@JosephWright PL5 is gone

@JosephWright quite a few places seem to be using the texfaq2html?lable=foo form, eg ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib I have that working (except I got the script's name wrong) davidcarlisle.github.io/tex-faq.github.io/cgi-bin/… as with all the other redirects we have it's a client side redirect (javascript here) rather than server side, but better than just giving a 404 error I think

@DavidCarlisle We could I guess add this to every page

@DavidCarlisle One minor issue is that redirects seem to be case-sensitive, but we can likely live with that

@JosephWright no I don't think you can pass a ? query param through a redirect in that way, I just checked in a file that does a javascript redirect having extracted the ? bit

@DavidCarlisle Ah, probably better :)

@JosephWright yes but the whole site is case sensitive anyway isn't it? even without the redirects https://texfaq.github.io/faq-fixwidtab etc don't work

@DavidCarlisle Yes, that's what I meant: it's strange that it is at all

@JosephWright proper file systems are case sensitive:-)

@JosephWright meanwhile the label= form seems to work: texfaq.github.io/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=unicode

@DavidCarlisle Cool

@DavidCarlisle Sure, but URLs aren't file names

@DavidCarlisle Meanwhile, I'll have to work through the theme stuff slowly: something odd is up when I try to switch to minima

@JosephWright but they are defined to be case sensitive (because case insensitivity is a cultural minefield:-)

@DavidCarlisle No they are not: try http://WWW.BBC.CO.UK

@JosephWright domain names are case insensitive but the bit after // are case sensitive

@DavidCarlisle It's all part of the URL ... same rules should apply to the lot

@DavidCarlisle Anyway, I'm driving to a wedding today with family ... will try to look at theme stuff later, time-permitting

@JosephWright but they don't (I have spent many an hour reading all the URI RFC:-) it would be a loss of functionality if they did as it would make it tricky to link to files that just differed by case

@JosephWright have fun (looks like it may stay dry:-)

Top of the morning!

@DavidCarlisle That's what case folding is for ...

@JosephWright but if you want to link to foo/Makefile and foo/makefile separately, case folding is the last thing you want

@DavidCarlisle This is I guess where we differ due to background: I think the OS should preserve the case in the name, but not allow creation of file names which fold to the same canonical version

@PauloCereda so you want to be Irish now as well?

@DavidCarlisle nope, thanks. :)

@PauloCereda How's your transport going?

@PauloCereda see last sentence of accepted answer:-) english.stackexchange.com/questions/51427/…

@TeXnician The president announced some measurements yesterday, so let us see how this week unfolds. The entire country is very concerned. :(

@DavidCarlisle oh I thought it was an English opening, with monocles and whatnot!

@DavidCarlisle: How good is your Portuguese? :) A message to me last night: Dadas as dificuldades apontadas no comunicado da Reitoria, ficam suspensas as aulas e todas as atividades relativas aos cursos de pós-graduação e de extensão da Escola Politécnica.

@PauloCereda well it says: "Given the difficulties pointed out in the statement from the Rectory, the classes and all activities related to the postgraduate and extension courses of the Polytechnic School are suspended." but what does it mean?

@DavidCarlisle No shaky buses for me until the crisis is atenuated. :)

@DavidCarlisle: surely you are aware of what's going on in Brazil right now?

@PauloCereda only vaguely: England losing at cricket was a more major news item

@DavidCarlisle ooh cricket. :)

@PauloCereda would this have affected your thesis had you written one?

@DavidCarlisle ohh, losing. :)

@DavidCarlisle: we are facing a crisis at the moment. Truck drivers entered on strike. There's a shortage of fuel and food in the entire country.

@DavidCarlisle If my deadline had shifted for a month or so, it would have affected greatly!

@PauloCereda good job you didn't write it yet then!

@DavidCarlisle Yay! Oh wait...

