@cfr true of course:-) my comment wasn't really aimed at you, but the existing comments might have been read as saying that using T1 wasn't strictly necessary, so I thought I would add something saying that almost all the time it's actively harmful:-)
@egreg yes was just going to add that I'd assumed some missing \{} :-) and naming conventions (but not following the name convention shouldn't actually stop it working, should it)
I think that most people are familiar with the fact that \bar creates a bar which is much too small, yet \overline creates a bar which is too long. I recently came across this excellent answer where the new command \widebar is defined, which gets the balance perfectly:
Now the problem is, one ...
I was messing a little with the \overline, \bar and \wideboar combinaitons when something strange happened with \bar{\widebar{A}}. The output prints two A
@NieDzejkob what is? You have given no clues, asking about the shape of a dash is like asking about the shape of a g so it is whatever shape the font designer of the font you are using thought was suitable.
@JosephWright oops, what is it doing? trying to edef a halign preamble?
@JosephWright did you see the luatex/xetex/tikz colour question?
@JosephWright I'm trying out if one can run tests for biblatex styles with l3build (because of github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/700). Is there any way that I can avoid to hard code the engine in the runtest_tasks function? Currently I have the following which works, but I don't like the pdflatex.
@CarLaTeX Thank you for the link. They have a nice logo ;-) I have not known about them before. The hysteresis loop is in many areas of physics perhaps as common as an anchor in maritime business. I think people who know about physics are often bad in arts and avoid logos with more than two lines. Else there would be more of these ;-)
@UlrikeFischer The team approach is that you don't need to run external tools to do tests: use one set to check that the right things go to the .aux (or .bcf), and a second with a pre-made .bbl to test that the typesetting is correct
could you expand on "does everything right" do you mean xelatex does "something wrong" ? As long as it is arguably documented (somewhere:-) what the behaviour should be then I can see either behaviour could be correct, but having different back ends do different things isn't that great if it could be avoided. Specifically do you know if the difference is in the tikz engine-specific code or is this a difference inherited from the color engine specific files? (+1 though, I failed to find this last night:-) — David Carlisle5 hours ago
@JosephWright No problem. Btw: I'm interested to run biber anew in the checks as the main point of the tests is to check if something changed by a biblatex/biber update.
@UlrikeFischer With the new multi-config set up that is I think workable, but in two parts: one set of test that Biber gives the correct output for a given .bcf, and a second that biblatex typesets correctly given a pre-formed .bbl
@UlrikeFischer I'll do some work on this: I am formally on the biblatex team ;)
@yo' The tickets you are describing are called around-the-world tickets. They can be really nice if you, say, start from Europe and have stops in Asia and America. (I've done that twice such that my net winding number is back to 0. ;-)
@KevinKeith You are trying to use non-expandable code in a place that needs expansion: that can't work. Only functions marked with a star in interface3 can be used inside a c-type argument.
@KevinKeith We are not talking about text here, rather code identifiers: they should use the string case changer (no context, no 'typesetting'), not the tl one
@DavidCarlisle brrrrr @mickep Well, mushroom doesn't have the singular vs. plural distinction. But on this site, I get wiggles under pizze, so they allow me only to eat one pizza at a time. How can someone be so cruel to a marmot?
@mickep Just checked, pizzas does not get wiggles, meaning that I can have more than one pizza as long as they are not Italian. Also cruel. (I've heard that there are people in the UK who even put pineapples on pizze. OK, @DavidCarlisle they call them pizzas then, indicating them as fake pizze. Makes sense.)
@DavidCarlisle I guess that's just another thing you and @egreg will disagree on. ;-)
@Vrouvrou OK, I can not read it or write it so I can not judge but it seems that f you can read arabic, writing it in the usual script would be easier. arabtex is a very old system which did a great job making arabic work for classic 8bit tex, but it is not often seen here now as most people needing this use a system that allows arabic input.
@JosephWright I don't think that this is what I want to test. bcf and bbl can change between biblatex/biber versions but this not a problem. I want to compare the output (boxes) from a given tex and a given bib.
I think that most people are familiar with the fact that \bar creates a bar which is much too small, yet \overline creates a bar which is too long. I recently came across this excellent answer where the new command \widebar is defined, which gets the balance perfectly:
Now the problem is, one ...
