I’m interested in the differences and commonalities between the “new” (La)TeX processors:
LuaTeX,
XeTeX, and
ConTeXt.
Personally, I’ve only used XeTeX so far and without having the time to try out all three systems, I’m having a surprisingly hard time setting them off from one each other.
As...
I think I remember there was an answer that made the whole thing clear
but well
I may be wrong
there was an answer that stated clearly what were languages (tex/latex/context), what were engines (pdftex/xetex/luatex) and what were commands (pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex)
I'm not sure, but I guess the text should be in the comment. The "answer" area is only for images, as the SX engine gets the votes and display the content of the answer.
TeX.sx occasionally inspires people to be ingeniously creative and write cool packages. Let's have a list of all the CTAN packages that originated in a question on TeX.sx.
I suggest a single CW answer for starters, listing the packages alphabetically, following this pattern:
babyloniannum by R...
The journal New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has the following requirement for references. I can't find a standard style file. What is the closest match? How can I customize based on that?
In the citation, it looks like 1–3, 7, 8 (no square parentheses) at the end of a sentence .
For bibl...
I need an upvote ;-) to reduce the unanswered questions: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21128/missing-text-from-boxes-in-block-diagram-pst-sigsys-pstricks
Am starting to use expl3 syntax a little more, and liking it. Couldn't find \cs_if_exist:NT in the manual, but clearly it was there since TeX complained when I tried to define it! Also, I used the integer processing in an answer just now because I had a feeling that if it was possible to do integer arithmetic in an expandable way then the LaTeX3 folks would have done it - and I was right!
@Raphink: Thanks for adding the "led to package" link to the braids question.
@AndrewStacey At some point by the end of the year we'll have expandable fp maths too: @BrunoLFloch has the basics done, but we need sine and cosine before we can swap out the existing l3fp module
@AndrewStacey BTW, see section 'Tests on control sequences' (10.1 in my copy of interface3, but we've been updating a lot so may have moved)
@JosephWright I don't have interfaces3, I just have source3 and there it's 9.1. There's no mention of any just T or just F variants that I could see on a quick scan through (I didn't look too hard).
@AndrewStacey Ah, you mean that you see \cs_if_exist:NTF but not \cs_if_exist:NT. This is a documentation convention: with the exception of a few internal tests, everyTF comes with T and an F. We are currently discussing how to balance 'complete' documentation with avoiding repetition, so this is not going to change.
@JosephWright And now that I read more carefully, I do indeed see the sentence "whenever a TF function is defined it will usually be accompanied by T and F functions as well.". My fault for not reading carefully enough.
@Raphink Sorry! It looked like you were replying to my admission that I missed a very obvious sentence in the manual. Your comment made perfect sense in reply to that.
@AlanMunn: Do you understand German? Today Philipp Lehmann wrote about to advantages of biblatex/biber with an example. My question based on your post bibtex vs. biber and biblatex vs. natbib
@Marco Right. Philip has written about similar things in English as well. (I can't seem to locate where, but there's also a good discussion of this in the biblatex manual, I think.)
@Marco It's very amusing that when you get Google to translate (which given the technical nature of the discussion isn't half bad) it turns all the 'biber's into "beaver".
It's actually amazingly useful to get the gist (basic idea) of something, especially if you are sufficiently knowledgeable of the subject area. At the same time it's pretty amusing if you know both languages well (and sometimes even if you only know one.)
I’m interested in the differences and commonalities between the “new” (La)TeX processors:
LuaTeX,
XeTeX, and
ConTeXt.
Personally, I’ve only used XeTeX so far and without having the time to try out all three systems, I’m having a surprisingly hard time setting them off from one each other.
As...
TeX.sx occasionally inspires people to be ingeniously creative and write cool packages. Let's have a list of all the CTAN packages that originated in a question on TeX.sx.
I suggest a single CW answer for starters, listing the packages alphabetically, following this pattern:
babyloniannum by R...
The journal New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has the following requirement for references. I can't find a standard style file. What is the closest match? How can I customize based on that?
In the citation, it looks like 1–3, 7, 8 (no square parentheses) at the end of a sentence .
For bibl...
