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12:02 AM
@Gnintendo The problem with \ifblank is the same that doesn't allow you to use \citetitle for the bookmarks
 
@egreg Your package throws an error though, so what solution would you propose
I just need something that checks to see if it has an author entry, and, if it does, insert some text that includes that author entry
 
@Gnintendo As the documentation tries to explain, the author field is not reliable. And the package can't catch missing fields.
 
but surely there is some way to accomplish what I want? even if it's not your package?
 
@Gnintendo There should be something possible with biblatex. I suggest to put up a question for our biblatex experts.
 
:<
 
12:10 AM
@egreg @Gnintendo BibLaTeX itself checks for missing authour feilds, so there must be SOME way to do it, but yeah, ask a question.
 
arara in Turkish, courtesy of @Brent. :)
 
@PauloCereda One of the ways I've made some labmates very happy is switching their software into their native language, even when they speak near-perfect or perfect English.
 
@Canageek I think it's a great approach - sometimes not so easy to achieve. :) I think it gives confidence. :)
 
@PauloCereda Wow, that's almost fully accurate. Can I make some final touches ? :) For example cool -> serin is as in cool breeze. It's someting like cool-> havalı
 
12:26 AM
@percusse Oh! :) Brent is the Manager of Turkish Affairs. :) I have absolutely no idea what's going on there. :)
 
@PauloCereda No problem. It's a weird language anyway eheh
 
@percusse :) How about a Dutch translation? :)
 
@PauloCereda That should be in it too. :)
Is there any master file for the text strings?
 
@percusse I'll try to hide some easter eggs too, like l33tsp34k. :)
 
@PauloCereda You need to invent some ararish too.
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12:30 AM
@percusse There is. :) I'm just giving some final touches on the whole structure, I'll send you the link. :)
 
squeek bak bak bak prrruaaaak! -> Bad command or file name
 
@percusse LOL
 
hmm apparently I know some
 
@PauloCereda Tengwar? Or rather, one of the languages that uses it.
 
12:34 AM
@Canageek ooh that would be cool too! :)
 
 
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1:40 AM
@lockstep: Closed.
 
 
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4:12 AM
@PauloCereda: For you:
 
 
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7:53 AM
Joseph Wright on September 23, 2012

Members of Tex-sx with enough ‘reputation’ can flag questions and answers for moderator attention. That’s an important part of how the site works: the moderators cannot read everything. A few posts gets flagged as spam or similarly out-and-out unwelcome material, and they are easy for the moderators to deal with. However, most flagged posts need a bit more work, as often they are suggested duplicates, off-topic entries or similar.

Over the life of the site, it’s been clear that users appreciate some feedback on moderator action, whether that’s closing a question or …

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A request from your humble servant :-)
 
8:05 AM
@JosephWright Nice post. Everything for our servants ;-)
 
8:41 AM
Feedback on meta threads meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2770/… and meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2763/… would be very handy: both 'new user' questions in a way
 
@HarishKumar woohoo! :)
@JosephWright Great post! :)
 
9:16 AM
hi everyone....
 
@azlanaznam Hello
 
:-) i am downloading texmaker right now.. is it good? currently i am using bakoma tex
 
@azlanaznam There are lots of LaTeX editors, and TeXmaker is used by many people. Relatively few people use BaKoMa, as it's paid for and both MikTeX and TeX Live are free.
 
@Joseph thanks for your advice. I am going to try texmaker... i bought bakoma tex because friends recommended it to me.. easy to handle the error ..
 
@azlanaznam Not an error, just a comment really
 
9:33 AM
?? i mean, using bakomatex really helps me out with the error...
 
@PauloCereda Today I can't work well. The party ended 06:00am and 3 hours later I had to turn out
 
@MarcoDaniel Oh!
 
9:48 AM
@PauloCereda I am completely exhausted
 
@MarcoDaniel No marathon training today? :)
 
@PauloCereda today , tomorrow and the day after tomorrow -- at the moment I want to sleep ;-)
 
@MarcoDaniel :)
 
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Q: Can I recover my .tex file?

JanetI have lost my tex file but I still have my pdf, .aux, .bak, .bbl, performance monitor file, and my text document. Can anyone tell me if I can restore my .tex file from this? In any form? Addition by Jake: Note that this question is not a direct duplicate of How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?, sinc...

