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12:01 AM
@HarishKumar impossible! (sorry was I supposed to tune in, I thought you were having a private tikz conversation:-) what table?
 
@percusse: Please, I am eagerly waiting for a bail-out.
 
@HarishKumar That's not helping you know :)
 
@DavidCarlisle: The code which posted above. @percusse is checking it and if need be I will trouble you. At present, I am not clear where is the fault in my code. I will get back to you.
@percusse: Hehe, it does not mean that I want it immediately, it can take it own time.:)
 
@HarishKumar I don't know what is causing the problem but the following works. So please with baby steps add the other features. Don't implement everything all at once
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable,xstring}
\usepackage{filecontents,longtable}
\def\nosuchthing{}

\begin{document}
%=============================================================================
\pgfkeys{/pgfplots/table/verb string type}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------%
%=============================================================================
\pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{marksort.csv}\namespresent
%

\pgfplotstabletypeset[%
begin table=\begin{longtable},
 
@DavidCarlisle \usepackage{xlongtable}
 
12:05 AM
@percusse: The main point here is I am eager to know my mistakes so that I don't make a similar one in future.
 
@HarishKumar Your mistake is cleaning-up the code :P Compile it like a boss.
 
@percusse: Sure. I am at it.
 
@HarishKumar You can remove \def\nosuchthing{} it's not required anymore.
@PauloCereda Fortunately I don't do cmd :)
last time I've used a .bat file was in MS-DOS 4.02
 
@percusse ooh! :D
@percusse But mine has the .cmd extension. It's more modern. :P
 
@PauloCereda This is Windows 7, microsoft thought of everything I need
 
12:10 AM
@percusse Oh. :P
 
@percusse: Errrg. I am so dumb. It seems I am not good at cleaning up (instead I make it a more mess). It works. Thanks. How can I thank you? You have been correcting me all the time. Any way A BIG HUGE THANKS.:)
 
@HarishKumar No problem. Just don't fail any student based on my code that's enough :)
 
@percusse: Haha, I don't fail anybody. They shoot themselves in their feet.
 
@HarishKumar That's why they pay tuition fees.
 
@DavidCarlisle: @percusse got me out of that hell. Thanks to you for the attention you gave.
@percusse: true. I have seen many students going care free regarding their career in my college. But they realize only when it is too late.
 
12:15 AM
@HarishKumar Unfortunately I'm one of them.
 
@percusse: Oh. I don't think so. You look like a studious one to me.
 
@HarishKumar There was no manual to read when I was studying. I was busy partying :)
Hence the delay on my PhD (when I saw my undergrad supervisor and told her that I'm doing a PhD, she said : "Science was OK without you, why did you bother?")
 
@percusse: And teachers did not catch hold of you? I do it if I find any body like that and try to get them out of it. But you know our students don't like it and I get my car getting scratced quite often by them (as a revenge). That gives me a brand -- A strict (bad!) teacher. Students start liking me only when they are out of the college.
@percusse: Oh. That was too bad to be commented on. But you know, teachers are like that (Mee too). But they mean good to students always.
 
@HarishKumar No problem. I don't take things too seriously. It's just a job. I do it for the fun of it. There is no cleverness required for it (contrary to the common belief) so I don't have any reason to feel bad. It's a myth that scientists are clever, I have a lot of counterexapmles :)
 
@percusse: True. Clever is only relative. Every one is clever in some thing or the other (IMO).
@percusse: So does it mean that I should not use those conditions inside \pgfplotstableset{...? It is not working!
 
12:30 AM
@HarishKumar I am not sure. I didn't use it before but give it a try maybe it can work like \tikzset{} but I keep stuff local to the tables.
 
@percusse: That is the correct way. But I want to save those three elements into a pymbc.csv file. How? After \pgfplotstabletypeset[... I give
\pgfplotstablesave[col sep=comma]
{\namespresent}
{pymbc.csv}
But it saves all the entries.
@percusse: Also it adds an extra comma after the last column like Marks,,. Any idea why?
 
@HarishKumar It doesn't mean that the entries are deleted when they are skipped. They are still there just not ypeset.
 
@percusse: That leaves me back to the origin of the task. Errrgh.
 
Why don't you try to put the code into pgfplotstablesave
 
@percusse: Good idea. Is it like
\pgfplotstablesave[code]
{\namespresent}
{pymbc.csv}
?
 
12:41 AM
I don't really know. Better check the manual.
 
