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12:14 AM
@kan are you using ubuntu ?
 
kan
@texenthusiast Yes. 12. 10. Oh, and BTW, I did not reply to your last message, because I fell asleep after a few minutes. :)
 
@kan no worries :) do you see this often
 
@kan Oh my.
 
kan
@texenthusiast No... almost never. Looks like ubuntu has been popular the last month and has been on the decline for the past year...
@PauloCereda Does not sound like a good idea? :)
Actually, I am not sure, I like KDE.
Close to the windows clutter... KDE Wallet for chrome and whatnot.
 
@kan Well, it's worth a shot. :)
 
12:27 AM
Another milestone coming up:
 
12:59 AM
@GonzaloMedina @PeterGrill I suggest to not use the diameter of a circle to define its size but rather its area. (A circle with a doubled diameter will look four times bigger.) But then again, the Op hasn’t specified much.
 
@Qrrbrbirlbel What??? When did they discover how to figure out the area of the circle? :-) Duh!!!!
Great idea btw...
 
Lots of TeX-related discussions today. Apparently I can't go away from here.
 
@PeterGrill Did someone say pie? :D
 
@PauloCereda Psmith was missed:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle awwww. :)
 
1:02 AM
Yeah, \pi r round (not square)
 
@David: soon I'll have 3G in my phone, so I'll make a mobile bot as well. :)
And yes, Brazil doesn't have 4G coverage. :)
 
 
2 hours later…
2:38 AM
@PauloCereda “Hey! Don’t forget the tail!”
 
 
2 hours later…
4:32 AM
@Qrrbrbirlbel @lockstep I don’t understand why you accpeted this edit: http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/18762
The quasi-anonymous editor even put an “I” in the edit, making it seem like a statement by the real answerer, which it certainly isn’t, at least the number of posts by the answerer doesn’t make it look like there are account issues.
 
kan
@topskip Exclusive member. Well done! :)
 
 
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6:13 AM
@egreg Oops, sorry
 
 
3 hours later…
9:22 AM
Martin Scharrer update: 41 to go 100K
 
Hello everyone, can I ask an English usage question? I have the following sentence
We show that the improvement is also visible in the experiments shown in the next section since the resulting worst-case $\mathcal{L}_2$ gains which tell very little, if not any, about the real-time implementation performance.
Is it if not any or if not none?
 
it'd be none
think about this which tells very little about vs. which tells very any about
 
@SeanAllred Ah got it. But does it sound weird? To me it does .
 
(although I'd say if not nothing at all, to be clearer) and yes, @texenthusiast it does sound a little weird - at least as a layman
 
maybe I should change the whole sentence.
 
10:05 AM
I'd make the clauses a bit more definite
 
@SeanAllred I'm a confused person :)
 
@percusse No you aren't. <3
 
@texenthusiast perhaps We will show that this improvement is also visible through experimentation in the next section, since the resulting...
 
@PauloCereda Oh yes, I'm confused sorry
@SeanAllred Let me work on it again. Thank you.
 
@SeanAllred come again ?
 
10:08 AM
or maybe by the experiments instead of through experimentation - what I think is making it sound weird is the two adjacent in the clauses.
@texenthusiast ?
 
At the Fedora 19 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, it was
agreed to Go with the Fedora 19 Alpha by Fedora QA, release engineering,
FPL, FPGM and development.

Fedora 19 Alpha will be publicly available on Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
 
@SeanAllred logo question ?
 
woohoo
 
I think you're a mind reader... I had a question.. but I don't remember asking it...
@texenthusiast how, in fact, did you convert the svg to png?
 
@SeanAllred I think you were pinging @texenthusiast instead of me when replying
 
10:10 AM
@percusse "if any" but the sentence is already quite contorted so you could just not say that phrase at all.
 
oh whoops. Yep, my bad.
 
@SeanAllred see this convert tool
 
@DavidCarlisle I agree. I'm on page 170 and I'm out of grammar :)
 
The Joker will now have a daughter in the comics. Please, Marvel. No.
 
