Anyone around here?

@BernardoMeurer Europe was sleeping :):):)

@CarLaTeX Yeah, well, I'll post my question anyway and maybe someone will come rescue me :)

I want to make a newcommand to keep track of my exercises. So, I have a \section{Foo}, I want that when I do \exercise{Compute the flabber gaster} it will, assuming Foo is section 1., resolve to \textbf{Exercise 1.1:} Compute the flabber gaster}

Does that make sense?

(@CarLaTeX :) )

@BernardoMeurer It makes sense and there are many ways to achieve it. The simplest one is to create a new "theorem" (you can change the name into "Exercise") with amsthm package, look at this post: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64931/using-newtheorem, for example. Otherwise, for more complicated settings, you could use tcolorbox.

Aha! I see

Nice

Let me try it out :)

\newtheorem{exe}{Exercise}[section]

@BernardoMeurer Of course, if you have any problem, you could always ask a question :):):)

Worked like a charm!

@BernardoMeurer Perfect!

@CarLaTeX Thank you for taking the time, I hope you have a good morning!

@BernardoMeurer You're welcome!

Morning all

@JosephWright Quack! (We miss @PauloCereda)

@egreg maintaining my L3 purity, I see:-)

@DavidCarlisle I don't want L3 users to be shocked by a mysterious \show

@CarLaTeX <3

@CarLaTeX: We had a huge power shortage due to a very bad storm

@PauloCereda Oooh you have many storms in Spring (our Autumn)!

I tried VS Code in my laptop and the editor seems quite interesting. The LaTeX plugin can be easily configured.

@PauloCereda Oooh

@PauloCereda Screenshot?

@egreg tick

@DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle See mail

@JosephWright replied

@DavidCarlisle Thanks to my edit, of course.

@egreg despite your edit, yes

Finally found some time to investigate why I'm not getting any LaTeX-L emails (even though I've confirmed with the listserv that I'm still subscribed – assuming we're still using LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE). Has there really not been any activity since September (about an xtemplate-like designer interface)?

If there are no emails to be had, that would explain why there are no emails in my inbox :)

@SeanAllred Yup: listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1709&L=latex-l

@JosephWright Cool, that's where I'm looking, too. Seems like everything is set up correctly.

@PauloCereda Did you manage to get arara to work properly?

Blog site renewed ...

Non-trivial cost :)

hey, what is the LDB anyway?

Once someone was talking about designer interfaces

@AGoldMan long story: sort of css for latex (but it's older than css)

@DavidCarlisle Is it available for mere mortals? I have a strong desire to work on a designer interface, and that's basically what I had in mind

@AGoldMan I was just looking (but it's not for general use unless you mind code being broken without warning also it can't really work that well in expl3 (that is, in latex2e) as it really needs a format where it has control over everything but possibly github.com/latex3/latex3/tree/master/l3trial/l3ldb (although I haven't really looked at the current version in recent years)

@DavidCarlisle thanks

@AGoldMan Hic sunt leones

@JosephWright you escaped relatively unscathed

@DavidCarlisle I went prepared ;)

@DavidCarlisle Seriously of course, 'we' (you/Frank/Chris) need to sort this

@JosephWright hmm

@DavidCarlisle At least, the longer-standing people need to lead the discussion: as you know, I currently think 'adopt CSS with a few tweaks' is the way to go ...

@JosephWright yes although "get vaguely a bit more like css" is probably as far as you can go in that direction as neither the syntax nor the underlying box model is that amenable to TeX processing really.

@DavidCarlisle Perhaps one for the team list ... but the box model part doesn't worry me (I'm thinking more of the ideas such as document parts, named ones, ...), and the syntax we can deal with

@JosephWright yes I know we can parse anything but while div.foo {color:blue} is quite good syntax the syntax contortions they needed to come up with for later additions while keeping compatible are something I wouldn't want to break my back trying to implement in tex

@DavidCarlisle Doesn't have to be exactly CSS but I think closer to that than to LDB is likely the way to go

@JosephWright Oh yes no argument with that but :nth-child(even of li, .item) or img:nth-of-type(2n+1) { float: right; } to take a couple of examples from a recent css spec are not exactly examples of brilliantly clear syntax (the constraint is basically that any new feature has to have a syntax which was previously parsed as an unknown rule but ignored, they can't add new syntax that breaks old parsers)

@DavidCarlisle Sure: you know more CSS than I do

@DavidCarlisle Just think it is closer to what we probably should go with than existing LDB ...

@JosephWright yes it would be nice if section {color:blue} made section headings blue with a syntax that people might even guess

@JosephWright did you see blue planet II tonight?

@DavidCarlisle Exactly, which is why I keep prodding people

@DavidCarlisle No: was on the train

@JosephWright twitter.com/…

@DavidCarlisle Ah