@percusse: You are the man. it works. But it puts an extra comma after the last column. Any ideas why?
 
@HarishKumar Not really. Maybe from the code there is an extra comma.
 
@percusse: No. I can't find any extra commas in the code. It is a mystery for me.
 
@HarishKumar there is one after columns={Reg.No.,Name,Quota,Caste,Marks},%
 
@percusse: But that comes in \pgfplotstabletypeset... not in \pgfplotstablesave... where I save all other columns as well. typesetting is ok but in saving the extra comma peeps in.
 
12:53 AM
@HarishKumar I out of ideas or too sleepy :)
 
@percusse: Oh. Sorry I forgot that it is late night for you. Please you should be going to bed now. Good night (here is 6.24am in Pondicherry, India though). See you tomorrow. Thanks for making this a really good morning to me (by pulling me out of quick sand). Bye friend.
 
No problem, good night!
 
 
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9:03 AM
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Q: Vertical centered image in cell

HotPizzaBoxConsider following code: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[table]{xcolor} \usepackage{graphicx} \paperheight297mm \paperwidth210mm \textheight297mm \textwidth180mm \topmargin-25.4mm \voffset0in \oddsidemargin-17.5mm \evensidemargin-17.5mm \hoffset0in \marginparsep0in \marginparwi...

We seem to have a few questions about vertical alignment in cells (see my comments and links from those). Would it be worth trying to get all of the answers into one place?
 
9:26 AM
I suspect a dupe here:
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Q: Putting the integration bounds below/above the integration operator

Joe DoeYesterday I've stumbled upon an article which covered just that, but I can't find it anymore. How can I put the integration bounds above/below the integration operator instead of the default, where they're next to the symbol and push the integration term to the right?

 
 
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11:07 AM
Too localized, based on the OP's last comment:
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Q: Sorting list with etoolbox

MaieulI would like make a listing of shortseries fields in my .bib file. I see etoolbox can help make to made a list of themes and to loop on them. My idea is : for each entry, add the shortseries and series fiels to a list when the entry is cited. loop to this list at end But I would like sort thi...

 
@lockstep Agreed
 
@lockstep Voted. :)
 
@PauloCereda I think I may have seen that before. So are you going to use CDL for arara?
 
@JosephWright That was fast. ;-)
 
@DavidCarlisle It's a good idea. :) I'll probably write an email to the L3 list suggesting the migration from LPPL to CDL.
We could fork the license and create the LCDL - the LaTeX Chicken Dance License, where the dance should be performed live in a TUG conference.
 
11:12 AM
@PauloCereda I'm not sure it is tex-live compatible though
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh. :(
Ente! :P
 
so why does \. use a T3 (T)IPA accent after fontspec? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67028/…
@PauloCereda I don't think I dare click play in an open plan office
 
@DavidCarlisle LOL agreed, it's somehow NSFW. :)
I must admit, the song is catchy though.
 
@PauloCereda Regrettably, in English it's called The Birdy Song :-)
 
@JosephWright Really? In Portuguese, I think the song is known as O Baile dos Passarinhos. :)
 
11:25 AM
@DavidCarlisle It's from xunicode, but I'm not clear what's going on
@DavidCarlisle It seems that the same applies to all 'traditional' accent commands
 
Our userbase has some unique names. :D
 
1:01 PM
@JosephWright: The OP here suggests a migration:
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Q: How to obtain the handout-version of a beamer generated PDF without the source?

Tobias KienzlerI have a couple of beamer presentations in presentation mode such that e.g. each item in a list shows up on a new "page". Is there any way to easily obtain a printable version only from the PDF which omits those intermediate slideshow-pages other than manually choosing which pages to print?

But I'm afraid what the OP wants is unfeasible. :(
 
@PauloCereda I'll ask in the mod chat: I don't think they'll want it
 
@JosephWright Me neither.
 
1:16 PM
@PauloCereda I've checked: they don't, and indeed as it stands they don't even understand it :-)
 
@JosephWright LOL
 
@PauloCereda shouldn't you in principle be able to extract the last page of each transition sequence and re-assemble?
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, but not without knowing which pages belong together in a structural sense
 
@DavidCarlisle If the slides are text-only, I might have a solution. :) The problem is with a complex workflow.
 
