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And you'd have to have both PDFs in the same folder, blah blah blah

Thank you so much, this saved me a lot of work, it'd be nice if the hyperlinks worked but I'm sure the journal will strip that out anyway

Got it

(Ifigured you were probably involved when I saw a name that was only two letters long. )

Unless there is a better way to do this?I figure the packages impecable author would know

Dammit, "Problem was solved by reading the manual more carefully. If I want to add a prefix to distinguish figures in the other file, I need to go and add that to each of the references. (So if I want Figure S3 for the 3rd figure in the ESI, Ihave to go and add S to all the labels for it, I think)

@DavidCarlisle problem was solved by reading the m, if I want to add a prefix to distinguish figures in the other file, I need to go and add that to each of the references it looks likeanual more carefully

@DavidCarlisle okay now I feel like I'm from going crazy, it clearly says that it's importing the labels from the right aux file, but I still get a document full of undefined references

Ok, I could hook up a keyboard I guess.... But I don't think anyone has created a LaTeX version for Android so I couldn't test my MWEs....

As amusing as that might be

And I am bad enough at phone typing that I've had to edit my messages here more then once, I'm not going to try writing LaTeX this way!

(It's a different account as I don't log into my personal email by hand and seen to have only set it up to log in via OAuth back in the day and Gmail is the only provider left)

If anyone has time to answer the question I just posted from my work laptop, or even point me at a keyword I can use to search out would be really helpful. I'm up against a deadline and hoping this will let me avoid an hour carefully doing this by hand

Thanks to whomever recommended Utah as a mirror to me, it I'm home in the mountains now, and it is very fast (about 40 minutes for the 2.X GB of packages I'm downloading)

@DavidCarlisle Nice. Will keep that in mind if I ever do a longer document again!

(I mean, I only cross-refrenced between chapters a very small number of times, so it didn't matter much, but would have been cool to use)

@DavidCarlisle OH. Wish I'd known that two years ago! XD

@Nasser Also if your compile is slow slow due to pgf graphics, there is a caching package for that

@DavidCarlisle Yes, but then it doesn't compile any faster. The point of doing that is you can 'turn off' all but the chapter you are working on, and then you get a 2 minut compile instead of a 2 hour one. (This is how everyone in my lab group did it, let me know if there is a better way!)

@DavidCarlisle Ahhhh makes sense that would be easy to mix up. I see that is noted in the answer you linked

@DavidCarlisle Not surprising, they are trying to sort things out via going through old minutes and such; mistakes are bound to creep in when you are working from parital information.

@Nasser Yes, exactly. But you can always turn on just one or two chapters at a time. I usually had the chapter I was working on and the appendix related to it on at any one time.

@DavidCarlisle cybre.space is a Mastodon instance. Decentralized social network where anyone can run a server. Think email, but for social networks. That is a particular server someone I know runs.

@DavidCarlisle That is the same person! XD

You make a "Master file" (LaTeX should PROBABLY update it's terminology there) and include each chapter. Then comment out all but the chapter you are working on right now

@Nasser YES! I just did this for my thesis

@yo' Slightly related: Yesterday this person tried to find out the meaning of a certain unicode symbol (⍼, RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW,). The name doesn't help and this lead them on a huge rabbithole chase cybre.space/@nonphatic/108100792373770729

@DavidCarlisle Probably. Mine topped out at....2 hours? 3 hours? Due to me being stupid and mixing two packages that should not be mixed. (I was recompiling figures that didn't need it hundreds of times)

@mickep Hah! My thesis took so long, even with caching, I needed the sound que to tell me when to get back to work or I'd waste a ton of time not noticing it was done

@PauloCereda I don't know what Arara is, but nice! Probably a LOT less ugly then my batch file XD

Also: Has anyone else rigged LaTeX to play a noise when it is done compiling? Or am I weird that way?

Also: typeout is a VERY useful command

Yay! I'm done downloading things! Now I can figure out what I've messed up on my laptop, as I know this compiled son my desktop before I went on vacation XD

@barbarabeeton Ohh, I should try that one when I'm home in Kelowna, my American geography is weak but I think we aren't that far from Utah.

Also you think that CalTech or Standford would have a CTAN mirror, since Knuth did his PhD at one, and was a prof at the other. You know, to commemorate that.

@PauloCereda Ahhhh, that makes sense. The UWashington and UWaterloo ones are both excellent if you ever don't want to rely on trans-Atlantic cables.

@PauloCereda Ok, I know Europe is small, but I would have still thought something on the mainland in central or Eastern Europe would be more convenient for you.

(I'm just shocked that none of Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, etc etc have mirrors up, given their long involvements with open source and comp sci. UWaterloo was the best server when I was in Ontario since it was nice and close and blazingly fast)

@MarcelKrüger It's equally mentioned along with all the other US servers; I just happen to know where UWashington is, and used that the first time as at least it is on the same coast. (I'm used to it defaulting to a university 4.5 timezones away from me when I'm in Canada, which even if it is a fast server, that is a longggg way to send packages)

Well, that was a mistake. I left it for an hour, and came back, and it is saying still an hour left; the last one said 50 minutes total

(SoCal, Jefferson, NorCal, Bay Area, off the top of my head)

@barbarabeeton Makes sense. California wants to be at least 4 or 5

I've been installing for 20 minutes and it says 30 left, I'll try Hoobly

@MarcelKrüger Thanks!

@barbarabeeton Damn, I'm in Sunnyvale, right next to San Jose

(Now that I"m dating an American, I"m learning that the US is about 50 smaller countries in a trenchcoat pretending to be one large country)

@DavidCarlisle XD. I mean, my partner just left Seattle, where it isn't uncommon to see Cascadia flags, particularly in queer households

I swear, whomever first created the "List mirrors by country, that will tell you which ones are closest" system MUST have been European where all the countries are teensy-tiny.