does tikz have some tools to manipulate lists of things? It surely has something internal...

@MarianoSuárez-Álvarez Yes, it has \foreach. See the section of the manual called "Repeating Things".

@AlanMunn Yes, I know...

What I want is not to repeat things but manipulate lists. I have a list of numbers, and I'd like to know its length, its first element, its last element, and so on.

I know how to do what I want using tex, but I guess tikz already has infrastructure to do all that

Hi friends, is it possible to search something in comments?

@CarLaTeX howdy!

@Moriambar Ciao compatriota!

@CarLaTeX :)

There's also @Jan, hallo! How are you?

I've just downvoted this answer tex.stackexchange.com/a/362550/101651, but I'm sure I have already read exactly the same comment like the one the answerer left under it. I'd like to find it and inform the moderator.

@CarLaTeX it seems to me that the user is not active anymore

Hello

What is a good way to draw with tikz?

@SBM See here: tex.stackexchange.com/q/80418/101651!

Related to my message above: the answer has been erased now, and it's no more available (now the link points to @Zarko's question, but obviously I was not referring to that gorgeous one!)

@CarLaTeX Not via the normal search I think, but you may be able to use a query like data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/151786/… on data.stackexchange. And there's Google of course, but you can't single out comments there.

@TorbjørnT. Thank you, I'll try!

@TorbjørnT. The query works (but I didn't find that comment, maybe it was deleted or the wording was different). However thank you for the hint!

@CarLaTeX In your quest for searching comments you can see one of my points in answers vs comments

@CarLaTeX If seen this a few times already. There seems to be someone who looks for questions with bounties and copies some more or less unrelated answers from this or other Q&A sites and hopes to get the bounty.

@samcarter How can someone get a bounty by posting random gibberish?

@Moriambar works for me! tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/…

@DavidCarlisle I'm impressed

and speechless

@SBM tikz is a drawing package so your question "What is a good way to draw with tikz?" is the same as the question "how do I use tikz" which, for a package with a 1200 page manual is a bit hard to answer in a one line comment. You could look at the manual or any of the 16000 questions tagged tikz-pgf tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf

@DavidCarlisle @SBM I agree... It's been quite I bit since I asked myself how to draw with tikz. I think that learning tikz per se can be quite difficult. As always one has to start from a specific need, work through the difficulties and thus learn it the hard way

Can anyone explain this behaviour? "bumped to the homepage by Community♦ 49 mins ago"

I don't understand why it happens

@Moriambar it's an automatic site cleaning bot that finds old questions with unvoted for answers (or no answers) and occasionally bumps them to the home page to get a bit of attention.

@Moriambar +1! :):):)

@samcarter I'm pleased to hear I'm not the only one to have noticed that! Thank you!

@Moriambar Yes, clearly they have banned him/her/it!

@CarLaTeX I'll go with it

@DavidCarlisle we need grandma

@Moriambar you disappoint me. :) As a Futurama fan, you should definitely use shklim. :)

@PauloCereda I reserve that to Yivo... not some random user :)

@PauloCereda (incidentally we're in the office talking about the Vampire State Building )

@Moriambar :)

@Moriambar I guess the idea is, that if there are no other answers, half of the bounty will eventually be auto-awarded. This happened for me once on another SE site, where I put a bounty to my question, some unrelated answer appeared, I flagged it as "not an answer" and the feedback from this community was, that flagging is not for wrong answers. Eventually the answers got half of the bounty and I never got an answer.

@Moriambar ooh :)

@samcarter whoa... fantastic community indeed

@CarLaTeX see chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35758364#35758364 The comments seems to have been deleted, but it were the same ones

@Moriambar it's probable...

@Moriambar My conclusion of this incident was to restrict my activity to TeX.SE - people here are much different from other sites, much more friendly and seem to actually be interested in making TeX knowledge accessible to people.

@samcarter Yes, definitely a bounty vampire!

@samcarter yup; I definitely agree, and this applies to some sw/os forums too: one does not want to help, but to talk about how great he/she/shklhim is

@samcarter I agree, too! I had similar experience on ELU (even if not connected to a bounty). P.S. = TeX.SE is the best!

