TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2016-04-20

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Anonymous

02:04

There is no way to keep numbering footnotes continuously throughout (i.e. spanning across) chapters (in book or report)? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36988/…? I'll stick to article then, even if my document will be tremendously long.

barbara beeton

@VincentVerheyen -- there is a way to keep the footnote number from being reset at chapter breaks. search for questions containing "removefromreset".

Anonymous

02:31

@barbarabeeton Thanks tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80187/…

Anonymous

03:28

Is it normal that \documentclass{report} and \documentclass{book} can not compile with LaTex, but needs e.g. LuaLaTeX, please?

Torbjørn T.

05:35

@VincentVerheyen No. But some packages may need specific engines. For example, fontspec requires xelatex or lualatex, and some features of the TikZ package (graphdrawing) requires lualatex.

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Johannes_B

06:58

@Davïd Yes, this is it. Thanks :-)

Christian Hupfer

07:47

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@DavidCarlisle will mock me again, about the comma ;-)

fefrei

08:18

I'm tying to update the answer to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/242294/…, but I'm stuck. Is there any way to permanently patch \par (I want to execute some code before it)?

\pretocmd is giving up. Saving the definition to a backup with \let and redefining \par to run my code and then run the backup is working... until an enumerate or itemize, which seems to reset the definition.

Oh, it looks like I found it: Run \@setpar to define \par, not \def\par.

egreg

09:03

Updated the TeX Live guide in 2016/pretest: I've been officially included in TeX Live. ;-)

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Christian Hupfer

@egreg I've to download you then? ;-)

egreg

@ChristianHupfer Or dump.

Christian Hupfer

09:21

@egreg Well, what will I get if I use gregorio?

egreg

@ChristianHupfer Nicely typeset music!

Paulo Cereda

09:42

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@yo': ^^ :D

@egreg And soon, there will be an arara directive for it! :)

egreg

It's not even necessary: it runs in the restricted shell escape

Ulrike Fischer

09:57

@egreg: I considered an answer with \vspace*{\fill} or \mbox{} but then let the \null so that the OP starts to think about the order and realize that it can matter which command is first ;-)

Anonymous

10:15

@egreg That makes me wonder: when will you start to be able to code music with LaTex?

Paulo Cereda

@VincentVerheyen abc? :)

egreg

@UlrikeFischer I agree, but also showing the preferred method seems better.

@UlrikeFischer \null\vfill will give unexpected results if not in vertical mode

Anonymous

@PauloCereda Ow yea? Can you play it straight from a .PDF? Or is it just notation?

Paulo Cereda

@VincentVerheyen I believe the format in itself does not allow such things to be embedded. :)

Ulrike Fischer

10:37

@egreg I edited the question (\vfill at the end doesn't work, I tried ...)

egreg

@UlrikeFischer Probably because of \columnbreak: blame Frank. ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Oh no!

@egreg: so, WhatsApp is also very used in Italy? :)

It is a fever in Brazil.

egreg

10:52

How much do I like code like this?

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\textheight 650pt
\textwidth 6in
\voffset -1cm
\hoffset -0.75cm

\input epsf
\def\figin{\epsfcheck\figin}\def\figins{\epsfcheck\figins}
\def\epsfcheck{\ifx\epsfbox\UnDeFiNeD
\message{(NO epsf.tex, FIGURES WILL BE IGNORED)}
\gdef\figin##1{\vskip2in}\gdef\figins##1{\hskip.5in}% blank space instead
\else\message{(FIGURES WILL BE INCLUDED)}%
\gdef\figin##1{##1}\gdef\figins##1{##1}\fi}

\def\figinsert{}
\def\ifig#1#2#3{\xdef#1{fig.~\the\figno}
\writedef{#1\leftbracket fig.\noexpand~\the\figno}%

@PauloCereda Quite

Paulo Cereda

@egreg I have it in my phone due to peer pressure. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda I too. But this way I get the photos of my new nephew! ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg yay! :)

Anonymous

@PauloCereda You can embed videos into .PDF, right? So why not music?

Paulo Cereda

@VincentVerheyen You can include rich media including audio. Point is, do you know if it's just an Adobe addition or if it is in the default ISO spec?

The media9 manual makes me believe it is an Adobe feature. :)

Steven B. Segletes

11:28

@PauloCereda I am sending this cartoon to my daughter. Thanks for the laugh.

Paulo Cereda

11:46

@StevenB.Segletes <3

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egreg

13:12

@PauloCereda :) VVVV

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Q: Palavra Português para "impeachment"?

Reparei que a Wikipedia em português usa frequentemente a palavra inglesa «impeachment». Mas eu me pergunto: existe alguma palavra específica em sua língua? É comum o uso de impugnação de mandato?

tradução tradução-inglês

Paulo Cereda

@egreg ooh :)

Christian Hupfer

@DavidCarlisle: I assume Great Britain will celebrate the 90th birthday of HM the Queen Elizabeth II tomorrow?

David Carlisle

@ChristianHupfer it's not a public holiday:-(

Christian Hupfer

@DavidCarlisle: Perhaps the day in June will be one then, when the birthday was usually celebrated (or is it different this time?)

