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3:38 AM
So, I might be up to five bugs found in packages since starting my thesis
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Q: I can use \refcmpd{a} in \ch{} environment, but not \refcmpd{a.one}?

CanageekI'm trying to show a reaction with chemformula involving a compound I've named using chemnum. If I use \cmpd{a} or \refcmpd{a} it works fine. However, if I use a sublabel, such as \refcmpd{a.one} then it refuses to compile. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I've included a MWE below: ...

(2 in newcomputermodern, one in bibnote, and one in chemnum so far)
(Three of them have been fixed)
Wait, also siunitx, I broke that when @JosephWright made \DeclareSIUnit\litre{\liter} break. So this might be my 6th.
 
 
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4:56 AM
@Canageek You should use Word :D
 
 
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7:02 AM
@DavidCarlisle Thank you.
 
7:16 AM
@PauloCereda really great to hear! (the first part)
 
8:15 AM
@mickep @StefanKottwitz @MarcelKrüger @Skillmon <3
 
@PauloCereda Great to hear about your 1st jab! I also finally got mine last week (second one is scheduled for August)
 
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WAIT WHAT
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 yaaaay! /hug
 
@PauloCereda :) a Valenduck?
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 ooh
 
@PauloCereda Do you have a date for the second jab or will you have to wait in this line again?
 
8:24 AM
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 I have a date, and pretty much everyone who was in line had the same date to return, but hopefully the triage will be faster, as you just need to bring your COVID vaccination card.
 
@PauloCereda That's good to hear! Keeping my fingers crossed that it will work without problems!
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 Thanks! <3 Hope yours are fine too!
 
@PauloCereda good, I am happy to hear you are safe(r). I have been fully vaccinated since one month now (the advantages of being old) and it boosts your tranquillity a lot.
 
@Rmano yay!
 
@Rmano A squirrel can be tranquil? :)
 
8:32 AM
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 an old one can... ;-)
provided sufficient storage of acorns
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 not as tranquil as a roast duck
 
@DavidCarlisle oh no :)
 
8:44 AM
@DavidCarlisle oh no
 
8:56 AM
Will there be a party when siunitx reaches a 3 digit subversion number?
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@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 Not round here - anyway, I can dodge it by adding something to the API and thus forces v3.1.0 ;)
 
@JosephWright That's cheating :)
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 I'm already working on some v3.1 stuff, so I don't think it is
 
@JosephWright ok, then we postpone the party to 3.1.100
 
9:30 AM
@JosephWright are you going to switch to a converge to pi convention?
 
9:57 AM
@JosephWright feature suggestion: include telemetry in the L3 kernel. :)
(ref: recent Audacity flame wars)
 
@PauloCereda just like star trek?
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh
Channelling @samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 ^^
 
10:21 AM
@PauloCereda ohh :)
 
Today we finally got us a small family dog :)
 
Someone can't spell "feature"
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Q: afterpage package and verse environement cause troubleshoting

fauveI use both afterpage package and verse environment in my document. So, when a verse environement comme just after an \afterpage command rendering, an unwanted linebreak occure after the first verse. As example, this a MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage{afterpage} \begin...

 
@Skillmon sshhh, don't tell my daughter or I will be even more "Daddy mean"
Congrats ;-)
@Skillmon Is it like the one on the "Companion"?
 
@Rmano will take a picture in an hour or so and send it :)
 
10:43 AM
@CarLaTeX Yeah, the magic bullet :D
 
10:54 AM
Very strange, I have a Travis CI build running for my last PR but no feedback in the PR page... and I had to push an extra commit to start it. Mmmhhhh
...somebody is wispering "...actions, actions..." in my hear...
 
@Schubladenzieher Lol
 
11:12 AM
@Rmano Apparently I didn't know \textomega is a text command ;-) (or was just absurdly lazy to read)
 
@PhelypeOleinik ;-) I suspect the OP was messing around with things because they do not know the concept of math mode...
 
@Rmano Most likely. After all a good first attempt at italics is $some\ italicised\ text$ (mine was, at least :-)
 
11:43 AM
@Rmano for reasons which are beyond me I can't upload the image :(
 
@Skillmon post the image to an (unposted) answer on the main site then post the image url here and it will self box and show the image (sometimes works when direct upload here is playing up)
 
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@DavidCarlisle issue was JPEG (is that a known limitation?)
@Rmano ^^^
 
12:26 PM
@Skillmon ❤️
 
12:43 PM
circuitikz with the rollback system is queued on CTAN. Let's see...
 
1:18 PM
Could it be that the site tug.org is down?
 
@Schubladenzieher yeah, seems to be down
 
1:38 PM
@Schubladenzieher It seems to be reachable again.
 
1:49 PM
Juhuuuuu
 
2:42 PM
Hello. Why is there no space between "the date of today" and "is" when I type "\today is", and why do I have to insert an interword command like "\ " or the empty group "{}" after "\today" to produce a space?
 
