Today I started learning to use minted and I eventually had to create a symlink to pygmentize as described in tex.stackexchange.com/a/281188/218142 in order to build my document. pygmentize is installed as part of my Anaconda distribution. Do all TeXShop users have to do this or is there something set incorrectly somewhere on my system?
@LaTeXereXeTaL Ah, yes, I think you do need to do that
@LaTeXereXeTaL macOS doesn't add the PATH for GUI applications, so TeXshop (and others) have to 'manually' add things. It knows about /Library/TeX/texbin/, so that gets added, but other places ... less so
@LaTeXereXeTaL On the positive side, I've now set up Pygments :)
@JosephWright Oh I forgot to write you. luaotfload has a working setup for it now, but it currently requires the list of installed TeX Live packages to be duplicated. That seems bad, especially since I'm thinking about a smaller caching improvement which would end up with a third copy of the package list, so I want to move the list into another file instead. So the setup in luaotfload dev works, but it will be improved further after the TUG conference.
@JosephWright then I'll use it directly (have a loop which does branching based on string representation, so I'll need \tl_to_str:n to yield the "correct" escape char).
@JosephWright I think I know how one could allow arbitrary tokens inside \__tl_act:NNNn (it currently depends on an end marker), but the performance would be worse than it currently is... Yay or nay?
@Skillmon I'd say it's fine: the tl_act mechanism is already not that fast, and it's meant for cases where it's more important to have close control than to hit maximum performance
@JosephWright Not sure what makes it more standard than the others, especially since it isn't listed on github.com/actions/create-release, but it doesn't support wildcards...
Is anyone around who uses texlive from a linux package manager? I'm trying to bring the install instructions in the beamer user guide a bit more up to date and am wondering if someone could check of these new instructions are correct: github.com/samcarter/beamer/commit/…
@samcarter_looks_forward_TUG'21 Weird: for most people, LaTeX comes down the list, even if they are routine LaTeX users (I've always meant to learn Illustrator ...)
@JosephWright Microsoft Paint is good for an academic conference poster, provided that the poster has a prominent statement that it's done using a Microsoft product.
@FaheemMitha no idea :) I presume it depends on what the content is, but for my poster, which were mostly images of plots, some headline and some bit of text, beamer worked nicely as it made using columns easy.
@JosephWright I guess if I would not use beamer, I would inkscape as the next best thing.
@UlrikeFischer It might not be meant for it, but compared to other latex classes I think it rather well suited. No automatic page breaks is good for a one page document and head- and footline without margins allows for the most commonly used poster designs.
I'm currently testing variable fonts for luaotfload and got this pages of pretty much all weight variants of Source Serif Variable. There's a certain beauty to how the text fades in over the page, I'm somewhat tempted to write an automated solution to add something like that to ordinary documents.
@UlrikeFischer HarfBuzz. There it took (with fonts cached) about 10 Minutes to build, the node renderer needed 20 Minutes for only half as many fonts (which HarfBuzz compiled in 3 Minutes), so I didn't even try it. (The image has 1401 font variants)