David Carlisle

@ChristianHupfer don't think that's a holiday either, if we make our rulers work even in their 90s can't expect to be giving commoners days off

Christian Hupfer

13:23

@DavidCarlisle What have rulers ever done for us ;-)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle With the day off all faithful subjects of Her Majesty the Queen might go along the Mall and cheer her up.

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Johannes_B

18:25

@ChristianHupfer Measuring the distance between two points and drawing a straight line between them?

Alborz

Hey all, just a quick question, is there any way we can change the link color of a glossary entry for a specific instance? Like usually if its blue (\gls{entry}), but you want to just once make it green instead (\gls[green]{entry})?

If I should ask it as a formal question instead on the forums let me know, I just thought maybe someone quickly knew lol

Johannes_B

@Alborz You can try {\hypersetup{linkcolor=green} glossary thingie } so the change is trapped within the braces. untested of course.

Alborz

18:49

Good idea, thanks @Johannes_B! Knew there had to be a simple way lol

barbara beeton

@egreg -- and quite "timely" too, i believe.

yo'

19:51

Are there any statistics on the chatroom traffic, especially concerning newcomers? I wonder if the @Paulo 's campaign have effect...

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B I think you did not catch the real content of my line :-P

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer that is what you are saying.

Paulo Cereda

20:10

@yo' Maybe the room owners have additional info.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B Say no more @PauloCereda ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer nudge nudge wink wink you know what I mean you know what I mean

yo'

@PauloCereda Let's wait for the room owner to clean all the bugs in luatex, then we can ask him :)

Christian Hupfer

@yo' You do not really believe that an ad using my portrait photograph will lure anybody to this place, even if @PauloCereda made the ad? ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@yo' ooh bugs

@ChristianHupfer of course! We know at least one newcomer clicked in the pink ad.

yo'

20:12

@ChristianHupfer when I see your photo there, I immediately look for some change

Christian Hupfer

@yo' /sob

yo'

@ChristianHupfer (I hope you know I wasn't serious!)

@PauloCereda the ads have altogether about 13 clicks a day, which is an interesting number :)

Christian Hupfer

@yo' I don't understand humour -- I am to nerdy for this /sob ;-)

yo'

@ChristianHupfer well, you're German after all....

Christian Hupfer

@yo' I am Black Forester in the first, then Baden-Württemberger, then German ;-)

yo'

20:15

@ChristianHupfer :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Like sport?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Good evening!

Kurt

Where is the \cite command defined? If biblatex is used? Is there a possibility to see the active macro definition in tex code?

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda Erik's written a sketch ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Are you into photography?

Christian Hupfer

20:18

@Kurt Usually in latex.ltx, but certainly redefined (a lot)

Joseph Wright

@Kurt \show\cite

@PauloCereda How are you today?

Kurt

@JosephWright @Christian Thanks!

Joseph Wright

biblatex updates going well: expect news soon :-)

Christian Hupfer

@PauloCereda :D

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright In a hurry! :) You?

David Carlisle

20:25

@yo' according to the travis CI he's too busy breaking other stuff at present.

Christian Hupfer

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@PauloCereda: ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer ooooooooooooooooooh

barbara beeton

@ChristianHupfer -- except that that's not a duck ... more like a plover or sandpiper.

Christian Hupfer

@barbarabeeton There's no duck available, unfortunately

dev.to/rly

barbara beeton

@ChristianHupfer -- where are you looking? (i'm on a birdwatching holiday this week. also alligators.)

Christian Hupfer

20:37

@barbarabeeton I almost run over a couple of ducks with my car some days ago, but I could prevent it @PauloCereda

yo'

21:00

@ChristianHupfer Number 2 there looks much more like a duck :)

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer You better. :)

Christian Hupfer

@yo' Number 2 is a cat ;-)

yo'

@ChristianHupfer well, yes, that's what I meant.

Christian Hupfer

@yo' Apparently Czech ducks look different compared to ducks from the rest of the world then ;-)

Emilio Pisanty

Goodness, the ad was right. My first time here, through this ad

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A: Community Promotion Ads - 2016

Do you guys talk about ducks 100% of the time?

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Paulo Cereda

21:12

@ChristianHupfer, @barbarabeeton, @yo': duckietown.com techcrunch.com/2016/04/20/ducking-awesome-self-driving-cars/…

@EmilioPisanty Hi! Yes. :)

yo'

@EmilioPisanty ducks, cricket and bugs in lualatex make it

Christian Hupfer

@EmilioPisanty And Star Wars,and Star Trek -- so the real things, not this unimportant TeX stuff ;-)

Emilio Pisanty

Fair enough

Can't stop to chat, though, I'm afraid.

Have a duck one!

=D

yo'

now I gotta go, good night, everybody!

Paulo Cereda

@EmilioPisanty Please come back soon! :)

@yo' Good night, Tom!

Christian Hupfer

21:16

@yo' Good night, Thomas

egreg

21:54

@ChristianHupfer Don't forget the Spanish Inquisition!

Christian Hupfer

@egreg no, of course not -- and the comfy chair ;-)

egreg

@ChristianHupfer Brrrr!

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