@DavidCarlisle that passed through all of the test-suite, had review by 3 team members, and had only one very minor change to l3coffins. Seems reasonable.
@DavidCarlisle well I fear if the font hasn't the grave it won't have acute either (they used `$\grave{\text{y}$ as a work around, and I was wondering if there exists something saner ...)
@UlrikeFischer if you turn on debugging it shows Natural Width: \the\TY@tablewidth, so one might expect that using \hskip\TY@tablewidth in the leaders would do the right thing, but you'd be disappointed. I can look later...
@UlrikeFischer the width must be there somewhere but this works
@DavidCarlisle ;-). But if the tabular has the target width, \TY@tablewidth does fit, and one shouldn't add tabcolsep. One the whole the \omit\span\omit method is easier.
Been pondering for a week now why cross references for my custom environment were not working. I wondered if it might be my change to LuaLaTeX but I couldn't see any obvious reason. And then, just before I set out on a massive solution hunt it struck me. I wrote the first one out with \label and \caption reversed and then copy-pasted the environment into the document everywhere I used it #hazardsofcopypaste #embarrassing #noob
@Plergux don't change it now, but perhaps in the future. If you're using a custom environment for your floats (as I did for tables in my bachelor's and master's thesis), you can set up that environment to have a key=value interface in which you can specify loads of things, including caption=This is my cool table, label=tab:cool, for the key=value parser the order of those keys doesn't matter, it is all handled later and used in the correct order.
@Plergux then I can globally configure the appearance of all my tables, because I can set the defaults. (though the code how I wrote it for my thesis template, is quite static to a base-style of tables, a style that isn't what I'd have used myself...)
@Skillmon No, I won't :p But I will certainly keep the key=value thing in mind. After I hand it in I want to pad it out a bit and add things back in that my advisor told me to cut and make proper book of it. :p
@DavidCarlisle I was just saying to someone else about what the 'ideal' syntax is for most people to write in; my feeling is XML is a bit much, but what do I know
@PauloCereda can you get context sensitive validation of partial documents to a schema and completion for element and attribute names to match the schema grammar in vim?
@PauloCereda doesn't everyone? (especially at this time of year)
@PauloCereda it's not secret. It's just all unpublished code that'll never go to CTAN (in that form) as I absolutely don't understand why every little thesis template should go into TeX Live. There are one or two things contained which might really be interesting to a bigger number of people (MRTtab with quite a few changes to make it more versatile in styles, and MRTsfacc), but the rest is just for myself and the few poor students who want to write their thesis in LaTeX.
@JosephWright yes I know and the XML mantra of every error should be a fatal error didn't exactly cause xml to sweep aside all other document formats in the way that was planned in 1998
And MRTfonts is a mess, currently. It works for pdfLaTeX, but I completely broke it for Xe/LuaTeX. MRTif has a few interesting bits, but it's been more a playground for me than a serious package.
@Plergux as @Skillmon says this is easy for pages with forced breaks like a titlepage. Changing fonts at an automatic page break is ... hard (verging on not possible)
@Plergux fonts are always local settings so they are scoped by any environment. so the setting is local to \begin{titlepage}..\end{titlepage} because it is an environment, not because it is related to a forced page break or two.
@Plergux the other approach is simply not to believe whoever said you had to use Arial on the titlepage. (Often people don't mean Arial when they say that, they mean, "Arial-or-Helvetica", or "sans-serif" or "any font that doesn't look like Times Roman" or ....
@DavidCarlisle Heh heh heh... Well, I'm certainly not using Times New Roman for the main text, so I suppose that I can give them what they ask for on one page. :p Using \fontspec{Arial} inside a titlepage environment worked perfectly :) Now I just have to convince them to allow me to put a background on the cover :p
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Yes, I do actually. There's not many of us cause you're not allowed to take up new ones any more (like some people did, e.g. Halldór Laxness), but if your parents have one you can use it. And since my father has it registered (from the Danish line of his family) I can use it. There is also an English surname, Long, in the family line but those went a different way :p
@HaraldHanche-Olsen No, I don't think so. There are few who have an actual family name, and some who want to use the family name (like Beck, or Long) but can't show a direct link to someone who has it registered as a family name resort to using it as a middle name. So I could have been Þórhalla Beck Guðmundsdóttir if I'd taken it up as a given name instead of a family name.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Also, I think some of them might be registered in the National registry as having a patronym as well as a family name, even if they only use the family name.
