@PauloCereda Yes, I am a sheep person. That means I love everything about them. Including having them for dinner. :p (Having been raised on a farm I have no qualms about "eating my friends" XD)
> Some crows in Japan are known to drop walnuts on pedestrian crosswalks, wait for cars to crack the nuts by running them over, and then wait until the next light to safely eat the cracked nuts.
@PauloCereda Yes, what I do not understand much is that it no longer accesses the swap partition ... has another way to manage the memory when you fall short of RAM
@PabloGonzálezL Fedora 33 is now using zram which makes swap "useless". In a clean install, the partitioning scheme does not even create a swap partition (although you can manually create it).
@PauloCereda Yes I do in general, I bumped into something the other day and I kept thinking about this, the golden book for TeX is The TeX book (which doesn't change over the years), but LaTeX has been modified a lot
@PauloCereda I was checking (latexref.xyz) and of course, as of today there are several changes and that is my "almost official" reference when looking for something from LaTeX
@DavidCarlisle Hello, the truth was looking for something more compact and visible in terms of user (not implementation), such as the use of spaces in mathematical mode and text, or passing calc-style measures to picture, things like that.
@PabloGonzálezL that's a very strange document, written in texinfo, but a tutorial on latex it's Ok I think but not at all a reference (and doesn't cover any recent changes)
@PabloGonzálezL ltnews was originally aimed to be that and was restricted to one page per release, but we've allowed it to get longer in recent releases
On this day when we may see odd creatures wandering about in the evening, here's the story of a little flying critter that I can't help feeling sorry for: nytimes.com/2020/10/22/science/…
@barbarabeeton well, it survived a few millions years. I am not sure if we can match that, seeing the behavior around...
The picture is nice, though. It made me remember a song called "Archeopterix" (only instrumentals) I liked a lot when I was 14 and that I am not able to find it again...
@Rmano -- True enough. Even 50 years down the line it's likely that much of the world will be radically different from the way it is now. Different coastlines, smaller inland areas suitable for farming of any kind, reduced availability of drinkable water, irreversible plastic pollution, ... (I hope I'm wrong, but nature bats last, and basically doesn't care about people.)
I'm currently proof reading my little sisters work. While I'm rather confident in chatting in English and I think my English isn't the worst out there, commas in English sometimes seem, so random.
@Rmano In German I can confidently tell you why I put each and every comma where I put it (but in German the rules are rather strict and clear, there are only few commas which can be set but don't have to)
@Skillmon -- I hope so too, for her sake and that of my nephews and their offspring. Whatever happened to the concept that one should consider the seventh generation with regard to how one's actions are affecting the earth?
well, grammarly is supposedly to be a native speaking AI :-P Jokes apart, I tried sometime to learn but I think that in English is quite complex. But we have a couple of Linguists here, maybe they can help you.
@Skillmon -- Although I can do better with an example, some basic comma principles: don't separate a subject from its verb (if you put in a qualifying clause of phrase, wrap it in commas); put commas between elements in a list (unless it would cause confusion not to have a comma before the last item -- i.e., before "and" -- a comma is probably not necessary). Is this helpful?
seems nice (can't listen now, will later). Could be that the "Archeopterix" song I lost were from some german band, I used to listen to Kraftwerk and similar groups then...
@Skillmon The suborninating conjunction in that is simply unpronounced. You could have said "I think that that, I'd never do."
@Skillmon So the first 'that' is the suborndinating conjunction, and the second 'that' is the demonstrative pronoun that you have moved to the beginning of the clause.
@Skillmon -- Well, in editing TUGboat, i find that adding and eliminating commas is probably the most frequent modification. (Or in the case of @DavidCarlisle, changing commas to semicolons when the items he lists are complex, themselves containing commas, or avoiding run-on sentences.)
@Skillmon No, that's the demonstrative pronoun. It gets a comma because it's the displaced object of the verb 'do'. There is no (pronounced) conjunction there, but if there were it would be before the demonstrative 'that' yielding "I think that that, I'd never do".
@AlanMunn But that that is the same that you used in "I think that, Skillmon is confused". I should've written "I think that, I'd never do that". Now the correct wrong comma?
@AlanMunn good. That was what I meant with "I think that I'd never do" (just omitting the last "that" as I thought it was clear from context, misjudgement).
@Skillmon Sorry, totally miswrote there. Yes, that's the error that German speakers make in English. There should never be a comma before the subordinating conjunction in English.
I just lost all the annotations I've made on my sisters work. It's 22 o'clock and I can reread it entirely. I hope I'll spot all those little things I did the first time, even though I'm tired now :(
@StefanKottwitz well, I don't have a clue about English literature myself. I'm just reading for consistency and mock about every comma or word I don't like :)
@AlanMunn Thanks! I got a translated documentation of 200 pages in Albanian for our service center, and I'll send it to you! Glad that it will be perfect.
@Skillmon -- Well, a bit different from my usual subject matter, and I can't handle Word files, but if you send a pdf file (bnb at tug.org) I'll be happy to comment.
@HACHEDOSO Math for 4 years old kids? :-o that's great, perhaps interactively, yes, beamer perhaps not :-D
@HACHEDOSO My kids use math papers in school and math software, and math software with challenging question, no idea what they use but they are good, but it's just kids and me
@HACHEDOSO Like on TeX.SE, gamification may be a thing. My daughter took the challenge and solved 100% of math problems in their books, the teacher saif nobody did that before
Just thinking, interaction may be better than presenting.
@yo' initial example was the plain tex version of graphicx stopped working in plain tex if you use tex rather than etex or pdftex got reported by arxiv maintainers at my github, thought it a weird edge case but then same thing got reported here on same day. I gave in and added a work-around to the graphics-pln wrapper so it works again now.
@yo' no evidence that overleaf was involved except in that case it could have come up any time since February so it seemed best to blame you.
@JosephWright yep (I looked at the code and i had a workaround for \detokenize that I had added last year so hard to argue that I shouldn't do exactly the same for \protected I just disable it while loading the package, and set it back to undefined after the package loaded so it doesn't affect the rest of the document
@JosephWright Ina posted to ctan-ann a few minutes ago:-)
