Get an approximation for the heaviness of a text font 22
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samcarter samcarter
7 I had a brilliant idea, really brilliant idea. I thought, the hyphen's height should correlate with the font weight. And for the first two fonts that's indeed the case, but not for CMR, which doesn't set a tight bounding box above the hyphen.
Skillmon
6 This answer combines @Skillmon's great idea to utilise the height of the `.` with a manually curated list of exceptions (the list of test fonts was taken from the very useful answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/249140/36296):
samcarter
How does the variant generation happen in LaTeX3? 10
निरंजन निरंजन
14 The variants generated by `\cs_generate_variant:Nn` only process arguments so that the base function can be called as expected in the end. In your question, `\__int_incr_and_use:N` will be called after an automatic `\csname ... \endcsname` whenever you use `\__int_incr_and_use:c`.
frougon
10 There used to be hand-optimised functions in `expl3` (for instance the definition of `\tl_set:Ne` used to be akin to `\edef#1{\unexpanded\expanded{{#2}}}` and `\tl_set:Nx` used to be akin to `\edef#1{#2}`. But in order to simplify the language most if not all of those optimisations of variants were dropped.
Skillmon
Read from multiple sequences and write in a single clist 12
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निरंजन निरंजन
7 This looks almost okay to me. I would clear `\l_tmpb_tl` before using its value (so, at the beginning of the `\prg_replicate:nn` loop body) because one can't assume in general that it is initially empty. Also, I'd use `\exp_not:V` like this:
frougon
On the fly (one step) expansion of a macro defined with \cs_gset_eq:NN 18
निरंजन निरंजन
11 Delimited arguments require delimiter tokens to have the same *shape* in definition and usage(\*). `\tmpend` and `\q_stop` may be `\ifx`-equivalent, they don't have the same shape. Using `\tmpend` in the definition is fine IMHO if this is for user code (for expl3 macro code, just use `\q_stop`). You can define `\tmpend` as a quark to prevent incorrect usage.
frougon
Tulu-Tigalari script in LaTeX 14
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J...S J...S
tikz, Draw three lines in one path command 2
UdiB UdiB
7 To get nice line joints, I would use a different approach: don't draw a line from p2 to p3 and instead draw arrow tip in one go:
samcarter
Loading babel files inside expl-syntax fails, why? 5
निरंजन निरंजन
How to integrate clist-s inside tabular environments? 1
निरंजन निरंजन
12 The reason it's necessary is that `\noalign` (the primitive used by `\bottomrule`) must be the first unexpandable token inside an alignment row. As such, the minimal example that breaks for the same reason as yours is the following:
Skillmon
How to find and replace group tokens from a _tl or an _str? 5
निरंजन निरंजन
7 It is possible, if you at the same time change both `{` and `}`.
Skillmon
How can I draw this picture with TikZ in 3D? 5
tikz
Anonymous 13837 Anonymous 13837
8 I would not use any 3D libraries or packages for this. You can just draw circles, ellipses or arcs and lines as these two drawings are relatively simple.
Jasper Habicht
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