephanLehmke perhaps, but unless I'm blind (which is not impossible) it is not visible to the world.
 
@StephanLehmke Unless you put it in the profile text, it won't show up. The one you register with is only visible to the mods. So I can see it!
 
@JosephWright Wow. :) I have a friend who worked in Microsoft for 3 years. He used Slackware the whole time. :)
 
@StephanLehmke The email address in the profile page is visible only to the owner
 
10:22 AM
@PauloCereda Leslie still uses LaTeX I think. We (or rather @FrankMittelbach) had an e-mail from him last year about something
 
@PauloCereda All his papers are listed at microsoft.com! research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html
 
The email field is only used for mods to send threating letters. :P
 
@JosephWright @Paulo Leslie is in research, as always ...
 
@YiannisLazarides Wow! What a list!
 
Great, didn't know that. I was wondering why someone sent me an email to info@docscape.de...
I added the email address to the profile text.
 
10:24 AM
@PauloCereda Anything from braids when he was in high school:)
 
@FrankMittelbach Yes, I know. Unlike many people, I don't regard MS as the Great Satan. They do some very good work, but not everyone notices.
 
@YiannisLazarides :)
 
@FrankMittelbach What exactly d you mean "rid yourself of preformatted vertical material"?
 
Wow, @egreg is close to 80k!
 
10:48 AM
@PauloCereda Not in the next week. :)
 
@egreg :P
 
@PauloCereda But now my goal is 100k. :) Before August, if possible. :)
 
Can you ever lose rep? Does it rot or something?
 
@egreg Yay!
 
@StephanLehmke Small amounts from downvotes, removal of Accepted status from answers, etc. Very little in the grand scheme of things.
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Q: Clearer formatting of dialogue in TeXtalk

N.N.Currently the dialogue of TeXtalk is formatted by <strong> for the speaker and <p> to separate lines. Here is an example from the interview with Yiannis Lazarides: This format may be confusing when a speaker is listed with multiple paragraphs in that it is not obvious who says what...

@PauloCereda One for you I guess!
 
10:57 AM
@StephanLehmke You can lose rep for downvotes (not very frequent on this site) or for "unupvotes" and "unaccept": somebody that voted or accepted one of your answer change their mind. This will be indicated by a red mark on your reputation page. Or you can lose 4310 rep because of a faulty algorithm run by SE. :( Not really 4310, of course; but I once suffered a -500 or so.
 
@egreg Depends on what you mean by 'faulty' of course!
 
@JosephWright I like the idea. :)
 
@egreg Yea I also got the unaccept once because of you ;-)
 
OMG WHAT A UNICORN IS DOING HERE?!?!?!
 
Or you could give it all away for bounties and get a million "Altruist" badges :)
@egreg But if these are the only ways to lose rep, you have to be careful not to hit some system limit and make stackexchange go up in flames ;-)
 
11:01 AM
@PauloCereda Where is this unicoron?
 
@JosephWright I meant, in the main site. :) I was browsing one question and suddenly the unicorn appeared. :)
 
Is there an "all time hero" page comparing the highest reps of all people on stackexchange?
 
 
@PauloCereda I think I've seen it too for 10 milliseconds, I was too quickly browsing
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Q: It's Clip-cloppy!

Donal FellowsI love your new feature for providing apposite help on troublesome things like notifications to users of Meta Stack Overflow. Is he just an experiment, or is he a permanent new feature? That would be so awesome!

Unicorns are very on-topic on meta.stackoverflow.com, about 300 matches in search (s+pl)
Want a screen shot?
 
11:16 AM
@StefanKottwitz Yay!
 
This is an april's fool for sure!
 
Is there an easy way to \include{*.tex} in a LaTeX file?
 