@SeanAllred if you have a univ latex template it will have a .eps logo which you can use.
 
10:14 AM
@texenthusiast I'd be surprised if anyone outside UCD-CASL (the cs department) used LaTeX at all. (Except, of course, the mathematics department.) It was a struggle to get the instructions for the project in a PDF.
 
@SeanAllred thats how latex is known to others everywhere. we have to make them know nicely
 
@texenthusiast I've just got so much rage! XD It's difficult to educate someone who simply doesn't want the extra information (and by educate, I mean say that there is more to life than Word and Pages)
 
@SeanAllred persistent patience is what latex taught me
 
@SeanAllred it isn't really a latex issue though really, what would your university do if you were doing the poster in Word?
 
@DavidCarlisle They would give me the same crappy resolution JPEG image to slap onto the document. It'd fit right in! (But in all honesty, they would probably give me a higher-resolution version.)
The trouble is that this is an introductory module; I'm still an undergrad (senior next year), and the module coordinator doesn't really know how to handle it.
He's under a lot of stress admittedly, but he's having a hard time juggling his responsibilities.
I did eventually get an EPS version to use late last night, so kudos to his string-pulling.
 
10:26 AM
@SeanAllred Well whatever they give you for Word you can use in latex so it's not a technology or latex question, either they have high resolution (or better, scalable) versions of the image they will give you, or they won't. If it's the latter then LaTeX can't really do much about it. When I was an undergrad we used pen and paper so it wasn't an issue:-)
@SeanAllred ah, so it's sorted then, you should self answer to finish that question, or should we close as too localised?
 
@DavidCarlisle I can only imagine doing this with paste and paper XD Perhaps I should have just cut-out the logo from one of their advertisement-posters and pasted it on mine
@DavidCarlisle I'm not sure about closing it, but I'll self-answer to alleviate any impressions of urgency from the question.
It could be too localized, but I can see myself in this scenario again in the future.
 
10:41 AM
@SeanAllred take good screenshot of website logo in png , that would suffice. other than that it's all your game now. talk to librarian is also good option may be.
 
@DavidCarlisle: you should answer this question:
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Q: How to increase pool size in MiKTeX 2.9

MatthaeusI'm using MiKTex 2.9.4196 with TeXnicCenter 2.0 beta on Windows 7. As I have to compile very large tikzpictures I use tikz externalize. Nevertheless some tikzpicture still produce an error. ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=3147270]. I already did increase the main memory, but I couldn...

with this epic comment:
Aug 23 '12 at 14:09, by David Carlisle
@AndrewStacey nah nah na nah nah: my pool is bigger than your pool
:)
 
10:54 AM
@PauloCereda Too long for David ;-)
 
@MarcoDaniel ooh. :)
 
@PauloCereda epic comments are reserved for this:
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A: What are epic macro, eepic macro and eepicemu macro in xfig?

David CarlisleThey are all very old. I'm not sure when epic started but the extended eepic manual is dated 1988. epic is an extended latex picture mode, but like picture mode uses TeX fonts and rules for drawing so is a bit limited and slow. eepic uses tpic specials to draw lines and circles eepicemu is an em...

 
@DavidCarlisle: Will you add the information about LaTeX2e tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109436/… -- \DeclareMathSymbol
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh my! :)
 
@MarcoDaniel probably, but I decided to have a life instead last night:-)
 
10:57 AM
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
@PauloCereda how did you find and/or remember that?
 
@DavidCarlisle I have a good memory. :)
@JosephWright: will you migrate siunitx to GitHub?
 
questions questions, should I find a couple of questions I could vote on to push Martin over the line....
 
11:14 AM
hi
quick question to the floor:
is the \multirow pkg kosher ?
meaning:
is it considered the best way of achieving a cell spanning multiple rows in a table ?
 
@nuttyaboutnatty yes but tex really doesn't do row spanning that well so it is the standard answer but it comes with lots of ifs and buts and special conditions.
 
