@UlrikeFischer Thanks for confirming. @DavidCarlisle Me, too.
@Moriambar Any particular reason you want to protect it? It has one answer which has been deleted as a 'thanks', but one such answer since 2012 doesn't seem sufficient to justify protecting it.
@cfr I think that it will attract many answers like "me too" or "I did this and it worked" and they may add no extra value to it; nevertheless the mods know better
> A court just banned Uber from using its apps in Italy -- yes, all of Italy. The court ruled in favor of the country's taxi drivers -- who filed the suit -- claiming Uber was "unfair competition." Now Uber can't use it's apps -- including UberBlack, Uber LUX, X, and Select -- and it can't promote or advertise itself at all within the country. For all intents and purposes, Uber is banned in Italy.
@PauloCereda apart from it being a caste, using taxi is expensive: one is better of with public transportation (mainly in big cities) or with his own car
@PauloCereda Yes… businessmen use the service much only because the expenses are covered (when I was sent to belgium for a couple of days I had to use train+public transportation, since taxi was not covered).
@PauloCereda I have a presentation to do for the 21st… going into a high school to explain the basics of typography and how to use LaTeX and friends to really make pretti documents.
Procrastination is funnier because in both our cases people won't listen and probably will sleep through the entire thing. I'm sure about me :D
@ChristianHupfer (or any other German-speakers), I have to translate (for an unrelated topic, a musing between friends) in German the following phrase (please mind: "P" is an invented word of us, which should represent some undefinable thing): Time is money, but money is not time… and P is neither
@PauloCereda I preferred the opposite when I did mine… Alas, I don't know Portuguese, otherwise I would've been interested in reading it (after your dissertation)
I have to try to have to write about TeX, LaTeX, etc… maybe I'll learn something and become useful here :)
@PauloCereda I'm not joking: I feel as I have left TeX and LaTeX behind… I'm trying to catch up, but it's not easy since it's hard to know from which one has to start, having the goal to be productive too!
@CarLaTeX yes and no. You can do that here in chat, but when you get paid for your translation work you cannot afford that. Also on my programming job I have to provide precise translations to my colleagues, since they consult me only for difficult topics and phrases
@CarLaTeX funny: I was working in television industry when I graduated and I had to work ~ 50hrs a week, study for the last exam, finish my thesis work and of course writing the thesis, all at once. I did not have time to procrastinate a thing, and I had to graduate in time, otherwise another year of tuition fees
It was the time when I learned to stop abusing the \\ command, that I had always used to end lines and paragraphs before
@Moriambar I'm a(n old) student-worker, too! When I began studying at the university I was already working, since my family couldn't afford paying tuition fees. I got a diploma in Statistics, a laurea-triennale in Economics and now I'm writing my thesis of the laurea magistrale in Economics... but I take it as an hobby hahahah!
@Moriambar all with a lot of procrastination, of course!
@CarLaTeX ehe, my story is a bit different but it results in the same thing.
I have so many hobbies I cannot afford to dedicate to them all at once, and I always hope one of them will become my job (as being a programmer did, with not-that-good results)
@Moriambar I had worked as programmer for 20 years (mainframe, COBOL)! Now I'm some kind of technical support for Risk Management users (SAS, Unix server).
@CarLaTeX I worked as a consultant… I hate the banking world and I mainly focused on utilities and insurance. Now I'm at some kind of tiny software factory. The pay is good, but the job (which I did not already like) took another step back!
@DavidCarlisle I owe you an apology from some days ago: all of the table-related questions on TeX.SE feature any kind of horizontal and vertical separations… :)
@Moriambar I'm so sorry... However, if it's any consolation I always say "if you want to humiliate your intelligence, to repress your creativity and see a lot of idiots make a brilliant career, go to work for a bank!"
@TeXnician I cannot talk for the rest of the world… I've seen something in Belgium and it's a bit better. Also a small consultancy company in the US was way better than my reality in Italy
@Moriambar Once I saw one who to merge two files did: read first file first record, open second file and read it till you find the matching key, close second file, read first file second record, open second file and read it till you find the matching key, close second file, and so on... and he was wondering why the programm was slow!
@DavidCarlisle You don't believe it but it's almost correct hahaha
@CarLaTeX I once interviewed a job candidate asking her how to test for palindromes (i.e. to devise an algorithm which did that) and she answered: I take the first word and put it in an array, then I reverse it, then I put it in another array, then I call the "isPalindrome" function, which someone else has prepared for me.
@CarLaTeX I know some people who would do it similarly. Only think about what an asm programmer would do transferring his programs to a fairly modern language (without gotos)...
@Moriambar I think protection is generally used for questions where there is a real problem with 'me, too!', 'thanks!' etc. answers so that it would be difficult to keep the question tidy otherwise. There's a cost to protection, so it shouldn't be used unless it is really needed. At least, that's my take on it.
Hello! Are there two people willing to help reopen tex.stackexchange.com/questions/361432/…? I think I found out which parts of the linked answer one has to ignore to reproduce the screenshots posted in the question.
@JosephWright specifying rotation origin is simpler to understand if the origin doesn't move and the box rotates around the fixed point but I implemented that once and it didn't seem useful in practice, so went with always adjusting into a +ve sized box after the rotation, but that means \rotatebox is a combined rotate-and-translate so "origin" has to be interpreted with some care:-)
@DavidCarlisle I'm not as nazi as them… I just don't travel (and refused many job offers who would've brought me abroad) because I'm scared of what I can expect to eat.
