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8:32 AM
I know this is offensive to a vim user, but Emacs has the preview capability you are asking for, see tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18498Henri Menke 19 secs ago
@PauloCereda ^^^
 
@daleif Following memoir question is pretty old. Maybe something has changed in memoir in the meantime? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135236/…
 
Oh goody, Word template fun!
 
8:52 AM
@JosephWright I hope word templates are more fun than LaTeX templates.
 
@Johannes_B Oh, they can certainly be fun
@Johannes_B On this occasion, the text alignment seemed odd, which I've tracked down to adding 18pt before the paragraph for some odd reason
@Johannes_B On the plus side, the American Chemical Society are working hard on improving LaTeX support
> Finally, BibTeX 0.99d is the current version; what about BibTeX 1.0?
> “Any decade now” is my standard reply. But seriously, 0.99d came out at the beginning of the decade in 2010, fixing a URL-handling bug, and I expect 1.0 around the end of the decade. I also expect some modernization updates to the standard styles within the next year.
 
@JosephWright Did you stumble on this by accident, or was that announced somewhere?
 
@Johannes_B By accident
 
9:09 AM
@Johannes_B added a suggestion
 
@JosephWright Why isn't that announced in some way?
@daleif Thanks.
 
9:24 AM
\date{February 11-14; May 5-9, 2014\pagebreak{}\tableofcontents{}\pagebreak{}}
 
@Johannes_B that was new
 
@Johannes_B Wow!
 
@egreg @daleif Somehow, LyX created that.
 
@Johannes_B bad markup style, you are supposed to use -- for numeric ranges:-)
 
9:59 AM
@Johannes_B bad template?
 
@Johannes_B Just because it likes to produce rubbish? Or did the user do something special?
 
@egreg @daleif Bad user input i guess.
 
10:16 AM
@HenriMenke oh no! :)
 
@Johannes_B it looks like something someone just added to the "preamble" settings in a Lyx doc.
Also nice to see that my Publisher scripts might also help someone else. Those are some really strange files.
 
@daleif is that the arbortext thing?
 
10:33 AM
@DavidCarlisle yes, before our last Unix server was retired I did manage to get a lot of .pub files convereted to sgml which my scripts can the mostly clean into usable LaTeX. Though I've only converted a small numbers of samples, so I don't know if my scripts do the right thing in general. I fast test at least showed some warnings about some regexp results that might end up undefined...
 
@DavidCarlisle Remember the question with the ⨉ prefix? The OP mailed me he's studying algebra on a book published in 1900: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/… . I told him to use a slightly more recent book.
 
@egreg too modern for you, anyway.
 
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I prefer Wallis'
 
@egreg I was thinking more of Euclid
 
@DavidCarlisle Too old-fashioned
 
10:37 AM
@DavidCarlisle hey, it is out of copyright, no fees
 
@DavidCarlisle “It remains to justify the use of the 0 of the ordinary numerical notation in the new meaning. This is at once done when we notice that in a purely quantitative sense 0 stands for the limit of the difference of two quantities that have been made to differ by as little as we please”. The “new meaning” is that “+a–a=0”: “The special case +a–a deserves close attention. A special symbol, namely 0, is used to denote it.”
 
@egreg limits, is this algebra or analysis?:-) Still it's good to have 0 sorted out.
 
10:52 AM
@DavidCarlisle It's actually both; first part on algebra, second part is analysis. Britons always have problems in distinguishing between them.
 
@egreg I think I'll stick to trisecting angles via ruler and compass.
 
@DavidCarlisle It will keep you busy for a long time
 
@egreg I have a proof of the construction, unfortunately it doesn't fit in the margin.
 
@DavidCarlisle You have plenty of margins in your small 10000 page manual
 
Courtesy of XeLaTeX. ^^ :)
 
11:14 AM
@Johannes_B have you no faith in the awesome power of bibtex to rephrase a document's introduction?
 
@DavidCarlisle BibTeX can do a lot, but rewording the introduction?
 
@Johannes_B clearly hidden features make it much more powerful than later imitations like biblatex
Jan 12 at 12:15, by David Carlisle
@PauloCereda finished your thesis?
 
@Johannes_B Well obviously the first screenshot is from an earlier version of the file. But it shows that the fontsize has changed so I wouldn't put too much weight on the content.
 
@UlrikeFischer Yes, but it isn't clear that this really is done by adding a bibliography item. looks a bit like \footnotesize was introduced before.
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh no
 
11:23 AM
@Johannes_B anyone like to bet against \footnotesize{.. instead of {\footnotesize .. ?
 
