TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Johannes_B

5:52 AM

Post a MWE. Answer by the OP: I think we can skip that, since it might have to do with the setting in JabRef..

Anonymous

6:49 AM

How do you guys like Theresa May so far?

Christian Hupfer

7:40 AM

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Oh you evil man.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Now we have the final proof ;-)

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Q: Toilet paper format

I am currently writing a document using \documentclass[a4paper]{article} (very classic, good and all). But I want to change it to a continuous page, a bit like a TP roll. Any idea how? Thanks all, Tom

Johannes_B

Apr 8 at 7:05, by Johannes_B

Christian Hupfer

Those are essential questions

Joseph Wright

@VincentVerheyen The Boris appointment is 'interesting', other than that as-expected so far

Johannes_B

7:51 AM

First english song on the syrian radio station today.

Christian Hupfer

8:57 AM

Maintenance mode :-(

samcarter

@PauloCereda Your relatives are subject of science science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/286

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Want something to read? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/319347/…

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B No, not really, I am writing a small anthology about particle physics for my pupils -- we're going to visit the CERN accelerator in Geneve this Friday. A lot of organization had to be done for this :-(

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Can i come with you? :-)

Christian Hupfer

9:13 AM

@Johannes_B We've got one place left in the bus ... Can you manage to be in Offenburg at 6:30 a.m. on Friday ~~morning~~ night? ;-)

@Johannes_B: By the way, I was quite near to you last weekend -- near Gera ;-)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer I had to google where Offenburg is :-) I could manage to be there, if i had the money for a train ticket.

@ChristianHupfer Oy, where exactly?

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Near Hermsdorf, actually, we attended a 25th anniversary party of a wedding there

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Hermsdorf, that little village Autobahn exit Gera/Zeitz, or the Autobahnkreuz?

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B The village, but it's near the Autobahnkreuz of course, so there's not much difference ;-)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Hm :-) Looking at Germany, the big country, that is quite near. Looking just at the little part, you had to drive 15 minutes more to be in my hometown, which is not near me :-)

Christian Hupfer

9:28 AM

@Johannes_B Comparing to other countries, Germany is not really large, comparing it to Liechtenstein, it is ;-)

Johannes_B

@Johannes_B I guess you mean the village directly with the Kreuz. Not the one between Gera and Zeitz.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Ah, there's another one?

Johannes_B

Hermsdorf

Hermsdorf ist der Name folgender Gemeinden in Deutschland: Hermsdorf (bei Ruhland), Gemeinde im Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Brandenburg Hermsdorf/Erzgeb., Gemeinde im Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Sachsen Hermsdorf (Thüringen), Stadt im Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thüringen Hermsdorf ist der Name folgender Ortsteile in Deutschland: Berlin-Hermsdorf, Ortsteil von Berlin im Bezirk Reinickendorf Hermsdorf (Münchehofe), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Münchehofe im Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald, Brandenburg Hermsdorf (Hohe Börde), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Hohe Börde im Landkreis Börde, Sachsen-Anhalt Hermsdorf…

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B All in Eastern Germany ;-)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Scroll down ;-) And don't mention the war.

@ChristianHupfer You have been de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermsdorf_(Th%C3%BCringen) not de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermsdorf_(Gera), correct?

Christian Hupfer

9:33 AM

@Johannes_B Actually, I have not looked at all :-P

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Dacht ich mir :-)

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Ich wollte meine Vorurteile pflegen :-P

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer I am hungry.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Still writing an overview on leptons, mesons, baryons.... fermions, bosons, weak interaction, strong interaction, quarks and the strangeness S ;-) Does that feed you? ;-)

Johannes_B

@DavidCarlisle @ChristianHupfer @cfr Anybody wants to asnwer? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/283093/…

@ChristianHupfer No :-(

Christian Hupfer

9:44 AM

@Johannes_B How extended should the answer be?

