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2:22 AM
@Sebastiano Please refrain from doing any more tag wiki edits until you understand the concept of intellectual property. In your edit tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/167325 you copied verbatim whole paragraphs from the spalign documentation without mentioning the source of this text. Don't say you did not know this is wrong, this was discussed on multiple occasions, for example when you copied verbatim the ubuntu tag description from wikipedia.
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(@mods If you want to suspend me again from pointing this out, please do so, but don't bother to yet again come up with some superficial reasons for doing so)
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4:14 AM
@Sebastiano Please do not regard the following as a criticism. I just want to say that I agree with @samcarter that one should indicate the source. I know that you ate currently writing a book and put a lot of efforts into it. How would you feel if parts of the book would be posted somewhere on the internet without giving credit to you and your coauthor(s)?
 
 
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6:19 AM
@egreg I saw from your profile that you didn't write your doctoral thesis with LaTeX. Then, out-of-curiosity, what other software you used to write it?
 
6:32 AM
@Raaja Typewriter!
 
7:17 AM
@Raaja Yes, that piece of software.
 
7:46 AM
@Raaja you seem to assume that people had access to computers
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@DavidCarlisle Oh, I was hoping for Word Perfect or Works or something :(
 
@mickep @egreg predates electricity
 
I saw Dirac's hand written thesis linked some days ago. It looked nice.
 
@mickep Works seems to have been launched in 1989 so that is too late for my thesis or egreg's
 
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@DavidCarlisle you seem to assume that computers existed
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7:51 AM
@yo' that bloke Turing built something but I don't think many thesis were typeset with it
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@DavidCarlisle Did you ever use EXP? I have a book on Topology which is typeset with EXP. (The latest edition seem to be rewritten in TeX.)
 
@mickep no my thesis (85) was on a golfball typewriter, then 2 years in cambridge with no computer at all then when i came back to Manchester in 87 I started using tex
 
@DavidCarlisle I see.
 
@mickep arount that time I did see some math typesetting software demonstrated by the topolgy group in Göttingen but I don't recall what it was called.
 
@mickep I think some of our older researchers have used it. I do have it for windows somewhere (I think), though never seen it in action.
 
7:58 AM
@daleif Hold on, and I'll upload a photo I just took with my phone.
I was wrong about the subject of the book, though. It is Steven Roman's "Advanced Linear Algebra".
 
@mickep That almost looks like it is typeset using a typewriter
 
@daleif But with some fancy math constructs available.
 
@DavidCarlisle Could it have been Publisher? I know one of our late researchers used it until we forced him to LaTeX as we could not longer get spare parts for the old Unix server it was running on.
 
@daleif no I think it was something called techno-type since I think it was this meeting I was at: books.google.co.uk/…
 
8:10 AM
Some people at Chalmers University used FrameMaker in the end of the 90's to write technical text.
@DavidCarlisle TECHNO-TYPE is actually a cool name!
 
8:28 AM
@egreg @CarLaTeX huhh, I see.
@egreg another follow-up on the same question, if you remember, how many revisions did you made to your thesis? and how did you manage it?
 
@Raaja No formal revision.
 
@egreg what do you mean by that?
 
@egreg WOW!
 
@Egreg to me typesetting a thesis in a typewriter seems to be a challenging job. I still cannot understand how you will draw figures with a typewriter :D
 
@Raaja You leave a blank space and add figures and formulae/symbols with a pen.
 
8:35 AM
I see, so I can assume @egreg and @DavidCarlisle are artists :D
@PauloCereda didnt think about it :D
 
@Raaja I've seen some documents, it's quite nice. :)
 
any links?
@PauloCereda
 
@Raaja cannot think of one, sorry...
 
I have seen a few documents in field of mathematics and the area I am interested into, only contains a bunch of equations ;)
 
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@Raaja ^^^ that's from the thesis of my father.
 
8:45 AM
Ohhhh nice @UlrikeFischer looks neat :D
 
@Raaja I wrote my thesis with a pen and paid a math department typist by the page to set it using a golfball typewriter so as any page re-write cost money there were very few of them,and large brackets were drawn in later by pen (actually by my wife as she had a steadier hand)...
 
@PauloCereda no problems
@David Cralisle from these replies I see that writing was a thesis was more challenging than it is now. May be something to motivate my students (and also myself). Thanks everyone and specially to @UlrikeFischer (for showing a nice pic)>
 
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@UlrikeFischer I love the handwritten reference number! An elegant pre-computer two-pass solution :)
 
What should I do now?
 
could you send a link for this answer @JouleV?
 
8:54 AM
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A: Welcoming 2019 Pi day: How to draw the letter π?

signal14You can try using the paint App. More info: Ways to open paint app in Windows 10: Type paint in the search box on taskbar, and click Paint in the result. Enter Start Menu, expand All apps, open Windows Accessories and choose Paint.

@Raaja Anyway I flagged it as spam.
 
@JouleV not an answer flag.
I have flaggged it as such
 
@Raaja Today I have been surrounded with surprise.
 
@JouleV Wo surprises it wont be fun at all D:
 
@Raaja Yeah! Some are very fun, but this one is not.
 
@JouleV Flagged as not an answer and downvoted.
 
9:09 AM
@JouleV I know, just take it for fun :D
 
@samcarter @marmot I have copiated all from the pdf of the package (excuse me again), but without malicious (malizia). I not have understood the concept of the intellettual propriety. Marmot I agree with you.
 
