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@PauloCereda an update: I've finished the beast. And I've decided to do one of the chapters in LaTeX to show the professor what can be done. :-)
We'll see if he'll see the light! :~)
 
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Q: Buying Foreign Currency - Foreignmoney.com

currencyforeignmoney While there are many aspects of the foreign exchange industry, International Currency Express has concentrated on the banknote business and has emerged as the premier banknote dealer in the US.

spam alert!
 
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09:28
@PaulGessler Cool! :)
When did you transform into Jabba the Hutt? — egreg 10 hours ago
@egreg - The transformation has been happening slowly and steadily and became complete only recently, during a brief stopover in Tatooine. — Mico 2 hours ago
@egreg ooh!
@egreg: update: I got rid of \multirow and the table looks better. :)
@PauloCereda See starred comment. :P
@egreg Yep, I marked it too. :P
@egreg The one from me offering design advice for table rules?
09:37
Happy Ash Wednesday!
Memento homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris!
@PauloCereda well, happy for you especially :)
@tohecz I miss my bad so bed. Oh wait.
@PauloCereda :)
German friends: What. Is. This. youtube.com/watch?v=oEcm8--yHos
That's it, I officially hate Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil.
:)
Great, the song is now in my head.
10:05
@PauloCereda lol :)
@tohecz I must admit the tune is catchy. :)
@PauloCereda many bad tunes are so :)
@tohecz LOL
Oh no, now I'm singing it aloud!
@PauloCereda I didn't dare to click the youtube link, so I'm not. Moreover the Country Radio is on :)
10:11
@PauloCereda that's just too bad
@tohecz :)
10:33
Hi, I wonder if I could ask for some help regarding asking for some help? I have this need for a biblatex package for legislation and other legal documents (I know, this has been discussed many times before), and I was thinking of gathering some people, if there were any, that might be able to help.

Is attempting that appropriate for a question, or should I go about it some other way?
 
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12:33
@PauloCereda Oh my! I had thankfully forgotten about it... now the song is in my head, too :(
@PeterGrill You're next (unless you are going to let Heiko pass you:-)
12:50
@cgnieder <3
@cgnieder: youtube.com/watch?v=KslyqH7JCXE Majestic hat FTW.
Some corners of the internet are really spooky. :)
13:17
Hi folks, how can I use 2 pages displayed side by side in Adobe Reader but the left page should be even numbered page rather than odd numbered one?
At least the yodeling part is hyperlingual :-)
@TheLastError Somewhete in the page display setting you can select "show cover page".
@TheLastError AFAIK hyperref has that option, to start on the right side, I don't remember the name tho.
@StephanLehmke Excellent. Thanks!
@tohecz It is not a book written by LaTeX so it has nothing to do with hyperref. :-)
@TheLastError Ah ok :) Then you can use LaTeX just to re-process the file. In general, it has to be set up in the file, it might be possible to set it in the viewer, but I'm not quite sure
anyways, gotta go, see you later!
@tohecz Problem is already solved. :-)
13:24
@TheLastError ok
> I want to do X. Is TeX appropriate?
^^ Useful question for this site?
@TRiG Sounds too broad to me. :(
@PauloCereda Mainly I want to write (fiction and technical documentation) in a format which will produce readable git diffs (hence, plain text).
I wouldn't be needing fancy mathematical formatting, but playing with drop caps and the like might be fun.
I'm pretty sure TeX would suit, but something else might suit easier.
The problem with TeX is knowing where to begin. There are so many options.
Oh, I'd want to do tables, too.
The options are (a) plain text, (b) Markdown, (c) handwrite HTML, (d) TeX/LaTeX, and (e) something I haven't thought of.
I'm currently using Libre Office, but readable git diffs is not one of its strong suits.
pandoc
I think I could set it to save uncompressed XML instead of compressed, but meh. I'd probably be better off switching to something else entirely.
13:34
pandoc can convert documents in markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, OPML, or Haddock markup to
@user42634 So write in Markdown, since I know it, and if I ever get around to switching to TeX I can use pandoc to convert?
That makes sense.
The only problem would be tables, which are a pain in Markdown. But then, tables are a pain just about everywhere. And I don't use them that much.
tables are a pain in latex to... there are tools to convert excel 2 latex
@TRiG If you could put most of your layout, helper macros and other stuff inside a package, the main .tex file would be fairly readable IMHO.
14:06
people, the preamble of my tex files is big... i've loaded several packages... titlesec, titletoc, tocloft, etoc, nameref, cleveref and i trying to load hyperref... and i dont know how to solve all package conflicts... is there a documentation about?
@PauloCereda 1h! That is spooky
@user42634 Quite tricky, to be honest. :(
@cgnieder Out of curiosity, is that German?
@PauloCereda Latex, ame-o ou deixe-o! haha :D
Any one here uses pdf2htmlEX by any chance? it is on linux. To install, just do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pdf2htmlex

