There would be an interesting question to ask: "Why did D.E.K. make \newwrite etc. \outer?" Answer: "Because those should be allocated once globally for the whole package. (Prompted by a recent package on CTAN with tons of redundant \newread and \newwrite within macro calls.)
@PauloCereda Really. One can safely use the \@mainaux output stream before \begin{document} and make the package commands "only preamble" and use \input for reading the file.
This question is not focussed on video games but games in general. I went to a boardgame trade fair yesterday and asked myself if there is a way to calculate the fairness of a game. Sure, some of them require a good portion of luck, but it might be possible to calculate if some character is overp...
In plain.tex, D.E.Knuth decided to define as \outer all the macros which allocate registers: \newcount, \newdimen, \newskip, \newread, \newwrite. This forbids them from entering the argument of macros, or definitions: they can only appear at the outer-most level.
On the other hand, Leslie Lampor...
@BrunoLeFloch No, that package is really bad. The \@mainaux stream is used for writing the aux` file, and this is initiated as part of \document. Opening it and closing it immediately is quite safe. Or one can do with stream 15, like the kernel does for filecontents.
@egreg My point is that you have to be somewhat more advanced to think carefully about which stream to use. The major mistake is really to allocate \newread instead of \input, and to allocate a \newwrite multiple times. The package could be rewritten in half the lines.
@BrunoLeFloch Yes: 24 lines (just because I stopped to column 60 or so). :) Actually \newwrite is used "only" twice (at most), but that's not relevant.
@egreg :). I was too lazy to rewrite the package. If you've rewritten it, it may be worth sending an email to the maintainer with some "proposed changed"?
@PauloCereda Wasting \newread or \newwrite is very evil: TeX (and any extension) only provide 16 of each (compared to 256 counters, dimensions etc for TeX, and 32768 for eTeX and all semi-modern engines).
It is possible, but hard, to circumvent the limit on the number of writes, but afaik, it isn't possible to cheat TeX on the \newread business.
Most packages, even rather large ones, use at most one \newwrite and no \newread. If they want to write two different things to files, then open the writing stream, write what you need, then close the writing stream again. The package can then reuse it for writing something else to a different file later.
@BrunoLeFloch That's a problem I faced when writing imakeidx that supports multiple indices. The simplest way is to allocate an output stream per index (which has the advantage that indices are processed automatically during the LaTeX run); but there's also a one-stream-only mode that exploits the splitindex program Markus Kohm wrote for his own index package.
@PauloCereda In TeX and LaTeX2e, there is no way to release it (except if you use the morewrite package, which somehow cheats by using a single stream for everything). In LaTeX3, there is a proper allocation mechanism.
@BrunoLeFloch I'm not normal, I already ran out of 16 reads/writes (actually, I had to use around 30). :) Thankfully, @egreg's imakeidx and the splitidx app saved me. :)
Our (and Luke's) original impression of Yoda is by no means flattering. He looks like a crazy hungry green thing that unfortunately has the ability to speak. Yoda digs through Luke's stuff, eats Luke's food, and, obsessed with that awesome little flashlight, ends up stealing it. (He even goes so ...
@BrunoLeFloch Reading filenames is a pain, but one has to remember when TeX was written: every operating system had its own way. With or without extensions, with version number (VMS, have you ever seen it?), allowing strange characters or not. Terrible.
I have been using MiKTeX for a couple of years. I don't know whether it is "wise" to insist on using it. Could you give me a list of advantages of TeX Live over MiKTeX?
In this question Differences between LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX various differences between LuaTeX and XeTeX (and ConTeXt) are discussed. And in this question Using XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX a recipe for switching from pdfLaTeX to XeLaTeX is given. In this question, I would like a similar recipe...
Trivia: - question with the longest title: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12739/how-do-i-use-latex-to-create-table-of-contents-chapter-headings-subsections-et - question with the shortest title: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/280/slashed-symbols
@Werner In this case, I didn't use a "pure" SQL syntax, but used one of SQL Server functions - len() - to count the chars in the title. In this case, it's very database-dependant. :(
@Werner Thankfully! :)
And the question with the longest title is also the one with the highest number of words.
You can achieve what you wish by doubling the number of columns.
\halign{&#\tabskip0pt&#\hfil\tabskip1em plus1em minus.5em\cr
Foo&&Bar&&Baz\cr
\noalign{\smallskip\hrule}
}
If the alignment is large, and you don't want to type & each time, it is possible to hide ...
@AndreyVihrov Pretty old then. Is there somewhere where one can look up various primitives and when they were implemented/modified? There's a question which might hinge on the user having an old version of pdftex which doesn't handle a particular command in the way that a new package thinks it ought to.
@egreg: good game. Sadly, Genoa scored that goal in the last minutes. Pirlo played very well. And the stadium is so beautiful, I didn't know it was reformed. :)
After I enabled the Shift Swticher (windows in Ubuntu) can not access the menu (via the hotkey) Kile. What is the problem?
I have been using MiKTeX for a couple of years. I don't know whether it is "wise" to insist on using it. Could you give me a list of advantages of TeX Live over MiKTeX?