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer I don't care.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Ok, I answered very shortly, with the focus on the headheight value

Landak

Hello all

Out of curiosity, how do you typeset "to" with numbers? As in, ``The use of the proposed method lead to a 5-10\% increase in awesomeness''?

5-10\%, $5-10\%$, 5--10\%, or something more exotic?

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Thanks.

Christian Hupfer

@Landak \numrange from package siunitx is your friend, I think

Landak

9:49 AM

@Christ

*@Christian -- I'd forgotten about that; thank you

Good 'ol siunitx does everything

Christian Hupfer

@Landak Yes, but don't tell @JosephWright ;-)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer I think you will reach 100k before me.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Considering your pace in answering ... yes ;-) I think, @cfr will be the next, then Steven, then perhaps it's me.

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer And some of my answers are CW.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Well, that's your fault :-P

@Johannes_B: Damn, I've to leave -- Notenkonferenz :-(

Johannes_B

9:53 AM

@ChristianHupfer I am not racing.

@ChristianHupfer See you.

Johannes_B

10:06 AM

@PauloCereda I want to know which voice belongs to which face. melodysyria.com/about

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Q: Alternating which side the header is on odd and even pages

So I'm trying to get the header to display the section name on the right side on odd pages and the left side on even pages. My code is: \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}} % set the \leftmark \fancyhf{} \fancyhead{} \fancyhead[RO, LE]{\leftmark...

sectioning header-footer fancyhdr

The answer would be just an assumption, that happened to be true.

daleif

Am I correct in telling a student that it is bad to start a sentence with 'E.g. ....', IMO that needs to be typed out if it is at that start of a sentence.

Johannes_B

@daleif Should that even be at he start of a sentece? No matter if abbr. or not.

@StefanKottwitz @Tobi Always confused on twitter: twitter.com/TeXtip

Paulo Cereda

10:33 AM

@samcarter ooh we is very smartz. :)

daleif

10:46 AM

@Johannes_B if you are sloppy enough

Johannes_B

11:23 AM

@JosephWright @barbarabeeton I simply have to ask: Which crisis does Dominik mean in his reply to Will?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Suspension of the president

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Why is that a crisis?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B This I guess depends on your interpretation: suspension of the president is clearly an unusual step

Johannes_B

@JosephWright unusual, agreed.

@JosephWright Might be the emotional connection in my head places the word crisis right next Oh my god, we're gonna die. Which is quite far away from unusual. :-)

More loosely, it [crisis] is a term meaning "a testing time" or an "emergency event". Alright, problem solved.

Paulo Cereda

11:39 AM

[paulo@cambridge ~] $ kpsewhich --help | grep \\-all
-all                   output all matches, one per line.
[paulo@cambridge ~] $ kpsewhich -all
Missing argument. Try `kpsewhich --help' for more information.

^^ why doesn't this work?

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda Missing an argument ;-)

@PauloCereda kpsewhich --all moderncv.cls

Joseph Wright

U:\> kpsewhich -all texmf.cnf
c:/texlive/2016/texmf.cnf
c:/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B :D Actually, I now understand what happens. :)

@JosephWright My bad, I thought it was something else.

@JosephWright: Tell me U:\> is your university drive. I am giggling here. :)

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Glad you know something that can be found more than once :-)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Yes, it's the network map

Paulo Cereda

11:43 AM

@JosephWright woooo

Stefan Kottwitz

@Johannes_B Twitter is confusing anyway.

Johannes_B

@StefanKottwitz Yeah, but there is almost the same image and almost the same name. One gives good tips, the other quite often not so good tips.

barbara beeton

12:09 PM

@Johannes_B -- well it's nearly driven some of us to think about jumping off a bridge.

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton I hope this is exaggerated?

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- only slightly. well, maybe i should say "one of us" instead of "some".

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton :-(

@barbarabeeton That doesn't sound good.