11:35 AM
@PatrickGundlach Thia might be system dependent. Here \include{*} worked.
This
 
\include{tests/*} does not, I keep trying. Thanks @StephanLehmke
 
@PatrickGundlach Do you have a file named "*" in tests?
*.tex
 
@StephanLehmke No, I don't
 
Then what do you intend to include?
 
all files that ends with ".tex". I should have written more what i wanted to achieve, right
 
11:56 AM
@PatrickGundlach Uh Oh. I don't think this is possible with the basic TeX engine. It accesses one file at a time. In addition, \include expects to include one file only. I'd write a small preprocessor script to write a file containing the individual \include statements and then call TeX, where the file is loaded with \input.
 
@StephanLehmke There might have been a package called "includemany" that redefines \include{} to run a shell / ls command to prepare a set of include statements.
 
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A: Clearer formatting of dialogue in TeXtalk

Paulo CeredaIt's really a great idea. :) The TeXtalk series was heavily influenced by the TUG Interview Corner, so I tried to mimic their layout. Besides, I've never been an interviewer before. :) The dl element is XHTML valid and, as Yiannis mentioned in his answer, it's more semantic and accessible. I ch...

 
12:20 PM
`\def\getlist#1{\begingroup\everyeof{\noexpand}\xdef\mylist{\input|"(cd #1;ls *.tex)" }\endgroup`
Needs -shell-escape and pdftex; with LuaTeX one can get the list in other ways, of course.
\getlist{tests} will produce a space separated list of the .tex files in the tests subdirectory
 
@JosephWright or another moderator: There are two "non-answers" (which I flagged) by user backprop, but now I noticed that backprop also has created two different accounts which should be merged.
 
@lockstep Just off out - will handle later
 
@egreg I am getting
! Undefined control sequence.
\GenericError  ...
                                                #4  \errhelp \@err@     ...
(but I got to go, I'll have a closer look into it)
 
@PatrickGundlach In LaTeX you've to use \@@input
 
why doesn't that work with LuaLaTeX?
@egreg Thanks!
 
12:34 PM
@PatrickGundlach Because they didn't bother to put in features that can be obtained with Lua code.
 
@egreg you mean: shell-escape?
 
@PatrickGundlach No, shell escape is in LuaTeX, but it hasn't the | trick for \input. I believe that shell escape is implemented with a Lua call.
 
1:07 PM
The automatic update of the site's display is scary -- I saw my repuation score rise while I was just staring at the main site.
I humbly ask for one upvote because I dislike zero-score accepted answers:
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A: Force impagination sequence

lockstepHave a look at the endfloat package, especially at sections 3.4 and 7 of its manual. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[nolists,nomarkers,tablesfirst]{endfloat} \renewcommand{\efloatseparator}{\vspace{\floatsep}} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \lipsum[1] \begin{figure} \centering \ru...

Thanks to the anonymous upvoter!
 
@lockstep done!
 
@NN Should one of your answers ever become zero-score accepted, call me. :-)
 
@NN Upvoted.
 
@lockstep ta. and the balance is restored!
 
1:15 PM
@egreg OK, I see. Thanks. My test file is for XeTeX and LuaTeX (both LaTeX), so I have to think of something...
 
@NN Sometimes, it helps to remind the OP that upvoting is different from accepting.
 
@NN I have a backlog of questions and answers from last August. :)
 
@lockstep I usually do that but more often when I have not answered myself.
 
@PatrickGundlach Unfortunately XeTeX doesn't have the \input| trick. :( But you can exploit the trick I suggested here: tex.stackexchange.com/a/41893/4427
It requires a temporary file, but it's better than nothing
 
@egreg a backlog of answers you plan to write? coincidently you do not have any zero-score accepted answers any longer.
 
1:22 PM
@NN Backlog of answers I didn't have time to look at. In August I was on vacation and the Internet connection didn't allow for long sessions.
 
@NN: thanks for the great suggestion!
Unfortunately, it will require some help from the SO stuff for fixing our CSS. :(
I wrote a quick script to convert the interviews in a semi-automated way, but when I deployed in our blog, the result was poor.
 
