David Carlisle

at the time installations by hand were perhaps more common as were accidental setup errors that might lead to files being over-written. Now it's not so useful (but perhaps hard...

On Mon, 3 May 2021 at 22:06, kberry ***@***.***> wrote: > David, my point is that nothing will be overwritten when the dtx > generation is in cwd and the...

You could define a command that does essentially ``` \ExplSyntaxOn \dim_show:N\textwidth \tl_show:x{\string\textwidth=\dim_to_decimal_in_unit:nn {\textwidth } { 1mm }mm} \stop ``` which produces ``` > \textwidth=8191.99998pt. } l.5 \dim_show:N\textwidth ? > \textwidth=2879.17386mm....

thanks for your report the idiom of re-using `\@temp...` scratch macro names really comes from a previous era when we needed to avoid filling the csname hash table, so as...

I need to check the notes from when that was added, as it is, really we could skip the test for `\Umathaccent` altogether and just give the generic "unable to...

Thanks for the report, will leave this open, and hope to find time to investigate over the holiday period.

Thanks for the report, the code for `\newenvironment` relies on `\newcommand` (or at least the internal `\new@command`) to check essentially this and throw an error that the empty command is...

that is odd, although it seems to be a issue with the fonts rather than latex this plain tex example access the fonts directly ``` \font\fxa=ecss1000 at 10pt \font\fxb=ecsx1000 at...

hmm you get essentially the same from ``` \documentclass{article} % bad, but user is not warned \newcounter{bibliography} \begin{document} \cite{qqq} \begin{thebibliography}{99} \bibitem{qqq}hmm \end{thebibliography} \end{document} ``` It's always been this way, but...

Thanks for the file. the newer code checks the amount on the page in a better way to avoid over-runs when there are floats, or shrinkable glue on the page,...