@UlrikeFischer Thank you!

@UlrikeFischer This year I miss watching the military parade at the Fori Imperiali because I'm in St. Andrews, Scotland, at the moment

@cis delimited arguments?

\def\split#1-#2-#3\stop{First #1 Second #2 Rest "#3"}
    \split 5-6.23-circlepk.csv\stop{} and the rest

(sprinkle with appropriate \expandafter on more complex usage)

Or you can use a regex (there is an L3 module), but blog.codinghorror.com/…

youtube.com/live/lUUte2o2Sn8

The guy is a legend and is now retiring. Maybe interesting for some math nerds in this chat.

@Dr.ManuelKuehner Thanks,a legend. When I was in high school I wrote to some mathematician in Stockholm with questions. He knew G.S. and one day I got a copy of "Introduction to applied mathematics" with a personal dedication from G.S. It made me very happy and inspired.

@Rmano best not to do that in a document using amsmath :-)

@DavidCarlisle ops, bad choice of names... ;-)

@CarLaTeX played any golf?

@DavidCarlisle No, I'm trying local food :)

@CarLaTeX This looks beautiful! Is Prof. van Duck accompanying you?

@tush \hbox to width{\hfil content}

@Rmano Thanks!!

@Rmano \hss not \hfil, iirc, as \makebox allows silent overprinting.

\makebox[<wd>][l]{<arg>} is \leavevmode\hbox to<wd>{{<arg>\hss}}, r is {\hss <arg>}, c is {\hss <arg>\hss}.

@samcarter No, he stayed at home, but they love ducks here ^^^

@CarLaTeX Haha, the ducks with wellies are fun!

@samcarter :D

@DavidCarlisle oh, some nice Friday Unicode mathcal/mathscr mess.

(I did not know it was fixed/improved in Unicode14.)

@mickep well they added Variant selector suffix characters to distinguish but it's not well supported (I think Hans added something? see note at end of w3c.github.io/xml-entities/script.html

@barbarabeeton otherwise, the classic answer is "blame @barbarabeeton"

I want to type two paragraphs in ragged left. Why doing {\raggedleft text1 \par text2} gives text1 ragged right but text2 ragged left (i.e. default text alignment)? And what is the correct way to do it?

@tush you stopped ragged before ending para 2

@DavidCarlisle Ok. What is the correct way to do it, then?

@tush add \par

@DavidCarlisle Sorry?

{\raggedleft text1 \par text2\par}

@tush ^^^

@DavidCarlisle Niceee. Thanks very much!

@DavidCarlisle I think the variant selectors were not used after all.

@mickep latex of course has high level documented interface, as shown in my answer

@DavidCarlisle Tsss

@CarLaTeX -- I don't suppose it's the right time of year for haggis.

@CarLaTeX -- All with little necklaces. I hope they're not tied too tightly.

@DavidCarlisle -- Not for this one! She tried ever so hard, but nobody wanted to listen. Observe the MS choice -- the opposite of the TeX choice.

@barbarabeeton I'll blame you as you were there. Only other possibility is to blame @UlrikeFischer.

@DavidCarlisle -- For this one, I really want to blame Murray Sargent.

@barbarabeeton some logic to that, but radically non-traditional. Anyway, the important thing is it's not my fault

@DavidCarlisle -- Well, I can actually agree for once. Not even thought crime involved here.

Two alphabets would have been the only right thing.

@mickep yes but as they didn't do that first harder for them to cover up cambria and stix having opposite defaults, but variant selectors are a pretty unusable interface

@mickep -- That's what I argued for, and provided documentation in the form of actual published math papers where the same letter was used in both "styles". No dice. MS had already released Cambria with their choice.

@barbarabeeton They have very good fish here

@CarLaTeX -- Oh! That's good to know and file away for future reference!

@barbarabeeton They are all well, don't worry!

Old, but fun. The History of Typography: vimeo.com/65353988

@CarLaTeX -- Not worrying, but also not expecting to visit Scotland real soon.

@barbarabeeton I was referring to the necklaces :D

@CarLaTeX -- Oops! ('Fraid I'm distracted by the Unicode cal-vs-scr brouhaha.)

@barbarabeeton :)

@CarLaTeX keep them fresh for the table

@DavidCarlisle oh no