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- maybe after the meeting i'll be able to speak freely. i hope so. i only want to be able to state documentable facts, but at the moment, i'm constrained.

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton I understand.

So, in other news, i hear ducks are just awesome.

barbara beeton

12:14 PM

@Johannes_B -- thanks for the commiseration.

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton commiseration i had to look that up :-)

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- my husband spotted that item several days ago, and i think i sent the link to @Paulo, but in my present frame of mind, i may be hallucinating. but it's really interesting stuff. i've seen little wood ducks, on their first foray out of their nest hole, plop into the water and paddle happily along. now if it were possible to teach humans to swim so readily, ... (i happen to think that every child should learn to swim; simply a good technique for keeping safe.)

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton Oh wow, i was just mentioning something random to change topic and you can put it into context and are able to response? @Christian never manages to do that :-)

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- well, in certain circles i'm known as a practicing nitpicker. i like to follow trails on "random" subjects, particularly in the sciences that deal with physical objects; i enjoy good writing and "follow" several favorite authors. i'm not so good with motivations, and i hate politics (although i believe it's a civic duty to vote, and have for several elections managed a local polling place). so re the latter topic, these are hard times.

Johannes_B

12:31 PM

@barbarabeeton A good way to get distracted: Listen to syrian radio. If you not happen to speak arabic, you won't understand one single word :-)

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- unfortunately, prior to the tug meeting in marrakech, i attended several semesters of classes in elementary arabic (which, sadly, i haven't "kept up"), so i would probably find myself in the position of trying to understand. better choice for me would be folk dance music or something classical (most often of the sort that egreg doesn't appreciate).

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton Oh wow, speaking arabic. You are a remarkable woman :-)

@barbarabeeton I am also trying to understand. Often featured Habibi or habibti elbi in the songs. :-)

@barbarabeeton Or some Humpha from finland? (is that the correct spelling?)

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- never said i can speak it. only said that i tried. (actually, in most languages, i'm better at reading than speaking. don't take that as a claim that i'm linguistically adept; even my "friends" from the uk claim that i speak only "broken english". my sole claim is that there are lots of places in the world where i won't starve for inability to understand a restaurant menu.)

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton Speaking is indeed a loot harder than reading. Those girls on the radio are speaking sooo fast. I cannot imagine i could speak that fast.

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- sadly, finnish is one of my gaps, although i've visited there several times, and love the parts of the country i've visited.

Johannes_B

12:43 PM

@barbarabeeton Friends of mine have been in finnland last year. There was a fin, that knew only two german words and used to greet people with that words. It was Klobürste and Kehrmaschine. Maybe @Christian can translate to english ;-)

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- i can't even speak that fast in english. (i was raised south of what is known to u.s. dialect linguistics as the "greasy-greazy" line; @AlanMunn can probably explain that.)

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton Probbly not a culinary border, @Alan?

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- not familiar with the first, but the second has something to do with a machine that involves turning.

@Johannes_B -- i can explain if alan can't. (i'm a member of the group that claims that only the second pronunciation is "correct".)

Johannes_B

@barbarabeeton Preferring the second as well.

@barbarabeeton First one is a toilet brush, second one is a machine (some motorized) to clean the streets with brushes.

barbara beeton

@Johannes_B -- thank you. learn something new every day!

Johannes_B

12:54 PM

@barbarabeeton :-)

cfr

2:00 PM

Can anybody quickly give me an example of a standard LaTeX environment which takes one or more mandatory arguments and no optional ones? I'm blanking here ...

@barbarabeeton I'm really sorry but I just can't remember what problem I had with imakeidx. I can't even remember what project I had the problem in. I thought maybe if I could remember that I could figure out the problem by looking back at my code or reconstructing what I might have done, but I've repeatedly tried to remember and failed utterly. I've meant to email you but kept putting it off in the hope I'd remember. Very sorry.

