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The latest version of fontspec now returns proper error messages when a font cannot be found: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ./small.tex:6: ! fontspec error: “font-not-found” ! ! The font “Ggeorgia” cannot be found. ! ! See the fontspec documentation for further information. !… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the PracTeX Journal (discl.: I used to be a production editor there some years back) contains a set of interesting challenges: typeset and solve a KenKen puzzle. I haven’t seen this puzzle before; it looks fun… Continue Reading →
Trends in recent years for texhax and the Mac OS X TeX mailing lists. And a comparison with tex.stackexchange.com. Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard asked whether I’d looked at the number of posts to the texhax mailing list when I posted last night… Continue Reading →
With new LaTeX sites around nowadays such as tex.stackexchange.com and latex-community.org, it seems that the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the mainstay of the TeX support world, is in decline. Newsgroups in 2011 are an anachronism from the younger days of the internet,… Continue Reading →
Funny problem in mathtools vs. francais babel. (Only a coincidence that I’m debugging two babel problems back-to-back.) Morten Høgholm’s mathtools package has an option to turn the colon into an active character so that writing := produces a colon-equals sign… Continue Reading →
A user of Peter Wilson’s fonttable package reported an interesting bug in the interaction between it and the Spanish module (if not others) of babel. Here’s the problem in a nutshell: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \begin{document} $\lim x_n$ {\font\x=cmr10\x hello} $\lim x_n$… Continue Reading →