@Sebastiano Get rid of Windoze, it's easier. ;-)

@egreg You should post thiz az an anzwer, it will be your bestzelling one ;-)

@egreg AHAHAHHAHAAHAH......

@egreg I use also MAC at my school :-) ....for help my colleagues :-)

@marmot, @santimirandarp Hi, to you

@egreg It was a pain to install them. But I hope my answer is clear and that there are no mistakes. You are always authorized to edit my answers.

@Sebastiano Ciao, come stai? I am very busy with a highly important taks ;-)

@santimirandarp Thanks. Sorry, I cannot answer your question. Marmots tend not to write CVs because we like to be secretive about our hibernation downtime.

@marmot There's a sucker born every minute. :) tex.stackexchange.com/a/420615/2693

@AlanMunn Was just tired fighting against asymptote so I wrote this to \relax. (Copy & Paste with regex is really convenient, but it does not help me with the above duck...)

@marmot That's quite a beak on that duck.

@AlanMunn You do not know by chance how I can draw nice oval eyes on the duck without getting mad (because of the transformations)? And the beak is inspired by the tikzducks package...

@marmot No. The only things I know how to draw are syntactic trees and backgammon games.

@AlanMunn And I believe to understand why in the animations all the characters have such crazy eyes...

Hi everybody! I’d like to talk to the current maintainer of the mathtools package, who, according to CTAN records, is Lars Madsen. Does anybody know if (s)he visits this chatroom regularly, and, if so, under which nickname?

@GuM His user name is @daleif and yes, he's here reasonably often. (Pinged in this message).

@AlanMunn Oh, yes, @daleif, now I recall I actually knew! Thank you very much!

@marmot I see you're infected with the Carlislean Flu, writing the letter 'z' too much ;-)

@marmot Honestly not so good. I am very tired and according to some colleagues and friends they tell me that I work too much at school. I hope at least you are fine. If you notice something in my answers that you do not understand in English, make the necessary changes.

@ChristianHupfer Hi, and good morning. How are you?

Good morning to everybody.

Holla

is TeX have a limit for the length of a line in a output file (\write, not .dvi file)

why don't I see @CarLaTeX 's comments in tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7602?

@DavidCarlisle, @egreg First time I've used l3draw for debugging: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/420645/…

@thymaro They were deleted, most likely

@ChristianHupfer ok, that's what I guessed, but I wondered if there might be another reason. thx

@thymaro Moderators can remove comments as well, due to flagging or if they do not seem to be useful. In many cases the person that commented has removed it

@thymaro: I made a comment there that was deleted by moderators however... I was insisting that we definitely need more duck content -- there is hardly any duck content here ;-)

@ChristianHupfer maybe we need to replace the mods by ducks. They surely would be in favor of more ducky content!

@thymaro Look at the avatar of @JosephWright ;-) Or we make @PauloCereda the Duck Super Mod ... ;-)

@thymaro I deleted them, because Henri Menke was understandably annoyed about them

@ChristianHupfer LOL

@CarLaTeX Living upside down can have unexpected consequences. ;-)

@egreg In this case, I think he is right, I exaggerated a bit

@CarLaTeX He is sometimes very gruff, in my point of view (even more than me ;-)) And downvoting is one of his hobbies ;-)

@CarLaTeX oh wow, I wonder what they were saying :D

@ChristianHupfer Maybe, but in this case he was right, the discussion was becoming childish

@CarLaTeX I did not follow the discussion, so I have to believe you ... this time ;-)

@ChristianHupfer we should file a request at the SE devs to develop such a role as Duck Super Mod

@thymaro Then we should have a Marmot Super Mod as well, in order to support the @marmot s of the world ;-) And a Cat Super Mod... and a "My Battery Is Running Out" Super Mod ;-)

@Maïeul why not write a question about it? won't it just get forgotten and burried in chat?

thymaro : I am doing it right now

@thymaro to sum up, I disagree with the accepted answer here: tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7475/… and I complained because there was to democracy in that case. And I compared it with this answer: tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7341/101651 which (unfairly, I think) was not deleted after that Christian and I asked to.

@Maïeul :D

@CarLaTeX I felt similar about the accepted answer. I mean, it's not like we have loads of sindarin or quenya questions, but it's still pretty prominent in the banner picture. Why not have a duck, then. Oh well, let's not get into it any deeper again. I have other things to do this weekend (like prepare a presentation about my master's thesis, which is supposed to happen on Tuesday, so I better get at it now).

@thymaro Yes, it's better not to talk again about that topic. Good luck with your presentation!

Happy Saint Patrick day. :)

@Maïeul I saw that you will be in Passau. I will be happy to meet you!

@UlrikeFischer when and what is happening in Passau?

@Ulr

@UlrikeFischer me too !

@thymaro dante.de/events/dante2018-1.html

@UlrikeFischer ooooooh

@PauloCereda ^^^^ Saint Patrick's Day in Mönchengladbach

@UlrikeFischer Quack!

what is this thing with duck?

@PauloCereda Perhaps you didn't see all the history of the conversation but I began with "I completely agree with removing the duck tag from the main site", since now we have the tikzducks tag, that one was useless. That was not what I was complaining about, of course!

