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@PauloCereda breakfast

@DavidCarlisle oh no

Today's question is, should I post any answers and risk getting an odd number of accepts or should I just coast and hope no one accepts old answers for a bit:-)

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@DavidCarlisle can you reach it today or are you rep capped before?

@UlrikeFischer I can reach it under rep cap although it's not too hard to get over 200 if you really need to:-)

Hunting for a badge?

@0xC0000022L no: badges are for children, the purpose of this site is to generate palindromes and I'm after 555,555

@DavidCarlisle What was the update to learnlatex.org? I just see a blank line

@JosephWright not from me was it?

@DavidCarlisle github.com/learnlatex/learnlatex.github.io/commit/…

@JosephWright I have my suspicions hang on..

Given your daily rep gain that's going to be tough to land exactly there ... it's going to be but a fleeting moment, I guess ;)

@0xC0000022L no not tough at all I just have to make sure no one accepts any answers then I go up in 10s not 15s

"just" 😄

Given the checkin comment I suspect it was supposed to have been part of this sequence of checkins in a different repo:

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@JosephWright ^^

@DavidCarlisle Hah!

@JosephWright too many xterms open in too many projects

@DavidCarlisle Don't you name your sessions? :)

@PauloCereda most of them are named ssh

@DavidCarlisle what could possibly go wrong

@DavidCarlisle You could live dangerously and as a question.

@HaraldHanche-Olsen I don't have an ask a question button

@antshar did you mean to ask that on a math site rather than here?

@DavidCarlisle You could disable the css that hides it?

@HaraldHanche-Olsen no

you like to live dangerously ;-).

@UlrikeFischer :-)

Good morning from the hot land of Sicily everybody

@DavidCarlisle Excuse me for the +1

@DavidCarlisle Just for example into the image...my downvotes :-)

@UlrikeFischer back on track...

@DavidCarlisle saw it. I guess if I would accept now a question from you you would bite me ;-)

@DavidCarlisle oh so you got the 10s and 15s right? :)

@0xC0000022L ^ a "fleeting moment" preserved

Got one! (I'll never catch up to @DavidCarlisle. Sigh.)

@barbarabeeton so messy with different digits and mis-placed comma.

@DavidCarlisle -- Some days one just can't win. At least it's only raining today, not snowing.

@yo' yep now I have a while to pick up two downvotes to get all the 6's

@barbarabeeton pouring here as well

Well, I love rain, but needless to say, I'm not in the rainy UK :)

@yo' Someone using your thesis class tex.stackexchange.com/q/541462/2693 although that's not the problem...

@yo' I just discovered that it can rain in Germany too :-(

@AlanMunn Yeah, I'm still receiving bug reports and feature requests :)

@UlrikeFischer you don't like rain?

@yo' It depends on the shoes and coat I'm wearing ...

@yo' Browsing through the code a bit, I'm not a fan of loading packages next to the code that uses them (rather than having them all loaded at the top). It makes it harder to check which packages the code actually requires.

@UlrikeFischer yeah: sandals and as little clothes as possible is my fav choice in short rain, but that's probably not universal.

@AlanMunn Yeah, this is a tough choice...

(needless to say, I'm not particularly proud of the code)

@yo' I see the rationale for the decision, of course.

throw new JosephWrightOverflow();

@DavidCarlisle congratulations! So it worked out after all.

@AlanMunn Agree completely.

This is almost certainly the wrong question, but let's suppose I'm doing \expanded{something}. Is there a way to selectlvely not expand part of the "something" argument?

@PauloCereda throw new Stone();

@FaheemMitha \noexpand?

@UlrikeFischer Can this be nested inside \expanded?

@FaheemMitha yes, of course

@DavidCarlisle Ok. Thanks.

@FaheemMitha or \unexpanded{...} if it is not a single token

@DavidCarlisle Ok. In this case, it's just one token. Is \unexpanded also new?

@FaheemMitha etex so 1992 or so.

@DavidCarlisle But \expanded{} is new?

@FaheemMitha this year (apart from luatex) it has always been in luatex as they started from pdftex 1.50 which was never released

@DavidCarlisle They seem like very similar commands, so I though perhaps they were added together. Ok.

@yo' ooh

Hi everybody...is there any user that can understand this answer?

@Sebastiano Well I understand it to the extent that the person claims that the accepted answer didn't work so he made a workaround. As an answer it's not necessarily bad. I've added a comment asking him to make a new question to show the problem he encountered. Maybe he'll do that.

@AlanMunn (or anyone else) any xetex mac users care to test the example in this (long) comment thread

@egreg you're still on a mac aren't you? your example was similar

@AlanMunn Alan Munn thank you very much for help me. I have not understood....because I not was sure.

@DavidCarlisle Do you want me to test the super minimal example w/o fontspec?

@AlanMunn not sure really, I suspect user error but the user is saying font might not be compatible with Mac, so hard to say:-)

@DavidCarlisle I have the font installed, but XeTeX can't find it.

@AlanMunn hmm perhaps the user was right:-)

@DavidCarlisle The following works: \newfontfamily{\geezfont}[Script=Ethiopic]{Abyssinica SIL}

@AlanMunn can you leave a comment or an answer I feel Ive commented as far as I can (and I have deleted half my comments:-)

@DavidCarlisle Typically XeTeX likes the name that is displayed in the Mac font manager but without the "Regular" etc.

@AlanMunn yes I was trying to use the kpse filename lookup rather than the internal name to save worrying about mac font file paths but that seems to have failed.

@DavidCarlisle I've added a comment. This goes back to our earlier comments about font finding, which in both XeTeX and LuaTeX are differently mysterious. :)

@DavidCarlisle btw I just made the star count on your rep image a palindrome.

@AlanMunn :-)

@AlanMunn thanks

@AlanMunn 55 stars would be more fitting.

@DavidCarlisle But it doesn't seem to have worked. The font works for me (as much as it's found and produces stuff that looks like Amharic). I also checked if the latest version still works and it does (I had an older version installed). The only other variable is that I'm still running an ancient version of the MacOS and TL2019, so maybe @egreg or @HaraldHanche-Olsen who are running the latest could check too.

@AlanMunn I knew I was right to avoid macs:-)

@DavidCarlisle MINE IS WORKING FINE

@AlanMunn caps lock stuck again? :-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. I tried the Abissinica SIL font in both ways, either calling it with its extension or adding it to the system.

@DavidCarlisle Anyway, your example works for me.

@egreg just wondered if you could tell from the users description what he's doing. but either way I think I pass on that question now, seems like he can get luatex to work so hopefully that's enough

@AlanMunn Sorry I've been away for a bit, but it seems like there isn't much for me to do here now.