TeX, LaTeX and Friends

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marmot

00:01

@AlanMunn Sounds good. So you found a way preventing David from spoiling egreg's pizza?

Paulo Cereda

00:12

@egreg, @AlanMunn: economist.com/news/americas/…

@AlanMunn: my favourite word is aviong for silly phonetic reasons. :)

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yo'

06:17

Meanwhile im Czechlands... [The Guardian: Czech protesters inflamed by police role for Communist MP ](theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/…)

Meanwhile in Czechlands... The Guardian: Czech protesters inflamed by police role for Communist MP

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Paulo Cereda

09:01

@yo' oh my

egreg

10:00

@PauloCereda “Parché corer cossì?” is exactly how we say here. But we say “zalo” for yellow. I guess “gialdo” is more from Trentino.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg That's awesome!

egreg

@PauloCereda I don't think you can correctly pronounce “zalo”, however. ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg ooh challenge accepted

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David Carlisle

12:08

I just got a gold badge for \mbox{thatshouldnot}

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle undeserved, of course :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda it's well deserved, as well deserved as an image from wikipedia

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle grandma cookies

@DavidCarlisle: secret message poking :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda the thing about secret messages is that you are not supposed to announce them on a globally readable internet page

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle oh no

We ducks are not good at keeping secrets

David Carlisle

12:25

@PauloCereda Poderíamos discutir isso em um idioma que ninguém entende, então seu segredo seria seguro.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle Very good. Just s/seria/estaria.

@DavidCarlisle I am going to teach Portuguese to @egreg. :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda write Italian and add some spanish ~ accents here and there?

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antonio

15:15

hello, is it possible to build a texinfo file in Windows?

Paulo Cereda

@antonio Pandoc, perhaps?

antonio

hmm, I will check. MikTeX texify does not seem to work

@PauloCereda: from pandoc.org/demos.html it requires makeinfo and texi2pdf and I do not have them in MikTeX

David Carlisle

@antonio what do you want to do make an info file from it or typeset it with tex

@antonio texi2pdf is usually installed as texi2any these days I think (or at least it is in texlive)

antonio

@DavidCarlisle I have a texi file and want to build a PDF (and possibly html)

David Carlisle

@antonio see if you have texi2any although just using tex directly is also a possibility a texinfo file is just tex

antonio

15:26

@DavidCarlisle texi2any is for Windows?

@DavidCarlisle I do not have it in MikTeX

David Carlisle

@antonio it is a perl script so should be available in anything I use the cygwin texlive on windows rather than miktex and it is installed here

antonio

not in the path

sorry let me check better

@DavidCarlisle there is no texi2any in MikTeX setup dir

David Carlisle

@antonio I know nothing about miktex, sorry:)

antonio

@DavidCarlisle I have texify btw

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle I have nothing like texi2any in my texlive(s).

David Carlisle

15:39

@UlrikeFischer so it isn't (@antonio) I think I have a direct install of texinfo from cygwin, sorry.

@UlrikeFischer @antonio the reference texinfo implementation is called texi2any and/or makeinfo: gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/…

antonio

@DavidCarlisle there should be a perl script to download

Paulo Cereda

@antonio Ah sorry, I have no experience in that format

antonio

@DavidCarlisle @UlrikeFischer please, can you tell if texinfo.tex is somehow relevant?

texyfy claims to be the same as texi2dvi, however it is unable to find texindex

David Carlisle

16:02

@antonio downloads are all here if you want to install from scratch gnu.org/software/texinfo

@PauloCereda you should use a proper editor then you would be more used to the info format

@PauloCereda 3 years and have you reached page 4 yet?

Q: How long does it take to make a 4-page paper?

I need this information for a project. A paper completed with TikZ, tables, eps and vps graphics, text structure, bibliography.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle oi

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda sorry, 4 years:

Jan 12 '16 at 12:15, by David Carlisle

@PauloCereda finished your thesis?

(I'm sure I gave you a couple of years writing time before asking if it was done:-)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle oh

@DavidCarlisle: more secret messages

David Carlisle

16:19

@PauloCereda é um segredo

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle :)

antonio

@DavidCarlisle So far not super clear. `texinfo-6.5.tar\texinfo-6.5\util\` has `texi2any.bat` and a README
`texi2any.bat` is just a generic perl caller. The README not even mentions `texi2any.bat`. There are `texi2pdf.bat` etc which are btw shell not perl scripts

David Carlisle

@antonio years since I did this but as far as I remember the perl/bat/shell scripts are only a convenience and you can simply use the docuemnt as a plain tex file if you simply want to typeset it

Paulo Cereda

17:21

@DavidCarlisle that means you are old?

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda no, just that I was very young once

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh

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David Carlisle

23:42