@CarLaTeX awww thank you <3

@PauloCereda A rapid way to remember that button refers to arara :), thank you for having created that package!

@CarLaTeX My pleasure, thanks for the kind words! Hopefully, when I finally release v4, things will be even better. :)

@PauloCereda I'm looking forward to the next release!

@CarLaTeX ;)

@DavidCarlisle A scary witch!

\newunicodechar{^^^^202f}{\leavevmode\,} — this is not compatible with pdfTeX, is it?

@wilx no

@wilx \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{202f}{\leavevmode\,} is

@DavidCarlisle Well, I would have to use this in pdfLaTeX and the other way in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.

@wilx it's trivial to make \DeclareUnicodeCharacter work in xe/luatex a lot less so to make ^^^^ work in pdftex

@DavidCarlisle Is it?

How?

That aside, is it possible to do this somehow? \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2029}{\par}

I get…

! Paragraph ended before \DeclareUnicodeCharacter was complete.
<to be read again>
                   \par
l.6 \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2029}{\par
                                       }

@wilx something like \def\DeclareUnicodeCharacter#1{\begingroup\lccode\~"#1\lowercase{\endgroup\def~‌​}

@wilx use \endgraf instead of \par

@DavidCarlisle Cool.

@DavidCarlisle \par gets redefined sometimes

@wilx \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2029}{\csname par\endcsname}

@egreg Oooh! Magic! I was trying things like \expandafter, \protect, etc., basically cargo-culting anything I could remember. :D

I am so bad at this. :D

@wilx The macro \DeclareUnicodeCharacter is not \long, so the token \par is not accepted in its arguments. Any other token is (except for \outer ones, but there's essentially none in LaTeX).

@egreg no one mention \bm@end

@egreg yes I know:-)

@DavidCarlisle Hidden feature

@egreg given my general dislike of \outer I'd like to get rid of it but the expansion based lookahead in bm had a habit of eating the whole document if you got a { wrong, so it seemed almost useful in that case.

@DavidCarlisle I don't think there's some Unicode character that needs \bm@end in its realization, so probably that's quite safe.

@egreg we can't really remember why this was left outer when we got rid of all the other uses in 2e \outer\def^^L{\par}

@DavidCarlisle Indeed I said “essentially none” because of ^^L

I just got down-votes on 7 questions without a comment on any of them so I have no idea why ...

Probably some serial idiot. Just ignore it.

@egreg Have you noticed the mystery crash?

That is, the Linux version ...

But I did think the \mathwitch inspired ...

@cfr Just for curiosity, have you commented an answer of this user: tex.stackexchange.com/users/116971/vaman?

@cfr :)

@CarLaTeX Not sure. I don't remember doing so, but may well have done. Why?

@cfr forget it, he can not downvote

@cfr Some time ago I was serially upvoted and I suspect it was hom

@cfr him, sorry

@CarLaTeX you can see that that user has never voted (Activity -> Impact -> 0 Votes Cast) likewise they have no Supporter badge

@DaiBowen Then I have an unidentified fan :)

@CarLaTeX You can add it to the Halloween mysteries. I expect @yo' is right. Hard to understand otherwise why anybody would down-vote some of my less idiotic questions ;).

@cfr vim users do all kind of strange things

@Canageek How will it distinguish Imperial from US units?

@cfr Maybe someone didn't like one of your comment to his answer/question... I confirm yo' opinion

@DavidCarlisle Of course we do - strangely easy, strangely effective and strangely intelligible. I can see why emacs users find it puzzling.

@DavidCarlisle We should deal with that ...

@JosephWright yep we should fix up tu encoding as well

@DavidCarlisle Indeed

@DavidCarlisle Who's doing that?

@JosephWright currently no one but needs some matching changes in fontspec so...

@DavidCarlisle Will then

@DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle Reminds me I'm supposed to be simplifying ltdirchk

@JosephWright I was looking in the luatex sources yesterday seeing if you could acess an \opeout file handle from lua (answer seems to be no), amusing to see reference to complications for amiga file system:-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@JosephWright for the skype call perhaps

@DavidCarlisle Yes

Friends, any suggestions? $|\mathit{AD}|$... this looks so weird.

@PauloCereda um what bits are we allowed to change $|\mathfrak{BOO}|$ less weird?

@DavidCarlisle :D

@PauloCereda your problem statement is a little under-constrained.

@DavidCarlisle :)

@Canageek At first, I decided not to comment on your comment, but since it's starred, I was wondering if you believe every Catholic deserves no sympathy. I don't believe I am a bad person. I also support several groups. I also work with research...

@DavidCarlisle Looks like we need another plan for the meeting ...

@JosephWright ?

@DavidCarlisle Chris can't make any of the suggested slots

@JosephWright I could do this week (apart from Friday) if that is better?

@DavidCarlisle I'll have to ask Chris

@AlanMunn documented on page 902 seems to be in agreement with "under documented" (I did actually look at the manual but landed on section 2.20 at page 41:-)

@DavidCarlisle Till's not expecting people to use the code for situations where the pattern doesn't 'make sense'

@DavidCarlisle :)

@JosephWright tex.stackexchange.com/q/337827/2693 this is basically a duplicate but because it asks multiple questions it's hard to decide which one to close under.

@JosephWright Looks like he just deleted it.

@JosephWright always expect the spanish inquisition

Someone downvoted every answer here tex.stackexchange.com/q/337745/21930 weird

@Manuel all except Heiko

@DavidCarlisle Which is the wrong one.

@egreg sour grapes:-)

@DavidCarlisle :P