@KannappanSampath I think it's safe to remove it. If I'm not mistaken, that command was used to generate the bitmap fonts, but after all, it's just a log. :)
there was a problem with rubbish bin: it was empty but I could still empty it. The icon also was showing a can that was full. Also, there were no hidden files. I got worried.
@KannappanSampath Why you tend to switch over? I know there are reasons! I stick to windows just for the sake of using winedt and my wife doesn't like linux (and we have to share the same computer and I don't like to have 2 OS installed.
@HarishKumar Why not? I use Windows under Virtual Box on Ubuntu and it works really well. I need Windows only for proprietary tools like Acrobat, Word, Citrix, Online Meeting software and suchlike. Whenever I generate a PDF file larger than 2GB I can only open it under Windows. No performance problems btw. :-)
@PauloCereda Data based publishing is fun, isn't it? Soon we'll be competitors (together with @topskip) ;-)
@Werner Well I'm not an expert of the inner workings of TeX. Surely the big shots like @egreg or @frankmittelbach or @davidcarlisle could explain better.
But if I \showbox\mybox, then I get
> \box26=
\hbox(6.94444+0.0)x33.33344
.\special{color push Black}
.\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 f
.\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 o
.\kern0.27779
.\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 o
.\glue 3.33333 plus 1.66666 minus 1.11111
.\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 f
.\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 o
.\kern0.27779
.\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 o
.\glue 3.33333 plus 1.66666 minus 1.11111
.\special{color pop}
So it seems that the font is an "attribute" of the "character items" in the box. Additionally, \savebox adds explicit color switches (color is a later addition unknown to the TeX engine, so it has to be done by macros). Hence, these things stay even after unboxing. The glue however is still stretchable and will be affected by the setting of the "next-outer" hbox which will then become the line the unboxed text appears on.
@PauloCereda: I wanted to start with the reviewing of the rules. At the moment the new rules are only located in the zip file. When will you update the repository?
@StephanLehmke A box is already typeset; if you \unhbox it, glue returns to be flexible and penalties can do their job. But fonts remain set to what they were.
@tohecz What about the headache? I hope it disappeared.
@kan Yes. There you can put your "local" files so that they are available to all users of your machine. Remember to do mktexlsr whenever you do something there. What if you're the only user of the machine? A better reason to use the "local" tree instead of the "personal" one in ~/texmf.
@kan Assume you want to use a package that's not available on TeX Live, say foo.sty. You can place it in ~/texmf/tex/latex/foo/ (creating the necessary directories) and it will be found without the need to run mktexlsr. But suppose you want to do some tests and create for this a new user: the new user won't be able to access foo.sty; if foo.sty is in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/foo, then it will be accessible.
By the way, it's good policy to always have two users on a machine, in case the login procedure stucks with the "regular" user.
@egreg Oh, OK. So, /usr/... is like making the files available to everyone using the system. While the ~/texmf/ is just for the user in whose home we created that file... Am I right?
Also, I simply cannot copy any file into that /usr/ directory...via GUI.
With TeX came power, with power responsibility, but then sometimes we want something beyond perfection... which is anyway lost on some of your audience
@kan Yes. However, as you discovered, the /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local directory is "protected" and you need superuser powers to write into it (sudo ...)
@JosephWright the point is to get people to stop using twitter and facebook and use google servers instead so that google know everything about you instead of just almost everything
@JosephWright depends what quality people expect, if the bbc news are happy to take footage from people's phones then just about any kind of webcam or phone footage is probably acceptable (That one of Frank at the last TUG was just a phone wasn't it?
Given
\def\stuff{a,b,c}
I would like to be able to do
\foreach \x in {c,b,a} {...}
without inverting the list \stuff manually.
For example is there some sort of \invert macro that would allow me to write
\foreach \x in \invert{\stuff} {...}
@DavidCarlisle No; when I click on the .pdf link nothing happens. Perhpas a browser thing? I'll try with Firefox.
@DavidCarlisle Ha... with Firefox the links work as expected... Don't know why Chrome silently refuses to open the .pdf. I'll delete my comment to your answer.
we can probably use svn propset to force the pdfs to be served with pdf mime type assuming whatever web front end we are using respects svn properties. I blame @JosephWright
I don't think chrome should show a blank page but it is certainly acceptable for it not to display application/octet-stream it should though offer a file/save option if it doesn;t display
hmm just did svn propset svn:mimetype application/pdf *pdf but the web site version is still serving wrong mimetype, perhaps it takes a while to refresh
(and commit my changes...and diff files...and stuff.)
@JosephWright This is going to sound stupidly nit-picky, but the thing that drove me insane about TeXorks is the pdf viewer wouldn't smoothly scroll between pages.
@TorbjørnT. Yeah, I got confused. In fact, sumatra is used by Rstudio. While I generally use Emacs .. but then I recommend TeXworks for LaTeX beginners
@TorbjørnT. By the way can I use TeXworks PDF reader as a standalone PDF reader?
@percusse I'm inclined to more bleeding edge distros. :) I'd go with Debian, but Ubuntu seems to have more attention these days. :) Can Fedora be included in the list? :)
@AndrewStacey so you would be using Sid all the way, that is really bleeding edge ;) Ok it didn't break that often on me except on that day where I wanted to upgrade that damn prop nvidia driver and my Debian Sid box wouldn't launch X anymore
These section titles are just placeholders until I get the real text in, but do any of you know why it's bleeding over its margin like this?: grab.by/gKnc
@Gnintendo looks like your toc code is putting an infinite penalty before the entry for "9" but there is no stretch on the page so tex has nowhere to go
@Gnintendo because just after a section title is a bad place to break the page but you only have section tiitles so everywhere is bad and tex gives up (and screams at you in the log file)
@Gnintendo I can't see but probably the top of that page is a chapter title that wants to be on an odd page, but in anycase the page breaks around that page will be rubbish, ignore them, stop procrastinating and write some words
(I'm not procrastinating :(, I was inputting the names for all the art pieces so I can write about them then I was like waaat? when I ran a test compile)
If Knuth/Lamport/anyone else had created a typesetting system with the flexibility and power of TeX, using everything we have learned about computation and programming languages in the last 35 years, in what ways would it differ from TeX?
(Note that I'm asking what differences would exist from...
Given
\def\stuff{a,b,c}
I would like to be able to do
\foreach \x in {c,b,a} {...}
without inverting the list \stuff manually.
For example is there some sort of \invert macro that would allow me to write
\foreach \x in \invert{\stuff} {...}
What animal is depicted in this image labelled “weefil”?
If Knuth/Lamport/anyone else had created a typesetting system with the flexibility and power of TeX, using everything we have learned about computation and programming languages in the last 35 years, in what ways would it differ from TeX?
(Note that I'm asking what differences would exist from...
