TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Alan Munn

1:20 AM

@egreg Self-flagellation complete.

@PauloCereda Just don't put it on the top of the stack. :-)

percusse

1:34 AM

Should I flag all of the answers as not an answer?

2

Q: Matlab to pdflatex with text properties

I know that this might be more a detail rather than a serious problem but I've already Googled it like crazy and I can't find the solution. Is it possible to achieve a MATLAB plot in pdflatex with the correct text properties of the document (namely size and fonts)? I'm able to achieve a polished...

Bruno Le Floch

6:59 AM

Anyone heard of/used

sharelatex.com

Joseph Wright

9:16 AM

@BrunoLeFloch New one on me: I might add it to the blog

Marco Daniel

9:46 AM

@JosephWright First of all It is interesting to know which version is used. There are a lot of online compilers but most of them are working with TeX Live 2009

Paulo Cereda

Wow, we have a fixed logo. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

10:10 AM

@BrunoLeFloch Yes, one week ago I added sharelatex to the list here

44

A: Compiling documents online

Online compiler with storage and editor features: verbosus MonkeyTeX LaTeX Lab ScribTeX ShareLaTeX Online compiler with basic functionality: LaTeX servlet on sciencesoft.at LaTeX online-compiler in Halle, Germany TeX on Web Tiny equation compiler: LaTeX equation editor with realtime ren...

Paulo Cereda

Tomorrow SuperBowl! Yay!

Marco Daniel

10:34 AM

@StefanKottwitz Do you know the TeX Live version of sharelatex?

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel Not yet

Marco Daniel

@StefanKottwitz I don't want to register on every nice page ;-)

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel One has to sacrifice himself for investigating ;)

Paulo Cereda

11:47 AM

I'll better save some votes for today's session. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda @JosephWright What time shall we meet?

Paulo Cereda

OK, saving 10 votes. :)

Joseph Wright

@egreg Well, things are meant to start at 2100 GMT, but I am out for a meal at 2030 so won't appear until at least 2200

Paulo Cereda

@egreg I have mass from ~21:10 to 22:30 UTC. :) I'll try to sing the shortest songs I can find. :)

Paulo Cereda

12:31 PM

Do you guys like lemon balm? It's the first time I saw its English name. :)

Hm tea! :)

Paulo Cereda

1:09 PM

3

Q: How to get started skiing?

I've never skied before, but I'd like to try it out. What sort of gear should I buy (as opposed to renting) before hand? What would be a good strategy to learn to ski?

skiing

I don't wanna go to the "bunny slope"! :P

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda That's why people learn on dry slopes, at least here in the UK

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Ah interesting! But I'd be afraid of skiing. :)

Marco Daniel

1:22 PM

@JosephWright: Do you have some minutes?

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Of course

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright I have problem with xparse. The following example demonstrate the odd behavior. Without loading xparse the first line of the the environment has no indention. If I load xparse I get an unwanted intention. The example is a little bit long because the provided environment is the internal of mdframed.

\documentclass[parskip=full-]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
%\usepackage{xparse}
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{
\edef\restoreparams{\parindent=\the\parindent \parskip=\the\parskip}
\def\useminipagerestore{\def\@minipagerestore{\restoreparams}}
}
\def\mdf@lrbox#1{%
  \setbox#1=\vbox\bgroup%
   \begingroup%
    \color@setgroup%
%    \mdf@horizontalmargin@equation%
    \hsize=.8\linewidth%\mdf@horizontalspaceofbox%
    \columnwidth=\hsize%
    \textwidth=\hsize%
    \@parboxrestore\restoreparams%

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel \usepackage{color} :-)

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright xparse loads color ;-) -- But I need the package color ;-)

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel My point is that this is nothing to do with LaTeX3

Marco Daniel

1:34 PM

@JosephWright That's true. I recognize this behavior by loading xparse. No I must find the problem with color.

@JosephWright I found the problem. color@setgroup is the bug. I must change it to color@begingroup.

egreg

@MarcoDaniel You have also that \begingroup is closed by \color@endgroup and \color@begingroup is closed by \endgroup. I'd remove both the \begingroup and the \endgroup that are superfluous.

Marco Daniel

@egreg I will do this. My big problem is the documentation: There you can find:

\color@setgroup
This is to be used in contexts (eg ‘lrbox’) where text is to be saved and used
after some other, unknown, text that may contain colour commands. A matching
\color@endgroup should be used at the end of the text.

egreg

@MarcoDaniel Page 233 of source2e.pdf (ltboxes) and the documentation of color.sty

Patrick Gundlach

1:51 PM

Hi, I have found an answer to my question. Should I post the answer or delete it?

1

Q: tex4ht: reuse png images instead of creating new ones

I have a lot of PNG images in my document, which (the document) I'd like to convert to HTML using tex4ht (htlatex). Now the images need to be in EPS format, as htlatex uses DVI mode. So I run convert foo.png foo.eps before I run htlatex. When generating the HTML, tex4ht creates a new PNG out of t...

graphics tex4ht

Marco Daniel

@egreg The whole bundle of documentation and everything leads to source2e ;-) (or in the future source3 ;-) )

Paulo Cereda

@PatrickGundlach Post your answer, it's an interesting question. :)

Patrick Gundlach

(well, I should have started with "hello everybody!")

