TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2014-01-26 (page 2 of 2)

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Paulo Cereda

23:00

@tohecz Float-only page.

tohecz

@PauloCereda yep, or maybe I'll manage

ok, I managed, but I got two orphans, one consisting of one word

egreg

@tohecz pdflatex and then an interactive session. ;-)

percusse

@tohecz If they are of the same type., it might look better so the reader doesn't have to go back and forth with the pages for comparison

tohecz

@percusse there's 5 of them. I managed to place them 2+2+1 on the neighbourring pages, I think it'll be fine

percusse

@tohecz Another happy customer then

Paulo Cereda

23:07

@percusse LOL

tohecz

@percusse well, my customer is the journal, and they somehow don't care about the quality of the output, in the sense that I know quite better than anyone there what to do

Paulo Cereda

I want to take a look at one paper of mine, and IEEE wants to charge me. Go research!

percusse

@tohecz It's a holy mission especially then

@PauloCereda Is it also 31$ worth of important contribution?

tohecz

@PauloCereda welcome to our world, pal :-/

percusse

My favorite is that you want to look at a paper's references and it doesn't allow. You then WANT to cite another paper and click download citations and it says buy the article !?

I want the same substance they are addicted to

Paulo Cereda

23:10

@percusse The more expensive the more useless. :)

@percusse moneyfetamine.

@tohecz We should publish a paper with all of our names. :)

percusse

is it a typo or you missed femme there :)

tohecz

@percusse I wouldn't like to be a freelance researcher. I at least get to almost everywhere using one of my two universities' IP

Paulo Cereda

@percusse LOL I see what you did there. :)

Quite interesting: publish paper, ~~get bitches~~ invite ladies for tea. :)

percusse

@tohecz It's actually good. You kind of realize how important to judge people's papers fairly. Because you can't ask everyone but only the relevant authors to send you the articles.

To be honest I'm more focused and up-to-date now than the paywall days.

tohecz

@percusse it probably quite depends on what you do...

percusse

23:16

Article collection is a very common disease in academia. I had 10K+ articles but maybe half read 2K+ of them. 500 I fully read, 100 I remember, 10 I really understand, few I can recite :)

Paulo Cereda

@percusse I just remember one paper by heart, and it's because of the title: Elephants don't play chess. :)

percusse

@PauloCereda I hope a theoretical one. Otherwise, it's a tautology :P

Paulo Cereda

@percusse It's because of their trunks. :)

percusse

Yes a trunk moves like a knight right?

David Carlisle

Cat (Unix)

The cat program is a standard Unix utility that concatenates and lists files. The name is an abbreviation of catenate, a synonym of concatenate. Usage The Single Unix Specification specifies that when the "cat" program is given files in a sequence as arguments, it will output their contents to the standard output in the same sequence. It mandates the support of one option flag, u (unbuffered), by which each byte is written to standard output without buffering as it is read. Many operating systems do this by default and ignore the flag. If one of the input filenames is specified as a...

Paulo Cereda

23:23

@DavidCarlisle <3

egreg

Ouch! How many downvotes does this one deserve?

Q: How to prevent set if default fonts

I'm using the comincsans package and I noticed that it automatically changes a lot of default fonts to comics. I was wondering if there is some command to restore everything to the default fonts? I've already tried \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{cmr} The problem is the comicsans package change a ...

fonts

Paulo Cereda

@percusse Yep. Damn trunks. :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda stupid chat system showed the wrong bit of the page of course:-)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle Ah the useless uses. :)

David Carlisle

@egreg deserves upvotes for trying to get out of using ComicSans?

percusse

23:27

@egreg I've narrowed down the scope by adding a tag :P

tohecz

@egreg finally a very good reason against MikTeX:

Sean Allred

explosm.net/comics/2301

(And a bit of time wasting later, something some of us might sympathize with: explosm.net/comics/3433) 'Night all :)

tohecz

23:44

night!

I hope this isn't too much flamish:

Sorry, it is impossible to resist. Try to visit this webpage: comicsanscriminal.com I mean, depending on what you want to do, Comic Sans might be a good choice, but very easily it may be not. — tohecz 4 mins ago

Speravir

@JosephWright In Formatting of heading List of Acronyms and list of tables glossaries package after I flagged this (and perhaps also others) unfortunately for you admins Werner already had included the MWE from ”answer” into question, and now this is doubled there … The reason for flagging was, of course, the erroneus answer should be deleted, too.