TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Aaron Hall

02:22

Hey everybody!

Aaron Hall

02:35

I want to slip in some pngs in my beamer I'm constructing in org-mode. Suggestions?

David Carlisle

04:16

@Nasser it was in answer to your comment. click on the arrow ro the left of any comment here and it takes you to the comment being replied to

Nasser

04:57

@DavidCarlisle Oh, I see. I delete them without using recycle bin. (shift-delete). I disabled recycled bin. I read on the net that windows 7 is very slow deleting and moving large folder with small files. But on linux, it is much faster. I actually do all my real work on Linux now (using the VBox), but it is still slow compared to moving to a real PC with linux.

egreg

06:37

@PauloCereda Very nice day. David is a hologram.

Werner

07:14

Someone couldn't stay away... ;)

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A: loop within another loop in latex

For example something like this: \long\def\for#1in#2#3{\expandafter\def\csname b:\string#1\endcsname{#3}% \forinA#1#2,,} \def\forinA#1#2,{\ifx,#2,\else \def#1{#2}\csname b:\string#1\endcsname \expandafter\forinA\expandafter#1\fi} \for\i in{a, bc, d} {% \for\j in{A, B, C} {% i=...

...based on:

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Q: A risk when using tex.sx.com

Today, this is exactly one year, when I firstly met this tex.sx.com. I found out that this is very interesting phenomenon from (web)-technical, TeXnical, social and psychological points of view. There are many very nice questions and answers here. Moreover, a group of very hyperactive users is he...

discussion

daleif

08:10

@FaheemMitha no idea. I don't know what those configurations are actually for ;-)

Faheem Mitha

@daleif Ok. Thanks for the feedback.

Paulo Cereda

08:44

@egreg I knew it! :)

egreg

09:10

@PauloCereda How are you today?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Thankfully, a lot better, thank you! :) I was worried because the muscles in the face were hurting pretty bad (never experienced this pain before). I am recovering pretty fast. :)

@egreg: How is the conference going? :) Lot's of cricket talk, I suppose? :) I heard that the real cricket expert is @Nicola, not @David. :)

Paulo Cereda

09:42

Hi @Paul! Are you taking lots of photos? :)

Manuel

11:17

Will the TUG conference's pdfs be available in the future? I can just see the abstracts from the TUG page, but not the whole conference presentation.

Paulo Cereda

@Manuel IIRC all TUG conferences are available in a special TUGboat edition. :)

Torbjørn T.

11:40

@ChristianHupfer About the answer on the LEd-question: If the lack of a TeX distribution was the problem, then that is the answer .. And honestly, I don't think the second part of that comment (critique/clarification) in any way fits the content of the answer. Do you?

Johannes_B

@TorbjørnT. Those are those stupid autocomments that get there when reviewing. It is really annoying i think and i tend to write a comment of my own.

Torbjørn T.

@Johannes_B Which is the best of doing it. If the suggested comments doesn't fit the problem, don't use them.

Johannes_B

@TorbjørnT. Do they ever fit except for thank you stuff?

Joseph Wright

@Manuel As well as the next TUGBoat for papers (still have to write mine), Kaveh is videoing everything

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Any guess when the videos are coming online?

Torbjørn T.

11:55

@Johannes_B I can't even remember what the options are ...

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Usual takes a couple of weeks at least for the post-processing

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Can you please check tex.stackexchange.com/users/82330/r-sivakumar?

Manuel

@JosephWright So… when will it be available for non TUG users? And the videos… who is Kaveh? What's the link to the website?

Ulrike Fischer

@JosephWright Here is the biber issue I mentioned where I would need another windows tester github.com/plk/biber/issues/78 (or tex.stackexchange.com/questions/255620/…).

Torbjørn T.

12:22

@Manuel TUGboat becomes available for all one year after being published I believe. Kaveh Bazargan of River Valley Technologies, president of TUG (tug.org/election/2015/candidates.html). Videos will likely be made available at river-valley.zeeba.tv/category/conferences/text/tex, you can see there are videos from several previous TUG meetings there.

Christian Hupfer

15:21

@TorbjørnT. Agreed, the comment does not fit completely. But the answer itself wasn't very good, in my point of view, regardless whether it's true or not

Paulo Cereda

Would you guys like to see my ducks?

Arthur Reutenauer

15:40

@PauloCereda Unless that’s a metaphor for something else, yes I’d like to see your ducks :-)

Paul Gessler

15:55

@PauloCereda unfortunately I did not even bring my camera at all. :-( Not much time for photo excursions as I'm spending my free time here doing a bit of work.

Paulo Cereda

@PaulGessler Oh. :)

@ArthurReutenauer vvv

Johannes_B

16:18

Closing and deleting non-answers right away seems off-putting to new users, i can understand this. Not acting right away gives the high chance that some questions are cluttered with non-answers. Would some kind of timer be a good idea? i.e. deciding to close/delete now, but defer the action to two days later. What do you think?

