TeX, LaTeX and Friends

On ctan is a new package marginalia by Alan J. Cain, »scholar of fortune«. The package is one thing. But on p. 3, sidenote 5 of the manual he reveals that he used it in his book »A. J. Cain. Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty. Lisbon, 2024.« and I followed the the link. I'm not a mathematician, but this book looks outstanding. I've no idea whether Cain mastered the subject (it looks very much so!), but he surely mastered LaTeX and TiKz. Go and look for yourselves.

Register for the Dante Meeting (at the Uni for Math and Science) requires that you know your math: there was captcha saying 8-6 and I typed 8-6 and it failed, the next was 5+9 and that failed too, then I got 5+14 and I typed 19 and that worked.

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Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey word for the day: yalanokiye 'he/she walks around on the ice in order to enjoy the sound of it cracking'

@cfr you are referring to @egreg ?

This should really be added to the "showcase beautiful typesetting with TeX" big list (tex.stackexchange.com/q/1319/47927)

Page xxxi: "Ibid is a well-known authority on everything,” said Xeno. ’" (T. Pratchett). Now I have to read it...

@DavidCarlisle github.com/MartinScharrer/collcell/pull/1

@cfr texdef at ctan.org/incoming You got a response from Martin? Oh yes I see the PR merged.

I wouldn't have believed that this were ever possible for this many people to be interested in LaTeX (yet alone Overleaf) in the world, but when we hit 10M users in late 2022, it became a pretty realistic scenario: Overleaf surpassed 20 million users!

@JasperHabicht I need to check with FMi - this week I hope in dev

@DavidCarlisle one of my answers lately in the german group said: "Dazu hätte ich in die Doku statt in den Code schauen müssen, und David sagt immer, dann tut man nicht ;-)"

@UlrikeFischer the problem with afterpage is using afterpage

Then I might create a curated fonts package soon. Requirements will be: Unique design but usable, free license, good kerning, wrapped symbols = compatibility with standard keyboard under babel, compatibility with an example document for example text. Because creating only one package per font, will create a mess imo.

Typing code examples on a mobile phone ist really horrible

@CarLaTeX @egreg important research: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00536

I mean, plenty of traitors have been cut in half throughout history

@DavidCarlisle I was very patient with L3, not my fault that you didn't manage to release it before I started using LaTeX :P

A couple of my undergrad students have discovered tcolorbox and I'm getting the absolutely beautiful problem set answers. :)

A random downvote has put me back on the palindrome track.

Spotted update of easybook!

@Atex write a text at the begin of your answer that you think the other answer is better. But do not worry about ticks or votes.

(I now wonder where they found example usage of the alien crab that is stepping left. Not to mention the one stepping to the right.)

@Skillmon probably in a matching 7emulatedin5 mode:-)

@Skillmon Oh, sure - but stability doesn't need semantic versioning - you can do all sorts, like use Greek letters :)

What? I stole a tick from @egreg? This must be some parallel reality... 😯

@JasperHabicht Keep a bit of the pasta cooking water and use it to tune the consistency. There was a really nice article by Bitterman about that ;-).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\providecommand\ttrotatenormal{22}

\usepackage{colortbl,typewriter}

\raggedright
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|*4{>{\columncolor{red}}c|>{\columncolor{yellow}}c|}}
  \hline
  one&two&three&four&five&six&seven&eight\\
  \hline
  1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8\\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

@JasperHabicht The typewriter package might help with the blurriness :)

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@egreg I thought that was celebrating deepseek dominance.

@koppor use batchmode instead? (I'm not sure I understood the issue)

@DavidCarlisle that's to be expected, the executable is named nvim

@AlanMunn spacesareoverrated.

@JasperHabicht what I mean is that "_map_function:NN could become _map:NN for example" won't apply. They'll just cease to exist (in the documentation, the implementation will stay without any renaming).

@Atex after a while you realise that the assignment of votes is inversely proportional to the effort put into the answer look at tex.stackexchange.com/users/1090/… the highest ranking posts have answers that took less than a minute to write. I have some answers that took a week or more and never got more than a couple of votes

@Atex no, but the assignment of votes and the assignment of accepted (not best) answer ticks is entirely arbitrary. The tick does not mark the best (that is more or less supposed to be shown by the highest vote so a community decision) the tick is "accepted answer" so a personal decision of the person who asked the question.

@mickep according to my math, an eternity is a little over 13 minutes ;)