Following on from the recent xkcd comic:
Would the snake be easy to do in LaTeX? To make the question more specific, how could I get LaTeX to automatically add a long underscore and then an 's' to each line that does not reach the end of the column? (I'm assuming with that knowledge I'd be ...
@Johannes_B No, I have opened other projects and answer to many questions and fight to many comment combats (below the posts) with strange users here ;-)
@Johannes_B It's not (only) about my answers. It's a general decline in behaviour of 'I want my thesis done, do it for me', getting an answer and never appear again
@Johannes_B @Johannes_B: If it is still there, they will remove the rest of the buildung, only the screw and parts of the wall will remain, as a memorial ;-)
@ChristianHupfer That third part of the LaTeX introduction (still 40 people there) icluded a bit about biblioraphies. There was some dude that after the thing talked about strange things and out of nowhere addressed his question to me. Do i have to give the full path to cite?
Then he said something (not to me) like this You get some template from some russian journal and then Deal with it!
@ChristianHupfer Google returns some strange results. Who/what is Smert Spionem?
The girl that annoying guy left with, was one of the most beautiful woman i have ever seen though. But she was using Word while attending a LaTeX introduction. o.O
@Johannes_B I've got an assignment for you: Watch Star Wars, Monty Python,Lord of the Rings, James Bond, Star Trek,then we will continue our conversations here;-)
@Canageek Needless to say, the "snakes" justification is actually used in professional typography, but not for latin-like scripts, it's used for text written in Arabic alphabet.
@PauloCereda That's helpful to know, thanks. Even though my research project is mostly about Angola and Portugal, and Angolan slaves in the Americas, in the 17th century, it still seems like a better idea to learn Brazilian Portuguese since there are more speakers and more resources for learning. Also I am guessing better food in Brazil.
@Andrew: I am quite biased to choose between one or another, but maybe European Portuguese would be better to help with other Portuguese-speaking countries.
@PauloCereda There will be more lines of research down the road that would involve Brazil, I think. Or perhaps I should think of them more like different languages. Aren't there people who insist that Brazilian is its own language?
@AndrewCashner I think this is a delicate subject and prefer not to touch even with a 10 foot pole. :) Maybe @AlanMunn can shed some light into this discussion (Alan speaks Brazilian Portuguese too). Personally, I am inclined towards having our own language identity, so I am against the new 2009 orthographic reform covering the Lusophone countries. :)
This article is about the spelling reforms of the Portuguese language.
== Historical background ==
Portuguese began to be used regularly in documents and poetry around the 12th century. In 1290, King Diniz created the first Portuguese University in Lisbon (later moved to Coimbra) and decreed that Portuguese, then called simply the "common language", would henceforth be used instead of Latin, and named the "Portuguese language". In 1296, it was adopted by the Royal Chancellary and began to be used for writing laws and in notaries.
The medieval spelling of Portuguese was not uniform, since it had...
@PauloCereda Well it's not as though English spelling makes any sense. Spanish is consistent now, but in the old texts I read the spelling is all over the place; same with German. Multiple different spellings of one word on the same page.
@PauloCereda If you like the diaresis/umlaut you should read The New Yorker. They use a very old-fashioned editorial policy where they write coöperate (plus they spell out all numbers, even years like the nineteen-nineties).
@TRiG sorry, maybe "transliteration" is not what I meant. I mean, at some moment, someone started writing the language in latin letters, and this can make the language look very different. Compare e.g. Czech and Polish, or English and Dutch -- two pairs of very close languages that are written significantly differently.
@ChristianHupfer I was sitting over some strange template, and i couldn't figure out how to set the pagestyle of that left pages that are generated by openright. Turnsout i had to use \blankpagestyle{<style>}. Took me ten minutes to figure that out.
@yo' I was at a big fast food change once and decided to finally taste Latte Macchiato. The woman behind the counter asked me what flavour i would like. And with the most confused look i asked: Coffee?
@ChristianHupfer Seems like the author has a mental problem.
@Johannes_B I would, but into the right type of beer. (I mean, fruity beers the Belgian style, or Radlers.) For coffee, it's really only the stuff I mentioned. Anything else is plain wrong to me.
@ChristianHupfer I don't know why the name was chosen, but initially, those pages are empty. I also don't know why it is \blankpagestyle. There is no documentation at all.
And the most annoying thing: It is my code and hence my fault.
@PauloCereda I am in the comfy chair! The train is 45 minutes late. But I'm lucky it's going! The same train, yesterday, was canceled. The one I would catch this morning was two hours late (because of a suicide attempt). :(
Freiberg (doslova: "svobodné horní město") je historické a okresní město v Sasku v Německu, v podhůří Krušných hor asi v polovině cesty mezi Drážďany a Chemnitz. Bylo založeno kolem roku 1170 a po staletí bylo centrem těžby stříbra a rud. Z této těžby plynulo jeho bohatství a s dovozem stříbra z Ameriky v 16. století jeho sláva skončila. Nicméně v roce 1765 zde byla založena důlní akademie, nynější Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Správní oblastí města protéká řeka Freiberger Mulde a dva potoky.
== Historie ==
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the problem is, people can't use it as long as the orthography does not allow it. They should allow both ways officially, only then you can see whether it catches up or not.
@PauloCereda Okay, thanks! I didn't think you had ll so I didn't know if it was pronounced as a foreign word (as from Spanish). Wow, I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce that name correctly, then. So it's something like (American phonetic spelling) "Vill-uh Low-bush"?
@JosephWright I had problems in the past. But maybe because it went from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, then Yosemite, then El Capitan. :) This time, I did a clean install.
@JosephWright i could do it, talking of making the dvd it would have been nice if fontenc could have defaulted to tuenc (cf recent uniocde-math issue:(
@ChristianHupfer Yes, thank you! I'm trying some ways to rework it. I do think the idea of separate contents lists is good; then I could also have a list of assignment due dates and exams. I'm also not sure I even need the automatic numbering of sections, since I know which week of the term it will be and in fact I often get confused and accidentally leave off a scheduled class. I'll be working on it more and get back to you.
@DavidCarlisle Mail received :-) Assuming we get nothing soon, will you update CTAN or should I (remembering to make sure the version number matches the README)
@JosephWright, @egreg: make sure to keep the latest El Capitan image. I had mine still from the first days of release and it had a bug that prevented the correct clean install. :)