To be honest, I don't like Trump or Putin or Le Pen or May. However, I like Queen Elizabeth. She is a nice old lady like the old folks in this chat. =)

@JamesBond Not as old as @DavidCarlisle

@PauloCereda Have you finished your thesis?

@AlanMunn, @DavidCarlisle, @egreg, @JosephWright: this bloke starred arara...

A progress bar. :)

@JamesBond You forgot Erdogan ;-)

65 % for Macron, apparently ...

@ChristianHupfer To be honest, I don't follow developments in that part of the world. =)

@ChristianHupfer ooh the big macro

@ChristianHupfer I guess that is good news...

Is it ok to include someone else's answer in ours? E.g., if he had some idea that could be integrated in your answer (otherwise very different)

@ChristianHupfer do people really care that much about french elections?

@Moriambar I do

@JamesBond Turkey is not in my backyard, but apparently nearer to me than to you ...

@ChristianHupfer ooh turkey

@PauloCereda turkeys are nasty animals

@Moriambar You can comment to him to ask him to update his if you need to use such a big part of it, for example.

@Moriambar Most Germans do, as long as they are not part of the mentioned right/neo nazi parties

@ChristianHupfer oh I see

@ChristianHupfer Well, you don't know where I live! My location is secret except to close friends on SE. =)

@JamesBond no it's the other way around. It's a nice small part which could be good in my answer too

@JamesBond MI6 building in London, I suppose? ;-)

@AlanMunn: babbel.com/en/magazine/…

@ChristianHupfer I currently live in quite a bad part of the world, so not London. =)

@JamesBond The US. of A? ;-)

@ChristianHupfer 'Murica

@ChristianHupfer Nope, somewhere in Asia. =)) USA is still a good place.

@JamesBond For a blink of an eye I read Austria ... :D

@ChristianHupfer Germany is still my favourite country. I hope to be reborn there in my next life. =)

@JamesBond Are you that desperate? :D

@ChristianHupfer Not really. Just thinking a few decades ahead. =)

@PauloCereda Yep! For you I'll just give you a bunch of words with 'r'. e.g. 'rural area' or 'rural squirrel area'. Or as Shakespeare said, A hose is a hose

@AlanMunn oh no, those are terrible to say! :)

@ChristianHupfer But yes, a lot of things in my life did go wrong because of where I was born into, and some people say that 90 per cent of your life is determined by where you are born.

@JamesBond I think I have to believe you...

@ChristianHupfer So, cherish this life you have, and may your next one be even better. =)

@JamesBond Oh, my life is quite good. But thanks

@ChristianHupfer Yes, that's what I mean by the first part. =)

@Moriambar: cough

Who is your favourite Bond actor? I like Roger Moore.

I think the old Bond movies are way better than the new ones. Maybe I am old school and don't like too much special effects.

But I just watched 21 Bond movies, and there are 5 more to go, namely those after 2000.

@JamesBond Connery -- I like the 60s style.

@ChristianHupfer My favourite Bond girl is played by Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. =)

@AlanMunn X=X is always a logical axiom.

@JamesBond Agreed. That movie is underrated, actually

@ChristianHupfer I consider that the best Bond movie, partly because I really like the Swiss Alps. =)

@ChristianHupfer :). Due to my allergies I've been sneezing all around the day :D

@PauloCereda why so?

@JamesBond Bielefeld? ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Oldest computer for me available: Robotron K series (compare this. Has a nice game, if you press "Q" while playing it goes to "teacher mode", which means there comes a message like "Memory failure...", another "Q" resumes ;)

@egreg Italians making jokes about Bielefeld?

@TeXnician I went to Bielefeld, once. Not sure if where I got was the right place, of course.

@TeXnician There was nobody but me in the train car from Hannover.

@egreg Congrats, you're the first one who returned from Nirvana ;)

@AlanMunn I have 4GB on my surface and windows 10 works fine (but I don't run games or things which need much power). and I would use an SSD if you want to go out with it.

@UlrikeFischer Thanks, Ulrike. I need to have a real hard drive and not an SSD since the machine will be primarily used to store large amounts of video, so I need to put in a big hard drive. It won't be used on the battery much.

@egreg It's impossible, it does not exist. you were scammed

@TeXnician everybody knows about its non-existance

@DavidCarlisle I will have to resume my translation works shortly and without the application we used back a couple of years ago. All text files now. Any suggestions on which tool to use? I was thinking of vim :P

@TeXnician Ah, the electronics 'company' from Eastern Germany. My future mother - in - law worked for Robotron then.

@TeXnician tex.stackexchange.com/questions/368647/… you might want to link to the Meta question on what a MWE is. Many new users have no idea what MWE means.

@Moriambar Sneezing is good in this case... ;-) As is coughing...

