TeX, LaTeX and Friends

5:03 AM

@JosephWright Would you mind to take a look at the questions of the last days of tex.stackexchange.com/users/78085/macpee?

5:20 AM

@kan Lots of unanswered to answer :-)

kan

@Johannes_B Yes indeed

5:52 AM

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@PauloCereda ^^^^ Seriously?

@Johannes_B Close the first two as a duplicate of the latest?

@TorbjørnT. Or leave the separate questions alone and close the summary? Though both might have the same reason. I would say wait until something comes up.

6:34 AM

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@egreg ^^^^^ :-)

egreg

@Johannes_B It used to be easier with typewriters! One key, not four. ;-)

@egreg :-)

6:58 AM

The comments section reads funny tex.stackexchange.com/questions/308763/unbelievable-error

7:10 AM

@Johannes_B Could be the 'Banana Backseat Guy' ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Oh wow, that was long ago.

@Johannes_B Yes, the dark side forced me to remind you of him :-P

@ChristianHupfer I just got a reply from an OP on my Crosspost note: Prima erkannt

@Johannes_B Which one is it?

@ChristianHupfer golatex.de/pgfplots-externalize-und-siunitx-t17339.html

7:24 AM

@Johannes_B How should I know? ;-)

8:43 AM

Always good to start the day with getting a tick on a question @egreg has answered

yo'

!!/battle

@DavidCarlisle @PauloCereda ^^

@JosephWright oberdiek bundle resent to ctan

@DavidCarlisle Cool

@JosephWright luatex.sty still a bit of a mess (loading etex etc) but at least i put \ifx\zzz\@undefined in a few places so it doesn't die on existing commands every time you load it...

egreg

@DavidCarlisle Clearly stolen: I had my answer essentially ready, but had to catch the bus.

8:55 AM

Dec 17 '12 at 13:20, by David Carlisle

@egreg excuses excuses

9:43 AM

Does anyone know what this comment means: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/275521/… ?

9:57 AM

@IrregularUser That the behaviour is a feature of the editor but that it's possible to fool it into not doing it

10:08 AM

@JosephWright I mean, where would I add such a command to?

@IrregularUser Presumably wherever TeXmaker has the settings for running commands: I'll have to download it to check

@IrregularUser Options --> Configure Texmaker --> Commands.

bingo! much appreciated!

yo'

The new Google keyboard is crappy </rant>

upon adding the command, nothing really seems to happen... which leads me to thinking that I've added it wrongly and to the wrong place

presumably the "myname" part should be replaced with the username I'm using for windows

10:20 AM

@IrregularUser You could always ask @touhami what he meant.

is it polite to ping him in chat?

I invited him to a chat once but he came and ignored it, so I assumed I was being ridiculously rude

@IrregularUser or just ask a comment under that one. I don't think it's ever rude to ping someone, just accept that the way the site works people can be away or busy or disinterested so it is similarly not rude to ignore a ping so if you ask in a public place (here or under the question rather than a dedicated chat room) always a chance someone else will answer

@DavidCarlisle Ah, thanks for the information, I'm rather new to chat. I would indeed comment, but I gave a way a little too much rep in the bounty so lost commenting privileges.

@IrregularUser we can probably fix that:-)

@IrregularUser Well, I already pinged him ...

10:32 AM

@DavidCarlisle much appreciated! Some interesting topics there... "How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?"

@TorbjørnT. Ah yes, didn't know that multiple pings worked in chat, thanks for that

@IrregularUser given the votes on that question I can only assume that there are a lot of typesetting grandmas out there

12:37 PM

Grrr. ctanify doesn't work any more on the Mac, related to the El Capitan update. And cpan no longer works either. Damn you Apple.

@AlanMunn follow @PauloCereda and install Windows:-)

c.p.