@Raaja I wrote it, polished it and sent it to the committee. At the time we had a national committee.
 
@egreg OHHHH, nice so as I already mentioned, back in the days, it was more challenging than it is now.
@egreg Now I can see the reason for "Sob!" more clearly :D
 
9:38 AM
@marmot In your info, you stated that you are writing a book. Is it available for reading now? :D
 
@JouleV I think that will be ready when @marmot comes out-of-hibernation :D
 
 
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11:37 AM
@Raaja Until 1983 there was no formal PhD degree in Italy and I was in the very first round.
 
Another action recommendation request message: What should I comment now?
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Q: Problems with making formula look great

JohanI have problems to make the below formula look great. Do you have any ideas on how I can make it look better? This is this LaTeX code I have for it: PTK = $PRF(PMK, \text{"Pairwise key expansion"} || Min(AA, SPA) || \\ Max{AA, SPA}|| Min(ANonce, SNonce) || Max(ANonce,SNonce))$ I appreciate ...

The OP accepted all answers and said "I'll go for this one" on two of them.
 
@egreg @JouleV Good morning to you :-).
@JouleV Always my compliment for the question......\pi ...:-)
@UlrikeFischer Those were the days when I used my typewriter. I was also thinking about something else...that saddens me so much.
 
11:56 AM
@egreg I guess that would have been fun ;)
 
12:09 PM
What should we do when it's evident an OP accepted the wrong answer: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/479579/…?
 
@CarLaTeX Nothing except adding some comments.
 
@CarLaTeX upvote the right answer so someone gets a populist badge....
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@Sebastiano Good morning! (although it is now 7:20 pm here ;-))
@Sebastiano Thanks! Upvoted your answer and hope it will get a badge soon :)
 
12:25 PM
@DavidCarlisle @egreg Already done!
 
12:41 PM
@JouleV I'm not here to get votes... but rather to learn. Knowledge, in my view, is something that goes far beyond. I am the first to make a mistake and I admit it immediately when I make a mistake.
 
1:08 PM
@JouleV This book takes very long to write. As already mentioned to @Raaja, the main problem is that if I do field work, i.e. hibernate, this takes a long time.
@Sebastiano Yes, I fully believe you that the intent was good.
 
1:56 PM
@DavidCarlisle -- Oh, I was reminded of Babbage. Although his engine was basically able to recognize numbers only.
@Raaja -- Before computers, many people had much better handwriting than they do today.
 
 
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4:30 PM
Just ended the first lecture of the LaTeX course: attendance 188
 
@egreg 181 would have been a palindrome.
 
@UlrikeFischer Should I tell seven of them to go away?
 
@egreg or find 3 more to come.
 
@UlrikeFischer :-)
 
 
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5:49 PM
@barbarabeeton it remind me of the fact that I had compulsory hand-writing classes in my school days to practise cursive writing. Probably the last batch to have one such. Now-a-days, I dont see any such things though.
 
@UlrikeFischer -- much better advice.
 
6:04 PM
Ladies and gentleman would you please rise for the Grouch Anthem!
A classic! Watched this movie (Follow that bird!) yesterday!
 
@egreg I think this is a good reason to cancel the lecture. (My class has 11 students, so I am fine. ;-)
 
6:56 PM
@egreg I want to replace in a seq item a command by another or do nothing if the command is not in it. What would be the best way to do it? (the item either contains \mycommand{xx} or a simple string).
 
 
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9:12 PM
@UlrikeFischer Map the sequence and examine item by item
 
the sequence has only one item when I have to do is. The main question is how to replace the command. Currently I'm doing `\seq_gpop_left:NN #1 \g_tmpa_tl
\regex_replace_once:nnN {\c{mycommand}} ... ` but it looks a bit overkill to use regex or do you think it is sensible?
 
@UlrikeFischer It depends on what you have to replace. Note that \seq_gpop_left:NN acts globally on the sequence, but only assigns the tl locally.
 
@egreg I really only have to replace \mycommand{a} by \mycommandspecial{a} in the case that the sequence has only one item and this item starts with \mycommand. Does the local means that I should pop into \l_tmpa_tl?
 
9:27 PM
@UlrikeFischer Yes, you have to pop into \l_tmpa_tl. Such a replacement could be done with a clever delimited argument macro. Regex are simpler. ;-)
 
@egreg @UlrikeFischer Good evening. :-)
 
@Sebastiano Ciao
 
Have you a bit of time?
Look this question:
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Q: authors with multiple affiliations without packages

user13321I'm trying to list an author with multiple affiliations for an article submission. I Googled around a little and discovered the authblk package which is pretty cool. Unfortunately it refuses to work with the conference specified LaTeX files: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/downloads/download.php Is...

There is a strange link ....I think that naaclhlt2012.org/downloads/download.php is not a correct link. There is a site with the Japan girls.
 
@Sebastiano It's a very old question and the link is probably dead.
 
@egreg yes but it is a red light site? Or am I making a mistake?
 
9:32 PM
@Sebastiano I've removed the link
 
@JosephWright Thank you very much for your precious help. Was my comment correct? I often make a mistake and I do not wish I had made the umpteenth mistake.
 
@Sebastiano The domain has been closed and if one asks for it, some provider redirects to somewhere else. Ignore.
 
@egreg Thank you always very much. I should write a little exercise on LaTeX goniometric equations on linear equations in sine and cosine with the auxiliary angle formula but I don't feel like it. I am integrating parts that are not present in textbooks. Very cordial greetings.
 

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