@PauloCereda Read the last paragraph of Colors of the color wheel: "...for the colours diametrically opposed to each other… are those that reciprocally evoke each other in the eye."
I enjoy your colours though... what colour is the rest of the frame? Also, what would you call it?
@Werner The whole "zed" thing is a bit more complicated than the spelling part, since Americans really aren't very used to hearing it, so it's not terribly fair to students to use it all the time, so I moderate that a bit.
It helps that I'm in an area in which our students understand (or should understand) that language use and social identity are strongly connected.
@AlanMunn At the moment, I'm more South African than Canadian, although I'm a citizen of both. Freedom of travel on a Canadian passport is a huge bonus, since South African citizenship requires visas to virtually every country, including the UK (although that was a recent addition due to a Zimbabwean influence, if I remember correctly).
@Werner Yes, a Canadian passport is a good thing to have. Of course with an British passport the whole of the EU is available to me too, which is convenient. As for becoming more Canadian, I suspect that there will be certain South African things that will never disappear; even for me there are certain British things that make me distinct from Canadians (love of Marmite and dislike of peanut butter to name two).
@Werner I don't think biscotti is the same thing, (at least as I know them): they're always sweet, which at least from the Wikipedia entry doesn't seem to apply to rusks.
@AlanMunn Most of the time they are sweet, but they can also be somewhat savoury. My affinity for coffee goes hand-in-hand with dunking something in it. :)
@AlanMunn Sure you can, but it is not as abundantly available. Moreover, I don't have the selection. I have to go to specialty stores and... I make it sound like a huge pain. I might just make my own, come to think of it.
@Werner If making them is like making biscotti, it's a bit of an enterprise. We've made them once, and they came out well, but we decided it wasn't worth the effort.
@AlanMunn Thanks! I see the cover lists "cheese" under buy. I would think so, since making yoghurt yourself is slightly cheaper than buying it in the store. But there are plenty of steps inbetween which pushes up the cost from buying milk. Either way, it may answer some questions I've wondered about with regards to baking: Make or Buy?
@Werner For bread, it's a lot of work and so probably depends on whether you have a good local source of bread. For cake like things, it's probably cheaper to bake unless you have really fancy taste.
@Werner To a Brit, this conversation makes interesting reading! "Rusks" are a baby food. They begin life as a biscuity sort of thing but are easily smushed to make them easy for a small child to digest, and can be made into a sort of porridgey paste.
@AndrewStacey A dictionary says that "biscoctus" is medieval Latin, so the word can easily be passed to both French and Italian. Of course the English word is borrowed from French.
Nowadays, "biscotto" means more "dry cookie" than "rebaked bread". I wouldn't call rusks "biscotti".
Second attempt on the TeX.sx hierarchy document. :)
Novice/User/Wizard/Guru
... wonders if the "Community" is a real person. ... has a question tagged by lockstep. ... knows Joseph Wright's middle name. ... can answer a question only by the title. ... thinks Martin Scharrer doesn't sleep. ... has a question answered by Herbert. ... knows what a braid is. ... knows what editor egreg uses. ... can spot a real photo of Alan. ... tried to dissect a seagull. ... knows about Werner's garden. ... can visualize Jake's TikZ drawings without screenshots.
@PauloCereda When I arrived in Verona, I discovered that the two servers for the students' lab were called Romeo and Juliet. So for my machine I decided to go on with names from Shakespeare's works. And for a new server, which was an ugly black box, I chose "Calibano". :)
@egreg Ah great pattern! :) My dad's netbook is called Shakespeare. Sadly, few Brazilians know Shakespeare's works besides Romeo and Juliet. I thought of adopting the same strategy, but with Dostoyevsky's work. The characters are way complicated to type, say, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva. :P So my machine is simply "Dostoyevsky", but now I'm using cities names, my laptop is "Alexandria". :)
@PauloCereda No-one in particular. It's just a name (though it does mean "peace" in Norwegian). But since you're going to name your beamer coloUr scheme, I thought maybe you should use a name instead of a random collection of letters.
I have a LaTeX document, that includes a lot PNG images. It takes about 18 second to compile. Most of the time is spent for the inclusion of the PNG images. The pdfTeX 1.40 manual from ctan states on page 40, that PNG are recompressed during the pdfTeX run in general, but in some cases, a direct ...
@lockstep I find it a very good question actually, because people can learn more about the internal handling inside pdftex. I for once, thought that PNGs (as well as JPGs) are always included as they are.
I'm trying to create the following structure using the best possible "user-interface" in LaTeX:
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| Week 1 | 1. Topic 1 |
| | 2. Topic 2 |
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| W...
