@marmot Every time I find out one useful package of his, he told me not to use it, so it's likely you're right, but we all know he is very smart in foreign languages, I undoubtedly referred to Google Translator :):):)
@marmot If I had known that the car mat are made by latex, I would have choose another nickname... I'm preparing a new avatar, as soon as I have some spare time... wait
@CarLaTeX I've been many time in Italy but I missed that part of the story (perhaps because I was very often just in the Alps or in some Physics centers;-)
@CarLaTeX Well, I guess it will be hard to find someone who wants to chat with you in Latin so I would have loved to learn some nice language like Italian (which I only took less than a year and completely forgot...) I dunno why they offer this plus I learned Latin before English which extraordinarily stupid ....
@CarLaTeX I still can make an order in the ristorante and count to ten, but that's it. Very sad. Last year I was in Sicily and would really have loved to be able to speak a little bit, but practically all of the people replied in English...
OK, Sorry, Marsala. (At the summer school, we had every evening free Marsala wine, which was of course deadly for the morning lectures .... but my presentation was in the afternoon, so no complaint;-)
@CarLaTeX Things are very different from the US, where you can get arrested just because you do not hide a bottle of beer that you just bought in the supermarket. (OK, I guess people do not really get arrested, but in principle they could.) Ironically, you need to hide the bottles in a brown bag, and everyone knows it's alcohol inside.
@CarLaTeX Yes, precisely. (However, I must say that whenever I come back to Europe, I did not really miss the smell of cigarettes in the US, in Europe there is much more cigarette smoke...) Oh, @UlrikeFischer is here. Hello!
@CarLaTeX In the US it is much more restrictive and I smell smoke at most once a month (but next week I'll be back to Europe... for one week ... crazy )
@egreg Yesteday I got a Master thesis from an Italian student to read. It was typeset with double line spacing, so I assume he took the LaTeX course from you, right?
@mickep I want to write to the people from comic sans to design small caps glyphs so I can use this font in my thesis. Without small caps, it's of no use to me! Does anybody have an e-mail address or a telephone number of the developers of comic sans?
I was thinking of having an optional argument to \PrintDocTable, and then checking if that was argument was present, and then including \nextnuml. And if not, then not including it.
@FaheemMitha yes but it's already in a macro and not intended for ever being in a document, and when editing internal macro code like that then syntax highlighting can fail.
@DavidCarlisle True, but if it is in its separate bit, then the failure won't affect a whole bunch of other stuff. The bracket mismatching is particularly annoying.
@CarLaTeX What's the advantage of double line spacing?
@DavidCarlisle But the problem is that your eyes are already destroyed before you finish the first reading, so you won't be able to add those comments... ;)
@DavidCarlisle I'm not getting very far with Jekyll themes: in the end, I suspect I'll just add all of the files locally and edit there (we want some adjustments anyway)
first I would like to create line without any text above it to let the student write solution on it after that I would like to write the correct solution above on it
@DavidCarlisle There's still quite a bit of this sort of thing to sort, for example I'm likely to add/adjust a lot more stuff in the variables part of the Markdown once I get some proper theme stuff sorted
@JosephWright yes I guessed we were interleaving our push and pull:-) I'll probably doa few more links here and there as I get time. still quite a few ctan ones to do (not looked at the non-ctan ones at all yet)
@DavidCarlisle Do you think we should have the question titles as Markdown or in the variable table? Both would work, I'm wondering if I've got the right approach for editors ...
@JosephWright Not sure, I guess the advantage possibly of moving it to the yml frontmatter is that it might make it more amenable to automatic tables of contents or breadcrumbs code but not sure we need that. Whatever works I guess, anyone starting a new file will just copy an existing one anyway so whether it's # foo or title: foo doesn't make much difference
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I was thinking the same: I'll shift to part of the YAML. (We probably should at some stage look at auto-generating the index: I wonder if the files should get split up into directories ...)
