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Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
6:08 AM
@Johannes_B I'll add anything that seems to be in-scope for the package if requested, but I'm not going to set out to find things to add!
 
s__C
s__C
@Johannes_B okay thanks for yesterday evening. The following code (little tuning) fits my needs:
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\KOMAoption{footwidth}{\textwidth+2em}
\clearpairofpagestyles
\def\myHeaderRule{|}
\setkomafont{pageheadfoot}{\normalfont\small\scshape\color{grayd}}
\setkomafont{pagenumber}{\normalfont\color{grayd}}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\llap{\thechapter~\myHeaderRule}~\MakeUppercase{#1}}{\MakeUppercase{#1}~\rlap{\myHeaderRule~\thechapter}}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markleft{\llap{\thesection~\myHeaderRule}~\MakeUppercase{#1}}}
 
 
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Johannes_B
Johannes_B
9:07 AM
@StefanKottwitz golatex.de/viewtopic,p,71296.html#71296 New members have the degree of a Forum-Newbie. Maybe changing that to something else might be a good idea.
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
9:28 AM
@macmadness86 Just looked at you video on pagenumbering, and sorry to say that, but parts are plainly wrong. Please have a look: 
\documentclass[twoside]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\title{pagenumbering}
\author{a helper}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\setcounter{page}{1}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\pagenumbering{roman}
\clearpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\foreach \x in {1,...,10} {\blinddocument}
\end{document}
You can also have a look at:
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A: How to use pagenumbering in the document?

Johannes_B\pagenumbering{style} changes the appearance of \thepage to match style and resets the page count to one (\@one). This change in the page number can be noticed with the shipout of the next page, which is in fact the page currently typeset. Now, where to put the \pagenumbering command? A good ide...

 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
9:52 AM
@StefanKottwitz On the other hand, golatex.de/viewtopic,p,71302.html#71302, displays Forum-Anfänger. How is that decided?
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
10:08 AM
This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed tex.stackexchange.com/questions/243405/…
 
rapus95
rapus95
10:35 AM
@Johannes_B @egreg no setminus in unicode math -.- any tips?
going stupid redefine? :/ using renew, def etc?
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@rapus95 Told you, i am far away from being an expert of mathematical typesetting.
 
egreg
egreg
11
A: Which fonts can be used with *unicode-math* package?

egregIt's quite strange that the symbol is missing in Latin Modern Math, TeX Gyre Termes Math and TeX Gyre Pagella and it's probably worth a bug report. You can supplement single symbols with the range option to \setmathfont: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode-math} %\setmathfont{Latin Mode...

 
 
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rapus95
rapus95
11:41 AM
\hspace*{\hfill} produces the error
Missing number, treated as zero. \hspace*{\hfill}
and
Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). \hspace*{\hfill}
Does anyone know how to fix that?
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@rapus95 Was hast denn du mit deinem \hspace? Don't use it, hfill will work if it is supposed to work.
 
rapus95
rapus95
@Johannes_B centering 2 tables giving them equal distance to left, between and right
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 \hspace*{\fill} or \hfill
 
rapus95
rapus95
@DavidCarlisle \hfill goes without error but doesn't produce the spacing at the right end... the other one just errors
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 No, \hspace*{\fill} works, \hfill works if you use it in the right place, space at start of a line is discarded (but you should almost never use either in a document anyway)
 
rapus95
rapus95
11:51 AM
currently i get
|table1 table2|
but i want
| table1 table2 |
well multi spaces are deleted but i think you get what i want
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}\centering table 1 \end{minipage}\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}\centering table 2 \end{minipage}
@rapus95 which isn't the layout you asked for, (it doesn't give three equal spaces ) but is probably more common, especially if you want o add captions in the minipages
 
rapus95
rapus95
@DavidCarlisle it looks fine. as far as i understand it it's kind of 2 column now isn't it?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 exactly
 
rapus95
rapus95
@DavidCarlisle ok thanks
 
rapus95
rapus95
12:19 PM
@DavidCarlisle is there anything similar that i can use within the align environment?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
12:31 PM
@rapus95 not really
@JosephWright I write the most L3 code I've written this century and you edit it after 5 seconds:)
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@DavidCarlisle There were other things I thought about fixing :-)
@DavidCarlisle I suspect the OP there really doesn't want xparse but more something based around a delimited structure
 
