@percusse Ohhh, damm you. First you teach me the ([shift=]) synatax so I stop using calc, now that I finally learned below of= you want me to go back to manual placement!!! :-)
Actually manually coordinate may not work as it depends on the matrix, Is that what you mean?
@percusse I am starting to think that the people asking the questions have absolutely no idea that I am trying desperately to keep up with @DavidCarlisle. Either that, or they know that and David has secretly bribed them to make sure that they accept other solutions!! :-)
@PeterGrill Bribe? I am sure he has taught them Emacs classes and then he hacks into it popping messages about which answers they'd accept! Being ardent devotees of Emacs that David has brought onto them, they oblige.
@PeterGrill In \pgfmathparse{-0.2*veclen{\tikzlastnode.west,\tikzlastnode.east}}\pgfmathresult veclen expects dimensions such as the x or y components. It doesn't understand the coordinates.
You can instead use !0.2!,!0.4! ... to divide the node into five and draw straight lines.
What I mean is, is pi, 3.14 on the up, or the down. Is it being added to or subtracted against? If it is never ending, it has to be in motion where we cannot find its end. Where does it go? Other numbers seem to have a stopping point, but do they really? Aren't all numbers based on something that...
While I am not a mathematician, I find a fascination for motion and 3D space. Lately this idea keeps turning over.
Each time I put my underwear on and find the back label correctly in back but find the pants are inside out ( or vice verse) I watch the process of turning them back to inside in but...
@tohecz Yeah, but that one is actually related to a real math issue -- Am sure @AndrewStacey can comment on that. The one I linked to definitely was a WTF.
I have an English question: When something makes you angry, you sometimes start to shake your body in anger. I'm sure there's a word for this in English. (I hope you get what I mean)
@tohecz probably I'd use "shake in (or with) anger" if it's with fear you could use quiver instead of shake but I can't think of a better word than shake this morning:-)
Do you notice the number that the author (falsely) considers as a part of macro name?
and this is good, too:
\end{multicols}
\begin{mytable}
\centerline{
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l||l|l|l|}
...
\end{tabular}
}
\end{mytable}
\begin{multicols}{2}
Hmm, what is this JabRef error: "Save failed while creating back up. Continue to save without creating back up?" What back up was Jabref trying to create?
KOMA experts: I wonder if I can set up KOMA-specific options outside \documentclass. I'd like to remove abstract=true from \documentclass[abstract=true]{scrreprt}. Is there any other switch? :)
I would like to have my whole document showing a blank line (or space) between paragraphs and no indentation. I know how to do it line by line, but is there a way to change that with just one or a few lines at the beginning of the document? Like a package you can install, or a new command?
@egreg actually all these including tremble have connotations of fear (or cold in the case of shiver) convulse perhaps is the nearest to @tohecz description.
@DavidCarlisle but shiver seems to be a good word for what I wanted to explain. The problem is, "fear" isn't the exact feeling, but my English vocabulary is not good enough to allow me being more specific
btw: find 4 mistakes in the following code:
\def\wcr{{\it w/c}}
... we get \wcr~=~0.0004$\pm$0.0001
@PauloCereda In the recent days, it has been strongly associated with Terrorism. Apparently, the Holy Quran has some saying to the effect that Muslims must involve themselves in Jihad in praise of Lord Allah. The extremist Hindu organisations use this as a cue and misinterpret this and play politics out of it in unimaginable ways
@kan Unfortunately it's Jstor that sucks, I've been talking to some online app developers about a similar issue and most journals are not willing to provide hooks or possibility to parse the search queries.
Also not surprisingly, IEEE doesn't let you download the citation data if you are not behind the paywall. Even though it would be beneficial for them because I'll probably cite that item and increase the infamous impact factor (that's why I want the citation data) they don't allow it.
@percusse yeah, this sucks. There's only one solution: Make everybody share their bibdata on their websites in a standard format (BibTeX). That would at least allow you to just google people's webpages and get the correct information.
@percusse yeah. That's why the eprint versions of the articles in journal I typeset have a standard-form citation of themselves on the very top ;) (well, this will apply since the year 2013)
@PauloCereda I'm afraid the bosses of the journals are still from the Peter Parker's boss era. They probably see this online thingy as a bonus feature.