Joseph Wright

@cfr tabular

barbara beeton

@cfr -- thebibliography

@cfr -- no problem. the package meets our production requirements (with, at the moment, the requirement in some cases for the [original] option), so we're recommending it in good conscience to our authors. thanks for checking in.

cfr

@barbarabeeton Thank you!

@barbarabeeton I'd be happy to read whatever you were thinking of sending me, if you'd still like me to. However, I don't actually use indexing very much so it depends what kind of feedback you want.

@JosephWright Doesn't that take an optional argument, too? Kile thinks it does, though I can't say I've ever used it that I recall.

Joseph Wright

@cfr Apparently it does

barbara beeton

2:23 PM

@cfr -- easy reference to check -- kopka & daly, appendix g, command summary. all listed under \begin{...}. absolutely reliable. (a couple of others: list, lrbox; surprisingly few, actually. every other environment that takes arguments allows options.)

cfr

@barbarabeeton Thanks. I'm a fan of Kopka & Daly as I learnt LaTeX from it. (The bookstore had 2 books on LaTeX. This one didn't seem entirely unintelligible.) thebibliography is good, though, because students who took the first workshop should possibly recognise it.

Joseph Wright

3:23 PM

@Nij Are we running low on space? Any question on chemistry SE can either be answered by reading appropriate literature or closed as off-topic. — sixtytrees 2 hours ago

Seems somewhat familiar ...

@DavidCarlisle ^^^

Anonymous

3:33 PM

@Johannes_B How do you know that?

Anonymous

@JosephWright What she said about killings of hundred thousand innocent people makes me quite sad though.

Joseph Wright

@VincentVerheyen I'd missed this: what did she say?

Johannes_B

@VincentVerheyen Since i tuned in.

Paulo Cereda

@barbarabeeton You did sent me the link, thanks. :) I also mentioned about modeling computational behaviour based on that article. :)

@Johannes_B LOLOLOL

barbara beeton

3:54 PM

@cfr -- feedback, mostly does this make sense? also, is there anything obvious missing that could be helpful to someone seeking this information? if that's something you're willing to look at, let me know, and i'll send it. no urgency -- i'm pretty much out of commission now for non-urgent things until the tugboat proceedings issue goes to the printer.

Johannes_B

4:06 PM

@PauloCereda I should rephrase: The first english song since i tuned in two hours earlier.

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B :)

Joseph Wright

Any TikZ experts come across an issue with the 'decorations'?

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) rectangle (3,2);
\draw [red, decorate, decoration=zigzag]
(0,0) rectangle (3,2);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

More-or-less from the manual, not working :-(

Ah, need \usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}

Johannes_B

4:37 PM

The syrian radio station just played Duele el corazón, the new song by E. Iglesias.

@PauloCereda @barbarabeeton ^^^^^ Looking at the starred comments on the right, even i get the irony.

Johannes_B

4:50 PM

Everytime i hear the new song by Jeniffer Lopez i am thinking of Lindsay Buckinghams title song to National Lampoons Vacation.

Paulo Cereda

5:36 PM

@Johannes_B Mr. Henry Churches? :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda Who?

@PauloCereda Oh wow, if my writing in here is just as bad as the plot description .... I am so sorry.

Mr. Church

Mr. Church is a 2016 American drama film set primarily in 1970s Los Angeles starring Eddie Murphy and Britt Robertson. The story is based on the life of writer Susan McMartin. The film co-stars Natascha McElhone, Xavier Samuel, Lincoln Melcher, Lucy Fry, Christian Madsen, Mckenna Grace, Lincoln Melcher and Thom Barry. The film debuted on April 22, 2016 at the Tribeca Film Festival. == Plot == Charlie Brody (Britt Robertson) lives with her single mother Marie Brody (Natascha McElhone) in a small beat up apartment. She is awoken by cooking that smells like heaven, the culprit – a stranger named Mr...

