@PauloCereda I'm frankly astonished that that comment garnered up-votes. It's basically asking for every copy of every package ever written because someone somewhere will have written a document using it. That's not just the 2Gb of TeXLive. That's the 2Gb of every TeXLive plus all the updates in between.
@AndrewStacey I think @CountZero underestimates the issues here, quite apart form the problem that as you end up with something 'rigid' there is little gain over a PDF.
@JosephWright Exactly. I mean, I'm all for using LaTeX to author web documents, but the idea of being able to take any TeX document and plonk it on a website is ludicrous.
@AndrewStacey Maybe the cloud is the culprit here. There is some fuzz in CS about the super awesome power of the cloud that magically invalidates every counterargument. It's like, "the cloud can 'cause it mixes with love and makes the world tastes good". :)
@PauloCereda I'm a big disbeliever in the cloud. For years, they've been selling me ever faster and faster computers and now they tell me to ignore all that and send everything into the cloud. Why? would I want to do that?
@AndrewStacey When people keep using TikZ for everything (including defining math operators), even the fastest single computer will be too slow to compile a simple document soon.
@StephanLehmke Why not initiate/propose the creation of such required fonts and there variations? I can't but i guess there are those who can do the fonts.
@AndrewStacey Similarly to RMI (Remote Method Invocation), we could come up with a RPI (Remote Package Inclusion), so the required package would come from somewhere in the network. :P
@azetina Now that you're saying it, maybe problems with TikZ-made symbols could indeed be solved by some sort of caching mechanism (store every generated symbol in a box and use that box instead of re-generating it), or by compiling a TikZ symbol "library" into a font...
@azetina At least I see a real need for this kind of thing. Every question for some odd-shaped symbol tends to be answered with some TikZ code here on TeX.SE. If someone happens to use this symbol 20.000 times in a specialised document, that's a real performance problem.
@AndrewStacey There is this story about Gibson that he never saw a real computer in action until he got an Apple II as a present when he started writing Mona Lisa Overdrive, and he was really appalled how such a thing worked in earnest. There is some sort of morale in there... ;-)
(Gibson stories go over my head - I think I've only read one)
@CountZero Yes, I'm skeptical as to whether or not it could. I'm sure it would be possible, but extremely difficult and bloated. And I'd really like to know why this would be desirable. I can't think of a single reason to farm off TeX complication to "the cloud" instead of on my local machine.
You can only imagine a cooler reality by ignoring the real one - but if it's cool enough people will make it the real one (or rather - the real one it ;-)
@AndrewStacey "TeX complication" - now was that a freudian or not?
@CountZero Except that as TeX development is community driven, there will never be a set that is satisfactory to all. So I'll want bleeding edge PGF, but others will prefer stability and want the official release. Ergo, need all versions of all packages and possible for users to pick and choose. Very, very complicated to maintain.
@PauloCereda Hi there! After our scripting experiences on Saturday (remember the replacing newcommands?) I've been working on a script that 'tidies up' the indentation on chapter files
@PauloCereda well, it has lots of limitations :) would you like to try it? It works well for chapter files: it indents environments (which you can tweak), and it also aligns environments that have tab delimiters (e.g tabular, align, etc) I'd love to release it once the kinks have been worked out though :)
# scalar variables my $defaultindent="\t"; my $line=''; my $delimeters=0;
# array variables my @indent=(); my @lines=(); my @block=();
# hash lookup variables # # if you don't want to indent an environment # put it in this hash table my %noindent=("pccexample"=>1, "pccdefinition"=>1, "problem"=>1, "exercises"=>1, "pccsolution"=>1, "widepage"=>1, "document"=>1, );
# if we have rules for particular environments my %indentrules=("axis"=>" ");
# environments that have tab delimeters
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if you save it as indent.plx then you can use it as indent.plx myfile.tex>output.tex
This one can be closed as too localized: tex.stackexchange.com/q/68641/3954 ? I don't know because in standard classes there's no need to process twice to get footnotes but in revtex4 processing twice is needed to resolve footnotes!
Gave a hand to @cmgughes code in windows. Grand failure. I don't know how to run it? Have any exe with batteries ready. If so pl. mail it. or pl. educate me how to run a perl code from windows. This is my first kiss with perl.
I met the same problem. But I occasionally found it in my case that I have to change the file permissions for .sty files.
This could be the answer.
