@JosephWright yes presumably at some point they'll decide that it's stable enough and quicker and make it the default, hard to know when to use it if both formats are bult, good to have ability to test it occasionally though.
@DavidCarlisle Might need to spend a bit of time later making sure I've got everything set up correctly first: getting the name for the engine correct in all places is not so easy!
@JosephWright glad I asked about luajit now?? seems like it's creating a lot of work for a format no one uses.
@JosephWright ask on the list? I suppose it's possible that the difference is just due to the jit version being a later build rather than being due to the luajit itself, but I don't really want to start building luatex from dev sources.
I'm currently playing with a font that has no math setup, so I'm attempting to make one, by using a math font that sort of works, and then replacing a-z-A-z0-9()[]{}.,;: and perhaps +-= etc. I'm currently looking at [] and {}, as I know the slot for (), anyone have a good advise where to look up the slot numbers for large symbols? I'm currently using this to replace the ): \DeclareMathDelimiter{)}{\mathclose}{xxx}{)}{largesymbols}{"01}`
@daleif -- sadly, there's no "natural" place for the large symbols except in the pua, if access is by unicode value. (and there never will be.) are these opentype fonts, or some other format?
@daleif You can't really replace the large symbols from your base math fonts with ones from a text font as you need the font metrics to string them together in size sequence and specify when to start building stretchable ones out of repeatable sections
@barbarabeeton weird legacy metric format known as tfm, you may have heard of it
@DavidCarlisle -- uh, yeah. but @daleif still needs to know where to look for the larger symbols or the pieces in the font(s). we know why dek made the extension font a separate thing.
@DavidCarlisle hmm, might get away with just replacing letters and numbers and I already have this.
It is either this, or someone in my organisation need to learn how to typeset math in InDesign. For now we are looking into making the few articles she needs for her report, in LaTeX, and then importing the PDF into indesign.
@barbarabeeton yes but I think replacing just those then using a different font for larger is probably worse than using the other font set for all sizes. Probably not too noticeable with ( but if \{ and \bigl\{ come from non-matching fonts it might be more jarring than if they both come from same font set, different to the set used for letters, perhaps...
@DavidCarlisle -- the braces for cm do come from a different font (cmsy). i agree that all sizes of each delimiter should come from a single basic design.
@DavidCarlisle -- no; all sizes of each delimiter should come from a single basic design. and getting the delimiter sizing to work properly is a tricky business, as we're discovering from testing the stix fonts. (that still doesn't help @daleif find the larger shapes in whatever fonts he's using.)
@DavidCarlisle It is noticable with () very well for some fonts! Much more than with {}! For instance compare CM and Euler. I ended up defining something like \def\lrg#1{\text{$\vcenter{\hbox{\larger$#1$}}$}} (I don't remember exactly) to get a scaled parenthesis by \mathopen{\lrg(} so that the one from CM is not used.
@JosephWright / @DavidCarlisle — I think you guys might be getting confused! fontspec basically has no dependencies besides euenc and xunicode. euenc is trivial and xunicode is a can of worms. I have no idea what to do about it; I think it needs a massive re-think about how we're supporting encodings in L3. I'm considering forking xunicode.sty and stripping out everything that's not vanilla LaTeX &c and see what's left.
@JosephWright / @DavidCarlisle — unicode-math has a few more dependencies but as of the last update no longer loads any of Heiko's packages. The biggest dependency there not covered by expl3 would be Martin Scharrer's filehook package.
@DavidCarlisle: :D Yes, but I am still looking why my package and calc do not work together. I am sure I've done some stupid thing. I will probably have to rewrite from scratch and using expl3 then
Can anybody take over this question: I am no expert in floatrow/caption/subcaption stuff -- the OP changed the question somehow ;-)
To produce 4 figures (2 on top followed by 2 at the bottom) in a two-column article, I am currently using:
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\floatsetup[table]{capposition=top} %caption on top of table
\begin{figure*}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\label{fig:image1}
\includegraphics[w...
I think I'll be a good cop. I've always preferred a relaxed air during the teaching, and I won't change this. I'll probably ask them to "tutoyer" to me.
@JosephWright My TeX.SE blog post got 25 views today :-)
@JosephWright Some hundreds per day on LaTeX-Community.org though. I thought, TeX.SE readers may miss the occasion of getting LaTeX books cheeper if they simply don't see it. No mention of the blog post in the right sidebar (where featured and hot meta posts are)
@JosephWright An idea, where TeX.SE book authors and users (who get discounts) may benefit: a meta post, where current promotions are listed as answer, and deleted after finished. Can be made featured when one promotion is active, so a bit visible.
@JosephWright Like when I had my book completely for free for 1 day, but many people missed it. Now my books are offered for 50% and 35% less, for limited time, I 'd like people to save it while supporting LaTeX books at the same time
@yo' One for each offer is also a good idea! I first thought of a general one, but it's right. Can also be removed once it is over (or closed, for historic reasons)
Background
I maintain a thesis class for my university. The class changes more frequently that I would like based on the whims of the university thesis office who clearly have little else to occupy their time. The net result of this is that the most common support request I receive comes from p...
@yo' I just addressed Joseph as moderator, so we use the featured tag in a way we agree
and I don't want to use it just for myself :-) but for any book a) our members publish and b) our users can have discounts
@yo' I will wait for another day to see if it happens that the blog post may appear :-) otherwise I assume they are pushed there by hand by a community manager or so, who check all new blog posts, and one did not desire it for that
I add some more examples to the website before I meta post :-)
@StefanKottwitz quite common in my community. You have negative digits everywhere. In the computer, I represent them as letters, so my digits are \{..., c, b, a, 0, 1, 2, 3, ....\}.
The late answer queue just went to 1.2k on Mathematics. On other sites the same happened. Why did this happen?
According to a comment on this post, there are no old late answers left over since begin 2013. Did the definition of late answer somehow change?
Queue growth
Review queues lose effectiveness if posts aren't regularly (and accurately) cleared. A queue such as close votes on Stack Overflow that never seems to get to 0 fails to provide time-sensitive feedback that aids learning. So if we raise the bar for late answers which increases the nu...
@Johannes_B I am doing some. I skip anything from this year, since I can see some value in doing something about them (though I don't know what ATM). But for things that are years old -- does it make sense to do anything? IMHO no.
To produce 4 figures (2 on top followed by 2 at the bottom) in a two-column article, I am currently using:
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\floatsetup[table]{capposition=top} %caption on top of table
\begin{figure*}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\label{fig:image1}
\includegraphics[w...
Background
I maintain a thesis class for my university. The class changes more frequently that I would like based on the whims of the university thesis office who clearly have little else to occupy their time. The net result of this is that the most common support request I receive comes from p...
