@PauloCereda Actually there are three fighters: two in TeX Live and one from the Libertine website. Some are the same, some are different, and the three sets all have different cardinalities. And then there's Biolinum and Mono...
@Brent.Longborough For dedication pages I recommend something like \cleardoublepage\thispagestyle{empty}\vspace*{\stretch{1}}\begin{flushright}The dedication\\maybe in two lines\end{flushright}\vspace{\stretch{2}}\cleardoublepage so there will be twice as much space below than above.
@PauloCereda Is the mouseover thingy on the xkcd question working for you? I can't make it work on my FF but works with chrome and that thing which has the initials of It's Enough.
@DavidCarlisle Bruce Schneier is a crypto/security person,and there are a number of "Bruce Schneier Facts" sites attributing assorted superpowers. It just struck me that we ought to do something similar for you, as the sort of teX Superman round here... :)
pgfplotstable offers the iflessthan key to define a custom comparison function:
/pgfplots/iflessthan/.code args={##1##2##3##4}{<...>}
I just don't know how to use it, there's no example in the manual. What I'd like to do is to sort a table by a column that contains integers, but they are ...
@Brent.Longborough "Why did the duck walk the Moebius strip..."?
and @Brent, you're right, you cannot cross Moebius strip. The only thing you can cross is a Klein bottle, but only to get from outside to outside, not the other way around!
@PauloCereda The second (surviving) son of Wolfgang. He was a pupil of Salieri and Hummel (who had been a child prodigy himself and studied with Wolfgang). He became a talented performer and composer, but had a "convitato di pietra" next to him. He was four months old when his father died.
Apparently, folk have figured out how to make xkcd style graphs in mathematica and LaTeX. Can we do it in R? Ggplot2-ers? A geom_xkcd and/or theme_xkcd?
I guess in base graphics, par(xkcd=TRUE)? How to do it...
And the last sentence is hilarious (attention @Paulo): The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
@Gnintendo In theory yes, we already have a pack for 3.x. :) When we reach the stable state, I'll provide a proper installer. :)
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@AndrewStacey The duck drank from the Klein bottle to prepare for crossing the Mobius strip. It crossed the Mobius strip to get to the Klein bottle to drink.
@PauloCereda K207 playing now. I heard it played in two magnificent places in Venice: the "Scuola di San Rocco", in a hall with the wall covered with paintings by Tintoretto, and the nearby church of "Santa Maria dei Frari", with the famouse altar piece by Tiziano.
@percusse I think he just wants to sort the index columns as integers except they can be big and there is missing data so he wants to use a custom comparison function
@Gnintendo hehe don't worry, it happens a lot. :) Trivia: with 3.x, we can override the default behaviour and make arara recognize %arara:, but let's wait for the final version. :)
@DavidCarlisle Yes I was about to ask that to you. It's impossible to get a solution with that. Ryan Reich wrote a package to listen to pgfkeys but I'm bad at using it either.
@percusse it's not really fair to expect to start using a layered system like pgfplotstable on pgfplots on pgf just by flicking through the manual for the top layer, but still it's annoying when it doesn't work:-)
I'm sure if you're reading this question you are already familiar with my love for pgfkeys. However, it is absolutely impossible to debug: \tracingmacros is a total mess, with every key expanding to dozens of complex internal macros. I would like to be able to debug it the same way I can debug ...
@DavidCarlisle Ooh, he's competitive alright, better not invite him to a duel. We would like to answer some questions occasionally too. If you guys start with TikZ we're done. Heiko started already with that so he's gaining ground on both of you.
I meant other than a trial-and-error method: it's not necessarily ease that I was looking for, that was sort of a misnomer. I was moreso looking for a reliable way to get exactly the same size.
I don't want to make my zig zag look more like a line, I want it to look more like a sine curve with the same amplitude
@percusse That's just making the jagged lines not go out as far, it's not eliminating them
Not to mention I want them to go out as far as they were
The main problem with this implementation is that it primarily works because we are looking at the figure as a whole, proper inspection easily notes these are just a bunch of straight lines. Is there some way to use an actual curve and still achieve the same type of effect or to smooth this without getting rid of the effect?'
@Gnintendo You have a very distinctive way of explaining things and I really don't get it. There is no wizardry going on, of course it's bunch of straight lines that's what samples decide. otherwise you have to compute gazillions of control points for Bezier curves or you have to write up a new decoration as I did in Simulating hand-drawn lines question.
@Gnintendo With this decoration, this is what you can get. I know it's not the proper way of doing it but it's just fun to do. Further details need more detailed and nontrivial effort.
@Gnintendo Well isn't it a valid possibility on a chat conversation? Maybe you can be a little more clear on the specifications. Because right now it's pretty vague and requires some guess work.
@egreg Wonderful. Once these new commands get released, I should get around to updating some posts where I patch formats. I think we should also add xpatch to the list of "recommended packages" in the biblatex manual. I'll run that by Phil soon.
@egreg I can relate to that. :) Though Mac has IMHO the best DCVS visual app I've ever seen: SourceTree. Highly recommended. :) My only use of git or hg is pull, push, clone, status, add, rm and commit. :)
pgfplotstable offers the iflessthan key to define a custom comparison function:
/pgfplots/iflessthan/.code args={##1##2##3##4}{<...>}
I just don't know how to use it, there's no example in the manual. What I'd like to do is to sort a table by a column that contains integers, but they are ...
Apparently, folk have figured out how to make xkcd style graphs in mathematica and LaTeX. Can we do it in R? Ggplot2-ers? A geom_xkcd and/or theme_xkcd?
I guess in base graphics, par(xkcd=TRUE)? How to do it...
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