@DavidCarlisle For example, if my package uses Tikz, if I say "\RequirePackage{tikz}" but the document that uses my package also loads tikz as well, what happens? Is Tikz loaded twice, or only the first time it's called (mine package or when the document has "\usepackage{tikz}"?
Tikz loads xcolor, right? So if I say "\usepackage{tikz}" and then "\usepackage{xcolor}" in a document, when is xcolor loaded?
@Alenanno both \usepackage and \RequirePackage ensure that packages aren't loaded twice. The only thing you need to be worried about is if you want to load a package with options. See tex.stackexchange.com/q/99730/2693 for some links and general discussion.
And so that @DavidCarlisle doesn't need to repeat himself:
How do the options of a \RequirePackage command interact with options specified for that same package elsewhere?
Here is an example: The pdfx package, if loaded with the a-1b-option, executes the command \RequirePackage[pdftex,pdfa]{hyperref}. However, later in my LaTeX source file, I might also...
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btw, it seems I've finally managed to convince everybody to give me both diplomas! Paaaaaaaaartyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! (The only thing left is to summarize 3 years in 70 characters; that's almost no longer than the title. Actually, the title is 78 characters. Ouch)
@PauloCereda Elysée by the way :) . Well kind of difficult to visit it since the French president live and work in this place. It's open during the "journée du patrimoine" something as twice/year
@Romain: it's like those annoying people who seem to only get the snake eating an elephant reference from the Little Prince and they start shouting to the whole world they read a lot... :(
@RomainPicot Once I was at the Louvre and stayed for some time near the Nike, watching visitors: most of them didn't even look at it, they were just searching for directions to the Monna Lisa. :(
@yo' Well not really when you saw it I think. I mean, yes it's a beautifull painting but some other are more beautifull, with less people in front and so you can take the time to look at it.
@yo' Perhaps I don't enjoy looking at it because there is too many people in front of it
@RomainPicot yeah, I spent several hours there, it was during my first visit when I was still <26. When I got to Paris for the first full semester, I was already above the free of charge limit
@PauloCereda like yesterday in the metro here: I for the first time realized, with my smartphone in my hand, that everybody is either holding a smartphone mostly playing some stupid games, or is old.
@egreg well, Mona Lisa spoils the whole room completely :(
@egreg I got it 2 days ago :) So I needed to see how it works in the tunnels etc. I realized that sending mails from the metro is possible, but searching anything is not, because there's no signal in the tunnels and only 3G in the stations...
@egreg You also have some strange painting as "Vedute di Roma antica". A painting with several painting. But people just look at the small painting where everybody is
@Johannes_B yes but the question there is more reasonable and the answer is \setlength\baselineskip{\fill} the question as posted here isn't reasonable at all really:-)
I was wondering -- is it considerate to include compiled lua scripts in packages (so that pdftex and xetex can transparently fall back on \write18), or will the pain of having to distribute these in TeX Live / MikTeX exceed the benefit?
Perhaps including the \write18 code in the package, but requiring the user to get the binaries themselves, if they are unwilling / unable to use LuaTeX is a reasonable compromise?
@Witiko I'm not sure what is better. I feel this could even be asked on the site. Remember that with binaries, a lot of maintenance comes; TeX is run in 3 distributions with surely >10 versions of the binaries
Can't you simply run a lua script with the lua binary? That would be probably simpler
A user is asking for a pdf viewer for tablets (Ipad/Android) that transmitts the frames via AppleTV to the projector and shows the notes on the tablet. Anybody aware of such a thing for Ipad or android?
Another way is to use the refcheck package and add \nocite{*} in your document. This package will warn you (amongst other things) about unused references. My MWE:
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{foo:2012a,
title = {My Title One},
publisher = {My Publisher One},
year = {2012},
ed...
@Witiko also you could look at l3build which is on ctan it's a lua script for building ctan packages and running a test suite and comparing against expected results. we use it for packaging all the core latex format files. Over the years it's been Make, cons, windows bat files, etc but being in lua and texlua being in all the distributions simplifies cross platform use greatly/
@Danu one is \mathpunct and one is \mathrel (or \mathbin, not sure now), so the spacing differs... actually the colon knows to be all three of punctuation, relation and binary
@RomainPicot -- two paris museums that i go back to every time i'm there are the rodin museum and the musée d'orsay. certainly much less crowded than the louvre .. in more than one way.
There are defaults for every character that you can override by prefixing the character with \mathord, \mathop, \mathbin, \mathrel, \mathopen, \mathclose, \mathpunct, and \mathinner. I'm not sure what the default for \mid -> \mathchar"326A is, but I would guess \mathrel?
A small Tikz-question: I have two points, and want to draw a line between them that is basically part of a large circle. The two points have unknown but labeled coordinates (so explicitly "calculation-based" specification of the line is not possible).
I do know exactly which part of the circle would fit in between the lines (in terms of angles)
@DavidCarlisle well, I got a sourcecode that uses psfrag but the figures are PDF. The author also has a resulting PDF in which the psfrag did what it should. I am confused.
@yo' I suspect that the figures were eps at some point:-) could of course make it work in latex by making latex include pdf same way as pflatex includes eps, running pdf2ps in the background.
@JosephWright tex.stackexchange.com/posts/294454/revisions the linked site required attribution (just like SE network). Arguable though, how common knwoledge the answer contains)
@egreg I solved the problem. The problem was that the authors, besides not following the "no psfrag" rule, put their personal macros somewhere in the middle of the document. If I had the power, I would have rejected it until they solve this.
@DavidCarlisle Suppose I have the following: \newcommand\gl[1]{\scgl#1}\def\scgl#1.#2{#1.\textsc{#2}} If I feed it \gl{foo.bar} I correctly get bar in small caps, but if I feed it \gl{foo.1bar} it's not. I guess the number is treated differently. How do I make it be treated the same?
@AlanMunn there's my question somewhere which asks for that basically: letters in SC, figures in OSF (with answers by @David and @egreg of course :-) )
I would like to have a command that combines \oldstylenums for numbers in the argument and \textsc for text in the argument. I believe that a solution using some for loop is possible, but I think there must be a simpler solution.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackag...
@yo' Thanks, but that's not my problem. I don't care about the number itself, just that when a number precedes the text, in my macro, the text isn't made scaps even though e.g. \textsc{1sg} comes out correctly. So this is something that it stops reading the #2 argument after the number.
@yo' There is as I understand it no provision for elections outside the normal cycle, thus Jim carries out the duties as acting president until the summer (I think)
@yo' It's quite simple really. There are nominations to the board once per year: that's the only time the board can grow. If there are more people than places there's an election, if not they go on automatically.
Another way is to use the refcheck package and add \nocite{*} in your document. This package will warn you (amongst other things) about unused references. My MWE:
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@BOOK{foo:2012a,
title = {My Title One},
publisher = {My Publisher One},
year = {2012},
ed...
I would like to have a command that combines \oldstylenums for numbers in the argument and \textsc for text in the argument. I believe that a solution using some for loop is possible, but I think there must be a simpler solution.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackag...
