@PauloCereda No apologies needed. I'm trying to help this guy. tex.stackexchange.com/q/121257/2693 and it seems he has MacPorts which is screwing everything up. I'd just like to know how to get rid of it.
@PauloCereda Yes, so it seems. The OP isn't very good at explaining things it seems or responding to questions, which is why the question ended up closed.
@AlanMunn Indeed. Sadly, some problems end users face are not TeX related, making them quite difficult to track. We need a lot of communication in this case.
@Qrrbrbirlbel I guess it's possible that someone else might have the same problem. There is a sense in which any non-MacTeX distribution always causes problems, so having an answer somewhere that says that might be helpful.
@DominicMichaelis Not bad. However Kef and so on are simply wrong. Mac Lane or not. ;-) If you want italics, it's \operatorname{\mathit{Ke}}f; but I'd not use italics: "Ke" is an operator, after all.
I have the vague impression that the package was meant to enhance the original one, not replace it
@egreg What the zi4 package seems to do in fact is insert Type3 font characters for the straight quotes. it is not a modification of the the original font.
@egreg I tried to subscribe to the tex-live mailing list and send a message there but although I am subscribed and receiving the messages, my messages don't seem to get anywhere.
@ArTourter The tex-live list is not really the right place for this. Michael Sharpe's email can be found in the README file for newtx: msharpe at ucsd dot edu
@ArTourter When you subscribe to a list, a couple of days can be needed for the first message to show up.
@egreg well it is lovely of course but I think actually I prefer my answer (what a surprise:-) semantically += is being used as on operator of that name so \mathrel{{+}{=}} seems closer to that (should be hidden behind a top level macro of course). \mathrel{+}= comes out the same thing but isn't as clear I think.
@egreg I just got up. :) It's a little early for drinking. Although in today's e-mail comes a reason to drink independent of Canada day: an invited speaker to our workshop this weekend has just pulled out.
@egreg No, that's fine. It was just for one of my boys' CV. Personally, I'd never think of using DejaVu, any more than you'd think of listening to, say, Stockhausen.
@Brent.Longborough The probability that I consider DejaVu are infinitely greater than me thinking to listening who? At least DejaVu has a rich character set.
@egreg: There is a small typo in regexpatch. In the documentation the command checkifpatchable is explained, however the package defines only \checkpatchable (without if).
I'm looking for a reliable reference manager and PDF organizer in order to make my research work more efficient and productive.
In particular, I would like the software to help me to export references into the Bibtex format, suggest me new papers on a specific topic (or according to the papers) a...
@AlanMunn I think to get migration paths sorted out we have to ask again: I can migrate anywhere, but 'normal' users cannot. The close-changes seem to have killed the routes we used to have.
@JosephWright But also I thought we were supposed to have a "It's just off topic" and "It's about TeX, but its a typo/package bug/etc." reason to choose from.
@AlanMunn Yes, that's quite true. It seems that the default text only shows up when close reasons don't match, but you can't actively choose it. I suspect that's not the intention: will ask in the mod room.
@AlanMunn Perhaps I should ask on Meta.SO?
@AlanMunn Seems this is deliberate
@AlanMunn So I guess I'll add another custom reason that is just the default one!
Introduction
Per-site off-topic reasons were created to reduce the amount of confusion and debate surrounding what specifically is on- or off-topic for a given site. Folks asking questions for the first time are often unclear on what is allowed or expected; by explaining common misconceptions in...
@AlanMunn You only get the default if the close reasons don't match between voters
Idea I think is that each close vote should have a reason, either on the pre-defined ones or a free text version
Thus the idea is that the reasons are 'tight'
We also probably need some new migration paths
I note in particular
> At a bare minimum, off-topic reasons should identify a specific topic considered inappropriate.
I suspect the problem is getting the idea: what the Powers want is good explanations to people who have questions closed. We've been good on that, in the main, in comments, so picking up the idea is trickier
The new approach to closing questions means that things are changing in the way we handle 'off-topic' questions. I've already asked about the generic text and for some predefined off-topic close reasons. However, I think I at least didn't quite see how this was going to work. So I'd like to ask a...
@JosephWright Yes, I think so. But since we only have 3 active reasons and one should be 'This is not about TeX et al." then we're really down to 2 other reasons, right? (Unless we have good migration paths, in which case "Belongs on another site" might be useful.
@AlanMunn The point about the 'this is not about TeX et al.' closure reason is that the Powers are suggesting that such a case should be 'custom reason' and more detail. For example, taking something current, 'Implementing the Knuth-Plass algorithm in other software does not require technical knowledge about TeX itself'
@AlanMunn Should I try to explain that in the meta question?
@percusse Yes, true. They have 7k questions per day to keep on top of. It's quite clear that most other sites don't quite see the need to change closure in the same way.
@PauloCereda First of all you suck. I've flagged you and also your duck is wrong. There are many things wrong with arara too you should be ashamed of yourself. Read some programming books before you touch the computer !!
I did an update to my LaTeX packages two days ago (I needed XeLaTeX for beamer, and this is why I did the update), then tried to continue writing my notes using LaTeX (MiKTeX2.9; Texniccenter2.0 Beta 1; SumatraPDF), and here came the surprise
latex> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
I've...
@JosephWright: I tried to alternatethe XeTeX driver to draw a frame with rounded corner in the foreground of the content but I without luck. I get a funny offset for the frame. However, maybe I addressed it the wrong way. Placing the content using \rlap{} first outside the driver code might be the correct way.
@JosephWright, @DavidCarlisle: My mistake was also that I thought to bundle the round clipping and frame together. Actually people might want to draw round frames around unclipped content, too.
@egreg What should be done? We should make a <obnoxiously ill-suited program> for it. It's Turing-complete, after all. Make a couple GUI libraries and we're all set.
Should take you what - about an hour? ;-)
I swear, some of the things you pull out of your hat around here!
@egreg You mean you are fortunate enough to know a Turing-complete language capable of everything any other language is. You could probably even rig up an internet browser of sorts (in theory). (Wouldn't that be interesting? Render HTML as TeX, with beamer-like links? That would be crazy.)
I think the questions says it all! :)
By TeX, I mean any derivative of TeX as long as the code is clearly a derivative of TeX, i.e. that it could belong on TeX.SX (and not pure Lua for example).
I'll give two answers myself so you see what I mean.
@SeanAllred doing basic html isn't so hard (I had a go at html 3, which never was standardised actually, back then with typehtml package) and xmltex is a pretty complete xml parser , hard bit comes when people expect you to do something with a typical web page which is 90% javascript and css and only 10% html markup.
@DavidCarlisle Writing a JS emulator shouldn't be too bad; one just needs to develop on object paradigm for TeX (which I'm sure has been thought through thoroughly). (Edit: geez - say that five times fast!)
I did an update to my LaTeX packages two days ago (I needed XeLaTeX for beamer, and this is why I did the update), then tried to continue writing my notes using LaTeX (MiKTeX2.9; Texniccenter2.0 Beta 1; SumatraPDF), and here came the surprise
latex> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
I've...
I think the questions says it all! :)
By TeX, I mean any derivative of TeX as long as the code is clearly a derivative of TeX, i.e. that it could belong on TeX.SX (and not pure Lua for example).
I'll give two answers myself so you see what I mean.