Christian Hupfer

6:04 PM

@Johannes_B I could but I won't ;-)

@Johannes_B Shut up :-P

Johannes_B

:-)

cfr

6:43 PM

@barbarabeeton Please send it. The first I can probably say. The missing bit, well, I don't know. I guess it depends if it is obvious to me. But if anything is obvious to me, I'll certainly tell you!

barbara beeton

@ChristianHupfer -- well, @Johannes_B already did. besides, there's always google translate, used to such ... effect by @David. and i do have access to several competent paper dictionaries (including, somewhere at home, a duden) as well as a husband who abandoned medieval german for computer security, after assessing the employment prospects and the fact that his assigned thesis advisor had a personal problem with the proposed topic.

Christian Hupfer

@barbarabeeton I doubt that there is a medieval term for Klobürste however ;-) @Johannes_B ;-)

barbara beeton

@ChristianHupfer -- very probably true. (and for the other, aged persons wielding broom-handles with bundles of sticks attached.)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer There is even a wikipedia page for toilet brush.

Christian Hupfer

7:34 PM

@Johannes_B I don't doubt that ;-)

egreg

7:53 PM

@Johannes_B We had a question about toilet paper, today

Johannes_B

@egreg Saw it :-)

egreg

@Johannes_B It reminds me of a few years ago, when I was in my teens, and a couple of girls asked me and my brother to write them “long long long letters” while they were at their scout camp and we were at the sea. Of course we wrote those “long long long letters” on toilet paper. :)

David Carlisle

@egreg few?

Johannes_B

@egreg Sometimes, i want to be italian :-)

egreg

8:22 PM

@DavidCarlisle With an appropriate definition for “few”

Christian Hupfer

8:35 PM

@egreg There was toilet paper in Rome at the time of Caesar? ;-) Toilet papyrus?

David Carlisle

@egreg what do you reckon 2, or 3 days for @cfr to get a free mug?

egreg

@DavidCarlisle Maybe four

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Definition of few ... How long did the great Canyon took to gain its shape? :-p

David Carlisle

@egreg you think he'd put in a couple of 360 days to finish off:-)

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Probably started when @egreg was a small child ;-)

egreg

8:50 PM

@Johannes_B It's artificial: I saw people digging it.

Johannes_B

@egreg :-D

Paulo Cereda

9:09 PM

WhatsApp is blocked in Brazil.

Anonymous

@JosephWright See 19:33 and watch for some seconds -> youtube.com/… I posted it at the bottom of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May#Early_days as well.

cfr

@DavidCarlisle Who's he?

David Carlisle

@cfr some welsh duck lover, it's not important.

cfr

9:34 PM

I'll take your word for it.

David Carlisle

10:05 PM

@cfr I hear rumours that a package of @AlanMunn's may have come in useful ctan.org/pkg/he-she

egreg

@PauloCereda Do you feel deprived?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg I can finally work without those annoying groups. :)

@egreg: WhatsApp is now unblocked. :(

egreg

10:25 PM

@PauloCereda No more work on your thesis?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg It was a good run. :)

@Johannes_B It was a close literal translation of Señor Iglesias to English. :)

cfr

10:39 PM

@DavidCarlisle It would have given you a 50-50 chance?

Paulo Cereda

@cfr: cwac! :)

Alan Munn

@DavidCarlisle I have no idea what you're talking about (even reading back a bit) but I certainly won't say no to a package recommendation from @DavidCarlisle.

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn who? :)

Paulo Cereda

11:05 PM

Pokémon Go will soon be available in Brazil!

cfr

@PauloCereda Cwac! It is much too hot here! Maybe better in a duck pond somewhere ... ?

Paulo Cereda

@cfr ooh a duck pond is a nice place. :) We are in a cold winter here, I am frozen. :)

cfr

@PauloCereda There's a lake not far from here with ducks (and other birds). I wonder if they'd mind midnight company?

Paulo Cereda