@PauloCereda Thanks, but no, that is from 2010. The homepage www.pdftex.org mentioned there is also outdated. Other people have at least version 1.40.13, and I can't find that
@egreg yes I started on bsd/sunos in 87 or so and that came with csh and ksh and the documentation (and most local users) basically said csh was for running scripts from elsewhere, use ksh as your main shell, so that's what I did (and bash was more or less a ksh clone originally)
The ad popped up on the front page, and as I don't understand the point the text is driving at I tool a look at the comments on the ad, which don't help
@PauloCereda No one in Tom Brown's school days (my only information about proper English schools) ever had a "buddy" I think Psmith is revealed as an American imposter
The reference in the Community Promotion Ad is a cultural one which will resonate with Americans (and possibly Canadians, but I don't know). It refers to a slogan used to try to rebrand the now defunct Oldsmobile car brand. The slogan was "This is not your father's Oldsmobile" and was an attempt to try to convince people under 50 (70?) to buy the cars.
Quick ligature question: I thought (from reading on the main site) that there was a command \noligs in pdftex that turned off all ligatures. But putting it in a document gives an error about an undefined command. What was my mistaken assumption?
The microtype package allows to completely suppress ligatures. However, this feature requires pdfTeX 1.30 or newer. That's unfortunate if I'm using LaTeX or XeLaTeX while having to avoid ligatures.
Is there any other way to disable ligatures for a complete document or just an environment?
@StephanLehmke Hmm. I got it from Taco Hoekwater: "The new primitive, '\noligs' in pdftex 1.30 was created specifically so that you do not have to mess with these tfm files."
@egreg Right, but it seems a one-way switch. Namely ff \pdfnoligatures<whatever the current font is> ff turns it off for the second ligature and there's no way to turn it back on again later on.
@StephanLehmke If you say \font\tenrm=cmr10, \font\nltenrm=cmr10, then \pdfnoligatures\nltenrm will disable ligatures also for \tenrm, because the names refer to the same memory location.
(Context: I've turned off almost all ligatures but I still want things like -- to become an emdash so I keep the punctuation ligatures. However, sometimes I need them to be disabled, but on a temporary basis. So sounds like two distinct fonts is the way to go.)
I've been using LaTeX for a long time and I'm decided to switch to (plain) TeX but I'm a bit lost between TeX as described in the TeXbook and all what has been added since the 90's. Can anybody help me find my way through etex, eplain, preloading other formats, pdftex, texmf trees, character enco...
@kan It's an homage to a friend of mine, which is a dentist. :) He once told me the following story. When a patient asks him if the treatment is gonna hurt or be painful, he always reply, "I'm afraid so.". So, if the procedure goes perfectly and no tear is shed, he - as the dentist - gets a lot of credit - "wow, you are a great professional, I didn't feel a thing!". If the procedure hurts, the patient is alread resigned - "Told ya it was gonna hurt". :)
@DavidCarlisle Yes, definitely. :) Don't forget to mention that the code is very readable.
@PauloCereda No I was more thinking of people trying to handle Unicode with 8-bit TeX, footnotes in footnotes, float placement, output routines and such...
@DavidCarlisle The result can of course be a blessing to the TeX world (like bigfoot supposedly is, for instance). I was more talking about the act of developing it ;-)
@egreg yes unlike LaTeX which normalises everything to LICR form (traditional 7bit ascii markup, essentially) xmltex normalises everything to a slight wrapper around utf8 byte sequences (I think: it's a while since I looked what it did:-)
@AlanMunn No books so far. :( I have a few of his articles, including Three models for the description of language and Syntactic structures, which gave me nightmares for a couple of weeks. :)
@PauloCereda: Tell @DavidCarlisle that vim has support for Lua. Therefore, in principle, one can link vim with luatex, and typeset documents without leaving the editor. Beat that, emacs.
@StephanLehmke let me explain what I'm trying to do first afterwards I'll have a look at scrpage2 =)
@egreg I use fancyhdr to create a hruleat the bottom of my page . now when i create a footnoteit apears above this hrule. Now I'm trying to re-position the footnote so that its placed below hrule
@Timebandit Yes but at least it knows where the footnotes are at that point in time. You could globally set a switch in \footnoterule which you then evaluate to decide whether to place the bottom rule.
@Timebandit One point about footnotes is that they grow dynamically upwards, so it doesn't make sense to move the footnotes down below a rule which is in a fixed position. The rule needs to move.
@StephanLehmke Already thought about that, I'm not using as much footsnotes as you think but if i use one it would be great if it appears below the rule. if its not possible its ok. isn't that important
I have written a book in Latex using TexStudio. My title page, which is the book cover, is created using Latex source (including images in it), rather than drawn in a graphical program, such as Illustrator.
I need to create several different sized PNG thumbnails of the book cover for my website....
I'm looking for a two-sided extension to the solution for this question:
Put equation numbers in the sidemargin with Tufte-Latex class
This post seems relevant:
Equation tag in twoside-mode outer
I tried playing around with tagsleft without any luck. Here's an example.
\documentclass[twoside...
Is there a simple way to open ".sty" files by something similar to the "texdoc"? I'm looking for something like texsty to simply open .sty files.
The microtype package allows to completely suppress ligatures. However, this feature requires pdfTeX 1.30 or newer. That's unfortunate if I'm using LaTeX or XeLaTeX while having to avoid ligatures.
Is there any other way to disable ligatures for a complete document or just an environment?
I'm looking for a two-sided extension to the solution for this question:
Put equation numbers in the sidemargin with Tufte-Latex class
This post seems relevant:
Equation tag in twoside-mode outer
I tried playing around with tagsleft without any luck. Here's an example.
\documentclass[twoside...
