@JosephWright In other news, I am tempted to try GitKraken
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@PauloCereda Similar here: I quite like a GUI for a quick look at the log, but many operations are easier using the prompt. (SourceTree for example can do rebasing but I've found it easier to do that using nano)
@JosephWright Indeed. I think I have almost the same workflow.
@JosephWright: just for fun, I took a look at the Tower client for git, it seems they want to be in the opposite direction: they want you to use only drag and drop to work with git!
@Nepumuk there are hardly any differences between article and report document classes (they come from the same source file) what transformation do you need?
When looking for the Helvetica font, it usually costs you a certain amount of money because it is not a free font. But when I am using the free open source software LaTeX, I can use the font wherever I want. But I cannot, for example, use it when writing documents in Word or OpenOffice.
Why is t...
@JosephWright we had a similar incident here where an old lady was celebrating her birthday. The editor added a remark, "include only the old hag", which accidentally got printed.
However, it stops working when I change the papersize special order as you suggested. Could it be that dvips now takes the last special not the first?
@UlrikeFischer ^
Found it: "By default, if a DVI file contains multiple ‘papersize’ specials, the last one wins; this is also the behavior of the dvipdfmx driver. If the -L0 command line option or L0 config file command is specified, the first special wins—this was the behavior of Dvips prior to the 2017 release."
@UlrikeFischer @DavidCarlisle: So the best solution would be for standalone to add the papersize twice? Once before and once after graphics adds it. This way it works with either dvips setting.
@MartinScharrer ah yes dvips changed (do match dvipdfmx and pdflatex)
@MartinScharrer are you loading graphics in standalone? (in which case you could use the nosetpagesize option) or do you need to cope with users loading in different orders
@MartinScharrer graphics sets it \AtBeginDocument to whatever \paperwidth and \paperheight are at that point, so as long as you set those lengths as well as the \special then it shouldn't matter if graphics does the special again
I was trying to convince a user on another site that tex.sx is the nicest SE site (limited down voting and closing, welcoming new users, etc). I know there are a lot of meta questions. Is there a meta meta question on being nice that captures all the other ones?
I've heard a rumour, that people on TeX.SE are nicer and more inclinded not to down vote,
where as people on Programmers.SE are the opposite.
The first is true, where as the second is not.
Here are some statistics:
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Nowadays, TeX and friends are far beyond of just academic usage. I would like to propose the inclusion of a greyscale duck (courtesy of tikzducks) in our background image. This is the current image:
The following image is a concept sketch. Note how graceful the duck is when compared to the oth...
To begin with, this is not a real question, so probably it will soon be removed by our moderators, but I'm writing it anyways.
The day after tomorrow will be one year since I registered to TeX.StackExchange. My profile page today says "Visited 365 days, 365 consecutive" (but this is a leap year)...
@CarLaTeX the newsprint gives it extra flavour (perhaps after brexit they will get rid of the pesky laws against poisoning people and allow the traditional wrapping again:-)
@egreg You've edited one of my answers. I'm not against the edit I just want to ask for the reason. You removed some unnecessary % at the end of line here. I don't think they do any harm so why bother and remove them?
@JosephWright The problem I see here, is that new users could see many answers where there is no trailing % because it is unnecessary there and leave it out on other points where it would be mandatory. So my personal opinion on this is to let them stay if they don't do harm while knowing they are not really needed. I think my filesystem can handle the few bytes more I need on a per file basis.
@Skillmon Avoiding unnecessary % is better in order to tell people that one should think where to place them. There's a good example on the site where a misplaced % leads to filling memory.
Tokenization stage
The general rule is that spaces after control words (\par, for instance) are ignored, while after control symbols (\!, for instance) are retained; spaces at the beginning of a line are ignored altogether. Consecutive spaces are transformed into one space token but two consecut...