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samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Does the Professor already have alternative ideas or would he like a community brainstorming for possible topics?

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Oh, no, the poor professor!

CarLaTeX

Prof. van Duck would have liked to write an article about PyLaTeX but he has just find out this: "We found indications that PyLaTeX is an Inactive project." Quack in despair!

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

:)

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Oh, what a nice procession!

CarLaTeX

https://x.com/buitengebieden/status/1879980555376422951?s=19

samcarter

Package in the spotlight: [fillpages](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/fillpages)

samcarter

Thanks to everyone who voted for/against the tophat for the snowman cookie cutter!   
  
Given the tie of stars (:star::star: each), I decided to follow @Skillmon's argument for a simpler shape and move the tophatted snowman to a separate branch.

CarLaTeX replying to J...S

@samcarter already answered, of course it is made with LaTeX!

Skillmon replying to J...S

Welcome on the other side!  
  
There is also the possibility to import a question from TeX.SX (though that only makes sense if you also provide answers).

samcarter replying to J...S

The source of the calendar is also public at https://github.com/TikZlings/Extravaganza2024/tree/main/calendar in case you'd like to see which modifications etc. we made

samcarter replying to J...S

The calendar was made using LianTze Lim's fantastic calendar template https://tex.my/category/calendar/

samcarter replying to J...S

Welcome to TopAnswers/TeX!  
  
It would be nice if the new question would be understandable on its own, but you can always add a link back to the question on tex.se if necessary for context.

J...S replying to CarLaTeX

By the way, that calendar is beautiful. Was it made with a latex package?

J...S

Is it inappropriate to ask questions which are follow ups on old stackexchange questions here?

Lorentz

I see this package https://ctan.org/pkg/calcfrac

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Quack!

CarLaTeX

Happy Rubber Duck Day!

CarLaTeX

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Skillmon replying to samcarter

accessible again

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

I can read it

samcarter replying to frougon

Yeah, it works!

frougon replying to samcarter

You should be able to read the answer now. Thanks again!  
  
(I kept the text that triggers the bug in case it is needed by Jack, but it is certainly still in the answer history, first revision).

frougon replying to Joseph Wright

The answer is “ready” now (I kept the original in case Jack wants to debug the problem; I think it was not in the `\directlua` paragraph, rather where whatsits are presented). It's a bit long, but helpful I hope...

samcarter

Happy birthday to DEK!

frougon replying to Joseph Wright

There are a few things that I already corrected locally in my draft, so what there is on site is not ready yet, thanks! :-)

Joseph Wright

Am keen to read the full question and current answer ...

samcarter replying to Joseph Wright

Thanks for testing!

Joseph Wright replying to samcarter

ME too

samcarter replying to frougon

Glad you could access it!

frougon replying to samcarter

You can guess I'm not a web development geek. ;-) Thanks to your tip, I could access the MarkDown too!  
  
Now, I can either let the answer in place for a while in case it is helpful for Jack (debugging) or try to remove it with scripts disabled... if this works. Thanks a lot!! :-)

samcarter replying to frougon

If I disable scripts, I still can't see it, but I could copy the text from your answer. It isn't lost!

samcarter replying to frougon

I pinged Jack in the Tavern. Let's see if he has an idea how to fix this

frougon replying to samcarter

I can't load it either. My (long!) answer seems gone. I hope Jack can restore it. It is when I added asterisks around the paragraph talking about `\directlua` that the browser became unresponsive and that I lost the ability to modify or copy my text. I dumped a core file from live Firefox using `gcore`, however I did so after clicking on the *Post answer* button, hoping some better development; that was a bad idea, as I can't find my text in the core dump. :(

samcarter

I'm having trouble opening the post https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=8075  
  
Looking in the browser console, it seems to hang loading katex  
  
![Screenshot 2025-01-10 at 14.18.17.png](/image?hash=7e389015366571287f3fb0c7286861e93f0d16e692b78dab9f3ad54d9d222fc0)
  
Can somebody reproduce this?

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

<3

CarLaTeX replying to निरंजन

:)

निरंजन replying to CarLaTeX

Oh noo, no problem. Next time :)

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

He thanks you a lot

CarLaTeX replying to निरंजन

Unfortunately not, due to family problems we can't attend the TUG 2025 :'(

निरंजन replying to CarLaTeX

Is he gonna come to India and try some fishes from the Arabic ocean?

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

Oh, very kind of Prof. van Duck! Please tell him I say thanks!   
  
I would suggest  the following link: 
  
```  
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TikZlings/Extravaganza2024/main/calendar/extravaganza_calendar.pdf  
```

CarLaTeX

@samcarter Prof. van Duck would like to mention that this year there is also a TikZlings calendar, which link could he add to his article?

samcarter

samcarter replying to निरंजन

<3

निरंजन replying to samcarter

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samcarter replying to निरंजन

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निरंजन replying to samcarter

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निरंजन

@Skillmon @samcarter thanks, but I had tried this too, didn't get the correct answer. I am trying to find out the history of package TIPA. There is a TUGBoat paper ([1996](https://www.tug.org/tugboat/tb17-2/tb51rei.pdf)) which mentions it released, but the TeX Live trunk only shows a 2006 update. Maybe CTAN maintainers would know how to reach the correct point.