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1:10 AM
Whisky tasting, 8 really good Scotchs, what a way to spend an evening!
@JosephWright @DavidCarlisle ^^
 
 
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5:24 AM
@yo' Are you getting ready for New Year's Eve?
 
5:43 AM
Asked in July (unfortunately without a complete MWE), answered on December 26th, accepted on December 27th: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/381403/…. It gave me lots of satisfaction and the "Taco Tuesday Any Day" hat!
 
 
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8:20 AM
@ChristianHupfer ooh
> Nearly 35 years ago, Apple released its first computer with a graphical user interface, called the Lisa. Starting next year, the Computer History Museum will release the Apple Lisa OS for free as an open-source project. According to a new report from Business Insider, the Computer History Museum will release the code behind the Apple Lisa operating system for free as open source, for anyone to try and tinker with. The news was announced via the LisaList mailing list for Lisa enthusiasts.
 
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@CarLaTeX I don't drink much as there's a service in the morning.
 
8:38 AM
@yo' does the czech whiskey count as a scotch? ;-)
 
8:50 AM
@yo' so you go ahead and drink some days before
 
@alhelal It's just U+2002 (en space); you can just write a definition for it, or replace the character in the .tex file. Or just compile with xelatex or lualatex (instead of pdflatex). Any of the standard solutions for dealing with Unicode characters will work; I don't think there's any special problem here. — ShreevatsaR 9 mins ago
how can I invite @ShreevatsaR ?
@ShreevatsaR As I use script so for a file I don't want to change my compiler from pdflatex to xelatex
this is my script by which I make the pdf.
Anybody can join with me for this question tex.stackexchange.com/questions/390724/…
 
 
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11:10 AM
 
11:29 AM
Hey, can we invite @marmot here? :)
 
@alhelal people will see the question, no need to highlight it here.
 
@DavidCarlisle Every time I see your top hat, it makes me smile. :) It's very classy!
 
@alhelal I don't like questions which links to external sources for the code when it is not necessary. In a few days the code will be gone and your question useless for other peoples.
 
@PauloCereda yes people with good taste wear black top hats, they don't wear blue hats with candles.
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh I could not afford a top hat. :(
 
11:44 AM
@DavidCarlisle People with good taste wouldn't wear a black hat together with a blue casket -- the colors wouldn't fit.
 
ooh DHL is delivering something to me
 
@PauloCereda ;-). So only 4 days to late.
 
@PauloCereda your bound thesis, back from the binders?
 
@DavidCarlisle I wish. :(
@UlrikeFischer I wish. :)
 
@UlrikeFischer thank you.
 
11:59 AM
@PauloCereda
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@UlrikeFischer OOOOOOOOH
 
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@UlrikeFischer well , it's spelled the right way ... :)
 
12:16 PM
I am very happy to hear Mozilla will now look at Thunderbird!
 
@UlrikeFischer Is there any way to add source code in minimized view(folding)? Because when the source code is large it makes problem to view the entire question without scrolling.
 
@alhelal The only sensible approach, IMHO, is to reduce the code to its minimal form, that is, a very short excerpt of code that is self-contained and reproduces the issue.
 
12:46 PM
@alhelal why do you need to post a large source code? It is best to cut it down to a few lines.
 
@PauloCereda I wonder if the bunny ducks could restore the peace too @samcarter.
@alhelal If the code needs to be so large, it is as it is. I'm quite able to scroll and read more than one page of text. If the code is so long because you didn't remove irrelevant stuff do as @PauloCereda and @DavidCarlisle already told you: cut it down.
 
1:15 PM
@UlrikeFischer someone mentioned a bunny duck?
 
@samcarter See the cartoon above.
 
@UlrikeFischer Oh, revoluducktion!
@UlrikeFischer The bunny duck seems to be a good compromise :)
 
1:31 PM
@ChristianHupfer A pity you deleted your answer! I was already looking forward to add a Darth Vader mask or a piece of Black Forest cake if egreg manages to get the reputation a bit earlier than everyone else assumes!
 
@samcarter awww
 
 
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3:13 PM
I used the moderncv package to write a letter (with opening, closing, everything). I would like to add a reference list to this letter (don't ask why). Is there a simple way? If I add the usual \begin{thebibliography}, it produces a publication list with no numbering. That's of course the original intention of the package: to include a publication list. But I want a traditional numbered and citeable reference list.
 