@DavidCarlisle I don't
 
@DavidCarlisle No.
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh betting
 
@PauloCereda or rather not betting, it seems
 
@DavidCarlisle what if we cheat? :)
 
11:30 AM
@PauloCereda you'll get banned from the olympics
 
@DavidCarlisle like Isinbayeva? :)
 
11:56 AM
Wait a minute, are we hosting the Olympics?
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12:19 PM
@PauloCereda no, you're getting confused with the world cup
 
@DavidCarlisle oh
 
 
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2:18 PM
Quiet in here. :)
lalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
 
2:46 PM
@PauloCereda The test match is in pause for tea
 
@egreg yummy
 
@PauloCereda not for Cook
 
@DavidCarlisle who? :)
 
@PauloCereda Last out
 
@PauloCereda ask our cricket expert, @egreg
 
2:51 PM
@egreg ooh
@DavidCarlisle He was out because he was once in while being out?
 
@PauloCereda haven't been watching, ask our cricket expert, @egreg
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm watching the Tour de France: wet road, several falls, including Froome
 
@egreg Is it in France? :)
 
3:07 PM
@PauloCereda Yes, it's usually run in France. Curious, no?
 
@egreg Preposterous. :)
 
@PauloCereda This year it also went in Spain, Andorra and Switzerland
 
@egreg It's like Rock in Rio Lisboa. :)
 
@egreg but no tour de yorkshire this time.
 
3:43 PM
@DavidCarlisle Are there interesting climbs?
@DavidCarlisle No: salite.ch/struttura/…
 
 
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5:21 PM
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Q: Using standalone to combine multiple .tex into a single file

Stephen FloodI have a number of latex files section1.tex, section2.tex, etc. Each of them should be able to be compiled individually to give a normal LaTeX document. I would like to write a file master.tex that will \include or \input these files and combine them into a single document. Note that I do n...

Surely we have numerous duplicates of this around. XY problem in this case.
 
@AlanMunn unfortunately not with the answer: don't do that:-)
 
5:48 PM
@DavidCarlisle Can emacs wrap \item aligned with a tab automatically? tex.stackexchange.com/q/320578/2693 (I doubt you can get TeXMaker to do it.)
 
@AlanMunn see somebodies signature line here: groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.text.tex/QWsM_hN9Uc4/…
@AlanMunn out of the box, it wraps like this:
\begin{enumerate}

\item one two three one two three one two three one two three one two
  three one two three one two three  one two three one two three one
  two three  one two three one two three one two three
\item   one two three one two three one two three one two three one
  two three one two three one two three one two three
  \begin{enumerate}
  \item  one two three one two three one two three one two three one
    two three one two three  one two three one two three one two three
    one two three  one two three one two three one two three one two
 
6:16 PM
What do you guys think?
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Q: MinionPro vs. FontPro

Mariano Suárez-AlvarezIn the past I've used the MinionPro scripts/packages, by Achim Blumensath, Andreas Bühmann and Michael Pedler, to install the Minion Pro font set. I have to do this once more on a new computer —a Mac this time— and I find that now there is an alternative set of scripts (and packages?), FontPro, b...

 
 
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7:40 PM
@Alenanno Opinion based, probably
 
8:10 PM
@egreg @Alenanno I don't think so. The question is about the package support for the fonts not the fonts so it's reasonable to think that either there are technical reasons for using one vs the other, or there is no substantive differences. But either way I don't think it's purely opinion based.
 
Is anybody going to watch the new Ghostbusters movie? :)
 
@PauloCereda Are you? Oh wait, do ducks understand human language?
:P
 
@Alenanno No, I am afraid of ghosts and terrible movies. :)
 
8:33 PM
@PauloCereda Well that's ridiculous! Come on, it's obvious that ghosts don't exist! ;D
 
@Alenanno Sure, but the latter exists. :)
 
@PauloCereda That was my point lol
 
@Alenanno :D
 
been using LaTeX for the past year so I doubt that I've even come close to coming across all the errors, but what do you do when you miss a font?
! Font LUC/uhcmj/m/n/10.95/31=uwmj31 at 10.95pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) filenot found.<to be read again>relax ㄱ &
 
8:53 PM
@IrregularUser Never heard about the LUC font encoding
@IrregularUser I see it used for kotex; can you give an example?
 
9:27 PM
@PauloCereda ^^^ Doesn't that speak for itself?
 

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