@JosephWright Flight from Gatwick cancelled after four hours of making us wait with helpful announcements such as “next info at 17.00”, “next info at 17.30“, “next info at 18.00” ... (you get the point).
@JosephWright We had an evening planned tonight with my girlfriend (going to see an opera there: dalhalla.se) so I really want to go, but the airline is fully booked today for the whole day. I bought a flight with BA from Heathrow this morning.
It would be nice to support showing images in their original size when they where automatically resized because they are too big to fit in a question or answer (Example).
I envision it just like in blogs or facebook: You can click on the image and it is shown in its original size in an overlay.
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@JosephWright It is really implementation-based. :) For example, you could interpret --foo a b c as either foo = a and files b and c, or foo = [ a, b, c ]. Then things become more or less positional. :)
@PauloCereda Well yes but I'm pretty clear on this :-) We'd need --engine=a,b,c/--engine a,b,c/-ea,b,c, i.e. exactly one argument to be subdivided by commas
@Joseph: I have something on my mind (surprisingly not ducks), so hopefully I can write something by the end of this weekend. I am also about in the verge of ordering me a new laptop.
@yo' Yes, dots would do of course as well. I am buidding an interface at the moment (still learning expl3 of course) and the interface is currently designed for German speaking users (i.e. German key names), so the . is rather unusual then. - will do perfectly
@yo' It's something in between, actually it's not really settled at the moment. Perhaps I should use xtemplate even, but at the current level of my expl3 knowledge (something between 0 and \varepsilon ;-)) I should keep away from xtemplate
@ChristianHupfer I don't believe there is anything like "in between". The fact that beamer or tikz/pgf use spaces in their names doesn't make them less "programming interfaces". It's actually a miserable choice, from the current perspective. There's nothing good it brings, IMHO.
@JosephWright The problem is: It's designed for German math teachers and many of them say: I would use LaTeX if the names of the surrounding document structures would be German, but I can't remember those names etc, blabla and I've to look up all the time.
@ChristianHupfer I really think that a lot of users are not able to see, that tableofcontents is a plain english word translating to Inhaltsverzeichnis. At least i have seen a few.
@yo' For german umlauts, we can do ö -> oe, i.e. Böttcher -> Boettcher if needed. How would that work in czech with á? or french.
well, so far my balcony was in shade, so it made sense to put a wet bedsheet in the door and keep the door open. I think it's just about the time to close the door :D
25°C in here, 31°C outside, almost 7°C cooler than yesterday, but we're hoping for a thunderstorm tomorrow, blasting away this heat and filling up the brooks etc. at least a little bit
@yo' For my region it predicts 30°C for the next days, still too much, but better than 38°C etc, so I would call this blasting away the heat (Well, somehow)
@Johannes_B Don't you know this old trick? That's how we survived the 3 months heat period in 2003, when there was not a single drop of rain and basically everyday with 35°C and more
@Johannes_B the humidity is extremely low, so letting sheets dry doesn't cause the air to get too wet, but it helps to cool it down. You can at least keep some ventilation.
@JosephWright new will report of course an error if the sequence is already defined and set is restricted to the current group level. If I need a global redefinition I've to use gset then, or am I completely off the right path?
@JosephWright: Forget my last comment ... \cs_set does it ;-)
@PauloCereda: You should not buy my new expl3 - designed package -- it's scratched :D
@Johannes_B -- the wet sheet technique works great in the desert or other places with low humidity. when we got home, the weather here was very similar to that in darmstadt -- very warm and very humid. that "broke" on wednesday morning with a rip-snorter of a storm, which included high winds, maybe a small tornado, and cut electrical power to nearly 80% of rhode island; some people didn't get power back until last night, and i think there are a few who are still waiting.
when i want to feel better about the weather in providence, here's where i look: mountwashington.org/experience-the-weather/… -- no matter how bad the weather is here, it's almost always worse on mt. washington. (especially in the winter.)
@Johannes_B Not even the EU cares about its laws ... You must declare it as something different ;-) Important medicine for a starving lad in Brazil ;-) @PauloCereda
@Johannes_B: Yesterday, I cooked chicken filet with Indian Curry-Yogurt crust ... delicious, very tasty, very 'hot', with a lot of Garam masala, Curcuma, Chili and ginger ... served with rice
@Johannes_B: Just checked the invitation for the Dante Herbsttagung in a few weeks in Graz. Travelling by train it would take almost 12 hours :-( and by car at least 8 hours.
One of his package has a bug (see
Usage of library advnodes of the tikz-timing package causes "Undefined control sequence"-error)
But his website is down and I could not send him a mail.
Bastien
Has the spurious white space from the adjustwidth environment been fixed yet? Or how should I go about fixing it? See my question at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244396/…
@DavidCarlisle Do I know? But sometimes it's hard to understand the Austrians ... Well, they wouldn't understand me too when I talk in my regional idiom
@JosephWright yes that's what I thought, although the interfaces only the same if you load luatexbase, in a 2014 (or 15) document you could (and people probably did) access callbacks directly without (or before) loading luatexbase
@DavidCarlisle Other than needing to check that format mode is OK we should be fine (the business about the .ini file doing normalisation of spaces-in-filenames)
@JosephWright ? I mean things like github.com/davidcarlisle/dpc-inputenc-tests which will fail in a new format as it uses callback.register directly, so that will fail in 2016 and [2014/01/01]{latexrelease} currently won't enable it
@PauloCereda Well I'm posting this video in penance for having run over some ducklings a couple of weeks ago. Some mother duck decided it was a smart idea to march her brood across two lanes of 130kph highway traffic.