@mickep When they win, it is another triumph for Great Britain! When they lose, England loses again! :)

@PauloCereda Haha

@mickep From Flanders and Swann. :)

@mickep ^^

@HenriMenke Could you poke if you have bit time?

@UlrikeFischer /poke <3

WHY THE PIRATE BLOKE HAS AN ARARA IN THE SHOULDER

I suggested he/she uploaded a new picture of the issue... and he/she does some ascii art...

@G.Bay Illustrative though. Try width=1.2\linewidth for your image, I'm guessing it's a case like that.

@TorbjørnT. I tried a bigger image, and I don't see that big difference

@G.Bay How big? How about \includegraphics[width=1.5\linewidth]{example-image}?

@TorbjørnT. 9cm height actually

if its 1.5\linewidth it will obviously go out to the margins...

@G.Bay Yes, and that's the point, that is likely what the OP is describing.

@TorbjørnT. Actually his original code has "height=9.5cm,width=16cm" , I will work with that.

@G.Bay You could add the center option to the tcolorbox, which will center the box on the page.

@TorbjørnT. That has little effect since the image is too wide, I will suggest him shrink the image or turn page landscape. :-\

@G.Bay It has the effect of centering the image on the textblock regardless of the margins, so it bleeds into the left margin as much as it does the right, instead of bleeding only into the right margin.

@TorbjørnT. Hmm, I tried here and didn't see the difference. What center option is that? Dam, sorry I must leave now, will be back in the evening.

@G.Bay Example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}

\newtcolorbox[blend into=figures]{myfigure}[2][]{
center, % <---- this
float=htb,capture=hbox,colback=white,attach boxed title to top center={yshift=-2mm},colbacktitle=white,coltitle=black,boxed title style={size=minimal,toprule=0pt},sharp corners=all,boxrule=0.5pt,enhanced,title={#2},every float=\centering,#1}

\begin{document}
\begin{myfigure}{A tcolorbox figure}
\includegraphics[width=1.2\linewidth]{example-image}

@TorbjørnT. oh I see, that in deed works. I was trying before=\begin{center},after=\end{center}.

thanks!

@UlrikeFischer Sure thing.

@CarLaTeX @egreg In case you need an up-to-date map of your surrounding:

@samcarter Ooh a motorcycle map of Italy!?

@HaraldHanche-Olsen did the Romans have motorbikes?

@DavidCarlisle but @egreg does!

@HenriMenke I'm trying to move "resources" in the luafontpond in a small texmf tree. Locally this works fine, I can add the tree with tlmgr conf auxtrees add path/to/texmf but I don't know how to do this or something with a similar effect in the travis tests. I tried the tlmgr command, I also tried to set the texmfhome variable (that is currently active) but nothing worked. do you have an idea? There is a test to check this feature (which naturally currently fails).

@samcarter Nice! By the way, several current roads use essentially the same track as the Roman ones. The “via Postumia” is easily recognizable with a satellite photo, but it went through neither Acelum (Asolo) nor Tarvisium (Treviso) contrary to what the map says: it passed north of the town. The “via Aemilia” is the same as the current national road 7.

@egreg I have been just wondering about this question ;-) But it isn't really a surprise that many of these roads still exist.

@samcarter Oooh Mediolanum

@DavidCarlisle what have the Romans ever done for us

@PauloCereda I can think of XIV things!

@mickep ooh I see what you did there

@PauloCereda Without them, we would not have roman numbers to number our items in our famous theorems :D

@mickep ooh a famous theorem

I heard that the year notes in films were deliberately written in roman so people could not easily spot if they were watching an old movie...

@PauloCereda The Roman numbers recall me of an old episode of "Fråga Lund" (Ask Lund) where people were sending in questions that professors from Lund University were answereing. In next message: One of them performing division with roman numbers.

@mickep @egreg at work?

@mickep ooh cool

@PauloCereda It is amazing to see him explain and do it live. But one has to be in Sweden to watch the clip :(

Oh, it was available at Youtube.

