TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2016-01-31 (page 2 of 2)

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Paulo Cereda

22:00

@DavidCarlisle /sob

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda it is at least 4 hours old

Paulo Cereda

I prefer the term traditional. :)

@DavidCarlisle LOL

tlmgr: package repository ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2015/tlpkg/backups
tlmgr: no updates available

Boo. :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda you need to get a side branch of the git sources and compile, not likely to be in tlmgr for a bit

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh :) Will be my thesis safe?

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda it'll be finished long before this hits texlive

Paulo Cereda

22:03

@DavidCarlisle LOL

@DavidCarlisle: on a more serious note, what does it do?

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda increases the number of xetex character classes from 255 to 16384 which means that the vast majority of documents have 16384 unused classes rather than 255.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle Oh my!

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda you use xetex for your thesis?

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle No, good old PDFTeX. :)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle I remember the old lady claiming to be “Achtzehn Jahr und zwei Minuten” old. Do you?

David Carlisle

22:17

@egreg can't afford the opera, but anyway I'm not as old as you:-)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle Very broad musical culture!

Joseph Wright

22:31

@DavidCarlisle So it builds OK for you?

David Carlisle

@JosephWright looks that way, the only file with a date this year seemed to be xetex.web so I just got that and dropped it into my tlsources and typed make....

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Ah

David Carlisle

The Wombles - Minuetto Allegretto (Live at Glastonbury 2011)

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@egreg Italian culture at its finest ^^^^

Marek Kaski

is possible to create a new language in lua?

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski new language meaning like Italian or like Fortran ?

Marek Kaski

22:39

for example artifical language and script lua to convert text to other text and glyph?

italian

conlang , artifical lang

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski if you have a font?

Marek Kaski

Yes I have font but ..... font this is not all. I need script to change text into glyphs

look this omniglot.com/conscripts/conlangs.htm

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski glyphs come from a font so that seems to be the same thing? You are probably best to ask a question on site with an example input and what you want the output to be (the answer is probably yes but I can't guess..)

Marek Kaski

for example different glyph for begining word or other ideas

constructed chars similar korean

yo'

so, tomorrow's the day :)

David Carlisle

22:44

@MarekKaski so if I look at a random example say omniglot.com/conscripts/areilcirith.php then it looks like you just need a font not any lua at all, as you just need a font with those ligatures specified and suitable glyphs instead of latin letter glyphs

@yo' get a good rest and good luck for tomorrow

yo'

@DavidCarlisle thanks.

Paulo Cereda

@yo' Yay! Good luck, Tom! <3

egreg

@yo' Good luck!

yo'

@PauloCereda <3

@egreg thanks!

I'll try to keep you posted when it's certain! :-)

Marek Kaski

ok, look this omniglot.com/conscripts/rngtera.htm

how convert "my word" -> "m1ju w8orrd"

how read frm lua a paragraph and convert it into other glyps

in my language every letter have ligatures

David Carlisle

22:50

@MarekKaski without reading any of the background that requires vertical re-arrangement? so probably would require som elua

Marek Kaski

from left to right

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski but that is translation of a character string to character string so happening at a different level to ligatures and glyphs, if you want that you just need to apply text replacement 9lua patterns which are like simplified regular expressions)

Marek Kaski

i need only read a paragraph, divide to words list and change in lua into other words

I must create my own ligatures

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski oh that you can do certainly

Marek Kaski

is any example?

I search but nothing found

David Carlisle

22:52

@MarekKaski but ligatures are normally specified elsewhere, in the font.

Marek Kaski

ok, simple problem ;-)

how read word from lua and convert it?

can You help me?

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski see string.gsub here lua.org/pil/20.3.html

Marek Kaski

I know lua, but how i create this in tex?

how writing normal tex and some paragraphs in my own language

how writing a package of language

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski too late here and I need to go, but look at the chickenize package it is very silly package but it has lots of good examples, the main example in the package is to change every word into the word "chicken" once you can do that doing other replacements is "just more code"

Marek Kaski

ok can I send You a e-mail?

if this will be easy You help me

David Carlisle

22:58

@MarekKaski no ask a question on site, that's what it is there for.

Marek Kaski

this is very big question

and i need only help, i wrote script my own

i can send You my email

if You prefer

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski ask lots of small ones:-) as I say chickenize package will show you how to apply lua code to the words in a paragraph.

Marek Kaski

can You help me personaly?

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski no honestly I would rather not. the whole point of a site like this is that questions get asked and people answer them if they have time and anyone passing by can answer.

Marek Kaski

ok, thanks

look this example omniglot.com/conscripts/colorhoney.php

David Carlisle

23:02

@MarekKaski no harm done, but maintaining a system like latex means you have to have some rules to avoid being swamped by email requests.

Marek Kaski

this is constructed alphabet

David Carlisle

@MarekKaski as i say, I've got to go now, bye

Marek Kaski

bye, thanks