I don't know how kosher this is for online forums and whether there will be green-erds cringing, but how about adding a feature to be able to print a question/answer or even an entire discussion? Of course, over on Math.SX, LaTeX formatting is interpreted to present mathematics (via MathJax) as g...
@PauloCereda We (UK-TUG) take wire transfers (or PayPal to me), along with the usual cheques :-)
Taking PayPal as a group is a long-standing aim, but the rest of our committee are not keen. So I have to manage as best I can (I'm Secretary of UK-TUG)
@Werner Yes, it does. =) I also put a replacement image in case the image isn't available anymore. The only difference is that the PDF embeds the images, while the tex output downloads the images.
I don't like the PDF output, as it's very basic. I had some suggestions on calling pdflatex under the hood, but I can't rely on that mostly because (i) I'd need to use a system call, and that would require a TeX install, and (ii) there are cases in which the generated tex has errors (that I can't handle).
@Werner I could add it in the next version, it's very easy since main and meta share the same structure. =)
@Werner I'm not sure of how the app behaves on multiple-page threads (and the ones with lots of comments). Since tex.sx uses a lot of Ajax stuff, it would require multiple calls. But I believe that the app works for the average thread. =)
@JosephWright Hm I'll take a deeper look. It seems interesting.
What are TeX's limitations in typography, book design and publishing? (and here TeX also includes all its derivatives, like pdfTeX, LuaTeX, and macro packages built upon it, LaTeX, ConTeXt etc.).
Some things (like math and references) are extremely easy in TeX. There are some things that are har...
@lockstep Yes. I would assume that he is aware of the \DisemulatePackage command, so the problem with index generation is actually deeper than just memoir's emulation of the index package itself. His imakeidx package is pretty clear on its being incompatible with memoir.
@AlanMunn Yes, by now imakeidx is incompatible with memoir, but I'm working about it; it seems that it's sufficient to disable memoir's indexing macros and changing it into ours.
@egreg @lockstep's answer to KOMA/Memoir question really hits the nail on the head about compartmentalization of functionality. It's very much a double edged sword, though. For example, Vafa Khaligi's bidi or Heiko's hyperref has do be individually tweaked for every package; having a more packages makes that harder not easier. So there are arguments on both sides of the issue for sure.
@Werner: I need a translator. The answer is to long for my English ;-) [Change page margins for one single page inside the document](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27562/change-page-margins-for-one-single-page-inside-the-document) You can't disable the warnings. This behavior bases on the algorithm of `typearea` / `recalctyparea`. `\recalctypearea` calculates with the last page settings. But by using `landscape` the changing of `textwidth` / `textheight` are more than 15%. (This is the allowed penalty). `typearea` ignore the changing of the page orientation. Maybe in the next relea…
@Marco You can't disable the warnings. This behaviour is based on the algorithm of typearea / recalctyparea. \recalctypearea performs its calculations with the last page settings. But by using landscape, the changes to \textwidth and \textheight are more than 15%. (This is the allowed penalty). typearea ignores the modification of the page orientation. Maybe in the next release Markus Kohm will add such a feature.
@Marco Seems like the backticks got lost in translation there.
the cool thing about \LaTeX is that the documentation for the various packages/modules is usually pretty well documented, or at least looks nice aesthetically
@JosephWright As Caramdir said a while ago "I'm not saying that the manual isn't unnecessarily verbose. Just that only about 3.8% of the manual is actual user documentation."
@Raphink Very nice looking book. A couple of comments. The dropcaps (initials) to me look a bit odd jutting out to the left margin. Also, if you compare e.g. Jan 21 and Jan 22 the height of the initial relative to the rest of the line seems to vary quite a bit. (In fact, is this just about 'L'?)
@Raphink The sectioning headings of the Introduction and the Index differ in their vertical alignment. Did you just switch to \twocolumn? If yes, use my idxlayout package (and hereby avoid LateX bug 3126).
@Raphink There's more: Compare the headings for February 5th and 6th -- clearly a different vertical positioning. Could this be caused by the accent in "Éternels"?
@Raphink Isn't there a way of specifying the exact height of a box and letting things go outside of it? I'm not sure how this would be incorporated into the titlesec commands, though.
@Raphink Add a strut at the start and end of the title; you probably need to use a customized strut: \vrule width 0pt height x, where "x" is the height of an accented uppercase letter. Or change the baselineskip and topskip for the titles to account for accented uppercase letters, if titles are more than two lines long.
@egreg Thanks Enrico. That's exactly what I had in mind, (actually the strut idea is sort of the opposite, since it will drop every line, but the basic idea is exactly the same.)
im trying to use tug.dk/FontCatalogue/teenspirit, but it says i don't have emerald package. im using mactex anyone know the easiest way to add font packages from CTAN?
@Raphink It's an invisible object which has a height and possibly a depth. There is the \strut command, which inserts such an object that fits exactly the baselineskip (70% height and 30% depth). In your case the baselineskip is probably not suitable for the font. I'll try and do some experiments.
I've copied the layout quite a bit, but changed the fonts mostly
I also don't think the original was made with TeX :-)
even if I had wanted it, Adobe Charlemagne would have never fit with the French text, which is far longer than the English one
@egreg so your idea is to make it so that even if there's no capital with accents, it will take the same vertical space as if there were, so that the letter are aligned, right?
and with TL2011 now, you might want to give a try to LuaTeX, which is supported by fontspec, can do pretty much the same, and has better microtype support.
The problem is that your "É" is 12.76 points high, while the baselineskip is only 25pt (and 70% is 17.5pt. If you don't need that the possible second lines keep into account this height, then add \titlestrut after \dayheadfont\huge in the definition for titlesec.
To make a professional book layout, many people suggest to use either Koma-Script or Memoir. Let me know the strengths and weaknesses for each please.
