@Bugbusters It's the same as yesterday, but with inequalities it's worse: if you don't repeat the "x", you end up with "x<4/(-2)<-2" which is utterly false.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Good morning! I'm Psmith, the friendly TeX bot - the p in my name is silent, as in pshrimp. I'm here as a companion to our fellow users in the typographic land. As you probably noticed, I always reply under Paulo's account, but do not despair, I say, my replies are always preceded by my own name. Enjoy your stay at TeX.sx! If you need any help, just ask our chat residents. Cheerio!
When I was living in Brazil, I occasionally use to buy things like furniture and saucepans, but as I was obviously a foreigner, some people liked to try and push the price too high. So I would ask "how much is that frying pan", and they would say "two hundred dollars", and my reply was always "Errada a resposta!" (The wrong answer!)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
although (English word)
conjunction | though, even though, in spite of the fact that; but, except; granting or supposing that
, awldh'oh (IPA: \:02cc\:0254lð\:02c8o\:028a)
al-though (8 letters | 2 syllables)
1325 (High Middle ages) (688 years ago)
Old English
written: 161st most common (1 in 2137 words) ( > 99% conjunction)
spoken: 467th most common (1 in 6250 words)
(includes some inflected forms)
(none among common words)
Just building an otf font data database to while away the procrastination, with scripts and subfamilies and glyphs and stuff. Three million glyphs in 3000 fonts...
select count(*) from glyphs
count
2974858
select count(*) from families
count
6079
with temp as (select distinct family from families)
select count(*) from temp
count
1459
select count(*)
from families join glyphs using(fid)
where family = 'EB Garamond'
and subfamily = 'Regular'
count
4780
@PauloCereda I'm sure with a enough patience I might find the history of Psmith somewhere, but being impatient ... can I have a fortune too? ... (and how the hell is it working anyway? :-)
@FrankMittelbach There's a JS script that monitors the chat looking for specific triggers, then I wrote a server in my side that gets requests from the script and returns them. :)
!!/texdef -t latex -p multicol multicols
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\multicols:
macro:#1->\col@number #1\relax \ifnum \col@number <\tw@ \PackageWarning {multicol}{Using `\number \col@number ' columns doesn't seem a good idea. I therefore use two columns instead}\col@number \tw@ \fi \ifnum \col@number >10 \PackageError {multicol}{Too many columns}{Current implementation doesn't support more than 10 columns.\MessageBreak I therefore use 10 columns instead}\col@number 10 \fi \ifx \@footnotetext \mult@footnotetext \else \let \orig@footnotetext \@footnotetext \let \@footnotetext \mult@footn…
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
weather | Mainz, Germany
temperature | 15 °C (wind chill: 14 °C)
conditions | partly cloudy
relative humidity | 72% (dew point: 10 °C)
wind speed | 4.6 m/s
(30 minutes ago)
between 9 °C and 16 °C
clear (all day) | rain (mid-morning onward)
between 6 °C and 11 °C
rain (night to early morning) | clear (night to early morning) | few clouds (early morning onward)
| | |
low: 5 °C
Mon, May 13, 2:00am | average high: | 17 °C
average low: | 10 °C | high: 23 °C
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Gloucestershire 371/3 * v Hampshire 274/10
- Warwickshire 284/5 * v Middlesex 428/5
- Worcestershire 320/7 v Leicestershire 303/5 *
- England Lions 285/4 * v New Zealanders 285/10
- Surrey 237/10 v Durham 132/3 *
- Malaysia Under-19s 119/4 * v Nepal Under-19s 118/10
- Kuwait Under-19s 128/10 v Saudi Arabia Under-19s 103/10 *
- Afghanistan Under-19s 58 * v United Arab Emirates Under-19s 57/10
- Pune Warriors 94/5 * v Mumbai Indians
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
weather | Oxford, United Kingdom
temperature | 12 °C (wind chill: 9 °C)
conditions | partly cloudy
relative humidity | 58% (dew point: 4 °C)
wind speed | 9.3 m/s
(45 minutes ago)
between 4 °C and 13 °C
few clouds (early morning to late morning | late afternoon onward) | rain (late morning onward) | cloudy (late morning to late afternoon)
between 2 °C and 6 °C
rain (night to early morning) | few clouds (night | early morning onward) | clear (late night to early morning)
@DavidCarlisle Typical British understatement. :) Some years ago I was in London and I went to Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly, where I bought an umbrella. The shop clerk asked me if I wanted she to pack it and I pointed to the window. "Typical London weather!" she said.
It was a very good umbrella, by the way. It served me for more than ten years: just the right size to keep in my bag. Commuters always have their umbrella.
