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6:42 AM

Is there a multipage pdf file in TeXLive that can be used for testing with \animategraphics such that a submitted MWE becomes self-contained?

example-image-a, example-image-b, etc like files are useful but not for animategraphics. :-)

Ulrike Fischer

6:56 AM

@KimJongUn the mwe package has also multipage numbered examples. Beside this there is example-image-duck.

Kim Jong Un

@UlrikeFischer What is the filename of the multipage pdf in mwe?

Ulrike Fischer

@KimJongUn sorry can't look now, I'm not at the computer

Kim Jong Un

@UlrikeFischer Thank you very much!

@UlrikeFischer: example-image-duck is enough. it is apparently multipage.

Harald Hanche-Olsen

@KimJongUn You can try example-movie.pdf. The mwe files are all found in texmf-dist/tex/latex/mwe, by the way.

Kim Jong Un

@HaraldHanche-Olsen Thank you very much!

David Carlisle

7:32 AM

@Skillmon you can never have too many kv packages, it seems.

Ulrike Fischer

7:45 AM

@DavidCarlisle where is a new one?

Rmano

[ 3/14, 00:04/01:00] update: circuitikz [1598k] (59054 -> 59147) ... done

when you find a bug 5 minutes after the release...

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer catcode question on main site

@Rmano that long? Normally it's as you hit send...

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle oh where I just commented that I don't think another syntax is the best idea ;-)

David Carlisle

meanwhile discussion with @PabloGonzálezL last night has resulted in learnlatex.org/duck

Skillmon

9:16 AM

@DavidCarlisle IIRC, there already is a key=val package that uses "s.

Joseph Wright

@Skillmon ?

@Skillmon Parsing CSS-style keys will be 'fun' as you have to allow for ",=" ...

David Carlisle

@JosephWright question on site about foo = "zzz" syntax (from the only known xmltex user)

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

9:34 AM

@Kim You could wrap your second column in an onlyenv environment:

\documentclass[12pt,aspectratio=1610]{beamer}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}
\begin{frame}[t]{Frame Title}
    \begin{columns}[t]
        \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
            \pause
            \adjincludegraphics[width=\linewidth,valign=t,center]{example-image-a}
            \pause
            \[
               foo
            \]
        \end{column}
        \begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
                \begin{onlyenv}<4->
            \pause

Kim Jong Un

9:57 AM

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21: How about aligning the top of the animation with the top of the image on the left column?

Your current solution makes the top lines are not properly aligned.

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@Kim You want to use \begin{columns}[T] instead of t alignemnet

Kim Jong Un

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21: OK. Thank you for your help!

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

You're welcome!

Skillmon

@JosephWright iirc, yax allows for " as the argument delimiters (but I could be wrong here). That's not full CSS though.

David Carlisle

@Skillmon there is of course the utterly bug free xmltex parser

David Carlisle

11:00 AM

We can now blame @PauloCereda for these things

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0

A: Fixed width array columns with Overleaf

This was a change (bug fix, essentially) in the array package. The tools change log notes 2020-04-06 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach@latex-project.org> * array.dtx (subsection{Implementing column types w and W}): Use \d@llarbegin and \d@llarendde so that cell is typeset by defa...

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

3:11 PM

I hate templates! \\{\bf Microtunneling}\\

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Or more precisely:
Analysis and the Similitude between prototype and  model.\\

\\{\bf Microtunneling}\\

(from overleaf.com/articles/rishi-shahs-resume/vgxvkmxktyxn )

David Carlisle

4:25 PM

new fonts gone live on the main site

5 hours ago, by David Carlisle

We can now blame @PauloCereda for these things

AlexG

To my surprise I seem to be sensitive to typography. I noticed the font change that happened today without reading the announcement before.

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

4:40 PM

@DavidCarlisle Good idea!

so .... does anybody have a user script to change the font?

Joseph Wright

I've decided on a second beta for siunitx v3: github.com/josephwright/siunitx/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.2

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David Carlisle

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 I got this one from @egreg

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@DavidCarlisle That hursts :D

David Carlisle

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 that's a userContent.css firefox user stylesheet rather than script,

Kim Jong Un

4:57 PM

for testing: pomography rnicrometer

LaTeXereXeTaL

I clicked on Kim Jong Un's avatar and now the screen says "(removed)". Did I do that?

If I did, I do'nt know how I did it.

David Carlisle

@LaTeXereXeTaL no, @KimJongUn removed his own comment

LaTeXereXeTaL

Ah timing is everything I see.

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

problem solved:

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Q: Custom Fonts User Script: Revert or Improve the Font Updates

Recently, Stack Exchange decided to switch to system fonts. For those of you who prefered the old appearance, or would like a different font to appear in code blocks or across the site as a whole, Custom Fonts is a user script I wrote this morning to allow just that. Features Custom Fonts allows ...

Does anyone remember which font was used before the main site lost all the custom design in the Great Undesigning of 2018?

AlexG

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 , how to apply those scripts?

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

5:13 PM

@AlexG It needs some browser addon, e.g. greasmonkey. If I understand correctly, userContent.css things, as used by @DavidCarlisle work natively by placing them in the correct folder.

