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7:57 AM
@PauloCereda Isn't it unfair that @David get's a \long er weapon?
 
8:36 AM
@tohecz I answer with a famous quote: “When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol's a dead man. Let's see if that's true. Go ahead, load up and shoot.”
 
 
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11:27 AM
@tohecz Let's say Joseph can hit him first. :)
So Microsoft bought Nokia.
@DavidCarlisle: no TikZ badge yet? :)
 
@PauloCereda lol :)
 
11:54 AM
@PauloCereda no:(
 
@DavidCarlisle One of the answers is CW, so that doesn't count.
 
@TorbjørnT. ah. another "no tikz tikz answer required then:-)
 
12:12 PM
Oh great, now my terminal is speaking German!
> Tut mir Leid, Jost, aber Du bist ein unertraeglicher Troll.
Was soll das? Du *beleidigst* die Trolle!
	-- de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc

paulo@alexandria ~$
 
Anonymous
12:33 PM
\end{chat}
 
wat
Oh great, no one can talk now.
Unless we do some \endgroup trickery.
Where's @David to save the day? :) Answering TikZ questions, I suppose. :P
 
Anonymous
12:54 PM
@PauloCereda Nope, TeX will just ignore what comes after the \end, doesn't it ? .
 
kan
Could someone please tell me if they can connect to the site: memrise.com?
That is, do you see an advert site or something genuine?
 
@kan Ad site.
 
kan
@TorbjørnT. Hmph! I wonder what happened to the site.
Thank you @TorbjørnT. :)
I use it regularly for learning some French vocabulary.
 
@PauloCereda true actually
 
Is this bloke some doppelganger that went wrong?
I'll fry in hell, I know. :)
@AlanMunn: ^^
@DImension10AbhimanyuPS In LaTeX, that's true for \@@end, since \end is used for environment. :)
 
1:10 PM
I don't know, if this is a question suitable for meta, but I'd really like to know who decides which questions go to the News feed at tex.stackexchange.com/feeds ?
 
kan
@TorbjørnT. It is even more surprising given that they sent me a reminder mail at 6 o clock this morning.
 
@PauloCereda I must buy a new phone.
 
@egreg Uh-oh. :)
I have a Moto so far. :)
You could get an iPhone. :)
 
kan
@egreg oopsie.
 
David of course is a Samsung fan. :)
 
1:38 PM
@PauloCereda Former chair of UK-TUG :-)
I checked the e-mail address ;-)
 
@JosephWright You gotta be kidding. :)
Paulo Cereda on September 03, 2013

Hello friends, welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today’s interview: our friend Khaled Hosny, 13k+ rep, 96+ badges, a very active member of our community and our XeTeX/LuaTeX resident expert. Get ready for this awesome interview!

Friends, are we about ready to go?

We’re waiting for our official interviewer to start.

Ok, Paulo is busy so I guess that’s me.

Hi all, sorry had brief power outage just when I logged in :)

No problem. These things are quite flexible :-) …

 
kan
@JosephWright So, is it a genuine account or a joke?
 
@kan Totally genuine: I always have to check the spellings as a result
 
kan
@JosephWright Oh, I see. I don't follow your remark however.
 
I decided to publish our interview, since Khaled is probably busy. :)
 
1:43 PM
@kan We have Alan Munn as a regular here, plus I know Alun Moon on UK-TUG, so remembering which way to spell Alan is tricky (my grandfather was also Alan, and my sister's father-in-law is too)
 
kan
@JosephWright Oh, I see! Got it!
 
@DavidCarlisle: another answer by adding % to the end of the line. :P
 
2:01 PM
I'm losing hope on these captchas.
 
@PauloCereda :-)
 
@JosephWright The end is near, it seems. :)
 
2:44 PM
 
3:52 PM
@PauloCereda Very weird.
 
@AlanMunn And chair of UK-TUG. :)
 
@PauloCereda @JosephWright Oh wow. His last name is how many Europeans pronounce my name. His first name is the Welsh spelling of my name, so I assume he's Welsh.
 
@AlanMunn Oh my.
 
4:37 PM
Google bought Motorola?!
Oh.
 
@DavidCarlisle Holy cow, an evil robot chicken!
 
5:25 PM
WOW, you are a tex machine :) — tdi 5 mins ago
 
5:46 PM
@egreg In view of your reply to that comment you should have done it in amstex (if you can still remember)
 
@DavidCarlisle Just remove some \begin
 
 
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7:25 PM
Hot news from the Fedora world!
The Fedora 20 release name is: Heisenbug
 
kan
@PauloCereda :P
 
@kan My suggestion was rejected. :(
 
kan
@PauloCereda oops! What was your suggestion?
 
@kan Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerk-bauunterbeamtengesellschaft
Such a good name. :)
 
kan
@PauloCereda VERY big, unfortunately!
 
7:31 PM
@kan Of course, I was somehow trolling them. :)
 
kan
:-))
 
But I usually suggested good names in the past. :) None accepted, though. :(
One of them got far, but one of the moderators thought it would be hard to move from this name on.
Fedora has a strict policy on how the next version depends/relates to the current one.
 
hhh
$ awk '{print $1 "\t" $2}' DATA.txt
16 ACP-DG01-A
17 ACP-DG02-A
27 CCW-HX01-X

I try to replace ACP-DG01-A with 16, ACP-DG02-A with 17 and CCW-HX01-X with 27. How would you do it?
 
kan
@PauloCereda Haha!!
@PauloCereda Oh, bad luck!
 
hhh
...trying to find some sed batch replace..
 
