tex.stackexchange.com/q/149310/5763 was closed as duplicate and the author edited an answer into the question (and the edit got approved). Could a mod make that "answer" a proper answer?
@topskip well it wasn't designed: it just works that way by accident. colortbl (and its author) didn't know anything about multirow, so just lays the coloured panels in document order, so you need to make sure any text that goes over the panels comes later.
Ah.
This can not possibly be a bug, so it must be a (only slightly) documented feature.
As mentioned in the bm manual, commands with optional arguments are locally modified inside \bm specifically so that \bm{\sqrt{xyz}} works. To see why you need \bm{{\sqrt{...}}} with an extra pair of braces...
@DavidCarlisle I've once listened to a presentation from the author of colortbl, I think it was in Oldenburg 1997 or 1998. He was standing in front of a big (huge!) colorful periodical table of elements and (if my memory is still intact) he was wondering why anyone should use color in tables.
@cgnieder My first touch with LaTeX was actually LyX, and at my home computer (without internet) nothing worked. So i asked our local TeX guy and he said: »Sunday evening is our Stammtisch, bring your files. But promise me to never use LyX again.«
(@StephanLehmke I should add that I really like some people there, including you, and I am sad that the business decisions / situation makes it hard to express / keep up that good relationship... we once had)
Can someone give me the (console-)output of the following lualatex document?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{document}
\begin{luacode*}
match = unicode.utf8.match
if match("à","%s") then
print("\n\nspace\n\n")
else
print("\n\nnot space\n\n")
end
\end{luacode*}
\end{document}
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013070317 (rev 4627) (format=lualatex 2013.9.22) 11 DEC 2013 17:03
restricted \write18 enabled.
**test.tex
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013070317 (rev 4627) (format=lualatex 2013.7.1) 11 DEC 2013 17:02 restricted \write18 enabled. **patrickLuaTest.tex (./patrickLuaTest.tex LaTeX2e <2011/06/27> Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded. (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo File: size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
(./patrickLuaTest.aux) ) 262 words of node memory still in use: 2 hlist, 1 vlist, 1 rule, 2 glue, 39 glue_spec, 2 write nodes avail lists: 2:12,3:1,5:1,6:3,7:1,9:1 No pages of output. Transcript written on patrickLuaTest.log.
@Johannes_B I have no idea. But it's probably based on bytes, not on utf-8 sequences. This is the culprit. When I add anchors to the pattern (^%s$) everything is fine.
@StephanLehmke I guess it's broken by design. All regular Lua string functions also work binary data (which makes sense in an 8-bit world) and the selene unicode library is a drop in replacement for Lua's string functions. So they should behave according to the standard functions. But it's hard to determine how to behave when we have utf8 sequences...
they could be treated as 8-bit bytes (everything is valid) or utf-8 sequences (with start, with an end with valid combinations or not)
@StephanLehmke yes, that will fail again. But my use case is checking a single character and transform it to a node sequence (a -> glyph node, space: glue node, ...)
@StephanLehmke That's another reason I like the programming language 'Go' much. It comes from the utf-8 inventors and thus is pretty good at handling it.
@Johannes_B It is. Some people in my field are using it to visualize qualitative research results as well. I'm not sure whether that's a good idea, but it makes for some interesting poster eye candy.
@JosephWright Working on that. I was thinking of having people draw something; I'm debating between Santa Claus and Krampus. The best one gets the reputation I'd put down on it (I was thinking 500 or so; not like I'm using it for anything). I'd also have honorable mention categories for the best one done with pure TeX and the best one done without pgf or TikZ, though they wouldn't get an award.
@JosephWright @StephanLehmke had a good idea, which was Make my document look like it was written by Santa Claus
What does a tug membership include? I ask this because I thought with the membership you got reports and a dvd and a shirt (just kidding with this one) and other stuff but to this moment I have not gotten anything from them. I got my membership through TeX.SX
Is there a way to do the equivalent of an R coord_flip() (graphs) for a LaTeX table? I'd like to change the table header to be on left, rather than up top. Hope that makes sense.
I've looked at sidewaystable and rotating, but those flip everything, essentially I need it to render by just rotating all data 90deg.
@Canageek I had to look up Krampus in wikipeia to know what it was:-)
@ForkrulAssail R presumably has things like data structure and arrays and stuff. TeX is a macro expansion language designed for a machine with the memory capacity of a Stanford mainframe in 1980, and it wants to get rid of stuff as soon as it can...
@egreg this is for nomenclature, however, I realized just now that it's a non-sense. If the people need \mathit{Re} elsewhere, they will easily use it there as well
OTOH, using \mathrm for the units field seems to work well (remember, I can't force all authors to have sufficiently new TL for siunitx)
@tohecz \DeclareMathSymbol{1}{\mathalpha}{operators}{1}` the \mathalpha is what makes the digit change fonts change it to \mathord and digits won't change, then you just need to arrange to make \fam change to the \mathit font and letters will change but digits won't
@tohecz you could invert it with lines like Vessel diameter: $D[m^2s]$ so the text lines up and the symbols just fall where they fall, it wouldn't look so ragged then perhaps.
@egreg So the last thing, I should probably change the order of the parameters from {Symb}[unit]{Description} to {Symb}{Description}[unit] to comply with the final order ... or rather not?
I've volunteered to use some of my Cthulhu reputation to sponsor a Christmas/holiday contest. You all have aced previous holiday questions, so I'm going to give you a bit more of a challenge: Draw me Krampus, the Krampus is a beast-like creature who punishes bad children at Christmas.
I'll judge...
Ah.
This can not possibly be a bug, so it must be a (only slightly) documented feature.
As mentioned in the bm manual, commands with optional arguments are locally modified inside \bm specifically so that \bm{\sqrt{xyz}} works. To see why you need \bm{{\sqrt{...}}} with an extra pair of braces...
