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1:19 AM
@HarishKumar At least one method exists: How to use Xindy with MiKTeX?. But do we know, whether the OP used this or has found another method?
 
1:55 AM
@Speravir I am not comfortable with my answer anyway :) I will delete it after some time. The question itself I didn't follow properly.
 
@HarishKumar Oh, let it. Is there something wrong?
@azetina @JosephWright @CodeMocker I commented on that:
And to your avatar: I’m sure there are people, who feel offended (me not, but I consider it as bad taste). It would be wise to change to something less eccentric. — Speravir 3 mins ago
 
In my opinion stackexchange.com is like an online university. It fits to mathematicians, scientists, engineers, chefs, etc but not for medical doctors because medical doctors might consider that this site disturbs their jobs.
 
@CodeMocker What? :-)
 
@Speravir :-)
@Speravir My avatar or his avatar?
 
@CodeMocker His (her?). Yours are usually cute or funny.
 
2:01 AM
@Speravir OK. Thanks. :-)
@azetina If we focus on his bra then it is too many (the correction for too much). But if he removes the bra then what will happen?
 
@CodeMocker Gynecomastia (Wikipedia link, probably NFSW in some countries)?
 
@Speravir Nothing wrong. But to what extent it will be useful I don't know given the OP's situation. He has not given all details.
 
@HarishKumar Hence my first question in comments. Perhaps we need more queries.
 
2:20 AM
@Speravir BTW do you know where are those txs files in windows?
 
@HarishKumar I just have upvoted after your link add ;-) I think you mixed up two option tabs: “Even though an entry exists for Make Glossaries in the build window (see figure below), it doesn't appear under the Commands of Tools menu”, you meant it can be seen in Tools, but not in Builds, or am I wrong?
 
@Speravir Thanks ;) No. The other way. It is seen in Build window. But not in Tools → Commands
@Speravir TeXstudio knows about Make Glossaries. But no explicit short cut or menu item for running it (stand)alone. May be it is given for use with latexmk.
 
@HarishKumar I think txs is just an internal (pseudo-)protocol. I am not a regular TeXstudio user BTW, I only have a portable version here.
 
@Speravir OK thanks.
 
@HarishKumar But then I misunderstand this sentence: You show a screenshot with commands from Tools menu, and there is a Makeglossary entry.
 
2:33 AM
@Speravir Not in mine :(
Or did I miss anything?
My version:
 
@HarishKumar Where is this screenshot from:
 
@Speravir It is from Options → Configure TeXstudio
 
@HarishKumar Aaaaah, my English failure! My TeXstudio is in German (same version, but portable).
 
@Speravir So nothing wrong in the answer right?
@Speravir Oh! German! :)
 
@HarishKumar Seems so.
 
2:38 AM
@Speravir Phew! Thanks. :)
@Speravir Bye for some time. See you later.
 
@HarishKumar One thing is disturbing me, though: In my portable version there is for Texindy the (wrong) entry texindy.exe without %.idx. In you screenshot it si right??!
@HarishKumar Oupps, bye for now.
 
@Speravir Oh my ghost. That is a miracle.
 
@CodeMocker grin
 
2:57 AM
:-)
 
3:48 AM
@Speravir ? I am back. Give me a minute.
 
@HarishKumar But I quit for now. Bye.
 
4:05 AM
@Speravir bye
 
 
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8:35 AM
@PauloCereda :)
 
 
1 hour later…
9:36 AM
We need more noise!
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
 
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
 
@Johannes_B That's the idea. :)
@Johannes_B: watch @egreg spoil the fun with \prg_replicate:nn {30}{la}
:)
 
@PauloCereda :-)
 
@cgnieder I see what you did there. :)
 
9:47 AM
@PauloCereda actually I have no idea what they're singing about (I never listened to the lyrics). But the title seemed to fit ;)
 
@cgnieder :)
 
@PauloCereda \def\la{la\la}\la
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh!
 