@percusse Gladly, there're people who aren't evaluated by impact factor of their acrticles, and these people choose quality reviewed journals that are not impact-factored, but are open-access
@percusse To be honest, the solution for a unique identifier is quite easy, but I think people don't want to be responsible for their bibliographic data. :)
The principle of least effort is a broad theory that covers diverse fields from evolutionary biology to webpage design. It postulates that animals, people, even well designed machines will naturally choose the path of least resistance or "effort". It is closely related to many other similar principles: see Principle of least action or other articles listed below. This is perhaps best known or at least documented among researchers in the field of library and information science. Their principle states that an information seeking client will tend to use the most convenient search method, in t...
I once QRCode'd an abstract from a paper of mine and put it into a card. For every person that asked me for more info on the paper, I gave the card. :)
@PauloCereda But it applies even more. People (strangely) consider the "least acceptable effort" to be "have an article", and not to "make people read my acrticle" and "make people cite my article"
Patrick Gundlach and Marco Daniel submitted an update to the
lshort-german
package.
Location on CTAN: /info/lshort/german
Summary description: Complete overhaul of the German short introduction to LaTeX
License type: opl
Announcement text:
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The German short introduction to LaTeX has been enhanced in many ways to reflect
the curent selection of packages and practices (encodings, listings, math).
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@tohecz "who" refers to a person or people, so if you consider the journal as a collective group of editors etc, I'd say "who" applies. "That" is defining or restrictive and "which" is non-defining and non-restrictive. S&W: "Careful writers, watchful for small conveniences, go which-hunting, remove the defining whiches, and by doing so improve their work."
@percusse well at times \protect is \noexpand in which case it will do nothing as { doesn't expand but at other times it is \string which would not be good as (at best) you'll get a { character typeset and an error when it gets to the } but most likely TeX will get completely confused.
@percusse well I'm not sure because the bookmarks are going to fall over the unicode string anyway. I suppose I should try executing on a machine instead of in my head.
@JosephWright Due to the tropical weather, most of the Christmas analogies - snow, fireplace, cold, carols - doesn't work here. :) We usually have a very hot holiday. People use to exchange gifts and reunite to lunch. In the eve, nothing much happens, apart from going to the Missa do galo, which is a mass celebrated at midnight - in my region, we don't have it at midnight but at 8PM. After coming home, we have a little supper, and my cats always get a bigger piece of the roast chicken. :)
Since my family is very small, we don't have a big reunion.
@NicolaTalbot Ouch, I'm sorry to hear. :( Since my parish is very small, and the church is also small, we opted for not having burning candles during the masses, apart from the Paschal candle. I'm in charge of the song liturgy, so I'm really worried when people try to hold and manage songbooks and candles, specially in processions. :) I remember the thurible had a problem one day, and the fire was very intense. And one day a seminarist got his tunic burned. :)
@PauloCereda Ow! At least I managed to pat my hair out quickly (there's a lot of it!) But a lingering singed smell followed me about for several days :-)
Hmm, one of the evil henchmen has just caught fire. Is he completely on fire or just partly? (Sorry, glossaries, you're going to have to wait your turn.)
@kan The paper is now typeset with the TG Pagella Math font (and unicode-math).
Now that rep cap has been hit, I can devote myself to watch the two matches. Italy is going to play New Zealand in a rugby test match: I'm already shivering (or trembling or shuddering). Then Juventus will play Lazio.
I was wondering if there is a good way for JSON files to be listed with the listings package.
The only language definition I could come up with, is this:
\lstdefinelanguage{json}
{
morestring=[b]",
morestring=[d]'
}
Now, this highlights the strings used in JSON files, but the importan...
How can one make a quick decision what the best "ref" for a thesis in pdflatex with hyperref is?
After a few hours reading I do not know more than
ref is used by everyone who does not know about the other ~ref and works stable
varioref somehow works together with hyperref makes sometimes trou...
How can one make a quick decision what the best "ref" for a thesis in pdflatex with hyperref is?
After a few hours reading I do not know more than
ref is used by everyone who does not know about the other ~ref and works stable
varioref somehow works together with hyperref makes sometimes trou...
# scalar variables my $defaultindent="\t"; my $line=''; my $delimeters=0;
# array variables my @indent=(); my @lines=(); my @block=();
# hash lookup variables # # if you don't want to indent an environment # put it in this hash table my %noindent=("pccexample"=>1, "pccdefinition"=>1, "problem"=>1, "exercises"=>1, "pccsolution"=>1, "widepage"=>1, "document"=>1, );
# if we have rules for particular environments my %indentrules=("axis"=>" ");
I have proceeded a new installation of LaTeX (in a new system: Ubuntu 12.04), I was installing from tug.org. Previously I was using TeX Live installed by apititude, on Ubuntu 10.04.
