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12:00 AM
@DavidCarlisle Thanks....
 
@ChristianHupfer for the picture, I assume
 
@DavidCarlisle Is that your trial of drawing the gene sequences from that gene glossary? ;-)
@DavidCarlisle Eh ... sure :D
 
@ChristianHupfer I'm not sure what the gene sequence would be. It's @UlrikeFischer's donkey crossed with a zebra duck
 
@DavidCarlisle I see you also opted for the tidy zebra which paid attention in geometry lessons when parallel lines were discussed :)
 
@samcarter yep
 
12:12 AM
user image
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@samcarter @DavidCarlisle A duck missed very long, definitely ;-)
 
oh-oh 2018 is about to start...
 
David's zebra is either the sketch after which the Greek build their horse to conquer Troy or vice versa:
copyright by @DavidCarlisle ;-)
 
 
9 hours later…
9:17 AM
OOH ZEBRAS
 
9:33 AM
@PauloCereda And a donkey / zebra breed ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer ooh
 
@PauloCereda And a David - Duck ;-)
 
@PauloCereda do you think everything has to revolve around ducks?
 
@DavidCarlisle /sobs
 
9:51 AM
@PauloCereda: The whole universe consists at least of 95% of Duck Matter, the visible matter revolving around it ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer oh
David is mean
/sobs
 
10:14 AM
An author had put \nonumber inside an {equation} environment (no \label). As a result, I got a warning from the pdf backend about duplicate targets (I am using hyperref.) The fix is trivial, of course, but it was unexpected.
 
10:27 AM
A zebroid (also zedonk, zorse, zebra mule, zonkey, and zebmule) is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra dam, called a zebra hinny, or donkra, do exist but are rare. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century. Charles Darwin noted several zebra hybrids in his works. == Types == Zebroid is the term generally used for all zebra hybrids. The different hybrids are generally named using a portmanteau of the sire's name and the dam's name. There is generally no...
It's called a zonkey :)
 
@samcarter LOL
@samcarter Abelian monoids and zebroids
 
@PauloCereda Are those zebroids commutative then? ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer ooh advanced zebroid lectures
 
@PauloCereda Algezebra ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer LOL
 
10:32 AM
@PauloCereda: March 1st is the international "Day of bad jokes" ... not that I would need a special day for making bad jokes ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer but it's official!
 
@PauloCereda Yes, I've confirmed it. It's my theory special day ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer ooh brontosaurus reference
 
@PauloCereda Tiger....!
 
@ChristianHupfer ooh
 
10:38 AM
@PauloCereda: Inspector 'There is a man behind you' ;-)
 
11:02 AM
3
A: Automatically substitute missing glyph with another in LuaLaTeX

Henri MenkeIn LuaTeX you can define your own substitution rule as a font feature, see How to adjust font features in LuaTeX? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \directlua{ fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature { name = "ediaeresis", type = "substitution", prepend = true, data = { ...

I can't get the above to work for me. Admittedly, I am doing some cargo cult programming here, in the absence of documentation:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec,luacode}

\begin{luacode*}
  fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
    name = "whereisit",
    type = "substitution",
    prepend = true,
    data = {
      ["\x04"] = "X",
    }
  }
\end{luacode*}

\setmainfont{STIX Two Text}[RawFeature=+whereisit]

\begin{document}
abc\char4 def
\end{document}
It still complains about the missing glyph, and there is no X in the output. Can anybody spot my mistake?
 
Hello everybody
 
@JohnDorian Aloha!
 
@paulo Cereda oh, the serial upvoter himself :-)
 
@JohnDorian Quack, at your service. :)
 
I have so many useful things to do, instead I am spending my time writing a LaTeX class and chatting in the TeX.SE-chat lol
 
11:20 AM
@JohnDorian And by procrastinating you found the person (@PauloCereda) who is not procrastinating at all ;-) How ironic ....
 