@PauloCereda First I thought of just suggesting it to you in chat, then I realized a full post would be better since it allows for a better description
 
@NN It was a great idea. :)
 
@NN Thanks. But, please, avoid upvoting answers by the same user in a short interval of time, as this can trigger the infamous (faulty) algorithm for "serial voting".
 
We also have other CSS related problems. :(
 
1:25 PM
@PauloCereda What is the problem in that screenshot?
 
Does anyone know a simple way to get emacs to indent every line by 4 spaces so the code can be pasted into answers?
 
@egreg it was only three posts so I thought it wouldn't trigger any such algorithm
 
@egreg I upvoted a fourth one. ;-)
 
@StephanLehmke ctrl-x r t (if I remember)
that is: insert rectangle
 
@PatrickGundlach Great, thanks!
 
1:30 PM
@egreg Thanks. Marked as favorite, look later
 
@NN I think the space is too tight.
The paragraph tags were also stripped. :(
There are two sentences in Gonzalo's first answer. "I am" and "I belong". :(
 
@PauloCereda I see. Maybe the <p> tags needs to be added manually, or is that what you tried to do?
 
@NN I tried, I swear. :) For some reason, the blog editor is quite feral with some tags (it's a Wordpress-based). :(
 
@PauloCereda The blog software seems quite new too so it may need some adjustment. Maybe we should ask the SX staff for help. Other blogs might benefit from proper definition lists too.
 
@NN Agreed. We have restricted access to the blog "bowels". Even the logo and the CSS are out of our domains. I'd love to post some TeX snippets, but the pre element is simply awful. :(
 
1:43 PM
@PauloCereda What would be the best way to get in touch with the staff that control the blogs?
 
This one might be interesting:
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Q: How to know if I am a serial up voter?

nawfalI am not a fraud, I have no acquaintances here whatsoever. I love reading questions and answers here and upvoting what I feel is cool. Sometimes I'm in awe of some answers and questions posted here. So I do see into users' profile and open their top questions and answers, and if I like them I upv...

 
@PauloCereda Would make sense if you could get the same syntax highlighting as on SO on the blogs
 
@NN I have no idea. Joseph tried asking Rebecca, but no effect so far. :(
@NN It would be awesome! :) I'd be very happy if we could even use Markdown. :)
 
@PauloCereda Seeing that there are more than one thing we want to change with the blog software I wonder whether it would make sense to write a meta post about every issue or if it's better to directly speak to the devs.
 
@lockstep Yes, it explains where the algorithm is faulty. :)
However, a single episode of many-votes-for-the-same-user shouldn't be suspicious. The answer to my 4310 question talked about a "blatant pattern".
 
1:52 PM
@NN Since the last interactions with the Powers That Be (Google+ icon, egreg's rep points), I'm not sure if a meta question will be effective. :(
@egreg My thoughts exactly! :)
I will add a comment there: "Welcome to my world."
And I want a T-shirt with I was a serial voter before it was mainstream text. :P
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2:09 PM
SuperUser joke:
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Q: How does one get rid of fishy behavior in Windows?

Tom WijsmanAfter I had boot my computer this morning there suddenly flooded water from the top of the screen, after which some fishes dropped into it. Now I can barely see what I am doing because the water distorts the view. Sometimes the fish follow the cursor so I need to move it away or wait for the fish...

 
@PauloCereda One of the proposed remedies: Install GNU. The Gnu will eat the fish and drink the water. Warning: Gnu poop a lot, you may find your screen filled with something else after a while.
 
@egreg LOL. :)
 
@DavidCarlisle Yeah. I managed to avoid the falling TV this time. :-) Thanks for asking.
 
2:42 PM
@NN: Wow, epic link! I didn't know we could create conversation links like that. :)
 
@PauloCereda Me neither until 10 min ago. It is a nice feature.
 