@CarLaTeX Oh I haven't seen any discussions, so I don't know the background. I was only addressing the OP inquiry. :)

@Maïeul Concerning the duck obsession in here --> Citing King Claudius from 'Hamlet': Though madness it is, there is wit in it ;-)

Good morning :-)

@ChristianHupfer thanks

@Maïeul You'll find all the explaination on the next TUGBoat (or, better, DuckBoat)

@Maïeul Do you know the french ducks? vimeo.com/246256860

@JosephWright oh no

That means I should go back to my thesis

@PauloCereda Which thesis? You're writting a thesis?

@PauloCereda: By the way, the site is back already again ;-)

@DavidCarlisle, @egreg Interestingly, I'd noticed the oddity that tex.stackexchange.com/questions/420645/… talks about whilst writing l3draw ...

@JosephWright My opinion is that if one saves a box, it should be reproduced in exactly the same way when used.

@egreg I can see that

@egreg My feeling is that \tikz should reset everything, rather than relying on system-level stuff. I'll likely adjust the l3draw version when I get a moment.

@JosephWright Snowing in London.

@UlrikeFischer oh my god!

@Maïeul ?

the christmas ducks!

@Maïeul One of the things you quickly learn around here is you can't duck the ducks.

@AlanMunn Do ducks duck ducks?

@Maïeul Well if you enjoyed it then vimeo.com/254643482

@AlanMunn : it was not the same in the past. All lost!

@Maïeul Yeah, there's certainly been a bit of a duck explosion.

@egreg Ducks duck ducks duck ducks, for sure.

@Maïeul There's not much you can do, except say "Duck it", and ignore or play along as you wish. :)

@egreg Also here (a little)

@JosephWright Also raining points over England. ;-)

Are texmf-var and texmf-config created on a fresh install of TL? Or are they generated on the fly when something requires them?

@AlanMunn I installed the 2018 pretest:

tl2018pretest > ls -l $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFCONFIG)
ls: /Users/name/Library/texlive/2018/texmf-config: No such file or directory

@egreg Ok, so that must be generated when needed I guess. And texmf-var?

@AlanMunn the same I think

@JosephWright Ok. Thanks.

@AlanMunn They are created for every user, so when they're needed.

@egreg @JosephWright I realize we're talking at cross-purposes.I'm talking about the ones in /usr/local/texlive/<year>. In my 2017 folder I have both, plus texmf-dist. Those are the ones I'm asking about.

@AlanMunn Is that trying to mimic the (in)famous buffalo^8 sentence, but for ducks? From google maps I learned that there is a place called Duck in North Carolina, so there is potential here.

@HaraldHanche-Olsen More or less. Of course because the plural of 'duck' is 'ducks' unlike buffalo, then it's not quite the same. But it doesn't depend on the place name. You can do the same with Fish fish fish which can also have a as many instances of 'fish' as you like and still be (theoretically) grammatical.

@HaraldHanche-Olsen With the 'ducks' version you need to be a bit more careful with understanding the syntax to get it right. You have to get all your ducks in a row, so to speak. :)

@egreg github.com/latex3/latex3/commit/…

@JosephWright :)

@AlanMunn But ducks don't row. They paddle.

You never know. Some angry tikz ducks might get into a row with some asymptote ducks.

@egreg we just got in from Birmingham, it's snowing there too:-)

@DavidCarlisle So no news from Ireland? They're partying not just for St. Patrick's day. ;-)

@egreg no news here, I did hear something about some milan football team

@DavidCarlisle I don't care. :-)

Why doesn't scrbook allow an option to not include clearpages between chapters?

@JohnDorian why would you want that? do you really have chapters that don't start a new page?

@JohnDorian but it must have facilities to style a chapter heading like a section heading (which does what you ask?)

@DavidCarlisle Yes, in my current documents, I do want this. (I have also read a few professionally typeset books doing so.) Actually it is not too important to me that the highest level is a chapter, I would be fine with sections, but I would like to make use of some other scrbook functionality like frontmatter etc.

@JohnDorian I'd be tempted to use \section rather than \chapter (since the new page is the main difference) but you must be able to style \chapter without a page break (I don't know the koma classes that well though)

@DavidCarlisle Yes, I've thought about this, but then I also have to change the numbering in the headings and in the toc so that it doesn't say 0.1

@JohnDorian which is probably easier than redefining chapter but anyway if you wanted to do this looks like you'd just have to redefine

\newcommand*{\scr@startchapter}[1]{%
  \if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi
  \scr@ifundefinedorrelax{#1pagestyle}{}{%
    \ifstr{#1pagestyle}{}{}{%
      \thispagestyle{\@nameuse{#1pagestyle}}%
    }%
  }%
  \global\@topnum\z@
  \@afterindentfalse
  \expandafter\SecDef\csname @#1\expandafter\endcsname\csname @s#1\endcsname
}

probably to just be the last line, as if you are not starting a new page, you don't want to mess with the page style or float positions either

@JohnDorian It does. \RedeclareSectionCommand[style=section,indent=0pt]{chapter}. (Thanks to esdd: tex.stackexchange.com/a/375398)

@TorbjørnT. Oh, I found this neither in the doc nor on TeX.SX...

Ah, because it is hidden in the second part of the documenation.

@JohnDorian Use scrrpt?

@JohnDorian "I couldn't find it in the docs" is a constant refrain with KOMA.

@TorbjørnT. I thought it would have a declaration form somewhere:-)

@DavidCarlisle @JosephWright More fun with luatex53

@egreg something broke?