Christian Hupfer
Christian Hupfer
Good maen
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@JosephWright I tried to declare the clist locally but it kept telling me it was already defined so I pulled it out, name hasn't got _ in it either:-)
@JosephWright possibly.
 
rapus95
rapus95
12:54 PM
may one can help me...
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{german}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\DeclareMathOperator{\ord}{ord}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
O_M(p)&=\{b\in M\mid \ord(b)=p\}&\text{"Elemente der Ordnung $p$ in $M$"} \\
\langle a \rangle := P_M(a)&=\{a^k\in M\mid k\in\mathbb{N}\}&\text{"von $a$ erzeugte Gruppe", "Potenzen von $a$ in $M$"}\\
W_M(n)&=\{b\in M\vert b^n=1 \}=\{b\in M\mid b^n-1=0 \}&\text{"$n$-te Einheitswurzeln in $M$"}
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 don't use "xxxx" use ``xxxx''
 
rapus95
rapus95
@DavidCarlisle working with utf-8 & fontspec & luatex
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 you could abuse \tag and replace &\text with \tag
@rapus95 ah OK in that case you at least get two straight quotes, in classic tex you'd get two right quotes
 
rapus95
rapus95
@DavidCarlisle abuse? no abusing
@DavidCarlisle can you imagine what i want to achieve?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 well... \tag is sort of intended as a replacement equation label, in place of an equation number, but that's exactly where you want the text to go
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
12:59 PM
@JosephWright Out of interest, did you delete the my unrelated comment to the current xparse question?
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B Yes
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright Oki :-)
 
rapus95
rapus95
@DavidCarlisle it almost works but when i use \tag everything gets indented and then there is not enough space anymore to bring all into the same line -.-
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@rapus95 see texdoc amsmath from bottom of page 6: Line-by-line annotations on an equation can be done by judicious application of....
@rapus95 I did wonder if it would all fit on a line with such long texts. But that's the price you pay asking in chat instead of as a real question with a reproducible example: people have to guess.
 
barbara beeton
barbara beeton
@PaulGessler -- lots more has happened since then. looks like a problem -- i've just reported it. (report address is ctan at dante.de)
 
yo'
yo'
1:04 PM
@DavidCarlisle you meant "ridiculous", right?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@yo' don't blame me, it's @barbarabeeton's document!
 
yo'
yo'
@DavidCarlisle no, the application is ridiculous, not the document nor the feature!
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@yo' do you have a good markup idiom for annotated alignments?
 
yo'
yo'
@DavidCarlisle no, because I never use annotated alignments
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@yo' whereas as you can imagine I often use multipage footnotes in bidirectional text using characters above U+FFFF in unicode:-)
 
yo'
yo'
1:10 PM
@DavidCarlisle you've always been the naughty one here.
 
barbara beeton
barbara beeton
@DavidCarlisle -- nope, it's still mike downes' document. look at the date. i've been trying to get permission to update it, but without success. (i think nothing in it is untrue, but there's an awful lot more that could be said, and would be really helpful.)
 
yo'
yo'
@barbarabeeton ah so there is a reason why the document is so tough!
 
Paul Gessler
Paul Gessler
@barbarabeeton so the mails for that list are still going out but not being archived (and hence not making it into RSS)? Or do you subscribe to a different list?
Should I report as well or is yours sufficient?
 
barbara beeton
barbara beeton
@PaulGessler -- i'm subscribed to ctan-ann, and the mail has been continuing. i don't think there is another list that covers accessions/updates to ctan. (although there is a different list that pertains to the search and upload interface; i'm subscribed to that too.) the address i sent the report to is "ctan central", so it should be sufficient, and the folks who get that mail have been pretty good at responding to other questions from me. i'll report what i hear from them.
 