@nuttyaboutnatty I believe that it is the only at least a bit automated way
 
thanks!
 
PALINDROME Alert: @MartnScharrer at 99,999
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@DavidCarlisle damn, 55555 yesterday, 99999 today, who else?
 
11:18 AM
@tohecz Knuth is on 00000
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@PauloCereda Exploring the possibility
@PauloCereda At the moment, the issue is the issues :-)
 
OMG we need @egreg to welcome @MartinScharrer to the 100k club!
@JosephWright Ah I see. :)
 
user image
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If we \rotatebox{180} him, it's still a palindrome. :)
 
The train just left the station.
 
11:23 AM
Oh no, someone spoiled the moment! Now Martin is +100k!
 
And I'm proud of welcoming @MartinScharrer as an honourable member of the 100K club!
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Two Germans in the club: they'll try to take over it. ;-)
 
@egreg LOL
We have an interesting duel now: David and lockstep. :)
 
@MartinScharrer I'm very happy for your achievement: 100K means having been very helpful for the TeX.sx community which you also serve as moderator. It's great to be in such a group of people who are not only TeX devotee, but also want to share their knowledge with all the community.
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@PauloCereda Interesting? I don't think so.
 
@egreg: soon you will be in the 200k club, which is even more exclusive. :)
 
11:46 AM
@PauloCereda I've found the API docs for GitHub, and you can make issues this way. So I wonder why I can't find a simple tool to send the exported data from BitBucket (which is in JSON format). Can't be the only person to try to do this!
 
@JosephWright Could you send me the link for the API? I can write one tool for you. :)
 
Of course, moving from Mercurial to Git will still mess up the commit links, but that I can probably live with
 
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Q: Is there something between singlespace and onehalfspace?

user3232Perhaps there is a trivial solution for this, but I wonder if there is anything between singlespace and onehalfspace. The reason is that, when I use singlespace it seems to be very compact while onehalfspace puts more space between lines than I would like it to.

Is "fear and despair" a valid answer?
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:)
 
kan
:)
 
@PauloCereda oneandaquarterspace
!!/battle
@PauloCereda ^^^
 
11:54 AM
@DavidCarlisle You get a tick for a non working answer (try putting a fraction in the first cases line), while I used a not so well known package (delarray, do you know it?) for precise positioning. ;-)
 
@egreg never use my packages: shockingly unreliable.
 
@PauloCereda Sorry if I'm pointing out the obvious, but did you try to google for migrate from bitbucket to github issues? There seems be a couple who has tried it before.
 
@TorbjørnT. They all seem rather complex: I'm surprised that the two sites don't both have 'migrate to us' tools built in, to be honest
 
@egreg is it clear what the answer should be with a fraction in the top case: I'd have assumed the OP just wanted a visual look of aligning at the top thing however nested the structure. top cases Of course you won't get exact baseline alignment but... (meanwhile I should go and look at your answer:-)
 
@TorbjørnT. For example, top hit is gist.github.com/nidico/3778347, but it says 'To use it, install python-bitbucket, PyGithub and ipdb'
 
11:58 AM
@JosephWright Ok, I didn't really look more closely into any of them. Sorry for the noise.
 
@TorbjørnT. I may of course have missed something easy
@TorbjørnT. BitBucket has an 'export issues' option, so I'd hoped you could simply do the reverse on GitHub. But you can't (or I can't find it)
 
@egreg I gave you a +1 in compensation
 
12:10 PM
@DavidCarlisle I could open a proper question for this, but maybe you can tell me off-hand:
I'm trying to reconcile this paste.ubuntu.com/5721392 (from the multirow manual)
with tabulary
(I've lost count and track of the error messages it produces)
 
@TorbjørnT. Oh, I always miss those links. :)
!!/battle
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The current score is egreg 230 vs. 260 David. So far, David is winning.
OMG BREAKING NEWS
@egreg: ^^
Andrew Stacey on April 18, 2013

It has finally happened. The tikzmark has burst its bonds and is loose upon an unsuspecting TeX public. We can only hope that they are spared the worst of it.