then to convert the PDF to html do

 pdf2htmlEX --zoom 1.3 --embed-outline 0  foo.pdf
@user42634 O.o /por essa eu não esperava
14:15
The problem, I do not know how to tell it to split based on section/chapter etc.. like with tex4ht. I do not think it supports this. It seems to make one big HTML from the whole pdf file.
But it is a neat application.
@Nasser typically it won't have any information where the chapters are, you can always post process the html
@DavidCarlisle without being able to split the large document into different pages and have links generated automatically, like with tex4ht, I did not see any point of using it. Might as well just use the pdf file? It felt like the browser build-in PDF reader in a way. It works well, and it is fast otherwise.
fonts did not look good in chrom, as they did in firefox. Might be a configuration thing.
@Nasser I just had a quick look at the demo and I assume that it essentially is using the same as the recent in-browser pdf viewers, the html is very static designed to look exactly like the pdf, not flowing more naturally (with less author control over the design) that would be expected in html.
@Nasser eg for a heading you don't get <h2> you get <div class="t m0 x32 h9 y169 ff1 fs1 fc0 sc0 ls0 ws0">8.<span class="_ _a"> </span>Related<span class="_ _3"> </span>W<span class="_ _b"></span>ork</div>
@DavidCarlisle exactly. It felt just like it was the pdf file, just in an HTML extension ! so I can just use the PDF itself. (better fonts, etc...) It also does not have the PDF other nice features. Idea is interesting, I just do not see using it much as is....
May be for small PDF files, it is OK. (if they improve the font quality on chrome). But for large files, not sure I like it the same as tex4ht output. That feels like real HTML (it is real HTML), and this one feels like pdf still)
15:23
@AlanMunn: 'Murica! latimes.com/business/technology/… :)
@DavidCarlisle: ^^ HTML is dangerous. :)
@PauloCereda Lol, better warn my ex girlfriend, I have definitely touched some HTML :P
@hugovdberg Uh-oh. :) Sir, sir... get yourself tested, right now. :)
@PauloCereda Well, getting stung by a Blu-ray is much more painful I heard
@hugovdberg LOL
15:52
Hi folks, it is an off topic question. What is the name for a device on which we put a paper and it will project our hand and what we write on the paper to the screen?
Projector is too generic name, so I can NOT search with this name. More precise name is needed.
I got it, it is called visual presenter. :-)
 
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@TheLastError IMHO, it is called "overhead projector"...
18:06
@TheLastError I forgot to answer: You were interested in conversion of C# documentation. I could open this with Libreoffice, and export from there to PDF. I got a file of about 2.5MB. After compression with psdsizeopt it is now about 1.9MB (I had first to remove the spaces in filename, and then to break pdfsizeopt with Ctrl+C, but got a result).
Other topic: In Berlin the other day:
Probably on one of the circle lines of S-Bahn, cf. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S-Bahn-Ring_Berlin.svg (Do you see? It's a doghead …), but there is a third line in this segment.
@PaulGaborit I got the more correct term: Projection Camera.
@Speravir The problem had been solved several days ago. Thanks.
@TheLastError OK.
19:00
@DavidCarlisle Oh no. I guess I got get serious again. Of course I am not quite in Heiko's league.
19:19
Expect a 'LaTeX3 news' within the next few days :-)
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@JosephWright Earthshaking announcements? :)
@JosephWright Ooh, suspense …
@PauloCereda Speaking above of a dodhead no cat content this time:
And this one, most funny were comments “Oh, I feel so sorry for these two dogs” …
@PauloCereda, @Speravir You can see the draft in the SVN, of course
@JosephWright I can wait … :-)
@Speravir :-)
19:34
@JosephWright I can't. Link please. :)
GitHub not the 'burning edge', but provided Will's machine is working it updates every 30 minutes :-)
@JosephWright Gotta love the showcase list. :)
@Joseph: In other news, got Rayman Legends? :P
@PauloCereda Yes
@JosephWright Yay! How do you like it so far? :)
@PauloCereda Fun
19:44
Anyone familiar with minted on Windows?
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Q: Latex minted package on windows 7

