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6:52 AM
@Canageek Presumably something other than the basics of achemso: there haven't been a lot of changes
 
 
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9:25 AM
@egreg What do you think is a sensible definition for \Box in unicode-math?
\documentclass{scrartcl}
%\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\begin{document}
$\Box$
\end{document}
 
@UlrikeFischer Perhaps \mdlgwhtsquare U+25A1 or \mdwhtsquare U+25FB
 
@Canageek pdfLaTeX? I can't imagine it would be that hard to fix.
 
@egreg There are a bit large compared to the ams square, but I will take it anyway. I don't want to load tons of math definitions and additional math fonts only for one symbol. Thanks
 
9:45 AM
@UlrikeFischer Here's the output of ack '\\[^\s\{]*square' $(kpsewhich unicode-math-table.tex)
\UnicodeMathSymbol{"020DE}{\enclosesquare            }{\mathord}{combining enclosing square}%
\UnicodeMathSymbol{"025A0}{\mdlgblksquare            }{\mathord}{square, filled}%
\UnicodeMathSymbol{"025A1}{\mdlgwhtsquare            }{\mathord}{square, open}%
\UnicodeMathSymbol{"025A3}{\blackinwhitesquare       }{\mathord}{white square containing black small square}%
\UnicodeMathSymbol{"025A4}{\squarehfill              }{\mathord}{square, horizontal rule filled}%
\UnicodeMathSymbol{"025A5}{\squarevfill              }{\mathord}{square, vertical rule filled}%
 
@JosephWright Oh my! :(
 
@UlrikeFischer U+1F94A ?
 
@DavidCarlisle But only if worn by a duck ;-)
 
@UlrikeFischer With XITS Math, U+25FB seems alike; with Asana Math it's U+2B1C. It depends on the font, I'm afraid.
 
10:01 AM
Happy Pi day!
 
10:19 AM
@egreg Imho it is quite okay if symbols looks different in different fonts -- I don't want to choose a symbol based on look but more on "meaning". But this is naturally difficult if you have a bunch of "squares".
 
10:45 AM
@UlrikeFischer somewhere (oh tr25 I think) @barbarabeeton and Murray have a note about matching squares/diamonds/circles of various sizes....
@UlrikeFischer @egreg @barbarabeeton table 2.5 of unicode.org/reports/tr25
 
@DavidCarlisle Can we replace the squares by ducks?
 
@PauloCereda see my suggestion above for \Box, and the use that Ulrike suggested for it.
 
Why can \@afterheading inside a theorem, make spacing go away? MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,mathtools,bm,url,amsthm}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{videox}{Video}[chapter]
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{video}[1]{%
\begin{videox}
test
\@afterindentfalse
\@afterheading
\par
}{\end{videox}}

\makeatother
\begin{document}

\setcounter{chapter}{3}

\lipsum[4]

\begin{video}{vid:a2}
\end{video}

\lipsum[4]

\begin{video}{vid:a3}
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh
@DavidCarlisle: you got a duck-related email yesterday, by the way. :)
 
Ahh, seems to help is I add \@nobreakfalse to the end of the env, nevermind
 
11:01 AM
@PauloCereda I understand not these things. See the starred message from Joseph in the list on the right, the only ones I recognised were irc and wall:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh
 
11:48 AM
This one wins "the worst answer of the year" prize: tex.stackexchange.com/q/358398/101651. Not only a "just do it for me" but also the image can hardly be seen!
 
Oh no I was reading
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Q: Error: Not in outer par mode with estwide table

E. WatsonI am new to using TeX. I am trying to call a table as a tex file that is created in Stata 14. I am using estwide command. But I am getting an error message " Not in outer par mode" . I checked the previously posted questions and answers about it, however the changes didn't correct the error. I a...

and thinking why have they got this in the document
  \bgroup\uccode`\~\expandafter`\string-%
  \uppercase{\egroup\edef~{\noexpand\text{\llap{\textendash}\relax}}}%
  \mathcode\expandafter`\string-"8000 }
then I scrolled the example to the right to read the comment just above......
 
12:27 PM
 
@CarLaTeX This is a job for an optometrist first. :)
 
@PauloCereda Yes, moreover I'm watching it from my smartphone and I'm longsighted!
 
@CarLaTeX oh my
 
12:42 PM
@CarLaTeX all of @egreg's questions are worse than that (and all of mine are better).
 
@DavidCarlisle They (the ones of you both) are more... non existent :):):)
 
More biscuits here, I am happy! :)
 
@PauloCereda I like biscuits!
 
@CarLaTeX <3
 
12:59 PM
@DavidCarlisle It can't be your code, there are no "zzz" in it.
 
