@PhelypeOleinik -- The checks on the "Bank of San Seriffe" aren't, but for a major reward, Don will write a real check. (He has written somewhere that in the "early days" of TeX, there were a few students who kept body and soul nourished from the proceeds of their rewards. I would never cash one. I once waved one of mine in front of one of my nephews, an electrical engineer. He grabbed it, and kept it to show off to his geeky friends. He gave it back a year later, quite smugly.)
@barbarabeeton Oh, I thought he ended the real checks to avoid too large expenses, but it's the other way around. I don't think anyone who knows what these checks are nowadays would actually cash them. I bet your nephew had some nice stories to tell :-)
@PhelypeOleinik -- He ended the real checks because some uncouth malicious marauder took over the checking account he set aside for the rewards. He has never begrudged paying a legitimately earned reward. (Admittedly, the account was never able to be balanced.)
I am trying to cite the following
@article{ghahramani2015probabilistic,
title={Probabilistic machine learning and artificial intelligence},
author={Ghahramani, Zoubin},
journal={Nature},
volume={521},
number={7553},
pages={452--459},
year={2015},
publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}
with
\citet...
@cis the symbols are slightly off (this is most recognizable in ex. 17). And seeing the real output with the colours I thought of another option which might be useful: When showing the steps, it would be nice if there was an option to only show the most recent step in another colour and the steps already done in another (is this understandable?)
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz That the gray sometimes shines through is probably due to the fact that the editing in FontForge is not a highly professional editing; the TikZ positioning should be correct.
It errors in 2017 and 2016 too. Also even if it not errorred, did it actually used spot colors? And why are you using spot colors for a presentation? — Ulrike Fischer3 mins ago
@UlrikeFischer ^^^ It seems to be a poster and not a presentation
@UlrikeFischer Ah, right. Maybe they weren't using tikz in the old presentations. colorspace with beamer (and the \def\spc@getref stuff) does not throw errors (no idea if the colours are right or not)
@UlrikeFischer Nevermind, I just saw that you already know all that from the earlier question tex.stackexchange.com/a/552487 (sorry, I did only see the new question before)
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz only in part, see tex.stackexchange.com/questions/552478/…. The problem is that the "current color" can have a variety of forms (and is sometimes even stored in different commands, depending who did set the color) and so colorspace fails to correctly retrieve the settings. I hope that the new l3color will do it better.
@JosephWright yes, then we will have to convince pgf to use it which probably will mean that they have to rework their color code. But imho using spot colors will only work properly in pgf/beamer if it passes through the l3 interfaces.
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz Because I am interested in the topic, I will ask a general question on the main page, e.g. animated filling of the character ' / '.
@cis not that I know of, but that is nothing I was ever interested in.
@yo' might be possible. Maybe something like a stepwise blend with a moving blending axis is possible (think StarWars scene changes), but I don't know whether something like this would be supported in PDF.
Is there a way to fill a sign, say the sign ' / ', with red in steps?
Because, I ask myself if I could create sth. like that, using the corresponding character from a matching font (in the picture U+3042 (12354)):
No MWE:
\documentclass[margin=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
...
@barbarabeeton Well, and also things like {\Large This is my Project Report and the Title is Longer than One Line} (I consider it fine to manually format the title page) will most likely give you wrong baselineskip :-)
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz \let\endLarge\par and \begin{Large}This is my Project Report and the Title is Longer than One Line\end{Large}#dirtyhacks#sinfulcoding#annoyDavidCarlisle
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@PhelypeOleinik don't know about apt, but maybe remove some cached packages (on my Arch, with pacman caching quite aggressively, this clears roughly 20 GB).
@JosephWright I can't remember what's supposed to happen, does it all go to github pages as "normal" or does it go to Stefan's server and just redirect the texfaq urls to texfaq.org?
@JosephWright I wrote a program to transform large-scale sea state data like that (time scale of days to years) into small-scale data (fractions of a second to a few minutes) to be used in CFD simulations, plus some case study for wave energy conversion
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz How do you do that on pacman? I'll try to find an equivalent for apt (though the disk usage of package files seem low)
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz I bet I'll be the only one to actually use the template I made. It seems people here would rather have an arm cut off than drop Word
@PhelypeOleinik Ah, right, so big data then: makes sense (a lot of environmental science seems to be that or going to exotic holiday destinations 'to collect data')
@JosephWright Yes. The purpose of the program I wrote is to make this large-to-small scale conversion as needed to avoid storing terabytes of probably-won't-ever-be-used data
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz Thanks!
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz Good luck solving their problems whenever anything unrelated goes wrong ;P
@JosephWright An Inverse Fourier transform to transform wave spectra into time series of sea surface elevation, plus some heuristics to fix too large waves that don't actually exist
@PhelypeOleinik although currently generating around ~2000 C files for matlab interfaces so people can use matlab not fortran (once they all work) From the same XML that generated the fortran interface and teh public html documentation
@DavidCarlisle The first language I learned was matlab (it's easy: you just hit a button to evaluate some bit of code), but it started to be too slow for what I needed it for (and I never got the hang of writing C code with matlab interfaces), so I learned fortran for the heavy stuff. I use matlab mostly for making pretty pictures of my results now
@yo' -- That will certainly give the wrong \baselineskip. The concept that \baselineskip (and some other things) aren't "frozen" until a paragraph break is somewhere between elementary and intermediate. If it's not in the tutorial, it should be. (I guess I should check.)
@JosephWright gh pages only say you can give cname to a subdomain and all their examples use www. texfaq.org works (redirects to texfaq.org) https:www gives a certificate error but at least at the dns level www.texfaq.org exists#
@barbarabeeton Yes, I'm finishing some of the coding part then I only need to finish writing the results chapter and some tidying of the structure of the text. It's in Portuguese though...
