@egreg that's common here. Even in Prague, the primary number is sequential by the age of the house in the given quarter, so my house is Chodov 2000+something whereas my parents' house is 1700+something, and it's round the corner. We use the in-street numbering though as well, but it's auxiliary.
@JosephWright yes, street names are trickier, as there were no signs until about 10 years ago and not everyone agreed where one street became the next, and the post office don't insist that any given street is continuous.
@egreg @JosephWright @DavidCarlisle @yo': The downtown of german major city Mannheim has a 'square plan' and basically no street names there, so houses are called B1, C5 etc. That's the only occurence of such addressing in Germany I know of
@DavidCarlisle non-continuous streets are a funny thing, we've got couple of them, too.
@JosephWright More oddly if you destroy a house and build an appartment buulding in the same place and it has 3 entrances, onr of them will get the old house's number, so then the 3 entrances get numbers e.g. 105, 2377 and 2378
@yo' Surely, that defeats the purpose of numbering … except for tax purposes, I suppose. In Norway, the three entrances would become 105A, 105B, 105C. The same applies if more houses are built on a property that once held only one house. Not uncommon in areas where house lots used to be very large compared to today's standard.
What fun … if authors numbered theorems, propositions, lemmas and corollaries etc in the order in which they thought of them! Ta make it even more fun (and informative in a sick sort of way), number them consecutively throughout your career. The bean counters would love it!
@HaraldHanche-Olsen I stumbled upon this answer when looking for questions on spacing in the stix fonts. Did you try stix two? Do you think that the spacing for the lower limit of integrals is correct? I think it is too far to the right.
@JosephWright not here. However, each house (in cities) gets a second, street numbet, which id consecutive, and you add letters if you insert a house between two houses. However, e.g. in Paris, there are numbered street positions every X metres so if you insert a house, you usually have a free number for it
@yo' Inserting houses much the same in the UK (add a letter). Home for me is an old dead end, now opened up, so our numbering is decidedly odd [numbers run round where the dead end was, rather than having an odd/even side to the road. Confuses people no end that we (no. 2) are opposite no. 26 :)]
@yo' It's fine in a dead end (as it's clear where the numbers go): it's the fact we are no longer one that doesn't help (plus a lot of dwellings were demolished after the numbers were set up, so it's a bit of a mess)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen I guess you are correct, but I don't know how to do this. @barbarabeeton AMS is going to use stix2, right? Do you perhaps know the people who are working on the fonts? If so, perhaps you can pass this info to them (or pass a contact)?
\usepackage{luatexbase,luacode}
\begin{luacode}
local patch_stixmath = function (fontdata)
if fontdata.psname == "STIXTwoMath"
then
fontdata.characters[983352]["italic"]=3*fontdata.characters[983352]["italic"]
end
end
luatexbase.add_to_callback
(
"luaotfload.patch_font",
patch_stixmath,
"change_stixmath"
)
\end{luacode}
(it was glyph 983352, not 983351)
This is of course a rather crude sledgehammer approach, with who knows what side effects. Use at your own risk.
@mickep The STIX Two project has a place to report problems. I don't remember it off the top of my head, though. I have some other issues to report there myself. Will look for it later. Now: Lunch! (Sadly, no duck.)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Wow, that looks good! (I was also at lunch, no ducks were harmed.) Do you mind mention also this issue if you send a report to them. (@barbarabeeton sorry for pinging you before, it seems that Harald has the necessary information)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Thanks. I can also try to check where to report, and write a report. No time for that today, though. Let us both try to help each other to remember :)
@mickep I added a link to this conversation to my main org file. So hopefully, I will remember it.
@UlrikeFischer You're the one who taught me how to patch the STIX Two Math font. As you can see above, I now know just enough to be a danger to my surroundings.
The release notes for STIX 2.0.0 (available in the distribution file) says: Please direct any questions or general comments to the STIX Fonts project. Bug reports and technical support issues should be reported through https://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/support.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Yes, I already saw it ;-). @mickep: It could be worth the trouble to sent an example to the context list. The stix people seem to be rather slow in correcting such problems, and for the other problem (sourceforge.net/p/stixfonts/tracking/86) Hans provided a patch in the fontloader.
