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7:47 AM

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Q: "songs" package, author font

11:07 AM

Cricket news so far? :)

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I'm creating my own songbook with "songs" package. I would like to customize font of song author benith song title. I searched the documentation and only found option to change song title font (\stitlefont) but not song author (or any other Beginsong Keyvals). I would like to enlarge author name...

songs

@egreg: small caps galore! :) ^^

ooh Chris is here! :) Hi @cmhughes! :)

@PauloCereda hey Paulo :) how are you? Gearing up for a new arara release? :)

@cmhughes I'm fine, thanks. :) Working at a slow pace, but we will soon have a new version. :) Rule formats will change; they will become easier and way more powerful. :)

@PauloCereda sounds great! I'm excited to see it :)

@cmhughes Sneak peek on its way. :)

@PauloCereda ooh, sounds great!

11:31 AM

@PauloCereda Impressively awful. ;-)

@PauloCereda During my tour I saw a village called Strcma. Try saying it. ;-)

@egreg :)

@cmhughes: sent. :)

@egreg String something. :P

@PauloCereda holy yaml, Batman, that's some clean rule syntax!

@cmhughes It's a complete scripting language.

:)

@PauloCereda very nice, I like the look of it. Does it mean that users have to re-write their old rules?

@cmhughes Sadly yes. The problem is that YAML was not meant to be used the way I used. :(

@cmhughes I might try writing a converter. :)

11:37 AM

@PauloCereda ok, no big deal - how should users keep updated with the new release?

@PauloCereda Actually it was Strmca (I checked on maps.google)

@egreg Strmca? Sounds like a Czech word :D

@tohecz Slovene.

ah :) I thought it was a C string function for something

@PauloCereda By the way, do you know that Slovaks call their language slovenčina, while Slovene call their language slovenščina? Big difference indeed.

11:43 AM

@egreg and the countries are Slovensko and Slovinsko in the Czech language

@tohecz But Slovene has ja for saying yes.

@tohecz How's it in Slovak?

@tohecz And Croatian has nemoj for no, which I believe comes from Hungarian.

@egreg In Slovak? Hej or Áno

In Czech, it is Jo or Ano

Peter Grill recently passed 100K - perhaps i missed the celebration, but congratulations to him, and thank you for everything you do for the site :)

Heiko Oberdiek

11:58 AM

Jul 16 at 14:27, by egreg

@HeikoOberdiek thank you, Heiko, I knew I must have missed it :)

@ChristianHupfer @Papiro Please don't approve every edit. Especially if they are minor and the post is old

@percusse: I have also rejected some this morning ;-)

@ChristianHupfer third time is the charm

This review system is simply idiotic.

@percusse: Perhaps, a retag was small, but ok for me, but improving style also ok, the 3rd. editing concerning the title was even too minor for me.

12:14 PM

@ChristianHupfer For example take this type of edits tex.stackexchange.com/posts/192099/revisions

They bring nothing but trouble

@ChristianHupfer Yes and I'm tired of discussing this nonsense with them. Btw you are getting there too with the numbers eh ?:P

@percusse: Take a look on my 'reject' stats, so I reject far more than others, on a percent level ;-)

@percusse: The link you posted has nothing to with me, as far as I can remember, I have not reviewed it and if I would have done it, there would have been a rejection, most probably, as in the other case today.

@percusse: Perhaps, you write a message to the guy being on an edit spree already for days

@ChristianHupfer I'm not cherrypicking so I just picked a random one. But I'm pretty sure there are like that on that list that you might have approved. I don't imply that you are doing harm per se. But this edit approval hardly brought any good in the time I'm registered on this site. When you provide buttons to users they keep clicking but you can also skip them if you see the OP is active on the site

@ChristianHupfer We had enough discussions about it in the past. You can search for it on the history in this corner. Some bitter some cheerful discussions but they never stopped clicking those fucking buttons

@percusse; I do not claim that I have approved sometimes too fast, admitted, sometimes I regretted it, but I cannot undo it.

