@barbarabeeton It's anchovy :)

@CarLaTeX -- Oh, excellent! Of course, basil is very good, and quite proper, but I'm particularly fond of fish.

@barbarabeeton 👍

@Skillmon what do you mean?

@yo' in the first row "brát"

Just me being extraordinary silly :)

EXCUSE ME twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1560388476603965449

@PauloCereda people do need to learn to catch food

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@DavidCarlisle quack

@PauloCereda breakfast

@DavidCarlisle oh no

Hi guys

how do I use a range in latex, while using that iterator?

@DialFrost you mean \int_step_inline:nnnn{1}{2}{7}{do #1} which is do 1 do 3 do 5 do 7 ?

uh not sure

@DialFrost you are better to make a real example and post a question on the main site but \addtocounter{n}{0.2} can not work, counters are integers

Oh, my bad

@DavidCarlisle Oh, I was trying to answer a question :P

So im not sure if I should post a question about answering another question

@DialFrost tikz has a foreach: \foreach \n in {0.1, 0.2,..., 1.6} {...} (check the exact syntax in the manual, after three weeks without touching a keyboard I am a bit rusty...)

@Rmano yay, mr. squirrel is back

@PauloCereda ...more or less. Tidying up 😉

@CarLaTeX -- The next time someone suggests that pineapple is an appropriate topping for pizza, you can ask if pepperoni is an appropriate topping for a pina colada. (Not original; Gordon just found it somewhere and sent it to me.)

@barbarabeeton after you've served my pepperoni colada, do you have write access at tug.org, could you fix the ukfaq link at tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi ? (item 7)

@AlanMunn following xetex list?

@DavidCarlisle Can one somewhere find it's istory?

@DavidCarlisle -- Oh, you've been observing my updates to similar pointers here. I may not be able to fix that myself, but I think I can arrange it.

@mickep 'appily I'm a hexpert in all t'ings linguistical

@mickep -- "it's"? Ouch! Zap that apostrophe! (And yes, that thread on the xetex list does boggle the mind.)

@barbarabeeton Ohh, I blame the autocorrect on the phone, but I should have corrected it.

@mickep -- Oh, the autocorrupt. I'd so much rather be responsible for my own mistakes.

@barbarabeeton Yea, maybe one should turn it off.

@barbarabeeton We could also discuss accents. The fact that \hat and \widehat look different in many fonts. :(

@mickep -- Ugh. Font design is a special talent. Knowing how printed math should look can be learned, but is nonetheless rather rare. And the two aren't often combined in a single individual.

@barbarabeeton Yes, that is a pity.

@barbarabeeton :D

@DavidCarlisle Not really. I'm subscribed but don't generally read it. I've just looked at the thread now. There's probably something to the idea that the written language affected the standard, because there are plenty of people who don't have 'h' in those words (the Liza Doolittles of the world, but more widely spread). And it won't be the only time either, since the whole -in vs -ing pronunciation was a sensible thing until someone decided they should both be spelt with -ing.

@barbarabeeton The lack of an apostrophe in possessive 'its' is simply ridiculous.

@AlanMunn it's, hi's and her's

@AlanMunn -- You should read a biography of Noah Webster, You probably wouldn't like him. (There are quite a few reasons not to.) As for apostrophes, are you saying we should write "her's: and "hi's"?

@barbarabeeton I just did:-)

@DavidCarlisle -- That's you, not me.

Bad typography politics

@DavidCarlisle Sorry, but that's a terrible argument. Not up to your usual standards at all.

@barbarabeeton i was including me in your "we"

@barbarabeeton No of course not, since they don't have a morphological piece corresponding to the possessive.

@AlanMunn but isn't that the real non joke answer? its is like his and any similarity to it's which is like he's is coincidental

@DavidCarlisle -- Let me rephrase that ...are you saying one should write "her's" and "hi's"?

@barbarabeeton @DavidCarlisle Suppletion is one thing, having a consistent spelling for what is clearly two morphemes is another. So 'his' and 'her' to -s are roughly like 'go' and 'went', to -ed but 'its' is exactly like "John's" and should therefore have an apostrophe.

@AlanMunn it's always seemed natural to me even if everyone mistypes occasionally and some people get it wrong consistently.

@AlanMunn -- And then there are the final esses in "Johns Hopkins", which I've seen fouled up in so many ways.

Wouldn't it be nice to always have such a rapt audience? twitter.com/Gabriele_Corno/status/1560876378861576192?s=09