@JosephWright I tried lua version of make clean make check and it's been sat at Running checks on d3dvipdfmx for 5 minutes, I guess it's got lost and I need to kill it...
@StephanLehmke: you beat me to it, I love your comment on the TeX syntax thingy. I was just adding mine:
Just to add my humble POV, difference is in the eye of the beholder. Syntax preference is a matter of taste and ideology; if you grew up accustomed to a certain construct or command pattern, there's a tendency for labeling different representations of the same lagic as wacky or strange. :) Besides, I have the impression Maslow's hammer applies here as well. :) I remember of the arithmetic IF in Fortran and different decimal marks in ALGOL, so your mileage may vary. Personally, I believe this question turns more opinion-based. — Paulo Cereda34 secs ago
@PauloCereda Yes and not to forget my "efficient" 6502 assembler code where I achieved "computed JMP" by writing the address directly into the program code ;-)
Well we devised a really sophisticated "swapping device" (based on exchanging the zero page memory by a hardware switch) which allowed parallel execution for real-time programming, and there also was a program for moving code "modules" to arbitrary memory positions, but that was based on calculating specific addresses for the JMPs.
@PauloCereda »if you grew up accustomed to a certain construct or command pattern, there's a tendency for labeling different representations of the same logic as wacky or strange« – that's not only true for programming languages
@DavidCarlisle I'll hopefully get it down a bit further yet with some normalisation
@DavidCarlisle I have two parallel runs going on: one make check with the old scripts, one with the Lua ones: adding a few more normalisations (mainly for LuaTeX)
@DavidCarlisle I've hopefully removed all of the XeTeX variation I now can: the remaining ones are due to different specials, chardef limits or box allocations in drivers
\ddanger If you set ^|\tracingparagraphs||=1|, your log file will contain a summary of \TeX's line-breaking calculations, so you can watch the tradeoffs that occur when parameters like |\linepenalty| and |\hyphenpenalty| and |\adjdemerits| are twiddled.
@AndreaL. there are a whole host of tracexxxx parameters that if you set non zero cause stuff to be written to the log, the macro \tracingall sets almost all of them at once which saves remembering which is which, but can make a lot of output
@StephanLehmke Yes: the test that picked up the # business is for arbitrary catcodes and l3fp: he changes - to catcode 6 and I get a really weird set of errors
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@JosephWright IIRC, a user is reminded to accept answers only if more than five or so are still unaccepted. Why just four for something heavier like banning?
@cgnieder I expect not more than 70% for the European elections, globally for Italy, which would be quite low. But municipal election is a different matter.
@JosephWright: Found this as well, mentioning that deleted questions are included in the "bad question" aura:
I see three questions. Two of which are deleted - neither of which has any upvotes. The message is correct - deleted posts contribute to question bans. — Oded ♦May 19 at 13:54
Don't know whether the OP has some deleted or closed questions.
@Werner I suspect @egreg's answer is right, and that 'percentage closed' is the criterion used with no account taken of the difference between dupes and other closing reasons
@cgnieder The account appears to be a bot which retweet everything that has the word latex in it. It is quite a funny mix of fetish stuff, typesetting and household items.
@HenriMenke Hmm. Yes. I suspect Bringhurst didn't know about Georg Duffner's work, which I think is recent. You might like to read here. IMO, a very beautiful font. FWIW
@HenriMenke Of course, the fact that Stempel Garamond comes with a boldface series, for me, casts doubts on its seriousness... LOL
@HenriMenke Quite. But I can imagine creative uses of bold face with Garamond; it's just that we don't know hoe his bold type would have looked, had he made one.
@HenriMenke Yes, there is. Let me dig through my 5 million files...
@HenriMenke You can either \usepackage{ebgaramond}, or dig through ebgaramond.sty
@PauloCereda Which one did you watch? There was one on friday night and another one the night before. The situation is not that complex: it's basically corruption versus more corruption (the non corrupt candidates don't really stand a chance) :)
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