@JosephWright have "we" changed something? ! Argument of \use_none_delimit_by_q_recursion_stop:w has an extra }.
@DavidCarlisle I try to compile your code (under texlive 2017) and get this error Latex Error: ./lua_tikz_ex_1.tex:26 Package tikz Error: Giving up on this path. Did you forget a semicolon?. — Alain Matthes53 mins ago
@JosephWright If I stick a \romannumeral`\^^@ trick at the front so \draw fully expands \Dt in one cycle then it works. so either we have changed the number of expansions done, or tikz has changed the number it requires, or it never worked (but since it was accepted i guess it must have worked once:-)
@JosephWright yes presumably it never expanded this in one step?, although I'm never sure when tikz allows macro expansion and when it doesn't. the manual is not exactly clear on that
@UlrikeFischer I should have added more documentation here. I don't understand why that test still isn't working, my changes should have addressed that (but I might have missed something, or my changes might not be fully robust). You're right, I didn't yet know how I should add a decent fontdimen interface so I left it alone, but added additional logic so only the FIRST maths font loaded is supposed to change the fontdimens (in either XeTeX or LuaTeX).
@DavidCarlisle The problem is that TikZ wants to expand the upcoming tokens one-by-one, and we are hitting an infinity loop. TikZ counts the number of times it does the loop, which is what leads it to give up. I've not tracked down why this is just yet, but one can fix it in the current case by using f-type expansion:
@JosephWright ah I was surprised that it worked with romannumeral but not if i did a force expand for three levels, but if its explictly counting that explains it. Could change tikz but I did wonder if \newExpandableDocumentCommand should put \romannumeral at the front of its definition so that it always expands in two steps, but perhaps that is slower for everyone for a special case here...
@WillRobertson oh congratulations (I don't think I was supposed to have known this?:-)
@DavidCarlisle The usual worry with adding \romannumeral here is that the 'payload' of the code code start with a space ...
@DavidCarlisle As far as I can see, the TikZ code can safely use \romannumeral as a space can never be significant here
@DavidCarlisle As I said, it's the loop that is an issue (so you can't simply up the number of allowed expansions): I'm not sure at present where it comes from!
@DavidCarlisle Let's improve your Italian: “Le lingue sono tutte uguali” (which also shows that the statement “All languages are the same” is false). :-)
@egreg my original phrase was "all languages are the same to me" but when I back-converted that to English it said "all languages are the same as me" so I simplified it to improve the chance of correctness:-)
@PauloCereda There is a database with various text fields and content tex doesn't like. I can probably handle it with regex replaces and catcode changes but if a usefull preprocessor already exists.
@yo' Do you have some ready "sanitzefortext" script? It doesn't need to be very sophisticated. The content was fed to some report tool until now, there can't be to much dangerous stuff in it.
@UlrikeFischer not really ATM I'm afraid, but this is usually so case-specific that sample program wouldn't be much helpful :-( But the basic idea is usually "processing by lines" is this:
for line in open('data.txt'):
#do something with line, extract and reorganize data
print "SOMETHING"
(sorry, I don't have much spare time today to help you more)
@JosephWright yes, but I thought I'd fix that answer anyway, there can't be many things other than tikz that require less than n expansion steps where n is a number bigger than 2
@PauloCereda I didn't actually watch the video (at work) but cheese rolling a fairly well known activity in these parts, so I expected there would be some clips on youtube somewhere
The Venice tourism site lists a bunch of rules. Okay, no swimming in the canals, and littering is also not allowed (duh?). But there's something baffling to me here:
“No standing at any time” – even to consume food and drink, with the exclusion of restaurants, cafés, and refreshment areas.
...
@AlanMunn: I have a very amusing story for you. :)
@AlanMunn: at the olympic lane in USP, there are lots and lots of capybaras. I always walk nearby them, and one day I exclaimed, "Nossa, aqui tem capivaras pacas!" Paca is a giant rodent, probably from the capy family, but the plural was used in the past as a intensity adverb. It was a curious sentence!
@AlanMunn I have no idea. I will investigate. Ask your resident expert and see if she knows the usage. :) The funny thing for me is that people usually mistake capybaras with pacas (the animal) and vice-versa. :)
@AlanMunn yes but usually these days they cut the stone into brick shaped bits so the difference is less but in the villages round here planning regs usually lead to building with rough cut stone of irregular sizes, even for new builds
Is it possible to vote to close a question after I retracted my vote to close? I just found a better fitting duplicate question and wanted to vote to close using this duplicate, but am not allowed to vote to close again -.-
@Vrouvrou You can start the package manager, select all uninstalled packages and install them. But imho this is not the sensible method to sent miktex to someone else. Better get the packages from ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages and the installer from ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/setup e.g. with wget and sent this. The the other person can install from a local repository.
Is there a way to add whitespace at the end of a line that is treated as non-whitespace and is not automatically removed? I simply want something invisible that behaves just like the visible stuff and has a predetermined size in centimetres.
I simply need to hack a center alignment issue and I do not have the time to find the proper solution right now.
Adding space at the end should shift to the left.
Never mind, \phantom{......} is good enough for now ...
@AlanMunn You probably mean that the file should be moved into the local texmf folder :) (however if a reader does not know about the existence of a texmf folder, he/she may have to google that first before following your advice)
@Skillmon One of the reasons I stayed with the "Extended Support Release" of firefox - this way I only have to worry in half a year about this new addon scheme
@samcarter I was doing the same, but then found a replacement for the most important add-on (pentadactyl), so I moved on using this replacement (sponsored Ad: tridactyl)
@PauloCereda Well, then it's normal that it takes some time :) Hope I'll get there eventually (lets see if someone is willing enough to give a the possibilty)
As no one present has actually observed @PauloCereda's thesis, it must be assumed to be in a mixed state: both written and not written. Kind of a Schrödinger's thesis.
@samcarter If you're used to pentadactyl, yes, ZZ is still exiting firefox in tridactyl. But I think :restart is not implemented (damn restrictions of WebExt). However there is a trick involved, they don't really write anything to the disk, but restore based on Firefox's restoration.
List of extensions I stumbled upon for a vim-like FF57+ (in case someone wants to test a few): tridactyl, Saka together with Saka Key, QuantumVim, Vim Vixen, Vimium
From those I experienced issues with setting up Saka, I tried Vimium in Chromium but there I think cVim is better and therefore did not much testing, Vim Vixen and QuantumVim both got me basic stuff for controls, but Tridactyl seemed the most promising (when I started testing there was an update ready every 10-20 minutes). All of these however have there struggles from the WebExt restrictions :(
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@HaraldHanche-Olsen Not that I know of... My great²-grandparents came from Poland to Brazil, as far as I know, which would be many years before Olga was born.
Although, some kind of kinship would be interesting. Since I have a lot to procrastinate over, I'll do a little research on the matter :)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen When I was a kid I thought that I (and my family, of course) were the only ones named Oleinik. When I came to university I found a lot of Oleiniks, most of them in the medical field.
The Venice tourism site lists a bunch of rules. Okay, no swimming in the canals, and littering is also not allowed (duh?). But there's something baffling to me here:
“No standing at any time” – even to consume food and drink, with the exclusion of restaurants, cafés, and refreshment areas.
...
