@Rmano nice one

@daleif Thanks! Although you know, the comma... 😏

@Rmano the comma is just a figment of your imagination

Well it seems that gold badges follows a clear trend... let's see for 55555 ;-)

@Rmano WOW!

@CarLaTeX 😊

@Rmano not for me (1 with 70k)

i really hate to admit it, but the Expl3 capabilities are pretty awesome…

@Lupino :)

@Lupino Why do you really hate to say that?

@mickep because from a reading-psychological perspective the syntax is abhorrent…

@Lupino That is only there to scare the weak users to other macro packages (or back to Word).

@Lupino you get used to it, although xii.tex plain tex is more readable, I agree

(i had to laugh harder than i'd like to admit)

@Lupino it really isn't. It's much easier to read than 2e

(once you spent some time there)

@Lupino I agree: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/400076/…

@Skillmon I'm going to look into the \AssignTemplateKeys business

@JosephWright One could use a \tl_act:... loop :P If only it was a public function and not removed from the kernel

@JosephWright better idea: You're only searching for a single token. Just \usepackage{etl} and you're good

@Lupino I don't agree; the syntax is just fine, but it's highlighting is way too wrong in most IDEs (incl. Overleaf, just to shoot our own leg!)

@mickep MS Office seems to render it with a +ve vertical gap

@Skillmon Current plan: do a \str_if_in:nnTF test first, only use \regex_match:nnTF if there is a hit - should be a lot faster for the setup but not change behaviour at all

@mickep Here is another font with both vertical and horizontal gaps set to 0

@yo' vimtex is ok I think...

@JosephWright we should l probably fix this. Also does l3 version do better? tex.stackexchange.com/a/735446/1090

@DavidCarlisle Uses the string mapping for files, so should be reasonably robust

@DavidCarlisle But no, no change to the basic idea - it's all done in TeX

@خالدحسني Yes, and I do not see that one would like them to be split more like in that figure. Or, maybe I just misunderstand the purpose.

@خالدحسني This looks already better to me.

@JosephWright but you need to turn off the engine level file encoding handling otherwise there is no input at all to tex

@JosephWright I'll try later:-)

@JosephWright New plan: \RequirePackage{etl} then \str_if_in:nnTF and if true \etl_token_if_in_deep:nNTF

(jokes aside, yes, sounds like a very reasonable plan)

@Skillmon I see the point and we perhaps should look again at 'action' loops - they are handy

@Rmano mostly.

@Skillmon Half-way through - have done one timing run, now doing the comparison

@JosephWright well, if it is not inside this should be faster by roughly a factor 1000, if it's inside it should be slower by a factor 0.001. So seems like a very reasonable operation :P

@Skillmon Sure, but I want to see the 'real world' impact - in this case on the test suite run time

@DavidCarlisle Oddly, I've not done that

@DavidCarlisle I could sent you the eps if you want for testing? (I didn't try yet, was working on something else)

@UlrikeFischer you could thanks, although somewhere I should have some test eps files with tiff previews, it's come up before (although not for years:-) but why is dviluatex so popular this week?

@DavidCarlisle I try to forward but thunderbird shows only an empty mail, perhaps you will see something

@UlrikeFischer mail but no atachment, not to worry I can probably find some here

(/usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/dvips.def)))
(/usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-dvips.def)
(./tiff.aux)
! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence.
<read 0>
   �������^^^^^^^^@^^@^^@^^C^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@^^@!^^@^^@�1^^@^^@1^^@
^^@%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
l.7 \fbox{\includegraphics{tiffeps.eps}}

?

@UlrikeFischer ^^

(./tiff.aux) <tiffeps.eps>
Overfull \hbox (30.43874pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7--8

@UlrikeFischer fixed:-)

@CarLaTeX ohhh, not long until 66,666!

@DavidCarlisle what did you do?

\documentclass{article}

\directlua{
function convert_char (char)
  return unicode.utf8.char(string.byte(char))
end

function convert_line_bytes (line)
  return string.gsub(line, ".", convert_char)
end
}


\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
\def\Gread@eps#1{%
    \directlua{luatexbase.add_to_callback("process_input_buffer", convert_line_bytes, "8 bit input")}%
    \Gread@generic{#1}\Gread@eps@aux
    \directlua{luatexbase.remove_from_callback("process_input_buffer","8 bit input")}%
}
\makeatother

@UlrikeFischer if the above works for you, I'll update my answer. Basically "luainputenc-light"

@JosephWright ^

@samcarter I don't like that number, quite evil

@CarLaTeX it will be a step closer to friendlier numbers like 77,777 :)

@CarLaTeX but I had 666,666 and I'm not evil at all

@DavidCarlisle you are mean

@mickep I mean, it shows that my interpretation matches the implementation. The font data might be less than ideal, but that is then a font issue to fix.

@UlrikeFischer the file works here, thanks

@خالدحسني Oh,I dod not question that. But I think almost all (all I have looked at) set it positive.

@DavidCarlisle you're mean for using that quote against @PauloCereda

@cfr remember you misspelled my name once: It could've been worse @Smillion

@Skillmon if it had been worse enough, I wouldn't have mispelt your name at all.

@Skillmon I think I stole a tick from @egreg.

@cfr Congratulations!

@Skillmon ;)

would anybody with Cambria be willing to try this example?

The OP says the numerator does not work in serif unless a sans font is set explicitly. that doesn't seem to make any sense, but I don't have Cambria to test.

@cfr Because you answered the question the OP didn't ask. 🤪

@egreg you mean you didn't follow the links ;).

@egreg but the OP did specify Cambria, which implies fontspec, I think.

@DavidCarlisle Indeed you're not mean

@samcarter Did you see my ping on TopTeX?

@cfr I have Cambria, haven't seen the question yet, do you want me to test something? I'll look at the question...

@CarLaTeX no, I didn't get a notification. Let me check...

@CarLaTeX replied! I hope it helps you to make a decision (sorry for not replying earlier, I didn't see a notification)

@DavidCarlisle anything you can, to move the tick from the dodo...

@mickep you have secret mail

@DavidCarlisle Ohh! (Later, singing along to Bonnie Tyler with the oldest...)

@mickep Lost in France^H^H^H^H^H^HSweden ?

@DavidCarlisle Total eclipse of the heart

@Rmano I'm curious enough to ask. Which editor and highlighter is that?

@DavidCarlisle Interesting!

@enkorvaks neovim + vimtex with catppuccin-latte color scheme (with some color tweaks)

@DavidCarlisle the OP complained of two problems in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/735223/…. the first is not a problem, as far as I know. however, the second sounds odd: that my code doesn't get the numerator in serif unless a sans font is set explicitly. I can't reproduce that with tg-pagella and I wouldn't expect it to happen with Cambria, but I was hoping somebody could confirm or disconfirm that.

@DavidCarlisle basically, does my code do what I say it does if you substitute Cambria for TeX Gyre Pagella?