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12:10 AM
Nice!!
 
1:08 AM
@Kurt It would be more symmetric if you had 350k more.
 
 
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7:10 AM
@CarLaTeX Congratulations for the palindromic number of answers!
 
@JouleV Oooh
 
7:55 AM
@marmot wait -- isn't that usually the response of @DavidCarlisle? :-)
 
@Kurt @marmot is davidcarlisling himself!
 
@CarLaTeX No, I doubt, @DavidCarlisle is no @marmot.
 
8:46 AM
@FaheemMitha I see you've concluded that Mercurial is 'over'
 
@JosephWright Pardon?
 
@FaheemMitha Looking over some chat messages, you said that Git has 'won'
 
@JosephWright That's what David said.
 
@FaheemMitha Ah
 
I still use Mercurial. Despite some bumps in the road, I plan to continue using it.
Unless some disaster happens and development stops, of course.
As I was complaining here, some time ago they adopted the lunatic practice of auto-closing bugs that were sufficiently old.
 
8:51 AM
@FaheemMitha I wasn't saying you shouldn't: I meant that for new developers/projects, there is now really not much choice
 
That sort of thing isn't exactly calculated to win the hearts and minds of users.
@JosephWright How so?
And as you would expect from people who think such a practice is reasonable, they haven't exactly been proactive about fixing bugs.
For example, I reported one bug in 2015, with a reproduction recipe. It wasn't a complicated bug. As of right now, it's still open.
@DavidCarlisle What's wrong with "MIND YOUR HEAD - LOW DOORWAY"?
 
9:13 AM
@FaheemMitha English humour
 
@CarLaTeX Apparently.
 
@FaheemMitha :)
 
Speaking of humor, I got a slightly strange reply from Markus Kohm.
 
@FaheemMitha Who is Markus Kohm?
 
@CarLaTeX the KOMA guy.
 
9:25 AM
@CarLaTeX The author of KOMA-script.
 
@CarLaTeX KOhm MArkus
 
The email included this remarkable bit:
 
@PauloCereda OOOHHH
 
> >I'm currently running KOMA 3.25.

You a not running me in version 3.25, you are running KOMA-Script 3.25.
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@FaheemMitha I didn't remember his name
 
9:26 AM
@FaheemMitha To understand recursion, you need to understand recursion first? :)
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@PauloCereda That's a bit over my head.
 
@FaheemMitha I was just kidding. :) The self-reference is quite amusing. :)
 
The rest of the email is also quite curious.
 
@FaheemMitha it seems clear enough to me, i might say the same if you referred to longtable version 4 as carlisle version 4
 
@DavidCarlisle Not exactly the same.
If you named longtable after yourself, then yes.
 
9:34 AM
@FaheemMitha it is to him as "koma" is his personal username for himself, and koma-script are the packages written by "koma"
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, well... See above.
And I didn't know koma was his username.
 
@FaheemMitha sure most have now forgotten that bit of history but he's entitled to remember it....
 
@DavidCarlisle I'll bear it in mind, next time.
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh
 
I was thinking about CaDa and CePa script, it's a bit more complicated with GrEn
 
9:38 AM
@DavidCarlisle: Coming soon™, on GitHub: koma-fixed
 
@PauloCereda müsste ich zuerst das Handbuch lesen?
 
Someone is getting a lot of mileage out of Google Translate.
 
@DavidCarlisle oh nein
 
@PauloCereda Wir könnten immer @UlrikeFischer dazu bringen, die ganze Arbeit zu erledigen
@marmot a cousin of yours just arrived:-)
 
ooh a squirrel
 
9:47 AM
Hi there ! Is it possible to send a PM at a TeX.SE user ? @JouleV edited and corrected some errors in my topic and i want to thank him !
 
@Piroooh there are no private messages but you can ping users here (as you just did) if they have been here recently, or under the post of course. (Basically if the @ prompts the user name the ping will work to that user)
 
@Piroooh SE does not have the functionality of sending PM. You can leave him a message in the comment's section of the question, quoting him. Even you could create a (public) room to thank him, but that would be like killing a fly with a cannon, so not recommended
 
I like the similitude @manooooh . I won't open a room for that and noticed there are no PM. Thanks :) !
 
:D P.S. Hello!
 
10:07 AM
@Piroooh Glad to hear that! You are welcome!
 
 
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1:13 PM
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@marmot If the paper size is large enough from the beginning, the fractions will be displayed (but will jump due to the additional lines added)
 
1:39 PM
Bonjour
How can I set margins? different for some pages, I mean.
 
@PrabhjotSingh that is a very vague question, the classic (and often best) way is simply to use begin{quote}..\end{quote} or an environment with similar definition but different indents, or a more invasive way is given by the geometry package and its \newgeometry command
 
@DavidCarlisle Could you find me a related question on TeX SE please.
 
@PrabhjotSingh there are 859 posts with examples of \newgeometry look at a couple of the high vote ones and if you can't apply that to your document, best to make a real example in a question, so people can debug the issue you have tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Cnewgeometry
 
2:06 PM
@DavidCarlisle This one helped.
Thanks.
Why lipsum is used?
 
