From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:21:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4coseju.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874n9kwott.fsf@gmx.us
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-16 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 11:05 [export] Should sidewaystable option automatically add rotating package? Eric S Fraga
2013-09-11 12:01 ` Rasmus
2013-09-11 12:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-11 12:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-11 12:25 ` Rasmus
2013-09-11 15:24 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-09-11 12:30 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-12 17:42 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-09-12 18:33 ` Rasmus
2013-09-12 19:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-09-13 8:49 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-09-12 19:22 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-13 8:01 ` Detlef Steuer
2013-09-15 4:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-15 14:02 ` Nicolas Girard
2013-09-16 8:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-16 10:47 ` Rasmus
2013-09-16 11:26 ` Rainer M Krug
2013-09-16 13:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-16 13:38 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-16 19:26 ` Rasmus
2013-09-16 20:21 ` Andreas Leha [this message]
2013-09-17 1:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-09-17 4:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-17 13:24 ` Rasmus
2013-09-18 13:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-18 22:21 ` Rasmus
2013-09-19 2:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-19 9:11 ` Rasmus
2013-09-19 9:28 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-19 9:38 ` Nicolas Girard
2013-09-19 11:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25 7:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25 7:45 ` Nicolas Girard
2013-09-25 7:50 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-25 9:09 ` Rasmus
2013-09-26 8:51 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-17 13:30 ` Rasmus
2013-09-17 5:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-17 8:05 ` Eric S Fraga
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