TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2015-01-11 (page 2 of 2)

Paulo Cereda

22:01

@JosephWright I could use a bike. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda No report for 2014, but for 2013 they gave out $3750: tug.org/bursary/2013.html

@PauloCereda I really can't be sure, but UK-TUG might agree to help

yo'

@JosephWright Who is Jana Chlebikova?

Joseph Wright

@yo' Not a name I know

yo'

@JosephWright ok, she's listed in the bourse committee...

Alan Munn

I don't answer MikTeX questions, so why do (some) MikTeX users answer Mac questions... This is why TeX is so complicated.

yo'

22:04

@AlanMunn everybody should finally switch to linux :p

Joseph Wright

@AlanMunn I get round that by having a Mac + Windows :-)

Christian Hupfer

@yo': There are other OS than linux? shocked

Joseph Wright

@AlanMunn Link?

yo'

But seriously, @Paulo, if you make it through, you have to travel around here a bit ;)

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open Windows.

Alan Munn

22:05

@JosephWright Here Now closed, but still.

Joseph Wright

@AlanMunn Ah

Alan Munn

@JosephWright You know you're off to a bad start when the first phrase of your answer is "I don't know"....

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Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda... says the man considering buying a MS Xbox ;-)

yo'

@ChristianHupfer 'tis not a computer ;) :p

@JosephWright Possibly, but now she seems to be in Portsmouth

Joseph Wright

@yo' Yes, I spotted that

yo'

22:09

and she's Slovakian, not Czech :)

Joseph Wright

@yo' I should lean on her to join UK-TUG! (We did have someone in Portsmouth asking about running training)

yo'

@JosephWright indeed! I can try it in Czech for you, or in broken Slovakian, if need be ;)

Joseph Wright

@yo' First, though, I have to pursue @cfr: clearly in the UK, not in UK-TUG :-(

yo'

@JosephWright and not willing to be in TUG for free! aarrrrgggggghhhhghhhgghhhhhhh :D

Joseph Wright

@yo' At a tangent, but during my PhD I had a paper in Slovak to read, and luckily we had a Czech visitor in the lab. I was wary of asking him, but he told me if you speak Czech you can read Slovak :-)

Paulo Cereda

22:11

@ChristianHupfer Says the man who uses Windows in his computer. :)

Joseph Wright

@yo' That too: UK-TUG is £10

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright First make her include herself in the TUG membership meta question. :)

yo'

@PauloCereda FLAME WAR!!! FLAME WAR!!! Bring us more! :D

Christian Hupfer

Paulo Cereda

@yo' BLOOD

Christian Hupfer

22:12

@PauloCereda: Not yet...

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Remember the rule about mod team decisions: at the moment, we are going to be picking people

yo'

@PauloCereda seen my message 7 messages up? ;)

Paulo Cereda

@yo' awwww <3

yo'

@ChristianHupfer yep, so far, only some electrons are scratched off

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright ooh the ~~Jedi~~ TeX council!

Joseph Wright

22:14

@PauloCereda I note your name is not on the TUG list

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright The membership one?

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Yup

yo'

@JosephWright I'm afraid it's too late...

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I got a subscription two years ago. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Ah

Paulo Cereda

22:15

@JosephWright I mean, a TeX.sx powered one. :) I'm yet to get myself a subscription.

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda You can get another 'go', you know

yo'

@PauloCereda aha!

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I'll talk to my manager this weekend in order to make my credit card "international". That way I can get me a subscription with the UK-TUG.

yo'

@PauloCereda Yes, indeed you can. You do a lot for the community

Joseph Wright

Seriously: it's important we show appreciation of the funding StackExchange are putting in here. I really would rather have a list of at least eight names for the community to vote on.

yo'

22:18

@JosephWright that's my thought as well. We are all to self-conscious, so it looks like we do not actually want the subscription.

Joseph Wright

@yo' Yes

Paulo Cereda

@yo' I'll see what I can get this week. :)

@JosephWright You are absolutely right.

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: With much sugar.... come on ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright: I'll see what happens with this date between my bank and I. And I'll write my name in the list. :)

yo'

@JosephWright is @Stefan making another round? He deserves it, and he missed it last year

@ChristianHupfer :)

Joseph Wright

22:19

@yo' I hope so: @StefanKottwitz will you be putting your name into the 'TUG hat'?

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: What about Nicola Talbot? Does she have a membership already?

yo'

@PauloCereda I really feel like putting @cfr on the list myself. It would be well-deserved.

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer She does

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Damn... :-D

@JosephWright: Gonzalo Medina?

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer I also know she's paid this year (I do the UK-TUG admin!)