@JosephWright a directory structure would simplify the section structure in some ways but would make it relatively painful to preserve existing links, so I guess I'd avoid that if possible
@JosephWright oh OK yes if we always flatten out the public view I guess that works (I had in mind exposing the section levels in "new" url but redirecting old ones which I think isn't so easy in gh-pages. But also we don't really need it if teh directories are just internal re-organisation
@DavidCarlisle I'll think about it: probably try that in my fork once I sort out a theme
@DavidCarlisle I'm also working through the actual content, hence adding redirects: for some of the historical stuff, I'll probably consolidate into new questions (like 'Alternatives to TeX')
@DavidCarlisle I'll try out something in my fork ...
@DavidCarlisle GitHub Pages is actually pretty good, isn't it :)
@JosephWright once we have figured out more of these details we should fix up latex-project.org to use it directly:-)
@JosephWright yes that title occurred to me as I passed by that weird ANT answer, lose that and add something about sile etc and just mention ant in passing?
@G.Bay É o item destruidor de amizades. :) É uma carapaça voadora, cheia de espinhos e na cor azul. Em geral, o jogo dá esse item aos jogadores que estão em posições afastadas do líder (por exemplo, do sexto lugar para trás). Ao usar esse item, ela sai voando da sua posição no jogo, passa por todo mundo até chegar no líder e explode tudo! :)
@JosephWright well that's strange I could have sworn when I needed this (a year or so ago) the gh help pages said it couldn't be done (and google searches just found people moaning that the redirect plugin wasn't supported:-) Either I was looking at old information or it's changed, either way that looks good.
@DavidCarlisle I'll probably set up a test redirect over lunch
@DavidCarlisle Could be: that might make a difference with the LaTeX Project situation. Once we have it working for the FAQ, might be worth going back to Frank/Jonas
@DavidCarlisle I'll add permalink info too: probably we want that for clarity even if we don't actively need it at the moment
@DavidCarlisle I'm going to solve the theme problem ... contacted GitHub support about minima!
@mickep Alas, Norsk Matematisk Tidsskrift ended publication long before Comic Sans existed. You may be thinking of Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift (NORMAT), which I did typeset many years ago. But that too is dying a slow death, if it's not already dead.
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@FaheemMitha as I say let it run and hit ctrl-c then return a few times you will see it just loops between ref and oldref defined in terms of each other
@Skillmon after the para has finished \prevgraf You can't ask mid paragraph
@UlrikeFischer that was plan a but I got squeals from people who were loading it then using \globalloc\foo or some such so now it has some rather arbitrary heuristics on whether to quit and not do anything or whether to load the old code.
@DavidCarlisle there seem not to be many packages and class with unconditional etex, I would say at most around 10 (if the tkz-packages get all corrected). So the problem will hopefully disappear anyway.
@PauloCereda der Stern. Two rr at the end are actually quite unusual in german. The adjective "starr" exists, but beside this I can't think of other words.
Is it possible to create a \global aware macro, that behaves like this: \ifglobal \gdef\foo{bar}\global\let\bar\baz \else \def\foo{bar}\let\bar\baz \fi?
With \ifglobal pseudo code being \iftrue if the macro was preceded by \global?
@Skillmon No: you can arrange for everything to be done by expansion for a single assignment (so the prefix works), but not 'pick up' the prefix status
Hmm, my email cleanliness is apparent not that good. So far in the last 90 mins I've deleted 100k emails. No idea how may emails is in there (Outlook does apparently not have good tools for that)
@FaheemMitha yes, but s markers have special values and so may o, remember to see \IfBooleanTF{}{}{} and \IfNoValueTF{}{}{}`, other than that it is pretty easy to use.
@FaheemMitha surely using {s o m} is much easier than defining a star form with optional and mandatory argument the old way isn't it? (That's the intention at least:-)
@FaheemMitha latex tutorials tell you there is a command \section for numbered sections and a command \section* for unnumbered ones, but the * is not really part of the command name. \section is defined to test for a following * and number or not number, and that is what the xparse s option defines for you.
@FaheemMitha Leslie had an existing package for latex2.09, I re-wrote it for 2e but with the same interface, but the interface forces the test to be non-expandable and clunky
