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@DavidCarlisle Tried both \renewcommand{\times}{\cdotp} and \def\times{\cdotp}

@Ahlqvist unicode-math does many of its jobs at begin document. But \cdotp doesn't seem the best choice: you mean \cdot, probably.

@Ahlqvist \AtBeginDocument{\let\times\cdot} should do.

David Carlisle

@egreg I was going to say that (but was reading the latex3 variants question on site:-)

12:28 AM

@egreg It worked, thank you. However, I do belive that I should use \cdotp since it's the character proposed by "Språkrådet" (Swedish Language Council) and their book "Svenska skrivregler"

Unicode 00b7 (2219)

@Ahlqvist It's "center dot as punctuation", which has different spacing (asymmetric) from \cdot.

@egreg I believe that you correct, however, where could I find such information? Because unicode-symbols.pdf (unicode-math) lists them as different unicode characters, but without any other information. \show\cdot does not give me any useful data.

@Ahlqvist That's basic TeX. :) \cdotp is used for building \cdots.

@Werner It’s just a screenshot. He used Google Trends. Take a look, there are some more posts at the time starting with Stefan’s post chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7803301#7803301

@Ahlqvist Actually they are both \mathbin in unicode-math; \cdotp is U+00B7, while \cdot is U+22C5

You find the definition in unicode-math-table.tex

@Ahlqvist So \cdotp is really a text glyph, while \cdot is in the "math block"

12:40 AM

@egreg Ok, thank you for your help.

@Speravir Thanks, Speravir. So MikTeX is more update friendly than TeX Live in that respect. Good to know.

Werner

@Speravir I see... thanks.

@AlanMunn All in all both have their advantages and shortcomings. @Werner no problem.

percusse

@Werner You mean the Google trends?

@Werner Ah Speravir already answered it.

1:42 AM

@Speravir Yes, I'm not shopping (I use a Mac). :)

1:53 AM

@AlanMunn What? :-) Sorry, I don’t follow … Is there on Mac a third TeX distro? I thought MacTeX would be a TeX Live derivative.

@Speravir Yes, MacTeX is TeX Live, What I meant was that since I'm not looking to switch from a Mac, any comparisons between MikTeX and TeX Live are really just for my own information.

@AlanMunn Aaah, now …

2:16 AM

Ha, there seems to be a battle going on between writelatex.com and spandex.io. This time answer and comment: tex.stackexchange.com/a/95124/9237

Is there a place where I can get templates not in terms of style, but in terms of having all the useful packages for something?

Like say all the plotting, symbol, equation, etc etc packages for math

Q: What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?

Do you mean samples of the packages, or source documents that contain all the useful packages? We have a huge list of "most loaded packages". I have my own "Dictatorial list" (somewhat aimed at my students; see my profile if you're curious).

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I'm getting the impression from reading the answers written by some of the real experts here that there are quite a few little packages that just tweak LaTeX2e's default behaviour a little to make it more sensible here and there. Rather than try to pick these up one by one as I read answers to q...

I mean literally a template that already has tons of useful packages loaded, and maybe also comes with a few useful macros besides.

However! Thank you for that link!!

I shall read it religiously.

Q: Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends

2:35 AM

@GregRos I think that many of us would not suggest such an approach. In general it's best to load just the packages needed for the task at hand, for at least two reasons: increased compilation speed and less chance of package conflicts (which can be hard to track down). In specific areas there are some good example sites, most notably texample.net plus our own showcase:

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If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX & friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find many such documents called 'books'). Extra bonus for documents whose LaTeX source is available. Th...

typography big-list examples

If you are typesetting math, then Herb Voß's mathmode is essential reading. It's part of the standard distribution documentation, so texdoc mathmode should find it on a TeX Live system.

@AlanMunn Works also in MiKTeX.

Thank you :)

@Speravir :) The depth of my MikTeX ignorance is unfathomable.

@GregRos See also CTAN: Topics. Caveat: Plotting I find under ctan.org/topic/?letter=G and equations seem to be summarised under maths.

@AlanMunn No problem. You cannot know this. Especially “mathmode.pdf” was for a long time not available in MiKTeX. (There is in general less informational stuff installed – we spoke about shortcomings …)

2:54 AM

@Speravir Also I seem to recall that texdoc used not to work in MikTeX? Or maybe it's just that as you say, there's less documentation generally installed.

I have to do my math homework in Word because for some reason my uni doesn't accept pdf files, at least for homework assignments. The problem pages are rendered from latex so... :(