@PauloCereda If something's worth doing, it's worth doing infinitely often.
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@DavidCarlisle Oh my, this has to go in my arara manual when I tell people our concept of an infinite loop. :)
 
9:58 AM
@CodeMocker Of course, we fuck each other every evening (or what type of response should one give to such question?)
 
10:08 AM
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Q: \useplot with Text in CSV

JamesIs there a way to import & auto-plot a graph containing text in one column? Eg. Here's my table Period,Unit Sales (in thousands) Q1 '07,24943 Q2 '07,27855 Q3 '07,32752 Q4 '07,36766 Edit: Here's what I've tried: \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ xlabel = Period, ylabel = Unit Sales (thousand...

Is there a simpler approach to this?
I wonder if @christianfeuersanger could add a demo to the docs
 
@JosephWright Maybe opening a ticket in the tracker, Christian is very fast to deal with them. :)
 
@PauloCereda First I want to see if there is an easier solution!
 
@JosephWright \usepackage[razor]{occam} :)
 
@JosephWright every problem can be solved by sufficient amount of \usepackage{ducttape} or \usepackage{TNT} ;)
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@tohecz This one will go in the manual as well.
 
10:25 AM
@PauloCereda Apollo 13 was saved using duct-tape
 
@tohecz :)
 
Every time I have to port couple articles from Word, I need to process some badly LaTeXified one to know that the Word ones are not so bad
honestly, now, I consider just throwing the article back to the authors, saying that "you idiot, do not use \, and \ for anything else than n_1!\, n_2! in your article"
 
> using tabu' package doesn't help here, since its longtabu' environment relies on the `longtable' package and thus inherits the bug.
@DavidCarlisle: ^^ what?!
 
@PauloCereda s/bug/feature/g ;)
 
@tohecz :)
 
btw, are adding too much space in ones formulas and liking of eqnarray symptoms of claustrophobia?
 
11:02 AM
@cgnieder: youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y Prince making the Tele weep. :)
 
@PauloCereda Dieses Video ist in Deutschland nicht verfügbar, weil es möglicherweise Musik enthält, für die die erforderlichen Musikrechte von der GEMA nicht eingeräumt wurden. :(
 
@cgnieder Oh no, GEMA strikes again!
 
@PauloCereda But I have another nice weeping Tele: youtube.com/watch?v=_BHt47SxHsk :)
 
@cgnieder woooohooo
 
hi there
how are questions handled that solved themselfs
but the solution is not a good one?
 
11:19 AM
@Wandang Hello! :) I think there are two options: we either close the question as too localized, or you could answer your own question. Even if the solution is not good, apparently it is the only solution at the moment. If a new solution appears, it can be added as another answer, and if a similar question appears, we can check if it's a duplicate and close one in favour of another.
 
@PauloCereda but only under the condition that i do not mark mine as correct
i will go ahead and post it then
thanks
 
@Wandang Don't worry. :)
@egreg: I was playing Minecraft yesterday and I found some squids in-game. :) If we kill them, they drop ink. I think @David already knows this feature. :)
@Wandang: good job! I didn't upvote it because I'm out of votes right now, but I'll do it ASAP. :)
 
@PauloCereda no need. i dont like the answer myself. :P
 
@Wandang :) At least it deserves one upvote then. :)
 
and because i suck at latex my rep should go down
 
11:25 AM
@Wandang Hey everybody is a rookie at some point. :)
Except @egreg and @DavidCarlisle. :)
Knuth said, Fiat TeX! One minute after, egreg released his first package. :)
 
:) well thank you very much. i need to finish my paper now and SE chats get addicting after a short time. so i will force myself by going offline. cya
 
@Wandang See ya! :)
 
Hello to everybody! Does anybody know how to display a baseline of hbox?
 
@AndrewZabavnikov Hello! :)
I have no idea how to display the thingy of the other thingy, sorry. :(
 
@PauloCereda Why "thingy"? (Scratching my head)
 
11:39 AM
@AndrewZabavnikov I say thingy as thing. :) It's just my replacement pattern when I don't know anything about everything.
 
