I'm reading a book on Emacs from 1996. It's interesting to read things like "Emacs allows you to use various fonts and colors in your buffers if your monitor hast the ability to display them".

@egreg: big game today! We can't miss Inter x Juve! :)

@NN It reminds me of the good old green CGA monitors. :)

@PauloCereda Nostalgia!

@NN :)

@PauloCereda I won't be answering from 20:30 to 22:45 CEST; please, call Martin during this out-of-service period due to very compelling reasons.

@egreg :)

[ @egreg BTW I sent you an email with a preview of the surprise. :) ]

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uh-oh. The countdown has begun.

The countdown of what?

For Martin to get the first Legendary badge of TeX.sx. :)

ah

I have to hurry, egreg is not that far behind me.

We need to keep you busy, so egreg will reach you. :)

Flip a coin or have a cage fight

The bookmakers are already taking bets.

The fight of the century!

@MartinScharrer -32; I won't surrender till the Legendary badge will be assigned. :)

@MartinScharrer: you should manage to get the Legendary badge on Nov 11th, so it will be like a celebration too!

@MartinScharrer I hope you're reading the answers to meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1867/…

@JosephWright Yes, I do.

@PauloCereda -31

@egreg Yay, we will try to keep Martin busy. I suggest we submit some bug reports to him. :)

@egreg: the ESPN narrator is calling today as the "Super Sábado" (super Saturday). Now, Roma vs. Milan, then the awaited Derby d'Italia. :)

@PauloCereda What's Roma? What's Milan? :)

@egreg Some guys which try to play football. :)

Hello @Ariel - new here?

Hi!

yes, I just joined.

I was actually reading your example of using datatools

Do you have any more? :)

@Jo

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work. @JosephWright (my international US keyboard setup has some teething troubles)

hi @Ariel , welcome to the chat!

@Ariel What do you need to do?

Hi again - mainly I have 27 sets of tables each with 6 multipage tables each. (27 X 6) in total. The raw data for these tables come from 27 CSVs (or rather I am organizing the data now so that they come from 27 CSVs). I guess I am struggling with how to tell datatool to pull the necessary rows for the 6 tables instead of actually making 27 X 6 CSVs as well.

I keep forgetting @JosephWright

that's better.

So can you point me to some examples where datatool has been used to pull specific rows

from a "master CSV' and form into tables?

Does anyone have a good example of some of the longer, more open, but still useful questions we've had? I remember seeing some best practices ones here, and want to show them to the History.SX people

@Ariel How are you with shell scripting or awk?

I can manage with some toil and midnight oil :)

@Ariel Do you want specific rows, or just rows 1 to X-1, X to Y-1, and so on?

I am kind of new to linux but I am learning. I have grepped for a number of things now, am learning to use regex. Not reached the awk stage yet but I will try my best.

I can organize the CSVs to be in the sequence I need them so r1 --> x, x+1--> y, y +1 --> z etc

@Ariel Write a shell script with a loop in it, copying each line to a separate CSV file.

ah - so you are saying its easier with separate CSV files?

@egreg: goal! :)

@Ariel Then make a script to turn each one into a table- I used sed for that last time, then you past those into each table enviorment.

@Ariel Well, I'm a newbie, so that is how I would do it.

@Ariel I had something like sed:,:\t&\t:g

Do you have an example of you code?

your code @Canageek

Wow I had no idea you could edit chat. Nice.

thanks!

@Ariel Was what I used. Tail -n +2 cut out the first line (Which had headers), the first command changed tab to tab & tab, then the others formated the isotope name.

Did you use datatool?

@Ariel That isn't for a csv file though, and I just made 1 big table; You'll have to do the loop splitting it into each one yourself.

@Ariel What is datatool?

@Canageek ctan.org/pkg/datatool

@Canageek datatool is a package which deals with csv files. :)

tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32967/… I learnt yesterday that it is a way to pull all CSV into latex tables easily. I am looking at it because I am thinking I could find a way to possibly dynamically edit the complicated latex tables as the data changes in the background without having to go into the latex code again and again.

Oh, never mind then. I used a script to turn my files into TeX >.>

@Ari

@Ariel Oh man, that would have been useful.

Oh :( I actually used perl to change the R output (which is what is going into the tables) into formatted latex with the &s and the \\s

@Ariel Yeah, that is what I did to.

Yeah, but I am kind of confused about its usage. @JosephWright posted an example here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17618/… I was hoping to find some more examples (rather needy I am afraid)

@egreg: Goal. :(

@egreg: Goal! :)

@Ariel Are you still confused about your datatool problem?

@PauloCereda I can't be chatting during the match! 1:2!!!

@egreg Great game! :)

@PauloCereda Indeed; it could have been 1:4

@egreg Yes, there was a penalty kick in the end of the first half and Del Piero almost scored in the end of the second half. :)

It's so unfair. My app looks so beautiful in MacOSX.

Meanwhile, on Linuxland...

@PauloCereda Did you have any doubt about this? :) It's Mac OS X, by the way.

@egreg Oh. :) I had to include a font fix in my app just because the app was not rendering nice in my Gnome 3 session. Mac was rendering it so beautifully.

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