@AlanMunn -- Can't think of another example at the moment, but I think the key point is that here it's a specific option being referred to, and "repeating" that option's spelling in the explication is reinforcing its use. Color/colour might be similarly questioned; I've often seen both in a document produced by a native British speaker, but color is always used for the option. (For overlay you could avoid the problem by saying "is overlaying"; a definite cop-out.) I'll keep thinking.
@AlanMunn I think it might be a question of how old the formation is as well. In mordern Icelandic there is a way to form a feminine noun by putting a -un ending on it, but it used to be -an so we have words like svipan (swift movement), which only has the old form, and hegðan / hegðun (behaviour), which has both forms, and mengun (pollution), which only has the modern form. Even knowing that both forms exist puttin an -un on svipan or an -an on mengun sounds weird.
@PauloCereda Thank you! There should poppler 21.04.0-* be available in the Arch pkg repo. My evince is older, but my poppler is newer (the current stable release on upstream). I think it is a bad poppler build.
@JosephWright I'm creating a journal layout where the first (title) page is 1.5 column (narrower, left column contains article meta data, the larger right column contains abstract and beginning of fulltext) and the second and subsequent pages are regular, balanced twocolumn. My first idea was to have the first page \oncolumn with a wide leftskip and the meta data in an rlapped vtop and the \twocolumn within a \AtBeginShipoutNext.
Hello everybody Do you know where the complete documentation for the tabular environment is located? On this page, we talk about all its derivatives, but not about the tabular itself.
I would like to start with a small list that used to be part of the tables wiki and is now maintained here.
Overview of packages
Basic packages
array
offers more flexible column formatting;
fixes to some spacing issues. An
almost "must-use" package.
booktabs
supports professional looking ta...
@Lupino you can see how afterpage package gets hold of this but I don't recommend doing the same
@Lupino that is easy if you have a forced page break (there is nothing to catch then) and automatic page breaking won't really work as you can't re-set the paragraphs that have already been set to the wrong column width.
@ComFreek your loop construct is using local assignments and a table cell is a local group so as soon as you insert the & it forgets what it was doing
@Lupino The issue is that (even in LuaTeX) the paragraph is already broken with the old width, so ou can only access the broken paragraph and no longer the original one. You could copy the paragraph before linebreaking and then rebreake that copy once you now the new dimensions, but that gets messy. (See tex.stackexchange.com/questions/493012/… where I did something similar in another context)
@Lupino short answer no, longer answer there is always a way but it would be complicated and fragile and break on half the documents you try it on. Imagine that the first page ends mid paragraph at a hyphenated word, you would have to find where that was (not easy) and then reconstitute the paragraph-so far as a single hline restoring any white space (you will have to guess that) and undoing any hyphenations and then re-linebreak the result to the new line width.
@ComFreek doing inline table loops is a bit tricky it's usually easier to do a loop first building up the table body in a macro then execute the macro at the end so \gdef\bdy{} \foreach .. whatever {\g@addto@macro\bdy{this.&row& stuff\\}} then you can safely do \begin{tabular}{lll}\bdy\end{tabular}
@AlexG yes I checked that. Also I saw a similar problem when I worked on the file embedding. But ghostscript could like with EmbeddedFiles build the name tree from the objects.
@Plergux Very possibly. But in this case that would presumably bias us towards the regular spelling, which is what David and I think, but doesn't seem to be what most people so.
@barbarabeeton Yes, indeed, although that's purely a function of American hegemony in option spelling. :) So I will use 'colour' when I'm not talking about the option itself.
@DavidCarlisle No, quite the opposite: we're ahead of the curve here!
@AlanMunn Ah, ok. There is also the question of hypercorrection, when people think something is "righter" than what is generally used (like vehemently using "you and I" instead of "you and me" like most people do).
Today I was somehow directed towards tex.stackexchange.com/a/12673/117050 and noticed that nicematrix is missing in that list. I wanted to add it, but can't decide whether it should be an "all-rounder" or about "colors and fancy features".
@AlanMunn I'm not too familiar with that. I kind of took the back-door into linguistics by doing "general linguistics" and picking weird things like sign language morphology, essentially skipping all the syntax and historical grammar of most other languages, including Icelandic :p
The first array fails with "misplaced omit", the second does not.
I don't see any difference, the first should readily expand to the second, no?
> When you use a \multicolumn in your tabular, the implementation achieves the desired effect by a combination of the two TeX primitives \omit, to remove the cell's column format, and \span, to "merge" two column cells into one.
Hi. Quick question, I left a comment below this question (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/592941) because I remembered that I saw the exact same question some days ago but I couldn't find it anymore. Now my comment is gone. Could it be deleted by moderators or a bot? I honestly do not know why the comment would be "bad".
@Dr.ManuelKuehner I don't think there's a comment deletion bot. And it's unlikely that a mod deleted it. Is is possible that the comment didn't actually get posted? That's happened to me before.