@christianhupfer oh hello und danke für die hilfe gestern :-)
 
@JohnDorian: Gern geschehen... das mit den Klassenoptionen ist ziemlich tricky. Ich glaube, dass KOMA daran schuld ist (wie fast immer ;-))
 
@ChristianHupfer ja, ich habe dann jetzt halt alle optionen im hauptdokument stehen, so funktioniert es zumindest. (ist es unfreundlich für die anderen, auf deutsch zu schreiben?)
 
@ChristianHupfer Hallo ich bin ein Erpel
 
@JohnDorian Mit Ausnahme von @DavidCarlisle verstehen alle Deutsch;-)
@JohnDorian: Let's switch to English before @PauloCereda's confessions get too embarrasing ;-)
 
11:26 AM
@ChristianHupfer Hallo das Buch ist auf den Tisch.
 
How can I find out text and math font of people.umass.edu/klement/pom/pom-portrait.pdf ?
 
@JohnDorian It's not a scanned book, so try to open the properties feature of the Adobe Reader → there are the fonts
 
Do you know if SumatraPDF can do that aswell?
 
@JohnDorian: It has been generated with LaTeX, according to the Property Dialogue
@JohnDorian: SumatraPDF is Mac stuff, isn't it?
 
11:31 AM
no, windows
 
@JohnDorian: According to the look of the font, I would say LinuxLibertine is the font
@JohnDorian /la la la, can't hear you
 
Mill Goudy
 
@PauloCereda: There's a naughty word: windows ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer :)
 
@paulocereda that's a beautiful font, isn't it?
 
11:34 AM
@JohnDorian I am a Lucida fan. :)
 
on that typekit page it sais the font is open source... does that mean that if i knew how to do it i could use it for my latex documents?
 
@JohnDorian Yes, with lualatex or xelatex I doubt that you want to transform the otf files into traditional (La)TeX fonts
 
@JohnDorian If you have the font on your computer, you certainly could use engines that support system-wide fonts, as @ChristianHupfer has suggested.
@JohnDorian: however, if you intend to use maths, you might need to find a matching mathematical font that suits your text typeface. I am pretty sure that font does not have math support...
 
When I once tried out luatex and xelatex i got scared it never tried again^^
it=and
@PauloCereda yes... can you also find out the math font used in the above pdf?
 
@JohnDorian Sorry, I am not a good maths inspector. :( I have no expertise in spotting maths in the font listing.
 
11:41 AM
@JohnDorian As of now I can't see a specific need to use it for my own documents as well, but of course, as soon as you require other fonts you've to use it.
@JohnDorian: @egreg, @UlrikeFischer and @DavidCarlisle are said to know a little bit about fonts ;-) (@PauloCereda ;-))
 
@JohnDorian \usepackage{libertine}.
 
@TorbjørnT. yes, i know that, but i think we agreed the above was mill goudy
 
@JohnDorian: The LaTeX source is available as well: people.umass.edu/klement/pom/pom-texsource.zip
 
@JohnDorian in addition to getting the font list from the pdf viewer you can use teh pdffonts utility, also the latex source is available at people.umass.edu/klement/pom (@ChristianHupfer wird bestätigen, dass wir hier alle sehr gut Deutsch sprechen)
 
\setmathfont(Greek)[Lowercase=Italic,Uppercase=Regular]{XITS}
 
11:53 AM
@ChristianHupfer oh you just beat me to it (I was delayed for some reason constructing my previous comment)
 
@DavidCarlisle Ah, I thought you would be occupied by providing another image of a Zebroid
 
ah, thank you all
 
\documentclass[12pt,twocolumn,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[onecolumn,twoside=false,margin=0.8in,top=1in,papersize={5.9in,8.5in}]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{mathspec}
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{tikz}\usetikzlibrary{arrows,decorations.markings,arrows.meta,calc}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{hanging}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{ccicons}
\usepackage[
pdfauthor={Bertrand Russell},
 
@JohnDorian Jetzt müssen wir alle das Buch lesen
 
@JohnDorian: That's the important part preamble of the TeX source as far as it is related to fonts and other settings.
 
