hey guys I really need a solution for this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/394021/… is there anything other than putting spaces or their equivalent in a text in which spaces don't belong
@VincentMiaEdieVerheyen yes, although I usually use \directlua{require('FILE')} with require and no extension rather than dofile, but it comes to the same thing.
I extracted method from package pdfpages source code, which itself gets it from graphicx/pdftex.def it seems.
I initially looked at pdfpages doc but found no user level interface. Here is relevant documentation from its source code:
% Unfortunately, |\pdflastximagepages| is not updated if |\...
@DavidCarlisle It's the caching, but also I think that unless one does the image inclusion 'by hand' you can't expect primitive data to have any particular content
@DavidCarlisle You will only get the right value if you know that a raw \pdfximage has preceded \pdflastximagepages, but one could I guess arrange to cache the latter somewhere predicatable
@PauloCereda @barbarabeeton I want to rewrite the wikibook page about the natbib system from scratch. The part on biblatex is up for a while, though not linked on the wikibook, and there should imho not added too much. Please have a look at the text examples, do you have any ideas for BibTeX? I don't want to use the very same examples, on the other hand the direct comparison would be worth it.
@DavidCarlisle Just need to do save the value of the total number of pages for each PDF included (if >1, I guess). I might add that to the expl3 version now so we don't forget.
@JosephWright Yes I know. There is a quite detailed answer about all the possibilities here tex.stackexchange.com/a/198117/2388. I only meant it would be useful if they were available directly with graphicx with an uniform interface.
@Johannes_B -- this may take me a while. just to make sure we're looking at the same thing: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliography_Management#Natbib -- is this what you're working on, and where might i look at the updates you're proposing? (of course, bibtex itselt desperately needed updating 15 years ago). i see that amsrefs isn't mentioned, but i'm not up for that.
@Johannes_B -- good for you, taking on such a big job. i'll try to think of ideas, and will be happy to cirtique/edit what you come up with. (as i think i mentioned some time ago, my few attempts to edit anything myself were shot down without comment, even though the information was accurate, trying to replace something that was outdated.)
@barbarabeeton Do you know latex-tutorial.com? I think he just got his kowledge from the wikibook and repackaged it on a new place, including using [h!] for every float. To prevet something from this to happen, the wikibook needs updates. LianTze started writing about BibTeX, but for Overleaf: plus.google.com/u/0/+LianTzeLim/posts/h4eMcd6VmL3
@Johannes_B -- urk. i agree about the duplication. (the overleaf overview has an error in the \bibitem for the \TeX book' -- uppercase "B" and space in the middle: \TeX{} book`.) no time today for repairing things elsewhere -- have to finish writing my tugboat column and compile the calendar.
I extracted method from package pdfpages source code, which itself gets it from graphicx/pdftex.def it seems.
I initially looked at pdfpages doc but found no user level interface. Here is relevant documentation from its source code:
% Unfortunately, |\pdflastximagepages| is not updated if |\...