@Later the space ends the command
 
@DavidCarlisle Could you please check my last comment? tex.stackexchange.com/q/603842/242813
 
@DavidCarlisle what do you mean? Can you please elaborate?
 
@Later if you have \newcommand\zzz{abc} and wanted to make the text abcxyz then the input is \zzz xyz the space terminates \zzz it doesn't make space in the output. so if you want space you need \zzz{} xyz or \zzz\ abc
@Later there is an answer on site about that I'll find...
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Q: Space after LaTeX commands

KaarelI have a definition: \newcommand{\arnold}{Arnold Schwarzenegger} When I refer to it by: \arnold is a it is rendered as: Arnold Schwarzeneggeris a In order to have a space in front of "is" I would need to write \arnold\ is a Is there some other shorter way?

 
@DavidCarlisle Thank you very much.
 
2:57 PM
Thank you! @DavidCarlisle
@DavidCarlisle I have the feeling that you are the omniscient one here ;)
 
@Schubladenzieher \dimexpr 1pt + 3pt\relax ab is the same as \dimexpr 1pt + 3pt ab but ``\dimexpr 1pt + 3pt\relax +4pt` isn't the same as \dimexpr 1pt + 3pt +4pt so you can leave out the \relax if you have confidence that latex always guards the argument of p{...} so that it never "accidentally" picks up any trailing characters that look like they might be part of the length but were intended to be typeset.
 
@DavidCarlisle Yeah that really makes sense. Thanks again David :)
 
@DavidCarlisle why do I write lengthy comments under question when you describe the same at the same time in chat :(
 
@Skillmon blame the OP for cross posting the question
 
@DavidCarlisle Sorry :P
@Skillmon Thanks Jonathan! Well, at least the answer can be seen by others who have the same question :D
 
3:29 PM
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 ^^
@Skillmon awww das Hound <3
 
@PauloCereda Without the o: Hund.
 
@PauloCereda it'll be out chasing rabbits by now
 
@Skillmon And not “das” except your dog did choose to be without gender ;)
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh
@DavidCarlisle I wonder if a German Shepherd is just called Shepherd in Germany. :)
@Skillmon ooh
 
@DavidCarlisle no, she is very anxious.
@PauloCereda "Deutscher Schäferhund" in Germany.
 
3:31 PM
@PauloCereda that would be far too short ^^^^
 
@Skillmon ooh look at the Hund there
@DavidCarlisle oh no
@TeXnician ooh Der Hund
 
@PauloCereda correct :)
 
@Skillmon oh my
Der Hund ist nicht kleine
 
@PauloCereda or Die Hündin or Der Rüde
@PauloCereda The last e is too much: Der Hund ist nicht klein.
 
@Skillmon Isn't that the name of that magician bloke? :)
Oh wait, Houdini
@Skillmon German is sehr complicated. :)
 
3:34 PM
@PauloCereda no, but English is very simple.
 
@Skillmon clearly this is correct because you wouldn't want to simplify things by making the grammatical gender match the biological one.
 
(except for pronunciation vs. writing)
@DavidCarlisle the female form is "Die Hündin"
 
@Skillmon oh
 
@Skillmon yes but that's probably just a trick form only used for male puppies under the age of 30 seconds or some such arbitrary rule
 
@DavidCarlisle German isn't the Empirial unit system!
 
3:42 PM
@Skillmon -- Maybe "small", but not exactly SMALL. (When I hear "small", I think chihuahua", or a small terrier.)
 
@PauloCereda Just in time for TUG2021 :)
@barbarabeeton a chihuahua would probably be \tiny and not \small
 
@barbarabeeton maybe \small, not \footsize :)
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 oh no
 
@PauloCereda same idea :)
 
@CarLaTeX With my proclivity for finding bugs? Do you know how many crashes I used to have?
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 @barbarabeeton a chihuahua is a rat with a thyroid problem. :)
 
3:47 PM
@PauloCereda :)
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 -- I've lived with cats that were larger. And I would really enjoy having a Maine coon cat around.
 
@barbarabeeton I want a Maine Coon too <3
 
@barbarabeeton Maine coon would definitely be \large or even \Large :)
 
@PauloCereda -- Er, properly, the Maine coon cat owns you.
 
@barbarabeeton ooh
 
3:51 PM
@barbarabeeton That's true for any reasonable cat - one reason I love them :)
 
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 -- Some of them border on \huge. And appropriately fluffy, which makes them look even \larger.
 
@samcarter @barbarabeeton see email, touché. :)
 
@barbarabeeton a friend of mine had a half-maine coon mixture - with the soul of a teddy bear. If he choose you as sleeping place, there little chance to get up the whole evening :)
 
4:13 PM
@barbarabeeton ...I searched google image for Maine coon and I think that this thing is called a lynx here in Spain ;-P
 
4:28 PM
@Rmano -- There are lynxes here in the U.S. too, but they're quite wild, and very interesting with their pointy tufted ears and short tails. (I wouldn't feel safe with one in the house, or even in the yard!) A Maine coon cat is a bit smaller than the average lynx, and much more compatible with humans and other pets. It has quite long hair and a long fluffy tail. Very cuddleable.
 
