@AlanMunn Wouldn't something like 'Here be dragons' better? There are times you might need to do any bad idea, but at the same time, chances are if you want to there is a better way.
@Canageek Unfortunately, since tags are about questions not answers, such a tag will never see the light of day, since the question likely wouldn't arise if the questioner knows that it's a bad idea. (There are some exceptions to this rule, but those are usually things-for-bruno-to-code)
That would be cool to have tags for answers though, so you could tag the answer with the package used. For example, I ask about non-float environments; The question shouldn't be tagged as it is package agnostic. But you could tag the answer that contains 'caption' with said tag.
@Canageek If there was a way to tag an answer specifically, yes, but I'm really opposed to tagging questions according the the answers they have (even if it's the accepted answer.) There's been some discussion of this on meta.
@PauloCereda That is my current dream: Add TeX as a plugin for other programs, so you make your document in X, then hit compile and it just runs over the text and makes it into nice, justified paragraphs. Ex: Powerpoint, word, Firefox.
@PauloCereda In the last case, tie it to something like the Read Now extension, so you hit a bookletmark and it remoes all the sidebars and ads and cruft.
@PauloCereda Well, I guess it is only needed for when you use it for posters, as you shouldn't have enough text on a slide to need to tell the difference between justified and ragged left.
@PauloCereda I've not had luck with KDE4. Way higher requirements, odd choices. I just want a solid desktop environment and wish everyone would stop trying to be fancy.
I don't want a fancy widgety thing, or spacial file management, a super-bar at the top, etc. I want a nice bar with icons and a list of my windows, virtual desktops, and a space for the windows to live. Desktop icons nice, but not actually really required. Windows clicking together and having resistance and the edge of the screen and such is also a plus.
Well, is is only kind of an answer, but hopefully it will point someone who knows what they are doing in the right direction
I'd like to be able of copy & pasting the results of a picture environment in a PDF file to a plain text file.
The problem is that once I copy the text the results are unsatisfactory: for example, if the picture consists solely of lines, there's nothing to be selected to begin with.
To give...
Here is an idea: LaTeX as an eBook format. Just reformat it for the specific devices screen size. Would work at least as well as HTML, as long as there are few graphics...which generally don't work so well on phone screens anyway.
@Canageek There was an impressive demonstration by Kaveh Bazargan of an on-the-fly resizing with TeX on an iPhone. He used an especially tailored form of xetex.
@Canageek They transformed the text into a very elementary Plain TeX source. The paragraphing algorithm is quite fast, actually. If you set a high pretolerance (and are not very fussy about spacing), the first pass without hyphenation will succeed almost always.
@egreg Have you see how terrible my coding is? If I write it then you'll have to wait a couple years each time you open the book, and there may be random crash bugs.
@egreg I would probably donate a few bucks if someone worked out the cost and put up a kickstarter though.
@egreg Despite how much people repeat that it's impossible to "compile LaTeX code to TeX code", it is actually possible to some extent: I wrote some code this summer which emulates a few parts of TeX in TeX, and I can go from a LaTeX code to a primitive-only result. For instance, \section{Hello world} would become something like \vskip18pt\noindent\begingroup\twelvebf 1. Hello world\endgroup
I'd like to be able of copy & pasting the results of a picture environment in a PDF file to a plain text file.
The problem is that once I copy the text the results are unsatisfactory: for example, if the picture consists solely of lines, there's nothing to be selected to begin with.
To give...