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

5:27 PM

@AlexG here is an intro to user scripts: howtogeek.com/howto/16470/…

AlexG

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 Ah, thank you! I will have a look into it.

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@AlexG and here an intro to these userContent.css thingies howtogeek.com/334716/…

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle oh no

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

(the userContent.css is probably more modern, but as I have a ton of userscripts for others things already, I prefer to have everything in the same place)

Paulo Cereda

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 oh no

@JosephWright oh no

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

5:29 PM

@PauloCereda dinner?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright releasing beta 2 ^^

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda I've snuck in a few features

Paulo Cereda

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 er... quack?

@JosephWright ooh a secret

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@PauloCereda <3

Paulo Cereda

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 <3

THIS HURTS

Rmano

5:32 PM

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 nice, what I was looking for ...

yesterday, by Rmano

I need some tutorials on how to write scripts to change fonts.

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@Rmano :) Which font are you going to use? I finally settled on Charter (one of my favourites)

Still need a nice mono font ...

Rmano

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 I don't know... I will look around. I like Gentium, but I want a sans font for this site... I will look around a bit

David Carlisle

5:46 PM

@PauloCereda joking assde, a standard installed template that has a error even on its supplied example isn't great.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle blame the second author listed in the array doc?

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda parse error

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh fmi

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda i think even Frank can't be blamed for @samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21's cv template

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

5:53 PM

@DavidCarlisle If I understand correctly, every user can publish their document as template, so not much Overleaf can do to avoid things like overleaf.com/articles/rishi-shahs-resume/vgxvkmxktyxn ?

(other than maybe an entry exam with two questions: 1) how to break a line? 2) who to blame when array is broken? )

David Carlisle

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 they could have their account terminated if they publish a template generating errors

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@DavidCarlisle If you would do that with stackoverflow, you would lose half the users :)

Rmano

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 I was looking at these: github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@Rmano Oh, I did not know them. They look nice! Thanks!

very compact!

Paulo Cereda

@Rmano if I may: github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code and jetbrains.com/lp/mono

Rmano

5:58 PM

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 yes --- I used to use Inconsolata, but it is a bit too wide...

David Carlisle

@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 can't take any anymore, I am going to have to revert the last font change in my user stylesheet.

Rmano

@PauloCereda Oh, Cascadia seems nice. Will download and try

samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21

@DavidCarlisle :D

Paulo Cereda

@Rmano I use Cascadia in my editor. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Monaco here

Paulo Cereda

6:01 PM

@JosephWright ooh

@JosephWright ^^ ligatures in code :)

Rmano

6:23 PM

@PauloCereda Uy. I have conceallevel=0, that would be worse ;-P

Paulo Cereda

@Rmano ooh cuidado llamas!!

Canageek

7:25 PM

OK, don't have time to fix this now, but wow. I think that is the most annoying place LaTeX has ever chosen to insert a linebreak

How on earth is THAT allowed? o.0

I've retyped Therogravimetric from scratch to make sure there is nothing strange going on with it

David Carlisle

@Canageek it isn't allowed, you must have very non standard settings

Canageek

So I've messed up a setting somewhere. Efff.

That is going to be fun to track down

David Carlisle

what does \showthe\lefthyphenmin say ?

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Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle so not my fault, right?

David Carlisle

@Canageek everthing has been going wrong since @PauloCereda joined overleaf

@PauloCereda ^^^^^^^^^^^

Paulo Cereda

7:32 PM

@DavidCarlisle OH NO

Canageek

@DavidCarlisle Don't have time for a full recompile right now. Late to the lab already. I'll deal with that tomorrow.

David Carlisle

@Canageek oh it isn't even hyphphenated, I guess you must have a space after the T

Canageek

Found the error

\caption[Thermogravimetric analysis data taken on a sample of \refcmpd{lnwater.yb}]%
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) data taken on a sample of \refcmpd{lnwater.yb}.
Molecular weight (calculated from mass) (red) and the first derivative (blue) are plotted on separate axis. %
Data collected at \SI{2}{\degreeCelsius\per\minute}.

I forgot {} around the caption, and I guess that makes the T part of the caption and the rest...not?

David Carlisle

@Canageek yes same as \fbox abc is \fbox{a}bc

Canageek

As soon as I saw that it made sense

@PauloCereda Only if you are sneaking into my keyboard and making me make copy/paste errors.

But it sounds like, when in doubt, blame the duck is the current motto?

AndréC

8:29 PM

Hi everyone :-)

The solution given by @nox here does not work anymore.
What is wrong?

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A: How do I make ditto marks?

Since @samcarter was faster than me, I had to build some special functionality in my answer, borrowing some code from @egreg (link): \documentclass[aspectratio=1610]{beamer} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb} \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}...

There seems to be a problem with the babel package.

David Carlisle

@AndréC yes it works in 2020 but not 2021

AndréC

9:12 PM

@DavidCarlisle Should I ask a question on the site about this problem?

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle hm, I wonder if it has to do with the catcode keeping changes Bruno mentioned.

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