Paulo Cereda

22:21

@ChristianHupfer Nicola is almost president of UK-TUG.

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Not quite

@PauloCereda She's thus-far avoided being on the committee

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Your inside knowledge is scary :-P

Joseph Wright

@GonzaloMedina Are you in TUG? Have you considered adding your name to the 'TUG election'?

yo'

@ChristianHupfer yes, I second that. @Paulo is TXIA -- the TeX Intelligence Agency

Christian Hupfer

I put a list of names here: Peter Grill, Steven B. Segletes, Andrew Swann, Karl Koeller .. more to follow

Joseph Wright

22:26

Anyone else I should mod-ping? Nomination phase in the last 24 h

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Jesse perhaps, Ian Thompson, Larifari, Sean Allred , michal.h21

yo'

@JosephWright Harish, Jake, lockstep. I suppose @percusse is already a member...

Ulrike got the membership last year, but her participation is so significant that she should IMHO re-apply

Stefan Kottwitz

@JosephWright Basically, yes. I just don't know to say something different than last year, and it looks like repeating is not so fancied, but I could round off possibly

Paulo Cereda

@yo' Sir hasn't, I asked him. :)

@StefanKottwitz Add a big photo of a duck and you are in. :)

yo'

@PauloCereda said the voting mafia

Paulo Cereda

22:31

@yo' :)

yo'

then I thought of wipet, he's very active in CSTUG, but I'm not sure whether he's in TUG. He's a famous plainTeX fanatic, however ;)

Paul Gessler

What about Yiannis? Maybe already a member, though.

Christian Hupfer

@PaulGessler: You are a member too, right?

Paul Gessler

@ChristianHupfer Yes :-)

Joseph Wright

@LaRiFaRi, @IanThompson, @Jesse, @karlkoeller, @StevenB.Segletes, @PeterGrill, @AndrewSwann, @michal.h21, @SeanAllred, @wipet, @HarishKumar, @Jake, @UlrikeFischer, @YiannisLazarides, @lockstep As noted above, please consider adding your names to the TUG 'reps' thread

Paulo Cereda

22:33

@PaulMcCartney: Are you a TUG member too?

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Needless to name Werner? He's probably a member already

Paulo Cereda

Oopsie wrong Paul. :)

Joseph Wright

@Werner See above

yo'

@PauloCereda lol :)

Joseph Wright

@StefanKottwitz I think it would not hurt to put your name down, but it's up to you of course

Paul Gessler

22:35

:-)

yo'

btw, that was some big ping hammer, @Joseph :)

Joseph Wright

@yo' Yes

@yo' They gave me these powers for a reason ;-)

yo'

@JosephWright they = we ... (well, not me personally)

Joseph Wright

@yo' I guess so

@yo' I didn't actually volunteer to be a mod to start with!

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright You wanted to be...

yo'

22:38

@JosephWright wha?

Paulo Cereda

(go for it, Joseph)

a...

@ChristianHupfer: ^^ wait for it

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: ???

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Monty Python, my dear friend. :)

I'm expecting Joseph do the punchline. :)

Joseph Wright

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Q: Moderator Pro Tempore Nomination Thread

This thread is for nominations to be a temporary moderator to help the community get started. See this Blog Post for more details. Selection Criteria: Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation. Show an interest in their meta’s community-building act...

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright: a... lumberjack. :( I was expecting it. :(

Joseph Wright

22:40

@PauloCereda a girly, just like my dear mama!

Paulo Cereda

My dreams are broken. :(

@JosephWright OOOOH!

YAAAAAAY

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Was finding the pro tem thread, sorry

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright <3

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Sorry, was a little bit distracted ... got a strange mail ...

yo'

@JosephWright You appear here but I can't find you did you get there.

Paulo Cereda

22:43

@ChristianHupfer From the Banana Dude. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: No, that's Johannes' business, not mine ... :-P

Joseph Wright

@yo' Had an e-mail from one of the community team (or whatever they were called then); I guess @StefanKottwitz was the same

yo'

@JosephWright ah ok. So you were "chosen", I see

Joseph Wright

@yo' Indeed

@yo' I did of course put my name down to continue, but there was as you might know a 'reverse election' ('Don't vote for me, vote for one of the other dudes')

yo'

@JosephWright now I lost you I think

Joseph Wright

22:48

@yo' There was an election: tex.stackexchange.com/election/1

Christian Hupfer

@yo' Joseph has another name: Neo Anderson ;-)

egreg

@PauloCereda I had to go to my sister's to see the match.

Christian Hupfer

No new names on the list so far

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Oh my! What happened?

