@AlanMunn hehe I already have an account set in Atlassian for other products, so it's not a problem. :) I never thought my Mac experience would be so awesome as it's being so far.
@PauloCereda The thing about the Mac that's just so great is that everything just works and you get a full Unix box underneath. It's really the best of both worlds.
@AlanMunn Indeed. :) I feel like a conductor: with the trackpad in the left side of my keyboard (left hand), I keep control of what screens and apps I want; with the mouse in my right hand, I do stuff. Switching between full screen apps is fantastic! The launchpad, browser, Adium (I'm in love with that duck!). :)
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@N3buchadnezzar So switch to pst-euclide which is in English. :-)
@DavidCarlisle Thanks David! Really glad to have your opinion on that. I will just leave it unsmashed. Guess I have to be careful not to get hysterical about these aesthetic issues :-) Have a great day!
@Costi users can vote for deleting or closing a question. If several did, the question will be closed or deleted. But also this can be undone, by voting.
@Costi So we have community moderation, experience based (the rep score) and agreement required (several voters required), this works usually very well
@MarcoDaniel: Example: TL;DR version of Star Wars: guy with a superpower called The Force fights against bad guy which happens to be his father, kiss a princess and later finds that she's his sister. There's a green dude which speaks backwards, dies in the process. The good guy explodes a giant spaceship which is in fact a giant ball of doom. No ponies were harmed. The End. :)
I'm using apalike-letters bibliography style which inserts heading for each first letter of authors' names. It works well for English letters but when a name starts with Polish letter it starts to get crazy. Consider following example:
Note that the order of the items is correct (Ł should be a...
I am writing a CV using the currvita style and multibib, so that I can have lists of different publication types. What I'd really like to do is have the entries numbered, so that you can tell at a glance how many papers there are in each section. I don't have any numbers in the bibliographies, th...
@Costi Spend some time asking questions then. Use well formed english, search before asking. Follow the guidelines as close as possible, as in making a MWE. Also include image(s) of your output.
@Costi What I meant with well formed is that you do as good as you can, I am not a native speake either. But even I try not to ask questions like "zommmmg th1s one aint working yo bros, biblatex is stypd lol!" (Not saying you do this of course, just an example)
@N3buchadnezzar The nice thing about memoir is (a) by default, it works like "a better 'book'" (b) you can actually give it the [article] option to make it behave like article, (c) when you need it, there are lots of other useful packages already built-in (like booktabs), and (d) it's all in just one manual written by a wise typographer
@Brent.Longborough I agree with you but that title page is terrible in my opinion and just doesn't reflect the goodies of memoir. I would even say that it's a turn off. (I'm talking about the manual )
@MarcoDaniel I think Koma is a highly respectable set of tools (though I hate the documentation). It seems to adhere to the Unix principle of small packages linked together, which again, I respect, but, for writing, for me, is just extra noise.
@percusse Yes, agreed on the title page (though Peter Wilson has published a set of about forty title pages with source - see titlepages), some of which are prettier than others
@Brent.Longborough Your comment about changing margins is a FAQ to me. I usually get this question from people, sometimes students well into their 3rd year at college.
@Brent.Longborough I know this is not a brief question, but I am trying to work on better typography in my documents. Doing things the correct way. Any tips?
"The essence of good typography is that it is not noticeable at first, or even second or later, glances to any without a trained eye. If your initial reaction when glancing through a book is to exclaim about its layout then it is most probably badly designed, if it was designed at all. Good typography is subtle, not strident."
@Marco Please see the image for how it looks. I would like a code to reproduce the style of the same, esp. the paragraph indent? May be a question on main site?
That means heaps of equations, figures and so forth. Having one equation then two or three words on a line, before a new equation is mildly displeasing.
@N3buchadnezzar Oh, yes, that's enormously difficult. Probably doesn't even fit into some kind of left-column/right-column, or even left-page/right-page layout (though that might be worth trying)
@Brent.Longborough In professional works this is usually handled by lowering the amount of equations to a minimum. Like "by combining equation (2) and (3) we get ...
@N3buchadnezzar Well, I sympathise. But think of it this way: for this kind of text, I think that LaTeX is more-or-less universally recognised as producing the most beautiful answer possible.
@MarcoDaniel no, I'd like the opposite. I am using amsart and by default, it is indenting the first paragraph like any other. But, I would like the opposite. For instance, the article class does it.
@N3buchadnezzar I don't pretend to have all the answers, but have you tried formatting the text in, say, a \parbox{0.75\textwidth}, aligned left, and the equateions in one alugned right? Give me a few minutes and I'll show you what I mean - need to find some maths examples (may be ugly)
@Brent.Longborough I think I will try this for my other documents. But in this case I am typesetting solutions to old exams, and the margins are set in stone unfortunately. But I would be interested in seeing that =)
you just need to negate the relevant argument of `\@startsection` amsart has `\def\section{\@startsection{section}{1}% \z@{.7\linespacing\@plus\linespacing}{.5\linespacing}% {\normalfont\scshape\centering}}` which presumably you want to be `{-.7\linespacing\@plus-\linespacing}`
@MarcoDaniel well in this case it's not really a trick, it's an explicit boolean flag to indent or not coded via the sign of that argument. (what was your trick, in this chat or in an answer somewhere?)
