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12:33 AM

@PauloCereda That is a very beautiful duck collection.

I don't know whether it's a blessing or a curse that I got disconnected from my local WiFi network (it's been rather flaky lately, among having other problems) and that I come back to find that nobody else has been paying attention to much of anything.

Will Hunting

@RandomDSdevel The experts are all zzzzzz.

RandomDSdevel

I suppose I should be glad somebody else figured out what _they were doing, though…

Also, pity, that. Blast those accursed time zones!

(And this relatively ancient computer. It keeps freezing up on me. Such nerve — or, rather, silicon.)

And embedding HTML in Markdown doesn't work here. Swell…

Never mind, I fixed it.

Should I perhaps just log out of chat and check up on my question tomorrow, @WillHunting?

RandomDSdevel

1:06 AM

I think I'll take everybody's silence as a yes. Later, all.

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percusse

7:15 AM

@PauloCereda I think you need to write an answer

Aug 30 '16 at 7:16, by percusse

\definecolor{cffcc00}{RGB}{255,204,0}\definecolor{c008000}{RGB}{0,128,0}
\definecolor{caa8800}{RGB}{170,136,0}\definecolor{cd4aa00}{RGB}{212,170,0}
\definecolor{ce6e6e6}{RGB}{230,230,230}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[white,fill=cd4aa00,line width=1pt] (-102:1.3)to[in=115,out=-84]++(-75:0.61) to[out=
25,in=180]++(10:0.42)to[in=35,out =-90]++(-122:0.365)to[in=-65,out=170]++(150:0.33)to[out
=108,in=-65]++(112:0.63)--cycle; \fill[cffcc00](-2,0)arc(180:230:1.5 and 1.8)arc(240:320:
1.32 and 1.9)-- ++(63:1.25)to[out=105,in=5](0,0.7)to[in=110,out=182](-0.32,0) to[out=-70,

TeXnician

7:32 AM

Does anybody know, if it's possible to turn a "normal" question that has answers into community-wiki?

CarLaTeX

7:42 AM

@TeXnician I think the moderators can do it

TeXnician

@JosephWright Could you turn my question about the duck pond into community-wiki?

@CarLaTeX Thanks, let's wait for a mod to respond...

CarLaTeX

@TeXnician You're welcome :)

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TeXnician

9:14 AM

@JosephWright Thanks.

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Paulo Cereda

10:21 AM

I challenge you all to write the @dante_ev logo in the sand of Copacabana beach! :) #TUG2018 https://t.co/Yv8znGSvy0

Tweeted by paulocereda on August 19, 2017 at 10:20 AM

Let's have some fun. :)

@DavidCarlisle: we miss you yesterday

David Carlisle

10:48 AM

@PauloCereda as expected.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle <3

CarLaTeX

11:07 AM

@samcarter @egreg's solution is wonderful, it works! I have no time now, but I'll edit my answer soon :):):)

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Martin Schröder

2:06 PM

Hi, are the tabu packages still maintained? Last release is from 2011...
Is florent still active?

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yo'

3:17 PM

@PauloCereda We missed him yesterday, but we won't miss him tomorrow.

David Carlisle

@yo' oi I saw that

A: Is the tabu package obsolete?

In a thread on comp.text.tex the author of tabu stated that bug fixes to the current version (2.8) of tabu will not be taken under consideration: Well, to be honest, the time of bug reports will come with the next release. See Incompatibility between verbatim and tabu? (Danger of using \...

Ulrike Fischer

4:12 PM

@DavidCarlisle Did you saw my colored cow font? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/342703/…

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer I hadn't but looks good, even a pineapple to keep @CarLaTeX happy.

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle I know you would see the pineapple ;-). Sadly the duck looks in the wrong direction so I could make a sentence ;-)

egreg

Greetings from 🇫🇷

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer your answer reminded me I haven't build luatex for ages, I'm using luatex 1.04 stock tl2017, I suppose I should build 1.06 and run the latex test suite....

@egreg trying to keep away from me?

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle It was hard work to get it working. I had three drafts for a question to the context list ready which all got in the bin after a new idea.

David Carlisle

4:27 PM

I just tried updating my luatex source:

$ svn update
Updating '.':
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

that's odd never had svn fail like that before:(

CarLaTeX

@DavidCarlisle I didn't notice it LOL

Ulrike Fischer

@CarLaTeX Next time I add a translation ...

yo'

@DavidCarlisle ouch.

David Carlisle

4:46 PM

@CarLaTeX I suppose you are so used to having pineapples on everything, it didn't register as anything special.

@yo' partly user error it seems

@yo' was a checkout pointing at the old server but whatever response that gives now I guess svn isn't supposed to crash, but if I point it at the new (top secret) server it updated without problems.

CarLaTeX

@UlrikeFischer How do you say pineapple in German?

@DavidCarlisle I have nothing against pineapples, only against pineapples on pizza :)

David Carlisle

@CarLaTeX Ananas but it's simpler just to ask for a pizza

CarLaTeX

@DavidCarlisle The same as in Italian! But here pineapple pizzas are banned :P

David Carlisle

@CarLaTeX probably they stole the Italian word as the English construct of two words stuck together with no space was too complicated.

CarLaTeX

@DavidCarlisle Of course, they are not used to joining together words, in Germany :)

yo'

5:09 PM

@DavidCarlisle surprising that Germans decided that sticking two words to each other is not cool :-)

egreg

5:25 PM

@DavidCarlisle I'll be crossing Switzerland tomorrow

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Alan Munn

7:45 PM

@DavidCarlisle Which they did with potato, even though we took the one word route.

Joseph

8:35 PM

Is there any way to know who downvotes a question? I've recently had a spate of downvotes to my questions that left me wondering.

Alan Munn

8:50 PM

@Joseph No, there is no way to know this (not even mods, I think) but 'serial voting' is often caught automatically by the system and will be reversed if it meets (secret) criteria (for example lots of down- (or up-) votes from the same user to a single user in a short period of time.

@Joseph It certainly looks suspicious, because you ask good questions!

@Joseph @JosephWright (one of our mods) could look into it further I think.

Joseph

9:12 PM

@AlanMunn, I guess there's no need to look further into it... unless it goes on for a few days ;-)

Alan Munn

@Joseph In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter much, but it is annoying when perfectly good questions or answers get downvotes. But if there is a pattern it will likely get fixed.

@ChristianHupfer Today seems especially bad w.r.t. quality of questions. :(

Christian Hupfer

@AlanMunn Today only? ;-)

Alan Munn

@ChristianHupfer :) Maybe. It seems worse than usual at the moment.

Christian Hupfer

@AlanMunn Stand firm: I agree with you ;-)

Alan Munn

@ChristianHupfer Agreeing again! The next thing you know, the moon will block the sun. It's a sign. :)

Christian Hupfer

9:24 PM

@AlanMunn The sun is blocked over the U.S. for some months already by now, in my impression ;-)

Alan Munn

@ChristianHupfer Yes, dark days indeed.

Christian Hupfer

@AlanMunn Sad times, indeed.

@AlanMunn: Regarding the quality of questions: The quality of answers seems to be on a constant high level (in most cases)

barbara beeton

@AlanMunn -- a tweet spotted by my husband ... "Dear God, if you want us to impeach Trump, give us a sign. Like blot out the sun… Anytime in the next week. Thanks, America"

Alan Munn

@ChristianHupfer That's true. We have very few bad answers in general.

@barbarabeeton :) If only.

Ulrike Fischer

9:58 PM

Once in a life time