oh, just revisited the stuff I was sure was added by `xcolor` and not part of `colortbl`, only to find out that it got merged into `colortbl` at some time, so now it really just loads `colortbl` with the `table` option.
Skillmon
(at least I thought, maybe I'm wrong there as well)
Seen in an old post today:
```
\usepackage{colortbl}
\PassOptionsToPackage{table}{xcolor}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
```
I guess somebody wanted to be extra sure that `colortblr` is loaded :P
How about the following plan:
I'll submit an abstract for one talk about both packages and closer to Dante'26, we communicate again if you want to do the part about xistercian yourself, otherwise I'll do the whole talk. Does this sound acceptable?
Anyway, lovely idea. I'm always reluctant to give talks about my own packages (well, and for that reason never done so). I like them. I use them (from time to time). But I'm wary whether they're relevant to a broader audience (even though I solve peoples' problems online using them, as there's often another way without using any of my packages).
I think it would be kind of boring to get two talks about Cistercian numerals. But I'm open to collaborate. I don't know for sure yet whether I'll attend (the location is close-ish so that's a plus, but as I said, I'm not sure yet)
samcarter
Keeping Up with the penguins: https://www.kyoto-aquarium.com/sokanzu/en/2024/
samcarter
@Skillmon The latest Komödie opened the call for presentations at Dante'26. So I'm pondering about doing a short presentation about the cistercian package.
I think it might be nice to include xistercian as well, what do you think? Maybe first an intro what these numerals are, then some examples with both packages? Or might you be at Dante'26 and could be persuaded to talk about xistercian yourself?
J...S
Perhaps latex isn't the right tool for this task? Saw a few places suggesting scribus with scripting.
J...S
On another note, does anyone know of a way to build photo albums with latex?
Ideally without actually writing down the whole latex, but with just adding the data files like images and their captions.
photoalbum looks like a nice way.
https://github.com/flynx/photobook/
But I have trouble understanding the expected directory structuring in their example.
https://github.com/flynx/photobook/tree/main/examples/book
It could go like this (typing the numbers from memory, I hope I don't screw up): `\` remains 0, `{}` remains 1 and 2, `%` remains 14, `[A-Za-z]` remain 11, everything else is active.
Also, `babel` shorthands are the reason I can claim that only 4 of the key=value parsers I tested work reliably (of which `expkv` is by far the fastest)
**Blog post:**
A biased study with one individual finds that a user, who does not use babel shorthands, does not experience a lot of advantages from them, but sometimes finds funny problems they cause.
:)
another implementation for form fields is in the pdfmanagement-testphase package, see all the files starting with `l3pdffield` here https://github.com/latex3/pdfresources