No-one, repeat no-one, should download it from CTAN unless they truly understand the consequences of using the tikzmark. There is a tikzmark support group for those who find themselves (ab)using it and who need help.

The \tikzmark macro burst onto the scene in a blaze of glory on TeX-SX. Since then, it has proved embarrassingly (to its original author) popular. The idea behind it is extremely simple: that the machinery underneath TikZ pro …

@AndrewStacey: Great blog post, Andrew!
 
@nuttyaboutnatty I just tried it and got no error:
\noindent\begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{|C|C|}
\hline
\multirow{4}{1in}{Common g text} & Column g2a\\
      & Column g2b \\
      & Column g2c \\
      & Column g2d \\
\hline

\multirow{4}*{\minitab[c]{Common \\ g text}} & Column g2a\\
      & Column g2b \\
      & Column g2c \\
      & Column g2d \\
\hline
\end{tabulary}
@PauloCereda Not sure about the last line.
 
I like mwe , standalone, texdef and macros2e and many more by martin scharrer, i think there is no TeX Q & A that does not use standalone such a great sensible tool. Thanks to him for his contributions in all hats on this eve. A silent warrior.
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12:31 PM
@PauloCereda I won yesterday I think as well but Psmith wasn't here to record it:(
 
@TorbjørnT. I gave the top hit a try: no joy :-( Once I'd installed the various support modules, I get an error about comments, and if I comment out that line in the script I get another error. I know no Python, so that's a bit tricky.
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh! :)
 
12:59 PM
@PauloCereda I've tried two of the BitBucket-to-GitHub scripts (github.com/vbabiy/bitbucket_issue_migration and gist.github.com/nidico/3778347): no joy with either :-(
 
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Q: If the plural of ‘man’ is ‘men,’ shouldn’t the plural of ‘German’ be ‘Germen’?

Adra ElkinsWhat's makes these two words so different that 'man' is changed to 'men', but 'German' is changed to 'Germans'?

We humen like to bend rules and be creative. — progo 3 hours ago
 
@PauloCereda :-)
 
@PauloCereda The duck jacket is ready! :-)
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@NicolaTalbot Wow! It's awesome! :)
That's one classy duck! :)
 
@PauloCereda He looks very nonchalant in that picture! :-)
 
1:11 PM
@NicolaTalbot It looks just like @PauloCereda's garden!
 
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot It's like the penguins of Madagascar say, "Smile and wave, boys! Smile and wave." :)
@DavidCarlisle Hey! There are no caimans here... yet.
 
@DavidCarlisle your perspective please: Is asymptote really a TeX based graphics , it claims "inspired by MP and written in C++". How can we link up/lace it with others TeX friends in your one-liner
 
@PauloCereda You have to wait for page 16 for the caiman :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot ooh spoiler alert! :)
 
1:14 PM
@NicolaTalbot I take it the date for the UK-TUG course is OK with you?
 
@texenthusiast I wonder if the fact that I've never seen any asymptote code or documentation should inhibit me from reviewing it....
 
@JosephWright Yes, it's fine. I'm sorry I didn't reply. I've spent the last few days editing images, and it's been so time-consuming I haven't done much communicating.
 
@NicolaTalbot Fine
 
All the characters, little birds, bees, butterflies etc had to be individually positioned on each backdrop!
 
@JosephWright: can I talk about ducks in the UK-TUG duck course?
 
1:19 PM
@PauloCereda Thanks.
 
@PauloCereda :-)
 
I think I read Euler in an answer! :)
Lisez Euler, lisez Euler! C'est notre maître à tous!
 
1:34 PM
Cool, I got an email to receive an SE swag package for reaching 100k.
 
@MartinScharrer :-)
@MartinScharrer There will be another couple soon, by the look of the user list
 
@JosephWright Yes, David and lockstep are pretty close as well.
@texenthusiast Thanks! I'm happy that my packages are so useful to others.
 
