Hi. I have a meta-question. I always thought that the main tex.stackexchange.com page listed the entries in inverse chronological order. However I noticed that an answer I gave 14min ago appears down in the list, below other older answers. It is just me?
@JLDiaz It depends on how you last sorted them. If you click on the TeX logo at the top of the page, you'll get the questions sorted by last activity (most recently modified first). If instead, you click on the "Questions" link, the default view is to sort the questions by age, with newest questions first. You can also sort them by "active" (the sorting links are just above the top question.)
Notice that the sorting links when you click on the TeX logo offer different choices than the ones when you click on the Questions link. With the TeX logo you get the Top Questions and 'Active Featured Hot Week Month' links; with the Questions link you get All Questions and 'Newest Featured FAQ Votes Active Unanswered' links.
@AlanMunn, @egreg, @JosephWright: I have good news to tell you: yesterday I bought my very first Mac desktop to replace my current workstation. :) In a few days, my new iMac will arrive (and following your advice, I also bought the AppleCare support). :)
@JosephWright Yes. :) I usually update my hardware once in a while, ~ 2 or 3 years. :) And I'm very happy with the model and configuration. :) And I won the free Mountain Lion upgrade TBA in October. :)
perhaps, but Ive never used it:-) . Actually what he really wants there is to change the column spec mid-table (like blockarray) the first part of the table has 123.456 aligned numbers but the last few rows are different data altogether and have integers. dcolumn (and I assume siunits?) align integers with the whole part of teh floating point values but he wanted them centred
@Werner: oh my, I'm so slow! I just noted the "just now" part... just now. :P The only kind of hint I get is "vote again in x hours", where 20 < x < 24. :P
Thanks to Ulrike Fischer for the solution:
> pdflatex \cmd\input{texfile}
\cmd can be any command LaTeX recognizes. And input{texfile} pastes all contents of texfile.tex into the cmd.
@N3buchadnezzar note the tex markup in that file, rendered via mathml/mathjax. Good to see these technologies being put to good use solving the really important questions of the day.
@MarcoDaniel I think it was a good idea. :) It's not that expensive if you consider the plan for 3 years. :)
The Apple seller asked me if I wanted an additional software for text editoring. "- No thanks, I already have the software I want." "- Ah cool, you already have either iWork or Office for Mac, right?" "- (pause) sure! (evil laugh)" :D
@JosephWright: no TUG2012 super secret LaTeX3 livestream link? :)
@PauloCereda One of them was a very narrow road. During the descent I lost count of the hairpin turns. Surely more than 20. :) But the record, until now, is Passo Pordoi: 33.
@PauloCereda You probably remember what I told you about a disaster in Longarone, where a slip filled an artificial lake and the resulting wave killed more than 2000 people. I arrived to the dam from behind and visited the small village on the right of the photo.
The road in the middle is where the lake had been: the slip completely fills the place.
The wave arrived to that village and killed people also there.
@PauloCereda It's almost abandoned. But there's people that's returning to live there. The inhabitants were "invited" to leave the place after the disaster. Some villages for them were built in different and quite far places.
@egreg Ah I thought it was an active village. When Brazil began the construction of the Itaipu hydroelectric dam, the government had to reallocate thousands and thousands of people from the target area.
@PauloCereda Oh, it was very high with respect to the height of the lake. After the disaster many houses were damaged and the authorities thought it better to move the people. All the houses are made of stone, it's very old: a typical mountain village. It could be an important attraction for tourists. It's called Casso; the nearest village is Erto, maybe four kilometers. They speak different dialects. :)
@egreg It's surely a beautiful place. :) And dialects, please, I can't even handle the "classic" Italian. :) Mom saw me reading a "Italian for travellers" pocket book and said, "look, now you can talk in Italian with your friend Enrico." :)
@JosephWright He did not participate in any TUG or something else for presentation I guess. Otherwise maybe someone from the inside can track contact address, phone number or something else.
@percusse As I've said before, there is only one report of someone thinking they've met him, years ago, and even then they cannot be sure and have no idea where he might have gone
@percusse Karl B. and I did try a number of avenues
@egreg Don't worry! :) Mom came to Brazil at the age of 8, I guess (she was born in 1945). My mom learned Portuguese, but at home she spoke in Italian with her parents. My nonna spoke Portuguese too, but by her accent one could tell she was a foreigner. My mom has a perfect Portuguese accent, so no one can tell she's Italian. :)
@PauloCereda I haven't used iWork in a long time. I got it once and decided it was really a bit of a toy application (at least Numbers and Pages) compared to Office.
I just installed Office 2011 for my Mac; it looks ok. Excel is the only part of it that I use very regularly; I only use Word if I'm collaborating with people or doing administrative type documents that need to be circulated in non-pdf form.
@JosephWright It's getting to the point now that I almost feel I don't know how to do things in Word anymore, I use it so infrequently, even though I used to know it really well.
Thanks to Ulrike Fischer for the solution:
> pdflatex \cmd\input{texfile}
\cmd can be any command LaTeX recognizes. And input{texfile} pastes all contents of texfile.tex into the cmd.