@UlrikeFischer yes seems like I was being radical and using yyy that day (or sat at a German keyboard:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle That's the other way around, of course.
 
@egreg Like the difference between +0 and -0?
 
@CarLaTeX but that's a real difference:-)
 
@DavidCarlisle I'm not referring to the limits toward 0...
 
1:16 PM
@CarLaTeX or IEEE floating point arithmetic (where 0 and - 0 are different values)
 
@DavidCarlisle nor to that :):):)
 
yo'
@JosephWright Well, if only things like Trillian and Pidgin worked universally... :-/
 
@DavidCarlisle @egreg @CarLaTeX: Obviously the room of questions is compact and the quality converges to the "no question at all infinity".
 
1:31 PM
@UlrikeFischer Hahaha Let's organize a big party for the day one of them will ask a question!
 
1:44 PM
I HAD CAKE
wooooooo
 
yo'
@PauloCereda I had Bún bò Nam Bแป™ :)
 
@yo' yay! Wait, WHAT?!
 
yo'
@PauloCereda the perfection of Thai/Viet cuisine :) (IMHO)
 
@yo' I tried to clean my monitor before noticing there's a little dot below the last o. :)
 
@PauloCereda Biscuits, cake, is there a party?
 
yo'
1:47 PM
@PauloCereda LOL
 
@CarLaTeX a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.
 
yo'
@CarLaTeX there's always a party, for instance a Labour Party
 
@yo' Parties are no more fashionable in Italy, now there are Movements (that is parties with another name) :):):)
 
yo'
anyway, gotta go, bye!
 
@CarLaTeX I eat a lot. :)
@yo' Bye, Tom!
 
1:50 PM
@PauloCereda me too hahaha
 
@yo' don't tell @PauloCereda what I had for dinner last night
 
@DavidCarlisle OH NO
 
@DavidCarlisle Chinese duck?
 
o.O
OH NO
(")> HEEEEELP
HEEEEEEEEELP <(")
 
2:20 PM
@CarLaTeX Half right (and it wasn't Chinese)
 
@DavidCarlisle OH NO
 
@DavidCarlisle :):):)
 
 
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3:42 PM
@egreg any insight on academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86337/… do Italian students really take 22 year long math courses?
 
4:36 PM
@StrongBad If you count 5 years of primary school, 3 of middle school, 5 of high school and 3 for the first level degree, you arrive at 16; 2 years of second level degree and 3 of PhD make 21.
@StrongBad That's a silly way to measure things.
 
@egreg but don't you take a bunch of courses each year during your degree?
 
@StrongBad It depends on how you count them. We had 15 year long courses in the four years for degree. Now things have changed, you can't count โ€œannualitiesโ€.
 
5:29 PM
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@DavidCarlisle The moment i saw that, this one song came to my had: What does the fox say? With that being the answer.
 
@JosephWright That is what I thought, but the only packages loaded where, as I recall, achemso, subfig and one other one I forget.
 
And they involved something l3eexp or something along those lines compatibility errors and his only concern right now is getting hte paper out hte door
 
@Johannes_B What the duck
 
5:33 PM
@egreg FIFTEEN classes during your PhD? I think I took 6 here at SFU
 
@PauloCereda :-)
 
@PauloCereda Norwegian classic.
 
@TorbjรธrnT. I actually know that song, it's even in my iPod playlist. :)
 
Lets see, Scientific Communication, PhD Transfer Course, Oranometallic Chemistry, Physical Properties of Organic Materials, Spectroscopy.....
 
@Johannes_B <3
 
5:34 PM
Yep, six
 
yo'
@Canageek I've taken 4, and it's 0 in France.
 
@Canageek 6 more than I did
 
@yo' Two of those I didn't learn anything in, since they were mandatory
 
@PauloCereda <3
 
yo'
@Canageek oh that's the 5th one here: Scientific English :)
 
5:35 PM
@Canageek I think I took 10.
 
yo'
It was funny explaining all my mates that they have got too much text in their slides :-) When they saw my talk, someone said: "Now I know what 'less words on slides' does mean"
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@yo' 801: Scientific Communication. I've heard other years it was really good, like when my boss was teaching it, but there was a group of us contemplating smuggling alcohol in to help pass the time.
I was lucky, I joined right before 802 was made mandatory, as it is both useless and a ton of work.
They make you write the first chapter of your thesis, which for us inorganic chemists is usless as we don't know what our thesis is about until we are almost done
 
@DavidCarlisle: British Library is the most awesome thing in the entire known universe.
 
But it is taught by natural product chemists (or was that year), who know what they are doing when they start then do that for a few years
@yo' Ok, that IS a good thing to learn.
 
@PauloCereda you found the paper you were looking for?
 