12:26 PM

Also they are in a skewed way contributing to the site etc. so I decided to wait SO mods to get their stuff together and drop this mechanism

@percusse: Small typo by me: ... that I have not approved sometimes too fast

1:42 PM

@cmhughes, @egreg: sorry, mass time. :)

@egreg String memory calloc. :)

@cmhughes You are already in the restricted circle with access to the wacky developers. :) Hopefully the manual will be friendly enough to help a smooth upgrade. :)

But I'll wait a couple of months after the official release before uploading to CTAN.

1:55 PM

@PauloCereda Thursday should be the day. ;-) And DPC is still at about 7000 points from 200K. :P

England: 319 (105.5 overs)
India: 295 & 342-9 (102.5 overs)

It seems that England has some (small) chances to win.

@PauloCereda That almost devowelized name was striking. As the name of the last town in Slovenia, before going to Austria: Tržič.

@egreg ooh another party! :)

@egreg Wow! :)

@PauloCereda The Ljubelj/Loibl pass, north of Tržič, connects the Sava and the Drava valleys. They are the two main tributaries of the Danube.

England: 319 & 0-0 (0.5 overs)
India: 295 & 342 (103.1 overs)

@egreg Blue Danube? :)

2:10 PM

England needs 319 runs to win.

Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri

@egreg: today we will have filetto Stroganoff. :)

Joseph and David are watching cricket, I guess.

@egreg: do you know this church?

The Church of Saint Anne in the Vatican (), known as ' (), is a Roman Catholic parish church in Vatican City, dedicated to Saint Anne. The church is the parish church of the State of Vatican City and is placed under the jurisdiction of the Vicariate of the Vatican City and is located beside the Porta Sant'Anna (Saint Anne's Gate), an international border crossing between Vatican City State and Italy. Commissioned by the , Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola introduced the oval plan to church design, for the first time in the churches of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia and Saint Anne in Vatican, pione...

Saint Anne is the patron saint of my city.

2:30 PM

@PauloCereda I don't think it's possible to visit it without a special permission. Accessing the Vatican requires invitation, as far as I know, except for St. Peter's, the “Musei Vaticani” and a few other places.

@egreg Ah I didn't know that. :(

@PauloCereda At the gate near that church, as at all the other gates leading to the “inner Vatican” there are Swiss guards that apparently know everyone entitled to enter with a permanent permit: if you stay long enough besides one of those gates, you'll see that they always let people go in without stopping them. But if you try, they'll immediately stop you.

@egreg Oh my. I'd like to visit the Vatican some day.

@PauloCereda The museums are among the main in the world. They of course include the "Raffaello's rooms" and the Sistine Chapel, but also the collections are great.

@egreg Cool.

2:43 PM

Meanwhile, a wicket fell. Good for India. Now tea time.

@egreg I have no idea how to read the score. :P

bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/28388759

2:59 PM

@egreg Yes

@JosephWright Are you watching the match?

@egreg Not on the TV nowadays :-( Following online (might put TMS on tomorrow)

youtube.com/user/ecbcricket

@JosephWright No cricket on Italian Sky TV.

Please don't touch

Hi folks, when I converted the form nta.go.jp/tetsuzuki/shinsei/annai/shinkoku/pdf/07.pdf to EPS, I got the following error. As a result, the EPS output has some distorted characters. What should I do?

4:25 PM

WICKET - Bell b Ishant 1 (Eng 71-3) Bowled him! England are are in all sorts of trouble now. Ishant Sharma gets one to keep low, taking the off stump of Ian Bell clean out of the hallowed Lord's ground. India are jubilant, their fans in the stands rowdy. Two quick wickets have got them right on top in this match. Is there any way back for England?

@egreg :-(

@egreg Following on the BBC?

@JosephWright 248 runs with only 7 not out? It-could-be-done, Dr. Frankenstein (pronounce fronkensteen) would say.

@egreg Quite doable, but it will be a 5th day wicket and lets be honest, England are not battling well

@JosephWright Just a little more of two runs per over: not really good, even if I judge only by doing arithmetic.

