@PauloCereda thanks :) I'm really into accessibility at the moment, working with another faculty member trying to find as much info as possible- very challenging, but rewarding too :)
@PauloCereda I'd be very happy to blog about it- we're 'finishing' the project at Christmas, so I'd be happy to write something in the new year. I'm well thanks :)
@cmhughes If I ever attend a TUG conference, I thought of getting one copy of the TeXbook or the Companion and ask all the TeXnicians to sign it, then we could start a contest in our community; the winner would win the book. :)
@PauloCereda great idea; it's on my bucket list to attend a TUG conference. I do worry that I would be a bit star-struck being surrounded by the heros of the TeX world though
@cmhughes The only TUG conference I ever went to was the one in Hawai'i. I couldn't afford to stay any longer than the conference actually was, so I spent a felt 90% of my wake time in Hawai'i in an air conditioned conference room. At night, I even was developing on the ERCO solution in my room because we were really tight in the schedule :-( And jet lag on top of that. On hindsight, it was the most absurd thing I ever did in my life by far. But the conference was absolutely great!
In fact, I wouldn't miss it for anything. An unforgettable experience for sure ;-)
The only time I ever met Knuth was on the EuroTeX conference in Pont a Mousson though. And Hermann Zapf on top of that. Also unforgettable (especially the food :-)
Last day at the EuroTeX :( Today, lot's of languages talk: Yamamoto Munehiro "TEX Typesetting Circumstances for Japanese Publishing", Kitagawa Hironori: "Japanese Typesetting with LuaTEX", Hans Hagen "Tricks with the parbuilder (Arabic typesetting)" and Ivo Geradts and Kai Eigner "Typesetting Sanskrit with LuaTEX"
The afternoon is interesting as well: Hans Hagen "mixed columns", Tomás Hála: "Differences in typesetting rules between Czech and Slo- vak languages (in the context of ConTEXt)"
I'm quite sure this question has been asked many times but I can't find the answer.
I'd like to make a macro defining a new macro but I can't get the arguments working. How do I escape the parameter place-holders e.g. #1 for the inner command?
Here is an absolutely senseless minimal example:
\d...
For an app to be available for install in the apt-get stuff (as well as yum, zypper, pacman, etc), there's an effort from the community to pack this app, that is, compile it and make it available to your system format (Ubuntu/Debian: .deb, Fedora/RH/Suse: .rpm, Slackware: .tgz, etc). That's what happens with TL. >>>
Since TL was provided via apt-get, this package manager knows what your TL distro has, and in order to avoid getting stuff installed without its consent, it's the only "door" for you to update your TL. So you don't have tlmgr.
Packages will be updated according to the community's good will to keep stuff updated. :)
I installed TexLive through Software Center of Ubuntu.
However it does not contain tlmgr which is quite useful to update the packages.
Is it possible to use tlmgr with default TexLive?
If yes, how can I only install tlmgr (without installing TexLive 2011)? I ran install.pl script in the download...
@KannappanSampath I have TL installed via apt, because it has a lot of dependencies (for instance AUC-TeX mode for emacs), but am using a TL version installed independently via tlmgr. I simply set the PATH to access it. TL is very good at working locally from its own tree, so there is no need for fancy links in bin or whatever.
@KannappanSampath I'm not a system expert, but I don't think it does. I'm not mixing both and I'm not using the system version at all. I just have it installed so that apt is satisfied that I have TL and lets me install auctex. disk space is cheap, so I don't see the need for a dummy package ;-)
@egreg: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76388 I suspect ~/翻译 is the one to blame. I tried with Snow Leopard + TL2011: with that folder name, I get the very same error. With a Latin-1 folder name, it works.
@tohecz Since the probability of 100% agreement here is ... almost surely nil, how about someone adds a new answer to meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/228/86 explaining that MWEs can also help with the wider impact of a question? Or another text block that suggests putting in a MWE but with a different slant (after all, the point of the blocks is that they provide a minimum level of politeness, so if they are failing in that then adding an alternative could help).
@TikZers. I just found a command in tikz.code.tex that I've been wanting for a while (and been defining workarounds due to its lack). I'm now curious as to how long it's been there (and partly can't be bothered to search the CVS and partly want to bring it to others' attention). Do grep againpath $(kpsewhich tikz.code.tex) for me and report success or failure and TikZ version.
@StephanLehmke As in, "who do I blame for this change"? I like it. Though my second reason is my excuse. It looks like a very, very useful command and I expect I'll use it a lot (since I've been in effect using it for ages). But with bleeding edge PGF one always has to worry about whether others are stuck in the dark ages of TL2007
@egreg You're correct that it isn't in the manual (at least, not via a simple search). But I've browsed the code often enough that I'd've thought I'd've spotted it before. Mind you, it hasn't been used on the main site so I don't feel too bad.