@CarLaTeX, I really not understood that answer. recent days I haven't enough time to be active on TeX.SE, so I still not have spare time to test @Symbol 1 answer. Looking provided images it is amazing. From received votes I conclude that this answer like many people and that for this kinds of call-outs is attractive to them too.

My answer: a silly joke

Yay I had biscuits

@PauloCereda That just reminded I had some cookies in my bag I meant to eat.

@TorbjørnT. ooh I am useful

@PauloCereda Indeed.

@Zarko As samcarter said, it was a bounty vampire. However, it has already been erased. Symbol 1's one is gorgeous, instead. I think it could really be useful for other people, too!

@CarLaTeX, until now I thought that vampires exist only on (obscure) movies ... anyway, my wife already served dinner and I had to shut-down my PC :-).

@Zarko DAS VAMPIR!

Google never ceases to impress me. :)

@PauloCereda See also \vampireduck command here: tex.stackexchange.com/a/347474/101651 :):):)

@Zarko Enjoy your meal! :):):)

@CarLaTeX ooh

Every vampire never drinks wine
egreg always drinks wine
Therefore, egreg is not a vampire

@egreg ^^

@PauloCereda :)

@PauloCereda Non fa una grinza!

@CarLaTeX :)

@PauloCereda ducks are untrustworthy as sources of information, therefore egreg could be a vampire.

@CarLaTeX you missed the obvious flaw ^

@DavidCarlisle ooh I never thought of that

@PauloCereda probably because you were too busy thinking about your th...

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@DavidCarlisle Nobody's perfect!

@PauloCereda cit. ^^^

@CarLaTeX <3

@PauloCereda is all this talking about vampires caused by my innocent comment regarding Vampire state building ?

I have another one… an acquaintance of mine pronounced thought that Dracula's castle was in the US: he mistook Transylvania for Pennsylvania

(since he's probably going to the US I told him to visit the Vampire State Building, right beside Dracula's Castle…)

Hi folks. I just received the following comment:

The current status looks ok to me, though. Does anyone disagree? I expanded on the accepted answer in another answer.

@PauloCereda ^^^^

@UlrikeFischer Apparently it's contagious.

why is it so hard to find a beamer template online that'll compile?

I found an old one that compiles on my system :')

@UlrikeFischer ooooooh <3

@PauloCereda Drinking my wine. Or is it…

@egreg This might be very important for later discussions. :)

Are there, by any chance, any svn connoisseurs around here?

I ask because there's a lot of @DavidCarlisle and @PauloCereda on this search =)

I have inherited a svn repo that I'm trying to migrate to git, and I don't fully understand if it has formal branches or just two folders that look like branches

@EmilioPisanty that's the same thing (or well the difference is only in the history)

@DavidCarlisle so here's the thing

repo structure looks like this

trunk
  version00_0
  version00_1

@EmilioPisanty I have to maintain a software that's in a SVN repo, and @David is because he is old an expert in SVN. :)

I've been using this tutorial for the migration and it's worked just great

except for those two version00_x folders

I was hoping it would turn them into branches

but that didn't happen

@EmilioPisanty yes so someone may just have checked in files with that structure or (more likely) version00_0 was made by svn copy . version00_0 at some point (more normally you'd copy out of trunk though

@DavidCarlisle ok, so that means that the svn repo doesn't formally know anything about those two versions?

i.e. they might as well be named Bob and Jim for all svn cares?

@EmilioPisanty well as I say the svn history will show that one is a fork of the other (if it is) but the git import may not be looking that deep into the structure, hard to say from here:-)

@DavidCarlisle I'm having some trouble reading the svn history

It's on an old code.google page

@EmilioPisanty yes I migrated all my old googlecode svn to github (but just used their tool)

I installed tortoisesvn locally, and it looks like it definitely sees that there is a repo, but when I ask it for things it freezes up and it says there is no remote

@DavidCarlisle yeah, but the migrate tool is now dead as well =(

@EmilioPisanty yes so I see from the link you just gave. if you can get your local svn checkout fixed then it may help to restructure a bit before importing to git eg svn move the two versions directories to be children of /branches instead of /trunk as that is what I woudl guess the convertor is expecting

@DavidCarlisle Don't even know how to begin to do that

@EmilioPisanty do you need to preserve all the old history or is it enough just to start with a clean git with those branches?

