TeX, LaTeX and Friends

8:33 AM

@JosephWright quack

@PauloCereda Quack

@JosephWright ooh a duck

@PauloCereda A duck with a book section to write ;)

@JosephWright ooh will it be about siunitx? :)

@PauloCereda Nope, not this time

8:35 AM

@JosephWright oh no

9:15 AM

@barbarabeeton I apologize to all tortoises and turtles out there which I might offended! :)

@samcarter ooh that turtle could be a shell-ebrity

/sad trombone

twitter.com/mueslix/status/1462098980142264325

The Alternative Big O notation:

O(1) = O(yeah)
O(log n) = O(nice)
O(n) = O(k)
O(n²) = O(my)
O(2ⁿ) = O(no)
O(n!) = O(mg!)
O(n!*n) = O(rly?)

I'd better give you an opportunity for using O(2ⁿ): breakfast

9:30 AM

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@DavidCarlisle O(no)

@DavidCarlisle quack.eps.gz

@PauloCereda :P

@PauloCereda invalid UTF-8 sequence

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@PauloCereda missing: O boy! O goody! O golly! O hell no! :þ

@Plergux ooh

9:32 AM

@PauloCereda Or the UK version: Fu*k this for a game of soldiers, I'm offsky. :þ

@Plergux also O(🍁) = O(Canada)

Q: How to supply images to documents unpacked by l3build

@PauloCereda should we tell the OP about the new allowducks=false default setting in l3build?

I have an module that I want to manage with l3build. Unpacking a docstrip file generates a tex file. l3build doc typesets that generated tex file. But I can't figure out how to configure build.lua to enable that process to see any images that should be included. My MWE is four files (all in a ...

@DavidCarlisle ooh

@PauloCereda O(feck!) = O'Leary :p

@Plergux ooh

9:35 AM

@PauloCereda I even think there was an O'Leary in Father Ted XD

@Plergux :)

10:01 AM

/making a happy duck dance: beamer compiles without warnings again thanks to the koma script update

mandatory duck dance link: media.giphy.com/media/ubx2SB9C4yNoY/giphy.gif

@samcarter ooh

10:27 AM

The next evolutionary stage after xkcdcolors: mushroom colours mushroomcoloratlas.com

@samcarter that is just \usepackage[monochrome]{color} and then eat some hallucinogenic mushrooms

@DavidCarlisle ahh :)

@samcarter just stare at the colortbl doc for long enough, for a similar effect

@DavidCarlisle you could market this as magic trick: stare at the colortbl doc for 5 minutes, then look at a white wall and you'll still see the sophisticated design :)

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11:38 AM

Unlike Lua, the kpse lua searcher doesn't say which paths it is searching. It just produces:

[kpse lua searcher] file not found: 'foobarbaz'

Any way of getting it to be more chatty?

@FaheemMitha set KPATHSEA_DEBUG to -1 see section 8.3 of the kpathsea manual

@DavidCarlisle OK. That's a Unix environmental variable?

Or maybe environment variable. I forget.

@FaheemMitha yes (not just unix) or same via --kpathsea-debug=NUMBER see luatex --help

@DavidCarlisle OK, will check, thank you.

I thought environment variables were Unix-specific. My mistake.

@FaheemMitha even windows has an environment

12:02 PM

@DavidCarlisle Oh.

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7:00 PM

ooh twitter.com/schwarz_willi/status/1462755650157658121

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8:15 PM

Beethoven 7th, 2nd movement. Ahhhh. :)

@AlanMunn That was the guy who used hashtags before Twitter.

barbara beeton

@AlanMunn -- Yes!

found it

@StefanKottwitz Three of them, in fact. :)

8:27 PM

@StefanKottwitz XD

@StefanKottwitz That joke falls flat on non-musicians.

@AlanMunn it's for musicians only :-)

like, everybody here

@AlanMunn so did that one

@DavidCarlisle It wasn't accidental.

Ulrike Fischer

@AlanMunn A-flat or B-flat?

8:30 PM

@UlrikeFischer when earthquake come a flat b flat. :þ

@StefanKottwitz XD

@StefanKottwitz How many altos does it take to change a light bulb?

@Plergux They can’t get up that high!

@StefanKottwitz ~~\(^-^)/~~~

@StefanKottwitz This one doesn't really work from a music theory perspective.

8:36 PM

@AlanMunn shush! is funny! :þ

@AlanMunn we were drunk :-)