@DavidCarlisle svn blame takes a couple of hours for DocScape so I can put on my penitential robe and chastise myself meanwhile (as your almost-namesake isn't here any more to do it for me).
I'm using the acronym package. When I use an acronym in full, I want it to be all lower case; and when used in the acronym list I want the first letter of each word to be capitalised.
For example, in text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), sed do eiusmod tempo...
I would like to use the mathdesign package and the charter font in my beamer presentation. But when using
\usepackage[charter,cal=cmcal]{mathdesign}
I get the following warnings (sic!):
Package 'amssymb' shouldn't be used in conjonction with package mdbch
Package 'amsfonts' shouldn't be used ...
I believe that a noamssymb option should be provided for beamer as it is for beamerarticle. I don't see why one wants to use Charter for a presentation, but nevertheless the option should be there.
@egreg I could have sworn I saw \documentclass[professionalfont]{beamer} in your answer. But after I'd found the explanation of why that wasn't right and come back, it had changed.
@JosephWright amssymb should be loaded \AtBeginDocument and users could pass an option noamssymb in case they use a package such as mathdesign or fourier that doesn't like it, but provides the needed symbols nonetheless.
@egreg as far as I understood, Pagella and Termes + Latin Modern are "done", Schola and Bonum will follow next year. Adventor, Heros + Heros cond. will not be done, but perhaps DejaVu
@egreg A quote (I have no opinion) " Sans-serif font do not seem to yield themselves for typesetting mathematics. Perhaps sometimes, as an experiment. . . Also, sans-serif math doesn’t fit into the “Unicode Support for Mathematics” (draft Unicode Technical Report #25 by Barbara Beeton, Asmus Freytag and Murray Sargent III). However, if there will be interest, the GUST e-foundry is willing to try."
@egreg The developer was worried about getting it turned on before everything was perfect but I encouraged him to go for it as soon as google would accept it. this is a nightly build so it changes at least once a day: it has to go to dev and beta channels before reaching the stable channel (with around 6 weeks between each if no problems show) Even if you can't set hypergeometric functions in the first stable release a lot of useful pages can be set:-)
I am gonna have to ask you guys something about Linux: This is annoying. I was not getting this error at all, but this has popped up as soon as I changed my computer's name: The error is, "sudo: unable to resolve host". :/
@AndrewStacey I'm considering to take it everywhere, including masses. :) I can organize my songs in there (and play games if the homily is boring - iHell). :)
But you see that the choice of "sans serif" math fonts is extremely limited (I won't even mention Helvetica math), so all of the choices are really only combinations from a limited set of parameters.
This is from 2003; I'd have hoped things have changed since then.
@StephanLehmke mathsize="7pt" probably (although fixing a size is evil better to give the design size font a different name and then just use mathfont="xxxx7pt" or whatever so it will scale to the window better
@DavidCarlisle Oh I'm genuinely surprised something display-specific like this is even possible in what I'd taken to be an abstract description formalism...
it's always nice when your friend invites his PhD supervisor and you and your PhD supervisor and few other people to his place to have a house party! :)
@tohecz So you define two styles containing the decoration specifications and then use arrow decoration,postaction=decorate, and text decoration, postaction=decorate.
@AndrewStacey Seems that I'm screwed: For all other path construction operations (other than -- and ..), the position placement does not work, currently. This will hopefully change in the future. I need to use the to operation :-/
@StephanLehmke: by the way, thanks for the motivation. You have inspired me to come up with an idea for an article, and I submitted it yesterday. It's a semi-automatic model for arranging text blocks on a set of pages based on automata. It is only a theoretical model for now. Sadly, I had to omit the maths because of the target audience of the conference (almost no theoreticians), but I'm planning an extended version with everything in it. :)
@MarcoDaniel Matter of time. :)
Someday you'll open TeX.sx and this message will appear:
@PauloCereda This sounds really great! My Masters student is also currently testing his system based on genetic algorithms. So soon we can make a page layout optimization deathmatch ;-)
@PauloCereda Maybe when the counter for total votes overflows ;-)
now, most of the LINEs have a colour. Let's say that I would like the colour name to be written along the line (it will be something else than the colour in the end, but this is the idea). The macro responsible for this is \xLINExx
@egreg yes it's pretty odd the alignment point seem to just be to make a pattern rather than follow any semantics of the expression, I see you dropped the duplication of the operators at the break which I usually think of as Russian only, but...
