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Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating
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Andreas Leha |
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Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package? |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:21:41 +0200 |
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Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Note: I should be obvious that I prefer to load as little stuff be
>>> default as possible. That is: I'm biased, but it's OK when everyone
>>> knows.
>>
>> Yes. Of course the cleanest solution would be to load as little
>> as possible. But convenience and backward compatibility are
>> also a concern which I would like to consider.
>
> I agree. And, as said, people who want a 'clean' solution (to his or
> her mind) can easily get that. So convenience is certainly something
> that should be considered!
>
>>>> - to add the rotating package
>>>> - do document that the tabu package is needed when specifying tabu
>>>
>>> Note the package loading order might matter.
>>
>> Yes, I am aware of this. Can you be specific for this case? I guess
>> rotating has no load sequence issues.
>
> I doubt rotating causes issues as it provides its own environments
> cf. section 2.2 of its manual. I didn't find any reports on the
> Internets.
>
>> Does tabu have such issues [of conflicting with other packages]?
>> With which packages (what you know)
>
> I don't think tabu causes any problems. It states it doesn't rewrite
> any existing code (as e.g. tabularx does) cf. p. 1.
>
> Perhaps, Eric Abrahamsen (Cc'ed) has more experience with tabu
> (according to the log Eric added tabu support).
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't moved to tabu yet. Supposedly, it can
> replace most other tabular packages including longtable and it's
> compatible with many other packages cf. p. 9 of its manual (but that's
> another story).
>
There seems to be some concern about an unmaintained tabu package. See
here, for a good summary of that:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/121847/15392
- Andreas
>>>> - do document that amsmath in needed when generating a matrix
>>>
>>> and subscripts. And sometimes math (e.g. align).
>>
>> amsmath is (edited) in the defualt list, patch by you IIRC. So we
>> actually do not have to say something about this in the manual.
>
> No.
>
>>>> The reasoning:
>>>>
>>>> - wrapfig and longtable have been in there for a long time, we want to
>>>> avoid breaking existing files whenever possible
>>>
>>> Assuming a mechanism exists that can detect when tabu is to be loaded
>>> why only apply it there and not to the other optional packages?
>>
>> Because any automatic mechanism may cause problems with load sequence,
>> so packages that are problematic in this way should require user attention.
>> Hmm, have I just argued agains longtbl by saying this?
>
> If we are (i) aware of no known problems with a package and (ii) we
> assume that loading package X–Z have little impact on compilation time
> is it then not more rational to just add them as a default package?
>
> While automatic package handling is very exciting it could go awry.
>
> On conflicts.
>
> For me clashes mainly happen between macros defined multiple times,
> e.g. compare \usepackage{amsmath, wasysym} and \usepackage{wasysym,
> amsmath}.
>
> Exotic math packages, cross-reference packages, algorithm packages
> seem to be potential sources, but none should conflict with amsmath.
> There may be conlficts with hyperref, if anything.
>
> Packages that are known to cause trouble are usually known. Beside
> stackoverflow here's an interesting list
>
> http://www.macfreek.nl/memory/LaTeX_package_conflicts
>
> Fixes are usually available. For instance, I use a filter to disable
> fontenc/inputenc if pdflatex is not used (it breaks xelatex for me).
>
> –Rasmus
>
> --
> This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, (continued)
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/12
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Detlef Steuer, 2013/09/13
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/15
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Nicolas Girard, 2013/09/15
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Rasmus, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Rainer M Krug, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Rasmus, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?,
Andreas Leha <=
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2013/09/16
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/17
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Rasmus, 2013/09/17
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Rasmus, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/18
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Rasmus, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Nicolas Girard, 2013/09/19
- Re: [O] [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?, Carsten Dominik, 2013/09/19