This an the linked possible duplicates suggest to me we need a 'generic' question and answer on text recover (or otherwise). Thoughts?
 
@JosephWright I like the idea of a canonical answer. :)
 
10:10 AM
@PauloCereda:
Software companies/developers!
 
@HarishKumar LOL
 
@HarishKumar Your deleted answer is much better than Herbert's. It's only necessary to add the correct calculation: \linewidth-\widthof{\the\csname thm@headfont\endcsname Theorem \thethm. } instead of 0.8\textwidth
@HarishKumar You should really undelete your answer.
 
10:29 AM
@MarcoDaniel Where?
 
@PauloCereda to reopen the answer of @HarishKumar
 
@MarcoDaniel I think I have no privileges to vote for reopening. In any case, IMHO I think it's @Harish's decision to undelete his answer.
 
@PauloCereda That's the problem. I added the fix to the answer
 
@PauloCereda You've got 10k rep: I thought that was enough
 
@egreg :)
@JosephWright Apparently I need moar powerz. :)
What happens when a post is deleted?

Once a post has been deleted, it will disappear for all users except developers, moderators, and other fellow users with this privilege. However, deleted posts can be undeleted by casting undelete votes. Once a post has 3 undelete votes, it will no longer be deleted.
In the 10k privileges page.
I want my undelete button! :)
 
10:49 AM
@egreg: Thank you very much. In fact I didn't know how to calculate that length correctly. Thanks for the edit. :)
 
Harish's answer is on! Yay! :)
 
@PauloCereda, @MarcoDaniel: Thanks to you guys too.
 
@HarishKumar I was looking for the undelete button. :P
 
@PauloCereda: I think you should have that right by now!. Is it not?
 
@HarishKumar I guess I've seen it before, but not for your answer. :(
 
10:52 AM
@PauloCereda: Strange. Some times site rules suck really :(
 
11:04 AM
No, I definitely have no undelete button. I tried ⌘+Z, but it didn't work. :P
 
Just when I thought that mathworks is not that bad in the last version compared to the previous ones. I have now this:
Thank you Microsoft for leading the way
 
@PauloCereda In the interests of full disclosure, with considerable help from Google Translate!!!
 
@Brent.Longborough <3
 
@percusse I'd be really grateful if you could send me any other corrections... As I said to Paulo, translating this really helped me discover just how little Turkish I really speak.
 
@Brent.Longborough No, please allow me to merely assist. I think that's already quite accurate. The message goes across anyhow. It only needs a few tweaks in the screenshot. Considering how much we destroy English daily, I think this is already above average usage :)
@Brent.Longborough I'm also quite surprised that you have Turkish under your belt too.
 
11:17 AM
@percusse I'm really happy to hear you say that.
@percusse It's my fifth language of seven
@percusse But 5,6, and 7 (Turkish, Italian, and German) are really at survival level
 
@Brent.Longborough Gedaada here. Man, I hate smart people.
 
@percusse Not smart, just old and (formerly) travelled
 
@Brent.Longborough Hahahah, as my friend says it's the leave my wife alone level. We needed that in some countries unfortunately.
 
@percusse You got it. "No, she's not for sale!
 
@Brent.Longborough Oh I hope you didn't have to buy some carpets :) They are a major concern in Istanbul. We are trying to kick them out of that place\
But things are getting from bad to worse everyday with our fantastic goverment.
 
11:25 AM
@percusse I did actually buy a small Hereke, but from a friend of many years.
 
Hello @Fran: Haven't seen you here before :-)
 
OK that does it. I propose @Brent.Longborough for the travel blog interviewee. \documentclass{memoir} by Brent Longborough.
 
@percusse Ga weg!
 
@Brent.Longborough Eheheh, doe even normaal man.
Strange to shout act normal!
 
@percusse :)
 
11:30 AM
I have to get back to my MATLAB thingy. See you later
 
@percusse Good luck, watch out for the even primes, they're tricksy...
@PauloCereda Ctrl-Shift-Underscore
@percusse Would harika be a better cool than havalı ?
@PauloCereda : I've pushed @percusse 's fix, but altered.
@PauloCereda : Removing the BOM really screws up my development environment. Is there a way to fix arara barfing on that? I really have no idea how this utf8 stuff works, especially in java
@Fran : Si quieres, algunos de nosotros hablamos español... Aunque es más fácil en inglés, por supuesto
 
11:58 AM
@Brent.Longborough Are you sure it's arara and not TeX?
 