Marco Daniel

@PatrickGundlach Hello

Paulo Cereda

@PatrickGundlach 'ello! We miss you. :)

Patrick Gundlach

1:53 PM

Thanks @PauloCereda, once in a while I peek into the chat to see any new pictures you've posted :)

Paulo Cereda

@PatrickGundlach awww <3 :)

@egreg: do you think it's a good idea to deploy our humble script to CTAN? :)

lockstep

@PatrickGundlach Here's an example where I felt stupid:

6

Q: How to use the Luximono font with TeX Live?

I've switched from MiKTeX 2.9 to TeX Live 2011 (pretest version). I've managed to integrate some third party fonts (included neither in MiKTeX nor in TeX Live) in my TEXMFLOCAL tree following the instructions given here. At the moment I'm struggling to install the Luximono font which is part of M...

fonts installing texlive

Patrick Gundlach

@lockstep :)

egreg

2:11 PM

@PauloCereda It seems to be doing what it's supposed to do. Maybe it can be improved to use LuaTeX's kpse functions when looking for the .bib file; and to give it a switch for telling only about undefined keys (which needs only to scan the .log file).

However there's another problem: if the document uses \include, then the citation keys can be in the secondary .aux files that the main one reads via \@input. So, for any \@input{chapter1.aux} instruction, the script should examine also the called file.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Ah! :) I'll try to fix them. :)

@egreg: I think I'll create a repo in either GitHub or BitBucket and deploy the script there. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda Good idea

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda: I read the interview with @Jake. I didn't recognize this. Was it top secret?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Actually, no. :) We were just waiting for our interview room to unfreeze. :) chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=3215270#3215270

Alan Munn

3:20 PM

Quick pgfplots question: can I use symbolic coordinates and read the coordinates from a file? My symbolic coordinates are of the form 2001-02 which pgfplots tries to parse as a number.

Paulo Cereda

4:04 PM

I'm not a big fan of Oracle since what they did to OpenOffice, but I think a comparison between OO and LibreOffice code metrics since OO was adopted by the Apache foundation is somehow unfair. :(

The Apache foundation is amazing.

Paulo Cereda

4:27 PM

And for today's session, Pringles! Yay! :)

Marco Daniel

4:56 PM

@PauloCereda Which session?

@egreg: Great answer tex.stackexchange.com/a/43412/5239 -- unbelievable . It's great and I can learn a lot of LaTeX3

Patrick Gundlach

l3 code usually scares me. Glad I am not a package writer :)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel The "answer the unanswered" one today. :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Really -- There is no announcement.

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Agreed: really good use of xparse and expl3, although I would prefer a proper message

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Indeed! Maybe @Joseph could add one announcement in the main site? :)

egreg

5:02 PM

@MarcoDaniel I guess it can be refined. Basically I accumulate \cfrac{1}{<number>+ in one token list (the brace is actually \iftrue{\else}\fi to keep TeX happy) and the corresponding closing brace in another token list (as \iffalse{\else}\fi). At the end I append the second token list to the first and expand. I wrote it in classical LaTeX some time ago, and translated it recently, as I'm writing some notes about continued fractions.

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Done

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Thanks! :) I'll share my Pringles. :)

Marco Daniel

@egreg It sounds like a small package for CTAN. I know such a question in a German Community.

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel It's an epic answer. :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda an egreg answer

Paulo Cereda

5:09 PM

@MarcoDaniel Indeed! :P

lockstep

Dang -- the session is already starting at 21 GMT. :-( I suppose I'll join shortly before its official end, and then help cleaning up (casting some closing votes).

Marco Daniel

@PatrickGundlach LaTeX3 code is more clearly than LaTeX2e and I am sure after some examples we can handle this ;-) I translated the documentation of expl3. At the moment Frank Mittelbach reads the current version. I hope we can upload the German version in few days. Maybe it helps ;-)

Patrick Gundlach

@MarcoDaniel I don't mind reading english (although I really appreciate the translation!). But lines like these make me stop reading: { \l_cfrac_left_tl \c_cfrac_strut_tl \l_cfrac_right_tl }. But as I said: I don't have to, so I won't :)

Alan Munn

I won't make it to the unanswered questions session today. Off to hear Sabine Meyer play her clarinet. ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=676

Paulo Cereda

Trivia: I was watching Blackadder 3 today. I was wondering if LaTeX was suitable to typeset Edmund: A Butler's Tale, a giant roller coaster of a novel in 400 sizzling chapters. :P

Marco Daniel

5:13 PM

@PatrickGundlach I have problems to start new things with an English documentation. That's the reason. So I ordered your book ;-)

lockstep

Shameless plug: the (hopefully) final revision of my feature request at meta.stackoverflow:

Patrick Gundlach

I have to leave now ... ;-)

lockstep

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Q: Simple highlighting of unanswered questions (no upvoted or accepted answer) at the front page

At the moment, questions at the front page can be told apart as follows: Questions with no answer (at SO: "0 answers"; red); Questions with at least one answer, but no accepted one (at SO: "[number] answer(s)"; white on green); Questions with an accepted answer (at SO: "[number] answer(s); yell...

feature-request user-interface unanswered-questions color frontpage

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn Cool! I like the "Stravinsky" one in the program. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Which episode?