@PhelypeOleinik -- Nagging doesn't involve understanding the language it's in, only being encouraging as the due date approaches. If you'd like that "service", let us know when it's due (or when you expect to finish it). It does sound like you're well along.
@PhelypeOleinik -- Yup. That's one of them (though not by me). I'll start encouraging now. The most important part seems to be making sure the overall structure is logical. Onward!
@JosephWright what DNS server do you want to use? I can set them for the domains and then you control the actual DNS entries
@DavidCarlisle texfaq.org and www.texfaq.org both point to 185.199.109.153. You may need a web server level redirection and a proper certificate that covers both names-
@DavidCarlisle -- I've just finished reading *The Dictionary Wars", by Peter Martin. In it, I have learned that there's very little actual Webster in a "Webster" other than the name. I have also confirmed that even a literate author can misuse "reign in" instead of "rein in". Comparing the n-grams for the two would lead one to believe that the former, being the one found most frequently, must be correct, but that's wrong; the meanings are entirely different, being proper in different contexts.
@AlanMunn -- I have a gripe against n-grams. (See my previous comment.) Without context being shown, mere frequency can be dreadfully misleading. How to improve the situation?
@barbarabeeton There's not much to be done about the limitations. You need to be very aware of them. The corpora do have some part of speech tagging, which can sometimes be helpful, but it's still a very rough tool easy to be misused, especially by people who don't know what they're doing.
Hello all, this is an opinion-based question maybe :). If you experts would start a new document with listings, would you go for minted or still use the classic listings package? (related tex.stackexchange.com/questions/389191)
@AlanMunn -- Sigh. Could "rein in [something]" vs "reign in [somewhere]" (and the alternatives) be made workable? I.e., where are available tags to be found?
@AlanMunn -- Double sigh. How is one to learn "proper" usage then? I'm amused by the current kerfuffle over "irregardless". My high school English teacher gave this as an example for how/why not to use it (although it is indubitably still a word): "Irregardless of no matter what!" Well, that's definitive, but not something that goes into some formal context.
@CarLaTeX -- Well, faster then, girl! You haven't that much further to go! And you know you'll be delighted to have that piece of parchment in your hand.
@Dr.ManuelKuehner If you are happy with how things look like, listings is easier to use. If you want to customise, the possibilities with minted are nearly infinite ... So just a matter of taste really
@barbarabeeton Hmm, I guess I wouldn't use ngrams for sure. But I don't know really. And language does change, so prescriptivism is always a tricky issue.
@AlanMunn -- I do try to avoid prescriptivism. If there's obvious logic involved, that's what I'll use for an argument. (But I've failed to convince DEK to not follow Chicago on the question of in what order should final quotes appear vs. final punctuation. If there's an obvious interpretation problem, he'll rewrite to remove the problem in another way.)
@AlanMunn -- Yes, it's crazy; Fowler says use logic, which I find logical. I finally got AMS to change after showing the editorial folk pleas for help from confused users trying to follow instructions in a user manual telling them to 'Type this "xxx ."' where if one types the period, insanity ensues.
@AlanMunn -- I generally ignore Strunk & White, but there's one (rather late) edition that has delightful illustrations, and I have a copy of that just for the drawings.
@PauloCereda -- Quack! (Finished your thesis? ... see earlier messages today.)
@DavidCarlisle MSU is eliminating our afs server which hosts my personal web page. The url is www.msu.edu/~amunn When I add the following redirect to the .htaccess Redirect 301 "/" "amunn.github.io/index.html" it ends up redirecting to "amunn.github.io/~amunn` which of course doesn't exist. I've tried various versions and none work.
@DavidCarlisle Somehow the ~ is messing things up.
@DavidCarlisle I just got word from IT that I can't do it that way (even though other htaccess stuff works). So I need to do a meta tag instead. Thanks.
@DavidCarlisle Well they're providing some Wordpress crap I think (lowest common denominator) but no useful space in the way the old afs space was.
@DavidCarlisle And jekyll makes maintaining the site on github far easier anyway.
@DavidCarlisle The only downside is that it removes the msu domain from the picture and is therefore less 'official', but I think more and more people are doing this, so the officialness is not much of an issue these days.
@DavidCarlisle Yes it seems really nice. I rebuilt my site using jekyll in a day, basically, not having ever used it before. The hardest part was getting it installed properly on the Mac, because of the new OS restrictions (well new to me, since I've just upgraded the OS).
@DavidCarlisle But building the site itself took very little time.
@AlanMunn Instead of JavaScript, you could do a http redirect on the web site, such as <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://amunn.github.io/index.html" />
@AlanMunn but as I never make typos or errors that isn't an issue. (for testing setup i usually have a spare test site but once it is up and running, at say souldern.org or texfaq.org yes we edit live)
@AlanMunn at the village website for example it was sort of politically important to be able to say that it was a community resource and anyone with a web browser would be able to edit it. If I'd said all you need to do is install the right version of ruby and a pile of gems to support jekyll then it wouldn't have been quite the same. In practice no one other than me edits it and people just send me stuff by email but...
@UlrikeFischer hmm not sending it as utf8? I thought it would be utf8 by default these days, I'm not explicitly setting any headers just serving the log file and letting apache sort that out as text. I'll check
@UlrikeFischer basically it warns that it's too strong and will over-ride encodings specified in files, need to check how to set it just for log files, must be easy enough
@DavidCarlisle yesterday I spent an hour to debug a miktex crash (starting from a long document ...): it failed because pdftex send a char 169 to the terminal and miktex didn't like this. github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/581