@egreg Another wicket (Cook)

Please don't touch

4:35 PM

A nice ice cream man:

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@egreg Froderick. :)

Hi... anyone here that's good with fonts? I used otftotfm to use my own font but class options like 10pt and 12pt seem to be ignored (although the console shows no error message).

The font I used has up to 72 pt font sizes so that's not it.

5:20 PM

Also \large seems to be unavailable. Really strange.

5:49 PM

@1010011010: You do not use a class, where some font commands are relaxed or meaning the same as another font size command? (e.g. as in book with \huge and \Huge)

6:15 PM

@ChristianHupfer I'm using article.

@1010011010: Perhaps this is more a real question post for TeX.SX, not for chat?

Who knows? ;-)

@1010011010: Mico, perhaps?

@1010011010: And of course the other usual 'suspects' here ;-) You, know, the cricket fan club ;-)

@JosephWright It seems that strenuous resistance is the only way to get a draw. ;-)

@JosephWright Or praying for rain. How's the weather forecast?

7:09 PM

Could one of the moderators please give a slight hint to the guy on a edit spree, to stop those minor changes editing of (predominantly) old posts

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7:24 PM

@ChristianHupfer You need to use the magic spell: @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright @JosephWright

And no, he won't get that many pings, just one. :)

@PauloCereda: I know of @ :D I thought, Joseph, Stefan or Martin would be here in chat anyway ;-)

@ChristianHupfer They are, but sometimes you need to ping them. Tab opened, not current. :)

@PauloCereda: I will do next time ;-) Anyway, it seems to have worked ;-) The spree passed away ...

@PauloCereda you need to distribute the pings over messages >:-)

@StefanKottwitz That would be very mean. :)

7:36 PM

@PauloCereda spree means spree

@StefanKottwitz And vice versa. :)

@PauloCereda I guess you don't own yet the secret ping-a-mod-25-times-in-1-minute-badge?

it's a bronze badge, for silver and gold you may have to do more experiments

@StefanKottwitz I might get some banned for life badge. :)

@PauloCereda silver on TeX.SE, gold on whole SE

!!/eightball: Should Paulo be awarded the banned-for-life-badge

8:37 PM

@PauloCereda You called?

8:48 PM

@JosephWright :)

9:12 PM

@JosephWright There was a call to the super mods. :)

10:03 PM

@1010011010 what font sizes have you told latex are available? (that is what does the .fd file look like?)

@egreg been offline visiting family, so I missed your cricket reports, I gather mostly bad news..

@DavidCarlisle 214 runs to win. With four wickets lost. You need batting really well, I guess.

@egreg oh well not to worry, dad was watching the golf anyway:-)

@DavidCarlisle Probably no English player involved. ;-)

@DavidCarlisle Are you already praying for rain?

@egreg it's best to be inclusive and cheer for Britain rather than England when someone from Northern Island wins

@egreg I have faith our tail end will score the needed runs and snatch victory

@DavidCarlisle I used lines like this one: \DeclareFontShape{T1}{Bembo}{m}{n}{<-> T1--Bembo--Regular}{}. It's taken straight from the otftotfm question at tex.stackexchange.com/a/52902/…. I'm assuming this defines the font for any font size I can think of (e.g. I didn't specify a specific font size there).

What's funny is that \LARGE, and superlatives all work fine. It's just the \Large one that won't quit yapping.

10:15 PM

@1010011010 looks about right

@1010011010 you know the drill: it doesn't "yap" what does it say exactly

@DavidCarlisle Haha in this case it honestly doesn't say anything. :D I just couldn't find a more suitable expression.

@1010011010 make a docum,

@DavidCarlisle A document won't mean anything if you don't have the fonts installed. I'll compile a zipped file with a .tex document along with map,fd files and the font itself.

@1010011010 yes it will just make a mwe (on site better than here) with \begin{document} aaa \large bbb\end{document} plus a preamble that loads your font and does \showoutput` post the resulting log

@DavidCarlisle Hm that was actually useful. I think it has to do with the font file itself.

10:30 PM

Good night ;-)