To cite authors in small caps, it is not necessary to create a new .bst file -- instead, redefine the \NAT@nmfmt macro which is responsible for formating the author's name. (See this answer for other areas of application for \NAT@nmfmt.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\makeatlette...
@lockstep Yes. You are slowly losing your mind. :-) No, actually I deleted it immediately, since it was wrong, so if you are losing your mind, this event isn't the relevant evidence. And unlike bad answers, bad comments thankfully aren't preserved for 10k users to enjoy.
@AlanMunn I think not. \pagestyle{plain} will set plain as the page style for all the pages until some other style is manually chosen, and that is not what I would expect. Or did I misundertand your answer?
@GonzaloMedina No, you didn't misunderstand the answer. I've deleted the answer, but added some more remarks to it about when the problem arises that might be helpful, although they aren't a solution yet.
Double-Yay! My TeX-'n-Fr3ndz swag shipment has arrived. Thanks to Joel and to all you in the community who made this possible! BTW, the sharpie writes Unicode!!!!
I just found some chapter headings that are really nice:
But I can't exactly figure out how to extend the rule off the margin and put the figure on the page before the chapter and the caption on the next (chapter heading) page. (Some tip on the footer would be nice, too).
The layout of the oth...
@AlanMunn Yes, your comments were indeed helpful. Noticing that \tableofcontents produced the problem, but that \chapter* didn't, pointed to the cause of the problem, as egreg's answer shows. Thanks.
@GonzaloMedina The trouble is, I looked at the code for \tableofcontents and they are identical in both report and book class, yet the problem only shows up in book, so I still don't understand why the problem arises.
@Canageek If people are learning, one approach is for you to use version control and simply send them copies by e-mail, then use the system at your end for merges, etc.
That way you get some track of who did what, etc., while they don't really have to worry
If you go with a DCVS then you don't need a remote system at all
@JosephWright I keep all my files on bitbucket, just in case. But they will want some sort of highlighting on their end. Will work on getting them to use bitbucket, but Mercurials diff system is not great.
I wish I had a chem paper written in LaTeX to show him the source of.
@Canageek Take a look at Chemical Structure and Reactivity by Keeler and Wothers (a first year integrated text). They typeset the entire thing themselves, and it's pretty impressive!
@MartinScharrer Also, if you are asking today for a plain TeX solution then really you should know a lot of the concepts here. As you say, requiring 'no e-TeX' is certainly odd: there are people who stick to TeX82, but they can probably answer this question easily.
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I have been reading this article and started to think about the position of LaTeX amongst the current competitors. Currently, I am using it (or XeTeX) even for ‘casual writing’ and sometimes I spend free time by exploring its possibilities and various solutions based on specific packages. When I ...
@JosephWright IMHO most of the items are about language use. Specification and use are different. Probably his claims might be covered by a good editor.
There's also the problem that to make a good judgement on several of the points would require a reasonable amount of experience with say InDesign (as the original article cites it several times)
@PauloCereda ......Yeah. I've used Word, Publisher, Powerpoint, emacs, notepad++, Visio 1.0 (Before it was bought by Microsoft, we just copied it from computer to computer until it stopped working on 64-bit systems) and a few others. Is it like any of those?
@PauloCereda All I used were the basic page sized ones and layout guide. Most of the templates were terrible. I loved how text would flow from one box to others through.
I wish someone would make a TeX-plugin type of thing so I can do layout in a GUI, then hit compile and get nice typesetting.
@Canageek Oh sorry, I thought we were still on InDesign (seriously). Yes, TeX is formally Turing-complete, but that does not necessarily mean anything in the real world.
@JosephWright it means it should be possible to fix any problem, given enough monkeys and typewriters. By which I mean we grab a couple of TeX geeks and lock them in a room until it works.
@Canageek Well yes, but that skips over some issues. For example, pdfTeX does not fundamentally know about sidebearings (the white space around a letter which is within the bounding box), so removing it can't be done programmatically. XeTeX and LuaTeX can get at this, so can do stuff that pdfTeX cannot.
@Canageek Well not necessarily: that was the plan, but then LuaTeX turned out different to how it once looked. I don't really know Thanh, so quite what the plans are I'm not sure.
@Canageek Well, LuaTeX was supposed to be 'pdfTeX 2', with the idea being that LuaTeX could then be used as the standard engine. However, as it's developed LuaTeX has (1) dropped some primitives that pdfTeX had added and (2) made some non-back compatible changes under certain circumstances.