11:56 AM
@ChristianHupfer It's good to know Bertrand Russell uses LaTeX and not Word
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@DavidCarlisle ich habe schon eine gedruckte ausgabe gelesen ;-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, Russell used TeX before Donald Knuth invented it ;-)
@DavidCarlisle: Shouldn't there be some copyright about the original text. I mean, Bertrand Russell wrote the book (in 1937?), so why is this free?
 
@ChristianHupfer that is known as Russell's Paradox
 
@DavidCarlisle ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer because it will be out of copyright by now
 
12:02 PM
Can you explain to me how I have to install the font in order to compile the Russel document?
 
@DavidCarlisle Apparently there are other laws of copyright in the U.S. or U.K. In Germany copyrights are valid up to 70 years after the death of the author etc.
 
@JohnDorian just install it in to your operating system (depends what operating system that is)
 
it's windows. i have never installed a font. but maybe i should as google before bothering you with stupid questions ;-)
 
@JohnDorian save the font anywhere, right click on it and select install:-)
 
@JohnDorian Systemsteuerung ....
 
12:05 PM
@ChristianHupfer people.umass.edu/klement/pom says this is a 1903 draft and the 1937 published version isn't yet public domain
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, now I noted that lead-in ... must have been some tedious work even with OCR...
 
@JohnDorian Oops, sorry.
 
are all of these download oppurtunities "correct" duckduckgo.com/?q=mill+goudy+download&ia=web ? or is there some "official" place to download the font?
 
@DavidCarlisle Good old Berty
 
@egreg will love the html version:
 
12:15 PM
xd
 
@HaraldHanche-Olsen I don't think that it will work like this. In the original example the substituation works for me because the font actually contains the ё Ё, but you can't substitute missing glyphs. (There was a discussion on the context list about it regarding a work around but I hadn't had the time yet to really look at it).
 
@DavidCarlisle Per Evelyn Whitehead's suggestion.
 
@UlrikeFischer That could be it, I suppose. But then it shouldn't help the OP either, who was facing missing glyphs in his font, after all. But failing that, do you know of any lua hook that gets called when a missing glyph is encountered? If so, I could use it to track down the culprit. Or I could resort to a binary search, I suppose.
 
it's nice to see all the pros in their natural habitat here :-)
 
@JohnDorian … and ducks in their unnatural habitat …
 
12:30 PM
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Why unnatural? We all produce duckuments ;-) Alright, @PauloCereda is pretending to do so ;-)
 
What does the star mean? Apparently I got a trophy for it...
 
@JohnDorian You won a one year - subscription of "Beautiful Typography With Comic Sans Monthly" ;-)
 
Look in the column at the right: the best lines are kept until they are superseded by others.
 
ah, i see
 
1:06 PM
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Only because an answer is accepted doesn't mean that it is valid ;-). It could be that simply switching to luatex helped and that the OP didn't check if the substituation is really needed.
 
@samcarter you've been poked. :)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen quack!
 
@UlrikeFischer :) In any case, I find that for me, the missing glyph complaint always happens during the output routine on the last page. Which is really odd, and makes it all the harder to track down. It appears not to have any detrimental effect, though, other than dirtying the log file a bit.
 
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Ah. Henri added an answer here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/417438/…
 
1:36 PM
@PauloCereda Just saw it :) the code is probably on my computer at home, I'll sent it to you this evening.
 
@UlrikeFischer Thanks! That worked. And now I get a letter X right at the end of the main text. Which tells me something, at least. But as \catcode4 is 15 (invalid), the cause has to be more subtle than a stray ^D in some file. (I have looked, to no avail.)
 
@HaraldHanche-Olsen What is your actual problem?
 
