TeX, LaTeX and Friends

7:48 AM

@PauloCereda disgraceful comment, isn't it?

tohecz

8:03 AM

I really do not understand that someone who has asked 15 question before is not able to ask a question and include MWE immediately.

@tohecz Depends on the person, their motivation, ...

tohecz

@JosephWright I think that mostly people do it because they think that other will help them :-/

and of course, the questions are in general the worse the faster the OP need the solution, which, in the end, means that it takes much longer time to solve their problem.

(OMG there's something wrong in my last sentence :D )

8:28 AM

@MarcoDaniel Two answers using biblatex-trad in two hours :-)

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11:19 AM

Can we have some sort of freudlipsum? I think it's not too complicated, we just need to blame mothers on every single sentence. :)

@DavidCarlisle It would be an interesting lightsaber fight. :)

@DavidCarlisle and @JosephWright must now duel to the death.

Paulo hands @DavidCarlisle a \newcommand and @JosephWright a \newcommand*

@egreg I see regexpatch can do _everything :-)

@JosephWright: look what I found while browsing our archive:

Jan 6 '12 at 21:40, by Paulo Cereda

We never had the hat thingy going on in TeX.sx. :(

@JosephWright I just tried it out; the credit goes to those who wrote \tl_set_rescan:Nnx ;-)

11:46 AM

@PauloCereda But I would sneakily use \xdef to deliver a fatal, if unauthorised, blow.

@DavidCarlisle ooh! :)

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1:04 PM

@egreg Heiko's idea for the two-@ business, I think Will wrote our version

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3:06 PM

80'th tikz answer for me (badge should be on the way shortly)

@DavidCarlisle Congrats for your 80th ~~anniversary~~ TikZ answer! :)

@PauloCereda sadly there is no tikz in my answer

@DavidCarlisle details, details. :)

Torbjørn T.

@DavidCarlisle If you're tired of TikZ, you could take a look at the picture mode question.

@TorbjørnT. It would be great if David answers a picture mode question with TikZ and vice-versa. :)

3:14 PM

@TorbjørnT. answered (or at least commented)

@Qrrbrbirlbel hey you are supposed to use tikz (+1 for being me though, especially as you hid the entry collection nastiness better :-)

3:43 PM

@DavidCarlisle Hehe :) Have you seen my latest edit with a uncommented TikZ/pgfkeys solution?

@DavidCarlisle I don't want to scare a 53 rep user away with \if S#1\expandafter\szz. ;)

3:55 PM

never believe vim vvv

@DavidCarlisle: Ah, my VIM editor told me it to be Latin-1, it never occurred to me that it could be the font encoding. So a log-file parser for LaTeX has to be able to deal with basically arbitrary sequences of bytes. — Daniel 4 mins ago

@PauloCereda ^^^

@Qrrbrbirlbel s/scare/entice into the delights of TeX macro programming/

@DavidCarlisle File encoding vs. char encoding. :) First thing I had to learn when started using vim. :)

4:47 PM

@DavidCarlisle It’s more about pgfkeys/cellcoll than TikZ. As you can see, the box doesn’t require TikZ but it offers more.

@Qrrbrbirlbel pgf/tikz it's all the same to me (but cellcoll is as you say less scary than doing it by hand:-)

@DavidCarlisle I'm sure we'll soon see a overly complicated pgfplotstable solution by @percusse

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6:30 PM

@Qrrbrbirlbel Haha, which one? This time I'll patch all the possible TikZ commands with etoolbox :P

@percusse This one:

Q: table with tikz

I should create a table like the one here as example. I think that the best way to do a table like this one is generate some labels and use them to colorize the nodes in order to make it more automatic. First column are categorized colors and right column are a color spectrum. My question is if y...

@Qrrbrbirlbel Aah, can't beat @GonzaloMedina on that one. It looks beautiful and I'm colorblind :)

can be slightly compact though on a second thought

@percusse That's what I hoped a pgfplotstable solution could provide. I'm too lazy to look everything up again.

@percusse That doesn't mean anything. I don't have any taste and just threw some colors in it in my answer. ;)

@Qrrbrbirlbel What do you think I'm doing, memorizing Christian's syntax? :P

@percusse I'm sure you do :)

6:43 PM

@Qrrbrbirlbel Wait I see a low hanging fruit with TikZ labels heheh

@percusse Hmff...

TheoretiCAL

7:03 PM

Can anyone help me understand how to define a newcommand for time complexity

i want to use \omegabound to represent <i>f=Omega(g)</i>

I have \newcommand{\omegabound}{\textit {f=\Omega(g)}}

but its erroring (! Missing $ inserted) and being a noob I have no idea why

Torbjørn T.

@TheoretiCAL \Omega has to be in math-mode, e.g. $\Omega$ . I would drop the \textit from your command, and use it as $\omegabound$ .

@TheoretiCAL You could also say \newcommand\omegabound{\ensuremath{f=\Omega(g)}}, which would work with either just \omegabound or with $\omegabound$ . See tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34830/… about \ensuremath though.

TheoretiCAL

Thanks!

7:18 PM

@TorbjørnT. Lucky that egreg is not around :P

Torbjørn T.

7:29 PM

@percusse I did think of him, that's why I linked to the question.

7:42 PM

@percusse But someone may tell @egreg that you said that.

7:55 PM

@DavidCarlisle Who? :)

@DavidCarlisle TeX wizards use too many @s.

@PauloCereda not me, I wouldn't do such a thing.

@DavidCarlisle :)

@percusse LaTeX3 will save you from that problem.

@DavidCarlisle And create other problems. :)

8:08 PM

@TorbjørnT. Heresy!

@DavidCarlisle When we get it finished: xor

@DavidCarlisle Are you likely to make the UK-TUG AGM? Looks likely to be Oxford, 2nd November

Q: A macro that conditionally disregards the need for one of its arguments

@JosephWright not fair doing in Oxford, gives me limited excuses for not bothering.

@egreg you can skip & :-)

Andrew Stacey

Yay! A question where egreg posted an answer but I got the tick!!

Let's suppose I want to write nested equations that contain a fair few nested parenthetical/delimiter characters, like (), [], {}, ||, and perhaps others. Suppose too that I think these things look nicer if the outer delimiters are a tad bigger than the inner ones (where possible), appearing to "...

macros conditionals

@AndrewStacey ohh good, I'll go and vote for you to celebrate

@AndrewStacey Even more interesting is that we have five answers with 4/5/5/5/5 upvotes (four being egreg's answer).

Andrew Stacey

8:19 PM

@Qrrbrbirlbel Well, it was the last one. And this is the sort of answer where folk tend to upvote every answer.

@AndrewStacey All have merit

Andrew Stacey

@JosephWright Exactly, but what I meant was that means that the votes tend to advance together and the relative differences don't change.

8:35 PM

@egreg you could make that a question:-)

What about \cr (or \\)? — egreg 6 mins ago

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10:10 PM

@DavidCarlisle You have too many \zz in your answers. ;-)

@egreg better than having too many ticks:-)

@DavidCarlisle So it's good to steal them from you.