3:29 PM
@Szabolcs See here
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Q: Using BibTeX with letter class

Faheem MithaI'm trying to use BibTeX with a letter; I hope this is not too eccentric. The letter class doesn't have BibTeX support, though. I found Environment thebibliography undefined when using letter. However, the solution described does not work perfectly. The bibliography appears on its own page (in m...

@Szabolcs It's not really necessary to use BibTeX: just add the definition for thebibliography and add the environment manually, if you so wish.
 
Thanks @egreg! It works for moderncv too if I change the newcommands to renewcommands.
 
@Szabolcs Green squares with Santa hats seem friendlier than monochromatic blokes wearing top hats. :)
 
:)
 
3:59 PM
@PauloCereda Also spirals with Santa hats!
 
@egreg ooh
 
 
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5:53 PM
@samcarter Actually I lost interest in participation ... And my answer was a joke answer anyway, I just wanted to mention the Pi Day
 
@ChristianHupfer but, but.... there was pie... :(
 
@PauloCereda I prefer Pi the number over Pie the cake
 
@ChristianHupfer Nooo, we need a Black Forest duck!
 
@ChristianHupfer we could have infinite pie...
 
@ChristianHupfer or a Black Forest cake :)
 
6:01 PM
@CarLaTeX Why do you think I would have requested anything at all? I wrote that already in the answer that I won't request anything if I should win.
 
@ChristianHupfer but @samcarter would invent something even if not required
 
 
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7:09 PM
Anyone know if afterpage works together with multicols?
 
7:38 PM
@JosephWright: Why did you delete this answer? tex.stackexchange.com/a/406897/31729
 
@ChristianHupfer Request by the author
 
@JosephWright Hmpf.... That was not necessary (by the author ...)
 
@ChristianHupfer They made a reasonable request, so I actioned it
 
@JosephWright They?
 
@ChristianHupfer The OP (I don't know their gender)
@ChristianHupfer 'They' as a gender-neutral singular (one for @AlanMunn!)
 
7:44 PM
@JosephWright I see. Thanks. The request is weird anyway. The answer was alright, not need to delete it.
 
@ChristianHupfer Quite possibly, but as this really is the OP's text alone, it is their call to remove it
 
@JosephWright Yes, I understood that. I tried to prevent the OP from deleting his (?) post.
 
@ChristianHupfer The OP was clear ...
 
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Q: "Lollipop" Timeline

azdatasciSo, I hope the title gives some sense of what I want to accomplish. I have a report I do each month that details out system outages in our environment. The data is pretty basic - system name, start time, end time, duration of outage... What I do with this is take it to Illustrator (I use R, RMa...

^^^ Please vote to reopen
 
8:01 PM
@HenriMenke Mod-hammered
 
@JosephWright Awesome, thanks!
 
8:12 PM
@PauloCereda the internet can be misleading
@AGoldMan afterpage isn't guaranteed to work ever:-)
 
8:43 PM
@JosephWright I'm fairly certain the official gender-neutral version is zhe
jokes
@DavidCarlisle is that an emphatic yes?
 
@AGoldMan most likely it doesn't work (pretty sure I never tried)
 
@DavidCarlisle figured as much
is there a modern alternative to the repeatindex package?
 
@AGoldMan what does it do? :-)
 
@DavidCarlisle it prints the current item in the index at the top of the page if the index is broken over a column or page
that could've used some commas
 
@AGoldMan yes just saw texdoc repeatindex it also gave a date of 2001 which seems pretty modern to me
 
8:50 PM
@DavidCarlisle then what's considered old?
 
@AGoldMan @egreg !
@AGoldMan almost all the packages I have on ctan were written last century so anything from this century seems pretty new...
 
9:10 PM
Don't you love Word: just had to do a report where you are allowed a one-page A4 PDF, did it in the provided template, stuck to one page, upload complained it was not the right size! Had to resize by using pdfLaTeX and standalone ...
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@JosephWright hahah
 
@yo' Indeed
 
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@JosephWright sorry, I feel with you
 
@yo' Irony is I only did it in Word at all as one of my collaborators really doesn't like LaTeX ...
although the LaTeX template provided is also pretty horrid
 
9:46 PM
@AGoldMan See? I even wished him a merry Christmas!
@DavidCarlisle New year's proposal: be <strike>mean</strike> kind to DPC.
 
@egreg somewhat grudgingly
 
@ChristianHupfer Why did you delete your answer: tex.stackexchange.com/a/407858/101651? It was good as well, only the framed column was missing...
@DavidCarlisle What does the P stand for?
 
10:35 PM
@CarLaTeX ask @PauloCereda
 

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