@JosephWright I thought (or I thought when I read the pdf spec last millenium) you (or pdftools for you) should be able to figure out from /Page and /Parent and /Trans and friends which were the transition sequences.
@JosephWright I was looking at these the other day for the question on site about omitting the transitions if following hyperref link, you just need to get the named anchor to go on the last page of the transition rather than the first... (couldn't get it to work though)
 
1:30 PM
@DavidCarlisle Normally, a beamer presentation has no transitions at all: just a series of pages that happen to look right. I've wondered about redoing it all with layers: would be very cool.
 
@JosephWright that wasn't true of my sample size of 2 :(
@JosephWright don't the part pages from <only> have conventional symbolic names even you could hook into?
 
@DavidCarlisle Possibly: I've not looked at the detail for a lot of this. The code is pretty scary, so I restrict myself to fixing out-and-out bugs.
 
@JosephWright so is the original developer still around?
 
@DavidCarlisle Till handed over beamer to Vedran a while ago. I help out when I can: to be honest Vedran feels that beamer 'works' so I do most of the bug fixes now.
@DavidCarlisle Till (Tantau) is still active on TikZ, I think
 
ah hadn't realised it's all part of the tikz mafia
 
1:38 PM
@DavidCarlisle Till wrote both, I'm not sure of the order
 
@JosephWright We can't deny the positive contribution of PowerPoint to LaTeX. Thanks to them, we have Aditya and Till while trying to figure out how to make presentations that don't suck.
 
Talking of @Aditya, I could do with his input on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67078/…. I'm sure this must be doable easily, but can't find the correct incantation in the ConTeXt wiki
 
2:19 PM
@DavidCarlisle I've had some more feedback from the SU mods. At least some might welcome it, but I think it would need to be in a form they can understand. So perhaps we can migrate it and you can answer ;-)
 
@JosephWright if I can answer it:-) Might look later (what tag would it have, I only dio into SO on a per-tag basis)
@JosephWright oh SU not SO? blurg
 
@DavidCarlisle It's about user 'stuff', not programming, so Super User is most appropriate
 
@JosephWright yes OK just never been there yet:-)
can be closed as dup see OP cpmment tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67084/…
 
2:47 PM
Someone wrote a detailed guide to installing OpenType fonts with LaTeX but I can't find the post - does that ring any bells?
And the guide did not say 'use XeTeX', etc. It actually detailed how to do it with LaTeX.
:)
 
3:04 PM
Guys, new format: tug.org/interviews/#others
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So I'm not in the spotlight. :)
They are our interviews. :)
 
3:25 PM
@PauloCereda Hi and great
 
@MarcoDaniel :)
@MarcoDaniel: how do you like quack? :P
 
@PauloCereda What is quack?
 
17 hours ago, by Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle: coming soon a new app: Quick Utility for Analysis and ChecKing. :)
I tried to set a trap for David, but he looked at the source first. :)
 
@PauloCereda A apple script ;-) This is my ;-)
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  echo 1>&2 Usage: texedit file1 [file2] ...
  exit 1
fi
gedit `kpsewhich $@` &
exit 0
 
@MarcoDaniel ooh cool! You were faster than me. :)
 
3:35 PM
@PauloCereda But I don't know if it works with apple
 
@MarcoDaniel Not with gedit, I guess, but the script should work. :)
 
@PauloCereda Indeed ;-)
 
 
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5:17 PM
Problem: My latest addition of the final packages of @HeikoOberdiek to the Who are the package maintainers here? showed a post character limit of 30000.
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Q: Who are the package maintainers here?

Andrew StaceyQuick links: LaTeX Packages ❧ LaTeX Classes ❧ ConTeXt Modules ❧ Generic Packages ❧ Support Scripts ❧ Biblatex Styles A fair few users here have written or maintain packages on CTAN, some even in the TeX Live distribution, or at the least have some official i...

We should think about this since the future of that post might include a large number of additions as more people register on TeX.SE.
What should we do with the answer specific to LaTeX packages?
 
@Werner Maybe we should split long lists in half. I'm not sure the SE framework in which we are based on allows certain posts to exceed the 30,000 limit. :(
 
@PauloCereda True, I found that via the beautiful yellow box... :(
I think an efficient split should be something like they do on meta.SO...
...I'll find the post...
...Mmmm, thought I tagged it as a favourite...
...seems not.
 
@Werner I remember that, for the community ad, the SE framework didn't allow me to post more answers (I had three or four already), so a dev "changed something" in the post. Maybe there's a fine tunning for a particular thread, but I really don't know. And usually the Powers That Be run away from us.
 