Paulo Cereda

5:15 PM

@JosephWright The dictionary one, I can't remember the name. Let me check. :)

Ah, "Ink and Incapability"! :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Ah, yes :-)

Alan Munn

@PauloCereda I wish the balance was more like the Poulenc and Stravinsky vs. Mozart and Bach, but you can't win them all. :-) But it should be interesting.

Marco Daniel

I will move to America I had such messages: The video you have requested is not available for you geographic region. Is it only a problem of Germany?

cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/video/…

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I love that episode! "- I did 'C', my lord. - Good, let's hear! - Sea. A big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in." :)

Andrey Vihrov

@MarcoDaniel Seems more like a problem of EU

Alan Munn

5:19 PM

@MarcoDaniel No, this is pretty common for content streamed by TV networks themselves. I can't get any Canadian TV either since I'm in the US.

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel I can't watch it. :(

egreg

@AlanMunn If only Poulenc and Stravinsky weren't there. ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn Indeed. :P

Marco Daniel

@AndreyVihrov Damn. I love big bang theory.

Alan Munn

@egreg You really are incorrigible. :-p Not even Poulenc meets your criterion for "music"?

@MarcoDaniel And the video quality on the CBS site is awful anyway.

lockstep

5:26 PM

@egreg But what about "The Firebird"?

Marco Daniel

@AlanMunn Thanks for that information. now I am not so frustrated ;-)

egreg

@lockstep No, thanks. :)

@AlanMunn French music ended many years before 1827. ;-)

Alan Munn

@egreg I'd take Poulenc and Debussy over Couperin and Lully any day.

lockstep

@egreg Isn't that like saying "TeX & friends" ended 1990? ;-)

Paulo Cereda

Debussy? Now I'm gonna take egreg's side. :P

All new LaTeX packages should be licensed under CDL. :)

Alan Munn

5:38 PM

@PauloCereda What's wrong with Debussy? How about Saint Saens and Ravel (Bolero excepted...)

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn For some reason, I can't stand Debussy. :) I remember we had to study chord progression on his works, I probably got traumatized. I think Saint-Saens' works are more audacious, which I prefer. Ravel... well, I like some parts of some pieces, but that's all. :)

@AlanMunn: One of my favorite pianist/comedian, Victor Borge used to say, "I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't." :)

Marco Daniel

Can we close this question?

0

Q: endless loop with mdframed

the following code leads to an endless loop. pdflatex is at 100% CPU and the log is constantly increasing with number counted upwards. In the following example it happens only if graphics is not loaded with demo and the pdf must be at 100 %. \documentclass[]{scrartcl} \usepackage[]{graphicx} \R...

framed mdframed

Andrey Vihrov

6:01 PM

@MarcoDaniel But is it resolved?

Marco Daniel

@AndreyVihrov No. But nobody can reproduce this error.

Andrey Vihrov

@MarcoDaniel Indeed. I must admit I don't understand the "if graphics is not loaded with demo and the pdf must be at 100 %" part. But I think the author should be given a few days for refining and clarifying his question.

egreg

@MarcoDaniel Not yet. The OP might provide a real example that hangs TeX (I suspect that the example is not that one)

Patrick Gundlach

@MarcoDaniel I have fixed the MWE

egreg

Hey! @AlanMunn has 30000+ rep!

Marco Daniel

6:07 PM

I hope so. It is the only unanswered question tagged with mdframed ;-)

Andrey Vihrov

@PatrickGundlach Nice! Now I observe the loop too.

Alan Munn

@egreg It happened a couple of days ago. I was hoping for an even 30k so I could announce it, but that didn't happen.

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn Congrats! :)

@Patrick: you are a Lua expert. :) Could you recommend me a good editor? I'm using Vim for now, but I'd like to try another one. :)

egreg

Also Yiannis Lazarides reached 30000

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda What OS are you using? I am using TextMate on OS X. That's the only editor I am familiar with (besides emacs).

Paulo Cereda

6:15 PM

@PatrickGundlach OS? All three. :) Maybe I'll try emacs (when in my Mac, I used Textmate for some time, but I don't have it anymore). :)

And Torbjørn reached 10k! :)

Patrick Gundlach

I've heard that sublime text 2 is great, and Hans Hagen uses scite. But since I don't know them, I can't recommend them

egreg

And Werner is very close to 40000; he will be there next week.

Patrick Gundlach

sublime text is cross platform.

Paulo Cereda

Ah thanks, I'll take a look. :)

Marco Daniel

@PatrickGundlach This examples is bad;-) The endless loop results of the non splitable material. mdframed and framed don't include any counter to avoid this.

Patrick Gundlach

6:20 PM

@MarcoDaniel The OP included a PDF, and I assumed it's of size A4, which is the same height I put into the MWE. The answer, I guess, should be that it's impossible to frame non-splittable material.

