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02:33
@PauloCereda For your amusement: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
:)
@kan Hi can you give this question an upvote so that I can allow him to chat about the problem?
kan
kan
@AlanMunn Done! :)
@kan Thanks!
03:25
experts: I have long table, with header and footers, that runs over 2-3 pages. I noticed it breaks something too early in the page, leaving lots of empty space and continue to next page (screen shot below). I wonder if this is how long tables works. I do have lots of verbatim in each row. May be that is why? I can't break verbatim?
i.e I have \begin{Verbatim} ......\end{Verbatim} in each cell. So I suppose longtable does not break cells across pages because of this?
Here is the code (part of it)
\begin{center}%
\begin{longtable}[c]{|p{.5in}|p{1in}|p{5in}|}
bla&\begin{Verbatim}.....\end{Verbatim}&..\\
bla&\begin{Verbatim}.....\end{Verbatim}&..\\
etc....
\end{longtable}
 
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yo'
yo'
06:29
@Nasser Table cells cannot be page-broken of course, it's a ridiculous idea anyway. However, the true problem is that your table does not really look like a table, it's a list.
 
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09:12
@Nasser table cells never break at all, page breaking is between rows.
@Nasser center around longtable does nothing useful, just adds spurious vertical space, it doesn't centre it.
09:59
@Nasser Quite often, if a longtable can't work, it is because a table is the wrong format for the thing, notwithstanding what Word users can think of it.
10:33
@yo' Shorten does not work like I would like it to
it doesn't simply "cut off" at some point---it actually changes the line
 
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11:50
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@JosephWright ^^
yo'
yo'
12:48
@Danu Yeah, I was afraid this could be the case.
@JosephWright I think I'll accept your offer to "supervise" my L3 programming for the new package. So far, no code is being written, so there's no problem. But I'll surely have some questions later on, also on the naming suggestions, you've got much more package-writing experience that I, after all :) (Also, I think that you should be then listed as a co-author, if you didn't mind.)
 
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14:09
Hello!!! I want to create a test in latex, since I am a teaching assistant. What template do you suggest?
@DavidCarlisle Hi!!! what would you suggest me?
@Evinda depends, you could just use article but there are specific classes eg exam that have some support fro showing marks per question etc if you need that. I haven't used any of those though.
 
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16:52
Guys, what's the easiest way to add a top and bottom line inside an image float?
Like listings's frame=lines...
@PauloCereda float package, float style ruled
@DavidCarlisle ooh thanks. :)
17:19
Has anyone an idea what the optional argument [type] of \definecolor in xcolor is for? The document say that the arguments of \definecolor are described in section 2.3., and section 2.3 says about the type argument "This is used only in the context of color defining commands, see the description of \definecolor and friends."
:27833823 The color model is the second argument. type can be one of named and ps but I have no idea what it should do.
17:59
Any ideas on what a reasonable rate is for ad hoc LaTeX consultancy?
@JosephWright Charge for number of macros. :)
18:19
Well, i am not sure this is reasonable.
@Johannes_B More or less what I was thinking
@JosephWright So far, i charged people only in coffee and the occasional beer.
@Johannes_B I'm not really interested in the money but at the same time don't want to be very much out from other people
@Johannes_B I've been asked by the ACS to formalise support for achemso, so they want a contract with an hourly rate
@JosephWright I am not really familiar with pricing.
@JosephWright ACS, they can afford it :-)
What does formalise support mean?
@Johannes_B They want something in writing rather than 'just mail this chap who does it for free and with no legal basis'
18:25
@Johannes_B +1
@JosephWright ok.
@Johannes_B The only thing I get paid for other than my day job is for review panel meetings, and that's a nominal amount. So I've got no real idea.
@PauloCereda :-)
I think nominally I'm on about £26/h, allowing for 'on costs' about £30/h
(Day job)
@JosephWright: How about charging per lines in log? /please load TikZ load TikZ load TikZ...
18:29
@PauloCereda Like I said, I'm not really interested here in the money but I don't want to disadvantage anyone who is
@JosephWright I understand. :)
@Joseph: sorry for the previous jokes.
@PauloCereda we are l3 team, all our documents have \tracingall charging by log line could get expensive.
@DavidCarlisle oooh we are in the money!
18:49
@Johannes_B @JosephWright: Wow. 75 to 100 dollars, and a minimum of 4 hours and advance payment. Not really prices for poor students.
yo'
yo'
@JosephWright depends where in the world you work, but $80/hour is a reasonable standard for ad hoc IT consulting. I would go lower, but that's only because I work from a "cheap" country
19:04
@UlrikeFischer Not for students, but for a company it's ok i think. If the work is of good quality, of course.
@Johannes_B But the latex template site is seems to try to attract students which write their thesis. So the accompaigning business model ist odd. Beside this: the price is okay for real high level IT-support. But only for typesetting? Even if it is in latex I do find this a bit much.
@UlrikeFischer Same here. But since people obviously pay the price ...
19:35
@UlrikeFischer That's not what I'm being asked about, though
@JosephWright Yes I know. Imho for your service the price is ok. You could even charge more. You probably deliver the work for 3 hours in one anyway.
 
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21:42
@PauloCereda You might enjoy the bibliographic references in tex.stackexchange.com/a/295989/4427
@egreg the lengths you go to to extract a vote out of @PauloCereda.
22:05
@DavidCarlisle I've been rep capped for several hours. Have you? :P

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