@PauloCereda I've got an APL compiler installed and every now and then I hit some key combination that flips the keyboard input from UK to APL: it's pretty scary then:-) ?⍵∊⍴~↑↓⍳○*⍺⌈⌊_∇∆∘'⎕
@egreg I had, and loved, a Knirps many years ago. Running across a busy street in Mexico City, I slipped in mud on the far pavement, fell on it, and turned it into a pretzel.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
shrubbery (English word)
1 | noun | an area where a number of shrubs are planted
2 | noun | a collection of shrubs growing together
shr'uhberee (IPA: \:0283r\:02c8\:028cb\:025di)
shrub-ber-y (9 letters | 3 syllables)
shrubberies
area | country | botany | flora | vegetation (total: 5)
rubbery
(based on typical American pronunciation)
scrubbers
(none among common words)
shrubbery.com | shrubbery.net | shrubbery.org | shrubbery.info | shrubbery.biz (total: 5)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
6808 Plantin (1932 CP) (minor planet)
current distance from Earth | 1.469 au
12.22 light minutes
average distance from Earth | 2.37 au
19.7 light minutes
current distance from Sun | 2.05 au
17.1 light minutes
largest distance from orbit center | 3.68×10^8 km
2.46 au
nearest distance from orbit center | 3.04×10^8 km
2.04 au
orbital period | 3.37 Julian years
discovery year | 1932 (81 years ago)
right ascension | 10^h 56^m 2^s
declination | 9° 22'
Regulus | Alphard | Spica | Pollux | Procyon | Arcturus | Castor | Alioth | Dubhe | A…
!!/answer Who is David Carlisle?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
David, Chiriqui, Panama to Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
8572 km (kilometers)
aircraft (550 mph) | 9 hours 40 minutes
sound | 7 hours
light in fiber | 40 ms (milliseconds)
light in vacuum | 29 ms (milliseconds)
(assuming constant-speed great-circle path)
0.21 ~~ 1 / 5
David | 10:55 am EST | Saturday, May 11, 2013
Carlisle | 4:55 pm GMT/BST | Saturday, May 11, 2013
| David | Carlisle
city population | 82859 people (country rank: 4th) (2004) | 72633 people (country rank: ~~119th) (2004)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
Gramond, Midi-Pyrenees, France
city population | 376 people (2004 estimate)
5:56 pm CEST | Saturday, May 11, 2013
12 °C (wind chill: 9 °C) | relative humidity: 67% | wind: 9 m/s | cloudy
Rodez, Midi-Pyrenees | 19 km (kilometers) east-northeast | 24289 people
Albi, Midi-Pyrenees | 42 km (kilometers) south-southwest | 48889 people
Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees | 103 km (kilometers) southwest | 426700 people
Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon | 141 km (kilometers) east-southeast | 244700 people
@MarcoDaniel the depth is why I added the strut! (if you look at the image in the original post (without a strut) you'll see the problem) the note on a line with a descender is misplaced, by adding a strut you know how much it needs to be raised by (\dp\strutbox)
@Brent.Longborough Yes, and edit wars are seriously counter productive, so I don't want to rollback the rollback. @MarcoDaniel Thanks for the comment, maybe that will help.
Here is what I got, using your code. Can you tell me, why is the vertical gap between the horizontal line & 1 & 2 texts is bigger, then between the line & "text" text?
@MarcoDaniel Your comment did the trick. The problem was editing via rollback. I've reimplemented part of my previous changes, which I assume will be accepted without a fuss.
is there a converter available to generate tex code out of powerpoint slides?
beamer documentcalls is preferred. another tex code is accepted if beamer output would not possible. is there maybe an open source project available to modify the converter?
A common trend among tech (as in technology) users is that whenever they see something a little complicated, they go : Oh, let me use an API and bla bla and tweak to make a converter from this to that. Unfortunately, they also started to discover TeX.
@AlanMunn Also remember, though, that each post has someone's name on it, so if they really want to say something one way then that's how it is (see for example Barbara Beeton's lower case business)
@JosephWright Thanks, it's ok now. The person used rollback instead of just editing, so some changes that I made then got reversed. We've now reached a compromise. :)
@user4035 It's so called 'formal tables' where vertical rules are bad news: things like 'fill in by hand' grids or indeed fixed-format documents are a different case
you see the space to the 9 (was 2) is governed by baselineskip not by the height of the 9, so when you add medskip above and below the line the visual space is still bigger
@user4035 so basically just use \vspace{} for a value that looks right (the visual appreciation of the white space and TeX's measurement of box reference points are not directly related:-)
\begin{tabular}{|p{2cm}|p{2cm}|}
\hline
line 1 line 1 line 2 line 2 line 2 line 2&
1
\par\medskip\nointerlineskip\hbox to \hsize{\kern-\tabcolsep\hrulefill\kern-\tabcolsep}
\vspace{-1mm}
2\\
\hline
text & text\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
@egreg Yes, Now I've installed it under cpan under cygwin, after a lot of irritation. Looks good. Didn't like the look of Chocolatey at all - Imagine using ie to download stuff!
@egreg After so many years, Perl is still fantastic. "The Swiss Army Chainsaw"
I downloaded MiKTeX and got TeXworks. A document in TeXworks can be typeset with several alternatives: LaTeXmk, pdfTeX, pdfLaTeX, pdfLaTeX + MakeIndex + BibTeX, XeTeX, XeLaTeX, XeLaTex + MakeIndex + BibTeX, ConTeXt (LuaTex), ConTeXt (pdfTeX), ConTeXt (XeTeX), BibTeX, MakeIndex.
But I miss AmSTeX...
is there a converter available to generate tex code out of powerpoint slides?
beamer documentcalls is preferred. another tex code is accepted if beamer output would not possible. is there maybe an open source project available to modify the converter?