@mickep oh no

@Loopspace once told us to never annoy the Swedes. :)

@JosephWright faq urls should be case insensitive now:-)

@PauloCereda Is @Loopspace Swedish?

@mickep No. :)

@PauloCereda Jag är svensk

@DavidCarlisle I'm impressed.

@mickep @PauloCereda knows I'm a skilled linguist

@PauloCereda don't tell @AlanMunn I said that.

@DavidCarlisle ooh a secret

@DavidCarlisle woo

@DavidCarlisle I found this on my backups

@samcarter The modern “via Flaminia” is very similar to the ancient one (although some parts have been rebuilt with double lane); the old road still passes through a tunnel dug at Vespasianus' time: it's called “Furlo”, from Latin “forulum”.

@egreg as I wrote that \def I thought "@egreg's going to tell me off about this" ...

@DavidCarlisle “In ginocchio sui ceci!”

@egreg ooh

@DavidCarlisle I translate that for you: "In gnocchi we belive".

@mickep Isn't Gnocchi that wooden bloke in which his nose grows when he tells a lie?

@PauloCereda Hm, you think of $\pi$-gnocchio?

@mickep ooh an irrational number

@mickep Kneeling on the chickpeas! (but it probably sounds better in Italian:-)

@DavidCarlisle That's what google translate told me as well (minus the last comment).

@mickep so it must be right then! (it never errs, I have absolute faith in its translations)

@DavidCarlisle That's an order: “Kneel on chickpeas”. I'm surprised English schools don't use this kind of punishment. ;-)

I try to use \tl_rescan:nn to get two specific lines from a file containing \newcommand*\some@macro{foo} to actually define those macros, but the @ is never a letter it seems. Why so (surrounding cat code regime in the file it is used in is in \makeatletter, also including \makeatletter doesn't work).

nevermind. Solved (though not with the first argument of \tl_rescan:nn, why doesn't a \makeatletter work here?)

@egreg no, they just hit people with a stick instead (but I was always good, of course)

@DavidCarlisle Short of fantasy? :-)

@egreg perhaps it would be better said, I was never caught, of course

@egreg at least my version worked vvvv

@DavidCarlisle Oops! :-)

@egreg get down on your knees!

@egreg xparse is still missing. (le baton, le baton)

@UlrikeFischer I blame the OP for not having supplied it to begin with.

@UlrikeFischer This is @egreg's standard policy, first sabotage existing answers then post the fixed version under his own name to pick up some undeserved rep

So, two galleries today, it was pretty good. Now it's timr for a coffee and then for some loads of sushi :)

@DavidCarlisle I'm inured to misuse of the language.

Btw, Centre Goerge Pompidou is some cool place!

@egreg Oh, very interesting! I just had a look at a map and realized that I already walked on parts of the via Flaminia when I visited Rome a couple of years ago - I should have kept on walking a few days to see the Roman tunnel :)

@samcarter That's just 244km :-)

@samcarter Here's a photo

@yo' Centre George Pompidou is a very dangerous place - dangerous for the weight of ones luggage as the book shop has a very good selection of art books :) In addition it has opening hours until late in the evening, so one can even drop by after conferences ....

@samcarter The inscription says “IMP(erator) CAESAR AUG(ustus) – VESPASIANUS PONT(ifex) MAX(imus) – TRIB(unicia) POT(estate) VII IMP(erator) XVII P(ater) P(atriae) CO(n)S(ul) VIII – CENSOR FACIUND(um) CURAVIT”

@samcarter no bookshopping today for me. If I were up to that, I would have got the books of František Kupka drawings in Le Palais

@egreg Oh, 244 km should be nothing for the efficient Roman army

@egreg A couple of weeks ago I watched a Roman ship swim by: fau.de/2018/05/news/panorama/… (sorry, there is no English nor Latin version, but it is mostly photos)

@yo' Have you been to the exhibition in the Grand Palais?

@samcarter According to some sources, the iter justum was about 30 km a day, the iter magnum was 36 km.

