TeX, LaTeX and Friends

10:31 AM

Quack!

@PauloCereda there's no one here

@DavidCarlisle oh

@PauloCereda No, nobody at all

@HaraldHanche-Olsen oh

11:10 AM

@DavidCarlisle I am here!

@CarLaTeX Go away!

@DavidCarlisle You are mean!

Jun 29 at 16:15, by Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle you are not mean :)

@DavidCarlisle @PauloCereda said that, not me :P

@CarLaTeX so you are disagreeing with @PauloCereda now? So argumentative!

11:27 AM

@DavidCarlisle OK, you've wow :)

@CarLaTeX hmm, I think I prefer the argumentative version, more familiar territory.

@DavidCarlisle LOL

11:43 AM

Oh no

Q: You don't exist, go away!

Once in a while (3 times over the past four weeks), I don't exist. The message in the title of this question is my response when I try to run ssh while not existing. Also, when I don't exist, if I run id, it shows my uid and not my username as it otherwise does. And I can't use sudo: ; sudo date...

@PauloCereda Quack!

@HaraldHanche-Olsen LOL

@CarLaTeX Quack!

@DavidCarlisle ^^ see there's people here

@PauloCereda ducks buildings and insects, no people

@DavidCarlisle ooh and greyscaled photos.

12:02 PM

@DavidCarlisle Oooh I'm a building

@CarLaTeX LOL

Johannes_B

12:22 PM

Well, this is a very helpful Wikibooks user: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:V_A_N_D_A_L_I_S_M..bt

@PauloCereda Not a simple building, a castle! :)

@Johannes_B LOL

Johannes_B

@UlrikeFischer @ChristianHupfer @TeXnician @HenriMenke I have a question. Any of you good with punctuation, especially commas? Are all those extra commas needed? de.wikibooks.org/w/…

12:40 PM

@Johannes_B As far as I remember those cases are "erweiterter Infinitiv mit zu" (hence optional comma). See de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommaregeln#Infinitivgruppe

@Johannes_B Ah, those Germans: They like, in a sea of commas, to swim. And their verbs, at the end of sentences, to put.

@Johannes_B But some are necessary (e.g. before "welche").

Christian Hupfer

12:51 PM

@TeXnician @Johannes_B: I am no teacher for German, but I would say that most of them are necessary.

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Johannes_B

1:53 PM

@ChristianHupfer @TeXnician So the commas stay.

3 hours later…

4:28 PM

@HaraldHanche-Olsen That's pretty incorrect. Verbs stay mid-sentence except you have a subordinate clause (where they are at the end of a sentence).

@TeXnician you ought to adopt latex conventions and put [!htp] on to verbs to stop them moving around so much.

@DavidCarlisle I think that's a matter of style. Personally I like verbs floating around and irritating the reader.

@TeXnician it wouldn't irritate me as I have the infallible routines of google translate to move them back in to position.

@DavidCarlisle I guess then the only way to confuse you is using some Yoda-like grammar which can't be identified by Google Translate.

@TeXnician faith in google, I have.

4:41 PM

@DavidCarlisle I guess that Yoda would have banned the comma...

5:05 PM

@DavidCarlisle Yeah, it is really annoying when all the verbs end up at the end of the document!

5:23 PM

@HaraldHanche-Olsen But at least the verbs do exist and don't go away ;)

@TeXnician This sentence no verb.