@NN Indeed! :)
 
3:15 PM
hi David Carlisle
 
@StefanKottwitz backprops "non-answer" wasn't a comment on Jake's answer, but a follow-up comment on Jake's comment on backprop's other "non-answer" (which I think can be deleted now).
 
@DavidCarlisle, The otherday i asked about inserting an image in longtable. It worked for me. Thank you.
 
@lockstep Thanks, I deleted the non-answer.
 
4:10 PM
I just awarded the first bounty on my newspaper question. Now I'd like to set the next one, to encourage others to answer. But there is no button for this???
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Q: Meta-question: Automated Newspaper Layout

Stephan LehmkeThis question might well be off topic, so feel free to close. But I hope some people reading here possess the relevant meta-knowledge. I'm thinking (from a professional point of view) about fully automatic generation of newspapers from data. More precisely, the system under consideration would ...

 
@StephanLehmke Not sure if you can set more than one bounty on a question. I think that someone else can though. How much do you want setting?
 
+100. I'll give it back, promise! :-)
 
@StephanLehmke As 'Draw attention'?
 
Why not. I'm not familiar with the distinctions. For the last one I chose "not detailed enough" or something. I wrote some custom text which is lost now :-(
It went something like this: "There are several answers possible to this question which might give valuable insights. I wish to encourage as many people as possible to answer. Every relevant answer will get a bounty. later, I will also accept the most helpful one."
 
@StephanLehmke Bounty set
@StephanLehmke Oh, BTW, if you do set more than one bounty on a question then each one has to be bigger than the last :-)
 
4:18 PM
@JosephWright Great, thanks.
@JosephWright No problem. Can I set +101?
 
@StephanLehmke No, there is a prescribed series
 
@JosephWright Still no problem. If I have to answer questions here for weeks to earn the rep to give out for this, it will still be win-win for me. :-)
 
arara is becoming cool. :P
 
@JosephWright just set +100 bounty on one of your answers. You'llget your rep back tomorrow :-)
 
@StephanLehmke Fair enough, but really no need. It's not like I need the rep: as a mod, I get all-privileges automatically
 
4:25 PM
@PeterGrill I know you like to encourage MWEs as much as possible, but I don't think the coloured cell question really required one. The question is completely clear without one. I worry that when MWEs aren't really needed, comments asking for them can easily be perceived as annoying or even unfriendly.
 
@JosephWright Fair is fair. I should fell I'm really giving something away for this ;-)
 
@JosephWright Even the well-hidden TeX treasure? I heard that are some sexy macros and TikZ codes out there.
 
@StephanLehmke @JosephWright Do we really want to advertise such rep trading? That's the kind of thing that I suspect the powers that be wouldn't really like.
 
@AlanMunn I wouldn't know, I'm here for one week. In fact this felt to be Josephs idea ;-)
 
4:28 PM
@AlanMunn I'm not trading rep: I'm always happy to add bounty's to questions as required, when people ask.
 
If this is inappropriate, I'll retract it or ask a moderator to.
 
@StephanLehmke Hmm, yes, @AlanMunn is right. I've reversed your bounty.
 
@JosephWright Can you also reverse the "Investor" badge? :-)
 
@StephanLehmke No, the badges don't work like that
 
Ok, I got myself into an embarrassing situation...
 
4:32 PM
@StephanLehmke No, just a slight misunderstanding
 
4:42 PM
@JosephWright @StephanLehmke Next bounty please will be on me:)
@StephanLehmke Don't think my answer actually deserved it.
 
@YiannisLazarides Up to the person who sets the bounty
 
@AlanMunn I had added the request for the MWE if the linked question did not solve the problem, and since he was a new user so that he knows for future. But will remove the comment (plus the one you linked is a better question)
 
@YiannisLazarides I'm set on attracting further answers. Somebody who wants to earn the rep (I'm not talking about the >10k heros here :-) might do some google research, instaead of sitting down writing a complicated macro for another question. I only have to make clear I'm in earnest about this.
 