user2274826I exactly followed the instruction and I also tried those solutions on this link : http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23458/how-to-install-syntax-highlight-package-minted-on-windows-7 Unfortunately, I could not run minted package on TexMaker. I have got error when it is compiled. Any idea ab...

I'm wondering whether this should be migrate to TeX - LaTeX.
@JosephWright It is. :) I'm trying to lure some friends to play co-op with me. :)
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Q: Problem on minted package on Windows 7

io517I exactly followed the instruction and I also tried those solutions on this link : How to install syntax highlight package minted on Windows 7? Unfortunately, I could not run minted package on TexMaker. I have got error when it is compiled. Any idea about this issue ? Thanks runsystem(del transf...

@JosephWright I see...
@Werner Looks to me like something is failing, so TeX wants some input for a \read but can't have it as nonstopmode is active
@JosephWright Yes. Part of my house-keeping duties include crawling Stack Overflow for questions tagged {latex} and then flag them for migration...
20:31
@Werner duties? :)
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@TRiG Wow!
@PauloCereda It's awesome, isn't it?
I had a working phone like that in my home three years ago. :)
@PauloCereda I love the kids trying to work out how to send a text message on a rotary phone. I think that bit was the best.
21:22
@tohecz Oh, duties just refers to "the regular things I do". House-keeping includes that and retagging, editing.
@Werner yep, I know :) it was meant as an unsaid compliment to your hidden contribution to the site!
@tohecz Thanks!
21:49
@percusse Amen.
22:20
Using TeXStudio on Windows with MiKTeX distribution, does anyone know how not to get the warning

"pdflatex (file C:/ProgramData/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `\ProvidesFile{fetamont.map}': both ps_name and font file missing"
22:35
@Alex This was an error in first version of fetamont. You have to update at least this font package.
@Werner How about migrating this and then closing as duplicate? We’ve done this several times already. Not to forget: Thanks from me, too, for this extra work you do here.
@Speravir A migrated question that is closed as a duplicate (or perhaps even anything) that doesn't have any answers I think makes its way back to the original/source site.
Mods can clarify this.
So, there's really no need... technically... to migrate and then close.
Sure that has happened in the past, and if I don't see the duplicate on TeX - LaTeX before I flag for migration, it ends up making its way here...
22:51
@Werner Oh, you maybe right … But we did it anyhow. Hmm?!?! (Edit:) Oh, you wrote a bit more to this.
What a traumatic update of PGF/TikZ! Some nice answers here don't work any more, and some of the functionality of tikz-cd is broken :(
@Speravir Yes.
@GonzaloMedina Oh dear... find it all and FUX IT!
@GonzaloMedina There were already a question, that something is broken together with standalone. There is a fix IIRC, but …
@GonzaloMedina you should have stuck to picture mode, that hasn't had a breaking update since 1985...
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@DavidCarlisle LOL! I was just thinking about you and picture :)
22:55
@Werner Then close as off-topic in SO, I guess?
@DavidCarlisle Last famous words...
@Speravir Yes. I flag it for moderator attention, suggesting to close as off-topic and then post the duplicate. On the one hand it sets the dogs loose when "those Stack Overflow people" find it, perhaps downvoting, but on the other hand I feel it's better that people clean up their posts across networks.
@Werner Yepp.
@Werner BTW I am in the moment editing the TeX.SX incarnation and found: The OP has in Windows path a wrong directory. I can imagine, that this is the causing mistake here … and this would better fit in SO. (grin)
@Speravir True... but borderline stuff may be subjective in where it should be hosted/remain.
Anybody has a guess where this belongs?
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Q: Latex problem in wordpress

Complex GuyI have installed Latex plug-in to word-press but when I see my equations from Firefox the display is not appearing.what is the problem?