Is that possible with no remote?

@EmilioPisanty "remote" doesn't have any meaning really for svn I'm not sure what that error could mean

I right-clicked > TortoiseSVN > Revision Graph

but it does much the same with everything I've tried

So, say, right click > TortoiseSVN > Show Log gives me that error message on the left

If I click Offline For Now

it gives me this

that's reasonable enough because the svn server has been shut down

But I don't know how to make tortoisesvn interact with what it's got locally without needing to run off to code.google

tortoisesvn isn't my favourite svn (I don't understand GUI interfaces:-) but anyway what did you actually get from the defunct googlecode site, it looks like you have a checkout pointing at the now closed svn server which isn't so good. I thought you could get hold of the actual repository data to set up an svn locally. If you only have the top level checkout files, simplest would not be to "convert" but just start a new git repo and check them in.

@DavidCarlisle I downloaded the source from here, it came with a .svn at the top-level folder

I don't know how to diagnose whether indeed I have 'a checkout pointing at the now closed svn server'.

@EmilioPisanty .svn is what you'd get from a checkout, it doesn't have the repository itself, hang on let me see I'm sure I saw some notes about googlecode not so long ago.. But anyway do you need the history? as if you just want the current file in git, you have enough.

@DavidCarlisle so via the tutorial I managed to get the history, and I can have it then that is indeed better

@PauloCereda Count Duckula? ;-)

the only problem is that it comes out with these two (fake?) version folders

@ChristianHupfer ooh

@ChristianHupfer nice!

@EmilioPisanty did you get the svndump gz as in the tutorial that you originally posted?

@DavidCarlisle yeah, I've got it somewhere

@Moriambar Oh come on, this 'pun' was such obviously easy to play with that I am wondering just now nobody has written it yet :D

@ChristianHupfer We generously left it for you to say

:P

@Moriambar Very generous indeed... :D

Now I have to check some suspicious movements on my prepaid credit card :|

@Moriambar Oh my... In Germany credit cards are still not widely used.

@ChristianHupfer It may be that I randomly acquired something in a buying frenzy.

@Moriambar Or your Alter Ego ... ;-)

@ChristianHupfer Neither are here in Italy, but they're a must for online payments

@Moriambar No PayPal services?

@Moriambar a rubber duck?

@ChristianHupfer I prefer the card, it's more versatile.

I seem to have bought something for 15$ on 23rd of March…

@DavidCarlisle OK, so if I do the svnadmin load step onto a local folder, I get something that looks like

is this an actual repo?

If so, how can I check whether it has branches or versions?

@EmilioPisanty yes I did that too that's the right thing, then if you go to a clean directory and check that out svn checkout file:///c/tmp/fishbowl/svn-repo/ you should get an svm checkout pointing at that repo not at googlecode

@EmilioPisanty it's only got 42 commits in total, looks like the two versions were just checked in as new files with no relation between them

@PauloCereda No, I think that everything's fine, just a donation I forgot about

@DavidCarlisle ok, so there's nothing that a migrate script can do to turn those into git branches

@EmilioPisanty looks that way, I'd just take the files and check them in to git in a more sensible structure, you could just check in the old log comments as a text file. or i suppose take whatever the migrate did and then just re-arrange in git. the log history isn't that informative

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r42 | ftachacon | 2013-08-28 16:41:12 +0100 (Wed, 28 Aug 2013) | 1 line

Adding Examples in version00_1 directory
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r41 | ftachacon | 2013-08-28 16:00:26 +0100 (Wed, 28 Aug 2013) | 1 line

cartesian.cpp library
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r40 | ftachacon | 2013-08-28 15:56:26 +0100 (Wed, 28 Aug 2013) | 1 line

@EmilioPisanty @JosephWright's here: he's our resident svn/git conversion expert:-)

Damn… all of these tikz related questions. I don't know anything about tikz I feel useless on the site tonight…

@DavidCarlisle yeah, I think I understood now

Thanks very much for your help.