Marco Daniel

@PatrickGundlach You can use the option nobreak

Patrick Gundlach

@MarcoDaniel I guess you should answer that

egreg

@MarcoDaniel You might add some check to block this behavior: if the last box has zero height (one should look precisely at what happens), assume the user is trying to frame material that won't fit the page and stop with an error.

Marco Daniel

@PatrickGundlach First I will test

@egreg I had never such situation in mind ;-)

egreg

@MarcoDaniel Users always provide surprises for the package writers. :) In the case of a figure environment, LaTeX would simply tell that there's an oversized float.

3

Paulo Cereda

7:03 PM

@egreg Users can do things you don't even imagine. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. :)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Your TUGBoat article about the horrors in LaTeX is just an appetizer, I think. :)

@egreg: we would love to see a new version of the "horrors". :)

Now wait for my script and we can include some Lua horror too. :)

Paulo Cereda

7:55 PM

In the new Sherlock Holmes movie, is it me or Prof. Moriarty (Jared Harris) doesn't look as a mathematician at all? :)

egreg

8:06 PM

@PauloCereda How do you imagine a mathematician's look?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg I don't know, but in that movie he looks evil. Mathematicians aren't evil. :)

Alan Munn

8:18 PM

3

A: Punctuation marks in math mode in xetex/mathspec

It seems that the author of mathspec forgot to change the mathcode of the comma and the definition of \mathellipsis. The following code should do: \makeatletter \DeclareMathSymbol{,}{\mathpunct}{\eu@LatinLowercase@symfont}{`,} \DeclareMathSymbol{.}{\mathord}{\eu@LatinLowercase@symfont}{`.} \Decl...

@egreg Did you ever file a bug report with the author of mathspec? If not, I will.

egreg

@AlanMunn No, I didn't.

Marco Daniel

Has LaTeX3 something like ExecuteOptions:

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{fonttest.sty}
\RequirePackage{expl3}
\ProvidesExplPackage {fonttest} {2012/02/04} {0.1}
  {Testing LaTeX3}
\RequirePackage{ l3keys2e , xparse }
\tl_new:N \l_fonttest_store_tl
%\tl_set:Nn { \l_fonttest_store_tl } { \bfseries }
\keys_define:nn { fonttest } {
   font-interface .tl_set:N = \l_fonttest_store_tl,
   font-interface .default:n = \bfseries,
}
\DeclareDocumentCommand { \Print } { O{} m }
  {
   \group_begin:
    \keys_set:nn { fonttest } {#1}

@egreg: Thanks

Alan Munn

@egreg Shall I copy you on the message to Andrew?

egreg

@AlanMunn I think it's the correct method, so why not? :)

@MarcoDaniel \ExecuteOptions?

Marco Daniel

@egreg Yes ;-) \ExecuteOptions

Paulo Cereda

8:26 PM

Out of curiosity, I found \docmute. What is it? :)

Alan Munn

@egreg (I meant cc: you on the e-mail, not copy your code).

egreg

8:48 PM

@AlanMunn Of course you can

We're starting with 263 unanswered questions.

It will be hard work to go under 200.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg: github.com/cereda/checkcites

If you don't mind, I intend to rewrite our previous attempts. I had another idea. :)

BTW I just created the repository, but nothing to commit yet. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda One should always rewrite the first attempt. :)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Indeed. :) My only problem is that I love to rewrite all of my attempts. :)

Shall we start, friends? :)

(I have to go to the mass, but I'll be back in an hour or so.) :)

egreg

9:07 PM

2

Q: preview-LaTeX: Specific scaling for graphics

I'm using Emacs 23 with AUCTeX/preview-LaTeX for all my LaTeX editing. Mostly I am very happy with this, but I do not like the included graphics previewed in full size. For now my solution is to disable preview for floats and graphics, but what would be really nice would be to get a thumbnail pre...

emacs auctex wysiwyg

An old question that seems to bring nowhere

Stefan Kottwitz

@egreg could be closed as not a real question

egreg

0

Q: Finding-aid about the private documents in library/archieve for online publishing?

This is hard question to specify because I do not know the technical words. Anyway I need to create some sort of index (of indices) and index books by their genres -- and then publish the document. Currently the document is in DOC but I am thinking to rewrite the whole document in Tex (based on ...

indexing

@StefanKottwitz That's my feeling; also for this other one

Stefan Kottwitz

@egreg You could give a vote to close then. Looks also much better as if it would seem that only a mod closed

It's not just the "look", the true reason is you voted first be words here ;)

egreg

12

Q: CSS based LaTeX formatting?