@ChristianHupfer of course

@ChristianHupfer We have to expel the bad things right?

@Moriambar Certainly. Like a big selling of ;-)

@ChristianHupfer anyway, I think I finished my typoaid package

Now it's 100% more useless

and 400% less useful

@Moriambar Like the statement appeared a few years ago on the Trenitalia site: “Quality train prices in Italy are up to 150% less than in other European countries”.

@Moriambar There is no useless package, in most cases (apart from strange template stuff). Most time you learn a lot when writing a package ... and that's definitely not useless!

@egreg oh my! I'm baffled and speechless

@ChristianHupfer ahah yes, I learned something, e.g. that expl3 rocks but that writing any flavour of LaTeX code is a real pain

@Moriambar I never planned to release a package. Now there are three of them (the other two ones are former versions, they don't count). And users are quite satisfied with my packages; well those two human beings that use my packages ;-) Did I mention that I am one of those users?

@ChristianHupfer well I've got 100% user satisfaction, especially of the new version pushed to ctan today. Did I mention that I'm the only user, since the package suits only my specific needs?

@Moriambar :D ... the only user yet....

@ChristianHupfer I predict more than 200% increase from 1/1/17 to 1/1/18

@Moriambar More than 3 users then? ;-)

@ChristianHupfer no, there were zero on 1/1/17

@Moriambar Ah, I forgot. But 200% of zero is ... well, zero?

@ChristianHupfer yes, so I predict more than 0 users. I use it, and I will have to use it (probably twice!) this year. Thus my predictions are correct

@Moriambar You definitely count as more than one person :-P

@ChristianHupfer well 1 person is more than 200% of 0

I just am happy counting as more than 0 people

@Moriambar \SI[parse-numbers=false]{\infty}{\percent} ;-)

@ChristianHupfer exactly. But being useless has its perks: I do not have bugs or user requests

I can only imagine the hell it would be to have developed something like siunitx

@AlanMunn You won't want to have the only version of your videos on a laptop, so you would need cloud storage anyway ...

@UlrikeFischer Yes, but this requires reliable internet which we won't have, so data will be copied manually on removable drives, which will then be shipped back to the US with the main drive serving as a kind of backup to those.

I'm reading a good book, but typeset with TSWNMNBMH…

10 consecutive end-of-line hyphens!

@Moriambar Tell the Guinness Book of Records!

@egreg I told the authors, which I met, that I (well anyone) could do better, but the problem is that the editor wants it this way

you should see the non-existing ligature, examine the non-aligned letters and the recurring missing paragraph indents.

@Moriambar And Times, of course.

@egreg what else? Also I forgot the space and character ultracompressions. One good thing - apart from the actual content - is the ink, which is a satisfyingly good black

ps: don't get me started on margins

@JosephWright having some doubts about scaling, checking with xetex --no-pdf on that tex.sx scaling example, xdvipdfmx underflows before tex arithmetic underflows:

xdvipdfmx:warning: Transformation matrix not invertible.
xdvipdfmx:warning: --- M = [8.22778e-07 0 0 8.22778e-07 190.307 -484.124]

@DavidCarlisle Hmm

@JosephWright so it's not enough to test that the scale is 0 as a tex number have to cut off somewhat arbitrarily at 8sp thsi works:

\long\def\Gscale@box@dd#1#2#3{%
  \@begin@tempboxa\hbox{#3}%
    \setlength\@tempdima{#1}%
    \setlength\@tempdimb{#2}%
    \Gscale@div\@tempa\@tempdima\@tempdimb
\ifdim\@tempa\p@>\z@
\ifnum\dimexpr\@tempa\p@\relax<8 \def\@tempa{0.0001}\fi
\else
\ifdim\@tempa\p@<\z@
\ifnum\dimexpr\@tempa\p@\relax>-8 \def\@tempa{-0.0001}\fi
\fi
\fi
    \Gscale@box\@tempa[\@tempa]{\box\@tempboxa}%
  \@end@tempboxa}

@DavidCarlisle We have to use the driver scaling option to allow for links, so it's perhaps a question of getting (x)dvipdfmx fixed

@JosephWright but seems a bit arbitrary to apply to all drivers

@JosephWright yes but we could put the equivalent of \ifnum\dimexpr\@tempa\p@\relax<8 \def\@tempa{0.0001}\fi into xetex.def's gscale@start rather than graphics.sty

@JosephWright or maybe we ask on texlive list and akira patches the driver before the hour is out:-)

@DavidCarlisle Might be best

@JosephWright too late now, I'll see if I can come up with a simpler test file without the recursive scaling tomorrow and take it to tl list (probably here first)

@PauloCereda Thank you. I am currently in email denial mode, but will look forward to this one, at least!

@DavidCarlisle So people keep telling me. When they reincarnate Turing using it, I'll believe them.