@Student404Mus you haven't shown any code so hard for anyone to help you. Alan has shown how to carry an enumerate over to a new slide, is the problem that you have a second level list that you want to carry over?
@Student404Mus at a guess \begin{itemize}\item[]\begin{itemize} \setcounter{enumii}{4} \item resumed list starts here....
Hi every one. In the recent time, I notice that the responsiveness of TeX.SE has slowed down considerably. It acts from time to time as if it is frozen, so I need to restart my browser (Chrome). I also have problems with loading images. This often takes a few minutes. Does anyone else have any similar experiences?
@DavidCarlisle, hm. I don't know what was going wrong. Now I try to remember what was happen recently to my PC. My Internet provider still provide the same access time (4 ms) and data transfer speed (80/80 Mbit/s) as before. However, meantime i have some automatic upgrade of Windows 10. Slow down not happen always but at least ones per day. I have open TeX.SE site permanently. Can this be cause of my problems?
@DavidCarlisle, thank you for information. For beginning to found out, what is going on, I will start to shut down my PC before I will go to slip (here is now 02:23h). By!
@barbarabeeton also @egreg hi. what is ushyphex.tex and why are you guys talking about adding polymers to it? I do work in polymers atm and might be able to contribute if you are looking for contributors
@thymaro it is a list of hyphenation corrections for English words that do not get hyphenated well by the standard US English hyphenation patterns, @barbarabeeton maintains it will be on your system somewhere like /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphenex/ushyphex.tex
@thymaro (@barbarabeeton) I'm somewhat dubious about adding too many technical chemical names as the list may be endless but I suppose some are in common enough use.
@DavidCarlisle ah I see. Only thing I could add, then, is a list of the most common polymers, but that doesn't seem extremely necessary. Nevermind then, thanks for the explanation.
@Zarko dependent on browser and OS. For me leaving my Firefox open for a week or so with 100+ tabs open, sometimes Firefox goes crazy and allocates memory for apparently no reason. If that happens Firefox fills my 7.7Gi RAM and 8Gi swap and makes my whole OS freeze while the swapping takes place. Sometimes I can then kill and restart Firefox, sometimes my GUI crashes.
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@DavidCarlisle regarding tex.stackexchange.com/q/493938/3929, I wanted for fun to bench mark it. Have you tried the comment package lately? I cannot make it exclude the equation env
@yo' I'm trying to make an argument that the comment package should not be used as each commented env is instead written to a temp file on disk. IO is slow, and wanted to test against environ instead
@DavidCarlisle is it just me or is \excludecomment not redefining \end{env}?
@JosephWright I was just thinking about the \batchmode thingy... The \end that follows will have no effect when executed inside a box or something like that (of course, no further error will be printed, but) TeX will still try to process the rest of the file. Wouldn't it be better to make something to end all active groups and only then \end?
@JosephWright ah I saw that before seeing this comment here:-) can't you do \batchmode\something that forces a stop? \input " missing file " for example (dont like that much though)
@UlrikeFischer yes I wondered about that when I saw the answer last night, but was too tired to check if unicode-math had a wrapper for the U variants but it seems not?
@PauloCereda just proving that windows is the operating system of choice?
@UlrikeFischer ideally the delimiters would be "known" from uniocde-table so not need declaring but that font seems to have delimiters in the private use area...
@cis er help if you said where that came from, but I guess it's a macro so \renewcommand not \setlength if setlength does not work
@DavidCarlisle ;-). Let's look if we get error messages. And I think one should look if the code can be loaded like the luaotfload-code in a harflatex.ini.
@AlanMunn I was answering a statement that I could have read texwelt as I am fluent in German, with the (translated) answer "I could but I don't" which apparently had no verb in the German which is some grievous sin, but I'm not sure if the English I started with actually parses, now I've been challenged:-)
@DavidCarlisle Ellipsis is a tricky thing. And people have different thresholds for how identical elided material can be. But it's certainly fine to say "I could, but I don't" to mean "I could <read texwelt> but I don't <read texwelt>" since the ellipsis is identical.
@AlanMunn yes but when Ulrike suggested "I could but I wont" (which google can translate) I got worried about the implied past thingy in "I don't" and the implied future thingy in "I could" I wanted a (present and past) sense in both halves of the phrase.
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my problem is as follows: I want to create a document in PDF format that contains checkboxes and Textfield that should be filled out by users. The Textfiles appear in tables in landscape mode.
This means:
1. I want to have tables (using "longtables", because the tables stretch over several pages...
@DavidCarlisle “actaully”, github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic people did just that, they took the Web2C output of xetex.web and are directly working on it. Which is a really horrible idea, but apparently they are not the first, some TeX for iOS app did just the same with XeTeX as well.
