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Skillmon replying to निरंजन

I'm with @frougon on this one: Don't introduce incompatible interfaces.

frougon

Regarding Skillmon's reference, this sounds like the end of a famous Monty Python movie.

frougon replying to निरंजन

This sounds terrible because the same command could then have different incompatible APIs.

निरंजन

Has anyone heard of using conditional inside the argument-specification in `xparse`? So something like `\NewDocumentCommand{\foo}{\iffoo m \else o\fi}`

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

I don't get this reference :(

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

that you're really after treasures?

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

By the way, a good guess.

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Right

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

What does the prefix `ah` and suffix `rr` signify here?

samcarter

Package of the day: [rubikcube](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/rubikcube)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Imagine with several texlive versions installed, that's at least several byte of space :) (I guess I won't bother to calculate how many centuries of texlive I would have to accumulate until this becomes a noticeable size :) )

samcarter replying to Skillmon

(I hate packages which change their name) the number `r`s could increase with the version :P

Skillmon replying to samcarter

all those years they sneaked that evil file into our distributions! :)

Skillmon replying to samcarter

I meant he should call his package `ahrrr` (in case the one-letter package he wanted to create was `r.tex`)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

... the main problem with one letter packages seems to be that some people will go look for them and then find stuff which is were it is not supposed to be :)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

A pirate package would be more fun :)  
  
```  
\ProvidesPackage{pirate}

\RequirePackage{twemojis}
\newcommand{\pirate}{\twemoji{pirate flag}}  
```

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

you can make it a pirate's package!

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Yupp and I immediately found out that I will have to drop the idea of that name because there is already a `.tex` with that name :cry:

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Let others also try, I have understood what's happening

Skillmon

(oh, and I guess after you `ls`ed you saw another reason for having a hard time with one-letter packages)

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

so what is `x.tex`?

Skillmon

Hint: This is what the terminal looks like if you compile a file doing `\input{x.tex}` at the start:  
  
```none  
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.24 (TeX Live 2022) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./ekvcplayground.tex
LaTeX2e <2022-06-01> patch level 1
L3 programming layer <2022-06-16>
(/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/x.tex
```

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Hehe, I got it! It was a fun activity :joy:

I found the answer because of:

```bash
cd /usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools  
ls
```

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

can you guess from what's happening what purpose `x.tex` serves?

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Apparently it's a 'tool'. (I hope `\input x.tex` is not considered "looking at source". `/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/x.tex`)

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

you could try to convince me as well :)

frougon replying to Skillmon

I didn't intentionally, just misread your sentence... I won't participate, of course.

Skillmon replying to frougon

don't cheat!

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Maybe you won't find it cryptic once I tell you the name and the purpose, because it really seems anything other than that will be verbose. Of course, I think I shall first email and confirm it with CTAN-desk, because it will be too complicated to search and replace afterwards :joy:

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

I don't know, it is written and maintained by the LaTeX team

frougon replying to Skillmon

“generated with the docstrip utility”, says the box! :-p

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Okay, I am not looking at it, but is it written by David?

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

"no cryptic names". I guarantee you, you'll have a hard time getting a one-letter package past the maintainers.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

in the LaTeX distribution is a file named `x.tex` (you might guess what it's used for, but don't spoil the fun, don't look at its source!)

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

I did check, but there was nothing against it in any of the rules, still I would love to hear your objections.

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

If you intend to publish it, I'd recommend against that (see also CTAN's rules on package names)

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Cool! I found some two letter packages, but not even one with just a single letter. I am planning to write one :P

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

coincidence. There is an unpublished two-letter package written by myself: [-g](https://github.com/Skillmon/TeX-g)

निरंजन

Is that a rule or just a coincidence to not have any one-letter-packages in LaTeX?

निरंजन replying to frougon

Hahahaha

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Good idea :joy:

samcarter replying to Dr. Manuel Kuehner

:P Oh, das ging aber schnell! Habe ich doch richtig geraten dass es eine nicht-leere Schnittmenge aus TeX-Fans und Wikipedianern gibt :)

Dr. Manuel Kuehner replying to samcarter

Habe gerade auf Wikipedia geschaut und jemand hat das Paket auf der deutschen Eiki-Seite hinzugefügt. Ich habe gerade noch Dein Video erwähnt, mal sehen, ob die Änderung angenommen wird.![blob](/image?hash=bb91beb2084409009c7a7a188d40c9873a9b595f6c920909fad5849c367d5ab7)

frougon replying to Skillmon

Then you can start working on `gotohell.sty`. :)

Skillmon replying to frougon

I just decided on my next packages name :P

samcarter replying to Skillmon

Oh, that's a good name. Mine are boring: test.tex

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

that's why I have many `...playground.tex` files

samcarter replying to Dr. Manuel Kuehner

(maybe I can post the progress bar as a Q&A here)

samcarter replying to Dr. Manuel Kuehner

<3 Thank you! (I was contemplating a walking progress bar, but for the short talk there weren't enough frames to get a good result )

samcarter replying to frougon

Darn, I should have compiled this at the office :P