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Hopefully some will appear

@ChristianHupfer People can add themselves once voting starts, too

Paulo Cereda

22:52

@egreg: She's a Juve supporter too, I hope. :)

Nice game.

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: I hope so too... it would be a little bit strange if there are 8 memberships and fewer candidates, so it's some kind of 'winning-anyway' then ;-)

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Yes

yo'

@ChristianHupfer I think you can happen to have someone with negative score, but it's unlikely

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Based on last year I'd expect more names to appear once voting opens: people tend to be very reluctant to put their names forward

@yo' True

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: I don't like that ... it's has some negative aura ...

Joseph Wright

22:54

@ChristianHupfer A score of 0 would be a 'fail' too under the rules as I've written them

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright and @all Don't upvote me, don't upvote me ...

egreg

@PauloCereda Unfortunately, she's for AC Milan. :( My satellite dish is still obscured by the scaffolding.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Oh no! Oh no!

egreg

@PauloCereda Too bad Roma reached the draw after being 0-2.

yo'

@JosephWright since you're British, yes. If you were French, no :p

Paulo Cereda

23:00

@egreg Indeed. :( Do we have any Roma supporter amongst us?

yo'

what do you guys speak about? Football I suppose

egreg

@PauloCereda They'd be kicked away!

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I am no fan of football, so for me any team is ... good or bad ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer You sound like a Bayern supporter. :)

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer One new one

Christian Hupfer

23:03

@PauloCereda: Insult :-P

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Wait a minute, weren't you the guy not fan of football? :)

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: Ah yes...

@PauloCereda: It's an insult anyway :-P

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer so... Shalke 04?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Yawning... hm??? :D

Yiannis Lazarides

@PauloCereda Posted a minimal, will you give it a try?

yo'

23:06

btw, you know what I love about my current appartment? I can work in my study but have my legs in the warmth of my bedroom, and still reach the beer in my kitchen

Paulo Cereda

@YiannisLazarides Oh thank you! I will!

@YiannisLazarides: It works like a charm in Linux. :)

@YiannisLazarides: I think your answer should be favoured, I'll probably delete mine. :)

Yiannis Lazarides

@PauloCereda Please don't as it also shows how to get a Lua module and just drop it in.

Paulo Cereda

@YiannisLazarides I'll leave it then. :)

egreg

Breaking news! @DavidCarlisle reads manuals!

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@toobee I have no idea, I have never used pgfplots other than the occasional answer on this site, but once you made a workable example I just looked up bar plots in texdoc pgfplots and there was an example of that syntax on page 83 so I tried it. — David Carlisle 2 hours ago

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Wow!

yo'

23:17

@egreg let's have a beer on that occasion :)

Christian Hupfer

@egreg: Perhaps a David from a parallel universe posted that? ;-)

egreg

23:34

@ChristianHupfer An impostor?

azetina

Good day guys :-) Comment allez-vous?

David Carlisle

@egreg it's the stress from having run the latex test suite 1000 times today, normal service will be resumed later

Christian Hupfer

@egreg: An ursuper ;-)

David Carlisle

@azetina nothing changes, @egreg still encouraging people to be rude about me

egreg

Looking at the answers, this seems off-topic here:

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Q: Test the hyperlinks of a pdf document

Is there any way to test the hyperlinks of a pdf file ? Suppose I have a pdf file containing a large number of hyperlinks, can I test automatically the response I will have when following those links (200 = ok, 404 = not found, etc.). I know such tools exists for webpages (as softwares, like KLi...

hyperref pdf urls links

Christian Hupfer

23:47

@egreg: Agreed

egreg

@azetina Thanks for fixing the missing backquotes

yo'

@egreg I've cast a vote just now

@azetina ça va!

Christian Hupfer

@egreg: Is closing appropiate during a bounty?

egreg

@ChristianHupfer Probably not. I'm not saying it's not useful, just that it could receive better answers on Stack Overflow.

Christian Hupfer

@egreg: The idea of the question is quite nice, but not achievable within TeX, I dare say. Perhaps you are right and it should be migrated to SO, after the bounty period

yo'

23:52

@egreg well, it should be flagged for mod bounty removal if it gets closed @Jos

Ah it can't even be closed.

@ChristianHupfer Stack Overflow is not the right place IMHO, Super User would be better

egreg

@yo' Whatever.

Christian Hupfer

@yo': Whatever ;-)

@egreg :D :D

yo'

Whatever you guys, I'm off to bed. (Well, I've been partially in bed for more than an hour, but that's another story.)

egreg

@yo' I left a comment

Christian Hupfer

@yo' Sleep well then

yo'

23:56

@egreg you can use [SU] shorthand

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