@JosephWright Oh, yes, these things are the error message reosurces. UTF8 works luverly in (Xe)TeX.
@JosephWright I suspect that @PauloCereda has commited some act of hubris that has irritated the inhabitants of java's bureaucratic elfsphere
@JosephWright ... and so they have chosen him to irritate me by proxy :)
 
12:14 PM
More meta issues from me today :-)
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Q: A consolidated 'recoverying material from a PDF' question and answer?

Joseph WrightA questions which comes up in one form or another reasonable regularly is 'How do I turn a PDF back into .tex?': see for example Can I recover my .tex file?. Some, but not all, of these questions are about 'disaster recovery', but the core issue (recreating a .tex file) does not directly hinge on...

 
 
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1:22 PM
@Brent.Longborough I need to study more about the BOM stuff. :) My bad for breaking stuff, but I was eager to test if the Turkish localization was working. :)
 
@PauloCereda Absolutely no problem. I assume you just read my email?
 
@Brent.Longborough Voy hacer un dibujo - That's the only Spanish sentence I know. :)
 
@PauloCereda Yay!
 
@Brent.Longborough I did. :) A reply coming later on, we will find a solution for it. :)
Don't forget, we are a great team! :)
 
@PauloCereda Many years ago, a colleague in IBM Brasil got a reputation for travelling to Argentina and winging it by speaking Portuguese. So he goes in for breakfast, and asks "Por favor, café de la mañana!" The waiter looks on without understanding anything. So then "Ah, no, por favor un desarrollo"
Of course, he really wanted a "desayuno"
 
1:26 PM
@Brent.Longborough LOL
 
Hello everybody, Jooshep, Benrt, sorry for the delayed reply. It Is a storm day here and I lost the connection several times.
 
@Brent.Longborough harika is great but not cool. Still, it can be used considering arara ;). If Paulo has the master file I can review them if you wish.
 
@Fran No worries, we're all super-informal here, we even leave without saying goodbye in good weather :)
 
@Brent.Longborough: I forgot to tell, I have another wacky feature for RC3! I'll discuss with you later. :D
 
@Brent.Longborough One can also change the infinitives -mek,-mak to simple present tense.
 
1:30 PM
@percusse That would be wonderful if you could spare the time. The file is at github.com/cereda/arara/blob/brent/application/src/main/…
 
@Brent.Longborough Ok, I'm on it. But allow for some time :)
 
@percusse Yes, I was really unsure of that. You mean, like "Lütfen beklemek" in place of "Lütfen bekleyiniz"?
@percusse All the time in the world. It took me a solid five hours to do, and at the end I was sweating freely!
 
@Brent.Longborough Yep, exactly!
@Brent.Longborough Hahah, I have to tell, it really doesn't feel awkward at all when I'm reading.
Only the fluency that's all.
 
@percusse OK. Thanks. Whenever you're ready, you can send me the file (org dot longborough at brent reversed) and I'll incorporate it in my branch and pass it to Paulo
@percusse Absolutely. To paraphrase Monty Python "He's not Orhan Pamuk, he's a very naughty boy!"
 
@Brent.Longborough :-)
 
1:36 PM
@percusse Oh, and I bet I've messed up some of Paulo's really more complex messages.
 
@Brent.Longborough We need some motivation for future releases.
 
@percusse Türkçem zayıf, ama gönlüm zengin
 
@Brent.Longborough Do we have the formal version or the dude approach for the translation? Similar to Du - Sie?
@Brent.Longborough Puhahaha, thanks I need to clean my keyboard now.
 
@Brent.Longborough LOL I have no idea why I laughed. :P
 
@percusse I chose to use siz rather than sen, but the choice was somewhat arbitrary, erring on the side of politeness, but not going as far as effendi
 
1:41 PM
@Brent.Longborough @PauloCereda I can go with the Portal approach if you like :) A grumpy but friendly computer tone
 
@Brent: Don't forget to prod @percusse to provide his full name so we can <s>threaten</s> thank him in the special thanks message. :P
@percusse Yay GLaDOS FTW!
 