Paulo Cereda

17:53

@ChristianHupfer: did you like my ducks? :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda I did and I do ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer <3

Someday I will get a Black Forester duck. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda Typical US - American ducks ...

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Village ~~People~~ Ducks. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda I offered you to send you a box to Brazil...

@PauloCereda Oh my God, you I see it ... And where is the mason duck and the duck with the leather jacket? :-P

Paulo Cereda

17:56

@ChristianHupfer International shipping is expensive, I guess. :)

@ChristianHupfer LOLOLOL

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda I checked recently. A package to Brazil, max. 2kg costs about 13 Euro

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer 13 euros is quite expensive, I guess. It was for me: Google result: 1 Brazil real = 0.288279592 Euros

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: What's an average income in Brazil real currency then?

@PauloCereda It would be a gift, and not a loan --- nudge, nudge :-P

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer ~ 788

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda Oh, 250 euro, that's not much of course. I've to check the German average income, but such averages are quite biased of course

Paulo Cereda

18:01

@ChristianHupfer :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: 788 reals per month or per year?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Month. :) That's the minimal wage for Brazil.

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: For God's sake... well, in Germany it's about 2000 euro per month, tax and social insurance already cut off

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Holy cow!

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Well, as I said: Very biased. The minimum income is about 400 euro, but life is quite expensive here: Taxes, rents for flats, living... very hard to get on with just 400 euro per month

Paulo Cereda

18:43

@ChristianHupfer Understood. :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: Something like this?

bade-enten.de/badeenten/motiventen/…

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer no male duck with a beer? :)

But it's a very cute duck. :)

Christian Hupfer

19:09

@PauloCereda I'll do a massive investigation in the next days, ok? School's closed for almost 7 weeks from next week, so I've plenty of time :-P C. Hupfer, R.D.I (Rubber Duck Investigator!)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer <3

Sean Allred

Just ordered Trees, Maps, and Theorems. I haven't been this excited about the arrival of a book in a long time :)

Does anyone else here have that book? I'm kindof wondering how long (i.e. in-depth) it is.

Christian Hupfer

@SeanAllred:

The pointer sisters - I'm so excited

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Sean Allred

@ChristianHupfer Pretty much!!

Paulo Cereda

The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron

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Paul Gessler

19:34

Apr 29 at 22:07, by Paul Gessler

Paulo Cereda

20:18

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@egreg: ^^

The background is a pattern of araras. :)

Sean Allred

@PaulGessler :)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda You should add a line: No ducks or araras were hurt during producing this presentation* ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer oooh I like this.

<3

Sean Allred

@PaulGessler Oooh, is that hardcover?

Paulo Cereda

If one is curious about my pattern. :)

Sean Allred

20:30

@PauloCereda pretty

Christian Hupfer

Darth Vader - "impressive, most impressive"

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Paulo Cereda

@SeanAllred <3

@ChristianHupfer We need a duck vader. :)

Paul Gessler

@SeanAllred yes, indeed. On my shelf at home but I've only had time to skim it. Not done a full read yet.

Christian Hupfer

google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn3.volusion.com/fgnzc.zswng/v/…

@PauloCereda: Give in to your Quack

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Oh my!

Christian Hupfer

20:36

@PauloCereda Do you want to have Duck Vader and Stormtrooper Duck instead of Black Forest Beer Drinking Duck then? ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer oh no, Germany always. <3

Christian Hupfer

Another package of rubber ducks

@PauloCereda: Super hero ducks

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer oooooh

nanananananananana Batduck!

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda: I've the impression that I've to call my next package duck.sty ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Do it!

Christian Hupfer

20:44

@PauloCereda Well, now I just need an idea what the package should do? Printing No ducks were hurt during typing this publication as a watermark on every page?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer I like the plan. :)

Sean Allred

21:35

@PaulGessler I'm going to tear it apart >:) (Delicately, of course.)

Manuel

For the expl3 people: would it be useful to have an expandable \tl_replace_all:nn? I'm not sure it's useful, but may be it's. One would just need some \tl_define_replacement:nnn { alias } { <search> } { <replace> } and then use \tl_replace_all:nn { <token list> } { alias }. Is that possible to implement?

And also, is there a plan for \skip_horizontal_nonscript:n or something like that?

egreg

22:37

@PauloCereda After a long discussion with Bruno and Will (and some beers with Frank), I have to go to bed.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Cool! :) Have a good night, my friend. :)

barznjy

22:59

Hi

I have a simple question please, How to write \gamma_x as a text in latex?
because when you write like this, latex gives you an error message

Johannes_B

23:39

@barznjy Do you mean upright gamma and x? There are packages like upgreek and others. The x can be put as superscript using \textsuperscript. This and \textsuperscript are available with an up-to-date TeX-distribution.

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