@KhaledHosny actually I'd seem that before but forgotten about it. Do you know anything of their plans? are they going to need latex back end support at some time (different to xetex/xdvipdfmx) ? (@JosephWright) We'd rather hoped that harftex would see a unification of unicode based tex engines, not new ones springing up:-)
@DavidCarlisle no idea, but my feeling is that they have not much experience with TeX the engine or the text ecosystem in general. In one instance they added a dummy \pdfsomething primitive just because some pdftex-only document shocked on it.
@DavidCarlisle So I’d not worry much about it, they are living in their own little niche.
@FaheemMitha they use the same binary that has both back ends built in, so it is just a matter of saying which you want, if you put \pdfoutput=1 as the first line of your file, pdflatex and latex will be identical in behaviour on the document
@FaheemMitha not just "basically". in actual fact the only difference is that pdflatex.ini has the line \pdfoutput=1 and latex.ini does not (so it has value 0)
@FaheemMitha telling that of the three links for git based ones, 2 are 404 and the third says it is a stale project page and the project has moved. I suspect that the github Ui over the standard git pull requests is more than enough for most projects based at github
@DavidCarlisle Those kind of patch management systems are actually quite useful. I've used MQ for years. It's basically quilt on VC steroids. I suppose the Git ones are similar.
@JosephWright For managing patches. Was I unclear?
@DavidCarlisle Also, Github isn't version control. People seem to lose sight of that. It's a web site running on proprietary code.
@FaheemMitha I can't see how they can be useful to us though, if people want to send us a patch they hit the "generate pull request" button in github, and if we want to accept it we press the "accept pull request", why do we need to make it more complicated?
@FaheemMitha well yes it is, or at least git by design accepts diffs to be merged, the github wrapping makes that easier (and probably accounts for git being so popular)
@FaheemMitha no I mean that git allows you to generate a diff in your fork and send it by email or whatever mechanism you like and have it applied in a different fork, a github pr is just that wrapped in a web interface around two forks that it has control over
> Windows 10 is getting a new terminal for command-line users, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today. The new so-called "Windows Terminal" will launch in mid-June and promises to be a major update of the existing Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell experience. From a report: Indeed, it seems like the Terminal will essentially become the default environment for PowerShell, Command Prompt and Windows Subsystem for Linux users going forward. The new terminal will feature faster GPU-accelerated text rending and "emoji-rich" fonts, because everything these days needs to s…
@DavidCarlisle Panther, Leopard, Snow Leopard, some big cat here, Lion, Mountain Lion, sea lion probably, then... Mavericks, some park name, Sierra, High Sierra, higher Sierra probably, then Mojave, Sahara... it's so very intuitive
@JosephWright Since this answer is a CW big list, should we tell @canageek to split his subanswers into three? (Not sure if it's a great question, but I think people might find it useful) tex.stackexchange.com/q/494059/2693
Today I worked on a LaTeX project that included a few PNGs, and the compilation took 5min 43s, after I converted all the PNGs to PDFs the compilation then took 8s, I reduced the compile time by more than 97% just by changing the images' format. I HATE PNGS!!!
@DavidCarlisle except for one image where sam2p threw an error because of some colour models not correctly set or something like that, for this one image I used ImageMagick's convert.
@Skillmon to be fair it's not that surprising that pdfs are better optimised for including into pdf than a generic portable graphic format that tries to be usable for many purposes.
@DavidCarlisle and sam2p screwed up the sizes (images were included using the scale key, but after the conversion they were like 10 times bigger in size (not in file size, in dpi size))
@DavidCarlisle well, PNG can't be included into PDF but has to be rewrote entirely... a better comparison would be JPG or similar...
@Skillmon but that's not pngs fault, pdf could specify a png stream format if they chose to, just as they did for jpg, then the data could just be copied in.
@Skillmon but in general I agree pre-converting makes lots of sense (I can't understand why so many people want to use eps and have pdflatex shell out to ghostscript to convert compared to just converting to pdf first)
@AlanMunn Dunno. I just wanted to submit the annual report but they didn't allow it because my papers was not in this format. As of last year the proposals did not have to be accessible (in any sense ;-).
@marmot Wow. So I assume this is PDF/A or something. But for math-heavy papers this must be quite a difficult standard to meet. So what did you end up doing?
@AlanMunn No, I don't. I really communicate via emails. The worst thing I was involved in was a grant proposal written in open office (but we got the grant and it was big).
@AlanMunn I do not yet know if that works. The secretaries kindly used acrobat pro to convert it (since word, unsurprisingly, did not work even though it is the main thing advertized by NSF: research.gov/common/attachment/Desktop/… ). Of course, this defeats the purpose, at least to some extent.
@marmot I see. Well as someone who's done quite a bit of it, getting people to learn LaTeX isn't really practical. We use Google docs for initial drafting or Word. In the later stages some people are happy enough to edit LaTeX source without knowing any LaTeX, others I just tell them to give me Word and I convert. But teaching long time Word users LaTeX isn't really an option in my experience.
@marmot Wow, you have secretaries that actually work for you...