On the German verb for "writing in LaTeX". If native speakers are here, maybe someone would like to provide another answer german.stackexchange.com/questions/29651/…

@DavidCarlisle Always full of useful advice. No wonder @egreg steals your ticks. :)

@AlanMunn he'd steal anybody's ticks.

@DavidCarlisle True.

@c.p. Is there some reason you don't like the existing one? (Not a native speaker, but the answer seems pretty reasonable to me from a linguistic point of view.)

@DavidCarlisle I'm saved from Windows. perlbrew seems to have worked flawlessly to create a parallel perl installation independent of the Apple one. ctanify works again.

c.p.

1:25 PM

@AlanMunn No. I do like the existing one, is quite good and from a native speaker, which I suppose, uses TeX. It might just happen that other LaTeX users might also have something to tell (regional use: in Austria, Bavaria, etc.)

2:08 PM

@c.p. 'texen' looks awkward ( I am a German native speaker!)

TechTreeDev

Any Idea how I can add a Typewriter font to everything matching this pattern <someHTMLtag> ?

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn Perhaps using brew to install another version of Perl or Python?

2:36 PM

@TechTreeDev in free text? you could make < active then \def<#1>{\texttt{\string<#1>} but it's dangerous if you have any code doing \ifnum1<2 ... that is in the same scope. Any reason not to just do \texttt{<canvas>} ?

egreg

2:52 PM

@AlanMunn I think I added the missing modules with CPAN

@TorbjørnT.: As usual, I was not finished ;-)

3:08 PM

WOW, i didn't know we could \begin{chat} on \stackexchange

@user270840 yes so long as you don't discuss TeX:-)

4:07 PM

does anyone know, how to "Justify" a "non-hyphenated" document? without exceeding right margin

@user270840 \sloppy (usually works)

can you link to it's documentation?
i'm using pdflatex currently it is just drawing frames for me

A: Text is going out of bounds; prohibit the hyphenation of all words

@user270840 \sloppy is a standard command in the latex format so any latex documentation should work (official one being the latex book which I can't point too:-) if latex is drawing frames you've used a command or package to do that... (but for such questions better to ask on the site, with an example, rather than chat which isn't so good for code

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microtype can help to mitigate the problem and if all else fails, \sloppy will convert ugly overfull hboxes to ugly oversized interword spacing.

barbara beeton

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Q: Extra page appended after long table even if it fits on one page

I'm new to LaTeX, but have greatly enjoyed the ability to create custom PDFs using pdflatex. I'm currently generating a report with several longtables. If the longtables fit on one page, however, it seems they generate an additional empty page. Is there any way around this? A solution suggested h...

longtable

that question has no answers. a new one Longtable forces unwanted new blank page has just showed up. perhaps the older one should be closed as a duplicate to the newer one?

4:30 PM

actually that actually working this time!

My document looks lot uniform now

I have another issue, i can ask.

*if i could ask here?

@egreg I guess I made the mistake of trying to update CPAN and then decided nothing was working. But the perlbrew system seems to have solved the problem.

Q: There seems to be a problem with the Footer and text [Screenshots attached]

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It's been quite sometime, and i have noticed that on some pages, in my report that actually overlap with the footer. The footer is generated perfectly but the text seems not disciplined in some pages. Is there a way to fix this?

header-footer margins text

5:29 PM

the grandma question is still open, i am satisfied.

@Johannes_B Granny????

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is not spam. — Johannes_B yesterday

@Johannes_B Ah that question with a ridiculous number of upvotes

@ChristianHupfer Second highest :-) one by me

@Johannes_B None by me ;-)

5:32 PM

@user270840 really the question isn't answerable in that form (although I see egreg made a guess)

@user270840 Oh I see egreg didn't guess, you'd put the document in a link, it should be in a code section in the question. move all your setup before \begin{document} also size changes like \small do not take an argument, \small hello not \small{hello}

6:38 PM

Interesting fact of the day: SVG has the y-axis upside down

No tex does

@DavidCarlisle Definitely the wrong way around to me

On phone no power...