hello. Can someone tell, How can this be interpreted \begin{pgfonlayer}{background} ...code... \end{pgfonlayer}, can one say that we are creating or constructing a layer called background? is it wrong? or is too informal? or is it fine?
@Michelle Yes, you can set layers with \pgfsetlayers, see section 108 Layered Graphics of the pgfmanual. (If you really overdo it by creating 1000 layers, printers may get problems, otherwise it is a nice feature.)
@marmot Prego, fortunately in the article it is written correctly: "A useful trick is to put an empty comment: <!> within two empty lines to separate a list and a code block, otherwise, Markdown does not understand where the list ends and the code begins and makes a mess."
@CarLaTeX Do you think users should make their age public? If they are very young, this may draw some unwanted attention. (I know the age of another user who was similarly careless.)
@CarLaTeX The other user is even younger, has a lot of really good posts, and is fluent in at least three languages. (I guess that many universities might be interested in these people, but it is not universities I am worried about.)
My last deleted comment contains the information why I am trying to involve you (and not some where a comment may be interpreted in a way it should not.)
@marmot if you have concerns about a user profile you can/should flag the moderators who can privately contact any user (via mod ping on site, or via email) rather than leaving public comments on their profile.
@UlrikeFischer I must admit I didn't try, I decoded it in a QR app on my phone and recognised the code. It probably added line breaks, which would be bad:-)
@HenriMenke the new pgf version changed the definition of \ProvidesPackageRCS and this breaks the loading of pstricks. I already wrote Herbert about it.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen probably yes. Note that TeX doesn't provide all hyphenation points, the point is to have no false positives, but there are false negatives :-) You can of course provide them manually
@yo' Yes, I know I can provide the manually. I hadn't really thought of it as avoiding false positives before, though. But that does make sense. The reason I pinged @barbarabeeton is that she maintains a list of words somewhere that TeX doesn't manage to hyphenate. These are mathematical terms, hence of possible interest to her.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen -- they absolutely should. pentagon is already in the exceptions list. i'll add the others. (updating the list is high on my to-do list. too many lists here ...)
@Sebastiano I don't understand your comment here, but if you are referring to the psline question, the questioner will eventually spot that a line from a point to the same point isn't likely to make a visible line:-)
@DavidCarlisle David I felt like I was at school, that's why I texted you in the chat room. I thought I hadn't been clear enough for this I wrote to you that I'm poor at math :-(. Yet my students say the opposite.
@DavidCarlisle Unfortunately in Italy there is a lack of consideration of teachers by parents and families and also by students. I am not a very good professor but I can tell you with sincerity of heart that where I teach my students, very good in spirit and character, they tell me that the problem is that they do not study.
@marmot there can always be an exception to any rule, but actually if I understood your concern correctly I would say a comment like "it is best not to reveal your age" would be better sent privately than placed on a public comment and (unless you know the user by some other means) that means asking the moderators as mere mortals and beings can not send private on-site messages
@DavidCarlisle All true but if the wrong person sends this request it may backfire. Luckily, the right person did and all is fine. (I live in California where people are very sensitive to such issues. In case of gender or race issues (I'm not saying there is one!) one has to realize that all our moderators are white males. So sometimes special care needs to be taken IMHO.)
@marmot OK so this is a case where you could contact the author? You assume they are white males but only because (unlike some site regulars) they use user names and (in 2/3 cases) avatars that give that impression.
@DavidCarlisle Sure, strictly speaking we do not know. But the person being contacted will most likely assume the same thing. Really, I am not an expert on this, but in this case it seems to worked fine.
@yo' -- re checking for all words that end in -tagon, the only way i really have to do this is a web search, and i don't always trust those. but in this case it seems to be okay -- all words found that end in -tagon do hyphenate before the g. but not all words ending in -agon: "dragon" and "flagon" would be hyphenated after the g (but would be excluded by \righthyphenmin=3, though plurals would not).
@yo' -- hey, your name is back to the "short form".
@HaraldHanche-Olsen no, that is what happens if you try to be nice and double his chances to get the Bier. Who could have known that @DavidCarlisle would actually win with that lazy contribution (mine was a guaranteed win, because no one can argue against the simple beauty of ASCII art).
@UlrikeFischer I also noticed problems with \ProvidesPackageRCS when I was fixing bugs. I guess Till changed something long time ago. Within PGF everything seems to work okay.
Quick question and I'm looking for subjective opinions: I have a long document with colored code-snippets, cross-refs, links, citations, and acronyms. I have many images and need to print most pages in color anyway. I consider leaving all the refs colored for printing instead of setting colorlinks=false in hypersetup.
I used a consistent color scheme and everything fits nicely together. Are there opinions about that?
@UlrikeFischer first beat @Skillmon then put in an order:-)
@halirutan if you are printing in colour no harm in leaving the colours, the main reason for having explicit monochrome options in hyperref and color packages is to avoid some colours ending up as unreadably light grey if printed in greyscale
@halirutan When i wrote the color package I had never seen a colour printer, and had only seen, but didn't have access to a colour screen. things are a bit different now.
@UlrikeFischer how come two people have starred your shadow comment? Do they like seeing me lose?
@DavidCarlisle Oh.. "when you wrote..". Then thanks for that. I tried to be as consistent as possible. I chose one beautiful Mathematica color theme and derived all colors from it. So all plots, the code highlighting and the highlighting from hyperref base on the same colors.