Paul Gessler
Paul Gessler
@barbarabeeton ok, sounds good. Thanks! :-)
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
1:27 PM
What are the opposites of these 6 words? Always- Coming - From - Take - Me - Down
 
Paul Gessler
Paul Gessler
@Johannes_B nice try :-)
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@PaulGessler Oh, thank god. In my personal chat list i just got 3 different question marks from 3 different people. Nobody got it.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@barbarabeeton I'll blame you anyway
 
barbara beeton
barbara beeton
@DavidCarlisle -- and i'll just continue to insult you nicely. :)
@Johannes_B -- where did those people learn to speak english?
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@barbarabeeton German schools :-)
Can somebody confirm, that different page sizes are set with pdflatex, lualatex and xelatex.
 
yo'
yo'
1:43 PM
@Johannes_B may be. But it's set up in the distro somehow. You can never assume anything and all documents should mention the papersize explicitly
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@yo' Sure, but one of the packages loaded by showframe seems to be the reason. Without it, all documents are equal.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
2:01 PM
@Johannes_B it depends
 
yo'
yo'
@Johannes_B that's of course possible
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@DavidCarlisle Depends on what?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Johannes_B pdflatex by default doesn't set the page size, so you see your pdf reader set default, but it does set it if graphics or geometry etc are being used
@Johannes_B historical accidents, mostly.
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@DavidCarlisle XeLaTeX differs. Probably as the pdf is written using xdvipdfm?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Johannes_B it should be same if geometry is used, otherwise it'll be whatever default it sets
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
2:07 PM
@DavidCarlisle showframe et al. do not load geometry or graphicx.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Johannes_B it loads eso-pci which loads xcolor which loads color which ends up loading the same back end code as graphics...
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@DavidCarlisle pdftex.def
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Johannes_B exactly and I added a setting of \pdfpageheight to that as it seemed a good idea at the time
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@DavidCarlisle Ah, LuaTeX also loads pdftex.def. Never consciously noticed that so far.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
2:27 PM
@Johannes_B See expl3 model where we look at this as a driver: l3pdfmode.def
 
rapus95
rapus95
Is currently anyone here who can sacrifice some time for me, looking over a 2-page "handout" to judge it's layout and to offer some tips what to change?
If not it's not a problem i'm just curious whether my random clicking looks good o.O
 
egreg
egreg
3:02 PM
@rapus95 I can't promise, but fire off.
 
rapus95
rapus95
well since it's german you really don't have to cover the content but only the layout... nevertheless most of it you may understand :D
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cb686n5jb0akako/Handout.pdf?dl=0
 
egreg
egreg
@rapus95 I don't understand German, but the topic is clear and known to me. Not bad for a scheme/résumé. You should learn proper quotes: in German they should be \glqq and \grqq for opening and closing quotes respectively.
@rapus95 I wouldn't use that kind of alignment (about which you asked here): the formulas should be flush left (no alignment at =) and the explanation text should immediately follow (not flush right).
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
2 hours ago, by David Carlisle
@rapus95 don't use "xxxx" use ``xxxx''
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
in Discussion between rapus95 and Johannes_B, 21 hours ago, by Johannes_B
@rapus95 I really don't have enough experience with mathematical typesetting. But make sure you are using the correct quote marks. Best to let package csquotes deal with that.
 
egreg
egreg
@rapus95 By the way, $b^n-1=0$ means nothing in a multiplicative group.
 
rapus95
rapus95
3:17 PM
@egreg well that concrete Calculation is in K i need it in order to prove that there are no more than n solutions for b
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
Just stumbeld over an old question over LC. Redefine newcommand and others within the document to issue a warning.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B Can't be done safely
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright That's what i thought.
@JosephWright Btw, just reading l3pdfmode.def ;-)
 
rapus95
rapus95
means $b^n-1 \in K[b]$. my reason why i can do that is because i can always move to outer structures (group->ring->field) as long as i don't change the operators and ensure that all elements are still available in the outer structures. They way to inner structures should be possible in the sense of "if the the field there are x solutions then in any substructure like the group there can't be more solutions)
would you say that argument is valid?
 
egreg
egreg
@rapus95 No, it isn't: you say “Let M be a group”, so no subtraction or zero exists. In a finite field you can of course do that, but it's a different situation.
 