5:01 PM
Marcel Krüger submitted the inputnormalization package.

Version number: 0.2
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: Wrapper for XeTeX's and LuaTeX's input normalization
@MarcelKrüger ooh
 
5:14 PM
@PauloCereda That's a very important package to stop a certain longtable maintainer from claiming LuaTeX wouldn't support NFD input. :)
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@MarcelKrüger ooh
Dec 1 '20 at 14:53, by Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle mummy please make the longtable man go away :)
 
@PauloCereda In arara, can I specify that a certain non zero exit status should not be seen as an error? (And can I then determine in a conditional if this exit status occurred?)
 
@MarcelKrüger it's totally doable. :) I can write a rule/directive pair that does this, I guess. :)
 
@PauloCereda Only if it's not too much work, it's just something I'm experimenting with: Using LaTeX's exit code to indicate required reruns instead of/in addtion to writing cryptic messages to the Log file.
 
5:29 PM
@Canageek You're right, LOL!
 
@MarcelKrüger no trouble at all, we love writing such rules. :) Also, this might raise a potential feature suggestion to us as well. Feel free to poke me by mail. :)
 
@PauloCereda Thanks.
 
@MarcelKrüger My pleasure! Glad to be of assistance. :)
 
6:16 PM
The lualatex-math warning about mathtools' cramped something-or-other has finally been fixed and I can now compile warning-free documents. That REALLY bothered me.
 
@barbarabeeton I was speaking of a dog, not of a big rat! And normal dogs start at knee-high, so this is indeed a small dog :)
 
@PauloCereda will it work on cygwin?
 
@Skillmon -- Hmmm. A dachshund can actually get pretty big, but still be barely knee-high. But indeed, your new companion is not particularly large, say in the Irish wolfhound class.
 
@MarcelKrüger not that NFC will help @barbarabeeton's favourite character \forks
 
6:35 PM
@DavidCarlisle -- But the examples I provided the UTC contained the author's definitions. I refuse to take responsibility for the apparent backwardness of the shapes.
 
@barbarabeeton someone should have fixed obvious typos in the input before standardising it:-) (and now it has a special rule in the NFC definition just for that character)
 
@DavidCarlisle -- But the examples were in an article in a "recognized journal". Not easy to change that sort of original.
 
@barbarabeeton the names were surely assigned by unicode though? The symbols may have been in a journal but they were not called forking and nonforking
 
@DavidCarlisle -- That I don't remember. Maybe the UTC could recover the usage examples from their archives.
 
@barbarabeeton but actually it's not that bad that one pair of names got through, staring at lists of characters isn't that easy I know:-) But I don't see how the (later) special rule added to NFC helps: it just makes a weird situation much worse. The names being reversed is just a minor irritant but that character having a special rule that makes its NFC normalisation be a pair with a composing character breaks stuff.
 
6:48 PM
@DavidCarlisle -- I guess I'll have to try to research that. Have you got a reference I can look at?
 
unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Forbidding_Characters having the rule "An example of such a post composition version exclusion is U+2ADC (⫝̸) FORKING. To date, that one character, encoded in Unicode 3.2, is the only character added to the list of composition exclusions based on the criterion of its decomposition mapping containing a prior-encoded character." which translates as "we really messed up with this character so we are adding a special rule to make it hard to use"
 
@DavidCarlisle will you break it? :)
 
@PauloCereda you can't break a scrambled egg
 
@DavidCarlisle -- Urk, I don't remember seeing that. Challenge Murray to get it made less confusing.
 
@DavidCarlisle you are mean
@barbarabeeton ooh tennis is confusing (Andy Murray, right?) :)
@Plergux baa
 
6:59 PM
Jun 29 '17 at 16:15, by Paulo Cereda
@DavidCarlisle you are not mean :)
 
@DavidCarlisle oh
 
@PauloCereda Quack!
 
@Plergux <3
 
@PauloCereda (^-^)/~~~~
 
@barbarabeeton no there is no way they will change nfc rules once written. I'd rather they add sans serif Greek
 
7:01 PM
@PauloCereda -- Not tennis, Unicode; Murray Sargent.
 
@barbarabeeton ooh-TF-8/16/32
 
@PauloCereda don't forget 7
 
@DavidCarlisle ooh 7 Up
 
@DavidCarlisle -- I spent several hours the other day searching for the NIST report that mandated a sans Greek \Theta, but more recent editions seem to have removed that section. Drat!
 
@PauloCereda Blake's 7
 
7:04 PM
@DavidCarlisle ooh
 
@PauloCereda much better than Star Trek :-)
 
@DavidCarlisle Our Samantha Carter might disagree. :)
 
7:35 PM
Farscape is the best anyway :p
 

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