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@Werner Yes, especially people would perhaps search for mintedrather in TeX.SE than in SO.
@Werner MathJax problem? I do not know all StackExchange sites. Is there one for web site programming and content management systems (in wide [?] meaning)?
kan
kan
@Speravir there is a wordpress.sx
@Speravir Those questions that deal with {mathjax} that has been closed were all just closed as off-topic.
@Werner I know. There is an according text building block with a link to a MatHJAx forum.
@egreg thanks for the pointer:-)
@Speravir mathjax q can be posted to SO (mathjax tag) Davide and Peter monitor that (although the mathjax help list is better)
@DavidCarlisle What pointer?
23:20
@egreg \endtemplate (I probably wouldn't have looked at a tikz q otherwise:-)
@DavidCarlisle Should we change the text building block? I know the included link was added after hint by a mathjax developer.
@DavidCarlisle Oh, that one! I added some \errorcontextlines, as the \par shown by the default value is misleading.
@Speravir what does the block say: I'll have a look...
@egreg I added tracingall as usual:-)
@Speravir this one? It looks Ok to me
While uses LaTeX syntax, it uses Javascript and HTML's DOM model rather than TeX technology, making it mostly off topic for this site. You might try instead searching among the questions tagged with mathjax on StackOverflow, or in the official mathjax-users Google group.
@DavidCarlisle Yepp. I obviously forgot the part with StackOverflow …
@DavidCarlisle I guess the author of tikz-cd wanted to solve the problem that the first cell had to be non empty: & after \begin{tikz-cd} caused problems. The remedy seems worse than the disease.
@DavidCarlisle
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\pretocmd{\tikzcd}{{\ifnum0=`}\fi}{}{}
\apptocmd{\endtikzcd}{\ifnum0=`{\fi}}{}{}
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@egreg but I like my \let commands:-)
@kan @PauloCereda The original from last year: wordpress.stackexchange.com (the Youtube appearings I watched several weeks ago are deleted now). The recent campaign is a commercial.
@kan @PauloCereda Too late to edit: The right link was vimeo.com/55570429 but it is broken now here, too. I was tricked by the start image in Vimeo. :-/
I do not understand fonts at all. I have simple question: I run a latex file, and get this message:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OMS/cmtt/m/n' undefined
(Font)              using `OMS/cmsy/m/n' instead
(Font)              for symbol `textbraceleft' on input line 59.
[1{/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./t.aux)
what does it mean?
I think I need to update the fonts. This is the deal: I am compiling a latex file generated by Maple. I have the maple fonts in a folder. Full of *.tff files. Do I need to copy these somewhere to make texlive "see" them?
@Nasser it means that there isn't a monospace symbol font (OMS) so it switched to the normal symbol font instead
@Nasser if you are using pdftex rather than xetex it needs tex font metric (tfm) files, do you have them?
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@Nasser You're not using T1 encoding, and have \{ in a typewriter type context.
@DavidCarlisle These are Maple fonts. in the Maple installation area:
and the latex file generated by Maple has this:
%% Created by Maple 18.00, Windows 7
%% Source Worksheet: t.mw
%% Generated: Wed Mar 05 17:14:29 CST 2014
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{maplestd2e}
\def\emptyline{\vspace{12pt}}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Heading 1}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Text Output}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Dash Item}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Bullet Item}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Normal}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Heading 4}
\DefineParaStyle{Maple Heading 3}
@Nasser Here's the minimal example; if you comment \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} you get the message
@Nasser you'd need to make some tex font metrics (there may be utilities to generate them from ttf these days I don't know)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\texttt{\{}
\end{document}
Ok, will try that , thanks !
23:57
@Nasser but that's just dejavu and a preliminary version of stix (I think) you should be able to get existing packages for those rather than use the maple distribution "by hand" (why do you need those exact fonts anyway

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