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N.N.
N.N.
6:53 AM
Org-mode and Stack Overflow has unicorns in common. I wonder which was first to embrace the unicorn.
 
Andrew Stacey
Andrew Stacey
7:36 AM
@GonzaloMedina: I have a souped-up version of your code for tex.stackexchange.com/a/51590/86 with the new-and-improved tikzmark. I also put in overlay-aware styles as per tex.stackexchange.com/a/6155/86 for the two changing nodes. Is it alright if I add this to your answer? I don't feel that it's a big enough change to warrant a new answer - though I could post it as a separate answer if you'd rather I did that.
 
 
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N.N.
N.N.
8:42 AM
@BrentLongborough The syntax for making a custom export class is not that complex. It is just that it includes lots of information if you want a big preamble.
 
N.N.
N.N.
8:57 AM
Anyone who uses Hunspell with Emacs?
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
9:16 AM
I really have to finish the math option for the standalone class:
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A: What document class should I use for a variable size image generator

WernerThe standalone document class does this out-of-the-box, creating a cropped version of the document content. Here's a small example: \documentclass{standalone}% http://ctan.org/pkg/standalone \begin{document} $E=mc^2$ \end{document} Setting a border (of whitespace) around the cropped output i...

 
N.N.
N.N.
@MartinScharrer What would the math option do?
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@NN Allow for easier use of math, especially displaymath, inside standalone documents. For example, to turn them into images.
ATM, using equation or displaymath without the preview or varwidth option will lead to an error.
My current test file: 
\documentclass[multi=math,ignorerest,border=0.5]{standalone}[2011/12/21]
\usepackage{amsmath}% always a good idea when using math
% Redefine math related macros and environments:
\AtBeginDocument{%
    \def\({\begingroup\math}%
    \def\){\endmath\endgroup}%
    \def\[{\(\displaystyle}%
    \def\]{\)}%
    \def\displaymath{\math\displaystyle}%
    \def\enddisplaymath{\endmath}%
}

\begin{document}

Test

\[
a = \sum_{k=0}^{N} k^2
\]

text

\(
a = \sum_{k=0}^{N} k^2
\)

\end{document}
 
tohecz
tohecz
9:32 AM
@MartinScharrer Since you have to code it anyways, wouldn't be useful if gather and align environments could be used?
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@tohecz Yes, I was going to collect a list of to-be-supported environments.
However, I actually don't use this much math myself.
 
N.N.
N.N.
@MartinScharrer Support eqnarray! ;)
 
Stephan Lehmke
Stephan Lehmke
It needs more love, for sure.
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
A problem is the equation number and the centering in displaystyle.
Usually I would drop the number and make the box as tight as possible.
 
Stephan Lehmke
Stephan Lehmke
@MartinScharrer What is the preview package doing about this?
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
9:38 AM
@StephanLehmke Good point. I have to check that.
 
tohecz
tohecz
@MartinScharrer I think that numbering is not neccessary, but alignment would be nice. Maybe implementation using aligned and gathered?
 
Stephan Lehmke
Stephan Lehmke
@tohecz There isn't really any reason to use standalone for single equations only. If I want to produce a larger align construct with several equations and \intertext, why should I get no equation numbers with standalone?
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@StephanLehmke Well larger stuff can be done by using the varwidth option and the normal code you would use otherwise.
 
Stephan Lehmke
Stephan Lehmke
@MartinScharrer Ah, Ok. Sorry for causing confusion. I'm not a regular user of standalone.
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@StephanLehmke Ah, I understand. It's not a "normal" class, but really just for compiling "smaller" things by themselves. See e.g. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11866/…
 
Stephan Lehmke
Stephan Lehmke
9:46 AM
@MartinScharrer Yes, I knew that much. I just don't know all the options. Not a good basis for entering the discussion, eh ;-)
 
N.N.
N.N.
@StephanLehmke I entered the discussion with almost total ignorance of how standalone works!
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
10:42 AM
@MartinScharrer rather than faking individual environments can't you just redefine the primitive display math to do inline displaystyle math instead, might break a few things but would catch more environments automatically
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@DavidCarlisle You mean $$? It might be hard to redefine that. I can only think about making $ active and make it check for second $.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
and clearly you'd need to support the brqalign environment which is tremendously useful
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@MartinScharrer That or I seem to remember once defining \everydisplay to end the display and start an inline list and aftergroup something to sort out the other end
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
10:57 AM
Like this plain TeX
\everydisplay{$$\hbox\bgroup$\displaystyle\aftergroup\endfoo}