I've done ab bit of web-searching and found nothing. Are there any attempts on using CSS for LaTeX formatting? For example: body { font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } section { font-size: 16pt; } /* or: */ h1 { font-size: 16pt; } I know that this approach is limited compared to the clas...

formatting css

Stefan Kottwitz

preview-latex question closed with 3 votes

egreg

9:14 PM

This is also NARQ

Marco Daniel

@egreg: I think you comment to this question is an answer: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42715/…

Stefan Kottwitz

too localized:

0

Q: Insert image error: image not found

I'm trying to put a .pdf image in my title page, but latex returns the following error message: file logoeach not found The name of the image is logoeach.pdf, the image is in the same folder as the .tex file. This is the code I'm using: \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=170px,keepaspe...

graphics

finding-aid question closed with 3 votes

Marco Daniel

@egreg What's the intention of this question? I think @JosephWright can switch his comment to an answer.

egreg

@MarcoDaniel Answered

Marco Daniel

@egreg voted ;-)

Stefan Kottwitz

9:17 PM

@egreg upvoted too

egreg

@MarcoDaniel I believe that as it stands it's simply not possible to answer

Stefan Kottwitz

Not a real question:

2

Q: Creating a resume template? A beginner's education

I've began learning LaTeX for the expressive purpose of eventually creating a resume template of my own. A business school friend of mine showed a very professionally-looking resume he created from a workshop, and I would like to turn it into a LaTeX template. I know there are already many existi...

templates resume

egreg

@StefanKottwitz It had a "too localized" vote, but NARQ seems to be better

Stefan Kottwitz

Too localized, OP is not even able to create an MWE:

0

Q: Undefined Control Sequence - MikTex 2.9 - \hyper

My problem started when I switched to a new computer and started using MiKTeX 2.9 (with the TexWorks editor), and the problem still exists now that I went back to MiKTeX 2.8. My file produces this error (and many more just like it) when compiling: ! Undefined control sequence. \hyperindexformat...

hyperref errors miktex

Marco Daniel

@MartinScharrer: Can you provide an answer?

6

Q: todonotes and tikzexternalize

In my document I use todonotes and TikZ/pgfplots. After activating the externalization in TikZ I realized that todonotes are all exported as well (because they are based on TikZ). This behaviour is inconvenient, it would be much better for me to tell tikz-external to ignore all \todo. I know I ...

tikz-pgf tikz-external todonotes

Stefan Kottwitz

9:20 PM

@egreg closed with 3 votes

egreg

@StefanKottwitz Two weeks for providing an example seem sufficient

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright: Your comment is the answer ;-)

0

Q: MacTeX 2011, Xetex and Tex Live Utility

I tried several times to play with XeLaTeX (being used to "classical" LaTeX) but since I installed MacTeX 2011 and updated it with TeX Live Utility, I got that kind message : (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l...

xetex texlive fontspec mactex xparse

Stefan Kottwitz

@egreg yes - closed with 3 votes

egreg

This one says "it doesn't work"

1

Q: How to include class diagrams in Doxygen pdf?

I'm doing a programming project in college and I documenting my code with Doxygen. The program generates two folders, html and latex. In the html folder, there are some class diagrams (png files) I would like to include in the pdf file that I can generate from the tex files in the latex folder. ...

graphics pdf diagrams

Patrick Gundlach

@egreg a self answer saying "no, does not exist"...

Stefan Kottwitz

9:24 PM

@egreg months old and still unclear

Marco Daniel

@egreg It's a problem of the settings with TeX Live

You can link to an upper folder with \include

egreg

@MarcoDaniel It's about images, which are only read; it's disallowed to write in a parent directory

Stefan Kottwitz

Too general, NARQ without effort by the OP:

0

Q: Drawing RDF Schemas in Latex

Is it possible to draw visualizations of RDF Schemas in Latex? Either autogenerated or descriptive for example through TiKZ?

tikz-pgf

egreg

@PatrickGundlach Do it.

Marco Daniel

@egreg You are right I thought it belongs to openout_any = r

egreg

9:28 PM

@StefanKottwitz Voted

@PatrickGundlach Upvoted

Stefan Kottwitz

@egreg ok, closed with 3 votes

egreg

Anybody using TeXlipse?

0

Q: Spell checking errors of Texlipse do not appear in problems view

I'm using the Eclipse IDE and the Texlipse plugin the edit my tex-files. I found the option to use a spell checker, very nice :-) My question is how to mark the spelling mistakes as warnings or errors in Eclipse so I can see them in the "Problems"-View?! I've created an extra filter for "Texlipse...

spelling texlipse

Marco Daniel

Can be closed:

0

Q: Powerdot \pause only works in Itemize or Enumerate, not Standard

With powerdot 1.4h, pdfTeX Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian), Ubuntu 11.04 with powerdot.cls updated from CTAN, setting mode=present in document class options, how can \pause be used in the Standard environment? When using \pause within the Standard environment, nothing happens. U...

lyx powerdot

Stefan Kottwitz

Even the caption author said the code in the question should work, and it's not possible to help without further information, nearly 2 months ago:

0

Q: Why do I get the error "\caption outside float" with the algorithm / algorithmic package?

I have an algorithm in my document It looks like this: \begin{algorithm} \caption{Merge Digest: Insert\label{mergeDigestInsert}} \begin{algorithmic}[1] [....algorithm is here] \end{algorithmic} \end{algorithm} When I compile the document I get this error: ...

captions algorithms

So too localized

Marco Daniel

Related caption question without any response of the OP:

0

Q: Question about side captions

Does anyone know how to do "side captions" in LaTeX if you already have a caption environment specified? I keep getting an error when I use SCfigure.

floats positioning captions

@StefanKottwitz voted

Stefan Kottwitz

9:33 PM

@MarcoDaniel a bit fresh, still?

