Guys, I'll be three days in SP for a conference. Hopefully I'll be back Saturday. :) I will try to get online during the event. You guys behave, specially @David. :) See ya!
I have a special kind of variable in my equations which I want to be formatted dependent on its case (lower or upper).
I already tried using the package stringstrings, but there seem to be problems with math mode and grouping braces. In the example below it always chooses the then-part, ignoring...
I would focus on the CV content first, it seems you are pretending to be somebody else. — Paul Gessler10 secs ago
@HenriMenke thank you. I actually just made a new one (short 1-page form for industry). Now I need to integrate them so I can generate both from the same source. :-)
@HenriMenke Possibly. We've reported a few possible bugs with the response basically that luatex isn't tex, so it's not a bug if \limits is defined to do something differently in luatex (searching for \limits in the luatex manual doesn't reveal any information at all:-) I'm sure you could define \limits to do something for cases other than \mathop, there is no intrinsic reason why superscript position is tied to vertical centering and horizontal space adjustments and getting larger in displaystyle
@DavidCarlisle If luatex isn't tex, why do they call it like that? Luatex will render itself completely useless when you can't typeset examples from the TeXbook without getting contradictory results.
@HenriMenke fonts are different, hyphenation is different, lua is different, \endlinechar is different. That doesn't necessarily mean they are bad, just they don't commit to taking 100% of tex sources and producing error free or 100% identical output
@HenriMenke but in this case it might just be a bug..
@yo' do you forget microtype because it changes output, or pdftex because it doesn't accept dvips \specials tex being what it is adding anything means breaking something
@yo' yes but similarly you can't accidentally switch from pdftex to luatex, as with other changes, if there are features that make you want to switch then the minor (or major) incompatibilities are just what needs to be done to get the features. If you don't need the features and just want to upgrade the engine to "use the latest thing" then even the smallest incompatibility is a pain (as it is if you are trying to get bit for bit compatibility in a latex2e regression test suite..)
@yo' but actually the reason for saying "not necessarily" to your question is it's a VHS-v-betamax question and the outcome isn't necessarily based on technical issues.
@DavidCarlisle My, my. I guess we date ourselves in the knowledge of such things as the video wars. Just the other day, I asked the clerk of the party store if they sold Necco's (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necco), one of the most popular candies of my youth and earlier. They replied "what's a Necco?"
My wife had to explain they were like the valentine heart candies, only flat and round.
@HenriMenke Not true: it's not supposed to be 100% compatible with TeX90 with good reasoning. What it does need to be is consistent with itself :-) There are still quite a lot of bugs to be fixed: my feeling is the LuaTeX people will need a strong 'testing phase' of getting demos to explore these areas.
@yo': I've taped complete Star Trek Next Generation on VHS cassettes... the quality was sometimes awful (of the taping, not the series... ) ... from 1990 to 1994, when it was broadcast in German TV for the very first time
This really puzzles me: Attempting to set the baseline in a block (delimited by { and }) doesn't seem to have an effect for typed text, but works when a command creates the text.
Question
What are the rules here?
MWE (also on GitHub)
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagestyle{emp...
@PauloCereda I know that route well: manchester, chesterfield, mansfield (stop for lunch at my Mum's) Newark, Huntington, Cambridge.. Used to do it several times a year
@DavidCarlisle Thanks for the notification. It is to note, that both Luigi and Herbert are on a luatex beta version, whereas I'm on the latest CTAN release.
@JosephWright -- getting into this discussion a bit late, but ... anyhow, regarding luatex, i i understand and agree with the reasons why it can't be exactly compatible with tex90, but if it is not exactly compatible with appendix g of the texbook, then i think it shouldn't claim to be a plausible successor to tex.
@barbarabeeton It can't be exactly compatible and let you use your new funky opentype stix fonts with MATH table data etc. But you do want it to be able to use those fonts don't you?
@DavidCarlisle -- well, yes, at least some folks higher up in the management hierarchy are quite eager to use the stix fonts, but everybody expects that, if we feed in an "old" journal article file, having modified the document class to replace only the fonts, the math will come out with the same structural appearance, changed only with respect to glyph shapes and associated metrics. and the job shouldn't fail because of undefined control sequences or syntax changes.
@barbarabeeton Partly depends of course what you mean by 'successor'
@barbarabeeton E.g. Windows is a successor to DOS which was a successor to CP/M, but I don't think you'll find many CP/M programs running on Win10
@barbarabeeton At present, the syntax changes as far as I know not likely to break docs, although see how ^^ syntax can be used to test for 8-bit vs Unicode engines. What is different is hyphenation, etc.
@JosephWright -- for a production shop like ams, what would be expected in a "successor" is pretty close to "drop-in-replacement". radically changed hyphenation might be a problem, but changed math behaviour would be s distinct no-go criterion.
@barbarabeeton As I said earlier, my feeling is that the LuaTeX team will at some stage need a large-ish test set sorting out: as both @DavidCarlisle and I have found, there are lots of small things in LuaTeX which are not deliberate differences from pdfTeX
I'm using Bibtex and would like to cite a book that is part of a series. The relevant entry in my bib.bib file is
@book{key,
author = {author},
title = {title},
series = {series title},
volume = {1: volume title},
publisher = {publisher},
year = {2015}
}
Instead of "volume 1: volume_title of s...