@PauloCereda "Meu Turco (idioma) é pobre, mas meu coração/alma é rico/a"
 
And there will be cake too!
@Brent.Longborough óóóó! <3
 
Or, for the benefit of others, "My Turkish is poor, but my soul is rich"
@PauloCereda Not very original, I stole it from Fernanda Montenegro
 
@Brent.Longborough Dama do cinema brasileiro. :)
 
1:47 PM
@PauloCereda Oh yes...
@PauloCereda The original was when she got her Oscar: "My English is poor, but my heart is better" (Thunderous applause)
 
@Brent.Longborough But... she never got an Oscar!
:)
She lost Best Actress with Central Station (Central do Brasil).
 
@PauloCereda My initial is the notorious dotted I that's why I skip it :)
 
@percusse <3
Guys, see you later. :) Time to go to the hospital. :(
 
@PauloCereda So do I have the permission to go with the impersonation? Because in Turkish running code...opening file is not used in third person
it needs someone to ... Oops, I hope all is well?
 
@percusse Permission granted. :)
@percusse I'm not feeling well these days because of the flu. Time to see a doctor about it. :)
See ya, friends!
 
1:52 PM
@PauloCereda Oh, sorry to hear that. Get well soon!
 
@percusse Yes, I concur with @PauloCereda -- I have absolutely no claim to having made the best translation...
@PauloCereda Hey, Paulo, get well soon!
 
@Brent.Longborough I'm still laughing :)
@Brent.Longborough Not to devalue your style at all. Otherwise all sentences should be reversed since the verbs comes in the end for any action and English is the direct opposite.
Lütfen bekleyin or lütfen bekle doesn't go with the flow.
@Brent.Longborough Just a question raised exception is an error or not in this context? I'm guessing kural dışılık is something closer.
Though your wording is the correct direct translation
 
2:21 PM
@percusse Yes, this would be an error condition
@percusse Are you suggesting dışılık in place of istisna?
 
@Brent.Longborough It's something like arara found something against the rules
less technical but more to the point I guess.
 
@percusse I'm not sure of common Turkish IT-speak/usage
What's needed is to express an abnormal event
Something a bit like exception as in "took exception to" ie "Was a bit offended by"
Or as in management by exception, perhaps - an unexpected event
 
@Brent.Longborough Me too. So I'm trying to avoid that by saying something happened that should have not happened. and I've used arara bir istisna farketti ve aşağıdaki iletiyi üretti
word by word it goes like arara noticed an exception and produced the following message
 
@percusse Yes, that looks better. Or how about this: Arara bir özel durum oluşturuldu, bu mesaji ile
@percusse Oh, no, that's a special occasion, like a wedding...
 
@Brent.Longborough No it's also valid for technical context. At least you can get away with it. No connotation implied.
 
2:34 PM
@percusse Yes. I suspect I may have to apply the Wittgenstein Defence
 
@Brent.Longborough :-)
 
"Waarover men niet kan spreken, daarover moet men zwijgen."
Dutch looks a bit like lolspeak
 
@Brent.Longborough Oh yes, it's really difficult for me to find the right word order. Exception is the rule for Dutch.
 
@percusse :)
@percusse Sorry, I have to go walk the dog. If you get tired of the challenge, by all means send me bits and pieces to fix things; I'm sure it'll be an improvement.
Bye for now!
 
@Brent.Longborough Catch you later I'll send you the email when I'm done.
 
 
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3:58 PM
Cricket news: England are in serious trouble against India
 
J G
4:18 PM
@JosephWright Hi, are you around?
 
@JG On and off
 
J G
@JosephWright I made a posting on SO that I highly regret. I want it taken down and they won't do it.
 
@JG Up to the SO mods, I'm afraid
 
J G
@JosephWright I am freaking out. They wont' delete it.
 
