@JosephWright yes, but should it happen that the 9th person deserves it more than me, I can let them through (we know these manipulations from municipal and state parliaments)
@JosephWright yes, but it'll be tough. I return from an exhaustive 2-week scout camp on Sat 18th, and it's 6 hours by car to Darmstadt, which is a lot.
@ChristianHupfer Yes, I'll tell you the context: my supervisor and I make annotations during our coffee time by writing text on several napkins. I would like to make a reference to it like they do with ex-libris, which is the remark/annotation in the beginning of the book in which you write your name or something like that. :)
@ChristianHupfer no, it's not an insult. It's difficult to translate though, it's a very informal figure of speech that means of course. Moreover, it's in tutoyer form rather than vouvoyer.
@Johannes_B: Even with me limited knowledge of TeX core stuff I don't say it's difficult to use...(or just because of this limited knowledge?) I love TeX ... sometimes this love is one-sided ;-)
@Johannes_B: Nope, since that's not my topic actually, I have no experience on that. I imagine that there is some TeX length register which controls the spacing
@PauloCereda No worries. I was just checking because my email is not always very reliable. (That is, it is never reliable and it does not always work.)
@ChristianHupfer According to wetter.de warm (14C) and bit cloudy; with a warning of storm for Böblingen. Checking again, 12C and cloudy. Looking out of the window: warm, sunny.
@DavidCarlisle Is it a better-practice for these Fortran numerical macros that all the information is precomputed? An example,
Most of the time I see a matrix function is called with blabla(A,m,n) where m,n is the size or rank or whatever property of the matrix A that can be computed also within blabla function
@DavidCarlisle I'm guessing that we might have computed the property m,n already so in case we have it we can save a few flip-flops. Is there any other deeper reason?
@PauloCereda @ChristianHupfer already tried this. But I've only been here a year. There are lots of people who have been here much longer and are much more useful. And I'm sure some of them must like cats, too!
@cfr Please, reconsider. :) You are a great person and contributor to this community. :) It would be awesome to have you on the list. You have, in one year, has at least twice the number of answers I've ever provided in three years of TeX.sx, and you come here in the chatroom to talk with us and we can all have fun. :) Please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, accept this humble token of appreciation. :)
@ChristianHupfer I think that Alan has an individual membership
Btw, a commentary from the last year @cfr :
Just a remark: If anyone considers a candidature, but has a feeling of not being "too strong", they should just give it a try and post one. The 8 memberships we are allowed should be taken as 8 opportunities for people to get more involved in the wider TeX community :) — yo'Jan 5 '14 at 13:35
@Brent.Longborough But C built on other related systems to a much greater extent than TeX build on others
@Brent.Longborough Also, in the late 1970s it was clear general programming languages were needed, but not that general programming within a typesetter might be useful
@Brent.Longborough: I like your answer on that question. TeX is old, definitely, but I have made a comment on that question (I think, I was the first one) that many relics of TeX are the consequence of late 70's computer standards
@JosephWright: I started the close vote as too broad and did not post an answer, perhaps the same reasoning you had/have
@ChristianHupfer Yes. My view on the archaeology of programming (in another subfield, assembler) is that in the late sixties we didn't really know what we were doing; everything was too new and we made mistakes (I certainly did). Then, along came our successors who copied our mistakes, and made them worse. Do that for ten five-year cycles and you have a real mess. Even though you personally have learned to do it right in the interim.
@Brent.Longborough: Well, that's one point: the wrong recycling of old code ... And the possibilites modern cpu's etc. and compilers allow compared to the technology of, say, 1970.
@ChristianHupfer Yes. In my particular case, it's really painful seeing new programmers even defending egregious mistakes that I once made then learned not to do.
@JosephWright: I agree with you that there are \huge differences. But do you agree that the OP did not get the point that the many features he is 'missing' are actually contained in TeX and it's offsprings?
@Brent.Longborough: egregious mistakes ... my dear :D :D
@ChristianHupfer To some extent: he's looking at things from the POV of a 'classical' programmer. For example, while people like floats they are not really so important for TeX (certainly not as Knuth designed it)
@ChristianHupfer I also think the OP is confusing 'LaTeX user' with 'LaTeX designer' with '(La)TeX programmer'
@JosephWright: An everyday LaTeX (no objections on the differences please ;-)) user who just wants to finish his article for a publication won't need programming features from TeX. The more sophisticated a document is some experiencies are becoming more and more important, although the programming styles are different.
@JosephWright No I got called off to play monopoly , the outcome of which you may have seen in last nights comments :(
@percusse remamber that LAPACK and similar interfaces are designed for F77 with no internal allocation so you always have to pass in an array to hold the result and some indication of the size of the array you've passed in.
(haven't found an email, please forward)
Dear Florent Chervet,
Dear Karl Berry,
I use your tabu package but I cannot get it to work with htlatex. Will it be supported?
Please also refer to tex4ht + tabu-package does not work .
BR and thanks for your work
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@JosephWright I know, but what I mean is given whats in texlive and whats in svn can I build an xelatex to test the new stuff or do I need to make a local edited ini file?
@Christian, @Joseph, @egreg, @cfr, @Brent: apparently it's some sort of ear infection. I can't hear a thing from my left ear, so the doctor gave me a couple of medicines. :)
@DavidCarlisle Oh, so am I understanding right? Suppose the routine should produce three things; an array, and two scalars. They are wrapped in an array that I have to dissect afterwards accordingly?
@PauloCereda You should stop listening to junk music :P Have some Erik Satie until you recover
I have been using LaTeX professionally almost every day for almost 10 years, so I think I can say that, by now, I more or less know what I'm doing. I also do a lot of ordinary computer programming, in traditional languages like C++ and Visual Basic. As I compare LaTeX to these other languages, th...
@DavidCarlisle: Your answer is the only one without downvote (so far)... This question is, as I've said from the beginning, too broad and should have been closed immediately. (or better: not even been posted at all). Too much opinions going in 360 degree directions.
@DavidCarlisle OK, with latest checkins you can add xetex to the engine coverage. That adds 25 failures for me, mainly related to ^^ notation in the log (you get real chars for XeTeX).
@JosephWright yes well try at least to sort them and send some mail, some of the fixltx2e diffs date from when I was more or less out the loop so it's not always immediately obvious what the diff is doing so i don't want to check them in, the addvspace change in particular adds lots of pointless skips, it may be as intended but can't but make you wonder if it's the right change exactly, eg lots like:
...\glue 60.0
+ ...\glue -60.0
+ ...\glue 60.0
@JosephWright mean to say "don't want to check them in without mail first"
@JosephWright but of course that is just really the test file from the bug, showing fixltx2e fixed it, this is first time that fix been applied to whole test suite
@JosephWright OK as I say it's from a time I wasn't really watching either, lets see what Frank says. Were you planning to comment on package versioning?
@JosephWright I think for now I'm going to comment out the addpenalty change to get the list of diffs down and then try to finish off adding the rest of fixltx2e
(haven't found an email, please forward)
Dear Florent Chervet,
Dear Karl Berry,
I use your tabu package but I cannot get it to work with htlatex. Will it be supported?
Please also refer to tex4ht + tabu-package does not work .
BR and thanks for your work
(C:\Users\user_local\AppData\Roaming\M...
