@cfr No, I meant that the edits made by the OP had increased the width of the chart so that it became much wider than the text block. On rereading I became less certain of that though, so it could be something else.
@Johannes_B Well, this is for Pandoc generated LaTeX which uses longtable and booktabs packages. Currently, footnotes in tables are completely broken because plain \footnote{text} inside longtable does not work. With footnote package and \makesavenoteenv{longtable} I get at least something.
@wilx footnotes work (most of the time) in longtable.
@wilx lots of parts of latex are older than 19, why do you find that surprising? (even things that claim to be newer like the standard article/report/book classes are just because Karl did a pass over the doc fixing some spelling errors)
@wilx not so much in a macro language, as any change to implementation is visible at the top level and will break someone's document somewhere. It's easier to change implementations in a compiled language where the implementation is hidden from the use.
Thank you for your answer. I get ! Bad character code (2097151)., a minimal example being the code of your answer together with \usepackage{amsmath}. — Earthliŋ1 hour ago
@egreg ^^^ What's happening here?
@egreg I tried \edef\lparen{\delimiter\the\delcode`(} instead of \mathchardef\lparen=\mathcode`\( but same error.
@nima Though I enjoyed reading your explanatory comment, it does not really add to the discussion at hand. If you feel like talking things through, it is preferred to move the discussion to the chat. You can ping users with the same @ syntax here and the conversation will pop up in their notification area.
@HenriMenke I may be wrong, but I think that is the case at least. Note also that when you start typing @nima that username does not pop up for auto-completion.
@HenriMenke no it uses mathchardef in pdftex.. ah as Ulrike was saying...
@HenriMenke the "math active code" can only be used for characters not csnames defined with mathchardef or \Umathchardef so either branch of this code fails if ( is math active
@HenriMenke or need to redefine \resetMathstrut@ to make it safe (it just wants to find the size of a ( to set a strut for the current font/size combination
@nima It is common to apply a "visual" preprocessing phase when analysing code. I like to think it as a metaexpansion, in which you are the expander. :) The meaning of <> could be understood as the usage of two characters to act as delimiters for the metalanguage, as they don't have a major role (by that I mean, control characters) in the underlying language (in our case, TeX). >>>
>>> Historically, this is known as warning mode, in which you find a character that indicates the beginning of something. So, people usually use something that might give visual indications of things to replace. Hence <>. :)
@PauloCereda It originates from the TeXbook, though Knuth uses actual angle brackets ⟨⟩ for placeholder text. Because these are hard to reach (or not available at all) on a keyboard, one uses <>.
@PauloCereda by the way the pre-Saussurean linguistics searched for the meaning of a word in the combination of the sounds and attributed the meaning to single sounds, I mean they thought each single sound should have a meaning, then with saussure it turned out that the word tree has a meaning because it is opposed to all other words(all other combinations of sounds). It might be an explanation of why <> because () {} [] delimiters had already acquired meaning.
@nima Warning mode is an old definition of macro languages that use a symbol to express the beginning of a macro. For instance, TeX operates in warning mode, as every macro (in general) starts with a special symbol, \.
Because XeTeX character classes do not work in math mode (?) the only way to tackle this is by defining the opening parenthesis math active and check whether the next token is j before inserting the kern.
The advantage is that the following solution is engine agnostic.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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@UlrikeFischer In linguistics (and philosophy) there is a whole class of sentences called 'donkey sentences'. We take them very seriously. :) The sentence (originally due to the philosopher Peter Geach) is If a man owns a donkey, he probably beats it (along with a similar Every man who owns a donkey beats it) and was used to argue against Richard Montague's analysis of quantification. Your linguistic trivia for the day. :)
@DavidCarlisle: I have a code running since early this morning, as it has to build an automaton with 15 million, 996 thousand and one states, should I be worried? :)
@Johannes_B The Wikipedia page is quite accurate; however, we do use ragù also with spaghetti. There are several types of ragù, though. My mother's ragù uses no “soffritto”, no pork and no wine, but some drops of milk and, most important, cloves.
@Johannes_B This is the best kept secret of (some parts of) Mediterranean cuisine: spices that in N. Europe are only used in sweets (like cloves, cinnamon, allspice) used with meat. Even more common in the Middle East than in Italy I think.
There is this commutative diagram that I need to typeset, but it has 5(!) columns, with each entry a pretty big expression (something like $H_m(D\setminus E,A\setminus E)$
Even using column sep=tiny in tikz-cd doesn't help me fitting it inside the margins.
@Johannes_B Yes, it is something to eat. The better known german word for it is perhaps "Fleischpflanzerl" or "Frikadellen". In German: Es ist der elitäre Begriff, Hackmedalion klingt nicht so rustikal wie Frikadelle.
@Johannes_B A 'hack' is an old slang term for a taxi (it's a shortening of Hackney carriage), which was a type of horse drawn carriage used in London. And the licences of NYC taxis are called "medallions" because each cab has a physical badge that shows that it is licensed. So hackmedallion :) And they're very expensive... jeffjacoby.com/10649/medallion-madness
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