@JG My powers are limited to TeX-sx, I'm afraid
 
4:32 PM
@JosephWright What did I say? :)
23 hours ago, by egreg
@PauloCereda India will win, of course. ;-) Back from the tour. The Gradara castle is very interesting; but every small town there has its castle.
@JosephWright I want to define a key for delimiters: delims=(), for instance. Is it contrary to the principles to say
\keys_define:nn { perms }
 {
  delims .code:n = \perms_set_delims:NN #1,
 }
and then
\cs_new_protected:Npn
 \perms_set_delims:NN #1 #2
 {
  \tl_set:Nn \l_perms_left { #1 }
  \tl_set:Nn \l_perms_right { #2 }
 }
or is it good?
 
5:08 PM
@Brent.Longborough You've got mail.
 
J G
You all are SOO much nicer than SO!
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@egreg Tricky one :-)
@egreg I guess I'd give this a cautious 'yes'
 
@JosephWright so is Community you wearing a different hat, or is it a mechanical process?
 
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
@JosephWright well it was a real question actually, i just got a bounty from Community and I wondered why/how/who/what that was
 
5:23 PM
@DavidCarlisle That happens if a bounty is allocated automatically rather than by the person who set it
@DavidCarlisle Community does all sorts of admin things
 
@JosephWright ah well my answer was so full of bugs it wasn't accepted yet, plan to fix it at some point but still nice to get a bounty, not had many of those. (and I see England are no longer in serious trouble)
 
@PauloCereda: @Brent.Longborough: G you have written a philosophical mail which explains your point of view well. After reading your mail I want to underline your opinion.
 
J G
Who starred my message about SO? :)
 
@JG It's a feature of our chat. Our chat detects messages with compliments and the message will be starred.
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J G
5:39 PM
@MarcoDaniel oh yea, i was just curious who gave the complement :)
 
@JosephWright I wouldn't specify separately the left and right delimiter; doing a mapping from the argument seems overkill.
 
6:00 PM
@egreg Reasonable interface: there are cases where some form of 'combined' input makes sense, for example table-format in siunitx
 
6:11 PM
before I ask my second question, does anybody here know how to check if a biblatex entry exists in TeX?
 
6:42 PM
@percusse Replied! Thank you very much!
@JG That's nice; unfortunately, to counterbalance that, we know little (collectively) about forth, prolog, erlang, APL and such. But we're a happy crew!
 
Back! I'm alive, apparently. :)
 
@PauloCereda Yay! U got moar emailz
 
(I ask because it's my second question)
I want to make sure it makes sense
let me know if there's anything I can do to improve it as well
 
@Gnintendo well it would help to know what you want to happen if the author is missing: enter some default text [author] or flag an error or cause machine to reboot or...
 
@Brent.Longborough Oh! :)
 
6:48 PM
@Gnintendo Looks pretty clear to me.
 
@DavidCarlisle Ah! I want nothing to happen, for the section to be omitted, I'll clarify
@DavidCarlisle I thought I made that clear with the second entry, but I'll try to clarify
(the second one that's missing an author)
 
@DavidCarlisle If there's no author, @Gnintendo wants to use the section title that doesn't call out the author...
 
@Gnintendo yes fair enough, OK I think the answer I didn't post to your first qn can answer this, I'll dig it out...
 
>.<
 
J G
@Brent.Longborough I have no idea what those words mean.
 
6:51 PM
@JG Oops, sorry, they're all programming languages with varying degrees of "exotic"
@MarcoDaniel Was that the one about filename/basefile?
Gotta go. Judge Dredd on TV (Sorry!). C U all later
 
J G
@Brent.Longborough I had a question about perl. They were SOOO unhelpful.
 
@Brent.Longborough: found the bug, gonna work on it... someday. :P
 
@Brent.Longborough @PauloCereda Empire strikes back.
 
7:06 PM
@percusse Got your mail. <3
 
@PauloCereda I hope the encoding is in place :P
 
@percusse LOL - @PauloCereda "doesn't do" encodingz
 
@lockstep Is there a way to do it outside of defining an entirely new citation command?
 
@percusse "en coding"... sounds French. Is it "doing code"? :)
 
@PauloCereda No it's a swimming style after the cod fish
 
7:12 PM
@percusse ooh! :)
 
@Gnintendo Possibly, but \ifnameundef is, IIRC, only available in bibliographies/citation styles. Is my solution too verbose, so to speak?
 