@JosephWright ah ok. The schedule is different here: the terms ends mid May, then the exams are until the end of June and then the retakes are for two weeks in September
@JosephWright well, it's more complicated here: Each student can come 3 times to the exam, so you just publish the dates of the exams and they register. Marking is mostly done the same day as the exam
and you can do the exams until the Friday before the next year starts. Of course, the problem of taking the exams this late is that you don't know whether you'll be a student in 3 days, but that's your business if yyou don't manage to pass theeaxms in June
@JosephWright you don't, here. Most exams are one-to-one. Both the student and the teacher can ask for an exam with supervision, but not for the 1st attempt of the student. Also, this happens only like once per couple thousand student-exams
@JosephWright so: me, the student, I register for the exam, I come there (often to the teacher's office), I'm examined, he says: A, B, C, D, E or Fail, and puts this information in the system online. For 99.99% of cases, that's all.
@yo' For example, I did a (PhD) viva today. We recommend to the Faculty of Science that a PhD is awarded subject to corrections. However, that decision has to be agreed by faculty then the degree awarded by the senate.
@JosephWright ah for the degrees, that's different. This all was for the subjects. For the degree, there's a state exam, these are in June and September here.
@yo' Perhaps, but for example we can't interview for PhD students/postdocs nowadays on a 1-to-1 basis, there have to be at least two people present. That's relatively new (since I did my PhD)
@JosephWright PhD is quite a different story, yeah
@JosephWright we don't have various ethnics here (well, it's quite negligible)
For PhD students, you have: 4 partial exams (which mostly look like standard bachelor/master subject exams), then a state exam (in front of a committee, tthe student presents a booklet with his results so far), then the defense (a committee again, two reviews etc.)
For bachelor/master, you have: subject exams (mostly oral), and then the final project defense (with 1 review from supervisor and 1 from a reviewer) together with 2 or 3 state exams in front of the committee.
And subject exams are mostly oral and mostly 1-to-1
@yo' As you say, the system in the UK is (largely) very different (although if one reads up on the history of tripos at Oxbridge it was more that way in the past)
I recently installed Sublime Text 3 on my mac and spent a couple of hours reading the doc and installing LaTeX tools. So far my long-time editor has been TeXShop, I have a number of text-expansion tricks that help my workflow quite a bit. I imagine, although I could be wrong, that switching to ST...
@JosephWright IMHO yes, do you wish me to cast the first vote and comment?
@JosephWright yeah, I dunno which is better. My experience is this: oral exam has a better resolution of the student's abilities, but more inclination to bias. The written exam is unbiased, but impossible to tell which students are actually good :-/
@Gregory don't think I've ever looked before but the margins are weird, unless it's a self referential example somewhere of some extreme setting I can't imagine why it's like that:-)
I am using Charter for math (mathdesign package) and Bitstream Vera for body text (through XeLaTeX's fontspec package. However, when using things like \text{} in math mode, the text still appears in the Vera font. It's hard to explain without a visual, so here is one now:
$$\Delta v = v_\text{e...
@JosephWright not finished yet but noting things as I spot them, thin(gk) as above and saying only English is a bit pessimistic, as javier commented it works OK for spanish (and probably French) or in general if T1=latin1=unicode, it's mainly the latin2 slots and \ss that fail
@percusse :) So I have an odd TikZ puzzle (or it's an illusion). It relates to the answer in this question. It seems to me that the line is not straight, but I don't know why. Any ideas?
@JosephWright yeah, it is, I was reacting that you can get at least diacritics to work. I am using luainputenc with tex4ht, as we don't need hyphenation, I use fontspec otherwise
@michal.h21 You only need luainputenc to deal with non-Unicode input with LuaTeX: the font encoding side is handled separately (that's rather the point of fontenc and inputenc)
@michal.h21 @DavidCarlisle has some plans at least for LuaTeX, but to add them to the kernel we need to sort out some other issues first (callback management, etc.). Too tight for TL2015, but hopefully after that.
@AlanMunn In the starting position \tikzmark{g} descender would make it obvious. You are right about it. It is clearly not straight. And that's probably because they are not on the same baseline
@AlanMunn change your arrow macro to \draw[->,shorten >=3pt,shorten <=3pt] (#1.base) to [ncbar=\arrowht] (#2.base); (added .base anchor to each point). Another method is to set text width and text height, IIRC. But in either case, then you need to adjust your ncbar distances to account for the changed height.
Even though the baselines are aligned, the node takes the natural size of the text inside it, so when you use the center anchor, the height is not the same.
@AlanMunn The problem is that tikzmark placement is not playing well with the ncbar. Because the words are aligned with respect to their .base anchor and when they have descendants or tall letters(?!) their center, ah as Paul mentioned, moves around.
@AlanMunn @percusse yeah, it could be fixed in either place, but if you change ncbar it's less general for other usage elsewhere. Though the same could be said about \arrow but I'm assuming that's used to mark text... :-)
@percusse Of course when that day arrives w.r.t. @PauloCereda 's contributions, you can just throw on the straitjacket and dump me into the padded cell...
This really puzzles me: Attempting to set the baseline in a block (delimited by { and }) doesn't seem to have an effect for typed text, but works when a command creates the text.
Question
What are the rules here?
MWE (also on GitHub)
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagestyle{emp...
I'm using Bibtex and would like to cite a book that is part of a series. The relevant entry in my bib.bib file is
@book{key,
author = {author},
title = {title},
series = {series title},
volume = {1: volume title},
publisher = {publisher},
year = {2015}
}
Instead of "volume 1: volume_title of s...
I am using Charter for math (mathdesign package) and Bitstream Vera for body text (through XeLaTeX's fontspec package. However, when using things like \text{} in math mode, the text still appears in the Vera font. It's hard to explain without a visual, so here is one now:
$$\Delta v = v_\text{e...
