@AndrewCashner looking for a csname sounds wrong, basically, if you don't want a paragraph break before the list there shouldn't be a blank line in the tex source
Proposed Q&A site for all (German) Math teachers being employed on German speaking schools, regarding the traditions and new methods in German (Austrian/Swiss) school system(s)
Currently in definition.
@Johannes_B: I've done already, it's called by another name :-P
@ChristianHupfer If a student uses some photo for a homework assignment and doesn't give credit to the owner, uses proper citing and stuff, i.e. getting into license/copyright issues ... what happens? I cannot remember that there was any lesson in school on that matter and i think it is a really important thing to know. For teachers as well.
@JosephWright I am just looking into german.lbx. Many other languages are using \addabbrvspace, in german it is hard coded with \,. Some minor other stuff and some missing translations is also there. I'll see if i can fix this and upload it to github if you (or Philip or Audrey) are ok with it.
@ChristianHupfer Three questions, one after the other: “Mitkommen” oder “mit jdm. kommen”?, Wie buchstäblich kann ein Seitensprung sein?, Wo sind die Eistüten hin?
I'm interested in examples of texts that contain large numbers of long German words. It is basically just for testing purposes, still I would prefer the text to make at least some sense. If it were couple paragraphs, I would be most happy.
@yo' Not yet, but i did quite a few times after the site update. And i just noticed, the issue i posted on meta is resolved meta.tex.stackexchange.com/a/6068/37907
@Johannes_B You seem to be using larger fonts than @ChristianHupfer? That is, relative to the width of the dotted line on the left. Maybe chat can't deal with that?
@ChristianHupfer Not until you said this. I've left a comment and upvoted. But it doesn't really solve it, so I'm afraid I've not accepted it... [Why didn't the system tell me you'd answered? It tells me everything else!]
@cfr: As I said, it's not an answer. I did not expect to get it accepted. And I delete my answer in between because there was an error -- perhaps that's the reason for the missing notification.
@yo' That can't be right, surely. Notifications must be automated. You aren't telling me there are a bunch of people somewhere who put little notes up every time somebody leaves a comment for me?
DnD 5th edition uses condensed stat blocks for creatures like the following example from the free "basic rules":
Note the grey line indicating the boundary of the page. How can I create such a stat block in Latex? Specifically:
How do I make the condensed ability score array?
What styles/font...
@AndrewCashner yes sure, you need to decide how much you expand \newcommand \zz{\section{this}}\par\zz` has same problem. but it's dealing with that that makes latexml tex4ht etc so complicated. If you know your input is fairly regular then you can look for the patterns, so newline-newline can make a pending <p> that you add unless the following thing is in a set of know exceptions. Or you do a two pass conversion and make some more or less OK html then give it to something like html tidy
@DavidCarlisle Yes, the plan was zero expansion, just convert one kind of tags to the other. My thought is, when encountering \n\n I can set a flag ENDPARA, and then if the next thing enters CSNAME mode, if ENDPARA is set then I use a switching table to determine whether to put it in a <p> group.
Two of the comments are here, one after the other:
@ShadowWizard With your argument, please stop calling edits that a low-rep user approves on his own post as "approved", since the user obviously can't approve edits. — yo'Mar 10 at 23:46
@Johannes_B @yo' That was my doing. Once I cast my VTC, the system asked me if the dupe "solved my problem". Once I verified it, Community (with its mod powers) closed the question then and there. It's a good way for first-tier users on more crowded sites to keep the review queue…reasonable.
@AndrewCashner I was going to mention that terminating csname with brace sounded wrong, especially in math mode you can not do that without messing up the spacing.
@DavidCarlisle Ah, yes… To be fair, I thought you were talking about things like \frac{\numerator}{\denominator} :)
@yo' I'd be in favor of that. Anyone with VTC powers should already understand the consequences of a closed question – if they cast a close vote on their own question, there's no reason it shouldn't be binding/final.