Marco Daniel

@StefanKottwitz fresh ;-) -- ok next month ;-)

egreg

This seems to be too LyX specific; there's no hint, either.

2

Q: Change nameddest default name

Adobe defines parameters that allow you to open a PDF document with a command or URL that specifies exactly what to display (a named destination or specific page), and how to display it (using such characteristics as a specific view, scrollbars, bookmarks, annotations, or highlighting). My quest...

pdf formatting lyx

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel algorithmic question closed with 3 votes

Marco Daniel

Too localized :

2

Q: Caption spacing in longtable package

I am using a style file that sets a particular spacing for the List of Figures (LoF) and List of Tables (LoT) in my Table of Contents. However, I am using longtable for all my tables, and it is changing the LoT spacing by redefining @caption and @makecaption. I am unfamiliar with the code, so I h...

spacing table-of-contents captions longtable

egreg

Too localized:

3

Q: Problems by enlarging tex memory

I have a problem with the tex memory while using pgfplots and a very huge dataset in Ubuntu. Under Windows with MikTeX I have the following settings and the texfile compile without any problems: main_memory=250000000 extra_mem_top=50000000 extra_mem_bot=50000000 save_size=15000 stack_si...

tikz-pgf pgfplots texlive

Is this really on topic?

2

Q: movie15 package and playing time information in a pdf-embeded video

I am working with the beamer class and using the movie15 package to embed videos into a pdf document. I notice that when I includde mp4-format videos the embedded player does not include run time information (i.e., a counter/timer like you typically would have on a DVD player which shows you whe...

movie15

It seems to me that it has to do with the external program used to show the movie

Stefan Kottwitz

9:42 PM

@egreg I confirm, TL, closed with 3 votes

Marco Daniel

@egreg It's hard but I think it can be on topic.

egreg

@MarcoDaniel I don't think that movie15.sty has anything to do with the movie player.

This is system and previewer dependent.

Marco Daniel

@egreg I don't know the internal. In this case it is off topic and belongs to a multimedia community ;-)

Stefan Kottwitz

@MarcoDaniel longtable caption question: after reading this and the comments, closed as TL, with 3 votes

egreg

@MarcoDaniel You can only specify a plug-in, but the final choice of the player is left to the system, I guess.

Stefan Kottwitz

9:55 PM

@egreg Doxygen question closed as TL with 3 votes

egreg

I've provided an answer to this old question

1

Q: Smaller font sizes in boitecoloriee environment gives bad result

The boites package defines environments that allow page breaks inside framed boxes whose edges may be variously fancy. The bundle includes a few examples (shaded box, box with a wavy line on its side, etc). boitecoloriee is one of those environments. It typesets its contents in a gray background...

color boxes backgrounds

Stefan Kottwitz

@egreg Tested and upvoted

Martin Schröder

@egreg I agree that it's very localized (it most likely depends on the viewer and os), but where else would the question be answered?

Marco Daniel

To this question The answer can be "use \"u instead of ü

2

Q: minted chokes on umlauts

I would like to use ü in the caption of my listings. It works with the lstinputlisting command, but not with inputminted: \documentclass[11pt]{report} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{a4paper, left=2cm, right=2cm, top=2cm, bottom=2cm} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage[...

unicode minted

I can't see the problem. Or keyval can't handle umlaut

Martin Schröder

@MarcoDaniel He should try with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX.

Marco Daniel

10:08 PM

@MartinSchröder You get the same result

\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{makefile.txt}
foo bar äöo

asdasd
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{minted}

\newcommand{\code}[4][text]{%
    \inputminted[label={#3}, frame=lines, framesep=2mm]{#1}{#2}%
}

\begin{document}
F
\code[make]{makefile.txt}{Gemeinheiten für Listing \ref{code:auto-einfach}}{code:gemeinheiten}

\end{document}

egreg

I've answered (after testing) the following

3

Q: Font issue when including EPS from Metapost into XeLaTeX

I've run into strange problems with fonts in figures included in XeLaTeX document. I have figures generated from Metapost sources with rotated math labels. When I include resulting EPS into document its rendering depends upon including another figure before it. Example should clear what I mean. ...

graphics xetex eps

Marco Daniel

The example of this question works well for me?

3

Q: How to correct \insertpresentationendpage in presence of \uncover

The command \insertpresentationendpage is supposed to insert the page number of the last page of the presentation, excluding the appendix. However its value is incorrectly increased if \uncover is used during the presentation. Does anyone know a good fix or workaround for this problem? Example...

beamer page-numbering

Stefan Kottwitz

@egreg Trusted (and of course it is sensible) and upvoted

Marco Daniel

Is this question latex related?

Martin Schröder

@MarcoDaniel Yes, I see. So minted doesn't do Unicode?

Marco Daniel

10:16 PM

1

Q: Using the minted package (for pygments syntax highlighting) with noweb

minted generates beautifully highlighted/colored source code (thanks to pygments), and literate programming tools such as noweb and cweb generate beautifully typeset and readable documentation. Ideally, I would like that the docs generated by noweb and cweb have high quality syntax coloring, and...

minted literate-programming

Martin Schröder

@MarcoDaniel That's bordering on being off-topic; it could equally well be on stackoverflow.

egreg

@StefanKottwitz I found this when I was finishing my gmp package and was working on an example by Vafa Khalighi; although XeTeX is mostly able to load EPS files, the ones produced by Metapost with rotated labels are not correctly managed.

