Not all of them mind you, just Meta Stack Overflow into Meta Stack Exchange.
I'll have you know, factually, that we really did believe this would take place in six-to-eight weeks when it was originally announced, but we've finally got a tentative date established.
If things go according to plan...
I'm writing a rather long paper (~80 pages, quite a few crossreferences, citations, tables, equations and images) and each typeset takes around 20 seconds. That made me wonder, is latex capable of using more than one core? How optimized is it in that regard?
@Argo Don't use latexmk or equivalent each time you compile; during document preparation you rarely need that cross references and citations are perfect, or that line breaks and pagination are good. Add the draft option in order that images are not loaded.
I see @egreg, I'll try that in the future. Still, I recall reading something about the latex3 project and that it would add support for multithreading and multicores.
Has anyone though of rewriting the tex engine? I'm aware of the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it", but I'm sure it could benefit quite a lot from some new love.
@PauloCereda Maybe one could detach the output process: when a page is shipped out, control for writing the DVI/PDF can be passed to another thread, while the main one proceeds with the rest of the document.
@PauloCereda The \shipout operation doesn't need input from other parts of the program: when the box has been built, \shipout just converts it to DVI/PDF format.
What does the warning message Overfull \hbox (1.08093pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 29--30 []\EU1/TimesNewRoman(1)/m/it/10 Sia $\OML/ztmcm/m/it/10 A$ \EU1/TimesNewRoman(1)/m/it/10 irriducibile. mean? In fact, is it a warning?
@egreg Sorry for having to quit suddenly earlier. And thanks for the \showhyphenscode. But I don't use xetex much. That's why I didn't know about \showhyphens in xetex. The only problem I still have is that there is no valid hyphenation with lualatex and variant usmax. Just to be sure, could you please try that combination again?
@egreg Reading more of TeX by Topic on my flight from Shanghai. I suspect the font choice was Herbert's, not Victor's, but there certainly are some odd decisions (non-italci math mode variables!). However, the content remains excellent. I wonder if he might be pursued to write some additional e-TeX chapters :-)
@StephanHennig It appears that with LuaTeX \language0 must be dumped in the format, so apparently it's not possible to change the hyphenation patterns for it with hyphsubst.
@egreg which size moka express is best suited for a single user? not sure whether to get a 2 or 3 cup size, especially since I'm not sure if you can also fill it only partially
I am looking for a full list of Texlipse-"wildcards". I am using windows and i want to add some custom DDE commands. I know only those three placeholders: "%fullfile", "%line", "%texfile" - i can not find a full list. I want to teach my AcrobatviewR11 to go to the page where i had my cursor on at compile time, if that is at all possible. This snippet worked; [DocGoTo("%fullfile", 3)] - now i need something like "%page".... does anyone have the link to the full list of arguments?
I'm getting an unexpected result here. I'm trying to debug why a journal style file creates an extra blank page at the beginning. The unexpected result is that removing some commented lines also removed the blank page.
Never (I agree with Andrew Stacey). I think that in 2014 we can teach students to use opensource projects: Sage does a very good job: Sage Notebook is couple times better than Wolfram Alpha since you can use it with no subscription, save your worksheets and it's based on much better programming l...
@FaheemMitha then you might want to give it a try when you need it, I quite like it. It has some problems (like memory leaks due to cython), but it's getting better.
@TorbjørnT. Wow. Coming from Norbert, this is serious stuff. Although I'm not surprised with the Debian people anymore (I remember something along the lines of licensing, probably Frank and David were exchanging emails with the Debian guys).
@PauloCereda yep, there were discussions that "LPPL is not a free license". In all honesty, the Debian people are idiots, and I say that no matter I share a department with one of their core team members.
@TorbjørnT. that's a sad story. Not for Debian itself, but for its users.
I think Norbert's reaction is a bit strong. I don't think Debian is so crazy as to ask for removal of TeX Live because of some PDFs that aren't built from source. How does TeX Live itself manage this? It doesn't have a way to build all these files?
@PauloCereda Well, nobody has, have they? Norbert is extrapolating from one comment.
And that person just said it was a long term goal.
I don't even understand why he removed the flash files. He could have left it for the time being, and bought it up with the release team / ftpmasters when the time came.
though I didn't even know tex live contained flash files
@FaheemMitha At the end of the day, it's all about licensing for them. And Norbert, better than anybody out there, knows his own struggles. He's not only behind the Debian packaging of TL, he's behind TL itlself.
@FaheemMitha That's the goal of every community, but the question is, at what price do they care about their users. :) One says po-tay-to, others say po-tah-to. :)
@PauloCereda True. I agree this rebuilding from source thing, though a reasonable goal in itself, puts an additional burden on already overworked volunteers.
@FaheemMitha No. Source-code of most fonts is larger than the binaries (even if you bzip2 it), and the compilation takes like hours. That's just an example. Compilation of a LaTeX document on a computer without LaTeX fully installed yet is close to impossible; the graph of file dependencies for TeX is sooooo complicated that it makes zero sense to try to achieve that. And I imagine that lots of other programs suffer the same problem.
And now imagine I want to install float.sty, but not caption.sty. However, the manual float.pdf was created using caption.sty, so I have to install the package only to get documentation of another package. Ridiculous.
@FaheemMitha you have to submit documentation with every submission to CTAN. Then it's syncronized into TL. Many people submit a DTX file, which is both. But I do not, for instance.
@tohecz I think the packages are built on the Debian servers, so a user wouldn't need to install all packages which are required to build another documentation.
@tohecz I still agree with you, that this whole pdf-compilation-business doesn't make much sense :)
I wrote my chat entrie above into a question: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/171300/where-can-one-find-the-documentation-for-texlipse-parameters