@egreg Wow, that's quite good!

@samcarter Yep. Actually, I (honestly) did know nothing about Kupka before I went in. Now, I'm in love with his work!

Anyway, I gotta go, my sushi place opens in 20 minutes and I still have to take the metro to get there. So I'm off. See you later!

@yo' That is a nice story to tell: you travel to France to discover a Czech artist :) Bon appétit!

@samcarter Maybe a small group of walkers can do more, but a moving army is quite a different things: with a whole army the first troops would complete the travel before the last men would start it.

Would army eat sushi?

@yo' Kupka was also once in Mönchengladbach: museum-abteiberg.de/index.php?id=119.

@samcarter well, yes, it's a funny story, right? But anyway, it's not unique, for Mucha you also have to travel to Montmartre :) (and moreover, you have to learn the "correct" pronunciation; in this regard, Kupka is slightly luckier)

@yo' -- sushi in paris? how nice! (we're vary sad -- our favorite sushi chef has left the restaurant where we enjoyed his creations. i'm trying to find out where he went, so we might be able to follow him.)

@barbarabeeton well, this particular sushi is good for the volume, not that much the quality. But there's many quality places in Paris!

BTW, I finally understood today what does it mean when it pleut comme vache qui pisse. I'm soaking wet.

@yo' -- it wasn't so much about the quality, although that was certainly there. cardin is an artist, and we'd sit at a table, not at the sushi bar, so that he could create a little garden on the plate. always different, always beautiful, and often surprising -- trees made of carrots, roses made of sashimi slices of salmon, a maki dragon wrapped in unagi with carrot spines, eyes of octopus sickers and topped with red tobiko.

@barbarabeeton I understand. However, AFAIK visual art is important in Japanese cuisine!

@yo' -- true, but to be found at this level (in providence, at least) is not the norm.

@barbarabeeton neither here. Here in Paris, best sushi I've had for reasonable price is in the "China town", and there you sort of have to expect (and enjoy :-) ) a certain level of chaos and certain lack of order. Still, the plates are always nicely arranged, just not artistically.

@yo' You should have sushi in SP. Some of the best sushi I've ever eaten, although I've not been to Japan.

@AlanMunn is SP really Sao Paulo?

@yo' Yes, sorry for the abbreviation. :)

@yo' There's a large Japanese community in São Paulo.

@AlanMunn no worries, I'm just very surprised!

@AlanMunn ah ok

@UlrikeFischer @JosephWright The bug is fixed!

@yo' ye of little faith :)

@AlanMunn People understimate SP :)

@PauloCereda well, ye warning me of the city ... :-)

@yo' oh the warning still stands :D

anyway, time for some classics -- Chopin Frederic -- 12 etudes op 10 and 12 etudes op 25 (played by Ali Hireche) @egreg

@yo' ooh

@yo' I am not sure @egreg and Chopin live in harmony. :)

@PauloCereda oh no

@yo' for me, I love Chopin! :)

@PauloCereda well, so do I .... Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, ...

@yo' Chopin is too 'modern' for @egreg

@PauloCereda and @yo' -- well, i'm listening to one of my favorites: prokofiev piano concerto #1, youtube.com/watch?v=KctnmG7JakU this is certainly too modern for @egreg.

@AlanMunn Definitely. Just a bit less sugary than Čajkovskij.

@egreg You have a low tolerance for schmaltz, (among other things).

@AlanMunn Currently listening to KV 449.

@egreg Currently listening to Bishop Briggs. :) Although earlier, Beethoven 6th.

@AlanMunn I know about Bishop Berkeley.

@AlanMunn Or Henry Briggs, who wasn't a bishop.

@egreg :)

Hello folks. I read an interesting post on Quora: Is LaTeX dead? If yes, what are some modern alternatives? (quora.com/…). Maybe you are interested in the 34 (!) answers :).

@Dr.ManuelKuehner Not a single 'Yes' answer. :)