@yo' For the number of samples/observations. (the tabular has a column with header "obs" and entries "n=50", "N=27", "T=20" and T-bar=10.25 and I'm trying to figure out how to typeset it correctly.
@AlexG I know this. But since when have typesetting traditions been logical and consistent? I want to know what the field does, not what logic says that the field should do ;-)
I'm currently eating lunch in my office a student just came by with a message that his LaTeX (or what ever) says that the log file is "too large, do you want to proceed". I told him to come back at 1pm, such that I can eat my lunch. Anyone ever heard of log files being a problem? I haven't looked into it yet.
@daleif well you can produce very large log-files if you use e.g. \tracingall. And it could be quite possible that an editor like texstudio which analyses the log-file gives up in such cases.
@UlrikeFischer precisely. I often start debugging a student problem by eliminating the editor, often they have strange build settings and does not know what they do.
@UlrikeFischer :D I understand the source is LaTeX, but I mean that people often believe that something is correct typography because it's how you do it in Word.
@UlrikeFischer It turned out he had a \left at the very beginning of his file and texstudio never seems to report it as an error. Easy fix. Followed by a 90min consultation of why his latex was of poor quality. It's been a while since I've seen a$_2$=1.23
Wow. A typo in a package option (hratio=1.:1, the period should not have been there) led to a Missing \begin{document} complaint while loading the geometry package. That one might have a beginner stumped, for sure. Good thing I'm not a LaTeX newbie.
@TeXnician Yes. :) At least, from name and a couple of tries. I had an outdated material and it looked very good. Sadly there are a lot of new things that I missed.
@PauloCereda Well, I've never used it, just thought that it might be useful for ArTeXmis. It even makes it easy to create a command-line interface using Laterna ;)
@TeXnician If I can find a newer documentation, I might dive into it, it's very interesting. I thought of using Pivot, but it's insanely slow, even for Java standards.
@PauloCereda But that's nothing we should focus on when starting our development. Else only vim users will migrate :D
@PauloCereda I would favor using JavaFX (it's really flexible and not too slow) and maybe we could back it by Griffon, so that we could interchange it with something else (like Pivot) if needed.
@PauloCereda Yes, I've (up till now) only developed on Linux and just run the jar files on Windows. I'm pretty satisfied with the results nowadays.
@PauloCereda One should only avoid heavy graphics components on ARM architecture. That doesn't work out well (believe me, my Pi had to digest many applications).
@PauloCereda As even Debian stable contains OpenJDK 8 nowadays (which in turn opens up for a good openjfx) it should be possible to run this even on "not so recent" machines.
@PauloCereda Well, I'm using OpenJDK since version 6 too, but OpenJDK 8 brought the most things which one would call "killer features" to switch.
Just got reminded (again) why one should use \lVert…\rVert and not \|…\|: $\|\exp(A)\|$ produces an unwanted thin space before the exponential. (Sorry if mumbling to myself on the chat bothers ya.)
@mickep :) The reason is that \| makes an ordinary math atom, whereas \lVert make an “open” math atom (like a left parenthesis). Operators like \expget a space in front of them when there is an ordinary item in front, but not if there is mathopen there.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Thanks for the explanation. I simply have to relearn. In fact, right now I mostly write in ConTeXt, and then I guess (hope) one could use the fences system.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Would it be possible to redefine the \| and \| to work "as expected" also in the situation you describe above?
@UlrikeFischer Comment to the question: "In the example of the manual on page 1060 on the bottom it is explained how to add parameters. And I think you are missing a number of \pgfpathclose commands after the squares." The emphasize is mine.
@mickep Probably not in any robust manner. Instead, I'd suggest loading mathtools and then say \DeclarePairedDelimiter\norm\lVert\rVert, so you can now type \norm{\exp(A)} instead. This approach brings multiple benefits.
Yes, I am ahead of my time, and already know what will be written on page 1060 of the future version of the tikzducks manual. I can already tell you guys that this will be part of the introduction then. ;-)
@marmot As the original philosophy of the tikzducks once had been to build everything as a combination of basic geometric shapes (that was before all these complicate paths for hair styles etc. were added), maybe a brute force approach could do: generate many random combination and keep all which resemble something....
@samcarter I guess using combinatorics you can draw an arbitrarily large number of ducks. You have just to be careful not to exceed the number of atoms in the universe, because then it might be hard to print the manual out. ;-)
@egreg No, they would all look the same, right? I'm more thinking of @UlrikeFischer's chess board, it is known that the number of possible constellations of chess figures on a board is huge, and now these chess ducks could have additional features like glasses and so on. (Really looking forward to seeing this manual. It will use up 99% of the future TeXLive installation ;-)