rapus95
rapus95
3:30 PM
@egreg but M<K^\times where K is a field and M is finite and K^\times is the multiplicative group of the field
 
egreg
egreg
@rapus95 You're not saying it.
 
rapus95
rapus95
@egreg well that's true o.O i say that later xD but thx i gonna add it in that sense that "If there is a 'completion' of M to a field then the 2nd description is valid too" does that make sense? what is the mathematical word for that 'completion'?
 
egreg
egreg
@rapus95 No, it's not true in general that a group can be embedded in a field. Not even for cyclic groups.
 
rapus95
rapus95
@egreg well i meant 'if' it's possible for the given group M then it's valid o.O if that's wrong too then is there any way to correct it w/o having to move the whole part down,removing it or restricting M for all sets?
 
barbara beeton
barbara beeton
@rapus95 -- in the box at the bottom, the line at the bottom is too close to what is above it. the space should probably be about the same height as the space above "konkretere werte". some of the other spacing is a bit uneven, but that's the worst.
 
egreg
egreg
3:50 PM
@rapus95 Just don't add that piece. You can use it when you know that $M$ is a subgroup of the multiplicative group of a field. It's completely irrelevant information.
 
rapus95
rapus95
@barbarabeeton do you have an idea how i can add vertical spacing after \end{minipage}? Well i found it out but that moves the last line to the next page -.-
 
yo'
yo'
@rapus95 minipage behaves like a letter. You need either \\[5ex] or better \par\vspace{5ex}
 
rapus95
rapus95
@barbarabeeton @egreg now most stuff should be corrected, if you're still interested in, just reload the page
well i've got a problem -.-
When there is only
Der Körper mit vier Elementen ist bis auf Isomorphie eindeutig (und existent).
then everything fits to a single line but when there is
Der Körper mit vier Elementen ist bis auf Isomorphie eindeutig (und existent). Anmerkung: Als Grundkörper für die Polynome muss $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ genutzt werden.
then it breaks the line like that:
Der Körper mit vier Elementen ist bis auf Isomorphie eindeutig (und exis-
tent). Anmerkung: Als Grundkörper für die Polynome muss $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ genutzt werden.
solved it
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
4:13 PM
@rapus95 Please always psot full (but minimal) examples that are easy to test for us. Highlighting code would be even more great.
 
rapus95
rapus95
well i'd say it wasn't even worth to be mentioned here... i solved it by placing \\ facepalm
 
barbara beeton
barbara beeton
4:33 PM
@rapus95 -- in this case, the double backslash could be acceptable. however, since "anmerkung:" starts a new thought, perhaps it could be considered as starting a new paragraph, so the previous line needn't be "full". whatever you did in the earlier "satz" would seem appropriate here too.
 
1010011010
1010011010
Why can I say something silly like \let\[\relax in my class file, but my document still compiles ?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
4:47 PM
@1010011010 why shouldn't it?
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle Because it contains the command... and I just defined it as crap.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 I don't understand why you'd think it not be legal.
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle It's certainly legal, but I'd expect my document to break down where I used \[ ... \]
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 your initial comment implied you expected an error at \let\[\relax but quite probably something else redefined \[ back again, amsmath, unicode-math, ...
 