7:39 PM
@kan For your amusement: )
 Release name relationships

Name n and n+1 must share an is-a (not a has-a) relationship, but n and n+2 must not share the same is-a relationship as n and n+1. The release names we put up for vote tend to have multiple meanings so as to allow us to select a new name with a different relationship for the next release. It is part of the fun!
 
kan
@PauloCereda GOD!!
That is complicated!
 
hhh
@SamWhited sure but there must be a simpler batch-mode, moved the question here: stackoverflow.com/questions/18600278/…
There is no reason to repeat oneself.
basically a solution would be to read the file line-by-line and use the same command again-and-again, trying to figure it out -- it must be some very simple thing to do.
 
@hhh apply sed do the file so every line looks like s/left/right/g then you can apply that file to your data with sed -f sedfile datafile
 
sed -e 's/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/g' test.txt
 
7:54 PM
@SamWhited of course you get bonus points if you use latex3 l3regex instead of sed
 
hhh
seriously -- calm down, think about this -- AWK works columnwise, it must be the simplest solution. Thinking... awk -i ReplacThings' {$1=$2; print}' file,
 
No one likes my one liner sed. I'm off to kill some puppies.
 
@PauloCereda it's one line but it doesn't do what's asked does it?
 
@DavidCarlisle Who knows? :)
 
@PauloCereda and you'd kill puppies just because of that?
 
8:01 PM
My comprehension is probably wrong.
@DavidCarlisle Nope. :)
 
@PauloCereda just ducks?
 
@DavidCarlisle oh no, leave the ducks be!
^^ ouch is that English?
 
@PauloCereda yes (but too late, they are already crispy)
 
@DavidCarlisle Duck barbecue? That sounds wrong. :)
@SamWhited :P
 
@PauloCereda just noticed the interview posted! will go and read, missed it as I was away
 
8:06 PM
@DavidCarlisle Have fun, it was a great interview! :) We missed you. :)
@DavidCarlisle: spoiler alert: no emacs, and vim praising near the end.
 
@PauloCereda just saw that. amazing he gets any releases out at all.
 
kan
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
8:22 PM
@DavidCarlisle :)
 
hhh
It is so odd in how many different ways people can understand a simple question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18600278/sed-or-awk-simplest-batch-replacement-according-to-columnwise-file-of-format-r

Clearly next time have to follow the simplest mantra: Input and Intented Output -- how?
 
kan
@hhh You should NOT have downoted those answers!! They chose to give you an answer based on their interpretation! It is your duty to ask an unambiguous question!!!
Anyway, beyond all this, I'd have liked to appreciate their time!
 
hhh
@kan Why? I downvote because I don't want more this kind of questions where people are unable to read until the final dot.
 
kan
@hhh Well, this is internet. Sorry friend.
 
When the eraser works more than the pencil, you probably should change your approach.
 
8:36 PM
@PauloCereda Well if it is a pen the eraser works until it vanishes on the first error. :P
 
@percusse Ah, pencil then. :)
 
@PauloCereda Then I agree, you are writing with the wrong end of the pencil
 
@percusse Or writing with the eraser!
 
I'm so funny today.... How typical
 
@percusse Two pencils entered in a bar... :)
Then the bartender said
- Don't buy this drink, it's too ex-pencil-ve! :)
Oh my.
 
8:41 PM
I can lower the level even more
Then the bartender said 2B or not 2B
OK where is my coat...
 
@percusse LOL
@percusse: I will lower.
Let's end this pencil joke contest, it's pointless.
:)
 
hahaha OK you asked for it... let me google something
 
@percusse ooh! :)
Wait for @DavidCarlisle and some C-x pencil-joke. :)
 
my english is not that good you know :)
 
@percusse <3
 
8:46 PM
Then the bartender said show me your papers
 
I see @frankmittelbach made the TeX-sx newsletter :-)
 
@JosephWright Oh my, do we have a newsletter? :)
 
@JosephWright ?
 
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I'm currently looking at various questions related to multicol and try
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@PauloCereda You can sign up to it somewhere: your profile I guess
 
@JosephWright Cool!
 
8:48 PM
BTW, I'm at a conference so a bit busy until Friday evening
 
 
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10:00 PM
Why is there no Asymptote output when I compile g.kov's answer as follows?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{latexmkrc.pl}
sub asy {return system("asy '$_[0]'");}
add_cus_dep("asy","eps",0,"asy");
add_cus_dep("asy","pdf",0,"asy");
add_cus_dep("asy","tex",0,"asy");
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{filecontents*}{integral.tex}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[inline]{asymptote}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{asy}
settings.prc=false;
settings.tex="pdflatex";
settings.render=0;
import solids;
size(300);

currentprojection=orthographic(camera=(18,-90,30),up=Z,target=O,zoom=1);
 
@PSTikZ Did you compile with latexmk?
 
@PauloCereda Yes but via \immediate\write18 as shown in the code.
 
@PSTikZ Oh.
 
-shell-escape is also used when I compile the code with pdflatex.
Only the graphics caption is shown in the PDF output, no asymptote output.
 
just got a 3rd yearling badge:-)
 
10:15 PM
What is the correct extension for latexmkrc file? I used .pl, is it correct?
 
10:47 PM
@PSTikZ I believe that no extension should be used; or .latexmkrc
If I use \begin{filecontents*}{.latexmkrc} it works
@PauloCereda arara needs an Asymptote rule.
 

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