@David What's your opinion about putting one of the things into my .sty file? Given that I want to use the .sty file with other classes as well, what do you think?
@KannappanSampath it depends what the package is for. section heading layout is ideally the preserve of the class, so a generic package shouldn't usually touch that. @Marco's version makes more sense as a generic package line (like indentfirst package) my version, with explicit lengths is really focussed on amsart
@PauloCereda MacTeX is a bit more than just the stuff in /usr/local, for example you may have installed the GUI applications or convert. So full uninstallation is not quite so easy, but as you never need to this should not be an issue. For example, I have TL2010, TL2011 and TL2012 installed here.
@Brent.Longborough I think the important thing in a mathematical document that the mathematics is part of the text, just the natural language of the document. It shouldn't be treated like an image a strange bunch of hieroglyphics inserted out of the main flow. Also it should be easy to distinguish a paragraph start from text resuming after a display.
@DavidCarlisle Of course I agree with that -- it's just that I was trying to find a way to address @N3buchadnezzar his problem of "maths for students", and be baeutiful at the same time...
@PauloCereda It depends in part what you decide to install. I tend to go just for TL plus the utility that lets you quickly pick which installed TeX system to install. GhostScript is also handy, but I skip the GUI tools and deal with the ones I want myself.
@JosephWright: in other news, I didn't understand the motivation and tone of the first comment in your blog post. I mean, I don't see anything wrong with packages, and we need to have best practices.
@Brent.Longborough It was a joke pending on my own experience. Joseph figured out there was a bug in TL2012 that broke most of my documents. Hence it is evil.
@N3buchadnezzar Not just TL2012, by the look of things. On Windows, TL uses the binaries which also form W32TeX ('big in Japan'), and it seems it's been bust for some time
@N3buchadnezzar No, which is what I've said in my comment, I hope. Often the best answer can be 'this package is a poor choice because ...' or 'this package simply cannot do what you want because ...'.
@PauloCereda You can rerun the installer and do this by hand, or you can just download the fonts yourself from the GUST website (assuming of course you want LM outside of TeX). I've always done the latter to get the most up-to-date glyphs.
I often read questions on the site with several answers. Some of them say "Please do not do this, but here is a working solution", then further down there are alternative solutions using different compilers, packages or whatnot. Leaving the choice up to me what I want to do.
@PauloCereda Yes: they are installed in the TeX tree, which means XeTeX and LuaTeX can use them, but programs which only read the system fonts (~everything outside of TeX) need you to do a system install
@N3buchadnezzar Yes, that always seems like a sensible approach to me. I have written a number of answers which either have two parts or where I write two separate answers for this reason.
@JosephWright This isn't a complaint, just seeking wisdom: why do they still come with specific point sizes? Is it simply because of the amount of foundry work needed otherwise?
The .otf-s that is
(And, again, rather than pro-type font size classes (Display, Caption, etc)
I am writing an Article in Latex.
Please suggest me how to create a highlight box like the one shown below in Latex:
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Sandeep Singh
@Brent.Longborough Multiple masters never really caught on, and I think are a pain in the neck to create, so this is still necessary to do high-quality work with different design sizes
@MartinScharrer, @StefanKottwitz Did you see the blog comments?
Often it's additional value, if a way using a different package is shown. It's still TeX, it's closely related to the problem as the desired output is achieved. No matter if it's a PSTricks tipp for a TikZ question, or a ConTeXt approach for a LaTeX question.
I am creating an annotated bibliography. Is there a way of obtaining a count of the number of references in a bibliography meeting certain criteria and inserting that into a document?
For example using biblatex I create one section using:
\nocite{*} ;; include all references in .bib file
\print...
I don't know how to install new packages. I've tried to install texLive [I have installed sudo apt-get install texlive -full -- which wnet correct, but I can not install Tex Live], but after install texLive dosent'respond. I write tlmgr, and I get respons 'no comand 'tlmgr' ' I have read document...
@JosephWright Speaking of installation, egreg has a wonderful article on how to install TeX Live on Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuSE - very detailed and easy to follow. It's in his homepage, in the TeX section.
I'm using memoir with non-equal left and right margins and encounter a problem when I use the adjustwidth* environment to get three equally spaced columns with equal margins in the index. According to the memoir manual (bottom of p. 144 of latest version dated 2011/03/06), the changes do not get ...
@MarcoDaniel Oh, I see. So the problem is specific to the index (multiple columns) and then having those three columns with equal margins (different from the rest of the document which has a different left/right margin. Right?
@Werner Indeed. (for my understanding). Can the op change the page settings with memoir inside the document? Normally I would use \newgeometry for such cases.
Uploads to CTAN are not allowed for a week now. I keep getting this message: "the two remaining CTAN Team members are on holiday". Does anybody know when will uploads be back to normal?
@MarcoDaniel Thanks, Marco! I wonder why I keep getting those messages. I tried Dante's site: dante.ctan.org/upload and Cambridge's: tex.ac.uk/upload with no success. Do you know if there's another site for uploads?
@JosephWright I selected Plain Text in the Preferences panel, but I don't know if it worked. @MarcoDaniel can tell us if the email went in plain text. :)
I am creating an annotated bibliography. Is there a way of obtaining a count of the number of references in a bibliography meeting certain criteria and inserting that into a document?
For example using biblatex I create one section using:
\nocite{*} ;; include all references in .bib file
\print...
