I have an unusual question for you. Does anyone know where I can buy an edition of “Alice in wonderland” which preserves the original formatting by Lewis Carroll? All the versions I could find on Amazon are reformatted, some are even missing the illustrations. Unfortunately I don't have the spare £10000 to buy the 1866 printing.
@UlrikeFischer one possible answer is that it is up to the font designer to say what happens if i is followed by a combining dot accent, but the other answer is to say 1
@HenriMenke wander around the second hand bookshops in Oxford?
In the second season of the TV series 'Alias', Sydney Bristow's mother left her the first edition of Alice in Wonderland, which was destroyed in a fire.
@HenriMenke Well, the first edition is extremely rare, and costs nearly $15000
And director J.J. Abrams is obvsessed with it..... I thought your question was very curious
@Krishna I know it's rare and I surely don't want to have the original but a reprint with the same formatting. The formatting is actually important for the storytelling, see for example PDF page 26 in digitized version here: adobe.com/be_en/active-use/pdf/Alice_in_Wonderland.pdf
I have a publishing agreement with a publisher informing me of fair rights reproduction of published content in a non-commercial docuent such as my phd thesis
@Krishna But in most cases these issues are due to non-standard PDFs. In contrast to Poppler, pplib adheres strictly to the PDF standard. Unfortunately nobody else in the world does.
@Krishna that's the point: don't use external packages, just make a plain or context example of a pdf inclusion that works in 1.07 and not in 1.08, then you can make a bug report to the luatex team.
@DavidCarlisle err....I forgot the plain/context syntax...and I haven't done a scanned pdf inclusion
This is with pdfpages inclusion of a hand-signed document.
Can I get a helping hand ?
These are the properties of the document being included
Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 3 Encrypted: no Page size: 595 x 842 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 2556334 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4
@Krishna well you could try reporting it with a latex example and hope someone on the list cuts it down to plain tex so it can be traced through the engine.
@Krishna As I already said, Poppler (used in LuaTeX 1.07) is very relaxed in terms of non-standard PDFs and will try its best to render something for you. The new pplib (LuaTeX 1.08) does not like non-standard PDFs at all and will give up immediately. mupdf is also not very fond of non-standard PDFs.
In a way, it is good.... At-least I could weed out non-standard PDF from my thesis
I mean, pdfx package coolly produces these wrong pdfs, which fails a lot of verapdf checks
And, the funny thing is that, it announces to the world that it is a compliant PDF when opened in a viewer......But fails quite a few checks in any validator
@Krishna yes well (I guess) they are not aimed at you. If you rely on a screen reader to read the pdf, then you may be happy to have the pdf that meets those additional constraints.
@Krishna using XML wouldn't have stopped us using tex (you need something to typeset it if you want pdf) we used to use 3b2 and now we have stopped making pdf at all, and just ship the doc as html.
@Krishna yes it's an arm of the government but it is expressing an opinion of the maintainers of the gov.org website that it's easier to make accessible html than accessible pdf (which is clearly true)
"PDFs can be bad for accessibility. It can be difficult for users to customise them for ease of reading, and often they do not work very well with assistive technologies like screen readers.
Wherever possible, create content in HTML formats. If you cannot avoid publishing a PDF, it should be in addition to an HTML version.
As a minimum, any PDF you publish must meet Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0."
PDFs should be in addition to a HTML version ..... blavo
@Krishna The thing of course is that HTML 'publishing' means you loose control of layout (more or less) entirely, particularly in respect of line breaking. The thing is that 'reflowing text' is more-or-less directly in opposition to the history of publishing, where page/paper design, font size, line breaks, etc., are all linked
@Krishna Depends on your target audience. For example, I always print off papers and read them 'traditionally', whilst books I like to buy on dead trees
@Krishna Trust me that it's close to impossible to typeset scientific papers well on adaptable media.
@JosephWright this might change quite soon; soon you'll simply have a 20-or-so-page "book" that would be whichever book you wish and would allow you to swipe through the pages almost the traditional way. At least that's what I think will happen.
@JosephWright certainly those publishers that find the right way how to "go handheld" and the right way how to keep with the modern technology and preserve reasonable standards should be praised in the future :-)
I've got a citation where the authors name includes Š. LaTeX gives an "! Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence." on this, fine, I'm used to that, so I replace it with \v{S}. That just gives me a v in the output. But \v{z} works just fine.
MWE:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackag...