I keep getting a strange error when I load adforn with my documents. It boils down to fontspec changing the encoding from U to TU, and then it throws me an error and automatically updated the encoding with defaults.
I have solved this by making a new file in my texmf called TUOrnementsADF.fd con...
I just had a lecture from someone who has been a senior scientist (and has completed a PhD, post-doc) at a hospital for already 15 years. So I'm assuming this person is experienced in giving talks in English. However, almost one out of three words was completely unintelligible because of a very s...
@AlanMunn Once I heard a communication in English: the speaker was Russian and just read the slides with the full text, probably translated by someone else. When a formula appeared, he just hummed.
@PauloCereda There are various comparisons online which inexplicably come out favouring M&Ms but this one is pretty neutral. robulack.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/…
@PauloCereda Since chat is largely devoid of Americans I suspect that for those who have tried both, more of us like Smarties. :)
@PauloCereda News: I probably won't get any payment for the Rio journey, but I still want to visit, so I'm considering how much money I'm willing to put in it.
@yo' A hotel from the Accor group is around R$ 120,00 (~ EUR33), it depends on the place (noble regions like Paulista are more expensive). A flight São Paulo <-> Rio seems to be R$ 180,00 (~ EUR50). Of course, it depends on the date proximity. :)
@PauloCereda but our biggest issue are not these, it's the biggest thief of all shouting "everyone is a thief", buying two major media and getting 25--30% in the polls
anyway, gotta go. Thanks for the input @Paulo and bye for now!
@DavidCarlisle (please close your eyes, @CarLaTeX and @egreg) -- zagat.com/b/10-most-unusual-pizzas-around-the-u.s (i have never visited any of these places or tried any of the featured offerings.)
"Please send me your work in Word rather than PDF and I'll insert my comments directly." -- Oh no, not again! The problem is, I'm eager for this guy's comments as he's a very wise man in the topic of the works... :-/
@JosephWright Late revenge: when you comment on or edit Word documents, save it as PDF first and insert all your comments, edits, changes by overprinting with LaTeX, and return that.
@mickep -- i've finally had a chance to check this out. styles have changed over the years, but when the specs were set up for the most recent "standard style" for ams journals, the \footskip was set to 12pt (1pc). this started with the 1980 volume of most ams journals, and assumed that the last non-folio line on the first page would be a copyright notice. (cont'd)
(cont'd) looking at other volumes at random, i determined that in the 1930s (metal type, no copyright on every article) the drop was only 18pt (1.5pc). so that is just the way the ams journal style is set up. if there's no copyright on the first page, of course the last line will be closer to the folio. what conditions are in effect for the example you're looking at?
@barbarabeeton Thank you for the explanation. In our example, there is no copyright text, but Mathematics Subject Classes and Key words. One example is on the way:
@barbarabeeton In this particular example, I think the 1 is too close to "Dirichlet". But maybe we are using the amsart wrongly for our preprint version? Or, rather, maybe this was not the intended use?
@mickep -- if you don't mind the folio dropping a bit lower, you can set \footskip=18pt somewhere near the end of the preamble. it shouldn't change anything else (i don't see it being used in any page length calcuiation). the ams document classes were designed for the ams environment, which, as i mentioned, does assume the presence of the copyright block.
@barbarabeeton Thanks, I will try either to a) add a copyright block or b) add a bit to the footskip. I don't "own" this particular file right now, so I won't do any changes. Thank you very much for looking!
@mickep -- the copyright block is produced by \@setcopyright. since you're talking about a preprint, you could fiddle with (a copy of) that, ignoring the series logo (which goes into the upper left corner of the page as an "overlay") and filling the "copyright block" with an empty \mbox to, in effect, leave a blank line..
@PauloCereda I remember vaguely the episode where Cleese and Chapman were dressed as Pepperpots and travel to France in order to visit Jean Paul Sartre...
