@JosephWright Good! That way a woman or a non-European are more likely to apply.

@CarLaTeX I think it partly reflects that depending on site size and age, 20k rep would be a highly-restrictive condition. From memory, the Powers provide various stats during the election, and one of those is I think number of flags raised, to show 'engagement' with mod-like stuff.

@CarLaTeX tex.stackexchange.com/election/1 is probably a good guide to the process ;)

@JosephWright Oh, I see, and there were many candidates, very good!

@CarLaTeX Indeed: I wonder if any of the people from last time will stand again

@JosephWright Some of them are no more active on the site, but I think other people will apply

@samcarter it says "page not found" :|

@PauloCereda LOL

@Plergux Oh no! I was a cat on a sheep. Here a replacement image: i.pinimg.com/originals/07/e3/96/…

@samcarter a tiger preparing lunch?

@DavidCarlisle {\tiny Tiger}`?

@AlanMunn The Staff usually call a 'Town Hall Meeting' I think, using a separate room - if they don't, I can

That's a good song

(check the lyrics)

@PauloCereda \lipsum[song]

@PhelypeOleinik ooh <3

@MarcelKrüger An l3build question. Looking at some stuff for pgf, I've got github.com/josephwright/pgf/commit/…. I think a 'nicer' way to keep-the-source structure would be good: thoughts?

@JosephWright rewrite the tool ooh a question

@PauloCereda app.element.io/#/room/#pgf-tikz:matrix.org

@JosephWright ooh

@MarcelKrüger Alternatively, I could stick with the suggestion made by Henri in app.element.io/#/room/#pgf-tikz:matrix.org, and read the list out of Git - would welcome thoughts from others too

@JosephWright I think there are two things we could look at here: One more general hook to allow modifying installmap for projects with special needs and then a separate one for purposes like this to just preserve some directories as a whole. Maybe providing a Lua dictionary which maps (source) directory names to installation locations and then just copies them as a whole.

@MarcelKrüger Would be good, yes

@JosephWright Then the question if they use the existing recursive globbing or rely on git is kind of independent, but I would just do a recursive copy for consistency and to avoid depending on the used version control system.

@MarcelKrüger Yes, I agree - feels better as a built-in for l3build

@JosephWright I currently can't compile the l3build documentation. Is there a general issue right now or did I just mess up my system?

@MarcelKrüger Let me check

@MarcelKrüger Working for me with texlua l3build.lua doc and an up-to-date Git checkout (which reminds me there is stuff to send to CTAN)

@JosephWright recursive copy of input structure is probably a useful feature but also making pgf not load 10000 files at runtime would probably improve its loading performance does it really need such a deep input tree (I realise that changing pgf isn't really an l3build question)

@DavidCarlisle That's one for Henri, not me :)

@samcarter Ah, I see. We have a picture like that. Except it's my sister sitting on the sheep and not a cat :þ

@Plergux :)

@DavidCarlisle Raise in app.element.io/#/room/#pgf-tikz:matrix.org?

@DavidCarlisle ... but, but, but -- when do you then get up and walk to the coffee maker if not during loading tikz?

@samcarter luapstricks has a feature for that (github.com/zauguin/luapstricks/issues/43). It's linked to \psMatrixPlot since I always thought that people who have to plot matrices should be given an excuse to do something else.

@MarcelKrüger :D useful feature!

@samcarter use picture mode and drink instant coffee

^^^ in case anyone wonders why the UK is not famous for their culinary art

@PauloCereda The music is even more impressive.

@AlanMunn :)

@MarcelKrüger Based on matrix.to/#/!NuxCISwYQJuyWwNsEI:matrix.org$66_6f-3KO1LI9mz6W4WjHUBtsJD996Qc1sM4jr4fkXE?via=matrix.org&via=tetaneutral.net&via=matrix.nicfab.it, I think I'll look at a 'just copy the entire source tree' option

@MarcelKrüger Well that link didn't work but see Henri's comments about the (to me strange) Lua sources

The inverse of "Eats, shoots, and leaves":

@barbarabeeton Just a single Oxford comma missing.

@StefanKottwitz -- Uh, no, I hope not. I really prefer not to eat uncooked crabs. An Oxford comma would actually be extraneous. (In my opinion.)

@barbarabeeton With cooked crack, preferances change anyway.

@StefanKottwitz -- I realize that, but am not tempted to try. Not at the prices that crab meat is commanding these days.

@barbarabeeton Crabs and commas are too much work anyways.

@StefanKottwitz -- Husband agrees with you about crabs; he grew up in lobster country. I guess you'd prefer to revert to no punctuation at all. What about spaces separating words? Would you toss them out too?

@barbarabeeton Did you already hear about Germans, spaces and words? I'm sure @DavidCarlisle mentioned something.

@StefanKottwitz -- Yes, I know about German and spaces. One of my degrees is in German literature. But I readily admit that I was thankful for the spaces that were present.

@Rmano thanks for helping out :)

@barbarabeeton Sometimes we are friendly and insert a single dash, such as somewhere in Aufmerksamkeitsdefizithyperaktivitätsstörung not sure where :-)

@StefanKottwitz -- Probably chose it because the part after the hyphen starts with an uppercase letter.

@barbarabeeton I edited for better understanding for Germans.

@StefanKottwitz Ich freue mich, dass du zugehört hast

@DavidCarlisle ADHD doesn't mean I would'nt notice triggers.

@PauloCereda Ohh, a card!

@DavidCarlisle You answered a question about LaTeX book cover pages, I cannot find it, do you have a link?

@DavidCarlisle my recent cover, that I would add to the thread:

@StefanKottwitz er I'll look I don't recall anything

that thingy is here: book link

@DavidCarlisle I'm sure I saw a book cover discussion some time ago, there were lions and the LaTeX birdy, and I think an answer by you

@DavidCarlisle not technically, like samples

@StefanKottwitz Very nice!

@DavidCarlisle I just want to add that one

@StefanKottwitz sorry don't recall anything and searching for likely words doesn't show anything

@StefanKottwitz so will your book teach @PauloCereda what a hummingbird looks like?

@DavidCarlisle thanks, I'll search again. I remember I saw a LaTeX book cover q&a thread when I thought, I'll add one later

@DavidCarlisle if it helps!

@StefanKottwitz Publication date?

@DavidCarlisle Next thing is the LaTeX Cookbook second edition, with a roasted duck on the cover, for @PauloCereda

@JosephWright October 6th

@StefanKottwitz excellent idea, or a vegetarian edition with pineapple pizza for @CarLaTeX

@DavidCarlisle You are mean

@DavidCarlisle we are mean

@StefanKottwitz -- That's today. May I advise you to keep watching jp1lib.org -- the first editions of a couple of your books are posted there for free download. I suspect it won't take too long for new editions to appear.

@barbarabeeton Good point, that site hurts authors who work for a living.

@DavidCarlisle I'm trying to remember, it could also have been a LaTeX logo thread.

@DavidCarlisle I found it!

@StefanKottwitz ah @CarLaTeX will see the last item in my answer and know I'm not mean.

@DavidCarlisle I will add bounties until I see a roasted duck as mascot in that thread.

ooh or a vegetarian logo with pineapples, of course

@JosephWright today :-)