@PauloCereda yes:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Hello! Do you know anything about it?
 
@PauloCereda The small Italianl car version?
@AndrewZabavnikov what is "it" ?
 
@DavidCarlisle That thingy.
@Andrew: ^^ see? :)
 
@AndrewZabavnikov oh baseline of box? display where?
 
11:42 AM
@DavidCarlisle You probably need to \relax if you want enter the car. :)
 
@PauloCereda \resizebox
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh!
 
@DavidCarlisle Well, I'd like it on the box :-)
Two questions about chat. Is there a way to notify everybody of my message (yes, I'm annoying bastard!)? What are the dotty lines in the chat?
 
@AndrewZabavnikov \setbox0\hbox{...} \usebox{0}\kern-\wd0 \rule{\wd0}{1pt} probably works
@AndrewZabavnikov no, signify a time pause when no one posted
 
@DavidCarlisle Double thanks!
 
11:47 AM
@AndrewZabavnikov All you can do is post: everyone in the room sees a number, but you can't 'bing' them all
 
@JosephWright Thanks! (That means - no desktop notifications, no sound, right?) Just to note, it seems that after you have switched to other tabs for long time, there is no number.
 
@AndrewZabavnikov I usually see the numbers even after a long time, it often says 150 or so :)
 
@tohecz Hmmm... Okay.
 
@AndrewZabavnikov If you have Chrome, apparently there's some kind of desktop notification you can enable.
 
@PauloCereda Yeah, already enabled :-) Very convenient :) It should, I think, also work under Firefox.
 
11:57 AM
@tohecz just click in the text box and it resets
 
@AndrewZabavnikov I'm not a fan of notifications, so I can't comment. :)
 
@PauloCereda I'm, OTOH, prefer to be pushed instead of performing polls :-)
English is so not robust to errors :-)
 
@AndrewZabavnikov :)
 
12:32 PM
Several minutes ago I could not access this site. What happened?
 
Are we back?
woohoo
 
@tohecz I thought both of you are from Czech so you might have friendship. :-)
 
btw, anyone knows this game?
 
@tohecz It doesn't right a bell. :(
 
@PauloCereda ah, pity :(
 
kan
12:39 PM
Friends, could someone tell me how to draw a vertical line at x = 1 for y between -1 and 1 in pgfplot?
 
@kan plot sgn(x-1) from 0.99999 to 1.00001 ?
 
kan
@tohecz not the cleanest way to do it perhaps ....
I reckon that there is some magic with add extra tick/ grid point and monitor the size of that....
 
@kan not at all :p well, another option is that you can somehow make the plot coordinates correspond to the ones of TikZ, then it's easy: \draw (1,-1) -- (1,1);
 
kan
@tohecz unfortunately I am stuck with pgfplots (I have some polynomials to plot!
 
@kan you can mix pgfplots and tikz
 
kan
12:47 PM
@tohecz how do I get the coordinate systems to align then"
 
@tohecz That's quite old, I'd say. You had to collect items and escape from some enemies, blocking them with firewalls
 
@egreg well, I know the game, I'm looking for beta-testers of my new levels :)
 
@tohecz I had it on my first Mac (1986)
 
You have to manage to let all the dominoes fall, and there's couple rules
@egreg it is old, but now it's free (in Fedora @Paulo packaged as pushover)
 
@egreg TeX and gaming. :)
 
kan
12:56 PM
Perhaps, \pgfplothandlerycomb is what I am looking for? @tohecz
 
@kan I don't know. I know there was a question about it, but I can't find it.
People seem to tag everything pgf* with tikz, even when it's just pgfplots that are unrelated to tikz
 
@tohecz I read that as "@egreg is old":-)
 
@DavidCarlisle damn you
 
kan
@DavidCarlisle and how did you finish it off? :-)
 
How to learn what does this mean? \mathchardef\biglbracket@="0302
I mean, how to learn what 0302 is number for?
(And I DO understand that it is for some big left bracket:)
(Just don't know what is the symbol for it; or more precisely know nothing about TeX's fonts and charsets)
 
