I'm not sure this is on topic, U+224b has full name INTERCALATE and has been in Unicode since (at least) 1.1 so was probably inherited from one of the code sets that were lumped in to the standard, the name intercal comes from iso879 isoamsb, the original sgml math character entity set. various on line dictionaries have meanings for intercalate in calendars and chemistry but I don't see any of them used with the T like symbol in this slot, so I have no idea. I would guess it's just used for transpose as a substitute bold sans serif T — David Carlisle2 mins ago
@DavidCarlisle -- i was typing my comment as you were typing yours. just because an entity name appeared in an allegedly "ams" set in 9573-13 doesn't mean that anyone at ams was really familiar with it. i suspect the symbol might be found in the predecessor to math of comp in the 1940s or 1950s, but i'm not inclined to dig.
Is there an easy way to do the dots of an o-umlaut in a different color than the o? I've already tried using the textcolor function in the color package, but I suspect that's the wrong way to go. I know I could just manually rotate and position some colored dots over an o, but I'm hoping someone ...
I just learned about the existence of dotless i's and j's- \i and \j, which happens to be how I write them out by hand. Would there be a way of making all occurrences of both appear dotless with some kind of character/glyph substitution or redefinition and not as hundreds of control sequences? Te...
but related questions like https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19553/where-can-i-find-people-for-hire-with-latex-skills-and-designer-skills https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/231122/buy-help-for-latex/ https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135295/how-can-i-make-some-money-out-of-my-tex-skills https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/430133/where-do-we-find-a-latex-style-class-development-expert-for-hire https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/434696/latex-typesetting-service are not marked as off-topic
@DavidCarlisle I agree that it doesn't matter :) but in light of the whole discussion about how to explain the rules and policies to new users and how to Be Nice and everything, I was thinking how to handle these cases with this question as an example
@Marijn It's not possible to get too worried about which reason a question is closed, if 5 people vote to close it gets closed they do not all have to vote for the same reason, and the system does not show which reason they used, so if two people voted that as off topic, one voted it as a duplicate and two as unclear, it could get shown as now, as closed off topic
@DavidCarlisle ah, I didn't know that - I thought that if people chose different reasons they would all be mentioned. Don't know why I was thinking that though, since it's not true :)
@Marijn unless I am mis-remembering, if they close for duplicate of different questions the duplicates all get listed, but only one close reason is given, whichever wins by whatever voting system is used internally
For my non European readers, there is excerpt of what GDPR means: (emphasis mine)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).
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@DavidCarlisle \Umathchar did not exist in such old XeTeX release, it was \XeTeXmathchar back then, so the test is using the TFM fonts for the old releases. The extra math fontdimens were always read only, there is no code in XeTeX that read them back, the math constants are always read from the OpenType font.
@DavidCarlisle -- thanks. makes sense. i could try to ask ken whistler or asmus freytag to look into the unicode archives to find out where it came from. your finding out that it appeared in unicode 1.1 was a really good find. also the "additional mathematical symbols". (charles goldfarb never told me that, and he should have. i never saw anything that expanded the abbreviations.)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen you need a +15 for an accepted answer and get @egreg to downvote you twice
@egreg yes but I think sgml must have got it from somewhere else as it would probably have called it intercal rather than intcal if it had taken it from tex
@KhaledHosny Good to see you here! aha, thanks that makes sense, blurg that's a shame but OK it's not a regression.
@marmot sure, it's floating in between 1 and 101 (for the assoc. bonus), but it's sure 101 when you ask for it (as you have to create an account to see your rep)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen they are ridiculous anyway from the beginning to the end.
@yo' But if I have no account, than the score is undefined, also a palindrome. In particular, the imaginary part of all our scores is a palindrome! ;-)
@yo' Yes, sure, but this statement we had before here (unfortunately I don't know how to search this chat... ) We also figured that those with a 6-digit score cannot have paliprime reputation....
I have to remove some of my comments (and, perhaps, even a meta question or both) due to having said too much in open access. I apologize up front; I mean no offense. This has something to do with my employment and unrelated to any of you.
Just so you know, you flagged for moderator attention in chat, not on the main site. That shows flags to every SE mod across the network, but only LaTeX mods can help you with your issue on the main site
@PauloCereda The moderator makes! Everything comment he takes! Satisfyingly e-ras-ed! you can just refresh the pages! They're gone before you can think it!
@MdAyquassar It would be nice to keep the meta question. It's a very reasonable question to have around, and although I agree with @DavidCarlisle that real examples rather than concocted ones would be better, it's still clear enough without them (and real examples have their own problems).
@AlanMunn I think so, though I neglected to ask when I took his or her picture. I was in a somewhat uncomfortable position, lying down on a beach of rather large-ish pebbles in order to get close.
Let me restrict myself to technical comments from now on to avoid self-removals and removal requests. Having said that, has there been any experience with introducing the qed tag; would you folks welcome it?
@MdAyquassar There certainly are a lot of qed questions. One thing to be aware of with retagging old questions is that it brings them to the front page, so retagging should ideally be done in small batches over a number of days. For a new tag that would require retagging it's best to pose it first as a meta question. (But it seems reasonable to me.)
Every once in a while I discover myself in the need of improving the placement of the tombstone symbol such as ∎ or \square at the end of various environments. (The latest example is QED for cases and tables in the presence of margin notes and todonotes, and I am very likely to ask more.) Some o...
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@Sebastiano well, self-answered questions are a special thing. They have their place, but they need to be very well thought out. This one does not seem to be the case. For instance, I can very hardly imagine this question is actually useful to anyone.
Ok, now I realize that you answered a day after you asked the question, which is a different situation
@Sebastiano the question is OK but the answer isn't that great:-) Just replacing two symbols from a font is bad anyway, doing it via graphics rather than using a font is last resort solution that you wouldn't normally use.