@PeterGrill Ok good. I'm not complaining, just consciousness-raising :-)
 
Is anybody else getting popup windows with annoying unicorns?
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4:49 PM
@GonzaloMedina See chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=4055008#4055008 and following messages.
 
@StephanLehmke Sure and it is a very interesting subject. @JosephWright I meant I offer to offer the next bounty.
 
@YiannisLazarides First we need to get a second answer ;-)
 
@YiannisLazarides Understood
 
@YiannisLazarides btw, on the pullquote question it now says the grace period is over. Will anything happen automatically?
 
@GonzaloMedina I've not seen this. Screenshot?
@StephanLehmke There is something about it in the FAQ
 
4:52 PM
@AlanMunn NP. Feel free to tell me this more often -- Don't want to annoy new users - altough I think one did deserve to be annoyed :-)
 
Here it is: 'If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount. If there's no answer meeting that criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone.'
 
@JosephWright I can't even find the word "bounty" in the FAQ.
 
@JosephWright Now it's gone, but next time it appears I'll take a screenshot.
 
@StephanLehmke It should (bounty was not set by me) probably in a couple of hours.
 
4:53 PM
The FAQ is 'collapsed' to start with, so you have to find the correct section
 
@GonzaloMedina Search for anything non-existent and will show up:)
 
Thanks for the clarification.
 
Bounty just arrived ;-)
 
Thankfully they didn't put ponies.
 
4:58 PM
Pink ponies with flowers.
 
@StephanLehmke Oh no!!!!
While searching for unicorns, mandatory background song: youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
(Oops bad ascii.)
 
5:46 PM
I've spent 10 years to forget about that clippit in MS Office, but no, they have to put those stupid unikerns around.
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Does anybody know if there is any online compiler for XeLaTeX?
 
@Speldosa Yes, try ScribTeX. Under settings, you can switch to xelatex.
 
@Werner Let's see....Settings....
 
@Speldosa Settings -> Compiler Settings -> Default Compiler. The only "problem" is that ScribTeX is currently loaded with TeX Live 2009. However, you can upload newer versions of packages as separate files. Not optimal, but it's portability is great.
 
@Werner Do I need the payed version of ScibTex? Or am I just stupid? I can't find the settings...
 
5:57 PM
@Speldosa No, you can get it with the trial version
 
@Speldosa No, use the "try it" version.
"Try it" is the equivalent of @JosephWright's "trial". :)
 
@Werner Darn it. It won't let me access the "trial".
"Sorry you don't have permission to access the page you requested"
:)
 
@Speldosa Perhaps you need to clear your browser's cookies and cache and retry?
 
@JosephWright Oh. Thanks. I found it now.
However, when compiling: Wall of white space :)
 
6:04 PM
@Speldosa Did you try the sample document?
 
@JosephWright Yeah, it works.
I don't know if this has something to do with me transfering the text from TeXLive on OS X to a txt file, then to a windows PC and to Google Docs and then into ScibTeX :)
I so need a laptop and an internet connection :P
Would somebody mind compiling this file locally and upload the PDF? Internet credz to whoever feels up to it :)
 
Finally! I've been checking the website all day waiting for it to click on from 32,990 to 33,000. Not a momentous number, I know, but after sending in the electricity reading for the last quarter then I felt that I needed to see a large number that meant something positive.
 
@AndrewStacey At least it's over 9000.
 
@Speldosa My reputation or my electricity bill?
@Speldosa Don't have Hoefler Text on my laptop, sadly. (I have it on my iPad, but I don't think I can get it from there onto my laptop)
 
@AndrewStacey You tell me.
Ok, I'll try with TeX Touch.
 
6:15 PM
@Speldosa Could quite well be both. The first quarter of the year is - unsurprisingly - the most expensive electrically speaking and 9000NKr wouldn't be unreasonably excessive.
I could try it will a different font. (I've not read all the back story of why you want this document compiled so I don't know if the font is important.)
 