 
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michal.h21
michal.h21
6:13 PM
@DavidCarlisle I have some progress with github.com/michal-h21/luatex-harfbuzz-shaper LaTeX nodes are processed now, so it can be used in documents. also feature selection works now:
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright Just noticed, that you have package geometery in the requirements section of achemso.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B Yes
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
Hi @michal.h21 If you are wondering, i am the guy currently dropping in on your biblatex-iso stuff.
@JosephWright Just wanted to drop a note.
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
@Johannes_B great, I don't in fact really understand current Biblatex, so it seems some things might be broken recently. also I created the package for older version of the norm and I really don't like some changes in the new version
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@michal.h21 I'll see what i can do and then do a pull request. english-iso.lbx definitely needed some fixing ;-)
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
6:19 PM
@Johannes_B probably, it is really old, also the code is horrible, it was my first LaTeX package
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
6:31 PM
@michal.h21 I haven't had time to look closely at this, but why all the language stuff?
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
@Johannes_B because in Czech interpretation of the norm, which is officially required by many Czech universities, you must have some texts in bibliography in language of your document, while others must be in the language of cited publication. it is insane
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@michal.h21 Ok, i'll have a look at it.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@michal.h21 oh thanks (I must have done something wrong as I thought I'd set github to tell me but I haven't seen any notification)
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
@DavidCarlisle I think that with watching you just get issues with mail, not regular commits
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@michal.h21 ah...
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
6:47 PM
@DavidCarlisle what still doesn't work at all is Arabic. I start to understand Khaled's frustration
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@michal.h21 still good that you are making progress. Are you planning to advertise it on luatex list or elsewhere? or do you think Hans will shout at you for not using lua font loading:-)
@michal.h21 I haven't tried it yet (have been a bit preoccupied building xetex, and didn't have the heart to see if I could build sile on cygwin)
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
@DavidCarlisle I am little bit worried :) but more importantly, I should finish other project first, I must be working on tex4ebook presentation and paper for a conference which will be on beginning of July.
@DavidCarlisle but I am not sure whether I will be able to make more progress, this isn!t really my area of expertise, so it would be nice if someone could make further progress
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
7:07 PM
@michal.h21 yes but that requires letting people know that there is a start, even if you are out of time someone could pick up from there and fork your project, especially if you give encouragement for people to do that
 
1010011010
1010011010
Okay, this seems trivial but... how do I go from writing a \string with only numerical information to extracting it.. example \string\x{id}{\the\count2}, so that I can use \y{id} to get \the\count2 at the moment of writing?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@michal.h21 in particular the guy who did sile may have some insights....
 
1010011010
1010011010
the id is also numerical
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 do you mean \string there?
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle I suppose?
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
7:11 PM
@DavidCarlisle you are right, I should let them know
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 \string\x just turns the control sequence x into the characters \ and x
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle I'm writing it to the aux file, I thought that was kind of what I would want?
@DavidCarlisle Okay, I guess I gave you too little context...
The whole process is: --> determine how many times \[ \] is called within an environment --> store the amount of times it happened --> write it to the aux file --> use the value from the aux file on the next run
The environment has an id and a corresponding amount of times the call to \[ \] happened
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 at end of environment \immediate\write\@auxout{\gdef\string\x{{\id}{\the\count2}}}
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle Yeah, I got that far
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 assuming \id expands to the current id.
@1010011010 well that's the winning post
@1010011010 the above is wrong but can't be edited now. answering code questions in chat is a pain, ask a real question with a real example on site
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
7:21 PM
I have the feeling that my evil plan won't work out today ...
Why did i answer? To be honest, once i want to have a daily rep of 200 as well. :-) — Johannes_B 5 hours ago
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle Yeah sorry. I had the same thing excluding a \gdef. Got the right idea, e.g. I got \macro{\id}{\the\count2} with the correct values, just can't extract them with \anothermacro{\id} --> expands to \the\count2... but yes I'll post question I suppose
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 write \x{id}{3} to the aux and define \x by \def\x#1#2{\global\@namedef{count-#1}{#2} then \csname count-id\endcsname` will expand to 3 when you need it
 
1010011010
1010011010
@DavidCarlisle Ah that's why. I thought \@namedef was restricted to alphabetic characters only...
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 don't try inputenc accented characters etc, but any non-active character is more or less safe.
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
8:11 PM
As my evil plan of hitting the rep cap won't work out today, and i am terribley tired, i am saying one thing to you guys: Good night.
 