@DavidCarlisle and when abroad I carefully avoid the supposedly "Italian restaurants" there
@egreg thanks but you do show more combinations worked with xetex, consistent with my answer. (the lohit font is github.com/google/fonts/blob/master/ofl/lohitdevanagari/… if you wanted to try that as well) I wonder what was happening to Mico, are the fonts available on the mac in multiple formats?
@DavidCarlisle First rule for a real Italian: never go to an Italian restaurant abroad! However, I'm not so rigid, I like Spanish cuisine, and I think they have good meat in Germany. I even liked the Clam Chowder when I went to New England. But you can't call Italian a food that isn't Italian! :P
@ChristianHupfer Of course! There are bad restaurant also in Italy, especially in places with turists coming and going. Good restaurant usually are "hidden"...
@CarLaTeX The last one In found, was last month in Italy ;-) Monfalcone. My friend was roofied in the night club right in the basement of our hotel and lost all money and some stuff he had with him. (I got there later)
@Maïeul Please come back and say when that happens. Otherwise somebody may spend time trying to solve your problem here, when you've meanwhile posted a solution elsewhere. Leaving an unanswered question when you no longer need the answer is not very nice.
@CarLaTeX You know, what we and our team did in Monfalcone ... building a nice cruise ship, finished end of March. Here we were sailing, at our first stop and sail away in Trieste! (Listen sound at 3:15 onwards :-) )
@StefanKottwitz Ok… but apart the most basic usage of LaTeX I really don't know a thing. Maybe I'm not that creative. But TikZ… yes, I should find a way to learn that. Thanks btw
@CarLaTeX Well, I love producing documentation and whenever I have the occasion I do it with TeX first, then ask if it's allowed :P
@CarLaTeX Well, I do it quickly, and I do their part too. At some point one has to cave in, since the company mandates the usage of other tools
@StefanKottwitz btw one of my goals in coming in here was learning by reading Q&A (and sometimes learning by answering), so maybe I'm in the right place :)
Right now I learned only about pineapple pizza and how to avoid it
@CarLaTeX Yup, in almost two years (I think) on TeX.SE, thanks to @DavidCarlisle I learned about the most disgusting macro \PineapplePrazza which expands to \plain\heresy
@JosephWright I just clicked on an Edit (1) pending link on a question and approved the edit. It then said that it needs one more approval. This makes very little sense to me, since had I edited the question directly, no approval would have been needed. Is there some reason for this?
@Moriambar Pineapple pizza is a favourite in our lab. :)
@Moriambar So explain this: :P Focaccia di pasta di pane condita con pomodoro, olio, origano, acciughe, mozzarella e infiniti altri ingredienti a piacere, cotta al forno , especially the phrase 'infiniti altri ingrediente a piacere' :)
@AlanMunn I don't know that dictionary. But I admit that even here: treccani.it/vocabolario/pizza (which is an undisputable source :P) it's not specified that the pizza should not be disgusting
(I'm sorry it seems that my english deteriorates after 11 pm).
@Moriambar Really? That's interesting. I just assumed it was a N. American thing. But I think that Italians generally don't like mixing fruit and meat (and a good pineapple pizza has to have ham on it as well) except perhaps prosciutto e melone (which is the same general idea).
@AlanMunn and you're right in general, but some meat preparation include some kind of fruit, e.g. polpettone (meatloaf I guess) is often prepare with plums or apricots inside
@DavidCarlisle Definition of Italian restaurant (regardless of the nation where it is located) who is hold and managed by non-italians :D
Also I think there are some preparation with figs, but I don't eat that much read meat and I don't like figs so…
@Moriambar In Germany most Italian Restaurants are in fact managed and owned by Italians, but that is no guarantee that there's a nice atmosphere or delicious food, nor is it for German restaurants hold by Germans ;-)
@ChristianHupfer My father worked in Germany for a month or two back in the day (long story) and he and his employees went to an italian restaurant every evening.
The first day the served them pasta with salad in the same plate…
Then they knew they were italian and started preparing them real italian food. He told me that within a week all the German customers were asking what they (my father and his employees) had been served
@ChristianHupfer Well it's common practice I think… when I was in an Italian (real italian) restaurant in London, the Englishmen there asked me why my pasta had arrived without the side salad
(and incidentally why I did order an espresso and not a latte or cappuccino after lunch - yuk-)
@Moriambar Perhaps there's a different tradition depending from which part of Italy your fellow countrymen are coming. Perhaps Northern Italian food differs from Southern Italian dishes? In Germany this is the case, to some extent. There is no 'typical' German food.
@ChristianHupfer Yes of course. But maybe you misunderstood: it wasn't the restaurant people that were wondering, it was the person from Exeter who offered us that business lunch
@Moriambar No no, I did understand that. I accidentally linked to the another comment of you, it was rather meant to your comment about your father's experience in Germany. But it is strange in both cases that there's such a difference in the way how 'foreigners' are served ;-)
@ChristianHupfer Well… if people want salad with pasta, they'll get it, that is the philosophy of many Italian restaurants. You have some Italian-inspired cooking that has to be adapted to the taste and traditions of the local culture. It's the same here for chinese restaurants
