TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2013-12-08

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Harish Kumar

00:04

When I hover over my name in the status bar, I used to get a count of votes (I voted) earlier. Aaaarg Now it sucks :-(

egreg

@HarishKumar No, there's not any more. You can still access it at tex.stackexchange.com/users/profile-link-stats

Harish Kumar

@egreg Thanks :-) but it is still bad. I have to remember that link. I don't know why they did all these. Some features could have been retained. :-(

No chat button, no meta button. I think I need a break :-(

egreg

@HarishKumar Bookmark? I added it. But it will disappear soon, I think.

@HarishKumar chat and blog are available from the StackExchange icon

Harish Kumar

@egreg hehe, you won't believe but I stopped using Bookmarks. I have thousands of them and gave up :-)

@egreg Oh. I didn't click that so far :-) Yes it is there. Thanks.

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Paulo Cereda

10:01

Morning! :) I'll upvote a lot of questions today, resulting from yesterday's session. :)

egreg

10:46

@JosephWright Can you have a look at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/131401/lucida-opentype-dvips ? Khaled says it's too vague for an answer and the OP doesn't object. I voted for closing as "unclear"

ppr

11:28

Hi everyone. I discovered a tag synonymy between {history} and {tex-history} but I have no enough reputation to merge it.

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Paulo Cereda

14:16

ekisto.sq.ro

I'm trying to find TeXville. :)

egreg

15:07

@PauloCereda A problem with arara and Zorro. Sorry, Zotero.

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Q: (arara) Problem: found character @'@' that cannot start any token

I'm trying to create an arara rule that will download my bibliography from zotero using its embedded server. The URL works, that's not the issue, but arara claims the file has a syntax issue. The rules file has this: !config # Pull bibliography from zotero as part of build # author: Emiliano He...

Joseph Wright

@egreg :-)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Oh my. :)

@egreg: The answer is quite simple: according to the official YAML spec, you cannot start a value with @ (this char has another meaning). The solution is to either enclose the value in quotes or add <arara> to the beginning of the line. :)

kan

15:21

Hmm I am travelling tonight to Chennai! Bye friends.

1 hour later…

Forkrul Assail

16:25

@PauloCereda, what is considered standard in a paper/dissertation when referring to a displayed code section? I get that I can use listings, but it's not a figure, table or equation.

Stephan Lehmke

16:42

@ForkrulAssail Why not "Listing"?

Forkrul Assail

@StephanLehmke, goes under its own section?

Just asking, this is first time I've used it, usually dumped it in appendix, but need it before talking about a result set now

Stephan Lehmke

@ForkrulAssail Why not? \newfloat{Listing}

I also use \newfloat{Example}.

Forkrul Assail

@StephanLehmke, where would it get listed then, under tables? or a new section in TOC called listing or example? Or it just gets assigned a number?

Stephan Lehmke

\listof{Example}{Examples}

Forkrul Assail

@StephanLehmke, thank you. I'll look into that.

Stephan Lehmke

16:45

It gets its own list. float package.

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Joseph Wright

18:48

Everyone having a good day?

I'm worrying about RTL typesetting and driver code :-)

And reading the LaTeX quick reference from DANTE, of course

I wonder if we could sort out one in English?

Johannes_B

@JosephWright There recently was a question here about this.

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Ah

@Johannes_B I was thinking more 'we' as in UK-TUG offering hard cash

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Hard cash? :-(

Forkrul Assail

We need a LaTeXcoin :)

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B UK-TUG has some money we have tried and failed to spend!

Johannes_B

18:58

@JosephWright Ah, money to spend, i misread that.

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B No promises, of course

Johannes_B

@JosephWright How can one fail in spending money?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Surprisingly easily

Johannes_B

:-D

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Most TeX projects are limited by people not money

Johannes_B

18:59

@JosephWright Sad but true

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B CTAN will need cash from August, of course

Johannes_B

@JosephWright August?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Robin Fairbairns retires from Cambridge and the server will need to move

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Oh, well, i think he deserves his retirement.