I have a problem that I'm not able to solve with LaTeX:
I'm in book mode. Then LaTeX leaves a blank page just after the table of contents to start the first chapter on an odd page. Before it I have configured LaTeX with fancyhdr to make my own header and my own footer (which contains the page nu...
@PauloCereda: Marco writes "First question" one time, and then "First private question". I suggest to leave out the former and to change the latter to "Private question".
@PauloCereda egreg uses "viceversa" one time. This may be correct in Italian, but the English form is "vice versa". Not sure if you should change this one.
Late to the party, but my convention for naming computers is to call them after characters in Futurama. This laptop is called elzar and my old laptop was called morbo.
Hi i have the following avl tree and i'm having a problem when running it. A null pointer exception is being given to me. The problem is in the search method. Can someone implement it for me pls so the program will work. Here it the code:
package testavltree;
import java.io.IOException;
import j...
In the mod room, there is a feeling that posts should only be migrated if they already have good answers/are good in themselves. We're quite laid back, but I'm not sure if the SO mods will take the question here.
I'll ask
Quick answer: the feeling is 'Not a Real Question'
@lockstep It's so far OT for us that I'm making a mod decision to delete it
@JosephWright That's a shame. I was hoping @BrunoLeFloch would post a Plain TeX solution. If the OP wasn't already confused, that would finish the job. :-)
@lockstep That's the misunderstanding Beethoven hoped in. :)
You'll certainly know the joke about Austrians being smart: they made everybody think that Beethoven was an Austrian composer and "another guy" a German.
WRT that Java question: besides being off-topic, the OP wanted us to implement a search method ("Can someone implement it for me pls so the program will work"). I'd love to answer that by inserting a obfuscated recursive file removal from the root directory. If you have no files in your computer, the search is very fast. :P
So actually I just have a gray \rule with the correct dimensions, but then trim \tabcolsep from left and right, so that they spill in the cell margins and touch each other.
@egreg Thanks for the enlightened lesson in linguistics. I wouldn't call rusks baby food though - how would they chew rebaked (or dried) bread without teeth?
Can I call someone into chat who's never been here? Let me try: @MikeStay can you hear me? If so, I'm still confused as to what you want to be able to do. You've edited your question after accepting my answer so I'm not clear if that was just for clarity or because actually my answer wasn't quite what you want.
@MikeStay Yes. With respect to binaries it's updated once a year (same schedule as TeXLive) and with respect to packages, it's always up to date; you can update as often as you like.
@MikeStay The problem with distributions such as MacPorts is that they lack "tlmgr" as they prefer to have "big bundles". The standard TeX Live (provided by MacTeX) uses tlmgr so that every package can be updated as soon as it is in the repository.
@MikeStay You don't even need to uninstall the MacPorts version: you can try MacTeX and decide if it suits you better (it will). Uninstalling it is very easy.
@MikeStay MacTeX installs a soft link /usr/texbin that points to the binaries and puts that at the top of the PATH variable. That's why you don't need to do anything. It will also install a preference panel that will allow you to switch to other distributions you happen to have on your machine (MacPorts included).
@MarcoDaniel BTW, one feature of tocstyle is the automatic calculation of the necessary indentation. Perhaps you could mention this in your answer (though you have my upvote already).
@MikeStay Imagine that a project doesn't compile with the new MacTeX: you can go back to MacPorts, if you have a deadline. Then you can update the project with all the time you need to the new setting (it happens, rarely).
@PauloCereda At the moment, I use TeXnicCentre 1 RC 1. The reason for this is that it allows me to set up a compilation profile that can execute stuff after the compilation (do some automation) which I enjoy. I'm sure other editors have this as well; I've just grown comfortable with TC.
I have a problem that I'm not able to solve with LaTeX:
I'm in book mode. Then LaTeX leaves a blank page just after the table of contents to start the first chapter on an odd page. Before it I have configured LaTeX with fancyhdr to make my own header and my own footer (which contains the page nu...
@egreg It's true. :) When in my TCS keynotes, when someone says about CS being an exact science, I usually reply it's some kind of witchcraft + luck + prayers.
@PauloCereda A car stops. A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer and a computer scientist are on board. They try in turn to repair it and when also the engineer fails, the CS guy says: "We've done all wrong. Everybody in, then everybody out and in again."
A few years back, I used to use LaTeX for writing reports and such, and I really liked the look of them.
However, nowadays I am forced to use MS Word to write my reports, but that does not hinder me from playing around with the document layout.
When I see a document typeset using LaTeX, I can ...
@PauloCereda This is exactly what I was thinking of another question where someone was trying to submit a resume in Word but wanted the LaTeX formatting!
