@greg, just looking around the site, clicking on random buttons...
You might hope if a package lasts since 1999 you'd get away without ever having to handle bug reports on it....
egreg sorry, by the way how does this @ thing work, the site normally shows people's display name but I assume you have to use their real account name for that?
@DavidCarlisle If you start typing an @, the system shows the connected people on the chat; in a comment to an answer or question, you can choose to whom you want to address the comment
@egreg I think it's him. :) I like only one song of him, "legata a un granello di sabbia", mostly because of the rhythm. Not that I like his performance. :)
How to install LaTeX package called "standalone" properly so I can get update with Synaptic package manager?
I know I can manually download the file and install it.
@JosephWright If you're looking at breqn (and I see there's an open qn from @BrunoLeFloch with what looks like a bug) you might want to look at the linebreaking in MathML3, it would be good to have a mapping of that to (La)TeX. We added a lot of hints for automatic breaking and a lot of control for manual breaking. (Automatic breaking is far more important in MML than TeX as you don't know the line width in advance)
@JosephWright yes well I know about that status, I've had projects in that state for a couple of decades:-)
Michael was doing breqn about the same time I was doing bm (almost at crazy in places) and we both took the time to understand the things so they'd work together. Can't understand a line of it now though:-)
@DavidCarlisle Different targets, thought, as people like @egreg want full control of the exact details of their math typesetting, whereas us mere mortals are happy if something legible appears :-)
@JosephWright You know there is a well known system out there that (more or less) implements Math Layout as described in Appendix G but gives full visual interactive control over the formatting as well. I'm not sure I can mention its name in tex forum though....
@PauloCereda What about a Lua script along the lines of those by Daniel and tohecz for checking uncited references? This would be system independent: one could call it with texlua
TeX removes a glue item at the end of a paragraph, so
\hfill$a+a=a$\hfill$a\cdot a=a$\hfill
doesn't work. You have to use space that doesn't disappear:
\hspace*{\fill}$a+a=a$\hfill$a\cdot a=a$\hspace*{\fill}
(The one at the start might be \hfill, but it's good practice to use \hspace* when ...
@egreg: Would I even have a remote chance of defining \hfill* as `\hspace*{\hfill}, which would seem like a useful artifact?
@egreg Yoda says: "BibLaTeX encouraged to use everyone should be"
Interesting discussion in mod room about meta sites. There is pressure to reduce the unanswered questions: a good job that we seem to have seen this recently a lot on our own site!
@BrentLongborough No you can't define \hfillto look ahead for a * (not without breaking everything else) Too much code assumes it's an unexpandable token even in unprotected contexts,
@greg, but you clearly have taste and follow manuals so your test document probably didn't put \hfill in an unprotected write or edef. real people do both those things.
@greg using supported latex commands is cheating, real packages out there realy use \edef, and so document authors would find things break even if they only used "clean" interfaces.
@PauloCereda I got one copy for free from the publisher, because I said I was going to use it for my LaTeX course (which I deliver each year). But I made the department buy two copies for the library and I bought one for home.
@DavidCarlisle With \protected\def there's no problem in \edef nor in \protected@edef as \edef doesn't expand \protected macros.
@egreg stop tricking me with newfangled etex features, next you'll be confusing me further with lua or something. (Actually i do know about \protected, but my over-riding assumption when changing things is that Something will break, proved pretty acurate over th eyears)
@PauloCereda Yes, if you put more \bibliography commands. But this shouldn't be good practice. I guess this can happen with some packages. However, \bibdata can have a comma separated list of entries.
@BrentLongborough It might be, but I don't use CCC (cartesian closed categories); I'm more interested in abelian categories, where there's little computer science connected.
I uploaded the working files with pdf output file to google docs here is the link docs.google.com
I am trying to convert this file to html. I read previous post but did not get any workable solution. one time somehow I manage to get html output but the output looked like source tex file rather t...
I don't think this will end up being a true duplicate, since there are particular xelatex issues at stake, I think. I tried to get Aku to adjust the question, but all he did was change the question title.
@PauloCereda Seems to work well; I tested it with two bib files and with commas in the argument. Of course not with two \bibdata commands, but that doesn't seem to be important. It works with biblatex, also. :) But what does it mean that copyright line?
@JosephWright: I have a question to the expl3-documentation. There is described the letter f of a function. There you can read the following sentence: Note that if this function finds a space at the beginning of the argument it will gobble it and not expand the next argument What is the meaning of not expand the next argument? Does it mean that a space is like the first unexpandable token which can be found by f.
@lockstep: Related to your comment: I don't want to provide an answer. Up to know the OP doesn't give response to the comments.
@MarcoDaniel The way you get something to expand until TeX finds an unexpandable token is to do \romannumeral-`\Q#1 , which will stop when TeX finds the optional space or a non-expandable token.
Is there anything that would cause my table of contents to suddenly fail to list any of the chapters despite having previously worked. It now seems just to list the LOT, LOF but nothing else. (And yes, multiple runs of latex).
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@StefanKottwitz Speaking of biblatex, could you roll back your latest retag? I've tried to remove the bibliographies tag from biblatex questions -- like we don't feature the diagrams tag for every queston tagged with tikz-pgf.
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@lockstep It makes a general tag such as bibliographies less useful, if a lot of related questions miss the tag because some more specialized tag is appropriate
@StefanKottwitz I know that the situation with respect to bibliographies/bibtex/citing/biblatex/natbib is somewhat unfortunate. OTOH, would you, say, add the verbatim tag to every listings question?
@StefanKottwitz My rule of thumb is: If a potential answerer for one "child" tag might not be especially versed in a "sibling" (tikz-pgf vs. pstricks), then it might not be worth it to add diagrams to both types of questions.
@StefanKottwitz One more thing: I expect biblatex to surpass bibliographies in the not-too-distant future. We might end with just biblatex/citing/bibtex.
How to install LaTeX package called "standalone" properly so I can get update with Synaptic package manager?
I know I can manually download the file and install it.
TeX removes a glue item at the end of a paragraph, so
\hfill$a+a=a$\hfill$a\cdot a=a$\hfill
doesn't work. You have to use space that doesn't disappear:
\hspace*{\fill}$a+a=a$\hfill$a\cdot a=a$\hspace*{\fill}
(The one at the start might be \hfill, but it's good practice to use \hspace* when ...
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It seems that if, besides getting first and last tokens, one wants to accumulate the rest of the tokens, the solution is nontrivial. My solution appears convoluted. I wonder if David Carlisle can instantly pull a...
