@DavidCarlisle as a feature request it is fine. A column type that lets marks escape reliably from a longtable would be certainly useful in some cases. I'm only saying that the current state is not a bug (this is an axiom anyway;-)): it is neither documented for longtable nor normal for tabulars in general that marks can escape.
@UlrikeFischer GitHub calls these issue databases for a reason ...
@DavidCarlisle Am I OK to flip from the static to a dynamic index for the FAQ? I'll sort tags today, and probably write something for my blog to seek additional volunteers.
@TeXnician Trivia: I remember one day we wrote rm -rf / in this very chat room and all of a sudden lots and lots of moderators from other sites appeared out of thin air and wanted to see what was going on!
@JosephWright Hi Joseph, Paolo: I'm afraid I can't make it to TUG2018 after all. So sorry. Would have loved to travel there and participate, but I just can't afford is.
@DavidCarlisle On the FAQ, I think we are largely there bar the theme business: just need volunteers to check over all of the content, and if possible shift the DNS (@StefanKottwitz)
Ducklington is a village and civil parish on the River Windrush 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Witney in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,581.
== History ==
Ducklington is one of the earliest Saxon parishes to be recorded in Oxfordshire. In a charter of AD 958 King Edgar the Peaceful granted at Ducklington to his Minister, Eanulf. The toponym "Ducklington" may originate from "Ducel's Farm" or "the farm of the sons of Docca", but it is locally thought to have originated from the central duck pond, where many ducks and ducklings have lived for centuries. After the...
@JosephWright yes the content review can be ongoing though so main thing is probably the dns, dns lookup says it's registered to "the uk tex archive" but I assume that's cambridge university in some guise?
@DavidCarlisle Robin 'popped in' to get it to point to @StefanKottwitz's 'lifeboat' server, but I don't know who is actually able to change it
@DavidCarlisle I'm also slightly concerned about the rules Janet have about .ac.uk domains mean that they now can pull them: I'm pretty sure 'we' don't meet the current criteria for getting one
@DavidCarlisle Somewhere I had Kate Jeary's email: I think she's my best bet for getting it sorted
@DavidCarlisle github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from says you can both redirect from (internal) and redirect to (external): I'm pretty sure we can host latex-project.org directly on GitHub with no issues
@JosephWright @DavidCarlisle I'm fine with mirroring, rsync, scripting, CMS or tools, a VM with ssh etc. for contributors and also using github as tool, I for myself just keep a bit of a distance to this $2 billion company.
@StefanKottwitz I see your point, and ultimately we could of course stick to another server, but the advantage for GitHub pages is that things are automated and with a good interface
@StefanKottwitz The LaTeX Project site is current a bit of a pain precisely because it's on a separate server, so unless one has a local Jekyll set up you can't actually change the live version ...
@JosephWright Moving Usenet and forums to StackExchange, web sites to Github, MiKTeX and TeX Live to the Overleaf cloud, life can become much easier, everything is automated and with a good interface. Just what about technical foundations for the next generation. :-)
@StefanKottwitz all of the internet relies on big companies somewhere maintaining the infrastructure, I can't see that github the company having some financial backing is a bad thing
@JosephWright after some commercial sites changed to hit me with advertisements (even masked as 50% content within content) I don't trust the business so much even if it dresses nicely, sooner or later at the end they have to make profit from users (and not from non-users), directly or indirectly.
@DavidCarlisle Oh sure, but when I started we had a central system too, just it ran a different OS (hence my user name being the sensible c227 not the current bzu15qzu or similar)
@StefanKottwitz Of course: with the dev sites, the open source support is all about advertising for closed-source commercial work. Handily for me, I don't do any of that at all :)
@StefanKottwitz There is a reason I pay for my own blog hosting ...
@StefanKottwitz but for most users, most of the time, a free service hosted by a big organisation with a slight danger that they try to commercialise it in future, is better than a free service offered by some volunteer who may stop tomorrow.
@StefanKottwitz Git at least is better than say SVN: looking over the FAQ, a few dead links were to SVN repos that there is no hope of getting data from anymore
@StefanKottwitz if you can do that it will because https://chat.stackexchange.com is being actively maintained and the site is still live, see the problems we are having with https://www.tex.ac.uk which was offered as some undocumented non commercial arrangement with no long term backing
@DavidCarlisle Slightly different: they are mirrors presumably run today by IT staff, not entirely independent PCs run by a single employee in his spare time ...
@StefanKottwitz I didn't know that, or at least it wasn't top in my mind
@StefanKottwitz I'm trying to work out some pretty basic stuff, like should the categories be a list, or a 'word cloud', where should the 'IDs' go, etc.
@DavidCarlisle texfaq.org redirects to https://www.tex.ac.uk. It could be made the other way round if the .ac.uk restrictions are unclear in the long term. That allows DNS changes, github, SSL cert etc.
@StefanKottwitz That might be a good name if we can't get anywhere ...
@StefanKottwitz I'm trying to find out who at Cambridge is in charge of things ... problem might be they won't really want to deal with some random chap off the internet!
@JosephWright looking at inputenc one it was tex.ac.uk/FAQ-why-inp-font.html but the FAQ-why-inp-font.md has no yaml frontmatter so isn't currently reachable (along with 50 or so others) is that part of an intentional deprecation or have they been dropped in conversion?
@JosephWright I blame you for getting me in to this, the inputenc question links to tex.ac.uk/FAQ-t1enc.html which is, as far as I can see, completely wrong:(
@JosephWright I think I want to change the t1enc answer to just say that \usepackage{t1enc} is equivalent to \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, just kept for compatibility with old documentation, but I'm not sure that's really worth a question
@JosephWright yes that's what I was thinking, so can I make that url go to the generic inputenc and fontenc question (where I could mention t1enc in passing "don't use t1enc")
@JosephWright tex-faq.github.io/FAQ-t1enc.md doesn't work, did I get the redirect line in FAQ-why-inp-font.md wrong? (more generally could you give me admin access so I can see the jekyll build log under settings?)
@JosephWright under settings gh pages, it's either green and says the site is published, or it is red with a link to the error message (can't remember if it's full log) but you need admin access to see anything under settings
@JosephWright I hadn't noticed .md in the link: the link to t1enc.md stays as .md now I have deleted that file so it didn't drop the .md so didn't redirect. So it's not an issue I'm going to update the text not to have the link anyway. (but something to be aware of when deleting questions, internal links from other questions will need updating)
@naphaneal You can find the pdf with full game here github.com/u-fischer/lua-font-pond/blob/master/latex/… (the code is there too). I don't remember where I got the game from, I simply reused an old example of the xskak docu.