That means that LuaTeX can't be used as a drop-in update for pdfTeX, and so there was talk of a restart on pdfTeX development
@Canageek No, but they are not done in the same way. The biggest issue is some hyphenation/line break edge cases. They can't change for the default TeX engine.
@Canageek Yes, that's the point. pdfTeX is the default engine for MiKTeX and TeX Live as it can be used as a direct, totally-compatible replacement for TeX82 (Knuth's TeX).
@Canageek There are some primitives in pdftex which are not in luatex. The pdfcmds package adds most of them as macros, but that's not 100% the same. Like \pdffilemod needs two expantion steps with luatex (because it is a macro) but only one with pdftex.
@Canageek They are making decisions they feel are sensible in the long term. It's not as if pdfTeX is going anywhere (or indeed if TeX82 will be dropped). ConTeXt is indeed an alternative macro package set to say plain TeX or LaTeX2e.
In most cases, you don't get any change, but TeX82 => pdfTeX is 100% by design
@JosephWright: No, I had some paragraph and some words were not at 100% the same position for both. I used an image compare tool to check if both clip the same way. They did, but I got a lot of false positives from the different text.
@JosephWright This is a dreamers' question. I can't see any practical way anyone is going to make the required investment. Even the question of aligning individual lines on opposite sides of the paper may be OK for novels (and could be done easily by judicious sizing of the chapter headers), but anything technical can't hope to achieve it, IMO. Even Bringhurst doesn't.
@BrentLongborough On grid setting, most approaches I've seen do break down once you move from all-text to including maths, sub/superscipts, figures, etc.
I’ll give a tutorial “LaTeX for musicians“ in the next year and certainly i want the to show how to include music in their texts. I’m a musician myself but I never used LaTeX to typeset music.
I found two ways to include music in a LaTeX document (plus: integrate music as image) and I want to sh...
Not sure if this question belongs here, on the main site, or not on TeX.SX at all. Let me know if it belongs somewhere else.
I have recently made some leaps in my knowledge of LaTeX, in particular its packages. I am very impressed by projects like beamer and tikz, so I really wonder: how do pack...
I have some wood left over from building a patio, mainly some planks. Normally when I'm creating firewood, I just use an axe a split the wood, but these are too long for that. I really don't want to try and cut them with a wood saw or an Axe. The only tools I can think that make sense are a Ji...
If you use the remember picture option of tikzpicture the picture origin is written to the auxiliary file (.aux). The used unit is scaled points sp which is 65536sp = 1pt = 1/72.27inch. The origin is IIRC the lower left page corner. You can also save any content in a box register and write its si...
The OP seems to have issues with it.
It works fine for me with TeXLive 2011 under Linux.
@JosephWright Wow, I didn't even know there were beavers in Europe. I thought they were indigenous to North America. (They are the Canadian national animal.)
@YiannisLazarides It should be that TikZ nodes are used, which use PostScript code in this case, which comes too late. So the origin of the tikzpicture is used for both, I think.
I am using the package nomencl to generate a list of abbreviations. However, after a recent MiKTeX 2.9 update (using TeXnicCenter) I keep getting errors for the abbreviation items
LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment.
Unfortunately, I cannot figure out an MWE (the MWE...
@lockstep It's a clear solution to the error, even though it was hidden for our eyes, I guess adding this as an answer might help people with the same problem.
@PauloCereda Night off with (TeX) friends, after a day of lecturing. Sometimes one has to work. :) I'll tackle the ABC/LilyPond question tomorrow. However tomorrow, at 6pm, the premiere at La Scala will start: Mozart's Don Giovanni, directed by Daniel Barenboim. It will be on Rai5 (and perhaps on other channels). So don't expect I'll be around during it. :)
To cite authors in small caps, it is not necessary to create a new .bst file -- instead, redefine the \NAT@nmfmt macro which is responsible for formating the author's name. (See this answer for other areas of application for \NAT@nmfmt.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\makeatlette...
I just found some chapter headings that are really nice:
But I can't exactly figure out how to extend the rule off the margin and put the figure on the page before the chapter and the caption on the next (chapter heading) page. (Some tip on the footer would be nice, too).
The layout of the oth...
Is there any way how to convert pt to mm or cm in plain TeX?
I am using the package nomencl to generate a list of abbreviations. However, after a recent MiKTeX 2.9 update (using TeXnicCenter) I keep getting errors for the abbreviation items
LaTeX Error: Lonely \item--perhaps a missing list environment.
Unfortunately, I cannot figure out an MWE (the MWE...