@Moriambar I have that gold badge now:-)

@DavidCarlisle I'm not expert with anything… being TeX primitives, picture mode, or… tikZ

@Moriambar cricket?

@DavidCarlisle the sport?

I prefer snooker

@Moriambar yes @PauloCereda is a major supporter of Brazilian cricket (see what the duck is carrying)

@DavidCarlisle go cricket!

@DavidCarlisle Oh I see… no, cricket, as well as darts, do not interest me.

@Moriambar you're in the wrong room:-) @PauloCereda you really need to wake up Psmith again what's the use of a TeX chat room if it isn't running a bot to display cricket scores?

!!/help

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Good afternoon! I'm Psmith, the friendly TeX bot - the p in my name is silent, as in pshrimp. I'm here as a companion to our fellow users in the typographic land. As you probably noticed, I always reply under Paulo's account, but do not despair, I say, my replies are always preceded by my own name. Enjoy your stay at TeX.sx! If you need any help, just ask our chat residents. Cheerio!

@Moriambar what nationality are you (you don't need to answer:-)

!!/cricket

Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:

- Mountaineers 264/10 &  206/10  v Matabeleland Tuskers 160/10 &  228/10 *
- Northerns v Free State 285/9 *
- United Arab Emirates 14 * v Papua New Guinea 194/10
- Nigeria 83/10 * v Tanzania 231/10
- Ghana 179/10  v Sierra Leone 66/10 *
- Botswana 135/10  v Zambia 54/10 *
- Essex 39/2 * v Lancashire 319/10
- Kent 298/10  v Gloucestershire 9/1 *
- Leicestershire 251/10  v Nottinghamshire 52/1 *
- Northamptonshire 268/6 * v Glamorgan 101/10

@Moriambar see ^^

@DavidCarlisle I remember when I was in london, some 15 years ago, when this guy intently watched the cricket game on TV. Of course nobody else there (being all foreigners) understood what was going on

@DavidCarlisle don't you remember the pineapple pizza? I'm Italian

!!/eightball should we use pineapple as a pizza topping?

@Moriambar ah yes of course, then @egreg can explain cricket to you.

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

@DavidCarlisle Now I quite understand it. Only I don't like it much… I find it some kind of boring version of baseball :P

!!/choose pizza with pineapple, pizza without pineapple

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great oracle says: pizza with pineapple

Stupid bot.

!!/fortune

@CarLaTeX undisputable proof ^^

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Here is your fortune: Beware the OR: it's coming to get you.

this bot sounds like fun (except for its choices about pizza)

@Moriambar oh it's terribly boring to watch, main purpose is to confuse non-natives who don't understand the scores:-)

@DavidCarlisle ah, I see… I think that, apart football (which is still boring sometimes), British love boring sports (cricket, darts, snooker…)

@Moriambar If you want to see really boring sport conversation get @egreg and @PauloCereda started on some football team with a stripy shirt

!!/score

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command score does not exist.

Ouch, it's battle.

//!battle

@DavidCarlisle Well, I could just walk into any pub or office her in Italy

@DavidCarlisle 'use subgit'

Everyone is just worked up on football here :)

!!/battle

you meant?

@Moriambar Psmith, the TeX bot: The current score is egreg 200 vs. 135 David. So far, egreg is winning.

yes but issue here was that the original svn was less than well organised and the translation didn't re-organise it on the fly:-)

!!/help

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Good afternoon! I'm Psmith, the friendly TeX bot - the p in my name is silent, as in pshrimp. I'm here as a companion to our fellow users in the typographic land. As you probably noticed, I always reply under Paulo's account, but do not despair, I say, my replies are always preceded by my own name. Enjoy your stay at TeX.sx! If you need any help, just ask our chat residents. Cheerio!

