TeX, LaTeX and Friends

12:11 AM

hello friends. Is it possible to change the background color only of the contents page in report class? I tried to use the tikz approach with overlay in the definition of the \tableofcontents, but I got a missing item error.

David Carlisle

@Sigur \pagecolor{red}\tableofcontents\pagecolor{white} ?

Sigur

12:26 AM

@DavidCarlisle, thanks. Almost. Since I want the contents at last page, the red page was the previous one. I also tried {\clearpage\pagecolor{red}\tableofcontents}\pagecolor{white}, but in this case, the previous one is white but the contents page too.

@DavidCarlisle, nice! It was simpler: \tableofcontents\pagecolor{red}\end{document}

egreg

@Sigur \cleardoublepage\pagecolor{red}\tableofcontents

Sigur

@egreg, hello. Interesting. But \cleardoublepage\pagecolor{red}\color{white}\tableofcontents prints section page numbers in black. How to change everything to white in contents? (by the way, I'm trying to do a back cover of a journal, so with contents on it)

David Carlisle

1:02 AM

@Sigur \makeatletter\color{white}\let\default@color\current@color should work (xcolor may have a syntax around that, it's just setting \normalcolor to the current color, which is what happens at \begin{document} normally)

Sigur

@DavidCarlisle, thanks a lot. It solves the color problem.

David Carlisle

@Sigur phew I'm always a little scared of \pagecolor:-) When I wrote it it basically didn't work anywhere as the driver support was lacking, and I only had a monochrome screen so testing the support that was there was a bit tricky....

Sigur

@DavidCarlisle, for now it is working very well. The black line I inserted with tikz.

barbara beeton

3:09 AM

@FaheemMitha (and @@TeXnician) -- Re understanding Goethe's prose/poetry, yes, it's understandable to a modern student of German. (Having also studied Mittel- and Althochdeutsch and Gotisch, I can readily say that it's much closer to modern German than Chaucer or even Shakespeare is to modern English.)

@AlanMunn -- A very large box, I think.

wilx

6:10 AM

Hi guys and gals.

I found another bug. Someone broke \LaTeX when both luatexja and microtype is present: gist.github.com/wilx/4275632b7240a43044a9c06013a6b1c1

David Carlisle

7:49 AM

@wilx neither the microtype nor luatexja developers are here though... (I get no space in a texlve2019 updated yesterday)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{luatexja-fontspec}
\usepackage{microtype}

\begin{document}
\LaTeX
\end{document}

@wilx no need to make people follow a link to a gist ^^

I get

Paulo Cereda

8:16 AM

ooh

David Carlisle

8:59 AM

@wilx I get the space with luatexja updated this morning along with

Package luatexja Warning: LuaTeX-ja's patch against the microtype package
(luatexja)                (lltjp-microtype.sty, 2019-11-08) may not work.

@wilx so the luatex-ja developers ought to be able to track that pretty quickly

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh a patch

Joseph Wright

9:50 AM

@DavidCarlisle Where are we on PR1? Send now? Or wait until Thursday?

David Carlisle

10:14 AM

@JosephWright now I think (but probably let Frank have final say)

@wilx do you want to report it, or I could, here is I think the place osdn.net/ticket/newticket.php?group_id=5593 (unless @UlrikeFischer broke it in luaotfload?)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh da boss

@DavidCarlisle ooh blame

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda pre-emptive avoidance of blame for any decisions

@PauloCereda ditto

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle well it worked before the luatexja update, so I think it wasn't us ;-). But I must say I constantly fear to break their stuff - we have only one small test file for luatexja and so when I see some update saying "adapt luatexja to new luaotfload" I have a bad concience and wonder if we should have catched it ;-).

Paulo Cereda

10:29 AM

@DavidCarlisle :)

David Carlisle

@wilx @UlrikeFischer I'll put something in their bug tracker

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle thanks, I'm currently not at home and can't reach the tracker.

Skillmon

11:57 AM

@egreg still waiting for your "but"...

egreg

12:14 PM

@Skillmon That's abusing the allocation mechanism.

Skillmon

I just wanted to mention that the dimen is not set to 0pt, the register was initialized that way, but there is no guarantee that after doing a `\newdimen` the register is 0pt if there was any very bad code involved. But you stated:
> TeX allocates a new register number and sets it to 0pt.

egreg

@Skillmon I'll add a clause.

Skillmon

@egreg thanks.

egreg

@Skillmon New version online; of course I upvoted your answer.

Skillmon

12:31 PM

@egreg thanks, love the new version (especially the closing remarks).

@egreg deleted my comment.

David Carlisle

1:11 PM

@wilx @UlrikeFischer luatexja is showing Resolution Update from None to Fixed

@egreg we should blame you.

 -     \xdef\MT@font@list{\MT@font@list\MT@font,}
 +     \xdef\MT@font@list{\MT@font@list\MT@font,}%

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle I just wanted to show the picture too ;-)

David Carlisle

1:54 PM

@UlrikeFischer pdfatfi

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle ?

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer try it:-)

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle it breaks. But if I get the attachfile2 docu right it is unneeded nowadays anyway.

@DavidCarlisle why did you try it?

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer yes seems like it's not used since pdftex 1.3 but it is broken now because the ho-tex oberdiek support group copyright line got added without a comment marker (as it didn't have a % comment prefix....)

@UlrikeFischer I was looking at epstopdf which imports pdftexcmds which has duplicated oberdiek.pdftexcmds.lua and pdftexcmds.lua which caused me to look at the scripts directory where pdfatfi.pl is and I accidentally looked at it...

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle since when it is broken?

David Carlisle

2:09 PM

@UlrikeFischer last week (I think)

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle probably not long enough to be sure that nobody cares ;-)

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer I'll pull attachfile2 out as well as epstopdf for the next release and fix it there I guess

@UlrikeFischer another dragon steak for you.

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle ;-). I should really look at attachfile2 and embedfile.