@PauloCereda I'm sorry, Paulo. I had to go and eat. I'm going to restart and try arara. It's my fault. I just didn't know I was running a version-specific java. (Didn't know this was possible without AUR until @Skillmon explained it.)
@PauloCereda It works! <3 @Skillmon @samcarter_preparing_for_xmas Thank-you!
@PauloCereda Actually, I'm not sorry arara broke. (1) I can manage without it (so better than, say, biber breaking.) (2) I suspect this will solve a mystery in LibreOffice which has been annoying me, but not enough to get me to do anything about it. :) [I can manage without arara, but the frustration level without it is very high!]
@cfr I am very happy to hear you are well and safe. :)
We hwyadens are very good at Java versions. :)
@cfr on Tuesday, we were talking about Flanders and Swann and Alan mentioned to Barbara that [Donald] Swann was Welsh. And then I mentioned that I know how to write Cymru and hwyaden. And then we thought of you and how much we missed you in the community. :)
@DavidCarlisle as Alex reminded me yesterday atenddvi is no longer needed/used in a new format, so I made it a no-op, froze the code similar to hopatch and adjusted the documentation. I will upload it in the afternoon, OK?
I'm using chemfig package for drawing chemical structure. However, in one chemical structure the bond intrudes into the atom. Is there any way to solve this?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{chemfig}
\begin{document}
\chemname{\chemfig{C*6((-[4]H)-C(-[6]H)=C*6(-C(-...
@YouKnowMe if you mean mathjax in a website then it doesn't support colortbl (we don't support mathjax at all on this stackexchange site) you can have coloured background in mathjax, see docs.mathjax.org/en/v2.7-latest/tex.html but not directly ties to an array cell. (and mathjax only does math so only array not tabular anyway)
@UlrikeFischer In fact, -dNOSAFER is not a new requirement for file access with gs. Though it can be sidestepped, by anticipating file embedding to the DVI-->PS step. You may remember perhaps, we discussed this here a while ago, pdfbase implements this for creating file stream objects.
@AlexG yes I remember (and know) about -dNOSAFER. But forgot it in the first test. Now I only wonder if the OP forgot it too, or if there is nevertheless a problem.
@AlexG really? I have it in C:\texlive\2020\tlpkg\tlgs\bin, and it is 9.53.3. It is a constant source for problems as it somehow finds resources from the external ghostscript and fails if the versions differ. So everytime texlive updates I have to update the external ghostscript too.
@JosephWright Can you add the this question to the close message of this question: tex.stackexchange.com/q/570519/2693. For the specific problem it's a much better duplicate, since the main duplicate is more generic.
@StefanKottwitz The idea is to add the question I linked to in the comment (and mentioned in the comment by jsbibra) to the list of duplicates in the closed question.
@PauloCereda So nobody knows The Big Sour? The it will be my next book or movie or trademark. Big thing after the Big Sur is forgotten after the next Mac release.
and anybody googling Big Sur then, will arrive on my site >:-)
@UlrikeFischer There is no tlgs directory. Hence no gs as part of TL, let alone ps2pdf and friends. (I have a full installation.) Even dvisvgm dynamically links the system's libgs.so.
Hey, is \immediate\write18 broken in LuaLaTeX? Or are there cases when it doesn't work? I just checked @JosephWright's answer at tex.stackexchange.com/a/20446/11002 but it doesn't indicate there should be an issue
@yo' not broken it just writes to the file on channel 18
@yo' @JosephWright's answer is from 2011 or pre-history in luatex terms. add the utterly brilliant shellesc package and you will get \write18 back as well as the more sensible \ShellEscape{..} syntax.
@yo' when they increased the number of output streams from 16 to 256 they dropped the special nature of 18 as it is rather odd/dangerous to have one special stream in the middle of the run
@yo' lualatex always skips 18 in luatex when you do \newwrite so that it is available, and if you add shellesc package then it redefines \write to check for 18 (and use \directlua{os.exec...}
@UlrikeFischer because \write to an unallocated or out of range stream types to the terminal (that is how \typeout works) so people already had \immediate\write16{hello world} and it wasn't safe to suddenly make that execute code, but a search of existing corpus (pre google) suggested it was safe to pick 18 as it was not use anywhere
all that and it turns out it's my code that incremented the table counter, I honestly hadn't even guessed that at the start:-) — David Carlisle21 mins ago
@yo' well i wondered about that but you might have two tables-of-contentsy things and you really want the first table to be 1 not 1 less than whatever wrong number you got to
@DavidCarlisle yeah, that's right. Anyway, if you need long glossaries, your tables should be numbered within chapters anyway -- problem solved, you can blame the user!
@UlrikeFischer the initial version of the question just showed a table no mention of longtabl or glossaries or anything. then people on meta wonder why we ask for a MWE :-)
@UlrikeFischer the very first version of longtable used table counter to generate the internal csnames for each table, but I changed that as soon as I tried a class that reset the table counter per chapter and added a private internal counter, so from then on longtable didn't need to increment table (and \caption could do it as normal) :
% \changes{v3.02}{1992/04/09}
% {(Michel Goossens) Longtable fails if the table counter is reset
% during a document. Now use an internal counter, but still
% increment table so \cs{caption} and \cs{label} work out right.}
Oh we can blame Michel for his feature request!
@UlrikeFischer "wrong behaviour" is not something I associate with my code, as a rule
@DavidCarlisle or you could have rewritten all the tabular code without \halign in 1992; there's a good chance it would have caught up in the last 28 years :-)
@yo' no you need it set earlier so \caption{\label{..} gets the right value, and worry about\caption appearing in both the first head and the main head, or perhaps in the table body.
@yo' in v5 I was playing with an option so you could say captype=none to disable the counter or captype=figure if you were using longtable for alignment but want it to be figures etc