@Gnintendo grr @lockstep beat me to it:-)
 
@lockstep That's what I was thinking: The problem is that this was MWE, literally, my actual \sectiontitle command is quite a bit more complicated than this, and without understanding everything you did in your declaration of the cite command to do all of the work, it's going to be very hard for me to extend it
 
@Gnintendo I could post mine but it also assumes that citation key is available up front.
 
Ideally it would minimally be just checking for the field somehow (even if that's a hack that uses a new cite command declaration to accomplish it)
 
J G
7:14 PM
@Gnintendo you are lucky thorston is no here. he might murder you for that
 
:<
@DavidCarlisle You mean the key, like, 'bar'?
@lockstep Does that make sense? I hope I'm not being obtuse :s
 
J G
@Gnintendo Yea, I think Throston gets off sexually on calling people out for having a bad MWE
 
well, I think the MWE is fine, I would think the answer not being extendable enough would fall under the same logic as a question being too specific to be useful (although that's a little harsh to apply in this circumstance)
 
@Gnintendo Look at my edited answer again -- I added exactly four code lines to the original \citetitle definition, and you should be able to spot that I am testing for the existence of a (name) field.
 
@Gnintendo yes, if you know that before you start handling the section heading you can do tests in a safer place, if you allow the section heading to start and then discover you need to make tests and stuff things are a lot more fragile
 
7:18 PM
@DavidCarlisle I noticed you used a ---
is that what I should be using in this circumstance?
I wasn't sure about that
 
@Gnintendo although in fact @locksteps tests do happen inside \section he's braver than I am:-0
@Gnintendo yes --- is OK you could use \textemdash but it comes to the same thing
 
@DavidCarlisle Your answer seems to work fine, but I have a couple of questions:
What is the line "\let\abx@name@author\relax\foo{#1}%" doing?
 
J G
@MarcoDaniel SO does not have that feature.
 
@DavidCarlisle Since it's part of the implementation, I'm just trying to make sure I understand it fully so I can continue to use it and extend it
 
@DavidCarlisle +1 -- works indeed, though I'm more used to the biblatex way.
 
7:26 PM
@Gnintendo \let\abx@name@author\relax defines it to be \relax (no-op) to clear any previous test, and \foo{bar} pokes into internals of biblatex (that I don't know at all I just watched it with debug tracing on) biblatex saves the author name in that field so if it is there \abx@name@author won't be \relax then the following line uses ifx to test if it is relax or npt
@lockstep Ive never used biblatex or biber I just watched the MWE with \tracingall and poked in some definitions:-) So I don't know what the biblatex way is:-)
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@DavidCarlisle Oh, cool
 
@DavidCarlisle You are my hero.
 
@DavidCarlisle Why dose it need to be inside \makeatletter and \makeatother?
 
@DavidCarlisle Delving into biblatex.def, standard.bbx & friends. Sort of a manual \tracingall.
 
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Q: What do \makeatletter and \makeatother do?

CaramdirMany TeX “hacks” begin with \makeatletter and end with \makeatother. What do these commands do?

 
7:34 PM
@DavidCarlisle THanks
Thanks*
 
@Gnintendo I tried to make the question title more specific -- please have a look.
 
@lockstep Fine by me
 
7:52 PM
Does anybody know a simpler way than this to achieve this result?: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24979/…
hmm, nevermind, the answer to the above doesn't seem to work
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Q: Citing author's full name in biblatex.

ThomasHow can I cite an authors full name (=first name + last name) in biblatex? @book{Gladwell2005, author = {Gladwell, Malcolm}, address = {New York, NY}, publisher = {Back Bay Books}, title = {{Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking}}, year = {2005} } I would then like ...

I need an answer to that, but the answer given doesn't work, it behaves the same as \citeauthor
 
8:27 PM
@Gnintendo Works for me.
 
really?
it just outputs the last name for me
weird...
 
8:45 PM
@Brent.Longborough: moooaarrr interwebz mailz!!!1one
 
@lockstep Do you know why it might not be working for me...?
 
@Gnintendo Without an example, no idea. The solution also does not dpend on Biber.
 
let me see if I can get a MWE
 
9:08 PM
@lockstep Are you using \citeauthor*{}?
 
@Gnintendo Nope, \citeauthor.
 
neither work for me
hmph
@lockstep Do I have to declare the cite command at a certain part in the preamble for it to work?
@lockstep No matter what I do, even renaming the cite command and using that, it still behaves exactly like \citeauthor for me
 
@Gnintendo I'll add an alternative answer that maybe works for you, too.
 