1:18 PM
@AndrewZabavnikov " means the number is in hex, which makes it easier for humans to decode. it looks easier in laTeX where there are names for things but the primitive syntax 0 is the math class (ord) 3 is the fam (math extension font) and 02 is the character position
 
kan
OK, figured it out
 
@AndrewZabavnikov some information can be found in tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html#mathchardef-rp
 
@DavidCarlisle @tohecz Thanks :-)
 
\DeclareMathSymbol{\biglbracket@}
{\mathord}{symbols}{"02} modulo typos
 
1:28 PM
@DavidCarlisle largesymbols?
@DavidCarlisle He's not as malicious as you.
 
@egreg David is naughty. :)
If you want to scare David, just hiss near him, he'll think a explosion is going on and will run. :)
 
@egreg yes I noticed that after but time had run out (@AndrewZabavnikov ^^)
@PauloCereda Nah I'd whack him with a pickaxe
talking of old mac users, i guess you saw this
 
@DavidCarlisle LOL you are my hero!
@egreg: what's your first Mac?
 
1:54 PM
 
@PauloCereda I walk in, and this is the first thing I see in the morning... I'm not really all that surprised anymore.
 
@SeanAllred You shouldn't. :)
 
@SeanAllred you'd have been more surprised if you'd just walked in to that shop....
 
@DavidCarlisle That guy in the back reacted in much the same way as I would not.
I would probably yell in terror.
 
@PauloCereda A beautiful Macintosh Plus, with 1 MB RAM (later 2.5) and a 45 MB hard disk.
 
2:08 PM
@egreg Cool. :) Now you have 16Gb RAM. :)
 
2:25 PM
@PauloCereda Quite a step forward.
@DavidCarlisle Indeed, it was announced during the Superbowl in 1984.
 
@egreg Indeed. :)
 
@PauloCereda Directed by Ridley Scott!
 
@egreg Hammertime! :)
 
2:52 PM
2 years completed :). With two breaks. One when I was in a forest ;) and the other one is when TeX.SX went to forest ;)
 
3:10 PM
@HarishKumar tex.sx went to forest?
 
3:32 PM
@kan \draw (axis cs:1,-1) -- (axis cs:1,1);
Or just \addplot [no marks] coordinates {(1,1) (1,-1)};
 
4:28 PM
Hi everybody! I have a problem that I can't isolate and thus not post a (good) question for.
 
@Raphael and ?
 
I have a 300p document and these warning are relatively new. In two places, I get

`\def \dpthimport { ... }}\dpthimport `

that somehow define the same labels. So, pdflatex complains about multiply defined labels.
As far as I can narrow down the sources, there is nothing that I don't do in dozens of other places as well.
So, two places that create about 10-15 of these things each.
In full, these types:

`\def \dpthimport {\newmarginnote {note.213.6}{{\themn@abspage }{0sp}}}\dpthimport`

`\def \dpthimport {\oddpage@label {476}{213}}\dpthimport `
What's funny is that the first appear also if I remove marginnote and showkeys, about the only things I can conceive to do sth like that.
I do use lstlistings but the code does not seem to be on the affected pages.
 
@Raphael you have to give more of a hint than that:-) there is nothing special about that name so you just said you have \def\foo{...}\foo which doesn't give much to go on:-) 300 is < 2^9 so if you take a copy of your document and halve it keeping the bad half each time after 5 or 6 iterations you should have something small enough to post. (you added the definitions while I was typing but they are from some package I don't recognise)
 
Any ideas how I can narrow down the issue?
@DavidCarlisle I know, but what I know is that this stuff happens nowhere else (I checked the aux file) and I don't do anything special around there, as far as I can tell. So I'm lost as to what could be relevant.
 
@Raphael why is \dpthimport defined twice, and why such different definitions?
 
4:36 PM
@DavidCarlisle Beats me.
I'm not doing this, if that's the question.
 
@Raphael You could try a hacking down approach to see if you can locate the particular area where the problem is occurring.
(I'm sorry there's not enough information for me to give any other suggestion.)
 