5:38 PM
Part of that might be that I've been doing presenations on powerpoint since high school. Every history and socail science class required one, most of the English and media studies classes....
 
@PauloCereda It is a cool place, yes
 
@DavidCarlisle Joseph found it for me, and I ordered.
 
Then at McMaster in my undergrad every 3rd and 4th year course required a final presentationh
 
@JosephWright <3
 
So how to present was drilled into my skull
 
5:38 PM
@Canageek No, that was the four years for graduation.
 
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Also great way to get rid of stage fright: By the time you have presented that many times you go from 'this is scary' to 'NOT ANOTHER GODDAMN PRESENTATION, FCK
 
@PauloCereda why the U+FFFD
 
@DavidCarlisle I... don't know... something bad happened...
 
5:42 PM
@PauloCereda it's hard to get your ducks in a row....
 
@DavidCarlisle row row row your boat
 
Oh my non-LaTeX using girlfriend sent me this, thought you might like it, particularly @AlanMunn chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/03/13/…
About LaTeX
She was VERY amused about \LaTeX being a thing
Thought I've found online2pdf.com the best way to move LaTeX to Word
 
@Canageek I just counted, I had 12 course for my PhD (which of course worked out to be about 1 per year).
 
@StrongBad I don't think my school has 12 applicable classes for me....
I guess I could take magnetism and solid state chem, but after that I'd be trying not to fail organic classes
 
@Canageek while the process was hellish, I can relate something I have done in the past week to something I learned in every class.
 
5:50 PM
@StrongBad Wow, nice. That would be very difficult in chemistry, we specialize a lot.
 
@Canageek we specialized in a different way. I had a courses on the physics of sound, the peripheral auditory system, the brain stem, mid brain, cortex, head and neck anatomy, language and clinical problems in hearing. The rest were "practical" things like programing and signal processing and probability theory. I was taught a LOT about the ears but don't ask me about the eyes.
 
6:05 PM
@StrongBad ooh
 
@StrongBad I do wish SFU had more grad classes available. McMaster had 3 different NMR classes, and on X-Ray Crystallography, and a ton of other stuff. SFU doesn't have nearly the selection. :(
 
6:54 PM
@yo' -- good grief! times have changed! i had to take 8 one-semester courses for a master's (one of which was actually preparation for writing thesis). no wonder it took me five hears (while working full time to pay for it); most full-time students finished in in one or two years.
 
yo'
@barbarabeeton for masters it was a lot here!
 
7:07 PM
Hi !
Will I get flamed if I answer this (very simple) question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/358416/…
 
@FabianPijcke no one gets flamed much around here.
 
Ok, then, question 2, do you think it is a good idea to answer this kind of questions? :p
 
@FabianPijcke but you will be stealing a green tick from egreg, @DavidCarlisle will tell you that is about as hard as a question that egreg can answer.
 
@StrongBad it's math so mostly not sensitive to % at ends of lines, so rather out of his area of expertise
3
 
Oh, egreg was helpful to me way too many times on this forum for me doing anything bad for him :p
 
7:12 PM
@FabianPijcke I don't think it does any harm, if you have an answer, and helps the person asking the question:-)
 
Ok, let's grab 15 reputation then :D
 
@FabianPijcke anyway there is precedent for posting easy answers to soft questions , I got a couple of gold badges and a few thousand points of this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/…
 
 
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8:56 PM
images playing up again?
We're aware the Stack Overflow Imgur hosting is offline for HTTPS, we're reaching out to them now to figure out what's going on.
 
9:21 PM
@JosephWright vv
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\end{document}
 
@DavidCarlisle ???
 
@JosephWright do you get ! LaTeX Error: \newtie not declared in encoding PU.
 
@DavidCarlisle No, but perhaps I need to update
 
@JosephWright I think I just broke hyperref in the last latex release but I'm surprised it's not been reported, oh... perhaps it's in the unreleased bits of ltoutenc.., let me check
 
@DavidCarlisle All seems OK here ...
 
9:32 PM
@JosephWright if you used DeclareTextComposite without having previously declared the accent command you got no error but it did some completely useless csname defined to be relax behaviour that would generate an error if the command was used. so I made it an error at the point of definition. but hyperref's puenc.def declares composites with newtie without declaring newtie... (but only for me, it seems:-)
@JosephWright Phew it's just in the svn version of ltoutenc.dtx not on ctan, so I have some time to update hyperref:-)
\def\DeclareTextCompositeCommand#1#2#3#4{%
  \expandafter\let\expandafter\reserved@a\csname#2\string#1\endcsname
  \ifx\reserved@a\relax
   \@latex@error{\string#1 not declared in encoding #2}\@eha
  \else
 

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