TeX, LaTeX and Friends

9:08 AM

Quack

3 hours later…

12:00 PM

A real scandal! One of the best pizza places in Munich now serves pineapple pizza. (Yet the pizza fisica is really good and I guess @egreg might like matematica... ;-)

egreg

@marmot Grrrr! Well, I never eat pizza abroad.

@egreg Some people are claiming Munich is the most northern city of Italy, though. At least during Oktoberfest you might tend to believe it (even though I have not been there in this Millennium. ;-)

1 hour later…

David Carlisle

1:05 PM

@cfr latex team talking to Ulrike and Ross Moore about tagged pdf with perhaps input from here if you are not in Rio

@L.K. the behaviour of latex isn't affected by the editor you use to write the source file,

Joseph Wright

1:36 PM

@cfr We are going to talk about ideas/code/etc., as the team and Ross are in the same place

@cfr As there is going to be a live stream of the talks, etc., I thought points might come in from chat as well as in the room

@PauloCereda Quack! ;)

@JosephWright local quack = quack or l3.quack

@DavidCarlisle There's an English bloke sit nearby. :)

yo'

@PauloCereda \quack_quack:

@yo' ooh

Joseph Wright

@yo' \c_quack_tl, I suspect ;)

yo'

@JosephWright well, \cs_new:Npn \quack_quack: { \tl_use:N \c_quack_tl }

Joseph Wright

1:55 PM

@yo' :)

Krishna

2:06 PM

Can the experts here consider discussing my question in the accessibility workshop? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/442327/…

I just noticed this in the announcement section of the tex.stackexchange homepage. Coincidentally I had posted a scenario detailing a use-case of accessibility. I don't know if this falls outside the scope of your workshop tomorrow.

1 hour later…

StrongBad

3:29 PM

Do I have to worry about spaces, underscores or any special characters with '\IfFileExists`

L.K.

@DavidCarlisle Thanks. I need to install physics.sty. I can use this and it will work there also, I mean in Tex Studio

It doesn't seem to work after that, saying missing physics.sty

Diaa

4:08 PM

Hello everyone,

I just found out that arara has been completely renovated, which made me ask if the following rule needs or not to be edited for compatibility

!config
identifier: crop
name: 'PDFcrop'
commands:
- 'pdfcrop @{ini} @{margins} @{ getBasename(file) }.pdf @{ getBasename(file) }-tmp.pdf'
- '@{ isWindows("cmd /c del", "rm -f")} @{ getBasename(file) }.pdf'
- '@{"cmd /c rename"} @{ getBasename(file) }-tmp.pdf @{ getBasename(file) }.pdf'
arguments:
- identifier: ini
flag: "@{ isTrue(parameters.ini, '--ini') }"

Diaa

4:47 PM

never mind, I found the rc.jar tool and used it :)

5:16 PM

@Diaa Cool! Did it work? :)

I am at the TUG meeting, so my messages might be delayed.

6:11 PM

@Krishna No, sorry. Imho your problem is much to special. It doesn't fit in a workshop that tries to sort out basic, kernel related problems.

6:22 PM

6th century ducks.

@AlanMunn Where is this from?

@UlrikeFischer Ravenna.

@AlanMunn I should have known -- I even saw it ;-).

@UlrikeFischer The mosaics are amazing.

@AlanMunn yes it was very impressive.

6:43 PM

@AlanMunn I see. The ancient versions of tikzducks were much more pixelated. Well, if one thinks about it, not too surprising. ;-)

@marmot yes resolution has improved in the intervening 1500 years.

@AlanMunn Yes, impressive progress due to @samcarter ;-)

Diaa

7:04 PM

@PauloCereda Yes it did, but why I got unnamed task in the log for even pdflatex?

@samcarter Are you sure?

@marmot :) I stand corrected!

@samcarter ;-)

^^^ Re-using the Roman ducks from @UlrikeFischer dies ater image

@samcarter If you ever happen to be in this region, go to Kleintiefental, many (!!) of my relatives live next to this hut ;-)

7:19 PM

@marmot Oh, that is not too far from me! Maybe I can fit in a trip in the summer holiday :)

@marmot Would you share the crystal ball code?

@samcarter See, sometimes a crystal ball can be pretty useful ;-) (Exit the BOB=Bayerische Oberlandbahn at Geitau and then follow the directions to Hoch)miesing, and at the fork where you could get there going left or right go right ;-)

\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikzmarmots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
 \marmot[whiskers,teeth,blush]
 \shade[ball color=cyan,opacity=0.7] (0.95,0.87) circle (3.3mm);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

8:20 PM

@marmot Thanks for the code and the directions!

@marmot ^^^ a fortune teller duck to go with your crystal ball marmot!

egreg

8:59 PM

@AlanMunn Very impressive town, isn't it?

1 hour later…

David Carlisle

10:04 PM

@StrongBad yes

@L.K. if it says that you just need to install it, you should just be able to update via miktex or texlive package manager. texstudio isn't involved, that's just the editor

cfr

10:29 PM

@JosephWright Thanks. I was just confused. Usually 'events' have a time and a sign-up thing. (I don't know what the point of the sign-up thing is. Perhaps the system then prioritises alerting you. But the time is quite useful.)

10:40 PM

@egreg Yes. And it was a nice change from all the medieval things I had been seeing other places. Although my favourite church in Bologna (where I've been staying) is Santo Stefano, parts of which also date back to that time.