@Werner I find a little odd that this tex.stackexchange.com/q/264423/3954 is closed as "Unclear what you are asking". I agree that it is a case of a "do-it-for-me" question, but it is completely clear what the OP was asking (the answer was accepted). I think the reason for closing it is wrong. Just to be clear, I am not necessarily saying that it shouldn't have been closed, just that the reason should be other.
@yo' You've earned the "Populist" badge (Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x) for "Inserting git commit date without hooks".
I like the title of this question asking for font consistency in a document where three different fonts are used, two of which incompatible serif ones.
I am using a template, and it uses the font \usefont{T1}{bch}{m}{n}\selectfont{}, the third font in the code and output, for the text in general.
But this font is not used inside environments, like Theorem and so on.
When there is a theorem on a page with a lot of general text, I feel
some incons...
@yo' Well our main question at the moment is the current \pdftex_if_engine:TF and the like, which after a long campaign have been agreed to be better as \<something>_if_pdftex:TF
@yo' There are quite a few of these runtime things to think about
@UlrikeFischer Packages that manage dates used to abuse \month by locally changing its value, mainly for not wasting a count register. This is not a problem any more.
Speaking of symbols, are there any other good choices for an item symbol than a bullet or a dash? I don't like bullet together with Palatino, and I don't like dash in a math text...
@egreg My remark was about \endlinechar, not month. Also I don't want to change \month etc only access the values (I wrote a small macro to get a time stamp in xelatex and wondered about the \time in \int_gset:Nn\g_my_curhour_int{\int_div_truncate:nn{\time}{60}}
@UlrikeFischer Current thinking with \endlinechar remains that it shouldn't be generally accessible, only set within defined contexts. I don't think that will change in the near future.
@daleif the exlp3 functions only lowercase real character so xe or luatex or latin1 inputenc, they don't decode the utf8-ish representation inputenc is using
@daleif I need to work out what we should do here: it's not so easy
@DavidCarlisle There's the whole question of how to handle pdfTeX going forward: lots of things at TUG2015 suggest we need to continue to work with 8-bit engines
@daleif BTW, as you are typesetting you probably want \tl_lower_case:n :-) (That can handle LICR and as it doesn't detokenize will leave alone actives, such as UTF-8 in pdfTeX)
@DavidCarlisle This area has been worrying me: one for the team list!
@egreg -- i'm going to sic you on the unicode guys! they have refused my every entreaty to encode the slashed zero even as a recognized variant of their slashed circle. (but the one for "empty set" in unicode is different from the one for "diameter".)
@JosephWright -- 8-bit engines? please do continue!
@barbarabeeton Is there any mathematician among them? Pure math, I mean.
@barbarabeeton The two symbols have the same meaning when (pure) math is concerned, it's just a stylistic choice. The fact that CS people started to use the slashed zero for distinguishing it from O is just coincidence. So the slashed zero can be both a variant for zero or empty set, which is not of a problem, is it?
@egreg -- nope. the best i can do as to non cs people is a couple of physicists. and though i know it's only a stylistic choice, i've seen at least one paper where the slashed zero was clearly chosen because there were parallel equations in which one had an actual zero and the other had a null set in the equivalent position. i'll try to find that example again. (it didn't work the first time, but maybe now ...)
@yo' @JosephWright @UlrikeFischer @DavidCarlisle the interesting question for me (besides what to name the module those things live in :-) ) would be: is this really a constant or is this more of a read only variable (which we don't have but did in expl3 at one time)? I mean it is changing on recompile
@FrankMittelbach I wouldn't really mind if the \c_ prefix is used. While it is not the same as a "real" constant, the "don't touch me" is valid too. I'm more interested in a sensible expl3-name. What postfix should they get? Are \month, \year, \time integers (that means does all functions work as expected)?
@JosephWright well, I was likely over-simplifying. In OOP, you often don't touch "foreign" variables directly; there are often functional getters for them.
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@JosephWright Even in C, if I needed to access ESP register or whatever, I would probably prefer writing a function getESP to accessing the register somehow directly
@UlrikeFischer post fix will certainly be _int ... we will move off the stupid idea of \c_one and normalize that too eventually at least that is the current thinking
@JosephWright I guess according to my memory most of the more "stupid" ideas of expl3 initially are mine (after all I wrote more or less the first full kernel) but then it is probably not at all true really ... only so long ago that I don't know
I am trying to use gnuplot to draw a figure. Due to the limited space, the figure is drawn like this:
I am thinking to move the first three labels (ins-replace, bb-split and func-reorder to the top of the figure, outside!)
So it should be something like this :
set key outside
But basically...
No I'm not, this is the references slide: \begin{frame}[allowframebreaks] \frametitle{References} \tiny{\bibliographystyle{abbrv} } \bibliography{references} \end{frame} should I use that package? @Johannes_B — ashkanent1 min ago
what to do with these two: Looking for a latex directory class from Patrick GELIN (was first, yesterday), and Looking for a latex directory (for persons) class from PatrickG (earlier today)? i think the later one was an attempt to phrase the earlier in a manner that answered the comments on the earlier one, but in the process a second account was created. the first one should go, but this person does need help.
@AdamLiter I think that \addspace adds nothing if it happens to be before or after a space, whereas \space adds it unconditionally (unless something that suppresses space follows, such as \addcomma).
@egreg That would make sense. It looks like \space is usually after \addcoma, but \addpsace usually occurs inside of \setunit*. But I also thought that the starred variant of \setunit already checked to see if anything was printed previously?
I was wondering if I could define (in mathematical terms) a function that acts like a hash (something like a Gödel number, maybe). I need to say that, for f(x) = y, y is unique?
@PauloCereda If you really mean "y is unique", it's simple mathematically and imposible computerally. If you mean "f(x1)=f(x2) is improbable", that's another thing.
I am trying to use gnuplot to draw a figure. Due to the limited space, the figure is drawn like this:
I am thinking to move the first three labels (ins-replace, bb-split and func-reorder to the top of the figure, outside!)
So it should be something like this :
set key outside
But basically...