Still, after reading the question I have no idea what you speak about (though the matter seems easy) and I only guess that you are looking for ways how to use a glyph in a place of another glyph
@Sebastiano Congratulations! You again wasted the time of at least 7 other users by unnecessarily editing posts from the low quality or close review and thus removing them from the queue. As told you many times before: Please have a look at meta.stackexchange.com/a/190581 to understand why you should not edit such posts unless your edits substantially improve the quality of the post (little changes to the markup don't count into this category!)
@DavidCarlisle Sir David I'm sorry for the slowness, but I'm using google translator. No absolutely did not distort the character. I have done a lot of tests and it seems perfect.
@Sebastiano do not use the "Sir" prefix I have not got a knighthood. You are separately scaling the x and y dimensions which is either equivalent to just scaling one or (more likely) distorting the character.
@samcarter for what it's worth, i completely understand your comment, but I'd remove the "Congratulations! You again wasted the time..." bit and just explain without the sarcasm.
@Sebastiano also since you regularly say that you use google translate are you sure you should be editing posts at all? I use google translate too but I would not dream of editing posts on an Italian language site.
@Sebastiano I haven't seen your edits so i can't say if your posts are trivial or not but if a post is in a "low quality post" queue I'd expect any edit to be a substantial new text not just adding some punctuation or backticks
@samcarter That comes across very disingenuous/sarcastic. I assume you didn't mean it that way, so I suggest you edit that line so it reflects your sincere gratitude.
@egreg egreg no one has ever said it to me and I'm getting very sick of you. I do not do it on purpose and if you explain to me I delete everything and my account from here.
@egreg è da un anno che continuamente polemizza con me ingiustamente ed inutilmente. Io ho scritto in maiuscolo solamente dopo il suo commento in maiuscolo
Excuse me with all my heart to everyone for this discussion, but I believe in friendship and fairness. Excuse me again if I wrote in Italian, but I'm angry because this user has been targeting me for a year.
@Sebastiano La maleducazione non è accettabile comunque. E non ho visto polemiche ingiuste e inutili. Né commenti in maiuscole. Mi dispiace, ma sei in colpa.
@Sebastiano Nessuno ti ha bersagliato, tanto meno @samcarter. Ti ha fatto notare comportamenti non in linea con quanto si fa di solito in questi siti.
@egreg sei in errore. 1 Strange error with inputenc asked Jul 19 '17 at 6:47 by PhysiXxx Dear moderators I apologize for this help but ask you to stop the obstructive attitude towards me by a year of @samcarter. I try to do my best and I happen to be wrong. But getting repeated scolding from this user every time is making me lose patience. I ask you to intervene. Thank you. – Sebastiano Jun 4 at 21:18 pending
@Sebastiano you need to ask yourself why you get so many negative comments and negative downvotes, it is not just one person targeting you and you do not know who votes so unless someone tells you they have downvoted you shouldn't accuse them of doing so
@egreg for me the discussion is closed here but I am very convinced and those who know me know that when I'm wrong I immediately apologize immediately. But when I'm right and I'm very convoluted I do not accept that I have to excuse myself about something I have not done either voluntarily or as an act of challenge. I am a correct and polite person.@
@Sebastiano Actually, I wanted to upvote your posts just a second ago, to show my goodwill to you. ;-) You've just deleted your post. Too late for me. Sigh. No upvote, then.
@Sebastiano maybe but if you edit posts in a language that you do not speak well then you can not be surprised if sometimes (or often) those edits are not well received. Your English is far far better than my Italian but still you often say that it is not good and that you use google translate to follow the conversation which means that you should be very careful with edits.
@Sebastiano There is on the site a good acceptance that not everyone speaks English as a first language and questions and answers do not need to be perfect english, but if you are editing someone else's text there is a higher expectation
@Sebastiano I used an English idiom that did not translate well, I changed the text as @yo' suggested to a more direct form. (the last word of my comment above I changed from bar to expectation)
@egreg I'm sorry a lot that enrico was offended with me and went away. With sincerity, I thought about when we met on the phone a year and a half ago. he is an excellent person
@egreg I am not used to 43 years to lie. But I am sorry to lose my friendship with the people I respect and I consider excellent people.
@egreg It is not for me a mystery that I am very stressed with the school and for the actions of my leadership undertaken without a minimum of common sense with all the colleagues in my school.
I wish you a good continuation e vi voglio bene. Thanks to all those who have been close to me. Thanksgiving will also be formalized in the book I am writing with a prof. University of Physics. Goodnight to all.
BTW I should say a huge thank you to you (collectively): for years I'd be working in LaTeX and google some question and find an answer here. Then one day I noticed an icosahedral icon in the right sidebar, followed it to some question about pretending to be elves, and finally made an account. I may spend 90% of my time over on RPG, but I always remember that it was (La)TeX that got me here =)
@samcarter ⟨humor⟩I think there is a need for an online generator of accusations. Let's assume you want to accuse me for wasting your time. You write \accuse{MdAyquassar}{time wasting}, and it generates a lipsum-long paragraph, however, adapted to my name and the purpose.⟨/humor⟩
@samcarter @Sebastiano I'm sure you are both good people, and there's a language barrier, just don't take THE RULES too serious. The site has mechanics and rules, we are just humans with different understanding how that may be meant in an optimal way.
@samcarter @Sebastiano If there's stuff you noticed someone doesn't like, ignore or just don't do it, if it's not too important. There's more that can be done, without any conflict. Life is short, better enjoy.
For my non European readers, there is excerpt of what GDPR means: (emphasis mine)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).
A processor o...
Why is $1$ not considered a prime number?
Or, why is the definition of prime numbers given for integers greater than $1$?
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