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3:43 AM

Today, I found https://tikz.dev/ by accident and was surprised to see that the HTML code was generated using the package https://ctan.org/pkg/lwarp which I never heard of before ("Hundreds of LATEX packages are supported, and their load order is automatically verified.").

*Question:* Is this a well-known package among you guys?

There is even a paper about the package: bdtechconcepts.com/portfolio/lwarp_paper.pdf

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Rmano

10:22 AM

@Dr.ManuelKuehner It's on my "TODO (retirement) LIST" for the circuitikz manual... ;-)

David Carlisle

@Dr.ManuelKuehner you can use it as the typesetting engne at learnlatex.org:

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internet

11:46 AM

font=\Large works but font=12pt gives me an error.
how can I use a number like that?

I want to use something larger than \normalsize but smaller than \large.

samcarter_xmas_is_coming

@internet you could try \fontsize{12}{14}\selectfont (depending on what font you use some values might get substituted by other sizes if they are not available)

Stefan Kottwitz

@Dr.ManuelKuehner tikz.dev is great, I use it extensively in my TikZ book to provide direct short links. For example, in addition to referring to Part V, Section 50, Decoration Library (those numbers may be different next year) I give also the direct link tikz.dev/library-decorations, that will probably stay for a long time.

internet

@samcarter_xmas_is_coming thanks, it works and it is more complicated than I thought.

Ulrike Fischer

@internet you can simply define yourself a command \somethingbetweennormalandlarge. All standard size commands use internally the command from @samcarter_xmas_is_coming

samcarter_xmas_is_coming

@UlrikeFischer Starting the clock. How long will it take until @DavidCarlisle posts a comment about long German words without spaces?

internet

11:59 AM

@UlrikeFischer yeah, probably I'll do it if I need to use that often.

David Carlisle

12:12 PM

@samcarter_xmas_is_coming Je suis français et tout ce que je sais, c'est mettre des espaces avant les deux-points

samcarter_xmas_is_coming

@DavidCarlisle Participez-vous à la Journée GUTenberg aujourd’hui ? gutenberg-asso.fr/Journee-GUTenberg-2022

David Carlisle

12:31 PM

@samcarter_xmas_is_coming Pause déjeuner. Canard?

samcarter_xmas_is_coming

@DavidCarlisle à l'orange ?

Paulo Cereda

1:02 PM

@DavidCarlisle oh no

@samcarter_xmas_is_coming oh no

samcarter_xmas_is_coming

@PauloCereda sorry :)

samcarter_xmas_is_coming

1:43 PM

fun fact of the day: beamer is only one star away from a palindrome

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samcarter_xmas_is_coming

3:58 PM

^^^ Party time: beamer has a star palindrome!!!

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Dr. Manuel Kuehner

5:08 PM

@StefanKottwitz Wait, what, tikz book?! Is the book already out?

@Rmano Haha, never heard of a "retirement ToDo list" before. I can totally relate :).

@DavidCarlisle Thanks, David. I cannot imagine how this works! :). How can one person create such a versatile conversion tool that supports 100+ (ever-changing) packages?

@JosephWright BTW, I just tested lwarp on your wonderful website and it seems the example images are not available.

David Carlisle

5:49 PM

@Dr.ManuelKuehner back end mostly me:-) does that work locally with lwarp? I'll look...

David Carlisle

5:59 PM

@Dr.ManuelKuehner hmm lwarp writes <img src="example-image.png" style=" height:57pt ; " class="inlineimage" alt="(image)"> but of course example-image.png is not local it is in the texlive tree, I'll see if I can detect that and copy the image to the web directory

Dr. Manuel Kuehner

@DavidCarlisle What do you mean by "back end mostly me", are you part of the lwarp project? Or were you referimg to the learnlatex bug?

David Carlisle

@Dr.ManuelKuehner no but I set up the run at texlive.net functionality at learlatex, including setting up lwarp

Dr. Manuel Kuehner

@DavidCarlisle I see, very cool effort.

David Carlisle

@Dr.ManuelKuehner I think for i in `grep -o 'ex.*png' file.html | sort | uniq; do cp `kpsewhich "$i"` .; done` should fix that, I'll experiment...

Dr. Manuel Kuehner

@DavidCarlisle Looks like magic to me :)

David Carlisle

6:22 PM

Dr. Manuel Kuehner

@DavidCarlisle Nice, that was quick!

barbara beeton

6:35 PM

@DavidCarlisle -- You could have shown how to give it a caption.

David Carlisle

@barbarabeeton floats are next lesson, we do have some forward references, but not too many

barbara beeton

@DavidCarlisle -- No. I meant a caption without a float. C'mon. I know you can do it.

David Carlisle

@barbarabeeton yes but we haven't introduced captions at all at this point. (I didn't write this lesson either:-)

Stefan Kottwitz

7:23 PM

@Dr.ManuelKuehner Not yet, I'm working on chapter 9 now :-)

Rmano

7:40 PM

Aaargh, I voted to close and the question was closed at once!

...well, it's a duplicate really, so no harm done, but I was surprised. Forgot the gold-badge superpowers...

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Er, not, they are later in the same one

David Carlisle

@JosephWright oh I could check again:-) I was thinking they were in the tables one:-)

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle :)

Dr. Manuel Kuehner

@StefanKottwitz Looking forward to reading the book! How do you find the time :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@Dr.ManuelKuehner That's what I'm asking myself. The publisher talked me into it, but I could stretch the delivery until March next year.

The TikZ manual is the best by far, and an entertaining book with nice examples may be a good addition.

David Carlisle

7:54 PM

@Dr.ManuelKuehner @JosephWright github.com/davidcarlisle/latexcgi/commit/…

Dr. Manuel Kuehner

@StefanKottwitz Agreed. I would love to see some best practices and some guidance through/for the many libraries. Also, the fact that you can cd (change directory) in options is not so intuitive at first.

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