@MartinScharrer: Congrats Martin! :)
 
@PauloCereda Thanks!
@egreg Thank you very much.
 
Jägermeister for everybody!
!!/eightball Can I drink it too?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: my reply is no.
Stupid bot.
 
1:42 PM
@MartinScharrer Congratulations!
 
!!/eightball Can David drink it too?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: as I see it, yes.
 
@MartinScharrer Congrats too :)
 
Thanks guys!
 
:set party-mode on
 
@PauloCereda Have you upset Psmith? Maybe he wants some ice cream.
 
1:46 PM
!!/song
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Paulo is listening to Turn the page, from Metallica.
!!/eightball Dear Psmith, do you want some ice cream? :_
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: don't you think emacs is great?
@Nicola: ^^ oh no!
 
@PauloCereda Someone's subverted Psmith! Is he an emacs double-agent?
 
@NicolaTalbot I'll investigate.
 
@PauloCereda I like Euler too! I got a book of him, and I like the fancy typographic design
 
@StefanKottwitz :)
 
@PauloCereda Want to see an example?
 
1:49 PM
@StefanKottwitz Sure! :)
 
@PauloCereda I'll make a photo of a page break ...
 
@PauloCereda vim users not invited
 
@DavidCarlisle Oh.
 
@StefanKottwitz Cool!
 
1:55 PM
@PauloCereda Today they forgot this kind of hyphenation :-o
 
@StefanKottwitz :)
 
@StefanKottwitz do you know when they'd set the last line flush right like that, just if there was a single part word?
 
@DavidCarlisle Actually on most pages: the last line contains flush right the first word (or part of it) from the following page
 
@StefanKottwitz ohhh I think I saw that before somewhere. Where's @FrankMittelbach when you need to reconsider paragraphs....
 
@DavidCarlisle I should post a question how to generate such page breaks
perhaps not so easy
 
2:02 PM
I've got a set of Jane Austin books where the first word of the next page is set flush right like that on the previous page.
 
Germen typography? :)
(See link to the English.sx question in the starred messages list)
 
@PauloCereda :-)
 
@StefanKottwitz lua would probably help
 
2:20 PM
@DavidCarlisle what's this about?
@StefanKottwitz what's this about?
what precisely is the spec in your opinion?
 
@FrankMittelbach See the picture above, placing the (partial) word from the top of the next page at the bottom of this one.
 
@FrankMittelbach It's a page breaking style of a book from 1770
 
@FrankMittelbach We were talking about Euler, and Stefan showed a photo from one of his books. :)
 
I got all that, but a picture is not a spec
is it only the case when it is a single word
or is the last line set like this
or when the last line is less than 50% or ...
 
@PauloCereda I like old math books :-) you should visit me ;-)
@FrankMittelbach Without having a spec, I can tell you the cases I see -
 
2:24 PM
@StefanKottwitz I will. :) Germany is a mandatory visit for me, if I go to Europe (together with Italy and UK). :)
Think of Stefan's wi-fi speed. /oooooohhhhhh
 
if you have many examples that makes it more easily to deduce or guess a spec
 
@FrankMittelbach that was my question:
28 mins ago, by David Carlisle
@StefanKottwitz do you know when they'd set the last line flush right like that, just if there was a single part word?
 
andthe answer was?
 
@FrankMittelbach unspecific
 
Almost every time, about up to 5 letters from the first word (or formula) are taken and put flush right at the bottom of the previous page
 
2:25 PM
We could submit the scans to an image processing algorithm, then apply some Bayesian stuff, then other boring postprocessing, and we can get some rules from the set. :)
 
even if a new chapter follows: its Capi= at the end of the previous page
 
@DavidCarlisle Let's use Prolog, the answers are easier: yes and no. :)
 
also parts of formulas
I guess more a strict rule than a nice way
 
@StefanKottwitz but this is something totally different from the example above or not?
 