@UlrikeFischer My problem is seeing these in the log files:
[4
Missing character: There is no  (U+0004) in font STIXTwoText:mode=node;script=l
atn;language=DFLT;+tlig;+onum;!
]
@UlrikeFischer I see no harmful effects other than these, but it makes me uneasy,
@UlrikeFischer There's a somewhat complex homegrown classfile, based on article. I guess my next step is to start shaving bits off the class file to narrow it down.
 
@samcarter <3
 
1:52 PM
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Well I can get force this message with \char4, so perhaps somewhere is some code that tries to access a char in some legacy font.
 
2:20 PM
@UlrikeFischer I tracked it down! This was a class file I inherited, but have tweaked extensively. Fortunately, the bug is not in the part that I wrote … They had patched \enddocument. Perhaps \AtEndDocument had not been invented yet, or was unknown. Anyway, the patched code used some macro names containing @, so they had stuck a \makeatletter in there. To no avail, of course … but it must have remained on while the aux file got read, or something, and that produced the stray character.
@UlrikeFischer I am too lazy to continue hunting for the details, will just eradicate the mad code.
 
3:07 PM
Jan 8 at 11:16, by David Carlisle
@HaraldHanche-Olsen who cares about the typeset output so long as the log is clean? :-)
I have a cleaner log now. 8-)
 
3:50 PM
may i ask a very stupid question?
 
@JohnDorian There are no stupid questions ... (most times)
 
@JohnDorian don't ask if you can ask:-)
 
if the folder inside my texlive folder is called 2017 does that mean something should be updated?
 
@JohnDorian no texlive 2018 is not out yet (in fact the first internal pre-test builds may start this week)
 
@DavidCarlisle ok
@DavidCarlisle and once it is released, do i have to do something to update?
 
3:55 PM
@JohnDorian see the schedule here tug.org/texlive
@JohnDorian simplest (and recommended) thing is to just install texlive 2018 from scratch (which is why it always puts everything below a "year" folder like "2017" so you can install 2018 side-by-side
 
ok. and will i have to change something in my editor so that it makes use of the new version?
 
@JohnDorian No change is to be done for your 'editor' normally
 
@JohnDorian that depends. If the editor is just calling "pdflatex" and finding it in your path then if you install 2018 and put it in front of 2017 in the path (or delete 2017) then the pdflatex command will just keep working, if your editor config is using an explicit filepath like c:\programfiles in german\texlive\2017\bin\pdflatex then you would need to adjust that of course
 
@DavidCarlisle thank you :-)
is there some way to respond to a particular message here without using the mouse
?
 
@JohnDorian still no I think, see
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Q: Reply for a chat message using keyboard only

soonChat has a pretty well @nickname autocomplete system, however, it is not possible to select a parent message without mouse: Wouldn't it be great if a parent message for a particular user could be selected without loosing input area focus? I've made a simple script as a proof of concept (Git...

 
4:16 PM
I really didn't know searching for nice fonts was so much fun^^
 
@DavidCarlisle better known as packages from hell ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer Ich versuche nur, hilfsbereit zu sein
 
@DavidCarlisle Looks almost as professional as library.msri.org/books/sga/sga5/SGA5.djvu
 
4:32 PM
@JohnDorian Wow -- french typewriter style... 500 pages
 
@samcarter -- just checked on the "overlap" question and the problem seems to have gone away on the cited examples i checked. do you get the same result? is the problem solved?
 
@barbarabeeton The problem seems to have indeed been fixed :) Great!
 
@samcarter -- oh, happiness! (now i can go back to documenting flalign, which somehow managed to be omitted from the user documentation for amsmath.)
 