\def\endfoo{\egroup$\aftergroup\endgraf}

aaa$$\sum_0^2$$bbb

\bye
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle bralign? Some sort of brazilian align? :P /ducks
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@PauloCereda ask @StephanLehmke, he liked it:-)
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A: Automatic line break in alignat

David CarlisleYou can use a vertical alignment to get the measuring done and then re-flow them in a horizontal layout: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[leqno]{amsmath} \renewcommand\theequation{\alph{equation}} \newenvironment{brqalign}{% % START CODE %%%%%%%%%%%% % Do everything an a box, as you can n...

 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@DavidCarlisle Thanks! Good hint. I have to check that out.
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle Wow!!!!!
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
11:23 AM
@MartinScharrer well it doesn't quite work at present as it leaves an empty math display before the actual math but that still forces the full original width, you could \lastbox it away except you are on the main vertical list so you can't but probably you could do something (you could trigger a custom output routine to remove it but that may be going too far) back to the day job 9and to prepare for my grilling later...
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
Yay, we are going to interview David today! :)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@PauloCereda unless @egreg remembers any more football matches
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle Don't worry, we don't have any matches for today. :P
 
N.N.
N.N.
11:38 AM
@PauloCereda Is the interview about grilling?
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@NN We plan to ask David about everything. :P
 
N.N.
N.N.
@PauloCereda Cool. So it will be more of an interrogation than an interview?
 
Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@DavidCarlisle The brqalign environment works fine if flushleft is replaced by varwidth.
 
Brent.Longborough
Brent.Longborough
@NN Yes, I guess I'm just too impatient...
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@NN shhh he can hear us. :P
 
egreg
egreg
11:53 AM
@PauloCereda What time will it start?
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@egreg Around 18GMT I guess.
 
egreg
egreg
@PauloCereda OK; I'll be a bit late because of dinner. :)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@egreg Don't worry, we will wait for you. :)
mod FTW. :)
 
Andrew Stacey
Andrew Stacey
One vote away from another necromancer badge! How many do I need to get a Sauron badge? (According to the data explorer, Martin Scharrer has the most necromancer badges so I guess he's closest.)
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Gonzalo Medina
Gonzalo Medina
@AndrewStacey Thank you. Of course, it is alright; feel free to add it to my answer.
 
Andrew Stacey
Andrew Stacey
12:18 PM
@GonzaloMedina Done. I hope it's okay.
(Finally, I got a comment in the starred list. It's all very well posting silly pictures, but the pictures themselves don't get in the list so it's not such a great exposition of my stunning wit.)
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egreg
egreg
@PauloCereda See the edited answer to the Fibonacci question. :)
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A: fibonacci numbers

egregAn implementation in LaTeX3: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse} \ExplSyntaxOn \cs_new:Npn \fibo #1 { \fibo_recurrence:nnnn{0}{1}{0}{#1} } \cs_new:Npn \fibo_recurrence:nnnn #1 #2 #3 #4 { \int_compare:nTF { #1 = #4 } { #3 } { #3 ~ \fibo_recurrence:ffnn { \int_eval:n {#1+1}...

 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@egreg Wow! I want to upvote it again!
 
egreg
egreg
@PauloCereda Just for completeness. :)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
12:35 PM
@egreg Fantastic!
 
Andrew Stacey
Andrew Stacey
@PauloCereda I've voted for it for you. I'll see if any of my sockpuppets are awake to get them to vote as well. I love the look of the fountain! 
  every node/.prefix style={
    increase insanity,
  },
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@AndrewStacey Thanks Andrew! :)
 
egreg
egreg
@AndrewStacey You should try the combination of the fountain with insanity.
 
 
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N.N.
N.N.
3:49 PM
FYI
boo! oneboxing does not work for simple.wikipedia.org
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@NN Oh no!
 
