@egreg I think it was Seamus who had some sort of colour scheme for beamer. You set the initial and final colours, and the in between slides were fun. :P
When I first posted messages to comp.lang.postscript about my efforts to write a postscript interpreter I was informed that it takes approximately 5-10 man-years to write a fully-compliant level-3 interpreter. And I misread it as 3-5 years and happily set about my task. And after 5 years, thinkin...
I am trying to digest the following problem.
Suppose a block of mass $m$ lying on a horizontal, frictionless
turntable is connected to a string attached to the center of the
turntable, as shown in figure below. According to an inertial
observer, if the block rotates uniformly, it underg...
@Manuel Mee too. You can just look at the log file. Write \show\space then activate the french spacing and write it again and look at the log file definitions.
@percusse It shows nothing, or at least something I don't know what means -> .. By the way, there's no `\ defined in latex.ltx (which is where I usually go first) hence my question.
@tohecz Thanks. Okey, so they are not the same… but are they the same? I mean, when using \frenchspacing can I use one or another? What's the real point of \ versus \space?
Occasionally I find that internal package code contains the macro \space (defined as \def\space{ } by LaTeX). The most-taught way to produce "explicit" spaces in paragraph text is to use \␣, and I think I haven't seen any source teach \space as a user-level command.
What community knowledge or p...
@Manuel it would make it fragile, in a caption or similar \foo\ bar would get written as \foo bar as the \space would expand to a space, so when read back you'd have no space
@percusse Related. How does the search work? Can we effectively search for \space for instance? Or just space? I mean, in Google, at least some time ago "\space" would search for the whole sentence between "". Is there something similar here?
@DavidCarlisle Nice point. However… is there really a point of having two of them (At least for the user interface)? Would that workaround-able with a macro (the problem with \space when \edefed or \writen?
@percusse Okey. Since this is a nice place I always try to use the search here, believing that it would work well (one of, if not the only one, place where I use the included search, for the rest of them Google; when I see what the search box of our government website gives, or the one from my university… I really love Google).
@Manuel I'd never use \space in a document, just \ , \space is really intended in messages and the like where it expand to ` ` so is more suitable than \ which puts a backslash in the message
May be emacs or vim or something like that show more easily the log, but with other editors you just get the document, or at least a list of errors (in case you have) pointing to the line of the source.
@Werner yeah. I tried to have some discussion over these things with Shog9 after I called the new triplet of badges a BS, but nothing got out of it unfortunately :-/
@DavidCarlisle I know, I know. I mean, if it where more accesible it would be great, but with some editor it just isn't (well, call it lazynes, just CMD+T, then write log and hit enter would be enough for me). But hey, I don't really need it :P I just come here and ask, and when I use \show I don't understand the output :)
@Werner I've decided to suck it up and forget about it. Though when the occasion arises I tend to annoy people. I can summon them very quickly here. Somehow I have that power.
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@Werner I wish there was a real benefit so that I can understand the behavior. Now it's just colored dots.
@Werner I mean the badges and review frenzy and other Barbie-Ken like OK kids now some of you click these buttons and other friends pretend that you are reviewing them hihihi type of weirdness.
I am trying to digest the following problem.
Suppose a block of mass $m$ lying on a horizontal, frictionless
turntable is connected to a string attached to the center of the
turntable, as shown in figure below. According to an inertial
observer, if the block rotates uniformly, it underg...