!!/eightball Is it correct to add pineapple to a pizza?

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: 42.

!!/fencing

Nice way out, Psmith

Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last fencing results:

- CADET WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 REPORT
- PROGRAMME MANAGER (EDUCATION)
- LEVEL 3 FOIL AND EPEE EXAMS TO BE HELD AT THE BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL
- CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL 2017 ANNOUNCEMENT
- PROGRAMME UPDATE
- BF BOARD UPDATE ON THE FUTURE OF WORLD CLASS PROGRAMME (WCP)
- BRITISH FENCING PROGRAMME UPDATE MARCH 2017
- BRITISH FENCING AWARDS DINNER 2017
- KRUSE MAKES LONG BEACH GP QUARTERS
- NEW CADET & JUNIOR RANKING PROPOSAL

!!/snooker

@Moriambar Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command snooker does not exist.

It's true, then: nobody cares about snooker :D

@Moriambar I certainly do: lots on the BBC :)

!!/texdef -t latex -c article maketitle

Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^\\\@protected\@testopt { <-- HERE ?\\.*? }? *(\\\\.*?) / at /opt/texbin/texdef line 391.
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^\\\@testopt { <-- HERE ?(\\.*?) }?/ at /opt/texbin/texdef line 394.

\maketitle:
\long macro:->\par \begingroup \renewcommand \thefootnote {\@fnsymbol \c@footnote }\def \@makefnmark {\rlap {\@textsuperscript {\normalfont \@thefnmark }}}\long \def…

LOL I need to request a fix to Martin. :)

@JosephWright Yes the BBC commentary is the best.

@EmilioPisanty Just come in, and as @DavidCarlisle says I do have SVN <-> Git experience; anything I can help with?

!!/eightball is @JosephWright a SVN expert?

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: nope.

uh-oh

!!/eightball is @DavidCarlisle a SVN expert?

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: only when pink elephants learn to fly.

@PauloCereda About right: I didn't say I'm an expert, I said I've got some experience

uh-oh

!!/eightball is @egreg a vampire

@DavidCarlisle Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: yes.

!!/eightball are ducks trustful?

@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: by all means.

^^ see

@JosephWright :)

@JosephWright it took me almost two days and Karl's help to set up a SVN configuration here. :)

@PauloCereda Are you on some weird port for security reasons? The LaTeX SVN server is ...

@JosephWright I blame Karl for that. The remote repo was a bit weird to configure. :)

@PauloCereda Ah: I get to blame Rainer (he looks after comedy = main SVN server for LaTeX = ctan.org)

@JosephWright got it. :) Ours is a FSF server, I guess.

@PauloCereda stick with cvs

@DavidCarlisle :)

@DavidCarlisle Oh no! @PauloCereda tu quoque!

@DavidCarlisle do you think that answering the \char28 question with the whole ø \o inputenc and stuff would be wrong/misleading, giving the question title?

@Moriambar Oh I just posted some sort of answer:-)

!!/eightball does @CarLaTeX like pineapple pizza

psmith gone again

@DavidCarlisle damn, I was doing the same, but I had to go to the bathroom and you were quicker :P

@Moriambar :-)

@DavidCarlisle It's a bug!

@DavidCarlisle eh, I told you I was really useless tonight for the website :D

can someone confirm for me that the siunitx package is still available for TeXLive. It seems to be missing on my system and tlmgr cannot find it.

@StrongBad Yes ;)

@JosephWright I just changed my mirror and found 167 new packages.

@JosephWright Thanks, it's mostly been resolved. The repo had two folders marked as versions which threw me off, but it was just suboptimal form as to how that repo was handled on the svn side. It's happily on git now.

Any MikTeX users around? If so, could somebody test this with LuaLaTeX? Works fine for me with TL.

@cfr I see the problem, but can't investigate now.

@cfr works for me with luatex 1.05 in tl2016

What is the proper course to flag a question as "to be protected"?

(I'm thinking about: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87650/…)