I compiled this MWE on two different PCs running MikTeX version 2.9.7400:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\end{document}
It compiles fine on the PC whose MikTeX hasn't been updated in a few days. On the one with up-to...
@JosephWright can you please take a look at github.com/latex3/latex3/pull/701? The checks didn't fail because of my pull request for the "typos" commit, but because something else broke with the TL20 update of the test suite.
@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen -- This is true. Don Knuth assigned the trademark to AMS to avoid legal hassles. However, an attempt to register "TeX" was rejected, because Honeywell (which at the time was also in the computer business) already had a trademark "TEX" registered. Honeywell tried to get the name "TeX" changed, but the computer science community objected so strenuously that Honeywell gave in, and accepted the compromise that "TeX" could be used, as long as the "e" always got special treatment. (cont'd)
(cont'd) So "TeX" (and the logo form) is still recognized as a trademark, just not a registered one. And that is why one should always refer to it as "TeX" or with the logo. Read part of the story in chapter 1 of the TeXbook.
@AlanMunn Interesting. Would it be the case that if you overlapped 800, or 8000 voices of people on top of eachother singing the same song (even if most of them individually sung horribly), that the end-results would still sound in tune?
@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen well, imagine some idiot attempts to assign it. It's easier to assign it to an entity that's probably going to last very long, than to have it on your name and risk that things go wrong once you die.
@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen -- If one wants a name to be exclusive, a trademark is a good idea. And registering the trademark provides more legal protection; in other words, if someone else uses the same name in a way that is either competitive or detrimental to the interests of the person or organization seeking the trademark, legal recourse is possible.
@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen -- Anyone can refer to TeX using the logo, but can't use that logo to refer to something else, or try to claim ownership of the name.
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https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/54174628#54174628 I have received the following reply (with regards to how "suggested" projects are made on CTAN):
technically speaking our recommendations are a by-product of our search engine.
We use Apache Lucene as serach engine. It contains a module for recommentations.
I have tried it and it is sufficiently good.
It makes use of the items we are indexing for search:
- packages with and description, authors, topics, cross references, place of storage
@UlrikeFischer Neither do I. But if a page loads some code or a picture from facebook, and the facebook server sets a cookie, they can then tell what other web pages you visit (any page with a tracker on it). Now in principle none of those pages will identify you to facebook, but they will still know a lot about you even if they don't have your identity. And they probably could identify you if they wanted to. Perhaps they do want to, and perhaps they do. I really don't know …
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Yes, this is exactly how it works. I've installed a nice addon for Firefox called "Facebook container" which blocks such trackers. It tells you which pages it's blocking things on, and chat seems to be one of them.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen How did you find it? I looked at the page source and don't see anything.
@AlanMunn I found it using the developer tools in the browser. And now I found the image too! It's the profile image of a user called Anne Morbach. And we can blame @DavidCarlisle for bringing the picture into chat.
I suppose that means she logs in via her facebook account.