@PauloCereda or APL as it doesn't matter what the answer is because you can't read the question.
 
2:27 PM
@DavidCarlisle LOL
 
some seconds, got a phone call
 
!!/eightball Is David correct in his predictions about the specs?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: most likely.
@DavidCarlisle: ^^ that's enough proof for me. :)
 
@PauloCereda Ooh, we could all arrange your itinerary! :-)
 
@NicolaTalbot Yay! I want to go to that James Bond-like ferris wheel. :)
 
@FrankMittelbach It's always similar to the example. I will add pictures.
 
2:33 PM
And I want to take a picture beside that royal guard with a big black cottonstick on his head.
 
@PauloCereda lol :-)
 
III. Heading ... follows on the next page
 
quite different from the example earlier
 
a new Capitel follows
A table (Tabelle) follows
These are some cases of page endings
 
3:14 PM
@PauloCereda If you're in Berlin, I can show you around!
 
@topskip Oh I'd love to visit Berlin!
 
@PauloCereda + you can stay here in my appartement of course
so no more excuse not to visit Berlin :)
 
@topskip ooh! :)
@topskip: Marco will hit me with his car. :)
 
3:52 PM
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A: Generating random numbers without repetitions

gramesSome time ago we found this code on the internet: \input random \newcount\icount \newcount\i \newcount\j % Define a new item. \def\defitem{% \advance\icount by1 % Define a macro with the name `n' where n is the item's number. \expandafter\def \csname \number\icount \endcsname } % Printin...

Er... I think we need a random file, don't we?
Ah ok, we have a /texmf-dist/tex/generic/genmisc/random.tex.
 
@PauloCereda Or just use the elegant code in the other answer.
 
@DavidCarlisle Of course. :)
 
@StefanKottwitz the fwlw (first word-last word) package might be useful. See also this:
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Q: Catchwords: Print first word from next page at bottom of current page

ErasmI would like to typeset catchwords. That is, I would like to put a “preview” of the next page’s first word at the bottom of every page. An example taken from the Wikipedia page linked above: The next page begins with the word (actually word fragment in this particular case) “dos”, and so tha...

 
4:11 PM
@GonzaloMedina oh one of Donald A's: it may even work then:-)
 
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A: Selecting random elements from a comma separated list

egregHere's a version with xparse and LaTeX3 code, with the help of the random.tex file by D. Arsenau \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse} \input{random} \ExplSyntaxOn \NewDocumentCommand{\htguse}{ m } { \use:c { htg_arg_#1: } } \NewDocumentCommand{\selectNrandom}{ m m m } { \htg_selec...

 
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
@egreg removing from the list is more right (if more slow) than "keep trying until you get a new item" though:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle thanks! this time your example does work for me, too
However, joining it up with my main table fails for reasons I cannot fathom, yet: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109634/…
 
@DavidCarlisle When looking for a prime one uses the "keep trying" approach.
 
4:17 PM
@egreg oopsie. :)
 
Help appreciated, as always
 
@egreg Yes well I believe those lists may not be finite:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle I always ask students when they believe it was proved that there are infinitely many primes: "more or less than one century ago?" Then "two centuries" and so on. :)
 
@egreg depends on list size of course, if you have 100 items and you are trying to select the 98'th one you may have to try a lot of times before you get a hit.
@egreg They should know by the time they get to you (sure I learned that at school:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Schools have changed in the meantime.
 
4:20 PM
@egreg so have I
 
@egreg So this is how you spend the first 30 minutes of your lessons? ;-)
 
@egreg Actually I don't think my old maths teacher ever really bothered about the official curriculum he just taught us what he liked (and let most of the class be hopelessly lost) Kind of useful for some of us but I'm not sure it's a recommended educational approach...
 
@DavidCarlisle He was a true teacher then.
 
@GonzaloMedina When possible I try to tell stories about math and mathematicians. It helps in convincing the students that math is not something written on stone by some unattainable being.
 