@AndrewStacey The font is not important.
It's just an application that I'm going to send in today.
There are no font specifications :)
Haha...I imported the text to my iPad and I got chinese characters...:D I give up.
 
@TorbjørnT Thank you very much!
@AndrewStacey Thanks for trying!
 
@Speldosa No problem.
 
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Q: Migrating from MikTex on Windows to OS X. Toolchain options?

growseI've got a 'living' document that I re-visit every couple of months which I originally developed using MikTex and WinEdt on Windows. I'm quite comfortable with this, and quite like the functionality in MikTex to download needed packages on the fly as the document is being rendered. I'm looking t...

Dupe of one or more existing questions?
 
6:21 PM
@Speldosa No problem. Glad someone could help.
 
I did some changes to the code used in the answer to Pretty table of contents to allow for entries for another sectional units (sections and subsections). Could you please have a look at the obtained ToC layout and make suggestions?
Here's an image of a sample ToC: imgur.com/PbiOK
 
Clearly I've missed something with an homage to a paper clip today. If anyone else finds themselves strangely missing paper clips, the cure is simple: install this program: vigor.sourceforge.net
 
 
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10:05 PM
@egreg: great game!
 
@PauloCereda Yeah! Did you enjoy your Pringles? Good game by Vidal, it was time for it!
 
@egreg My Pringles seems to be lucky. :P Vidal was fantastic the whole game, and what a goal. :) Now, Borriello...
 
@PauloCereda Who? :)
 
@egreg That guy from Roma. :P
@egreg: arara is almost ready. You'll like it. :)
 
Why can't I do a ´\renewcommand*{\sectionmarkformat}{\thesection.\enskip}´ to force a dot with koma class?
 
10:18 PM
@someonr I think that there's some specific command to add final periods.
 
I think \sectionmarkformat is not what I'm looking for
 
@someonr What about the class option numbers=enddot?
 
thx, but I only need this for section, I'll take another look at the docu...
 
10:39 PM
@someonr Untested:
\renewcommand{\othersectionlevelsformat}[3]{#3\ifcsname DOT#1\endcsname.\else\autodot\fi\enskip}
\newcommand{\DOTsection}{}
 
@egreg yeah this is working and I understood what is is doing :D, I think I'll change it using etoolbox for easier reading ;) You saved me some time!
 
@someonr The usual definition of \othersectionlevelsformat is #3\autodot\enskip, but #1 is the name of the sectional level. So adding \DOT#1 and testing if it's defined we can override the \autodot feature for the levels we want.
 
thx
I'll use:
\renewcommand{\othersectionlevelsformat}[3]{#3%
\ifstrequal{#1}{section}{.}{\autodot}\enskip}
for consitance consistency. So time to sleep for me ;)
 
11:05 PM
@someonr I'd use my method: it's "expandable", while yours isn't. Good night!
 
@egreg ok thx, I don't have any Idea about tex expanding. But I'll do some research on this.
@egreg any resource for reading on this?
 
11:21 PM
@someonr Well, it's one of the most important aspects of the TeX language. You can look at "TeX by Topic", that you find with texdoc texbytopic
 
@egreg thx again, will this get more or less obsolete with luatex?
 
@someonr not really, luatex gives access and program-ability of aspects of tex's internal state via lua, but (I think) the main programming language for the top level interface is still mainly intended to be TeX macro programming, for which expansion control is perhaps the most important concept.
 
@JosephWright would you please award your bounty (as soon as it becomes eligible) to Frank Mittelbach? :-)
@JosephWright you said I could set another bounty if I chose a higher value than the previous one. But how? I can't see the usual button?
 
11:56 PM
@YiannisLazarides I'm afraid giving a more detailed description of the pullquote algorithm will have to wait until tonight (that is, monday night). I restructured the answer a little, reducing and moving the plug to the end. But today (that is, later today :) I have to work.
 

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