@NicolaTalbot Yuck... hoped one of you would say "ahhh, dpthimport and newmarginnote, that's particularity X in Y"
 
@Raphael isn't it in your file? or do you mean that is in the aux file or.... but as I say use binary chop
 
Okay.
No, that stuff comes from the aux.
Let me try the brute force then.
 
@Raphael Sorry, I've never heard of dpthimport.
 
4:38 PM
@NicolaTalbot me neither
 
@JosephWright I'm trying to set up a chat between me and a user with 6 rep. When I try to add him with explicit write access, I get either nothing (if I paste his tex.sx user url) or user not found, if I paste his stackexchange user url. What might I be doing wrong?
 
@AlanMunn I'm afraid that rep < 20 doesn't allow chatting
 
@AlanMunn What @egreg said
 
Okay, cutting away everything but these two problems (it's an exercise problem pool) retains the issue. TeXnically, I have some sections with lists. Cutting more...
 
@JosephWright: every project should have a girl in the team. /me looks at @NicolaTalbot :)
 
4:40 PM
@JosephWright But in the settings you can grant anyone such access if you do it explicitly (indepedent of reputation)
 
@AlanMunn No
 
Or at least that's what it claims.
 
@AlanMunn You can't log into the chat system without 20 rep
 
@JosephWright He shows up in the room...
 
@PauloCereda Ah :-) It makes a change for me to be the one sending bug reports rather than me saying "Oh no! Not another bug report!" :-)
 
4:41 PM
@AlanMunn give us a pointer and we could just vote and give the user 20 rep
 
@AlanMunn I guess it does say their reputation is too low: a bug?
 
@NicolaTalbot LOL
 
@JosephWright Yes. Because I seem to recall having been able to do this before.
 
@AlanMunn Try now
Got it: find their chat user ID and add that
 
@PauloCereda This new LaTeX book keeps picking up problems with datatool and datatooltk (and arara ;-) ). I'm beginning to wonder whatever possessed me to write it!
 
4:43 PM
[I can get into all the rooms :-)]
@NicolaTalbot :-)
 
@JosephWright Ok. So we each have three different numbers it seems. Thanks, Joseph.
 
@AlanMunn No problem
 
@NicolaTalbot For your next trick (there's a Doctor that said that, the one with the fantastic line?), you should use longtable as well, so we can poke David once in a while. :)
 
@PauloCereda I think the one example in my book that I haven't had a problem with is the one that uses longtable! (It doesn't do anything fancy, just uses \DTLdisplaylongdb that internally uses longtable.) :-)
 
Ah, shit, did not remove aux files between runs...
 
4:50 PM
Firefox just crashed. Damn.
 
@PauloCereda It's obviously the time of year for bugs. :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot LOL
 
@PauloCereda Must be something @DavidCarlisle did.
 
@AlanMunn Exactly! :)
 
Okay, it's a combination of TikZ externalisation and marginnote. Huh.
But now I have an MFE with 22 lines, so I can create a question...
 
5:14 PM
@AlanMunn thank you for that vote of confidence
 
@DavidCarlisle You're welcome. It's a sign of your omnipotence.
 
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Q: How to avoid multiply defined labels when creating margin notes in externalized TikZ pictures?

RaphaelI have a huge document (a pool of exercise problems) with lots of \input statements (one file per subexercise). In order to not get lost in this mess and easily open files from the PDF, I include a margin note with a link to the included file at every \input and \includegraphics. Now I started s...

I'm thinking savebox for the particular case, but a more extensive fix is probably necessary to fix margin note counters for externalised pictures?
 
@DavidCarlisle You're more accustomed with LaTeX bugs. ;-)
 
@egreg I was just going to mail Javier:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle @NicolaTalbot Thanks for making me do the work for this. I hope there's a (nice) solution.
 
5:26 PM
@Raphael good luck with that (I probably won't answer as I know nothing about tikz and I'm just about to get into a car:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle I didn't follow all the expansions, but there's a suspicious \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox and possibly a missing \leavevmode somewhere.
 
