I am using biber as a backend for biblatex with the alphabetic style. I want to work the textcite and citeauthor commands to work as follows:
If I use one of the above commands the first time for a certain reference, I want it to print all the author names. Then on further citations, I want it t...
@egreg For the primitives, I find TbT more convenient that The TeXbook as it's structured as a reference work
I also need the e-TeX manual a reasonable amount, for example when I was working on the galley. (The extended widow/orphan stuff is not really described properly anywhere!)
@experts: Can I instruct kpathsea to search for any file type? Let's say I have a file myfile.abc and I want kpathsea to find it. (kpsewhich myfile.abc)
@PatrickGundlach If you put it under fonts/misc, then kpsewhich --format="misc fonts" will find it. Otherwise I'm afraid you have to buiild all the infrastructure to support it.
I don't think it's very difficult to extend kpathsea to support a new subtree.
@JosephWright don't make the mistake of starting at the beginning. (As explicitly documented the beginning is not always true) start with appendix D then just work backwards reading the double bend paragraphs. That should put you in an ideal state of mind for working on the L3 galley
@JosephWright It might take a while, I'm still learning how the installer works. And I didn't include any predefined rules, not sure if this would be a good idea or not. :)
Installer available with messages in Portuguese, English, Italian, German, Spanish and French. :)
@JosephWright Agreed. :) I'm also thinking to add them as an optional package (like the system path). I could also make the installer download the rules, but maybe I'll stick with some built-in ones. :)
@MarcoDaniel one of the first things I intended to do (not sure if I will really do that): change the colors of the comments we agree on to green and remove some words. But then I can also directly write something :)
@MarcoDaniel The way SVN => Git works means it relies on the process happening on a single machine. In our case, that is @WillRobertson's laptop. So if Will is busy, the mirroring does not happen :-( If I had an 'always on' machine we might alter this, but at the moment I do not.
@MarcoDaniel As far as I know, the mirroring could be done via the public SVN (read-only), so I guess in principal we just need a willing person to do the mirroring.
@MarcoDaniel The LaTeX team machine (comedy.dante.de) is out of the question
@MarcoDaniel The installer is written in Java and it's cross-platform. :) When installed in Windows, it will include a arara.exe wrapper and also the option to add arara to the system path (when uninstalling it, the path is also removed); for Unix/Mac, the arara script is created and chmoded +x to it. :)
@egreg: Italy has a great team for this Euro. :) It's quite funny to see that Italy's line up is actually my top ten players of the Calcio (of course Thiago Motta is not included :P).
For some reason, all the text on certain pages is appearing bold when there is a picture on the same page. I saw the other similar questions and tried converting the images firstly to PNGs with no transparency but that didn't fix it. I then tried converting them to JPEGs which didn't work either....
@PatrickGundlach actually I didn't mean ConTeXt I meant what's the context for your comment re rules in lingtable:-) (dangers of abbreviating whole sentence to one word...)
@PatrickGundlach My point is, with makebst, I did not have to learn any language, I just made several runs of this program to understand what exactly these options mean...
@tohecz but understanding bibtex/postscript/forth and other languages like these is actually some fun (well, depends on the kind of person you are, of course)
@PatrickGundlach Yes, it is. Actually, there are things that makebst cannot do and biblatex probably can (like treating the wikipedia references in a completely different way)
@cgnieder Thanks! :) It's a little different approach from other tools like latexmk, but it quite fun to play with. At least @MarcoDaniel is a devoted user. :)
I'm working hard to setup a nice structure. It was a just a hobby project, now it's more serious. :P
@cgnieder Neither did I. :) I tried rubber in the past and it was quite nice. IMHO they are difficult to extend if you have a more complex workflow. And I usually write stuff in Windows, Linux and Mac; crossplatform was a requirement to me. :)
