TeX, LaTeX and Friends

@Atex regular expressions are a general language used for string matching. The code was using a giant powered sledgehammer with its own fusion power plant to crack a nut, so probably no bad effects will happen if it uses a manual nutcracker instead.

@samcarter Yes, the best way to get information on the internet is to use Murphy's law: Whenever one gives a wrong answer on the internet, somebody will correct you.

Well, looking at the large number of issues, I am impressed that Jianrui does much of this on their own it seems ... chapeau!

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@AlMa1r it is neither useless nor obsolete. unlike cleveref, it works.

@Lupino babel is (and always has been) the standard latex interface to language support. There was a period around the turn of teh century when babel support was on autopilot and unicode, noticably xetex use was growing, and polyglossia filled a gap that needed filling. But now babel is actively maintained, and xelatex is essentially unmaintained so things are different

@JasperHabicht Yes, but I guess it's now \int_to_arabic:n

@UlrikeFischer ALIEN CRAB STEPPING LEFT

@EmanueleNardi There will be a link at the bottom of the question "Start a bounty". This will open a dialogue during which you can select something like "award existing answer"

@Skillmon We can create a cross-over; ủ[T]X[T]

@JasperHabicht portrait of a night having a good time: \[T]/

@Atex multicols is a very complicated package that provides two main features, and you are disabling both of them. It's like using a Ferrari to do the shopping run, it sort of works with some restrictions, but it's kind of a weird choice.

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@Atex so as in any programming language, using the documented commands of that language rather than low level instructions injected from the underlying implementation is a good place to start. There may be cases where you need to extend latex with low level primitives but you should not be in a position when you do not know if you need that or not

A nice video about the bookbinding process: youtu.be/H4UZu7uCscs?si=3RyScl34snYK45ur, really nice channel

\cs_new:Npn \__siunitx_unit_non_latin:n #1
  { \codepoint_generate:nn {#1} { \char_value_catcode:n {#1} } }

Okay, I got it working. The parser now prints a\u0040c as "a@c" and a\uD801\uDC37c as "a𐐷c".

@JasperHabicht no a number so you need to mark hex input

@JasperHabicht as soon as a function can't work by expansion (and you're not in one of the exceptions) it should be defined protected, doesn't matter whether internal or not.

@UlrikeFischer xkcd.com/3020

@Atex There's also the "If it comes with a picture, it gets more votes" effect.

@Atex just let it go, it happens all the time. If @egreg worried about all the times he got a tick when I'd posted the best answer he'd never sleep at night.

@Skillmon weiche, Dämon!

I have a feeling we're answering the same questions of the same user over and over, just always in a slightly different context. It doesn't look like the user is interested in learning anything, just in having one random problem after the other fixed.

@MaestroGlanz I don't get what the code should do. Note that goto isn't as bad as many programmers want to make it (if used sparsely for the right stuff at least).

@Skillmon I think I stole a tick from @egreg.

github.com/microsoft/markitdown good

I wrote also an article on math font development for Noto project, github.com/notofonts/math/blob/main/documentation/…

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github.com/juliusross1/Pennstander could be interesting for people who are interested in math fonts.