1010011010
1010011010
@Johannes_B night..
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@DavidCarlisle Am replying to the lists :-)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@JosephWright Just disappointed to see the thread get taken on one of Phil's diversions:-)
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@DavidCarlisle I shall stick to the points I want
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@JosephWright In the case of luatex, presumably it's really Karl's ini file that is controlling this rather than the luatex engine team isn't it? (although their input would be good of course)
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
8:23 PM
@DavidCarlisle Yes but for LuaLaTeX at least the whole point of the recent changes is we get to make the call. For plain it's down to KB.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@JosephWright yep (got your email as well) I agree we should make the catcodes the same in *latex whatever the settings are,
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@DavidCarlisle Probably will sort over the weekend: enough time for discussion to be done
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
I had a doctor appointment today, it was a ducktologist. :)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@JosephWright I'm wondering if I should make a local allocation package, the forest use wasn't entirely unreasonable allocates boxes per node in tree to discard at end of each picture
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
8:46 PM
@DavidCarlisle I see the polytonic Greek business is going to be controversial (not surprisingly)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
8:56 PM
@JosephWright what have the Romans ever done for us?
@JosephWright good reason to stick to the UCD and blame someone else for all decisions
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@DavidCarlisle Indeed
@DavidCarlisle Unicode is popular with developers for a reason
 
1010011010
1010011010
9:34 PM
How is this robust code? tex.stackexchange.com/a/15374/44160 ... I feel like I'm going to break something at one point with this
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Johannes_B always expect the unexpected
@1010011010 Bruno's code is usually pretty robust, but don't do it anyway, it answered the question of how to implement that syntax it didn't answer the unasked question of whether the syntax is a good idea.
 
1010011010
1010011010
9:51 PM
@DavidCarlisle Seems like a bad idea, wouldnt it break starred commands?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 that would easily be fixable (just make \@ifstar accept an active star)
 
Canageek
Canageek
This seems like something that people here would have opinions on/be amused by: johndcook.com/blog/2015/05/05/information-hiding
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Canageek I suspect they wouldn't approve of a language that allows inline replacement of tokens in the parsed definitions of running code.
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
10:09 PM
@DavidCarlisle :-) Seems i hit the rep cap. And now for everyone enjoying good music: youtube.com/watch?v=qJxU_ourLwg
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
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Q: Availability of new braids package

Enrique ArtalI have been using both braid and knot packages. I have seen that a new braid package is available here but not in CTAN. Are there any projects to submit the new one to CTAN? One can always download it from here but it is annoying to use a "private" package in collaborative work or when uploading ...

tikz-pgf
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@DavidCarlisle btw: thanks for correcting my spelling mistake. :-)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
One for Andrew Stacey?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Johannes_B don't get too excited, not everyone has @PauloCereda's skills for evading the serial voting checking bots
 
egreg
egreg
@PauloCereda Where have you been all day?
 
michal.h21
michal.h21
10:23 PM
@DavidCarlisle so Arabic is working some how:
text is copied from amirifont.org
I only don't understand why first word (
الخط) is wrong. But it is wrong even with Sile, so it is maybe some Harfbuzz issue
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@michal.h21 see I'd be useless at this, I'd never spot if a word was wrong (or even remember which end of the line to look for the first word:(
 
Canageek
Canageek
10:41 PM
@DavidCarlisle Also TeX doesn't hide much, which is why packages fight all the time.
 
1010011010
1010011010
\bgroup and \egroup don't open groups, right? or will \aftergroup also work for that
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Canageek it doesn't hide anything :-)
 
Canageek
Canageek
@DavidCarlisle Which is both great and annoying....
 
egreg
egreg
@1010011010 Yes, they do form a group.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 \egroup doesn't open a group, \bgroup does
 
1010011010
1010011010
10:47 PM
@DavidCarlisle :-)
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@1010011010 my answer is more correct than @egreg's (despite his attempt to change history)
 
egreg
egreg
@DavidCarlisle As usual. :P
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@egreg I thought about adding that, but I'm not so rude:-)
 
Canageek
Canageek
Does anyone know of any kitting pattern packages?
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Q: Are there any packages for knitting?

CanageekSo I showed my girlfriend the braids package, and she asked if their are any packages for knitting patterns. I couldn't find any on ctan with a quick search, so I thought I'd ask here. Are their any packages for knitting or related disciplines?

packages fun
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@barbarabeeton ^^^
 
egreg
egreg
11:15 PM
@Canageek texdoc knitting
 
Canageek
Canageek
11:42 PM
@egreg texdoc chemistry doesn't find nearly every chem package, at least using texdoc.net
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Canageek nah, for that you want: ctan.org/topic/chemistry
 

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