@DavidCarlisle do you know what this question is about? I only saw one of your comments, but from the OP's comments, I guess you figured out whatever the question is, it is not possible. (but I can't figure out what the question is.)
Consider this example :
% !TEX TS-program=xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
\usepackage{bidi}
\begin{document}
%Just for example
%\setRTL
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\setLTR
Quality of anything.
\end{document}
If I comment Amiri mainfont, then th...
@cfr no I had a long cycle of comments trying to work out how cmr12 or bidi were related to his question but in the end i decided i had no idea what the question was and the comment thread would just confuse any other readers so i told the OP I was backing out and deleted all my comments.
@mickep Nothing - it's about how we arrange to run a series of steps - using a typical expandable replication uses up memory - it's reclaimed during a run but TeX dumps the unused space in the format - so we are now using a different loop structure to do the same thing, save the memory, reduce format size
@DavidCarlisle that makes much more sense than the question. and I'm sorry. I did not mean to drag you back into a discussion you'd left. only that the op said they'd been told whatever-the-question-wanted wasn't feasible, which made me think you had some idea what that thing was.
@PauloCereda why? don't be sorry! I think nutella has milk in it. I don't eat animal products. (well, actually, I eat honey because I'm not a good vegan, but the vegan society would not admit me. not that I want to be a member. just they are the de facto arbiters of such things.)
@cfr I can imagine. :) We don't have any plans to being vegans/vegetarians, but we are considering reducing the meat consumption. It's already challening!
@PauloCereda most vegan pizzas are awful. never eat anything with vegan 'cheese' if you can possibly help it. it isn't cheese and it is uniformly awful.
@PauloCereda I'm not a good vegan. (and not just the honey, which I'm not convinced is problematic.) the current world does not make it easy. I figure you do what you can and other people do what they can, which may be very different.
@cfr vegan cheese has got a lot better in recent years even approaching a taste of cheese (we have some medical rather than moral reasons for avoiding milk and nuts in the family, so nutella pizza is sadly out)
@PauloCereda don't know why. vegan cream cheese is fine, vegan yogurt, vegan cream ... all fine, but vegan cheese just doesn't work and I wish places which now do vegan food would just not use it.
@DavidCarlisle you can buy something similar to nutella in health food shops. does vegan cheese melt? I admit i have not actually tried it in recent years.
@DavidCarlisle oh, but it would still have nuts. you'd have to have plain chocolate spread, which wouldn't be the same.
@cfr yes there are some now explicitly designed for melting/cooking, not so long ago if you heated them at all they just separated into liquid and a kind of sludge but things get better
@cfr I good look up the names we use, but as it's not me I tend to avoid and have the real stuff:-) (non dairy cream is now really good it whips and tastes just like cream but cheese still tastes rather er processed.
so recommendation depends a bit on the context, if it's "do you prefer a or b" then there might be a different answer to "do you prefer a which may kill you or b which will not"
@PauloCereda they vary massively, but I guess that's true with burgers generally. also, portobello (which I can't spell) mushrooms make excellent burgers if you brush with balsamic vinegar, olive oil and grill.
@DavidCarlisle are they that dangerous? I've not tried vegan whipped cream for a while. It used to be awful. I make a substitute at christmas from scratch. nobody likes it but me. (in my household - other people like it.) it doesn't taste like cream, but it is very rich and creamy. (it is also very simple to make. but you need a lot of real vanilla.)
@DavidCarlisle yes, that's the other thing. it seems rather like eating cheese-flavoured plastic. and there are so many good things to put on pizza, I don't really see the need.
@DavidCarlisle oh, yes. not the vegan bit but the non-vegan bit. that was terrible. and the cases where allergens haven't been listed on food because it was ready-to-eat. getting the entire thing wrong is worse, in one way, but human beings will always make mistakes. but systematically not providing adequate labelling seems worse. I didn't know there was a shortage of epipens. is there anything we're not short of?
I mean, the uk runs out of picu beds every winter, pretty much, but that's not even news.
I'm so glad we didn't run out of respirators here during the pandemic. we thought we'd have to choose ... (and they did in london).
@cfr the announcement list is 100% accurate for ctan announcements as far as I know, although package authors can make updates and request no announcement
@DavidCarlisle hmm. it doesn't consistently cut it off. that's how I know I'm not imagining it. cfr-lm has a submission date 7 years early, even though it depends on it.
@UlrikeFischer the truncate answer got a -2 this morning so I was at ... 0 instead of ....2 but just now the upvote on "preamble" just gets +2 instead of +10 due to rep cap so I'm back on 2-7 and yes until midnight utc up or downvotes have no effect
You probably have gotten this question in the past, but when I use urldate it requires for me to fill in the YYYY-MM-DD, and then when I compile, it is displayed as MM/DD/YYYY. This is so illogical to me. First we conquer a day, then a month and then a year. Or if you live in some other universe, I'd accept the reverse; a year, a month and then a day (like the input). But why month, day and then year? Grateful for an explanation.
Consider this example :
% !TEX TS-program=xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
\usepackage{bidi}
\begin{document}
%Just for example
%\setRTL
%.جودة كل شيئ
\setLTR
Quality of anything.
\end{document}
If I comment Amiri mainfont, then th...
