@DavidCarlisle visiting https://texfaq.org does not work for me, but visiting http://texfaq.org redirects to http://www.tex.ac.uk which redirects to https://texfaq.github.io (which works)
I just had a look at the pgf/tikz manual on ctan (ctan.org/pkg/pgf). It says teh the last version is from 2015. Is all activity on top of an "stable" pgf then?
@Dr.ManuelKuehner Well, the devs have, for reasons I don't know, chosen not to release a lot of small upgrades after the major 3.0 release. That's just how it is.
Something else, if I click on edit a post here in eth chat, then the text is white in the edit box and I almost can't read it. Is that also true for others here?
@CarLaTeX @Dr.ManuelKuehner for me in chrome (and Firefox) it's white text on grey. If I hit F12 to open the developer tools while in the edit box, I see that the are three stylesheets specifying a background colour, are the two chat-specific ones failing to load for you? I see:
@PauloCereda Microsoft bought my servers for $7.5 billion. Then I bought the ISS and start hosting my servers there. Solar energy and much better cooling. And out of governments range for carefree Bitcoin mining to buy Microsoft later (getting my kitchen server back).
I honestly can't tell wether or not this question is on-topic. It's a question about a failing TeXstudio installation. Would it be off topic? The help center says "Related software and tools, BibTeX, MakeIndex, Lyx, etc." is on topic. Would TeXstudio fall under "related software"?
@AndreasStorvikStrauman editor related questions are normally considered on topic if they are reasonably tex related, I guess that one is, mostly a question of windows file system association of default program to .tex extension i would guess
I am sure no one here would be surprised that I'm now a published translator...
@CarLaTeX I love your new avatar! If you are now the first to answer a question, it's probably thanks to this fast car - all the others are still on the road to the question :)
yes in the styles tab (which you have on the right in the top half of the control bar it shows all the properties, and where they are set, you can't see background-color in the image you show but it will be in that panel
@DavidCarlisle Something else I could do? It's not a major problem. I am just surprised that there is a problem in Chrome (I did not have fancy extensions installed btw).
@Dr.ManuelKuehner if you know your way around that console you should either see that the background colour is set to grey or that some stylesheet failed to load or something. But you can't actually change anything there (apart from the current session) so it would only be debugging for stackexchange and it's easier for them to debug as they have the sources
I made a new tutorial about MiKTeX and Texmaker for Windows. Maybe it is interesting for some of you (to refer it to new users). As usual, it took way longer than planned :).
@PauloCereda Haha. I use a Microsoft voice since the workflow was easy (and free). There are cool Google voices and other commercial voices that are much better.
@Dr.ManuelKuehner -- the first few minutes look promising, but, sad to say, to this listener, the pronunciation of latex and miktex is dreadful. (i work with tex on a unix system, so the instructions aren't actually relevant to me, but i do have some control over pointers for users. i'll watch/listen to the whole presentation in a few days when i have more time.)
@barbarabeeton Haha, I see what you mean. The instructions are not relevant at all for you. Even if you were using Windows. It's very very basic. I cover what I assume is the first tough step for non-nerds.
@barbarabeeton I won't change the video anytime soon. It took me over a week (part-time) to finish it :(). But if you have good pointers, I will consider them in a new version in the future.
@Dr.ManuelKuehner -- actually, i think the instructions are worthwhile for a new latex user on windows. but the pronunciation was, unfortunately, what i noticed first and most directly. (since i learned how to pronounce tex and latex from knuth ans lamport directly, and have had more exposure than i would like to the "other" form of latex, or at least advertisements for it, i find the pronunciation of the "x" most unfortunate. a more appropriate pronunciation would be "tek".)
@yo' -- but "ek" is better than "ecks". (i'm assuming that the voice-over is integral, not something added at the remote site. if you don't know what i was referring to in my rant, take a look at yandy.com which is what happened after y&y departed from the tex scene.)
@yo' -- okay, but if you do come back to it, i'm interested in your reaction then. (understand the inconvenience of mobiles. my cell phone and i have an entirely dysfunctional relationship.)
@yo' -- your mom has my sincere sympathies. (maybe this is something that comes with advancing age. like my inability to cope easily with guis -- i want a command line!)
@yo' -- i do write down the dates, but i'm too disorganized, and lose the paper they're written on. so it's appreciated that someone from the dentist (or doctor)'s office calls me a few days in advance to confirm that i'm actually intending to show up.
@yo' -- health care services are surely different in different countries. here, it's routine, so that the provider can know, or at least predict, if the patient is likely to be a no-show, so that someone else can be scheduled into that appointment slot.
@StefanKottwitz https fixed thanks (I guess that was you?:-) so now if we could make it display as texfaq.org we'd be done I think for the first phase!
@CarLaTeX possibly or possibly not, see if they can reproduce it. I was using Version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit) on win10, what do you have?
@egreg Well, I really liked the Grossglockner pass. Actually, there was a pass called Wurzenpass between Austria and Slowenia, which was much steeper (but of course not as tall). One tends to underestimate the "small" passes....
@egreg Well, when you bike it up, you actually appreciate the fact that it is not too hot... but overall I was very lucky. Out of the 7 days of biking, only in the very beginning there was some precipitation....
@egreg Actually, I must correct myself. I also got rained on in Slowenia, in a region in which the map had not much to do with reality (they were claiming the road was paved, but it was not). So at the end I could not feel my legs any more because they were too cold.... it is funny feeling when you see that your foot touches the ground but you don't feel the resistence...
@egreg Yes, I think I know what you mean. (In the US one can do independence pass, which is about 3600m above the sea level. Interestingly during day time it is often so warm that you only need shorts and a shirt....)
@marmot In that zone, north of Brescia, there are three valleys: Sabbia, Trompia and Camonica, from East to West; the first one leads directly to Trentino, with no pass, the third one leads to the Tonale pass. So it was important to have communications between those valleys and the roads were built.
@egreg Gotta go now, cycle to some place by the ocean with original Italian gelati and pizza places... ;-) (And yes, I also hiked in Trentino, they even have a physics center in Trento which is a reasonable base camp ;-)