Typesetting question:
I've noticed that in many novels there will be a scene change within a chapter that is marked by a larger than normal gap between two paragraphs. Is there a way to represent this in a #LaTeX document?
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Setting timezone of org-mode
I'm just getting started with org-mode, and really like it so far. I work in London with xemacs running on OpenVMS based on the East Coast US. Is there any way to get org-mode to use a timezone otherStack Overflow
So, for the last few days, #Emacs has been glitching out on me. When I'd try to do certain things, it'd complain about an undefined variable and then just refuse to do the thing I asked it to do. Today, it started doing this when I tried to list the manuals.
I deleted the cache files and restarted it. Everything's fine now. I'm glad it's fixed, but... really?
@mocom I think this is what broke it.
I think the problem started when I installed the org-mode package fromM-x list-packageseven though it was already installed viaapt. I removed it again, but I think it broke things.
org 9.5.5 built-in Outline-based notes management and organizerSo no reason to install it
Our garbage can broke. It's one of those ones with a foot pedal and a soft-close lid. They're normally over $100, so obviously I'd rather fix it than replace it, but the damn thing is deliberately designed not to be repairable.
I've identified the issue though. I'm going to try to design and 3D print a brace to reinforce the broken part. It won't be a pretty fix, but I think it'll work, and it'll be on the underside so nobody will ever see it.
I'll have to get some epoxy to fasten it, though. I hope it works and I don't make it worse.
Yup, it's been a long day 😢
Honestly, I have a script that tells me when I should be tired. And it was pulling from that online data. And I was without internet for a while so I made it all offline and forgot to get back to uploading.
Was only really useful for people who can just ask me anyway 😁
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TIL that #Emacs' built-in web browser is named eww.
That seems an appropriate name for a web browser, tbh.
One of my favourite marketing weasel words (weasel phrases?) is "clinically studied".
It really means nothing.
"This product has been clinically studied.""Neat, what results did those studies yield?"
*crickets*
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TBH, most of the moo programming I do is directly through tintin++. I'm considering switching to using emacs as a moo client, but I'd have to find a way to port over the rather heavy customizations I've made to tintin++. Things like managing the sushi bar are done via local scripts.
The org-mode stuff I'm doing right now is kind of separate from moo.
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Links to a lot of the background on the many, many discussions that happened around the GFDL and its compatibility with the DFSG:
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#emacs
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I've been an #Emacs user for a long time because it's just what I got used to. I had no particular loyalty to it.
The more I dig into org-mode though, the more I see it as its killer feature though. This alone is enough to keep me from ever switching to another editor.
Please note: if you like another editor better, that's perfectly fine. Use what works for you. For the love of God, I'm not trying to spark an Emacs vs. vim flame war.
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I keep not-quite fully embracing org-mode because I spend too much time outside of Emacs (e.g. on mobile devices). I probably just need to work out some scripting to dump into an inbox queue.
Plus work being absolutely inflexible about not letting work sync to anything else, though it helps enforce life boundaries. 😀
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Matthew Skala • •\vspace{1em}is probably what I'm looking for.Marei
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@mattskala It would be better to wrap that into a specific command. So you can adjust the amount later globally instead of locally having it hardcoded. To give an example:
\NewDocumentCommand{\chapterSep}{\par\vspace{1em}\AddToHookNext{para/begin}{\OmitIndent}}
The \OmitIndent thing would make it flexible so you also use it with documents where you have indentation of the first line instead of a parskip.
#TeXLaTeX
Matthew Skala
in reply to Marei • • •Marei
in reply to Matthew Skala • • •@mattskala not internal,, as they are user level commands. But yes, it's part of #TeLaTeX without any package
NewDocumentCommand is the modern replacement of newcommand. (see `texdoc usrguide`)
The hook with OmitIndent allows to set the \noindent for the following paragraph, while \noindent has to be called at the beginning of that paragraph.(`texdoc ltpara-doc¸`)
Online links of the documentation:
texdoc.org/serve/usrguide/0
texdoc.org/serve/ltpara-doc/0
Marei
in reply to Marei • • •@mattskala Oh and I of course I agree there are document class which support that by default. Just sometimes one may not use those or can't or whatever. So I wanted to provide a general option. Of course you should check the documentation of the document class first.
memoir's plainbreak is defined similar. But what I don't like about it, that it does not have a default value for the size. So I'd still define my own \chapterSep to be like \plainbreak{1} to be able to adjust that globally.