@AlanMunn A friend of mine told me some of his colleagues are buying this item and put it in the background for video calls: amazon.com/Bookshelf-Bookcase-Photography-Backdrop-Background/…

@PauloCereda at least with ms teams just need to take the image from there to give a fake background, you don't actually need a real background:-)

@DavidCarlisle ooh really?!

@PauloCereda Teams comes with a standard minecraft world background as one option:)

@DavidCarlisle LOL

@PauloCereda look in google chat:-)

@DavidCarlisle ooh hold on

@DavidCarlisle Still restriced to Windows/Apple version, the Linux one has not it (yet)

@PauloCereda ohh :)

@mickep ooh

@JosephWright busy?

@barbarabeeton imgur.com/jcaTlcC

@PauloCereda -- The Brattle Book Shop in Boston is putting together virtual bookshelves for use as Zoom backgrounds. Listen here: wbur.org/onpoint/2020/04/20/…

@barbarabeeton ooh

@PauloCereda -- Relatives of Jemima Puddle-duck. (Poor confused dog.)

@PauloCereda -- Are we counting up from 7777 or is there a way to start over? (@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz -- ?)

@barbarabeeton ooh a new counter

@PauloCereda -- Or "a new ooh counter".

@barbarabeeton touché :)

and does "ooh a new ooh counter" count once or twice?

@yo' ooh

@yo' No. The linguist has spoken.

@barbarabeeton only if a) we count for a new user, or b) we choose another string. Maybe oooh (or even more os). Luckily I checked and oooh is currently a palindrome with 363 occasions.

@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz -- Hmmm. Maybe aim for a target of 777 instances of "oooh". (Or maybe 666 is more appropriate? It's closer in any event.)

@DavidCarlisle Always better than Comic Sans

@egreg CVs should always be in Comic Sans, to give that professional polished appearance

@DavidCarlisle and have some picture mode ducks.

@DavidCarlisle oh

@UlrikeFischer certainly if applying for a latex related job that would be essential

@DavidCarlisle and for a job as cook.

Weird, my Greasemonkey menu has suddenly stopped working. I click on the icon and nothing happens. FF 74.0 Mac.

Updating to 75.0 and now it works again.

@AlanMunn ooh

@AlanMunn so far behind, I'm on 77 :-)

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen That's how TikZ works, you need a parbox...

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen here:

This might help. :)

@DavidCarlisle We're talking browser not Fortran, right? :)

@AlanMunn LOL

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen because \scalebox is a horizontal box.

@AlanMunn nag.co.uk/content/nag-fortran-compiler

@UlrikeFischer Oh I haven't noticed \scalebox! @VincentMiaEdieVerheyen sorry! That's not just TikZ-related, I misread your example! Sorry!

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen but it was not TikZ fault! Although it would not work directly either! Sorry. :)

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen \scalebox is like \mbox a single line box)

@PauloCereda or not there if you are using \scalebox

@DavidCarlisle sorry :)

@PauloCereda it's Ok it'll soon be dinner time

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@DavidCarlisle so slow ;-)

@UlrikeFischer I was having dinner (but don't tell @PauloCereda that or he'll work out the previous comment wasn't entirely true)

@PauloCereda Ah, well, commented before seeing that. Sorry ...

@DavidCarlisle after dinner is before dinner.

@UlrikeFischer maybe the world is spinning

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@UlrikeFischer oh no

@DavidCarlisle we would have to have something like an axial tilt in Earth... witchcraft!

@Rmano quack <3

@PauloCereda -- we actually do have an axial tilt. But it's not witchcraft, only celestial mechanics. To some people, equally incomprehensible.

@barbarabeeton yes, I was just playing the naïve duck. :)

And another palindrome! (They're getting fewer and farther apart again.)

@barbarabeeton I got a driveby downvote on an old question a few weeks ago and have been bumped off of the palindrome train.

@AlanMunn -- Bummer. I do wish that downvoters would say why they're doing that. (But I must admit that a relatively recent downvote got me back on the train, so they're not always all bad.)

@DavidCarlisle I will upload the picture code ok?

@UlrikeFischer yes thanks.

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen the catalog data is maintained by hand by the ctan volunteers, no idea what comparison tool they use to find similar entries.

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen you could ask the webmaster at ctan.org/contact (I don't think any of the ctan maintainers are regularly on site here)

@DavidCarlisle looks like a random choice from the topics page.

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen what barbara means is that everyone knows her:-)

@UlrikeFischer I don't think it's random though as ctan.org/recommendations/longtable says ordered by similarity

@DavidCarlisle I meant that the 4-5 suggestion beside a package are a random selection from the topics of this package.

@DavidCarlisle oh this link. So the question is how do they measure similarity?

@UlrikeFischer oh perhaps, I was thinking it was top few from the full ordered list but ot seems not

@UlrikeFischer yes sorry pasted wrong link initially:-)

@DavidCarlisle no it changes - I tried with longtable ;-)

@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen -- The server costs are funded mainly by Dante (the German-speaking TeX group) and TUG (the international TeX Users Group). They're credited on the CTAN home page. Both are officially approved by their respective governments (Germany and the U.S.) as non-profit, charitable/educational organizations. That's part of what one's membership fees and donations go to support.

From a new class on TeX Live

\def\emptystring{}
\edef\PREFIXHIDDEN@title{\emptystring}

\DeclareOption*{%
\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{article}%
}
\ProcessOptions\relax

\LoadClass{memoir}

@egreg What is the right emoji to react to this? btw, is the singular of emoji emojo ?

@AlanMunn 😰

@egreg or maybe 😫

@egreg oh lovely!

@egreg It's self-documenting code! \emptystring makes it explicit, but {} is just devoid of meaning.

@egreg and \ifpdf \pdfoutput=1

@UlrikeFischer Oh, I missed that!

@egreg ;-) But I don't see the prefixhidden part.

@UlrikeFischer Didn't want to advertise.

@egreg ah ;-)