N.N.
N.N.
@PauloCereda That is a serious bug. It was supposed to be my best chat message ever. Reporting it!
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Q: Oneboxing does not work for simple.wikipedia.org

N.N.In the chat I tried to onebox http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question but it did not work. The progress meter flashed for some second and then the link was shown like a truncated inline link. Then I tried with http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark and it neither worked. Thus, it seems ...

bug chat onebox
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
4:13 PM
@NN Love your comment to the question. :)
 
percusse
percusse
4:37 PM
@NN I think the word question in the URL is confusing the mechanism. It's probably parsing the question and then looking for a number to link to but apparently goes to la-la land.
Nope, I'm wrong
 
N.N.
N.N.
4:58 PM
I got a downvote for:
-1 should have phrased this Q in simple english — Ben Brocka 27 mins ago
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
5:18 PM
@NN Was that an actual downvote?! If so, that's really mean.
Bounty question: If I add a bounty to one's question with questions no one is yet marked as accepted, who determines the bounty winner?
 
Stephan Lehmke
Stephan Lehmke
@NN wut? I don't get at all in what way this might not be simple english, and I'm not a native speaker.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@StephanLehmke I suspect it's a joke, as the Wikipedia page in question is in 'simple English'
 
Marco Daniel
Marco Daniel
@PauloCereda You
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@MarcoDaniel Thanks!
 
N.N.
N.N.
5:34 PM
@PauloCereda It got a downvote 3 min after that comment so my guess is that it is the same person as the commenter.
@StephanLehmke It is a joke. simple.wikipedia.org is indeed Wikipedia in simple English. Here is the first sentence from simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question: "A question is what someone asks, usually when there is something that he or she does not know. In writing, a question mark ("?") comes at the end of a question."
People might think it is only for the simple-minded but it is effective if you want to general information fast about something. Sometimes normal Wikipedia articles may be huge and informative but not that accessible for newcomers to a subject. Thus, I think there is no reason to have a onebox feature for Wikipedia but not for its simple version.
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
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Q: fibonacci numbers

AndyHi I am trying to do Fibonacci below is the code but I am getting some error \newcount\n \newcount\np \newcount\npp \newcount\m \newcount\f \def\fibonacci#1{{\ifnum #1<3 1\else \np=1\npp=1\m=3 \loop\ifnum\m<#1\f=\npp\npp=\np\advance\np by\f\advance\m by 1\repeat \f=0\advance\f by\np\advanc...

macros
Bounty added. :)
 
Werner
Werner
@PauloCereda Your support will @egreg to 100k before Christmas!
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@Werner :P
 
N.N.
N.N.
5:50 PM
Any suggestion to how I can improve the following feature request? I plan to put a bounty on it to get more attention.
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Q: Show inbox updates in page title

N.N.Recently the following was implemented New Feature: real time updates to questions, answers, and inbox. With this feature the amount of questions with new activity is shown in parenthesis at the beginning of the page title, e.g. "(2) Meta Stack Overflow" means that MSO has two questions with new ...

feature-request notifications global-inbox live-refresh
 
Werner
Werner
@NN Not that this is of much value, but what about (1/2) for 1 inbox and 2 messages.
 
N.N.
N.N.
@Werner Thanks, I will add that to the alternatives
 
Werner
Werner
@NN: I think the messages/questions are the one that is mostly updated rather than the inbox messages. So it shouldn't be that you it displays (0/2) for no inbox messages... or should it? I guess that's what's good about such a meta question.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@PauloCereda whenever you're ready:-)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle Can we wait a few minutes? :)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
6:02 PM
I'd be quite happy to wait forever!
 
egreg
egreg
@Werner I'm planning to get there before summer holidays. ;-)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle: Let's go! :)
Friends, an interview with David Carlisle is about to begin!
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 TeXtalk - Interviews

Interviews for our community blog.
 
Werner
Werner
@egreg What's your ETA on the 100k? That rhymes!
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
David Carlisie on The TeXbook: I accidentally read to the end :-)
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All welcome in the interview room!
 
N.N.
N.N.
6:22 PM
David Carlisle on reading The TeX book: "if you read for 24hours a day it doesn't take long".
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Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@DavidCarlisle We are going to have a stack of great quotes in the interview!
 
