@JasperLoy Quack! No, they were happening in the neighbour state of Rio de Janeiro. I think only one football match and another sport was hosted in São Paulo.
@egreg: speaking of football matches, will we do live commentary during Saturday's final, so you guys can make fun of me? :)
> Professionals who work with latex include doctors, who wear latex gloves for numerous procedures, and engineers, who develop innovative uses for both the natural and synthetic iterations of this substance.
Hi, everybody. Quick expl3-question: How to I split a token list into sequenses by every new line? Do I need to get into catcode Should I create a post with this?
@PauloCereda odd that so many people who have a skill in rubber products also have skills in scientific computing and gnuplot (so linked in tells me while suggesting I might want to add latex skill...)
Hello, I apologize for interfering. Can I know where to download Emacs for Windows X64? From here https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ or here https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/ ?
@PauloCereda I had canary while testing the math support but google pulled that so I killed the bird. (I have a stable channel chrome for use sometimes)
@PauloCereda still use nightly as my standard browser (aurora is too stable)
@PauloCereda a lot less browsers than I used to have, safari no longer available on windows, I no longer have a stable firefox since I got this laptop, just chrome ie11 and nightly, plus lynx in cygwin
@RunarTrollet of course ideally you wouldn't need to do it, like any "verb" related thing it has all sorts of side conditions on not being used in another argument, ends of lines are supposed to be spaces.
@RunarTrollet just drove home and saw your question, the MWE would work with space rather than end of line as the separator, is that an option (it's much more robust) you can make \foo change the endlinechar and then parse the argument but then \foo itself can not be used in the argument of any command.
what term (or keyword) does tikz use for z-order of nodes? I assume I can specify what appears over top of another in some way other than the order that I write the script
I have a problem with the fonts of the achemso package.
Me and and a friend tested both the Word template and the LaTex template to write the exact same publication, in the form of a JACS communication.
The fonts are not the same between the Word and LaTex template; the publication written with...
@JosephWright I think that there are two ways: (1) OT as "feature request", (2) you give a CW (or even standard) answer saying that this is not desirable which makes the question void.
@JosephWright I think I'm willing to cast the first vote if you agree. OTOH, the OP just asked you if he can send you an e-mail. Maybe if you drag him to this room? That could help smoothen the discussion
@yo' -- so you haven't got a lot of time. is this the only project you have to grade, or do you have others to compare it to? if you have others, maybe you can get some idea there. if it's about the same, then you've got a baseline. if it's a lot better, then grade accordingly. (of course, if all the others were utter disasters, ...) if it's really on the borderline, can you apply a plus or minus, to compromise?
@barbarabeeton No plus and minus. The point is, the result is extraordinary (much above the typical level of the projects), but the presentation is quite bad. I'd love to give her A, but I'm not sure how much I shall weigh in the quality of the text :-(
@yo' -- oh, dear! that's a tough one. (too bad the grading can't be in multiple parts.) can you attach comments to what goes back to her? she should certainly learn that the quality of the presentation wasn't up to the quality of the work, and that needs work! but if the content is that good, you don't want to discourage her, and presentation is probably easier to fix. consider the two parts separately, and compare with other students' projects, similarly divided.
People who use glasses: have you ever used/tried glasses with those so called Transition lens? The claim is that the lens change according to luminosity...
@yo' -- in the long run, the report might be more important to her than the grade. the only down side is that she's the only one who will see it; the grade is what the world will see.
@PauloCereda -- my husband has used those lenses in the past, although now he just uses a separate pair of sunglasses. they do work as advertised, although perhaps not as quickly as one might wish, if you're driving, and going into and out of a lot of tunnels.
@barbarabeeton Cool! I heard that there are specific lens to different purposes. There are lens that don't get darker when inside the car, since the car glass pane already filters a lot of UV stuff, but I heard there are now lens which add a luminosity layer, so they can get darker inside the car too.
@anderstood we don't have many rules in this chatroom other than it is obligatory to ask @PauloCereda if he has finished his thesis at least once a week.
@egreg -- in june? not so sure of that. perhaps uncharacteristically, the times i've spend in england haven't been all that cloudy. certainly those beautiful english gardens wouldn't thrive in the dark.
@egreg -- oh, that's relatively pleasant. but add 95% humidity, and things get less pleasant. (but the days here for the past week have been in the 30 c range, with 90+% humidity, and it's pretty brutal.)
@barbarabeeton Like my home town's usual weather in August
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@barbarabeeton Did you say you were in touch with George Gratzer? I bought his More Math Into LaTeX, fifth edition. Although the LaTeX is good, the English is bad. It could benefit from an editor in the sixth edition. =)
@JasperLoy -- just out of curiosity, did you ever see the third or fourth edition? (i saw those before publication, and didn't have any serious problem with the english. i didn't see the fifth edition until after it was in book form, and still haven't had a chance to read much of it.) re a sixth edition, i suspect he hasn't run out of words yet, and if latex keeps changing, ...
@JasperLoy -- don't suggest that in front of @DavidCarlisle. and there are other varieties as well: what would you do with indian (subcontinent) or strine?
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@barbarabeeton I only browsed through them, not read them. To be honest, I have only read the foreword, the preface, and the introduction of the fifth. =)
Does anyone know if there's a nice way in a tikz axis to set tick labels in a way that references the current tick number? e.g., to get tick labels a_1, a_2, a_3 by putting xtick={1,2,3} and xticklabels={a_\tick}?
I have a problem with the fonts of the achemso package.
Me and and a friend tested both the Word template and the LaTex template to write the exact same publication, in the form of a JACS communication.
The fonts are not the same between the Word and LaTex template; the publication written with...