What do you do when you have spent considerable effort finessing your resume in TeX and a recruiter asks you for your resume in MS-Word?
Do you:
Spend the time to produce something that looks half as good as the TeXed result,
Ignore the openings advertised by that recruiter, or
Somehow convert...
@MikeStay Sorry, computer got co-opted for TV watching. Reads as though you've made progress on getting PGF2.10. Let me know if you run into more problems with that code.
@egreg I think so. One of the great advantages of TL over MiKTeX is that a TL has a bundled Perl interpreter, so most of the Perl scripts run flawlessly. :)
@egreg I'm so sorry if it's a 'newbie' question: I'm looking at this awesome answer of yours: tex.stackexchange.com/a/22717 If it's not too much, could you tell me what \dimexpr-\height+\ht\strutbox\relax means? I'm trying to achieve the opposite, I mean, a \bottomincludeimage. :)
@PauloCereda If you don't rotate images, they will always have their reference point at their lower left corner. However there's Martin's adjustbox package that already does all kinds of alignments.
@PauloCereda Not sure, but in the times when one had to build biber, I seem to remember that Strawberry Pearl gave me less headaches. (But I prefer my current situation: biber and Perl included in TeX Live.)
However, when you build a LaTeX box, for instance with \makebox or \raisebox, \height will always refer to the natural height of the box. So \raisebox{\dimexpr-\height+\ht\strutbox\relax}{...} pushes the reference point to the upper left corner, but then it raises the box so that it's as high as a parenthesis (\strutbox can be thought as high and deep as a parenthesis).
@PauloCereda I suggested that enhancement to Martin. :)
@PauloCereda It's an extension provided by eTeX: it computes the "dimension expression" up to \relax and presents it to TeX as if it was a dimension parameter.
@PauloCereda Yes, and since it's perfectly acceptable (yet superfluous) to say \setlength{\mylen}{\dimexpr 5pt\relax}, it even works for just setting and not calculating lengths.
@egreg My knowledge of "expandability" is very limited, I must admit. I know it is great to have expandable macros, since it can easily be used by other stuff, but the "which ones are" and "how to make them" is still tricky.
@egreg Indeed! :) But I didn't go any further. My PhD was about mapping adaptive devices through Category theory. Unfortunately, I had some personal problems and had to give up. :(
@PauloCereda You might enjoy my notes on Stone duality. It's quite an old topic, but uses categories and topology in a very clever way to prove some difficult results on Boolean algebras.
@egreg sphinx is a documentation generator written in Python. It's very easy to use. You write your documents in the rst format, add links, images, sections, code snippets with syntax highlighting etc. Then you can output to several formats, including HTML. :)
Package caption Warning: \caption will not be redefined since it's already
(caption) redefined by a document class or package which is
(caption) unknown to the caption package.
See the caption package documentation for explanation.
The problem is in colortbl that's loaded when you load xcolor with the option table. This package wrongly redefines \multicolumn without the \long prefix.
A patch is the following magic trick to be written in the preamble somewhere after loading xcolor (or colortbl):
\toks0=\expandafter{\multic...
Actually, in the following question, I provided the "standard" solution, while Hendrik Vogt (with a little input from me) came up with a very interesting alternative. My bet would have been on Hendrik's answer being accepted.
(Remark: Maybe this is a typically German problem, I'm not sure in which other languages that might be relevant)
Sometimes there are words which start with a hyphen, as they are connected with a word used before, e. g. Werkstoffforschung und -entwicklung is a shorter (and I think more elegant) w...
I'm trying to create the following structure using the best possible "user-interface" in LaTeX:
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| Week 1 | 1. Topic 1 |
| | 2. Topic 2 |
---------------------------------------------
| W...
I'm preparing a document using the book class. In the table of contents, the indentation before the subsection title is too long. How to reduce it?
A few years back, I used to use LaTeX for writing reports and such, and I really liked the look of them.
However, nowadays I am forced to use MS Word to write my reports, but that does not hinder me from playing around with the document layout.
When I see a document typeset using LaTeX, I can ...
What do you do when you have spent considerable effort finessing your resume in TeX and a recruiter asks you for your resume in MS-Word?
Do you:
Spend the time to produce something that looks half as good as the TeXed result,
Ignore the openings advertised by that recruiter, or
Somehow convert...
The problem is in colortbl that's loaded when you load xcolor with the option table. This package wrongly redefines \multicolumn without the \long prefix.
A patch is the following magic trick to be written in the preamble somewhere after loading xcolor (or colortbl):
\toks0=\expandafter{\multic...