Off-topic?

0

Q: How to mimic IMRN?

I'm trying to typeset an article so that it looks like the ones on IMRN, see for example: http://imrn.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/04/imrn.rnr232.short?rss=1. I tried using the recommended TeX class file, as instructed on IMRN's website. Using this class it kind of looks similar but ...

fonts templates

On a second thought, I'll ask barbara to make an answer

@PauloCereda Would you make an answer from your comment?

0

Q: Problem with latex2rtf. Unknown commands. How to solve it?

I'm having some difficulties to convert a TeX document into an MS-Word readable one. I'm trying to use latex2rtf but I had this output (pastebin). Looks like the main problem is some unrecognized packages, like amsmath. Several usual commands appears as unknown: main.tex:11 Package/option 'e...

amsmath conversion msword word-to-latex

No news after two months

1

Q: enpassant chess font

I have got a ttf-font that I will like to use in chess diagrams. I have installed in the enpassant package before, but this time I only have the ttf-file. How do I convert this into the LaTeX package?

chessboard

Joseph Wright

10:46 PM

@egreg NARQ

egreg

What about this one? It's interesting, of course, but it doesn't seem to take anywhere

15

Q: How do I debug pgfkeys?

I'm sure if you're reading this question you are already familiar with my love for pgfkeys. However, it is absolutely impossible to debug: \tracingmacros is a total mess, with every key expanding to dozens of complex internal macros. I would like to be able to debug it the same way I can debug ...

macros debugging pgfkeys

Joseph Wright

@egreg That does not mean it can be closed (cf. the breqn one). I'd leave it

egreg

Ok. This one seems Sweave specific and hasn't much to do with TeX

0

Q: LyX & Sweave cannot generate tons of plots at once

This is less of a question than a warning. In LyX 2.1.0 with pgfSweave under Ubuntu 10.04 I've been trying to generate a number of plots with a for loop. For example <<fig=TRUE>>= for (lala in 1:200) { hist(rpois(1234,lala)); } @ . After a long period of experimentation I'm confid...

tikz-pgf lyx sweave r

But I don't know much about Sweave.

Joseph Wright

@egreg I'd agree, especially with the opening sentence 'This is less of a question than a warning.'

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Sure! :)

0

A: Problem with latex2rtf. Unknown commands. How to solve it?

Converting my comment to an answer. Unfortunately, I don't see any solution so far. According to its website, LaTeX2rtf is "intended to translate a LaTeX document (precisely: the text and a limited subset of LaTeX tags) " (emphasis mine). As others mentioned, you might try other tools such as p...

Converted to an answer.

Joseph Wright

10:56 PM

1

Q: How to make breqn work across multiple pages?

I'm creating a document programmatic and use breqn to automatically break equations across multiple lines. But when a single equation is larger then a page it fails. \documentclass[11pt,fleqn]{article} \usepackage[landscape,margin=.5in]{geometry} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{breqn} \begin{...

page-breaking breqn

The MWE here is a disaster: 'too localized'?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Agreed.

17

Q: Make hyphenated words in PDF searchable

Is there a way to make hyphenated words in a PDF generated by LuaTeX searchable? If the MWE below is converted to a PDF, searching for "lexicon" (in Acrobat X for example) will not find the word since it now contains a hyphen followed by a space character. \documentclass{article} \begin{document...

pdf hyphenation

I think this question is viewer-dependant.

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Agree: CW answer?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Hm with one answer per viewer, perhaps?

Joseph Wright

0

Q: Alignments in bussproofs package

I'm using bussproofs and would like my axioms always to be left-aligned with the beginning of the inference line. Is something like that possible to achieve?

horizontal-alignment align logic

Relatively recent, but as written we can't hope to answer

@PauloCereda I was thinking more 'This is really a viewer issue'

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Fine with me. :)

egreg

11:02 PM

@JosephWright I too had a look at that. I believe it's impossible for breqn to split across pages when it doesn't find first a possible break point (a relation or something).

Joseph Wright

@egreg Exactly my point: the MWE is basically a 'do not do this'

Paulo Cereda

@egreg You could write it as an answer. :)

egreg

@JosephWright Well, we usually wait more before closing.

Joseph Wright

@egreg Well yes, but the OP has not been back for a week

egreg

@JosephWright Maybe if daleif showed up…

Joseph Wright

11:05 PM

@egreg OK, we'll leave for another time

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I copied the question link to a txt file named checknextweek.txt. :)

egreg

@JosephWright Regarding the breqn page break question, daleif showed up yesterday; what about pinging him about that?

Paulo Cereda

5

Q: Is there a Tikz library for network symbols?

