In my opinion, the following post should not have been deleted and I have voted to undelete it, even though the author has also repeated it in a new answer, because the author is clearly quite upset about it. The answer is not at all clear and I did not see the author's point until I read a follow-up comment. I also don't know whether the motivation for the alternative code line is valid or not. But the author is offering a different answer from the others.
@cfr Added a comment. It is not different. I think OP is not aware of the fact that he is doing the same thing in my answer without testing properly. There is no visible difference here because the difference is faded away. But his/her answer is wrong.
And a duplicate to mine + adding a wrong modification.
Hi, we have two very similar questions in the website which I think they are duplicates of each other; should they be managed to be merged or one of them to be closed?
I am writing my CV using the moderncv package. I already have adjusted the CV to meet my needs. Therefore I amplified the maximum number of parameters possible in the \cventry command. However, now I have some ugly spacing in case I do NOT use all parameters (see second \cventry in the MWE for il...
I am writing my CV using the moderncv package. I want to adjust the CV to meet my needs. Therefore I amplified the maximum number of parameters possible in the \cventry command. However, now I have some ugly spacing in case I do NOT use all parameters as shown in the attached pic (ugly spacing is...
@DavidCarlisle On the LuaTeX business: based on Elie's latest mail, add Lua support for a 'banner' and log/warning/error to the kernel or to the add-on package?
@daleif thanks, Alain Matthes has agreed to update tkz-* as well, and I mailed Florent Chervet about his packages yesterday as well. So things looking good!
@JosephWright kernel I think for the banner/write stuff. whatsits I stil think probably do a tex allocator anyway, that spelling thing only uses them from lua but given the e@alloc definition we could add (package or kernel) a lua version that just incremented count 26x from lua?
@DavidCarlisle Yes, performance would be interesting
@DavidCarlisle I mailed him directly about some of this
@DavidCarlisle For a start, it (perhaps) needs to work with tokens not just files: I missed the file option in the use we currently have :-) (I do plan to fix that!)
> This command expands to the md5 of ⟨general text⟩ in uppercase hexadecimal format (same as \pdfescapehex). The primitive was introduced in pdfTEX 1.30.0.
And following that back
> This command converts each character of ⟨general text⟩ into its hexadecimal representation. Each character of the argument becomes a pair of hexadecimal digits. The primitive was introduced in pdfTEX 1.30.0.
@DavidCarlisle It doesn't really need to work for us across engines in any case: the idea is that with the same processing set up you should be able to check that the files are the same
@DavidCarlisle Lets see what Bruno comes back with (or we hammer out at TUG2015)
@JosephWright but even for files you have a choice of normalising eol or not, the checksum of a UnicodeData.txt presumably depends on whether you copied it with dos or unix line ends doesn't it?
Checking the download, Firefox respects line endings of original (it is an FTP transfer), so they are Unix
@DavidCarlisle That I know of, TL doesn't alter line endings across platforms (always Unix) and neither do half-decent editors, so for the problem of 'are the files the same' it should work
@JosephWright yes but it doesn't include UnicodeData.txt so if a user gets that file from unicode.org to check the checksum in unicode-letters.def it will pass or fail depending on how they copied it.
@DavidCarlisle Like I said, testing in Firefox you get LF line ends on Windows as it's offered as an FTP transfer. The number of people likely to copy-paste the file into Notepad for testing is ~0. The idea of having checksums is that they will help people who have some experience.
@DavidCarlisle Karl was the one keen on that checksum: I'm seeing them as useful for tracking down issues in a small number of cases
@DavidCarlisle Line endings are tricky, but at present the checksum in unicode-letters.def won't care about them like I said :-)
@DavidCarlisle For some reason glossaries always seems to scream for attention whenever I find the time to do bug fixes and the other packages get left behind. I've been about to upload the new version of glossaries for the past week, but once I've finally got that out of the way I'll see if I can sort out datatool.
@DavidCarlisle I wrote the code so long ago, I can't really remember much about it, but I do remember there was a problem with ensuring the value was written correctly to the .aux file to ensure cross-references worked correctly. (Although that wouldn't have been for the storage commands.)
@egreg It might be best to raise the issue on github github.com/nlct/fmtcount or I'll forget. I need to finish off the new version of glossaries and sort out datatool first.