I'm using Kile as editor, xdvi for dvi, Okular for pdf files.
In all my LaTeX files I was using encoding utf-8x (...
@JosephWright Thanks! I (and I guess @marcodaniel as well) are proud of the outcome. Still lots of places where we could do better, but thats always the case
I'm getting close to releasing a package, which I'm calling selnolig, that lets users suppress automatically typographic ligatures for selected words and word patterns, for both German and English language documents. For German language documents, the focus in on breaking up various f-ligatures -...
@PauloCereda we built a racing car:-) main innovation over the example robots is that it has power steering to the front wheels rather than tank steering which has fixed wheels but separate drive left and right, but the lego nxt-g programming environment is a little "unstable" it seems:-) basically the car works though:-) can drive it on automatic (not really working yet) or via bluetooth remote control from the tablet.
@DavidCarlisle: So putting a command within another one causes expansion??? I was thinking of an edef solution for Using counters within \index{…}, but since two known experts did not mention that I am wondering if there is something wrong with that approach.
@PeterGrill edef was my first guess but it doesn't really work if you go \edef\tmp{\the\c@section}\index{...\tmp} it just writes \tmp into the idx file. It isn't that a macro argument causes expansion it just stops verb working because catcode changes have no effect once the input has been tokenised.
@PauloCereda @StephanLehmke: I saw the movie Iron Sky. Yeah it's trash and most of the movie was in German with English subtitle. Ok the movie has some funny, but this isn't enough. Conclusion: I don't recommend this movie, especially for this price of 4,99€ for 48 hours.
@PeterGrill well the issues are a bit different there. \edef isn't really supported of course and will fail if the enumi has any fragile commands in its definition. \protected@ederf would be safer.
when writing with the standard book class, how can I get the chapter title (namely Chapter 1521. Kool stuff) lonely in a page and the start of the chapter in the following page?
@egreg What I want is "Chapter 1. Something" centered in a page. To reach the centering I'm using sectsty package. How can I redefine chapter without ruining the action of that package?
@PauloCereda obviously you'd expect the bbc to be upbeat and give england a chance of turning the game around, this is their assesment (there are still two days to go)
England are facing defeat in the first Test against India after another inept attempt at dealing with spin.
@PauloCereda I was wondering if I should answer that they need plain TeX for Christmas Carols.
@PauloCereda Indian Hockey Team is more or less History you know. sob (That is supposed to be our national game but looking at the state of affairs, I cannot be more wrong than right if I said it is becoming a national shame.)
@kan I can relate to that. Our ministry of sports only gives money to football. Other sports struggle to survive. A young Brazilian won the gymnastics rings competition at London 2012. The poor guy had no sponsor whatsoever, and had to pay for his own material.
@PauloCereda watched some women's hockey during the olympics, far too violent (one of the english players got her jaw smashed (she was back playing with it all held together with pins by the end of the week:(
@kan Sadly I don't think so. :( Football is the word around here, and even with football, there's too much corruption. And the cities are not prepared to host a World Cup. I'm really worried for next year with my frequent trips to São Paulo, the city will be a chaos, specially during the Confederations Cup.
@kan I once tried to drive to São Paulo, but the city is far too complicated without a GPS. :) Now I only take public transportation. Sadly Brazil doesn't have passengers trains anymore. It's a shame. :(
I would like to have my whole document showing a blank line (or space) between paragraphs and no indentation. I know how to do it line by line, but is there a way to change that with just one or a few lines at the beginning of the document? Like a package you can install, or a new command?
I was wondering if there is a good way for JSON files to be listed with the listings package.
The only language definition I could come up with, is this:
\lstdefinelanguage{json}
{
morestring=[b]",
morestring=[d]'
}
Now, this highlights the strings used in JSON files, but the importan...
How can one make a quick decision what the best "ref" for a thesis in pdflatex with hyperref is?
After a few hours reading I do not know more than
ref is used by everyone who does not know about the other ~ref and works stable
varioref somehow works together with hyperref makes sometimes trou...
I have proceeded a new installation of LaTeX (in a new system: Ubuntu 12.04), I was installing from tug.org. Previously I was using TeX Live installed by apititude, on Ubuntu 10.04.
I'm using Kile as editor, xdvi for dvi, Okular for pdf files.
In all my LaTeX files I was using encoding utf-8x (...