OK :s
 
@Gnintendo Answer added (including a MWE).
 
9:21 PM
@lockstep Your answer works fine
Thanks
 
@Gnintendo You're welcome. I can only guess that the other answers's uniquename trick somehow clashes with your style/settings.
 
shrug
@lockstep Now I was able to trivially add the subsection titles for ~20 more artworks! :D gabmedia.org/ArtStudyGuide.pdf
 
9:45 PM
@PauloCereda U got free moar emailz LOL. That'll teach you to ask questions ROTFL.
 
@Brent.Longborough LOL
I got rid of one now. :)
Get ready for the others. :)
 
@PauloCereda BTW, does that maven file have to be called pom.xml? It looks like something else, badly kerned
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@Brent.Longborough An older kid told me to use Maven. :)
I have no idea, I'm a Maven newbie.
Aren't pompoms those things that cheerleaders throw in the air?
 
@PauloCereda Did the doctor reassure you? I hope so.
 
@egreg He told me the virus will go away in a few days, maybe a week. :)
 
9:49 PM
@PauloCereda That's a long time for a flu. :(
 
@egreg Oh the doctor discovered it was not the flu that was making me sick. It was a rotavirus! :(
 
@PauloCereda Aww, poor old Paulo!
@PauloCereda Yezz, liked ur email about UTF8
 
@Brent.Longborough I need to be cautious when I cough. :)
@Brent.Longborough And moarr repliez! :)
 
@PauloCereda megaLOL
 
@Brent.Longborough: our arara folders got a bunch of material today. :)
 
9:57 PM
@PauloCereda Yay, everything in harmony
 
@Brent.Longborough arara's feng shui. :)
 
@PauloCereda Lala-lala-la-la, la-la-laaa
OK, time for bed. I worked very hard today in the rôle of Maxwell's demon, reducing the Entropy of the World
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but, of course, my own entropy has increased considerably
 
@Brent.Longborough Oops. :)
Good night, @Brent! :)
 
Those who say "Entropy needs no maintenance" are not entirely truthful.
G'night, all!
 
Second law of thermodynamics, I guess. :)
 
10:07 PM
@PauloCereda Not a very kind object. :(
 
@egreg Indeed. Thankfully the treatment is easy. :)
 
@PauloCereda Stay in bed?
 
@egreg That too. :) But I also need to take two medicines - one acting on the virus (or it can become an infection), and other to reduce nauseas. :)
It's a three-day treatment. :)
 
10:28 PM
@PauloCereda Best wishes! Rep cap reached now; I didn't think to it: all day writing a paper for the next GuITmeeting. :)
 
@egreg Thanks! :) ooh can you tell us more about the paper? :)
 
Bad news: Milan, Inter and Lazio lost. ;-)
@PauloCereda About LaTeX3 programming.
 
@egreg Oh no! :)
@egreg How nice! Where will this year's meeting take place? :)
 
@PauloCereda In Naples
 
@egreg Wow! How nice! You'll meet Agostino De Marco there. :)
 
10:32 PM
@PauloCereda Yes, he's the main organizer.
 
@egreg Ah. :) Can I host next year's meeting? :P
 
@PauloCereda Quite far for an Italian meeting. :) Can you provide for travel expenses?
 
@egreg Well, I can provide the spaghetti supply. :) Mom bought a lot of spaghettini #3 and spaghetti #5 today. :)
I wish I could visit Italy to attend a meeting. :) But I'd have to infiltrate there. :)
 
10:51 PM
@egreg: does ArsTeXnica accept articles in other languages than Italian, say, English? :)
 
@PauloCereda Yes, of course.
 
@egreg ooh! :)
 
@PauloCereda An article about arara for the next issue? :)
 
@egreg I was thinking of one about my songbook, but I can write about arara. :)
 
@PauloCereda Also the songbook would be welcome, I believe.
 
10:56 PM
@egreg Cool! I'll just wait arara get out of the RC phase and enter the stable release, and I'll write about it. :) The songbook article will be a bonus. :)
 
11:30 PM
@egreg: I have a surprise for you. :)
 

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