@Plergux Interesting how naming customs change. A few generations before my great-grandfather, my ancestors were alternately named Greger Olsen and Ole Gregersen. Then at some point patronymics where out, and we were stuck with the Olsen name. Until my great-grandfather Oscar Olsen married a woman called Othilie Hanche. And the rest, as they say, is history.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Yeah, we stuck with the patronymics for some reason. :p Oh, and don't get me started with people who always name their children the same things! It's a little bit better when you have patronymics, but in my family there are like six generations of Gunnar Gunnarsson and Jón Jónsson. shudder
@Plergux By now, I imagine it's a matter of national pride, just like the aversion to importing foreign words without at least adapting them so they fit in better with your language. Not that I think that is a bad thing!
@HaraldHanche-Olsen It is. But some times it goes a little far. For example for a period of time immigrants were required to take up a completely Icelandic name, complete with patronymic, but they've stopped doing that now.
@PauloCereda @HaraldHanche-Olsen, you shall from now on be Páll and Haraldur. :p (LOL, my brain immediately went to George and Harold from Captain Underpants, never getting that out of my brain now XD)
@Skillmon You could :) But since they aren't the standard here you'd have to deal with the Icelandic Naming Committee if you wanted to take them up here. :p
@JosephWright In Germany we have some strange rules as well, which are as much enforced as the registrar has bad temper... My aunt wasn't allowed to name her son Mika, as the registrar thought this was not a clear boy's name, so he had to get two given names, Mika and another one which is clearly a boy's name (I forgot the second name, tbh., but he hates to be called by his second name, so that's not the worst thing to forget)
@Plergux My patronymic would create some trouble in Iceland, I think: My father was named Ola. Apparently, Óla is a female name in Iceland, though a male name in the Føroyar. So I could be Haraldur Ólasson there, I suppose.
Was in U.K. Le Guin's "the dispossessed" that they gave the name at random? With the Clarke idea to name the parliament at random ("it can't go worse than now") are a couple of my often-cited SF fun facts
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Well, you could always first change it to the Icelandic variant and be Ólason, and there are some names that are unconventional names that don't conform to what you would expect, such as Ilmur (scent, masc.) being a womans name. You'd have to be prepared to explain your name alot but it would work, I think :p
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Fun fact, during the second world war the US soldiers were very popular among the Icelandic female population and there was a rather large increase in children who were registered as Hermannsson. Hermann is a totally legit Icelandic name, but it also means "soldier" :p
@Rmano I think Icelandic instinct would go for female for the former (female names very often end with -a) and male for the second (along the lines of Romeo and Leo).
@Plergux here is used a lot for composition. María Jesús is female (often contracted to Chus) and Jesús María is male (but also sometimes contracted to Chus, you bet). Names and surnames in Spain can get fun.
@Plergux Heh, soldiers … In Norway, a couple centuries or so ago, there was quite a harsh penalty for impregnating a woman other than your wife. But for soldiers, no penalty at all. So soldiers could make some good money claiming to be the father, to get the real father off the hook. No doubt they sired a few of their own, too.
@JosephWright I fear if you fix the test so it works then you hit top level atbegindocument issues so just not doing it at all would simplify it, probably:-)
@HaraldHanche-Olsen Ah, I see. It's only about the half way across mine on my laptop. But then again I've got a fairly high resolution to have room for my seventy two tabs in the browser and twenty two app icons in the taskbar. :p
@Skillmon Heh heh heh... oh you don't know the half of it. We are obsessed with compounds. You could pretty much smush anything together and any Icelander would go "Yeah? And?" :p
@Skillmon This is something the Scandinavian languages, too, have in common with German. For a simple example: Høyesterettsdommer = Supreme court judge.
