Stefan Kottwitz

@John I don't have tips for Amazon, as such things are done by my publisher; I just write or update book content from time to time.

@John Hi John, some books are sold, I guess because Amazon currently has a 46% discount (TikZ book) and a 25% discount (Beginner's Guide).

@DavidCarlisle You just did! And earned yourself the privilege of being the technical reviewer of the 3rd edition! Congrats! ;-)

@DavidCarlisle yes, soon so

@JosephWright Very nice! I saw your post on tex.social. ;-) TeXlive.net support pending :-D

@DavidCarlisle Exactly, I watch myself often adding %!TeX log and the pdf disappears and then editing again, removing %!TeX log, running, and then adding %!TeX log again possibly

Just not easy to guess for the learner.

Like Ulrike told a German user yesterday :-)

@cfr Yes, exactly. Indeed, some random command at the end would force it

@DavidCarlisle yes, like another output frame appearing if you click the "Show log" button below the pdf. Just anything that you thing would be good.

Greatr! And like the "Delete output" button, a "Hide log" or "Close log" would be good then.

still interested in a "show log" button :_)

@DavidCarlisle no problem

microtype improves the typography generally effortlessly, I just noticed that it looks missing

@Atcold Seems you don't use microtype - how about trying to add \usepackage{microtype} and compare? The right margin of the paragraph could look smoother to the eye (punctuation protrusion)

btw. axel might be a typo, centre is not american (center)

it's in general good (symbols just have varying height and width, so alignment of parentheses and arguments look like extra manual work), just the fraction position looks odd

left, yes, it would be a manual tweak, no automatism. Right: the fraction looks shifted to the left, compared to the v above

@Atcold I still don't like the playful curly arrows :-) but don't mind. In the equation, the left side might get a tweak for vertical spacing (equal spacing of rows) and the very right may look better with alignment of the fraction, and maybe alignment of the arguments, if you have a close look.

@Jasper It worked in this case, but I totally agree with you: it's risky to have a tikzpicture in a node (inheriting options...) and better to save it in a box.

@Atcold I like the alignment and indentation of your source code; I could imagine that aligning at /.style could be nice for the eye, instead of left alignment in this case, where several styles are shown

@Atcold I will definitely work on another edition! The whole reason why I support marketing of the book (... it's currently 40% off at Amazon with also 40% claimed of the limited time deal...) is that if the publisher can live with the sales, they approve another edition. And I could add a lot more content. Gladly send me your thoughts to [email protected]

@Atcold I'm happy to tell you that there's a Japanese edition now! There's a lot of TikZ friends in Japan.

@Atcold ok :-) btw. you could mention a TikZ book if you enjoyed the reading :-D

@Atcold Try how your diagrams look with a sharp -stealth arrow tip instead of the default curvy arrow tips, and smaller tick labels on axes

@John that's exactly what my grandma said about the first edition of this book! tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94889/…

I recommend requesting Comic Sans for an own tombstone; this removes suicidal thoughts entirely, encourages a healthy lifestyle, and leads to a long life.

@PauloCereda It's Times New Roman

@AlanMunn How's the kerning?

LearnLaTeX.org is the best platform for this because of the many supported languages.

Or text/code examples on a test page

@DavidCarlisle do you have some examples to compare them now and possibly later for considering switching?

@DavidCarlisle I'll gladly look at it!

I sent an email to [email protected], thanks @yo'!

@yo' curl ctan.org returns "403 Forbidden" to me, from different locations. I would expect a "301 Moved Permanently" for the redirection to https. Browsers may simply do https anyway as it was cached by the browser and users don't even notice when it, except when they never used https for it or call ctan.org for the first time.

@EmanueleNardi see here: underline omitting the descenders

@EmanueleNardi MTG is a fan of @Skillmon.

@JosephWright Yes, I read your answer and had nothing to add. Possibly, they will continue their job just by walking to the next site.

@DavidCarlisle Ok! that has time, also I never noticed an issue with pdf.js before, that run well all the time.

@DavidCarlisle Possibly :-)

I used Chrome btw.

@DavidCarlisle sounds good!

@DavidCarlisle Now I'm doing some Asymptote :-) pdf.js cannot render all, but %!TeX return pdf works fine

@DavidCarlisle That's great!

@LaTeXereXeTaL Thank you very much! It feels good and motivating to hear that!

@PauloCereda got it, thanks!

@DavidCarlisle fixed, thanks!