@DavidCarlisle That's fair, thanks for reading! Save drive, in any case.
 
@DavidCarlisle is it a lion?
 
6:12 PM
@Raphael I'm sorry I can't help, I've note used those package, but there are a lot of tikz users around who might be able to help. I suggest you replace someimage.png with example-image.png so it's compilable by anyone who has mwe installed.
 
kan
@TorbjørnT. Danke! Indeed, this is what I eventually got to...
Here's another one from the GIF world:
 
6:39 PM
Is there an easy way to extend the default vertical height of the cells in tabular?
 
@FaheemMitha that quite depends on what is "easy" for you
 
@tohecz Ok.
 
you can add >{\rule[-2ex]{0pt}{5ex}} in front of any lrc in the column spec; it will increase the "minimal" height
 
@tohecz Thanks
 
@FaheemMitha you're welcome
 
6:46 PM
@tohecz that worked, thanks. can you explain what this does exactly, and what those 3 nos mean?
 
@FaheemMitha >{...}l makes a column (in this case left-aligned), and it adds whatever is ... at its very beginning, in each row
\rule makes a black rectangle, the syntax is \rule[<depth>]{<width>}{<overall-height>}
 
@tohecz @FaheemMitha A simpler way for the whole table is to use array's \extrarowheight which will add an amount uniformly to every row.
 
@AlanMunn yeah, but then it makes them larger e.g. if they contain some fraction or whatever ;)
but @Fah you might want to have a look at the package booktabs, it makes very nice tables, I basically use it for everything ;)
 
@tohecz Well math in tables is always complicated anyway.
 
@AlanMunn yep
 
6:55 PM
@tohecz Yes, I used booktabs once.
 
@FaheemMitha That's not the way it should be. "I use booktabs (always)" is the correct form. :)
 
@tohecz So 0, 0, 0, will not change anything?
@AlanMunn well, maybe i'll try it again.
 
@FaheemMitha Yes, it will change a lot: it will make no space. You only want the width to be 0.
 
@FaheemMitha no. Nor will for instance in most cases \rule{0pt}{1ex} (the first number can be omitted)
If you want to increase only the space above, then e.g. \rule{0pt}{3ex} should do
@JosephWright Are you around, please?
 
\rule is defined in array?
 
6:58 PM
@FaheemMitha \rule is defined in latex itself ;)
!!/texdef -t latex rule
 
@tohecz Ok.
 
Ah Psmith is on a trip or sleeping
 
Guys can you look at this question and the requirements given as comments...
 
Ok, I'm not clear. In >{\rule[-2ex]{0pt}{5ex}} does this add those values to the default depth, width and height, or does it simply replace those values?
 
7:14 PM
@tohecz Just got back in from a swim
 
@SathishKrishnan You can use \cline{n-m} where n and m are first and last columns under which you want the line. Centring the heading vertically is much trickier, and possibly not worth the effort. Also, I would recommend getting rid of your vertical lines and using booktabs. Here's a version:
\begin{tabular}{clcc}
    \toprule
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bfseries First} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bfseries Characteristics} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\bfseries Implemented in}\\
    \cmidrule{3-4}
     && A&B \\ \midrule
    a & b & c & d \\
    1 & 2 & 3 & 4\\
    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
booktabs makes the vertical row spacing nicer, and implements better versions of the standard \hline/\cline.
@JosephWright Living up to your avatar? :)
 
@JosephWright do you think you could please remove the not exactly good chat post that got starred (3rd in the starred list now). I didn't think anyone would star it...
 
@tohecz LOL I was going to make a comment about the sad quality of almost all of the starred comments at the moment.
 
@tohecz Stars removed: should I zap entirely?
 
@Joseph Thanks a lot!
@JosephWright maybe, so that it doesn't attract more
@AlanMunn Yeah, and moneyfetamine :)
 
7:18 PM
@tohecz And the one about publishing papers.
 
thanks again, and I'm off for a dinner
@AlanMunn I see only 5, I have a small resolution
ah I see now, when I unzoom, more gets displayed :)
and I really go, later!
 