@SeanAllred no andrew was terminating all csnames with { to make parsing easier, hence his comment about \item{} but $\log{}(2)$ isn't same as $\log(2)$
@SeanAllred exactly. And if it's a noob, they get completely different the dialog "Does the other Q solve your problem". If they agree, they should simple appear as another close voter with a binding vote.
@SeanAllred that's why tex4ht uses tex, although latexml does a pretty good job of parsing it with perl but Bruce modelled the whole stack including catcode changes etc not just trying to regexp the surface syntax
$ uptex testfiles/string-001.lvt
This is upTeX, Version 3.14159265-p3.6-u1.20 (utf8.uptex) (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=uptex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
(./testfiles/string-001.lvt
(/home/davidc/texmf/tex/latex/l3build/regression-test.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.50 \expandafter\edef\csname\detokenize
@egreg ^^^^ it doesn't like @JosephWright's test harness:-)
@egreg yes as I say it was different to xetex, some of them worked but the test was truncated so it seems one of the math alphabet characters killed it:( will look later I got distracted by vvvvv
@DavidCarlisle I mostly use math mode for the occasional symbol and I create macros for these (\newcommand{\sh}{$\sharp$}). But even that's a problem with my system since there's no brace at all. Likewise with something like \newcommand{\dots}{[\dots]}. But how else to terminate the csname? I copy the csname character by character, so I guess with every new character I could compare it to my list of known csnames until I find a match. Doesn't seem ideal.
@egreg yes but it's last day so we need to knock out the last three tail enders and then score enough in the last session to win (which is exactly what we failed to do in the first test)
@yo' I am trying to make a very simple converter from LaTeX to HTML markup for my own use. Just converting the source code with strictly limited set of markup commands. So far it works except for \par, math mode, and tabulars. github.com/andrewacashner/latex2html
@JosephWright at @egreg's suggestion I tried uptex which is interestingly different (and its utf8 code in the web change file might give some hints for xetex) but it doesn't have etex so couldn't read regression-test I needed to add
so if I want to junk the file I'm editing and just get the one in my local repro (rm file; svn update or svn revert file) what do in git tutorial i just landed on suggested half a page worth of complicated git rebase commands, must be something easier??
@Johannes_B The problem seems to be that in the second item of \list{location}{2}{{D{ü}sseldorf}{Z{ü}rich}} the macro \lbx@es@smartand@i comes into action and it does \lowercase{\edef\lbx@tempa{Z{ü}rich}}, which is very likely to die.
@DavidCarlisle Yup, that's the idea of pull requests (in contrast to say me sending you a patch then you adding and having to note in the message 'Joseph's fault')
@JosephWright good! have you set things up to work side by side? I copied them to a sibling directory of my main tl2015 bin and set the path but the formats over-write each other, so if I switch paths back I need to remake the formats, I was wondering about changing the name of the binary and the formats so I could run patched and unpatched xetex at same time
@JosephWright yes that's equivalent to what I did really but when doing these utex tests for example I think it's fairest to be using a xetex I haven't mangled before saying it's a xetex bug
@JosephWright if you get a minute could you see why direction TLT wasn't normalised. Ah it's because I said that luatex was stdengine I guess (I did that so it would use luatex for build save)
@JosephWright yes I remembered reading that while writing the above.
@JosephWright possibly but as I want to compare xetex and luatex I want the normalisations, I set stdengine to luatex as first test was the xetex string bug so generating the tlg with luatex seemed like a good idea.. I could switch it to xetex now I suppose.
I'm interested in examples of texts that contain large numbers of long German words. It is basically just for testing purposes, still I would prefer the text to make at least some sense. If it were couple paragraphs, I would be most happy.
The question titles in the main and meta pages are not aligned:
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DnD 5th edition uses condensed stat blocks for creatures like the following example from the free "basic rules":
Note the grey line indicating the boundary of the page. How can I create such a stat block in Latex? Specifically:
How do I make the condensed ability score array?
What styles/font...
