@egreg Why do you hate \centerline? It's better than \noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{...} for the specific use-case of centring an image, don't you think?
@WillRobertson it just isn't a latex box, also in that question the Op didn't want a centred image even though the question said that's what was wanted. the image was a full page background template so what was needed was an image positioned on the page not on the text block
@JosephWright It might have been useful, perhaps, to be able to declare certain commands and environment (I am looking at you, eqalign) to be deprecated, and issue a warning. But if so, there should be a flag to turn the warnings off. After all, compiling ancient TeX files is not an uncommon activity.
@WillRobertson one could imagine a latex format where all tex primitives and plain tex commands were not defined under their traditional names. No, that would be silly....
@PauloCereda Well, I'll not enter the joke train about you thesis (for now :P), and hope you finish it in time U_U. I'm fine too, thanks for asking. Still not in hurries, but will be there soon enough (sigh).
@DavidCarlisle It does wonder about whether we should come up with a longer term plan to phase in new features (such as built-in expl3) and phase out what we reasonably can, rather than just slowly fix 2e internals one macro at a time...
@DavidCarlisle To a degree :) There's always the problem of interoperability if I write a document using new feature X and then send my document to arXiv or wherever and it no longer compiles.
@WillRobertson yes but that's fixable by users not using new features "for a while" but deleting old features and making arxiv not break their existing corpus and not have to use separate archived formats for each submission is harder nut to crack.
@tjati not that I know of, if I had to do that I'd probably position images of the interface elements made by the framework being used rather than try to fake that look with tikz
A sideways house (my own artwork!) with two smaller houses on top.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{picture}(200,200)
\put(50,50){\includegraphics[angle=90]{house}}
\put(175,200){\includegraphics[scale=.25]{house}}
\put(100,80){\incl...
@tjati so realistic though your readers may be distracted thinking it's a photograph!
@DavidCarlisle Or: "What does the text editor tell us about the age of its user?" TikZ could be quite handy to draw all the correlation curves, and one would not run into the problem of too large numbers...
Talking about ducks, what happened to @PauloCereda's poll on adding a duck to the main site's header? Last time I saw it, the duck team was winning, but I can see no ducks there..
Everybody can decide for themselves
Luckily there are browser addons which can exchange the default background image by a version including the duck, so every user can decide if he/she wants to use one of these addons to have a duck in the background image.
Addons capable to do the image exchan...
@PauloCereda -- quack. kind of tired out. the rehab slavedrivers are upping the energy level required. but i've "graduated" from walker to cane, and can now perambulate the corridors on my own. and tomorrow i get a furlough to go to the dentist. it'll be cold, but fortunately, no snow is expected.
@AlanMunn -- okay. but on christmas eve we make it a habit to listen to the radio reports from norad. so i go for "farther". re the burning brandy, sort of depends how many snifters are involved. that one's a tossup. (we once ordered spanish coffee at a fancy restaurant, and the poor maitre d' managed to destroy three glasses in a row in the flaming process, fortunately not setting anything else alight.)
A sideways house (my own artwork!) with two smaller houses on top.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{picture}(200,200)
\put(50,50){\includegraphics[angle=90]{house}}
\put(175,200){\includegraphics[scale=.25]{house}}
\put(100,80){\incl...
Everybody can decide for themselves
Luckily there are browser addons which can exchange the default background image by a version including the duck, so every user can decide if he/she wants to use one of these addons to have a duck in the background image.
Addons capable to do the image exchan...