4:48 PM
Hi y'all! Does anybody know what command biblatex uses to set the delimiter for page ranges (pages field)? The texdoc is full of delims, but I can't find this particular one…
and it's just a range, it's \bibrangedash and defaults to \textendash, p. 116 – thanks for the productive silence! ;D
 
5:03 PM
@dessert hmm... quack? :)
I always get shy in front of a dessert. :D
 
@PauloCereda Well, I felt a little… desserted. ;)
 
@dessert ooh
 
@PauloCereda see what I did there?
 
@dessert it was berry nice!
@AlanMunn ^^ perfect timing.
 
@PauloCereda Sweet!
 
5:11 PM
Well, it's back to work for me – although it almost feels like dessertion.
 
5:44 PM
I don't get mathspec to work...
Oh wait, I do
 
59 mins ago, by dessert
and it's just a range, it's \bibrangedash and defaults to \textendash, p. 116 – thanks for the productive silence! ;D
@JohnDorian Apparently the silence very productive today. :)
A gentle reminder.
:)
 
@AlanMunn uh-oh
 
6:29 PM
You know you did something really nasty when the compiler says: (null):0: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
 
6:54 PM
What do you guys think about sendspace.com/file/yoaayr ?
 
@JohnDorian A file hoster? By the way, we have some ladies here as well ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer No, the PDF-file I just typeset
 
@JohnDorian I can't download it without specifying my mail address....
 
@JohnDorian: That's the message I get ...
@JohnDorian: By the way: Your account name is connected to Scrubs, isn't it?
 
7:03 PM
@ChristianHupfer Yeah it was just the first sharing page that occured in my search engine. i'm looking for an alternative
@ChristianHupfer indeed.
 
@JohnDorian Call me Dr. Cox ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer we.tl/EpPVDpcMJ0 this one should work
 
@JohnDorian I think 1.4.(i) is malpositioned
 
@JohnDorian Got it... looks like Algebra ... or for @PauloCereda: Algezebra ;-)
 
@dessert Yes, you're right, didn't notice...
 
7:11 PM
@dessert Seems to be usual problem with theorem like environments and \item?
 
@JohnDorian and the margins… wait, is the page number on the exact wrong side?
@ChristianHupfer i have no idea at all, just my two cents here ;P
 
@dessert it starts with a right page
@dessert and the paper format is a5. do you think the margins are too small?
 
@JohnDorian the outer border is bigger than the inner one? ok… you're not going to bind that, are you? the margin looks way to small for that.
 
@dessert outer boarder is always bigger
 
@JohnDorian ok, if you say so, I rarely typeset books ;P
 
7:15 PM
@dessert actually I let koma-script compute my margins^^
 
@JohnDorian You didn't play around with DIV there? OK, then it's definitely correct. :) Is the section heading in the second page's head right? I'm not a native speaker, but I'd expect “Valued Fields”.
 
@dessert no, i didn't :-) neither am I but the very first English maths book I just found in my shelf has a header with "Regular rings"
 
184
Q: Which words in a title should be capitalized?

sergAre there any concrete rules that say which words (parts of speech) in a title should start with a capital letter? What would be a correct capitalization for the title of this question?

> Capitalize all nouns
to me, the capitalized form always looks impressive, which would match the document's style quite well
 
Interesting. <i>Commutative Ring Theory</i> by Matsumura certainly breaks with these rules. But then again the author is also not a native speaker.
 
@JohnDorian I have to go… see you!
 
7:24 PM
@dessert yee you :-)
 
8:03 PM
\tl_set:Nn \l__tomorrow_tl {snow~ day} \bool_do_while:nT {\tl_if_exists_p:N \tl_bugs_in_my_code_tl } { \fix_bugs: }
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8:36 PM
Does Herbert Voss have github repositories?
 