N.N.
N.N.
@JosephWright Or rather, there will be a star overflow and the chat will crash!
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@NN Ah, you've not seen the star list in the mod room. There are lots of stars there!
 
N.N.
N.N.
@JosephWright Screenshot! Or are they secret?
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@NN I only visit when I have to: as @AndrewStacey points out, it's not necessarily a place I'd choose to 'hang out'. I also have to pick a moment when nothing important is around :-)
 
N.N.
N.N.
6:29 PM
@JosephWright haha, take your time
 
Marco Daniel
Marco Daniel
6:39 PM
one vote needed ;-)
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Q: Listings remove single quotes after I made it look good

user972616So I've used this code for my listings. However it seems to ignore single and double quotes and everything inside them and does not print it. Anybody have any idea why? Here is the copy of the code if your too lazy to click :) \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{courier} \lstset{ basi...

listings punctuation
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@MarcoDaniel Voted. :)
 
Marco Daniel
Marco Daniel
@PauloCereda Thanks. Only 3 unanswered listings questions ;-)
Interesting question. Unfortunately no feedback by the op:
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Q: Listing with different highlighting within comments

SyRo83I have a question on how to syntax highlight comments within a specification line/block. A specification block or line is a special comments line. So I have comments in comments. The specification has also a grammar with keywords, so maybe there is another way to do this better. But until now it...

listings
@PauloCereda: Why do you add a bounty? I think the question is well answered.
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@MarcoDaniel the Fibonacci fountain is epic. :)
 
Marco Daniel
Marco Daniel
@PauloCereda ;-)
 
N.N.
N.N.
@MarcoDaniel The bounty text includes a reason.
 
Marco Daniel
Marco Daniel
6:47 PM
@NN Thanks I didn't read this.
 
N.N.
N.N.
Quick, David Carlisle is occupied. Take your chance and answer these tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=[longtable]+answers%3A0!
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Werner
Werner
@NN ...rather, here's the unanswered {longtable} questions.
 
N.N.
N.N.
@Werner Doh. Well, at least there is one.
 
Marco Daniel
Marco Daniel
@Werner Not really unanswered. David wrote a comment ;-)
@Werner I have one unanswered question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mdframed
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@NN I see you
 
N.N.
N.N.
6:54 PM
ups
 
Werner
Werner
@NN He's on to us... delete the evidence!
 
N.N.
N.N.
@Werner Too late. He will haunt us forever!
 
egreg
egreg
7:21 PM
@Werner With the current average, less than 100 days. :) So by the end of July. :)
 
Werner
Werner
@egreg Okay, I'll put down 50 rep on July 26... don't think betting is allowed here... is it? It's low since you don't need it...
 
 
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Ariel
Ariel
8:35 PM
@JasperLoy its possible. I couldn't troubleshoot any further because I was running out of time and had to complete the analyses.
 
user19161
@Ariel I just realized I was in the wrong room just now. :-)
 
user19161
8:51 PM
@MartinScharrer With regard to the "a" vs "an" question you asked, you may wish to read this excellent blog post. english.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/articles-a-vs-an
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Martin Scharrer
Martin Scharrer
@JasperLoy Thanks
 
 
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egreg
egreg
10:01 PM
@DavidCarlisle If you vote for closing a question as duplicate, the comment about it will automatically appear.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
oh yes I think I knew that once i should probably vote (I was going to check that the answer I gave last time actually did work for his case,before voting, but I'm tired for some reason:-)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
10:13 PM
@egreg, hmph it's almost a duplicate but I need to modify the space correction a bit for amsthm, it seems
 
user19161
10:44 PM
@egreg And it will automatically disappear too when the question is closed!
 
egreg
egreg
What's the answer to this question?
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Q: Which stack exchange is proper for asking microsoft word related questions

MonsterMMORPGI would like to ask a question about microsoft word. It is the software itself based not coding related. The question is about table shapes. Which one is most proper ?

discussion site-rec
Anyone, as long as it isn't TeX.SX. :)
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Gonzalo Medina
Gonzalo Medina
11:12 PM
@JosephWright or @MartinScharrer are you still around?
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@egreg Thankfully no one mentioned TeX.sx. :)
 

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