@DavidCarlisle :-) The original code for fmtcount was in datetime which I wrote in the late 1990s. I think if I had a time machine I'd go back and tell myself not to write it ;-)
@JosephWright doing \endinput after a \DeclareOption but before \ProcessOptions is bad (and in etex.sty that's almost the whole file:-) I need to move the option declaration after the error checks.
shall you please review my main .tex file and help me that which line should I replace , for now , contents come after the chapter 4 , I want to take it to before summary ( sommario )
here it is :
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{report}
\begin{document}
\include{frontespizio...
I want to make the Time Schedule in LaTeX but it's not working properly. First I want to make the atleast three rectanuglar boxes and when in TASK row I start writing full picture forward. So need your kind help.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfgantt}
\newganttchartelement*{mymi...
As one can see in the given link, APA style requires a very special format for captions in figures and tables.
How can I realize this in standard article format? (I do not want to use the APA6 class due to its restrictions made for papers)
MWE:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{multirow}
...
I'm trying to typeset using UTF8 and use the answers package. However, compilation halts on \begin{sol}, with
Kapitola 1.
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\IeC
l.20 \begin{sol}
If I switch to utf8x, the compilation halts even sooner on \New...
@StefanKottwitz As @DavidCarlisle mentions, probably with a GitHub account set up the best way to log requests for changes in the FAQ is using the issue tracker there, plus taking pull requests. Does that sound OK? We can then decide when to sync with the server (automating that at some stage, perhaps).
@JosephWright Sounds ok! If it's not harder than writing emails - users should have it easy to report bugs or suggest improvements, rather mail than web GUIs for trackers (don't know if github issues can be initiated by mail)
@StefanKottwitz Wasn't the first time today. I sent him a complete patch, he reverted some of it and also introduced spaced by deleting my percent signs making the code fail. I was furious ;-)
The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby originally completed in 1771 then reworked in 1795. The full title of the painting is “The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers”. It has been suggested that "The Alchymist" refers to the discovery of phosphorus by the Hamburg alchemist Hennig Brandt in 1669. This story was often printed in popular chemical books in Wright's lifetime, and was widely known.
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@Johannes_B Haven't really looked much at the site to be honest. I guess templates can be an easy way to get a quick start with a document, but on the other hand they can promote "mindless" use of preamble matter, as people will just use/reuse whatever is in them without considering if it is actually necessary. But then, that's more of problem with people than templates.
Is it possible to create a non escapable kind of loop with \afterassignment? Like that anytime you do an assignment, something is automatically done and automatically re\affterassigned?
In “other words” can one “clean” whatever someone has \afterassigned before?
@Manuel yes but I could insert any amount of afterassignments \writes \defs etc inside \foo to obfuscate it but any loop in a macro language will be that basically
@DavidCarlisle Why? I mean, the only way I thought of shutting down that was \def\foo{} or, if it's more complicated than that \let\tmp\afterassignment\let\afterassignment\@gobble\let\afterassignment\tmp.
@DavidCarlisle Mmm.. I'm not that expert :) The \afterassignment is always global? If it happens in a group, what would happen out of it?
@Manuel the token still gets inserted but may be undefined, so as you say if you know the token name \let\foo\empty stops things as \foo gets inserted after that but is empty
@JosephWright Installing Postfix on the web server brought me reminders: some forgotten blogs now send me mails about comments to be moderated - one has 130.000 comments in the mod queue
@JosephWright To be clear, the blogs were tests filled with a bit stuff. And spammers found them and generated comments.
Hi... I just have a primarily opinion based question! :))) Have you prepared your CV yourself or used a prepared CV package like modernCV? Which one do you prefer? I had prepared my CV myself in an article document class but I see that the existing template look really nice but have limited capabilities...
@JosephWright good link... thanks. I also think that your approach is the best.
@JosephWright your own CV on your website is great. I personally type each of my papers in the LaTeX file. Do you do so, or just import a .bib file into your CV? I think that working with bib files is a more correct way.
@Johannes_B open problem: I want to change that option in such a way that the user can use any code as long as it needs a mandatory argument. I really should put that on my TODO list so I don't keep forgetting it