@ShreevatsaR sorry for my unhelpful comment but just wanted to share the pain that @JosephWright and I feel when analysing diffs that show up (or go again) every time the engine updates and we run the latex test suite:-)
@LoopSpace I always find that's an empty loop
 
8:57 PM
@StefanKottwitz Oh, ein matheplanetarier :-)
 
@JohnDorian Ein stolzer Planeten-Bewohner! :-)
@JosephWright @DavidCarlisle @LoopSpace We got many LaTeX3 / expl3 questions recently. Want to answer? I really like it to talk about that also on other places and not to restrict oneself on the StackExchange Inc. site. Link: latex.org/forum/search.php?keywords=expl3
 
@StefanKottwitz bist du nicht KOMA experte?
 
@JohnDorian Ich bin nur ein TeX-Freund unter vielen.
Only a TeX friend among many. (we should talk English here or both, with translation)
 
@StefanKottwitz sorry restricting the number of places to respond is good for personal sanity, I can't post on that latex.org forum and I'm not keen on having yet more such accounts
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes I can see why :-)
 
9:06 PM
@StefanKottwitz Kannst du glauben, dass @ChristianHupfer früher behauptete, ich könne kein Deutsch verstehen?
 
@StefanKottwitz I was just asking because earlier I discussed with @ChristianHupfer about tex.stackexchange.com/questions/417715/options-in-custom-class and we couldn't yet find a solution
(in a now deleted answer he explained what I did wrong, but his solution neither did work)
 
@DavidCarlisle That's fine! Just I, maybe only I and Johannes and Clemens, keep alternative forums running instead of relying on a single venture as SE. Your reason is fine (many think the same) so that all other places except SE can give up.
 
@JohnDorian I don't really know koma script that well but I would guess that it is because if you go \documentclass[paper=a5] then paper=a5 is a global option seen by all packages (and in particular koma's typearea class.) but if you just pass that option to the loaded class it is not a global option
 
Perhaps an irony that a TeX.SE moderator struggles to keep alternative sites running :-) Or not irony but independency.
 
@DavidCarlisle (I was replying to this — I can imagine the pain, at least a little.)
 
9:15 PM
@ShreevatsaR yes I guessed:-)
 
Although not wanting to create more accounts for personal sanity is understandable too
 
@DavidCarlisle yes, that's the reason. It is typearea that must see the option.
 
@DavidCarlisle You mean that you have never found any bugs in any of my code? Wow!
 
@StefanKottwitz yes that makes sense
 
@DavidCarlisle That's what I suspected too
 
9:16 PM
@DavidCarlisle yes that makes sense
 
@LoopSpace actually that is more true than what I meant:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle and do you have an idea how to write the class if I know that I always want to use a5 and not give it as a global option in my document preamble?
 
@DavidCarlisle I do wonder if I get some code using the l3draw stuff, will you start using it? Can I finally say that David Carlisle has used my code??
 
@UlrikeFischer the global option stuff in latex doesn't really work as well as one might hope when you have nested classes. I blame the implementers of that system
 
@DavidCarlisle I know -- I had already some fights with it.
 
9:19 PM
@JohnDorian don't have any size options in the class and just specify a5 internally (using typearea or geometry or whatever you want
@LoopSpace I think you will find some tikzmark answers on site from me:-)
19
A: Cross Multiplying Two Fractions with Ovals Around the Appropriate Terms

David CarlisleUpdate it works better with fewer control points \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{hobby} \begin{document} \Large \[ \frac{\tikz[remember picture,inner sep=1pt, outer sep=0pt]{\node (A){$3$};}} {\tikz[remember picture,inner sep=1pt, outer sep=0pt]{\no...

@UlrikeFischer we could blame @egreg, he's on the latex3 team.
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm fine with handing over domains etc. to StackExchange Inc. if they want it, as it's the only place people want to contribute. Life must go on.
 
@DavidCarlisle I spy hobby too. Wowzer.
 
@StefanKottwitz Personally I'm not too worried about who hosts things, github, stackexchange, google, they are all private entities really but they host public services for whatever reason (advertising to a captive audience presumably) and as long as the data isn't actually locked in to their systems I don't see it's really any different from the old days of comp.text.tex and usenet being administered by whatever strange organisation was running it.
 
