I want to test truetype comic sans fonts in xetex, the following codes are modified from source of free-math-font-survey:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{Comic Sans MS}
\begin{d...
@JosephWright: That's true. And errors happen. Of course I am not failsafe when voting for deletion or closing, but in that two cases I think my votes are justified. But am I sick of his constant attacks especially on me. He has one of the marshal badges -- what does he think is done to the posts he successfully flagged? ;-)
@ChristianHupfer You do know we very rarely do anything with flagged posts, yes?
@ChristianHupfer It's a question of timing: before the review system, we were looking at least a couple of weeks before anyone considered closing questions
@JosephWright: I can't say anything about the time before. Nowadays, with a lot of duplicates (the more question the more the chance a topic has been asked before), it's justified, in my point of view, to reduce the review time. Not any question that has been brought to the queue should be closed within minutes or few hours
@ChristianHupfer I think it is more in terms of unclear. If i vote a question as unclear, because it is unclear to me, there will 4 four other dudes that agree with me and the Q is closed. Within an hour, or two. But another one might come along later that day, see the question, reads and understand it but cannot provide an answer, because the question is closed. Or wouldn't even consider reading it, because it is closed anyway.
I have vtc quite a lot of old questions that were laying around. I my pov, all of them were unclear, because information were missing. But maybe someone could have ansered it.
@JosephWright The problem that i see, is that some of the solutions are hidden in the marked dupe in some way and not obvious for the guy that was just asking the same. If i have to carefully read the old question and answer carefully to judge if it answers the current question, it will be much harder for the current OP.
On the other hand, there are question we use as duplicatesm that have a one line answer without any explanations. Some of them are mere hacks than real solutions.
@Johannes_B Quite: that's why I favour waiting for feedback, at least over short periods. If the OP never responds then closing as a dupe may well be the best approach after some time.
@Johannes_B That in itself doesn't stop the question being a dupe, it means the older question needs better answer(s) :-)
@JosephWright Do we have a meta Q on that? What kind of answer are we ini favour of? Short and to the point, a few lines of code hingerotzt, as Ulrike would say. Or give a bit of background and explanation?
Every once in a while we get something like i want to add x to titlepage. We have a few extensive answers on this, dealing with that in more or less generic ways. Answer the current question specifilically? If it got an answer no need to close. But wouldn't closing this as a dupe of a more generic Q/A be more in the sense of a knowledge database? Who is deciding this part? That whole Meta-confusion brought up some questions in me, as you can see.
@Johannes_B Difficult one to which I don't have a simple answer, hence my point that I tend to see what the OP feels. Of course, I'm rather constrained in voting to close anyway, so my position is atypical.
@JosephWright Sure, if the OP confirms it, no problem. Another example: All those recent biblatex questions asking for minor changes. None of them is obviously a duplicate of tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/…, but mentioning this is really a good idea. Leaving the link in a comment doesn't do any help. Mentioning this in the answer doesn't help much either for now.
But somebody coming here via google for a similar problem might find that interesting.
Title says it all, I think. The framework in which our community runs, the StackExchange model, is evil. Essentially, inherently evil.
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@ChristianHupfer If you have something to say please put my name on the comment instead of passive agression. I am using my power of annoyance to the reviewers because clearly they are using theirs with their button clicking. I don't use insults I hardly ever review anything. So I'm not the avenger or the saint or any other bad nickname joke. I'm just hanging out here for my own fun.
So if you have something to say chat room is the place.
@ChristianHupfer I don't need to be approved or whatever by anyone. My premise is that a few users hijacked the review system and you are one of them. My message ends here.
@PauloCereda It was a nice article on arara regardless – I never actually knew the history of the tool :) And I'm sure you could have snuck in a few as footnotes, citations, subtitles, wrapped figures, etc.
@JosephWright concerning the expansion/smuggling question: I've seen this solution before in 2e (courtesy of egreg) and I suppose this is what I was trying to avoid in asking for a 'philosophically good' solution. TeX is and will always be TeX, but expl3 tries very hard to make these types of twiddles a thing of the past. But of course this is only my perspective – with your expl3 hat on, do you have any thoughts to that?
reference answer: tex.stackexchange.com/a/246542/17423 (and thanks for it by the way :) I was wondering how the \expandafter\endgroup trick would look in expl3)
@PauloCereda Concerning your meta post, I guess I don't fully agree (or maybe I misunderstand the new holding process, or maybe the interface needs a slight change of wording, or maybe…). If memory serves, we recently went from closing a question because 'it was bad or unworkable' to because 'it needs some work in order to be a good question / answerable'. Are we not acting in accordance with this?