@egreg I usually do the same. It's highly motivational.
Is the notification system broken? I got four comments to one of my answers and received no notification. I just found them by chance when revisiting the answer.
 
4:42 PM
speaking of maths education: more helpful advice from my usual source:
 
4:54 PM
nice one
 
@DavidCarlisle No! Every time you post a xkcd link, I feel compelled to go there and repeatedly click on the random button!
 
People are odd!
 
5:13 PM
@GonzaloMedina They are. :(
!!/eightball are you odd, Psmith?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: yes.
o.O
 
$\operatorname{people}(x) = - \operatorname{people}(x)$
 
@NicolaTalbot hehe!
 
5:44 PM
> \begin{chat}
And what if I put the `\end{chat}` comment here?
 
!!/eightball O great oracle, should we ban @m0nhawk for trying to close our chatroom? :)
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: it is certain.
The oracle has spoken!
:)
 
I'm a first one who want to try this?
 
@m0nhawk I think so. :)
Of course, @DavidCarlisle has an emacs command that probably does this. :P
 
@PauloCereda M-x terminate-annoying-chat
 
@egreg Oh no!
Wait a minute, I could run Psmith inside emacs...
 
5:50 PM
I'm just thinking of pop up the old question: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/3164/9790
I think this would be a great feature, especially with a standard on this.
 
@egreg: I listened to this jewel while coming back home. There's a Gregorio involved. :)
@m0nhawk If I'm not mistaken, John Hammersley talked about the possibility of integrating his project on the SX infrastructure. Maybe if a new thread in the form of a poll would be interesting.
We can ask our moderators about this as well.
 
@PauloCereda There's a known story around Allegri's Miserere: the score was kept secret and it was only played in St. Peter's at Rome. Mozart is told to have listened to it and to have written the score when he got home.
 
@egreg Really?!
 
@PauloCereda That's what many sources report.
The Italian Wikipedia entry tells about it it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)
 
6:11 PM
I've put an article from Italian Wikipedia to Google Translate to translate to English instead of going to English wiki.
 
Hi all, please anybody has any idea what kind of font was used in this "LaTeX for complete novices" tutorial book link here: google.com/…
 
Why not to make a question on TeX.SE? I'll make another answer on font finding today.
@doctorate: Anyway, open with Adobe Reader and in File menu there is a tab: "Fonts".
 
@m0nhawk PDF says there are 44 fonts, but which one is the body text? how can I guess?
 
@doctorate Acrobat professional? ;)
 
6:25 PM
@m0nhawk Actually PDF-Xchange viewer
 
I think it's Antykwa.
But I don't really like that font.
 
@m0nhawk Correct, that
@m0nhawk but what do you prefer for PhD thesis?
 
\usepackage{lmodern} or \usepackage{cmbright} + \usepackage[euler-digits]{eulervm}
 
@m0nhawk I mean eye-friendly, I agree the antykwa is more for "fairy tales" :)
 
They are eye-friendly.
I love their look on printed thesis.
 
6:33 PM
@m0nhawk thanks, let me see the difference
@m0nhawk the second font set (cmbright+eulervm) is elegant and slim, but will cause less intense emphasis on verbatim mode I am afraid
@m0nhawk but anyway, an elegant font (cmbright) and eulervm, but any idea why both packages are needed?
 
"why both packages" because this are two distinct fonts?
 
@m0nhawk because the + made me say so
 
I mean that for body text is \usepackage{lmodern} or \usepackage{cmbright} and use \usepackage[euler-digits]{eulervm} for math font.
 
understood, thanks again.
 
6:48 PM
@doctorate The source code is available from dickimaw-books.com/latex/novices/index.html (courtesy of @NicolaTalbot, the author)
 
Wow! I love authors who post their TeX source code for free!
 
@m0nhawk From works that are being sold?
 
Why not?
Knuth have published his "The TeXbook" source code.
 
@TorbjørnT. uncommented preamble, so no clue for me which one is for antykwa font package
 
@plk: Where can I download the executable version of biber 1.6 beta?
 
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