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5:23 AM

@ShreevatsaR That post would meet marmot's match :)

5:33 AM

@JosephWright Thinking of it, I'd say it would be ok. Anyway, we should create an golfing language where \bye is not needed (and some other modifications, like using ASCII 128-255 for the most common primitives.

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tjt263

2:50 PM

how many votes close a question?

yo'

@tjt263 one or five

tjt263

which?

also, are there votes for and against?

yo'

Well, five. But a single duplicate vote of someone wth a golden tag badge suffices

tjt263

it's not many.

what's a single duplicate vote?

what's a golden tag?

@ShreevatsaR it's gone. what happened? they wanted to plagiarize something?

@AlanMunn i'll be your friend. i'm a sound engineer too

Ulrike Fischer

3:33 PM

@DavidPurton what was that?

Alan Munn

3:47 PM

@tjt263 It was mainly a somewhat lame joke. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@tjt263 google that phrase ;-)

Alan Munn

@tjt263 People can vote to keep a question open from the review queue. These votes slow down the the process, but don't work exactly to counteract the close vote numbers.

bp2017

4:00 PM

Hello,
I would appreciate if someone helps me to identify the names of the parts of a book. I've been searching online but the textbook I have has a confusing front "matter", which I can't identify. There is (as usual) a cover leaf at the beginning of the book, whose front page contains the title and illustration, and whose back is blank (white). So I assume the back of the front-cover page is (called) the inside front-cover (or not?). It gets confusing for this particular textbook because it has a leaf that follows the front cover-page but which does not look like a front flyleaf (because …

Alan Munn

@bp2017 Have you read the memdesign.pdf document (texdoc memdesign)? It might have what you need.

bp2017

4:28 PM

@AlanMunn, thank you, I'll take a look.

David Carlisle

4:40 PM

@DavidPurton any cricket news?

Ulrike Fischer

4:58 PM

@DavidCarlisle +1

Alan Munn

First link on googling "ashes 2019":

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Paulo Cereda

7:10 PM

ooh

Ulrike Fischer

7:21 PM

@JosephWright l3backend-pdfmode has \__pdf_backend_version_major_gset:n, but l3backend-dvipdfmx has \__pdf_backend_version_major:n (and similar for minor).