Regardless of whether or not we are, perhaps are reference to 'close' should be moved to 'put on hold' or something similar. 'Close' seems just that: behind closed doors by greater powers than you – and that's certainly not something we want new users to feel.
@SeanAllred I was actually talking in general. :) No recent events were involved. I just mentioned that, to the extent of my knowledge, the current review system doesn't bring any new improvements to what has been done since the beginning of the community, but it adds an unnecessary complexity layer which can lead to hasty actions. I still prefer the slow pace.
I believe that ,since this community has a slow traffic, we could handle things better without the need of a review system that can be misused, even if it's for "a greater good".
@JosephWright (or others) RE tex-live list message about adding fonts: am I correct in remembering the rule of thumb that something's license has to be acceptable to Debian in order to be included in TeX Live?
@SeanAllred That was my ideal when writing the meta thread, maybe I could not properly express myself. :) I think there's no need to rush on "moderating" things since we are a small community comparing to StackOverflow, for example. I remember one of the first Answer the Unanswered sessions, they were huge; those were the best time to run the "review system", with everybody attending the session acting as a moderating unit. :)
@barbarabeeton I'm working on it :) Haven't had much time for original research since I started it before my training went nuts, but I am working on an article about TeX's use and potential in industry.
@PaulGessler -- re acceptability for tex live, yes, to the best of my understanding the debian rules rule. (not required for ctan though.) the reason is that debian has the most restrictive rules among linux distributors. since many (potential and actual) tex users are working on a debian system, there is a recognized benefit for them to have tex live packaged as part of their debian distribution.
@SeanAllred -- good topic. looking forward to receiving your submission. (the next issue will be devoted to the proceedings of tug 2015. unless the speakers at the meeting are truant in delivering written versions, material not emerging from the meeting will be held for the following issue.)
@PauloCereda -- since you're supposed to receive a paper copy of tugboat, you should also have access to the electronic version. if you don't remember the password assigned to you, check with the tug office, and robin will remind you. that way, you won't have to wait. (and the arara logo will be beautifully green; in print, it's just black and white.)
regarding @PauloCereda's "rant" (meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/6170), a couple of days ago, i gave a simple answer to a question i knew had been asked before, then looked for, and found, a relevant question with a truly awesome answer that contained an excellently written explanation. i then voted to close the question i'd just answered. is this an appropriate way to proceed? (cont)
(cont) this does limit the likelihood of votes on a newbie's question, which could be detrimental to that person's ability to participate. and i'd rather be welcoming, while providing what i think is the best information i can muster.
@JosephWright Just feels wrong :) If you can cite any mail or something that corroborates its official status, I'd be happy to give you the tick. I'd rather have the official approach at the top. I just feel bad since the solution @yo' gives is so clever :(
By the way, I'm using l3color.dtx as a guide for writing termmenu.dtx, but I'm still a little shakey on DocTeX in general. What's the purpose of <*initex>?
-- Making a newcomer feel welcome. Will he feel welcome, if the question is closed as a duplicate, but not knowing the system? *They closed my question, what the heck?*
-- A closed answer won't attract as many upvotes, which we use to encourage new users to participate
-- Pointing to the best solution. We have many very very good answers here on site, one of the most upvoted answers is Franks article on float placement. Reading this as a LaTeX beginner, it might be a bit over your head. Reading it alone takes time, understanding even mo…
@SeanAllred It's not required and leaves a value sitting around that is not needed: really don't like it. Also, what about the case where you need to escape precisely one group
@barbarabeeton: I have a huge songbook project going on and hopefully in a month or so we will have it printed. Would it be a nice story for a TUGboat article?
@Johannes_B Looks good to me :) In all honestly, that's what most people want. Short, simple, and to the point. The links to various packages are just icing on the cake.
@PauloCereda -- won't know until we see it. you might send an outline before embarking on something more elaborate. then we could comment and negotiate if necessary.
@SeanAllred Agreed. The thing is, i don't really agree with the order in which Stefans answer is laid down. I would mention float last. and the placeins approach as the very first. For me, this seems more reasonable than making the algorithm sloppy or kick it off completely.
@PauloCereda -- i don't think there should be any kerning; i think it's a basic width error. try outputting a (longer) string of \c c\c c and separately \~o\~o to see which one is the problem. then try \c co and c\~o -- that ought to narrow it down. does the same thing happen in other sizes?