@JosephWright I finally managed to find the question.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/147459/latex-referenz-in-english

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Oh yes, but he's not retiring from looking after CTAN (I hope), just from Windows system support

@Johannes_B Yes, found it

@Johannes_B Shouldn't really have been migrated to meta

Johannes_B

19:06

@JosephWright take a look at the comment from @tohecz

tohecz

@Johannes_B which comment? (I just heard the alarm :D )

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Yes

@Johannes_B I'll sort this!

Johannes_B

@tohecz take a look at the link a few minutes back. The question on meta about the LaTeX Referenz by Herbert Voß.

Joseph Wright

I've tidied up

@Johannes_B Looks like the answer is currently 'no'

Johannes_B

@JosephWright The viewing count is interesting. 61 times viewed here, and 37 times on meta.

Joseph Wright

19:15

@Johannes_B Well it's a fair question, just not about the site itself

tohecz

@Johannes_B I still can't get the link to meta, the Q on main doesn't provide it

Johannes_B

@tohecz Well, luckily i left the tab open
» Shouldn't this be on the main site? :) – tohecz Dec 2 at 0:23 «

Joseph Wright

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Q: LaTeX Referenz in English

Not too long ago, I think it was at the beginning of November, the LaTeX Referenz by Herbert Voß was released for free, but its in German (am not saying its a bad thing). Are there any plans on translating this into English or can anyone do it? It is a very good quick reference and would love to ...

discussion community

tohecz

@JosephWright thanks. It is the same question, so since the meta one is OTed, it was cross-posted, right?

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Yup

tohecz

19:20

@JosephWright ok, I made a notice about it there ;)

In these situations, the notice could actually probably be edited in the question at the very beginning, right?

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Yes

@tohecz I suppose I could migrate then merge, but it seems a bit of a pain

tohecz

@JosephWright well, in the end the comment should suffice probably :)

egreg

19:56

@PauloCereda Do you know that a Brazilian plays for Hellas Verona? He's quite atypical: today he scored his fifth penalty out of five. ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Oh my, a Brazilian scoring a penalty? Something is definitely wrong. :)

@egreg: I'm watching the last round of our calcio serie A. It's quite shocking: Fluminense (last year's champion) is about to being relegated to serie B.

And for the first time in history, two teams from Rio de Janeiro might go to serie B: Fluminense and Vasco da Gama.

(simultaneously, I mean)

egreg

@PauloCereda What about Palmeiras?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg We were the serie B champions, and next year will be very special: we are back to the calcio serie A and celebrate 100 years of history. With a brand new arena (Allianz Park, but tenderly known as Palestra Arena), a new team being formed and possibly friendly match against Italy. :)

tohecz

20:17

Well, I should go to bed, to have a good sleep. I didn't get much during the last week

Johannes_B

@tohecz Well then, good night.

tohecz

@Johannes_B night

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz: we miss you. <3

tohecz

@PauloCereda Yeah, I know, but it's really heavy now, with all the French :(

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz Have some rest, buddy. :)

tohecz

20:21

@PauloCereda I'll get completely spoiled for Xmas, it's only 2 weeks to go :)

Johannes_B

Good night all, gotta go as well.

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz :)

@Johannes_B Good night! :)

tohecz

@PauloCereda :) Bye!

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz Night, Tom! :)

topskip

20:50

PDF (the file format) is evil

just trying to read a cross reference table/stream makes even real men crying.

Joseph Wright

21:22

Anyone following the LuaTeX 'outdated website' thread? Interesting looking at Han The
Thanh's thesis and comparing with the sort of thing we chemists produce :-)

Joseph Wright

21:34

@PauloCereda, @jubobs I've removed the meta question

Paulo Cereda

21:47

@JosephWright Roger that. :) I thought only mods could remove it, since I wrote an answer. :)

Alan Munn

22:35

Are there any other alternatives to \thinspace for this question? I need double quotes around a word that ends in an apostrophe.

Joseph Wright

@AlanMunn csquotes package is the alternative

Alan Munn

@JosephWright Ah, ok. Much better. I was resisting for not very sensible reasons. Thanks.

Alan Munn

23:12

Conversation today: Me: Is the coffee in that place any good? My friend: Judging from the font of their sign, I'd say "No.".

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Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn LOL

David Carlisle

23:59

Play due to start after brief rain delay

pray for more rain:-) ^^^

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