@DavidCarlisle Today I tried to use the knowledge, that I got here. After 2 hours 14 minutes of trying to automatically typeset a tikz image, using expl3, I gave up and did it using Perl. Spent 1 hour 30 mins.
@user4035 Why start with combining two very large (and in the case of expl3, experimental) packages? I know nothing much about tikz but it is built on the pgf layer rather than L3 which has its own structures for lists and loops and stuff. Combining l3 and tikz is an interesting future project that the latex team will have to look at but it's not something I'd want to do if I had a document to make in a hurry
Is it possible to identify the font used in a specific document/picture?
Answers to this question should identify:
Possible methods to do this (perhaps one answer per method) and adequately describe how to use it (as opposed to merely stating it);
Ways of finding the identified fonts, if possi...
@user4035 well it's not cryptic once you get used to it and as you noticed the nNnTF bit is an essential part of the L3 syntax layer. But it makes more sense when standing alone. As layered over latex2e it's an experimental package for people to experiment with. Latex2e itself has loops and lists with different structures and syntax and for tikz it really makes more sense to use pgf as that is what it is built on, ..
..but for most answers here that need a loop I just use the \loop macro from plain tex as modified in latex.
@DavidCarlisle Exactly. :) Main features: classification of the macros, systematic naming scheme based on these classifications and a simple mechanism for controlling the expansion of a function’s arguments.
@DavidCarlisle Both. Sometimes students asks me about resolving message like tho one in the question. From there I know it is not easy for them to understand this. My english is not so good to explain it here :-( In German I would be able to do it ...
@Kurt do we really not have anything I'll look, It would seem a bit unfriendly to add another answer to that one though as the answer there is acurate and first and ought to get a tick.
@percusse But I just answered a pgfrandomlist thing by using \traciingall instead:-)
@MarcoDaniel you say you were too late but you still grabbed the tick:-)
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I hope the answerer can explain it a little bit better. His answer solves the shown problem, but I understand the question a little bit wider. But I can be wrong ...
@DavidCarlisle Yes, just like what the original author of the "Kant generator" did: he used his copy of Kritik der reiner Vernunft as the fourth leg of his fridge.
@NicolaTalbot I'm very close to hitting "preorder" on amazon, the only thing that protects me from doing so is the P&P which is higher than the book price itself :-/
@Werner but what do you mean by contains á by now that is two utf8 characters but I'd put (egreg's) money on it being a single mult-byte utf8 character that has been read as latin1 so read as two characters,
@egreg Aah. Enrico you are also some kind of font expert, it seems to me from some of your answers. Do you know, whether the issue with the search path for MetaFont files is still active in Linux and perhaps also in MacOSX? I thought all is found with an up-to-date filename data bank (ls-r?).
@Speravir It's a non-issue: MF sources must go in .../fonts/source/igo; on a TeX Live the complete path would be /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/source/igo
@egreg I don't seem to see any problems with descenders in my answer to tex.stackexchange.com/q/109655/3954 , but perhaps I am missing something. Would you please tell me what problems there might be?
This hides the first argument in the second, optimised for lowercase ascii only in the first argument (it offsets the ascii code by that of m so that one half of the alphabet raises a line and the other half lowers it. You can use \ to denote a space.
\documentclass{article}
\def\hide#1#2{%
\...
I guess I also don't fully understand the original question. :-/
@Werner it just typesets a parbox then takes it apart line by line and re-assembles it but offsetting each line by 1000sp times the difference between the ascii code of the letter and the code of m. So if you have good eyesight you can take the typeset message and reconstruct the hidden text by measuring baselines.
@Werner who cares about the original question, I had fun anyway:-) (but I think that's what was meant and the OP added a picture later that seems to confirm)
@DavidCarlisle So your code takes #1 and character-by-character looks at the difference between the ASCII values of the letters in it an the letter m, moving the entire line up or down, right?
Is it possible to identify the font used in a specific document/picture?
Answers to this question should identify:
Possible methods to do this (perhaps one answer per method) and adequately describe how to use it (as opposed to merely stating it);
Ways of finding the identified fonts, if possi...
This hides the first argument in the second, optimised for lowercase ascii only in the first argument (it offsets the ascii code by that of m so that one half of the alphabet raises a line and the other half lowers it. You can use \ to denote a space.
\documentclass{article}
\def\hide#1#2{%
\...
