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Okay that's it

In texmf.cnf, what does mf stand for? I suppose cnf stands for configuration.

@FaheemMitha MetaFont

@FaheemMitha as Joseph said (see texdoc tds, page 3)

twitter.com/alexxdouglas/status/…

@CarLaTeX :) this part is the best:

@DavidCarlisle My husband is really impressed by Travis.

@PauloCereda Doručak

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@PauloCereda unfortunately that doesn't use the U+01C4 block

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@DavidCarlisle people should stick to English

@PauloCereda Isso significaria que você poderia desistir de aprender português.

@UlrikeFischer ???

@JosephWright I was going to say that:-)

@UlrikeFischer The band?

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@JosephWright sport

@UlrikeFischer we would do better against github actions

@UlrikeFischer So not travisperkins.co.uk?

@DavidCarlisle bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/ECKO51143 not so bad

@DavidCarlisle was that the reason we switched?

@UlrikeFischer Travis-CI have made it more-or-less impossible to work with their setup unless you pay

or... you guys could go to Gitlab. :)

@PauloCereda or sourceforge svn

@PauloCereda The question there would be: 'What's the advantage?', and I'm afraid ATM I don't see one for an open project (very different if one is doing commercial work and self hosting)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@JosephWright who'd do such a thing....

@JosephWright It's not MS, for starters. :)

@DavidCarlisle :)

@PauloCereda it would have been if the developers had been offered a few billion $

@PauloCereda They have deep pockets ... any hosting in the end needs money, and that means either venture capital or a rich backer, at least until some business model is established

@DavidCarlisle ooh latex.nag.co.uk

@JosephWright a rich backer you say, like funding or similar... hmmm :)

@JosephWright, @DavidCarlisle I see. So the directory stands for TeX and MetaFont, apparently. Thank you.

@PauloCereda lol

@JasperHabicht You don't need \usepackage{etoolbox}, beamer loads it automatically

@samcarter Oh, thank you!

@samcarter along with the rest of ctan

@DavidCarlisle That's not true, we don't load xii.tex, just everything else :)

@samcarter perhaps like the ctan halloween theme you should automatically add that as the first frame on any presentation made over the festive season

@DavidCarlisle Fantastic idea! :D

@samcarter Er, yes, but the usual rule is that unless a function is documented by a dependent package/class (unlikely), one should always load the package that explicitly provides a command

@JosephWright but this risks to sent user into option clashes. If they see things like \usepackage{xcolor} in their code, they might be tempted to add an option and then you'll get the 1 million duplicate of the "how to avoid option clash" question

@samcarter We have a plan to fix that ;)

@samcarter It's about the 'guarantee' of stability: as a package author, I might change what I use 'behind the scenes', and user documents should still work. Classes are I agree more complex.

@JosephWright sounds, great! Until then I keep my crusade against loading packages which are already loaded. :)

@samcarter github.com/latex3/latex2e/pull/710

@JosephWright However as author I should also feel responsible for backwards compatibility, I'd count removing a previously loaded package to that. So this would at least needs documentation.

@samcarter So, would it make sense that I still place \usepackage{etoolbox} in my example code and comment it out and add as a comment that it already has been loaded by beamer?

@JasperHabicht Personally I would not do that. I don't think the negligible risk that at one point etoolbox might be removed from beamer justifies additional noise in the code. I'm sure @JosephWright will disagree :)

@samcarter Well, considering that there are packages that redefine certain macros (which then, for example, take more arguments), I can see a certain sense behind this rule. in this very case, however, my example would only work with beamer anyways. so I just leave the code as it is now.

@JosephWright How would you classify github.com/josephwright/beamer/issues/743 ? Bug or status by design?

@samcarter it looks like a bug to me. Either beamer should parse it as overlay or as text, but inserting a page break looks quite wrong.

@samcarter ooh a bug by design

@samcarter Bug

@JosephWright & @UlrikeFischer Thanks!

@PauloCereda <3

@samcarter <3

Since yesterday something's off with the SE webpage for me (chromium on openSUSE Leap 15.1). I cannot write or access comments, and when writing an answer I see no preview, nor the whole buttons, nor I can insert pctures. Is someone experiencing something similar?

(also many other browsers are affected)

@samcarter Thx.

@campa also meta.stackexchange.com/questions/372590/…

@JosephWright does the siunitx option input-symbols still exist? I can't find it in the docu, but it doesn't error.

@UlrikeFischer It's been removed

input-symbols .code:n =
  {
    \msg_info:nnnn { siunitx } { option-deprecated }
      { input-symbols } { input-digits }
    \tl_put_right:Nn \l_@@_number_input_digit_tl {#1}

@JosephWright you should use warning then I would have seen it, who looks into the log ;-)

input-symbols .code:n =
  {
    \msg_info:nnnn { siunitx } { option-deprecated }
      { input-symbols } { input-digits }
    \tl_put_right:Nn \l_@@_number_input_digit_tl {#1}
  } ,

Takes ages to load, but has a nice model of the Colosseum: research.reading.ac.uk/virtualrome

@samcarter ooohhh

There is already a user script to repair the profile page, that was fast! gist.github.com/mebeim/b50951a0f4bbcaac0c1aa73e6a7cdc66

@CarLaTeX I did not see any pineapple pizza, so seems to be a realistic model :)

@samcarter surely!