9:40 PM
@DavidCarlisle Sounds good! As a friend of variety and diversity I used to be worried. You gave the good reason to be not worried but to let SE have it.
 
10:06 PM
@DavidCarlisle But before I change things I talk with DANTE :-) btw. some DANTE meeting talk abstracts are online at dante.de/events/dante2018-1/Programm/vortraege.html
 
10:18 PM
Is there really no way to have properly spaced items of a enumitem list at the beginning of a theorem?
All the sources I find recommend adding a line of text or a blank line before the first item
 
Off topic, but does anybody has a suggestion how to call this hair style?
user image
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@samcarter maybe "the motorcycle helmet"?
 
@samcarter vokuhila
 
@JohnDorian The King (early era)
 
@samcarter fantaghiro?
 
10:41 PM
@JohnDorian there's always a way
 
@samcarter vokuhila
 
@samcarter bob?
 
@samcarter Data (Star Trek)
 
@samcarter my dictionary suggests “hockey hair” for vokuhila, but I'm not sure whether that's actually a thing…
or “mudflap”?
 
10:46 PM
@JohnDorian @UlrikeFischer @StefanKottwitz @dessert @DavidCarlisle @CarLaTeX Wow! So many suggestions - thank you all!
 
@samcarter mary quant ? ^^
 
The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides and long in the back. == Etymology == According to the Oxford English Dictionary, use of the term mullet to describe this hairstyle was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by U.S. hip-hop group the Beastie Boys", who used "mullet" and "mullet head" as epithets in their 1994 song "Mullet Head". The term "mullet head" had previously always or nearly always been used to refer to a person of dubious intelligence, e.g. as in the movie Cool Hand Luke, where defeated villains had been referred to as "mullet heads". == Fashion... ==
 
As vokuhila was mentioned by multiple people, I'll let the majority decide and use "mullet"
 
@samcarter of course if you went for a mary quant duck you'd need an entire 60's wardrobe to go with it
 
@CarLaTeX Very close :) It is by-product from doing the Spock duck for @ChristianHupfer
@DavidCarlisle :) sounds like a lot of work, better to go the easy route :)
 
10:52 PM
@samcarter Put it in the Star Trek section :):):)
 
@DavidCarlisle I thought l3draw is the new way to do things :)
 
@samcarter more difficult as you're using tikz, if you'd have stuck to picture mode things would have been easier
@samcarter just picture mode with underscores in the names (I think, isn't it?)
 
@samcarter @barbarabeeton might have some suggestions too!
 
@samcarter Star Trek Part XX: Ducks From Vulcan ;-)
 
@DavidCarlisle And with additional random letters to make them longer?
@PauloCereda Ohhh
@ChristianHupfer Will be a blockbuster!
 
10:57 PM
@LoopSpace: David reported arara didn't work with Cygwin. After I fixed, he told me he doesn't use it arara!
 
@samcarter Sure ... I don't want to tell too much about it but ducks will be involved ;-)
 
@samcarter watermelon hairdo
 
@PauloCereda I don't use tex, not really.
 
@DavidCarlisle that's actually true. :)
 
@PauloCereda if you were writing a thesis, you'd use tex instead of chatting here and writing cool automation tools
 
10:59 PM
@DavidCarlisle oh no
@DavidCarlisle I am drinking milk now. :)
 
@PauloCereda I am writing a screen play for Star Trek XX: Ducks from Vulcan ;-)
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@ChristianHupfer ooh are there ducks involved?
 
@PauloCereda Yes: All Vulcans are assimilated by the Duck Collective ;-)
 
@ChristianHupfer yay go ducks
@DavidCarlisle ^^ ducks are important
 
@PauloCereda of course, even aliens need to eat
 
11:06 PM
@PauloCereda Too bad there was no MP episode about ducks similar to the famous "News for parrots" show :D
 
@DavidCarlisle oh no
 

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