The initiative on meta
Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?
got a great response. It quickly became the highest voted question on meta. This fact and the well thought out concept convinced Stack Exchange to join TUG:
Stack Exchange is institutional member ...
@RebeccaChernoff yes, let's confirm it. The question is open for 7 days and had more than 400 views (good for meta), so it's been visible enough, and now we've got the full crew.
@StefanKottwitz I am sending an email to those 8 asking for their addresses and contact info per the template TUG gave me. Perhaps you could edit the meta post to indicate we've got the number our institutional membership gives us?
I'll send it to TUG as soon as I get 8 responses...hopefully people will be good about replying. (:
@RebeccaChernoff: Any chance of a post on the main blog announcing this when it's done? Sort of along the lines of when SE became an official supporter of MathJaX?
@hendrikvogt: The "accepted answer got removed" notification seems to work now. I lost a tick and the answer of mine is now listed as -15 in the reputation listing.
@JosephWright: Quick question on LaTeX3: each of the core packages seems to pull in the others, so it seems that to get the LaTeX3 syntax I should only need to load one package. Which package is that? Is it expl3?
@MartinScharrer Ah, but would you notice that if you also got some votes on that question so that the total score was positive?
@RebeccaChernoff Seriously. I'm looking at my mailer right now and there's nothing new in it. Nothing in the spam trap either, unless you're masquerading as "Rosetta Marianna" these days (selling replica watches before anyone gets too imaginative).
@AndrewStacey Yes, just load expl3 (apart from l3names, you can't load any of the others without first loading expl3: this is a deliberate decision to avoid any odd errors)
One feature-request we keep seeing is users want to be notified when someone un-accepts an answer, so a few questions that follow are how often should these notifications be seen, under what conditions, and how should they be presented?
Using myself as a high activity user (~6,300 answers), we s...
@MartinScharrer But the names haven't been set to TUG yet, so I must be on the SE blacklist. So rather than MSWord, it must've been some other product. No idea what: "X is to SE as MSWord is to TeX". (While we're on the subject of interesting numbers, the comment that I'm replying to has number 1999333.)
@PauloCereda Not a very good match; Juve led 1:0 in the first half, but they were in 10 for the entire second half. A stupid foul by Vučinić. Then a defensive error and Bologna scored. But also for Milan it was a draw and Inter lost. :)
@egreg I saw the game. Bologna scored on a lucky chance. Milan played without 8 of their starting players and managed to draw. Now, Inter... even Gasperini was fired.
@egreg There was some discussion in the mod chat room yesterday about closing versus deleting. I'm happiest with the 'close with an answer' approach that we seem to have. Apparently, on Programmers there is a feeling that closed questions should be deleted!
@PauloCereda It's not just about friendliness, there were also some concerns about numbers of questions, etc. Obviously, I'm not naming any other sites!
@JosephWright Which significantly reduces the number of potential choices to 8035 (counting unregistered users).
@JosephWright Given that half of the Programmers front page is closed questions I can sympathize with that position. But as we don't have that problem here I don't think this should become policy on TeX.sx.
(this intended as comment, not as answer, but I dont know how to produce a comment)
@Audrey Thanks again! Unfortunately I always detect new troubles while trying to solve my problem. Now there's a problem concerning the sorting of the list of shorthands. I suppose I should really wait for the of...
The initiative on meta
Do we want Stack Exchange to become an institutional member of the TUG?
got a great response. It quickly became the highest voted question on meta. This fact and the well thought out concept convinced Stack Exchange to join TUG:
Stack Exchange is institutional member ...
