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Qrrbrbirlbel

12:02 AM

Ok, this expanding stuff gets on my nerves …

Peter Grill

12:49 AM

@Qrrbrbirlbel Yeah I know what you mean...

Qrrbrbirlbel

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A: Aligning text in S columns in a way that respects the decimal marker for numerical entries

Let me say three things before: This is not an only-SIunitx solution. Sadly, table-text-alignment doesn't take decimal-marker :( I provide two macros: \widestparts{<before decimal marker>}{<after decimal marker>} \tcenter{<text to center at the decimal marker>} I tried to ma...

@PeterGrill I posted my attempt. I also tried all sorts of \edefs, \csnames and \expandafters but with no luck ... :(

Peter Grill

@Qrrbrbirlbel I thought your first attempt worked -- perhaps I did not pay enough attention when I tested it.

Qrrbrbirlbel

@PeterGrill Yes, it worked. But you have to provide the full number (e.g. 123456798 and 000). I think a much better solution would be to just provide the number of digits (e.g. 9 and 3) similar to table-format=9.3.

Peter Grill

@Qrrbrbirlbel Yeah looking at it, I just realized that. Not sure I can help with that though, but will look at it.

Qrrbrbirlbel

@PeterGrill Thanks. Much appreciated. :)

The next step would be to take these numbers directly from the SIunitx settings (similar to \pgfkeysgetvalueof) but as this probably relies on LaTeX3 I'm out. ;)

Peter Grill

12:57 AM

@Qrrbrbirlbel Wait, I just said I would try -- and that would just be hacking -- I have MANY questions posted here where the problem was expansion, so even if guess correctly it does not mean it is correct -- but always fun (and fursterating) to tryto guess this stuff.. :-)

@Qrrbrbirlbel Yep, same here.. I will one day go there, but haven't yet.

Qrrbrbirlbel

@PeterGrill Yes, I should have taken notes which \expandafter combination I already tried. At one point I got frustrated and just threw those \expandafters around … didn't help, though.

Peter Grill

@Qrrbrbirlbel I know exactly what you mean. I too end up just throwing them away...

Qrrbrbirlbel

@PeterGrill Hehe.

Here, for the record: I'm awesome!

@Qrrbrbirlbel - You are awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for. — Raama 12 mins ago

Oh, I just found Up :D (doesn't need Ctrl)

Is there something similar to responding?

Peter Grill

1:15 AM

@Qrrbrbirlbel You still here? Might have something for you.

Its more of a hack but I think it might do the job.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgffor}

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\widestparts}[2]{%
	\alex@widestpartauxloop{\alex@widestpartleft}{#1}{9}
	\alex@widestpartauxloop{\alex@widestpartright}{#2}{0}
	\typeout{alex@widestpartleft = \alex@widestpartleft}
	\typeout{alex@widestpartright = \alex@widestpartright}
}

% tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14393/…
\def\@WidestPartTemp{}
\newcommand*{\alex@widestpartauxloop}[3]{%
	\def\@WidestPartTemp{}%

Oh, i had to resort to pgf for the \foreach, but you should be able to use this with other looping mechanisms

Qrrbrbirlbel

2:13 AM

@PeterGrill Darn it! You learn something new every day!

Peter Grill

@Qrrbrbirlbel Hope it was helpful. I refer to that question of mine quite often.

Qrrbrbirlbel

@PeterGrill Interestingly enough I already upvoted your question but can't remember it.

Peter Grill

@Qrrbrbirlbel :-) Yeah, been there, done that. Actually I had even better incident: I was reading an answer and thought "Wow, this is exactly what I am looking for", and started cutting and pasting the code I needed. Only at the end did I realize it was one of my answers.

Qrrbrbirlbel

@PeterGrill Fantastic. :D

Update: tex.stackexchange.com/a/79241/16595

That's it for me today, really! </procrastination>

Peter Grill

3:13 AM

@Qrrbrbirlbel I think you are in the wrong room. It should be \end{procrastination}. :-)

doncherry

4:21 AM

@PauloCereda: I was just using texdoc.net once again (thanks to you and Stefan a thousand!), when I noticed something that almost let me doubt it actually was you who is involved in this project: Why does texdoc.net not have a favicon? I'd think a duck would be quite appropriate here ;)

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Peter Grill

6:54 AM

@DavidCarlisle: I know it won't last, but this should get your day off to good start:

egreg

7:41 AM

GuIT meeting 2012 started! And David got his tikz-pgf badge!

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Peter Grill

@egreg Congratulations @DavidCarlise. Looks like you are now a recognized expert in \tikz-pgf. I really hope that GuIT is not in English, otherwise I'd be tempted to go in 2013...

ガベージコレクタ

7:58 AM

@JasperLoy: Hi. What is your activity today?

Stack Exchange

Joseph Wright has added an event to this room's schedule.

Joseph Wright

Regrettably, I'm busy next Saturday evening, but I'm sure other people will want to have the event ;-)

@egreg Will there be videos?

ガベージコレクタ

8:52 AM

@All: Who is a mechanical engineer here? I need your help about paper feeder or paper drum transfer.

ガベージコレクタ

9:20 AM

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Q: What mechanical parts are easy to get and use to build a paper feeder?

I have a project to scan 2 millions of answer sheets that will be processed later with Image Processing Software to extract the data. As a production scanner is beyond our budget, I want to assembly a simple apparatus to replace the scanner. Shortly speaking, I need the mechanical part to transf...

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