@AlanMunn We need lots of people to make witty and urbane comments, possibly involving mention of ducks. ;-)
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@NicolaTalbot Should I star that? :)
 
@AlanMunn Done.
 
@AlanMunn LOL :-)
Jan 23 at 10:15, by Nicola Talbot
It would seem that the most effective way of getting a comment starred is to ensure you include the word "duck" in it :-)
Seems I was right ;-)
 
7:24 PM
@NicolaTalbot And my comment to @JosephWright about living up to his avatar was just too subtle. It only implied 'duck'.
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That's it: say duck and get your message starred. :)
 
@PauloCereda Couldn't resist :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot You are very naughty these days. You should stop looking for bugs in other people's projects. :P
 
@PauloCereda If it's any consolation, I also found bugs in datatool.sty and datatooltk today :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot LOL we are very efficient at coding. :)
“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
--- Edsger Dijkstra
@NicolaTalbot: ^^ :)
 
7:29 PM
@PauloCereda For my next task, I'll find a bug at the centre of the known universe :-)
@PauloCereda LOL :-)
@PauloCereda Did I mention I found out why my epub generation tool was failing? It seems that tex4ht and koma don't play nicely together any more :-(
 
@NicolaTalbot If the Earth stops rotating, I know who to blame. :)
@NicolaTalbot Oh no. :(
 
@PauloCereda LOL :-)
@PauloCereda I think the new year must've jinxed me. Everything I use develops a bug. Even my car has stumped the mechanics.
 
@NicolaTalbot Well, I'm also stuck in some infinite loop of bugs. :)
@NicolaTalbot: LOL I got me a fork to have soup. :P
 
@NicolaTalbot Oh my!
 
7:41 PM
beamer is popular on the blog: I'll probably have 250+ hits today
 
@JosephWright Awesome!
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Q: What is a good format or package for writing a commentary about a paper?

SuperbestI often find myself writing commentaries on scientific papers. By this I mean an informal document written to collect all my comments regarding a peer reviewed publication (which is often about 10 pages, but can easily be from 5 to 20). These commentaries usually: Are short - 1-3 pages. Short ...

Is pencil a valid answer? :)
 
@PauloCereda Sounds good to me :-)
 
@JosephWright The overlay stuff is useful.
 
@JosephWright For me it's the most effective tool, I don't handle online annotations very well.
 
@NicolaTalbot Yes: will appear in a lightly edited form in TUGBoat
I have the proof, but Karl wants a bit more text, so I'll add in some of today's post
@PauloCereda Totally agree
 
7:45 PM
@JosephWright The only issue is when it conflicts with glossaries ;-)
 
@PauloCereda As a result, I don't really get things like ReadCube, etc.
 
@JosephWright Neither do I. :)
That's true even for books, I still like to have a physical copy. :)
 
@PauloCereda Again yup: I've got a new edition of a textbook to read, and am quite excited :-)
 
@JosephWright Yay! :) The postman keeps saying to me, "C'mon, Paulo, another book?" :)
 
@PauloCereda Physical books don't suffer from bugs. :-) (Unless, of course, the slugs or snails or maggots or ants get to them.)
 
7:50 PM
David is very quiet, maybe it was really a lion.
@NicolaTalbot Oh no! :)
 
@PauloCereda Perhaps we should start discussing cricket :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot Good idea!
Hey we surely need a l3cricket package.
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@PauloCereda I've got to write l3news for Karl!
Unless I can convince Will to
 
@JosephWright cool! :)
@JosephWright: by the way, mind if I reply to Sean's email?
 
@PauloCereda No, go for it
@PauloCereda At least it did arrive
 
7:53 PM
@JosephWright Thanks. I'll try to cover the topics. :)
@JosephWright Indeed. :) Let see if mine follows the same path. :) (Kidding, things are working :P)
 
@PauloCereda Great
 
hey guys
can i ask a quick question?
 
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