TeX, LaTeX and Friends

7:53 AM

@StefanKottwitz On goLaTeX, are guests allowed to vote? golatex.de/viewtopic,p,88053.html#88053

8:34 AM

@GuilhermeZ.Santos I know the feeling, we know the formation rules, so it's a matter of applying them to a certain context and see if they make sense. :)

David Carlisle

8:48 AM

@PauloCereda Apenas o mesmo que copiá-los para google traduzir e ver se o Inglês construído faz sentido.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle sounds acceptable. :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

@PauloCereda But what I still cannot figure out is why Spanish speaking people have such a hard time understanding us... What actually pisses me off is that the Argentines come to Floripa, speak Spanish with us (we understand) then reply in Portuguese (expecting them to understand as well), and they stand there with an "Uhh??" face.

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos My typical revenge is switch to Portunhol mode and give them a taste of their own poison. :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

On the begining I'd make some effort and speak some Portunhol, but nowadays I make no effort and Keep replying in Portuguese with accent and slangs! Haha

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos hahaha you are mean.

Guilherme Z. Santos

9:00 AM

@PauloCereda Portunhol makes their life easier, now the Goal is to make it harder!

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos Another good option is to abuse "false friends" (I think that's the term for our falsos cognatos). :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

@PauloCereda Hmmm, you're on to something Paulo... Some pricks can be played using such knowledge... Muahaha

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos oooh

@Guilherme: one of my favourites is propina (in Spanish). :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

@PauloCereda Interesting, If I say propina they'll think it's a tip (ponta) and if I say, cota they'll think it's a bribe (propina)... But a prank like that can get someone arrested, that's really mean ahaha. The meanest I've been was to sent them the wrong way when asked for directions. =P

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos haha :)

@Guilherme: I once saw a diplomatic crisis with some colleagues in a laboratory when I was at UFSCar. Two of them were Peruvian (a couple) and a Brazilian bloke invited them for a happy hour. He decided to offer aguardente, but he used the popular word (the one Sérgio Reis sings in his song). The girl was scandalized and ran to the bathroom and locked herself in there. It happens the word was a slang for you know what. :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

9:32 AM

@PauloCereda I actually didn't know that! (that pinga meant...) Hahaha, that's a funny Story though

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos You know that Michael Jackson eating popcorn meme? That was my reaction. :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

@PauloCereda Hahahaha, I would have done the same!

Paulo Cereda

Oh let me remove, or I will annoy the other chat residents. :)

Done. :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

:33309329 I didn't see that but I suppose it's a GIF, can't you just link it? Then it's possible to close the page afterwards...

Paulo Cereda

9:47 AM

@GuilhermeZ.Santos Here we go: giphy.com/gifs/michael-jackson-eating-popcorn--GjYjLvGErsggg

Guilherme Z. Santos

@PauloCereda That's the best meme/gif there is, IMHO.. =D

Paulo Cereda

10:17 AM

@GuilhermeZ.Santos No, it's this one: imgur.com/UZm41FD :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

10:38 AM

@PauloCereda Only beacause there are ducks in it! quack! ;P

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos Quack! :) The duck is like oh boy oh boy oh boy

Paulo Cereda

11:17 AM

No kidding. I was in 9gag and decided to pause this GIF. Look at the output.

Guilherme Z. Santos

@PauloCereda Seriously? So it's true then, you are the Duckman!

Paulo Cereda

@GuilhermeZ.Santos True story, pal. :)

David Carlisle

12:11 PM

@daleif I guess you should answer this one:-)

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Q: Which part of this code is changing my text font?

I'm still a beginner with Latex. I have the following code in my preamble (phd thesis in memoir class) to change the display of my chapter titles. The idea is creating a box round the chapter number, etc. Anyhow I copied the following code from the University of Bristol thesis template. However i...

daleif

12:34 PM

@DavidCarlisle I've at least written a comment

David Carlisle

@daleif :-)

Joseph Wright

12:49 PM

@DavidCarlisle Fill in the Doodle poll ;-)

@DavidCarlisle Can't wait to hear what Frank (or Chris?) think about accessibility!

David Carlisle

1:07 PM

@JosephWright done!

Guilherme Z. Santos

It's official, I've become paranoid with document format... I just had to typeset a contract of employment (from the very paper), nothing official so there was no need for formalities. Still, I could not disregard the margins, parskip, parindent, etc. So here I was, with a caliper, measuring the document... :/

Paulo Cereda

:D

@Guilherme: also, to share my pain with a Brazilian bloke: all of our car plates have bad kerning (or keming, as we like to say). :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

1:23 PM

@PauloCereda You think so? I never considered kerning for arbitraty combination of letters... Also, could it not be due to the very fabrication process?

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda W h y D o yo u wor ry ab out k ernin g?

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Guilherme Z. Santos

@DavidCarlisle That is annoying... ahaha

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle :)

@GuilhermeZ.Santos Now you will do. :)

Guilherme Z. Santos

1:39 PM

@PauloCereda Likely. That's probably one of the things you can't unsee... Still, I think it's because of the machinery involved on fabricating the plates. It'd be more expensive to make proper kerning, i think...

Alan Munn

2:09 PM

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