@manooooh Soon enough you will be doing supergravity, and really need \bar\imath and so on. How else would you indicate an anti-holomorphic index.;-) (This spellchecker is insane, it does not even know supergravity nor holomorphic. What's going on here?)
@manooooh I guess that's something rather common. In Germany, if you want to say something is fishy you might end up saying "This appears Spanish to me"....
@JosephWright I hope I'm not giving people disinformation for the below. The short conversation between you and Frank (and the surrounding conversations on that Q) has led me to advise people just stick with $ rather than \( and \) since my early days with TeX. Has there been significant change in that space over the last five years?
If there's a large conversation to be had, I can bring it up on the list if you prefer. Or if it could be a lot of information, I can ask a follow-up Q; the original is getting to be ten years old :')
@DavidCarlisle seems very unlikely to get used wide spread (just scammed a bit through the documentation, I have no idea what I'd do with it...). It seems like you provided something on which others could build but don't do. And I love the bugs section of the documentation :)
ooh xmltex:-) If I was doing this I'd use XSLT, it really is a lot easier to get XSLT to handle the XML re-arrangement and write out some tex rather than get TeX to do it at the same time. — David CarlisleMar 20 '13 at 16:31
@Skillmon I'd forgotten about that section, but it is true
@Skillmon but here for our product doc we use mathml (and xml for the rest of the document) as we use a tightly constrained and product-specific schema that allows us to generate code and documentation in multiple formats and multiple programming languages from the same source., it's so much easier to parse xml than tex
@Skillmon so we can take a documented error message (which typically has the constraint as maths) and generate the documentation of that error message in html or pdf or restructed text for python sphynx and the code of the actual error handler in fortran, c, c++ exception handler, python, matlab etc. having the math in xml not tex to start with makes it far more practical to transform in multiple ways
@DavidCarlisle Honestly, yuck :) But that's just my opinion (look mah, no research!). I guess the yuckiness of XML syntax could be abstracted over with your choice of editor/preprocessor.
@DavidCarlisle I really need to look into nxml-mode. I work with XML 'enough', but I still only use nxml for its superior syntax highlighting – I can't say I know any actual editing support commands
@SeanAllred this is one view nag.co.uk/numeric/cl/nagdoc_cl26.2/html/frontmatter/… but also much of the underlying code (all the user visable interfaces in fortran,C,matlab,python,..) are generated from the same files.
@UlrikeFischer Yeah, I do. Was hinted at a reinstall of miktex in the github. Although the initial problem of updating yielded a similar error, sth not found in the miktex core dll, albeit a different thing. In the end though, after installing all the packs, erything works
somehow.. they really show make an update feature in the console, reinstalling is kind of a choir because of all the packages.
Would the used xcolor scheme be relevant to the color inversion algorithm? Inverting the color of screencap in ms paint tells me at least that there's a discrepancy.
@UlrikeFischer the OP says that the change suggested in #1 is from you but no link given github.com/ho-tex/hyperref/issues/1 do you think it would be enough to define \let\hyperefundefinedlink\@firstofone and use \hyperrefundefinedlink{#3} that a user could define how they wish, or is it worth adding some keyval interface to define the formatting? Actually I shoudl probably ask that in the issue...
@Skillmon @samcarter argued that, in order to increase the diversity on our site, it would be great if the duckuments also had an example-image-marmot. How do you feel about that? (Needless to say what I think, except that a marmot with crystal ball might be even nicer. ;-)
@Skillmon I guess you may want to ask @samcarter that question. (I think it is just using the \duck[invisible] trick and then repeat the random item story for the ducks. However, I am not sure if all items that look good on a duck also look good on a marmot.)
@Skillmon This feature will be added soon (as soon as I ported more of the items from the ducks to the tikzlings). I also plan to add a command which will give a random animal or being from the tikzlings.
@JosephWright I know what happens. The pgf code uses local n = resolvers.findfile (name, suffix). resolvers.findfile is a function from luaotfload which has changed slightly (suffix lua is now of type tex). But I don't see a way to change this in luaotfload.
@JosephWright Sorry for just pinging you, but I saw you're online and even though I searched for some while I could not find an answer on meta. If you have time, could you perhaps look at tex.stackexchange.com/q/453102/121799. The user refuses to put an MWE because the issue is the same as in a previous question. However, as the previous question does not have an answer, I cannot mark the new question as a duplicate of the old one. What am I supposed to do?
@JosephWright I'm not sure. But I think a remember a discussion about the naming of the lua files. the library has quite a lot "library.lua" in various subfolders.
@JosephWright But it is curious, the code uses simply return kpse.find_file(name,suffix) if the luaotfload function is not available. Why doesn't it use it always?
@JosephWright Well, there is an answer by @UlrikeFischer, which she herself deleted. How would I be able to solve it? (The best I could do is to offer a workaround, e.g. based on eso-pic and tikz. But this is certainly not an answer.) So, if I understand you correctly, users could add 100 copies of that question, and we will never be able to close them as duplicates because there is no answer?
@barbarabeeton probably not very well, if her understanding of pizza is any indication. @PauloCereda tells me that nutella pizza is good, so he can explain the hyperref issue.
@JosephWright I am more wondering about the policy on this site: I could go ahead and ask a "question" with just a link to an unsolved question, and no one could close my new "question" because the original real question does not have an answer?
@JosephWright OK, good, thanks! What can an ordinary user without super powers do? (At least my attempt to close it as a duplicate of the original one didn't go through since the original question does not have an (active) answer.)
@egreg For me they start at precisely the same day. And almost twice as much students as last year.... just hope the number does not double every year...
@marmot -- i think somebody tried that with grains of rice and went bankrupt. using students instead, your result would probably be functional insanity. good luck.
@barbarabeeton The someone was, as far as I know, the one who wanted to pay the inventor of the chess game. All the inventor was asking was 1 grain on the first field, 2 on the second, 4 on the third. Well 2^64-1 is large. ;-)
@marmot it was only a minimal example. I don't think that I really tried to debug -- imho one shouldn't use xwatermark, there are better packages to get watermarks
@UlrikeFischer Yes: tikz. (Just kidding, I know it's sort of an overkill here, but there is a nonnegligable fractions of users who are loading it anyway and they may use it. I leave the picture mode to more senior users. ;-)
@UlrikeFischer Does eso-pic allow you to move stuff around and color it in a convenient way? (I understand that you can do this with the coordinates provided by eso-pic, graphicx and xcolor, but IMHO this not as convenient as using tikz. And as most users are going to load tikzducks anyway, there is probably nothing wrong in providing a tikz-based workaround. ;-)
@DavidCarlisle oh, I didn't check any recent document published by AMS. I remember that here we talked a little about this document class and I thought it was old
@manooooh well it's old in the same way that article class is old, they all date from the start of latex2e in the early 1990s, but they are still current
Along the lines of Why is \[ ... \] preferable to $$ ... $$?, what reasons are there (if any) to favor \( ... \) over $ ... $?
