@ach Nothing to do with that command it is the TeX parser sees the space as the command terminator \AA hello doesn't make a space token the space just distinguished it from \AAhello
I originally implemented xspace a long time ago (for LaTeX 2.09) as, like most LaTeX beginners, I'd had a document where I had omitted a {} or \ and so had a missing space in the final document.
The original version used a very simple nested test for following punctuation, but it could get the t...
@DavidCarlisle so the solution is: use \ after macro commands in text if a space is desired. Presumably if a character follows immediately one can simply use a space (which will be munched)
@DavidCarlisle what I meant to say was: I will take a look at siunitx, thank you. I'll also look to removing xspace from my preamble and fix any issues that arise.
@ach well xspace is Ok really, if you have documents using it there is no need to take it out as you then have to carefully check all use of the commands and put \ back. It just isn't the general solution that people think it is.
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!!/eightball should documents use xspace?
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Bonus question: are there old style numerals in txfonts ? I would look this up myself but my capabilities are severely limited by atrocious download speed (.2 mbps) thanks to our very own British Telecom.
In the following I'm going to call
a polynomial expression an element of a suitable algebraic structure (for example a ring, since it has an addition and a multiplication)
that has the form $a_{n}x^{n}+\cdots+a_{1}x+a_{0}$, where $x$ is
some fixed element of said structure,
a polynomial fun...
@percusse compare mathjax rendering in Chrome with math rendering in Chrome without MathJax (and it isn't really "they" so much as "he") Almost all the coding is Davide Cervone
@AlanMunn Oh come on, it was the others are too small approx. 2 years ago. :) I think both are too big but I have to buy an S4 because of the significant other has iPhone 5 and she wants to try S4
@percusse replace "chrome" by any browser of choice (other than firefox) also for the math site polynomial question it's configured to use an excessively bold font but use teh right menu to choose native mathml (if using firefox) or svg rendering and you get a much better setting. You can not blame mathjax for user font choice, any more than you can Tex.
@DavidCarlisle I'm not belittling the efforts, I'm just saying. It has some mileage to cover. And that's not the only website using MathJax. Some blogs are also disturbing.
@percusse you'll probably see all big math sites use mathjax before long (elsevier science direct, AMS, wikipedia..) But You shouldn't compare in browser rendering to TeX, no more than you compare in browser rendering of the text to TeX.
@percusse TeX is highly optimised for setting material to a fixed page size with fixed fonts, websites generally and mathjax in particular has to cope with displaying the same content on a 22" screen and Alan's new phone with user choice of fonts. that makes things ... different...
@DavidCarlisle If you care enough in the design phase HTML is quite beautiful though. I'm trying to say that math rendering is TeX-like but not quite. It's sometimes overfancy and doesn't match the coolness of the surrounding text. It's a little too serious in my opinion.
But that doesn't mean MathJax is bad. It's not TeX and I agree that it's not an easy task even to achieve this much
@DavidCarlisle It's bad enough that my students complain that the PDF I gave them of their textbook was hard to read (they didn't know they could print it), now I'm going to have them complaining that my problem sets aren't smart phone friendly.
@AlanMunn basically latex+amsmath + a bit of chemistry where "support" varies from pretty accurate emulation to rough approximation of the syntax. It's best to think of it as a tex-like syntax for math rendering in a browser rather than "supporting latex" in any real way
I'm trying to put equation numbers next to text as if said text was an equation. If I use \text{} in an align* environment, it typesets the text right-aligned and the whole environment centered, but that's not what I want. I would like the text to look like in an itemize or enumerate environment ...
@egreg You can handle them. If things get though introduce some TeX notation and they will be distracted.
I'm using MS Word for the company and I can't believe how incredibly difficult to use it. Maybe I had too much TeX over time. I'm really like a grandma trying to figure how to Skype.
@percusse I have that experience now that I almost never use it anymore, even though I used to use it all the time. In fact it's now easier for me to compose in LaTeX and then copy and paste the PDF text into Word.
I am at a loss to understand why people would like to use a proprietary software which is crappy, when there is a free software, which is MUCH better! There was a recent news here, where universities in Tamil Nadu about how they will have to use Microsoft Office if they'd like to have use Microsoft cloud-<I forgot what>. I sense some bundling which famously is now responsible for Elsevier's fortune dwindling...
@percusse Microsoft XML is like no other:-) (It is possible to make minor changes but doing anything to that xml or even extracting information from it is tricky)
@DavidCarlisle I really want to meet one of those developers. I want to understand how they can really manage to screw up with virtually the largest dev-base at hand.
@DavidCarlisle I had the opportunity to talk to one of the IE guys and he confessed that IE is like the graveyard of discontinued projects. Almost every feature started as a great idea but died and then left in there not to cause any irrelevant loose end bugs
The cumulative result is of course a Frankenstein with light bulbs and organic matter here and there
However I also need to say that Outlook has become a monster since I've stopped using it. I'm really impressed that it works :) I've invited a conference room to a meeting to reserve it and also checked out other guys agendas to find a good time slot. I can't believe it worked after all it's MS :)
@percusse well yes IE is different again but Word's OOXML is a dump of Word's internal state with no real attempt to make the format usable for everything else, most notably despite being an xml format there is no tree structure, styling elements do not surround the text they style as Word (originally, when Micorsoft bought it) was a postscript based stack processor: text runs go on a stack then postfix style operators style the top of the stack...
@percusse I draw the line at outlook, I've never used it:-)
@percusse I have some (a bit) of sympathy with them, I can't change obvious flaws in latex because users rely on them, They have half the planet as user base.
@DavidCarlisle But they employ an incredible number of employees and had they decided to setup a small team within MS they would have fixed many things already from scratch. You are one of the core members of LaTeX team. Imagine you were all paid to make it better. I don't get MS mindset.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Surrey 237/10 & 229/10 v Durham 181/5 & 286/10 *
- Sri Lanka v Sri Lanka A
- Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab
- Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils
Our cricket expert David might explain these results later on.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
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(I'm wrting long sequences of equalities, and putting a very short explanation in each line, and I'd like all these to be at the same position in all instances)
@DavidCarlisle Sure. I have decided that I should be comfortable with emacs. Worst things when happen! listen! David is there with us :) I will trouble you here David ;-)
In the following I'm going to call
a polynomial expression an element of a suitable algebraic structure (for example a ring, since it has an addition and a multiplication)
that has the form $a_{n}x^{n}+\cdots+a_{1}x+a_{0}$, where $x$ is
some fixed element of said structure,
a polynomial fun...