@JosephWright does the public version of xor do this (an internal one did at some time but I cant remember what Frank and I did with it) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/76479/…
@DavidCarlisle btw, very interesting question, and I'm really looking forward to have a good solution (it always bothers me to have to cut-and-paste the figures to move them to the correct place, only to find out that the correct place is inside \bibliography{mybibfile})
@tohecz xor has (had) a separate file which controlled float placement, basically latex positions the floats but writes out that figure 10 ended up in the top region of page 8 but if you edit the file by hand to say bottome region of page 10 it goes there instead (on a good day)
@tohecz Ah, now I understand. You are trying to place the node at a position along the path but at the moment this is only supported for certain types of path construction. So you need to use a decoration to place a coordinate at the position and then use that to place the node afterwards.
@GonzaloMedina: Not sure what is going on, but there were only 2 users who had flagged your answer when I posted the comment. A few minutes ago there were 3.
@PauloCereda Hey, does that means you can look up all the questions and not have to be on the internet? That seems useful. Perhaps I should post a question as to how to do that. Hmmm.. Perhaps you can just Dropbox share it.. That would be sweet.
\draw[
postaction={
decorate,
decoration={
text along path,
text align=center,
text={xyz}
}
},
postaction={
decorate,
decoration={
markings,
mark=at position 0.95 with {\arrow{>}},
mark=at position 0.9 with {\arrow{>}}
}
}
] (0,0) to[in=80, out=70] (1,0);
@tohecz So you can put multiple decorations on a single path.
@PauloCereda :-) No need. Just that having an offline version would reduce the time I spend procrastinating and trying to stay ahead of @DavidCarlisle.
yeah, I know I could do it, but 1) it's a "fun" project for me, 2) I don't really understand TikZ to be able to debug this problem, 3) projects I will seriously need will probably never be of this kind.
well, this will not be a short answer. In fact, it will be a very long answer, but will solve the problems of this type in a generic way. Here are some examples of what you can do with this proposal.
Libraries and packages
We used a feature of tikz called decorations.markings to recreate the...
@tohecz If you come up with a smaller example it would make it easier for someone like me to figure out why you're getting that error. But at the moment, it is so wrapped up in other macros that it would take a little work to untangle it. Not that I'm not intrigued enough to have a go - just not this late in the evening!
@AndrewStacey the error appers on (quite random) line. And surprisingly, when you scale the coordinates by 10 (you move a decimal dot one position left or right) and just accordingly co-scale the tikzpicture, the error appears on a different node.
I can surely simplify it it the means of \LINE macro - you need only one variant. But I think that the \NODEs are quite crucial (because of the "scaling" reason explained above)
@tohecz The first thing that I'd try is a bug I found with something in pgfmath. There's a question by Altermundus (I think) which I answered about it, but I can't find it right now (I'm absolutely rubbish at finding stuff on this site).
I have a problem with this code :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[decoration={markings, mark = at position .5 with
{\draw (-2pt,-2pt) -- (2pt,2pt) (2pt,-2pt) -- (-2pt,2pt);}}]
% wrong
%\draw [postactio...
@PeterGrill I guess they thought I was only going to leave the initial sentence as an answer (I was busy at the moment so the example had to wait); they surely don't know me ;-)
@egreg This tex.stackexchange.com/q/76496/… is clearly a MathJax issue; in LaTeX there's no problem (once the odd \hspace{1mm} is removed)
I'm quite sure this question has been asked many times but I can't find the answer.
I'd like to make a macro defining a new macro but I can't get the arguments working. How do I escape the parameter place-holders e.g. #1 for the inner command?
Here is an absolutely senseless minimal example:
\d...
I'm using the acronym package. When I use an acronym in full, I want it to be all lower case; and when used in the acronym list I want the first letter of each word to be capitalised.
For example, in text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), sed do eiusmod tempo...
I would like to use the mathdesign package and the charter font in my beamer presentation. But when using
\usepackage[charter,cal=cmcal]{mathdesign}
I get the following warnings (sic!):
Package 'amssymb' shouldn't be used in conjonction with package mdbch
Package 'amsfonts' shouldn't be used ...
well, this will not be a short answer. In fact, it will be a very long answer, but will solve the problems of this type in a generic way. Here are some examples of what you can do with this proposal.
Libraries and packages
We used a feature of tikz called decorations.markings to recreate the...
I have a problem with this code :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[decoration={markings, mark = at position .5 with
{\draw (-2pt,-2pt) -- (2pt,2pt) (2pt,-2pt) -- (-2pt,2pt);}}]
% wrong
%\draw [postactio...
