@CarLaTeX Oh, I agree! The seaside is much better! I don't like sultry weather.

@barbarabeeton It was very difficult trying to find a way to summarise (La)TeX in lay terms without any visual aids. (I couldn't even point to Stefan's grandma question!)

@NicolaTalbot About 30°C today in Milan argh :):):)

@CarLaTeX Urgh! Too hot for me! :-)

@NicolaTalbot For me too :)

@DavidCarlisle hmmm longtable bugs... (see Werner's email)

@DavidCarlisle ^^

I'm sure this video's already been posted here, but in case it's been missed:

@NicolaTalbot ooooh

What part of lualatex is having trouble with this one: tex.stackexchange.com/q/384400/3929, I'm guessing the font setup inside hepparticles is to blame.

@PauloCereda spam filter

@DavidCarlisle Well played sir. :)

More news from the wacky world of US thesis requirements: per-chapter bibliographies here are formatted as sections but must be preceded by a cover page with BIBLIOGRAPHY on it. This is what happens when you blindly adapt an already stupid rule for the bibliography chapter to sections.

@AlanMunn A cover page for each per-chapter bibliography? Sounds weird indeed.

@mickep Also for the appendices.

@mickep The need for cover pages themselves is already totally mysterious to me. I really wonder who thinks up this crap.

I wonder how closely you must follow that. One year the Swedish Research Council asked everybody to use arial in the yearly applications (that, of course is not so easy if you don't have the font, and it is not too easy to adapt to mathematics). But when calling them, they confessed that we did not have to follow that requirement.

@AlanMunn Clearly someone who is not close to the real work.

@mickep Oh, the students absolutely have to follow it. Their theses get checked by the graduate school and rejected if the requirements aren't followed.

@AlanMunn I'm sorry for them.

@mickep Well I try to make it a bit easier for them by maintaining a thesis class. Then the problems that arise get solved once by me rather than multiple times by them.

@AlanMunn Well, that is kind of you. But then I feel for you that has to make such strange settings in a class.

@DavidCarlisle Any thoughts on github.com/latex3/graphics-def/issues/13? I think the problem arises as PStricks acts 'late', so needs a PDF CM operation to allow scaling, while for hyperlinks we need to act 'early' so using the driver function. For dvips the problem is not the same as everything happens 'at the same time'.

@mickep It keeps me on my toes. :)

@JosephWright I saw it but I have no time today (I don't even have time to be here:-) I may try to look this evening (but your analysis sounds right, any thoughts on how to fix that? with some pstricks cooperation we could perhaps pass on a current coordinate matrix to the pstricks macros in a form they could use....

@DavidCarlisle I'll think about it: perhaps we could set some variable using a special that would be defined in the PStricks dictionary to pass the fact that a scaling is active. Sounds tricky!

@DavidCarlisle Have a feeling that this might be something we can't fix, but can document (we presumably want scaling of hyperlinks to work: a more common issue)

@DavidCarlisle I'll come back to you later on :)

@JosephWright I was thinking more \def\foo{.5 0 0 0 .5 0 } and let pstricks pick that up if it needs it.

@DavidCarlisle Here a shorter example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{needspace}
\begin{document}
a

\vspace{33\baselineskip}

a\\b\\c\\d\\h\\a\\a\\a

%\Needspace{6\baselineskip}

\begin{longtable}{lr}
\caption{My table}\\
  & mpg
\endfirsthead
\caption[]{My table \textit{(continued)}}\\
  & mpg
\endhead
M \\
N \\
O\\
P \\
\end{longtable}


\end{document}

@UlrikeFischer thanks I'll add it to the stack (actually it may be fixed with the usual first page space calculation but ix, although that normally only shows up if there is a float on the page)

@DavidCarlisle Yes, I can see that (I as imagining a dictionary entry to do it at the output end), but it seems pretty tricky and only applies to XeTeX (right? dvipdfmx doesn't offer the same functionality)

@DavidCarlisle We've already got the scale/rotate data as \Gscale@x, etc.: PStricks could check that ... but I guess you mean something like \G@cm would be more friendly and covers scaling and rotation (and skews if one wanted)

My gregorian chant generator (powered by LuaTeX, gregorio, Python and Java) is working!

@PauloCereda Anything gregorio powered will work.

@egreg <3

@barbarabeeton Can I have a question, please? It seems that AMS Editor and Reviewer obligations do not forbid the reviewer from disclosing that he's a reviewer to others. Is that right?

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
abc

\showthe\pagetotal

\vskip5cm
\showthe\pagetotal %as before

\showthe\pagetotal \end{document}

@yo' -- but that's a different ams -- meteorological society. do you want an interpretation of that, or what the math society policy is? (i'm away for a couple of hours; gotta keep up with my pool exercises.)

@barbarabeeton ah damn, ok, I'll check the right AMS and ping you again if-need-be, thanks

@barbarabeeton well, even "your :)" AMS seems to mention only this: Editors must preserve the anonymity of referees unless there is a credible allegation of misuse. Does it mean that reviewer can decide to unhide himself to the authors?

@DavidCarlisle BTW, where could I find the \PYG command to understand your solution?

@CarLaTeX look in the file _minted-yourfilenme/somelongstring.pygtex

@CarLaTeX If you accept the answer, your menu for the evening meal has to follow.

There's a question and answer somewhere about crossing out entire rows of tables, rather than just the contents of each cell. Does anyone know where? I had it and now I can't find it ....

@cfr cwac!

@PauloCereda Cwac, cwac!

Never mind. I found it again. (I knew if I finally asked, I'd come across it almost immediately ....)

@cfr Do you mind to give a link? I got a bit curious, and did probably not understand what you meant.

@DavidCarlisle I have no pineapple available, sorry :P

@cfr cool

@cfr I could not resist in doing it with an overlay in ConTeXt (image coming, code I don't know how to show here)

Btw, is it just for me the icons for the different sites are shifted one step?

@mickep If you paste code, a button labelled 'used fixed font' appears on the right. Click that. Then click send.

@mickep Not sure what you mean.