Is there a Tikz library for network symbols? For example: Server Database Firewall PC Laptop etc...

tikz-pgf symbols

Joseph Wright

@egreg Oh, I don't think that will help. There is unlikely to be much change to breqn until Bruno or I try to port the code to LaTeX3 proper

Paulo Cereda

Maybe @StefanKottwitz could convert his comment to an answer. :)

@JosephWright Don't tease Bruno, otherwise he will port it tonight. :P

Joseph Wright

11:08 PM

@PauloCereda No, I'll tell him off for not sorting l3fp :-)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda support for alternative text may vary between viewers but the facility itself isn't viewer specific, it's part of the PDF accessibility tagging isn't it? (Not sure how best to reach that from tex though, Ross More gave talks on this at some tex meetings a while back

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle No, but the basics of how they implement searching does vary

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle Hm I really don't know. :)

Joseph Wright

For example, I find a difference between Preview and Adobe Reader when looking for control sequences - nothing to do with alternative text

Paulo Cereda

4

Q: Why does Acrobat not see LaTeX (pdflatex) generated form fields?

I used the hyperref package and pdflatex to make a nice PDF form. The form works fine in that I can fill out the fields and save the contents. However, I want to make a fancy field that performs a calculation on the values of some other fields. I can do this in Acrobat without problems, by chang...

pdf acrobat pdftex

Dupe?

I plan to write a PDF viewer, but it's far down in my TODO list. :)

David Carlisle

11:12 PM

@JosephWright documents last longer than viewers:-) If we put in the alternative un-ligatured text in the tagging, viewers will eventually use it.

Paulo Cereda

For the moment, I'm only one of the PT-BR translators for SumatraPDF. :P

Speaking of translations, I thought about translating JabRef. But when I saw the localization strings, OH MY!

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle I guess I don't like the idea of needing alternative text for this: it implies you have to duplicate all of the content

Paulo Cereda

I thought the accessibility layer worked only on hyphenation and ligatures.

Joseph Wright

@DavidCarlisle Anyway, if I want something to last I want it on dead trees (when people expect me to have old e-mails, I get very annoyed - send me a letter if you want me to archive it)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Great. Now Greenpeace will hijack our chatroom. :P

3

Q: Display text as tooltip with pdfcomment - how to ignore complex formatting commands?

I have a large document which has to be edited "heavily", so there is a lot of text content which has to be removed for the final version, but I would like to keep it in sight during editing also in the PDF. So generally said I have to replace e. g. a large paragraph with one or two short senten...

pdftex pdfcomment

Werner's comment to an answer? :)

David Carlisle

11:16 PM

hey I can create tag synonyms! (If only I knew why I'd want to:-)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle First step towards full access to the site tools. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

@PauloCereda I made my comment to an answer

5

Q: Is there a Tikz library for network symbols?

Is there a Tikz library for network symbols? For example: Server Database Firewall PC Laptop etc...

tikz-pgf symbols

lockstep

Not a real question:

0

Q: tools like BibTool BibDesk to ease writing a document

BibDesk and BibTool are software for maintaining references. Are there any other application that ease the writing document/Office work?

bibliographies

Stefan Kottwitz

@lockstep Yes, vague and broad, but just 3 hours old

could be commented on and perhaps improved

lockstep

11:32 PM

@StefanKottwitz Particularly vague and broad. But let's close it next month, if it doesn't improve ...

Stefan Kottwitz

@lockstep Give a close vote, if further users agree it can be closed very soon

lockstep

@StefanKottwitz I have.

Stefan Kottwitz

@lockstep fine! Just don't want to "finish" very young questions during an unanswered session

lockstep

I'm perusing the list of questions mentioned in chat right now and adding closing votes where appropriate.

Anyone knows the exact number of unanswered questions at 2100 GMT? Should have been about 260.

Stefan Kottwitz

@lockstep A still open tab tells me 258 open questions at about 20:00 GMT

egreg

11:45 PM

@lockstep I saw 263 just some minutes before the session

We're under 1.6% unanswered

210 without answers

lockstep

@egreg There seems to have been a large influx of question in the last two weeks -- among them many questions still "unanswered", but too fresh to be closed right now. We should be able to close more questions in our next session, assuming the rate of "requested information was not provided" is constant.

@egreg 230 without upvoted answers.

egreg

@lockstep There should be a way to find out those 20

lockstep

@egreg Most of the answers are quite old, but have not received an upvote anyway.

Although BrunoLeFloch provided a comment, I'm tempted to close this one as "not a real question":

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Q: Unbalanced braces with newenvironment / NewEnviron + Command

This is a follow-up question of my Unbalanced braces with newenvironment / NewEnviron post. The gist is that by using \NewEnviron{myEnv}{% \expandafter\gdef\expandafter\myCommand\expandafter{\BODY}% \aftergroup\bgroup} I can expand \begin{myEnv} 0.3 \end{myEnv} text2} to \gdef\myComman...

macros environments braces

egreg

I don't know why the OP didn't at least upvote this answer

0

A: RTL theorems with ntheorem and xetex have separator in wrong place

It's quite curious, but it seems font dependent. With the "New Peninim MT" font I get the colon in the right place, with "David CLM" not. However, the following seems to work: \theoremseparator{\textup{:}} An update to the most recent versions of polyglossia, bidi and fontspec is recommendabl...

You have 3 minutes to vote it up so that it doesn't add to my rep. :)

@lockstep It's hard to understand why on earth one should be forced to do this. For much less than such misfeatures I have trashed some software. :)

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