@Szabolcs FWIW Hyperlink["Click here", "paclet:MaTeX/tutorial/ConfiguringMaTeX"] which MaTeX prints the first time MaTeX is installed does not work for me. I use version 11, OS X.

@C.E. Thanks for letting me know. It's a good time because I will release the next version soon. But I don't understand what's wrong. Can you help me figure it out?

@C.E. What is your M version? Did you install the paclet or did you just clone the github repo? What happens when you click the link? What OS are you on? OS X? What TeX distribution do you have? On OS X with MacTeX the configuration would typically get auto-detected with no problems, so I wonder why it didn't happen on your system.

@C.E. This is MaTeX 1.6.3, right? Did you have a previous version installed, or is this the first version you tried?

@C.E. No matter what I try, I just can't reproduce this. Not even if I uninstall the paclet, restart Mathematica, reinstall, and try immediately.

Did you use PacletInstall?

@Szabolcs Restarting Mathematica solved the problem. Uninstalling the paclet and then installing it again did not. So it was definitely something that was wrong in that very first session for me, but I can't reproduce it any longer either. I'm sorry for causing all this problem, I thought it was something simple.

@C.E. If you saw the problem, then there must be something wrong. I'll experiment more. Just to make sure, did you use M11.0.1, M11.0.0, or something else?

Ah, there it is again:

@C.E. Also, what exactly happened when you clicked it? Nothing at all? I sometimes have the problem that clicking a link in the doc center has no effect at all for a minute or so.

I see, error message.

The way I reproduced was that I uninstalled the paclet, restarted Mathematica, and then installed it again. The same thing that didn't reproduce it for you.

I'm using 11.0.0.0

On OS X El Capitan

I have 11.0.1 here on Sierra.

I downloaded one of the releases btw, and used PacletInstall to answer your question above.

Don't know what distribution I have. As I recall I got it working by copying the configuration command from the documentation, I didn't find it myself.

I can try downloading 11.0.1 later and see if that fixes it.

This might be a stupid question so I refrain for the moment from asking it on main, but can someone explain to me the behavior of

example := RandomReal[{0, 100}, 100]

Dynamic@Histogram[example]

Dynamic@Histogram[{example}]

I expected Histogram to work the same as e.g. ListPlot

compare

Dynamic@ListPlot[{example, example}]

and Dynamic@Histogram[{example, example}]

@Sascha Hm, that doesn't sound stupid. It sounds like this, but I don't think that is it.

I'll try with LinkSnooper

@Jacob I searched for "Histogram Dynamic" on this site and found nothing of interest but I wonder whether this has been asked before because it is so basic that someone must have stumbled over this before.

I'll post this on main (thanks Jacob for the sanity check)

@Sascha No problem, I'm curious what answers you will get. A link to the Question would be appreciated

I will link the question

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when i try to plot this function, it doen't show the correct answer at 0, can you tell me how to avoid this?

nvm forgot the syntax , everything is okay now

Stupid question, but somehow I can't find it. I'm exporting a plot as a PDF with Mathematica, but it appears that doing so also saves all of the data not shown due to PlotRange, in some hidden layer. One can see this in Illustrator (i.stack.imgur.com/xk8gG.png and i.stack.imgur.com/8Q0Ir.png) and the file is very large. Can I get rid of this while maintaining all of the nice unrasterized properties?

@user129412 Looks like you have a discrete data set: Simplest way might be to select the data points you want to include with Select.

@C.E. Yes, its a ListPlot with Joined->True. Selecting them is a bit of a hassle though.. I'm using DataRange to set up the x-axis, so I don't know exactly which points belong to that without explicitly creating an x-axis list and then finding which elements of that correspond to my desired PlotRange. Unless I am mistaken. As an aside I should probably also be able to do this in Illustrator, but that's not for this SE

@user129412 ok, I see. So you have values {y1, y2, ...} but don't specify the x. Then you use something like DataRange -> {xmin, xmax}. Off the top of my head something like this could work, but haven't tried it:

Pick[list, Thread[plotRangeMin < Rescale[Range@Length[list], {1, Length[list]}, {xmin, xmax}] < plotRangeMax]]

Where plotRangeMin and plotRangeMax would be range limits for the x axis.

@C.E. That would choose the portion of the list belonging to {plotRangeMin,plotRangeMax}? If so that is a pretty good solution. Let me try.

Seems to work! Still takes a bit of rewriting (I have plus minus 50 plots that suffer from exactly this problem, didn't see it was an issue until my report compiled to about 50 mb) but not all that much. Thanks

ok, np

People who use MaTeX: Please try this pre-release version (1.6.92) and let me know if there are any problems.