@PauloCereda Oh... but that doesn't have any longevity for other things.
 
@ expand experts: Is this correct?
\documentclass{article}

\makeatletter
\begingroup
\normalsize
\xdef\doublesize{\noexpand\fontsize{\noexpand\numexpr2*\f@size\noexpand\relax pt}{\noexpand\dimexpr\f@baselineskip+\f@baselineskip\noexpand\relax}\noexpand\selectfont}
\endgroup


\begin{document}
Text Text

\doublesize Text Text
\end{document}
 
5:24 PM
@MarcoDaniel I'm safe! :P
 
Perhaps we should split it up into A-M and N-Z for now. And, if need be, we can later split it into more categories.
 
@PauloCereda It works. But is there a better way?
 
@MarcoDaniel Dunno. :P
 
5:56 PM
Calling all ConTeXt experts (@Aditya, @TacoHoekwater, @PatrickGrundlach, etc.) Am I missing something in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67078/…? It took a while for me to find \inouter, but when I did I thought 'bingo'. Then it did not work :-(
As you might guess, this is annoying me
 
@JosephWright :(
I'm thinking of making another lyirics with babel this time. :)
 
6:22 PM
@PauloCereda: Did you receive my mail=
 
@MarcoDaniel I did. :) Reply coming soon later on today. :)
 
@PauloCereda my bed is calling ;-) and i can't resist :-P
 
@MarcoDaniel :)
 
7:18 PM
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Q: problem with loading tikz

user17597My coauthor sent me a latex file calling for tikz. I find that latex chokes on loading tike. I am using a freshly installed texlive2012 installation (but I checked same think happens on texlive 2011 an 2010). Test file: \documentclass[11pt,reqno]{amsart} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} blah...

TL?
 
7:31 PM
@Werner Definitely split the answer some how. Though as more people register, it becomes questionable how useful that question currently is. I'm reluctant to ditch it entirely, but it might be worth thinking about how that information could be organised so as to be actually useful - which means thinking again about what use one could make of it.
 
@MarcoDaniel competing with donald's relsize? I think you should use \gluexpr for the baselinskip although it seems to be working ok, must see what etex says about plus and minus components in dimexpr
 
8:13 PM
This one can be closed as too localized tex.stackexchange.com/q/67145/3954 ? (problem with outdated LaTeX system, now solved according to OP's comment).
 
@GonzaloMedina thanks. \protect saved the day again:-)
 
8:59 PM
@DavidCarlisle A high percentage of the problems can be solved by using \protect, \expandafter or some kind of box :-)
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@PauloCereda that's brilliant that the interviews are linked from TUG- congrats! Kudos to you for starting it all as well :)
quack :)
 
9:47 PM
@cmhughes My pleasure. :) I kindly asked Dave to remove my name from the entries. After all, it's our community. :)
 
@PauloCereda I understand. I think it was ok with your name though- you spear headed it :)
 
@cmhughes Oh. :) In the beginning, there was only me, but I never thought the TeXtalk would become a series. :D
 
@PauloCereda it's alive! and a wonderful creation :)
 
@cmhughes <Colin Clive's voice> It's alive, it's alive! </Colin Clive's voice> :)
 
When's @egreg get back?
 
9:51 PM
Hopefully the reference is spotted. :)
@Brent.Longborough I don't know. :( I miss him.
 
@PauloCereda that's the one! :)
 
@PauloCereda I was thinking more Carry on Screaming, but there you go
 
He commented on my "Turkish İ" question, but he seems to gave got it wrong !! I feel an apocalypse coming on...
 
@JosephWright That's a good one too. :)
 
10:04 PM
@JosephWright: What do you think of the edit in Frank's answer here? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/67144/what-is-called
 
@PauloCereda Left it for Frank to look at: I would not call it rude to say that not knowing anything about \\ suggests a need to read some LaTeX basics.
 
@JosephWright My thoughts exactly.
 
@PauloCereda I note that the edit is by the OP
 
@JosephWright Hm I missed that.
 
 
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11:25 PM
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A: LaTeX Companion as an ebook

Vladimir G. IvanovicI find that The LaTeX Companion 2/e is still an essential reference. At the very least it provides a starting point for using a package or performing a task. But since it is task-focused instead of feature-focused, it is often the best introduction to a package or a task available anywhere at any...

I think it's not an answer.
Maybe converted to a comment.
 

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