@Johannes_B -- i had a look at this a day or two ago, and made some comments here. (i don't have a login on the latex community forum; someday, when i've got more time.) i believe he's trying to produce a document that looks like it was set with metal type. he has no concept of kerning with metal type. some good illustrations here: google.com/…
latex.ltx says
\newdimen\z@ \z@=0pt % can be used both for 0pt and 0
so as it says it is short (and efficient) way of getting 0.
You should always have a copy of the latex source file latex.ltx in a text editor window while reading package code:-), or perhaps, if you prefer, the typeset versi...
@Maïeul but possibly not by an amount that you care about unless you are in an inner loop of code that will run tens of thousands of times per document
@Maïeul optimizing your code will take more human resources and more computer power (spent on your text editor, failed test etc.) than you save by using the optimized form :-)
@Maïeul you shouldn't care about it unless you're in a very limited environment!
@Johannes_B (cont'd) there are/were very thin shims (usually copper) used between letters, but that's usually considered letterspacing, not kerning. there's still one question i think is relevant, but i don't know the answer. are the sidebearings of digital glyphs set to be essentially the same as they would have been in metal? i'd guess yes, but i think it would depend on the designer. (i know someone i can ask if it comes to that.)
@DavidCarlisle It only seems to happen when \clearpage or issued after the environment ends. That seems far off bad input to me, but who am I to decide?
@Maïeul well \csname foo\endcsname is 5 tokens that could be written as \foo which is one, but any use of csname that is clearly not redundant is probably hard to write without using \csname
@DavidCarlisle No, the other way around. I have adjustwidth wrapped in section (which I very very strongly edited, I might add). You suspect it's the old "there's no text after the heading"-spurious space?
Hi everyone. Is there anyone around who could explain to me why with BibTeX, you need to do latex, bibtex, latex, and latex, whereas (I think) with biblatex and Biber, you only need to do latex, biber, latex (i.e., you don't need a third call to latex)?
@Maïeul I think in the case of BibTeX, the third call to latex is needed in order to deal with any crossreferences that have changed. But that makes about biblatex!
@JosephWright But there are some use cases (such as the ones that @Maïeul was mentioning) where you will need a third call to latex with biblatex/Biber?
@Johannes_B -- i'd adjust that a bit ... don knuth started developing tex because phototypesetting didn't produce the quality of the old metal monotype composition, and monotype was going extinct.
@Johannes_B But that means also that even LaTeX/BibTeX/LaTeX/LaTeX is not guaranteed to be right: it's the 'standard' recipe for the 'usual' case. For biblatex, the same situation is LaTeX/BibTeX/LaTeX
Cool, thanks @JosephWright @Johannes_B and @Maïeul
I appreciate it! :)
I'm writing up a handout/document/thing that's sort of an intro to LaTeX aimed at linguists, and I want to make sure that I don't say anything wrong. :p
Adam Liter : I should recommand you to refers to latexmk, it simplier
@AdamLiter could you send me a mail when you will do it? as you know maybe, I am interessted in LaTeX for humanities, and could use some of your doc for next version of my book
@Maïeul Though i think you are right, knowing how to do the chain on the command line is certainly needed for a basic understanding. After all, latexmk has limits.
@Maïeul Yes, I was planning on mentioning that (and of course arara, too <3 ). But I also want to explain why you have to do certain things, so that people understand what is going on.
The reason is as follows:
At the first latex run, all \cite{...} arguments are written in the file document.aux.
At the bibtex run, this information is taken by bibtex and the relevant entries are put into the .bbl file, sorted either alphabetically or by citation order (sometimes called "unsor...
You could create a folder below your TeX home directory and put your .sty file therein. Use this command at the command prompt to find out where:
kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
On my computer it shows
C:/Users/stefan/texmf
but it might also be ~/texmf/ on a Linux or Unix computer.
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@Johannes_B -- looks good now. re "modern", perhaps "contemporary" would have been more appropriate, but since there have been so many changes in the technology since metal "went out" (although i still know several book artists who hand set metal type), i think it's better to be specific.
@barbarabeeton I was writing a bit in a hurry. Having dinner alone in front of the computer with multiple chat pings and plonks is not really delightful.
@Johannes_B -- well, i'm still munching my lunch in front of a computer. but dinner this evening will be shared with husband at a nice japanese "pub" (well, they serve "bar food", not sushi; a real credit to the local foodie scene).
@AdamLiter You should change the providespackage line and the copyright notice. If one of the users has problems and posts the listfiles stuff, nobody will know any difference.
@JosephWright @yo' So I'm looking a bit more closely at A Directory Structure for TeX Files, and it does look like generic is supposed to mean that it works with plain. Thanks!
@Johannes_B Ah, thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that. :p
@Johannes_B Yeah, I know. I thought I actually had changed it a while ago. But I guess I'm misremembering things. I must just remember thinking that I should change it. :p
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latex.ltx says
\newdimen\z@ \z@=0pt % can be used both for 0pt and 0
so as it says it is short (and efficient) way of getting 0.
You should always have a copy of the latex source file latex.ltx in a text editor window while reading package code:-), or perhaps, if you prefer, the typeset versi...
You could create a folder below your TeX home directory and put your .sty file therein. Use this command at the command prompt to find out where:
kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
On my computer it shows
C:/Users/stefan/texmf
but it might also be ~/texmf/ on a Linux or Unix computer.
Followin...