2:18 PM
Hi.
Do I have to patch things manually to fix the dreaded microtype.lua:145: attempt to call field 'warning' (a nil value) issue? Or is there TeX Live 2019 or some such?
 
@PrabhjotSingh To get some dummy text without having to invent it
 
@CarLaTeX Thanks, But this is not ingles. possibly Greek or Latin.?
 
@PrabhjotSingh it's gibberish, no actual language. :)
 
@PauloCereda thanks.
 
2:33 PM
@DavidCarlisle @AlanMunn took inspiration on your excelent manuals to write this one: github.com/amunn/minwcols/blob/master/minwcols.pdf
:)
 
@wilx there is a texlive 2019 (pretest). There is also a new microtype on ctan. Or simply load \usepackage{luatexbase}.
 
@UlrikeFischer OK. Thanks.
 
2:51 PM
@PauloCereda I've just noticed some typos. I'm assuming that's not the inspiration you meant.
 
@AlanMunn I meant one-page manuals. :)
 
TeX sure can produce some cryptic errors:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Scale=MatchLowecase]{TeX Gyre Termes}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
Produces:
./fontspec-errors.tex:4: Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
M
l.4 \begin
        {document}
It's actually not as cryptic as it seems, since Scale obviously is looking for a number, but in the context of misspelling MatchLowercase which isn't obviously a number it's very hard to spot.
 
well MatchLowecase is neither a number nor a known word.
 
@UlrikeFischer Yes. :) I just added that.
@UlrikeFischer And of course it's obvious in this example, but not so obvious in a larger document.
 
@AlanMunn have you seen the new(ish) w option added to array, which is in teh same general area
 
3:07 PM
@DavidCarlisle ooh
 
@DavidCarlisle but w doesn't allow to give a minimum width.
@DavidCarlisle do you want to have write access to more github repos??
 
@UlrikeFischer yes I know
@UlrikeFischer no:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I just noticed that. Maybe adding a minimum width column type would also be useful. (I don't know if I implemented it in the most sensible way.)
 
3:49 PM
@samcarter Good point!
 
@DavidCarlisle -- I agree about the additional block being preferable, but the UTC won't agree it's easier. Sigh.
 
4:04 PM
@UlrikeFischer how easy is it to handle variant selectors in luatex these days, that is if script A was/is U+1D49F and calligraphic A became the pair U+1D49F U+0FE03 ? (@JosephWright @barbarabeeton)
 
@DavidCarlisle -- yes, I know that's a real complication. But the UTC is ibnterested in their concept of coding purity. In this case, the Microsoft choice between script/calligraphic in Cambria doesn't make the UTC decision easier.
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm not sure if I know what "variant selector" means here. Something like an open type feature? +ss01?
 
@UlrikeFischer no more like a combining character. so it would be two actual codepoints U+1D49F U+0FE03 instead of just U+1D49F
@UlrikeFischer the math block already use VS-1 (U+FE00) in some cases (not sure how well supported) eg U+222A is union but U+222A U+FE00 is union-with-serifs
 
@DavidCarlisle ah, so like a ligature, or a char+accent. Imho that should be doable. Even if it doesn't work yet I would trust Hans to get it working.
 
@UlrikeFischer yes because luatex always makes working with ligatures easy, doesn't it:-)
 
4:15 PM
@DavidCarlisle ;-) But Hans did included the correction. So it should be okay with the next update. (But for some reason he currently updates the "current" branch and not "beta" and now I'm confused where the newest stuff is ...).
 
4:42 PM
@DavidCarlisle ^^^ with context
 
@UlrikeFischer ah good so if the UTC add more math alphabets using that system it should be OK...
 
@DavidCarlisle I didn't manage to get it working with unicode-math or fontspec. But I guess we can find out ...
 
5:07 PM
Friends, TeXPrinter has a new version! gitlab.com/islandoftex/texprinter
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5:43 PM
@UlrikeFischer I thought your initials were U F.
 
 
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7:08 PM
@samcarter I'm wondering if you are willing to write a real answer for this question. I will be very happy to remove my post.
 
7:56 PM
@marmot No need to remove your answer, I think it is just fine! I added a comment below the question with some other approaches.
 
8:10 PM
Happy International Bagpipe Day daysoftheyear.com/days/international-bagpipe-day
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(bagpipe duck created by @UlrikeFischer :)
 
8:32 PM
@samcarter ooh
 
8:47 PM
please is there a way to write this
I tried align
but I don't how to make a center in it
 
9:26 PM
@PolineSandra there's no alignment or number so just a simple \[...\] is all you need
 
9:37 PM
Excuse me all LaTeX users: but this gravatar is correct? There is the bloody :-(
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Q: prerex package changes toc color

Thomas BenkoI use the prerex package to draw a simple prerequisite diagram. It works well, but changes the table of contents color to red, what looks ugly. I tried to change it back with {\color{black}\tableofcontents} but it remains red. Sample code: \documentclass{report} \usepackage{prerex} \usepacka...

 
@Sebastiano It looks like a very blurry metal singer. Not something to worry about I think.
 
@AlanMunn Thank you very much for your opinion. But for my opinion is very ugly :-(!
 

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