@Johannes_B -- i'm not sure what your question is. ??? spacing on either one looks okay to me, but using the fraktur vs. the latin-letter expression is either subjective or governed by subject area ("Re" can be a shorthand for "reynolds number", i have been informed, and thus a potential conflict).
@barbarabeeton I have seen the variant without any markup, meaning $Re$ and wanted to suggest a better solution. But you are completely right, Re can also mean Reynolds number. :-)
@Johannes_B -- gotta say, the kerning isn't perfect here, but not any actual "spaces". (the "co", accents aside, should have the same inter-letter spacing as "oe". the "r" is also a little tighter than ideal. nitpick.)
@barbarabeeton, @Johannes_B: interesting: TeX Gyre Adventor seems to be a replacement for URW Gothic. I tried the very same example with the later and got the very same output!
@PauloCereda -- check the readme file for tex-gyre-adventor (use ctan search); email contact is given for jacko (bogus\l{}aw jackowski). you can say i sent you. i believe jacko will be at the tug meeting, so i can ask him about questions like this when i see him.
@PauloCereda -- i can tell it's another font -- the shapes of the terminals are different. but that doesn't mean the kerning is automatically perfect. just not the same. and you haven't done anything to affect the kerning -- that should be built in by the font designer. who should have done a better job.
@PauloCereda -- you might want to consider representing that kern in em units; that would make it applicable to more (all?) sizes. and i'm surprised that the same amount worked in both places -- the space between the two accented letters was much wider than the space after the first "c" in the original.
Hi all, super tiny question: Does any of you know of the existence of something like \coloneqq, but with the colon on the right, instead of left of the equal sign?
OK, I feel like I asked a really stupid question this morning Is there a straight-forward way to measure angles in tkz-euclide?. Is there a better way to handle such questions as these? I mean, basically, I knew there had to be an answer, but my search of the manual was coming up with nada. Would it have been better had I posted my question here in chat?
@PauloCereda -- if you find a problem in any of the tex gyre fonts, i suggest letting jacko know. it's possible that some of those fonts may be designed for use only as system fonts, hence only with xetex or luatex; that should be documented, and i'm not sure what the implication is for pdftex if you try to use one of them. in any event, do provide good examples, input and output, as well as the version and date for the files you're using/reporting.
The output can be found in http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1294289/find-a-matrix-whose-column-space-contains-the-column-space-of-the-given-matrix .
Is there any way I can turn center the "A" in the first column?
@Danu -- i have a serious problem with the name \coloneqq. i see that \coloneq is defined in mathtools with a single line to the right. that's not logical. in unicode, at U+2239, there is a symbol that has been assigned the name \dashcolon for the stix project; \eqcolon is the two-line equivalent (U+2255), and \coloneq is the reverse. i shall take this up with will robertson, one of the maintainers of mathtools. (there is no \colondash, but i'll ask about that too.)
@yo' If you are needing multiple things outside of a group you've little option but to x-type expand inside the group into a temporary var then insert that after the group. I guess we could wrap that up in a generic function, but again I suspect it's hard to make general without a loss of clarity.
@JosephWright Do you know where I can find the complete typesetting of the expl3 sources? I'm looking for conventions in documenting variants in the implementation section.
@JosephWright well, I don't cosider the usage of \exp_args with \group_end: being one of them as a "clarity". I know that the solution with temp var is slower, but IMHO clearer.
well, this seems like a point of view. Hiding \group_end: inside \exp_args: doesn't look good to me either, it's basically coming back to "counting \expandafters", which is one of the reasons why I switched to L3: to avoid this.
@JosephWright By the way, you may wish to add whatever email is used for the git mirror of latex3 on github to your github profile. It will link that email to your profile in its presentation of commits.
@JosephWright Perhaps, but it will require rewriting the entire git history. This means that all forks, etc., will be nullified (not that they were useful anyway with the current state of things).
@SeanAllred I want your project renamed from Stack Exchange for Emacs to Stack Emacs Exchange because, well, acronyms. /if you know what I mean /wink /nudge /nudge /say no more
@SeanAllred Should ask Will/Bruno/David/Frank to add their 'emails' (Morten I think doesn't have a GitHub account, other team members I suspect don't show in the SVN)
@SeanAllred Will, Bruno, David and Frank all have GitHub accounts so could do the same thing I've just done to match their commits to their GitHub accounts
Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared?