@Plergux @HaraldHanche-Olsen I was aware of it, it's just that, in this chat, there seems to be an agreement that Germans don't use the spacebar that often.
PAGE: https://www.latex-project.org/news/2004/03/22/tlc2-table-of-contents-available/ LINK TEXT: PDF file containing the toc, the tables of figures and tables as well as the book’s preface LINK URL: /help/books/tlc2-ch0.pdf
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@DavidCarlisle I remembered, I have another request for texfaq.org , but, I think an extension of the one I already did...many of the references within the same site point using http ...that "bothers" mobile browsers. Can you modify, at least, those that point directly to texfaq.org?
@PabloGonzálezL hmm except those ones as I can't remember how they are supposed to work, the pdf are not in the github staging and are supposed to appear by magic in the public site... I'll pass it on...
@DavidCarlisle From my computer it's not a problem, but from my cell phone or a tablet some links show a warning ...I know you can change your browser, but, Google dominates the mobile world :(
@PabloGonzálezL oh I misread. There are https pages linking to http? that would be bad, let me see...
@PabloGonzálezL (@JosephWright) hmm on texfaq.org/about.html there is a link to texfaq.org/faq-latex3 (https) but that redirects to a http: address which isn't great but may not be easily modifiable as it comes from the jekyll redirect plugin but on site we should be able to use "real" addresses and not rely on redirects. Do you have an example of a bad link?
@DavidCarlisle n general those that start with 'http' show a warning on the top bar, those that still contain the word 'cgi' show a safety warning (I haven't checked all of them)
@PabloGonzálezL yes that's the even worse case. https isn't (currently) supported at tex.ac.uk at all so you get a security violation on the certificate in firefox I have to change the location by hand to http:// to proceed. But there should only be one cgi-bin link in a paragraph that says not to use that form.
@PabloGonzálezL they are a bit hard to find as there are no http: in the markdown source (to this site) they are cases where the url doesn't match the filename by case and it has gone through the redirect plugin.
@DavidCarlisle Yes, it's quite a problem, but, I think I see a pattern that can simplify things a bit...the links pointing to texfaq.org should all start with https, just like the ones pointing to tug.org, maybe you can start there (at least I see a regex)
@DavidCarlisle And from my point of view, this
For compatibility with exiting references to the FAQ, the form https://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeX3 may also be used, but this again relies on the client supporting JavaScript in the new hosting arrangement and is just intended to support existing references that link to the site.
@PabloGonzálezL the ones going to texfag.org are all relative <a href="FAQ-foo" so if they are changing from https to http there is a "feature" in teh jekyll processing
Here https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/525606/2288, I have a problem:
When the folder is empty of any file except <main file>.tex and I delete that part of looking for changes in subfolders, I got an error message saying that there is an error running flag = found ('log','(Undefined control sequence|Error)') || flag; due to the missing *.log file.
@Diaa why are you resetting the page size so often, it is hardly surprising that the page gets confused. This might be enough but you should need to call \geometry at most once.
@DavidCarlisle Imho \AtBeginDocument is needed because the header \headerContents contains code which breaks in the preamble (tcolorbox). But I'm not sure I want to debug this class. I found this comment:
% Bugfix: We changed \@setheadheight and \@setfootheight to fix a bug
% that was introduced by the bugfix in version 2.306beta, 2009/03/28:
% If the second page has a different \textheight (because of a change
% in either headheight or footheight between pages 1 and 2), then page
% 2 would use the \textheight of page 1. Pages 3 and beyond would get
% the correct \textheight. The original version of this set \@colroom
% and \vsize to the new \textheight, but that had a bug in that if a
% float appeared at the top of a page, there would be no notice taken
That it quite enough to confuse more than the page ;-)