@DavidCarlisle Reads command Oh, yeah. I don't THINK so, but I honestly thought making the MWE was going to make the problem vanish and I'd have to wade through a ton of template issues
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2018)
The top-level auxiliary file: aa864.aux
The style file: abbrvnat.bst
Database file #1: UTF8.bib
Illegal end of database file---line 18 of file UTF8.bib
: journal = "Journal of Applied Crystallography",
:
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Warning--empty year in LaTeX
Warning--empty year in UTF8
Warning--empty year in TeachingReview
Warning--empty year in TeachingReview
(There was 1 error message)
@UlrikeFischer it just needs someone with admin rights to authorise travis, then anyone with normal member rights (you (if added), me, ...) can edit the travis config scripts in the usual way
@UlrikeFischer Elie and Philipp have owner/admin in the lualatex group
@UlrikeFischer or would you rather just run it from your github and kill the one at lualatex organisation. (actually there is an argument it ought to be in the latex3 github organisation as it's a required component of lualatex these days (@JosephWright)
@Blue \includegraphics ? (I'm sure someone would draw it in tikz, but....)
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@DavidCarlisle I know that I need to use \includegraphics in order to insert the image :P But I need to generate it by myself first (can't directly copy from the textbook)
@Blue well you don't need includegrahics you could draw the whole thing in latex just using tikz or pstricks or whatever, but you could make an image like that in anything, just draw it by hand in a bitmap editor such as paint if you want the real "hand sketch" look
@JosephWright I must be getting old, the London Mathematical Society just mailed me to say I no longer need to pay as I've been a member for 35 years:-)
@DavidCarlisle at the end it should be imho somewhere where there is a certain garanty that it doesn't ends abandoned like now. So latex3 sounds good. For the near future imho we simply need a "working" place. My account is probably fine - at least the tests are already running there.
@Sebastiano no idea, it doesn't when I view it is it just because it's your question and you are looking (I have never asked a question so I know nothing about the site styles that view:-)
@UlrikeFischer yes agreed, but if we think it might move to l3 (or stay with you) then we just need to ask elie to authorise ctan for you to upload yours, we don't need to ask that you join that gh organisation
@Sebastiano yes but it would have been better to just ask, no need to ping anyone then if people are busy they just don't answer. if you ping someone and ask if you can ask, then you have already asked them a question that they feel they have to answer.
@DavidCarlisle all tests pass currently - with luatex 1.07 and with luatex 1.08. And the arabluatex author says everything is fine (much better than before). But I wish I had a few luatexja tests too (I asked through Norbert but didn't get an answer).
@marmot I am sure when professor Knuth sat down to write TeX, he had in mind the need to draw animated marmots with suspiciously coloured teeth bouncing on a spring.
@samcarter No, the error is entirely on my side. I created a decoration with two different colors, and when setting the color with \pgfsetstrokecolor, TikZ remembers this. The color business is really tricky.
@samcarter Well, I actually also mess up the fill color. (But yes, since you explicitly specify the fill, this nice marmot will be safe... ;-) On the other hand, blue tooth can be rather useful. ;-)
Hi folks. I've got two parboxes, which I'm trying to separate with vspace, but the vspace command only works if there is a space between the parbox and the vspace command. Does anyone know why this is?
@DavidCarlisle No problem to me, I don't drink coffee, I don't like it, even the authentic one. However, Milanese people are complaining because they closed some streets in the center for the inauguration (and even for the palm trees in piazza Duomo, sponsored by the same company).
@marmot Probably, but the teeth keyword exists anyway and passing the colour to the shape would be very easy. If you would add a couple of lines, you could create a marmot on a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_stick
@user49915 well it's up to a package author (normally) to say a package is obsolete not for someone else. Actually in this case I'd say the tex.sx answer is wrong (or at best misleading) about what the type1cm package does.
@DavidCarlisle I'm afraid I'm not the right person to attach the blame, but I would definitely like to hear what she might wish to say. @barbarabeeton What do you think of tex.stackexchange.com/questions/445374/… ?
@user49915 \Join is defined by just typesetting ⋊ and ⋉ with a negative kern of -13.8mu between them. that -13.8 magic number isn't so magic if the font is not msbm10 (and with type1cm it ends up being msbm7 at 9pt)
Dumb question that is hard to google: is \ref* a thing? TexStudio keeps turning my \ref into \ref*, and none of my usual sources say that is a thing, and it doesn't seem to work, so I'm not sure why TexStudio keeps doing it. Also searching for * is....not useful
@DavidCarlisle In that citations. Sorry, I should have said endnote
@DavidCarlisle Chemistry always uses superscript citations, but footnote vs endnote changes per journal, so we just let the templates take care of that. I just want this comment in the citations list, no matter if it is at the bottom of the page or the end of the document.
I've got a citation where the authors name includes Š. LaTeX gives an "! Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence." on this, fine, I'm used to that, so I replace it with \v{S}. That just gives me a v in the output. But \v{z} works just fine.
MWE:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackag...
