@FaheemMitha Sounds about right: I find Mercurial easy to use, but Git is likely to win in the longer term (for example, it's now part of the standard Xcode set up on my Mac)
@FaheemMitha I'm not a big fan of shell add-is, as once you have more than one you end up with lots of options you never use. However, many people do find them helpful.
@JosephWright I mostly find the command line works for me. Unless one is doing lots of merges and branches, in which case a DAG can be helpful. Though hg glog gives a command line graph.
@JosephWright Damn, I hate when I strongly disagree with the referee on English.
An interest in lazy representations started in 1990 by works of Erd\H{o}s, Jo\'o and Komornik \cite{ErJoKo}. An interest in lazy representations is started in 1990 by works of Erd\H{o}s, Jo\'o and Komornik \cite{ErJoKo}.
@JosephWright German people can be quite good at English grammar, because they actually learn it, at least some of them, as opposed to native speakers, who just pick it up.
@tohecz As a mathematician, I'd say that 0.3333\ldots is incorrect. There is no general consensus about how to denote periodic numbers or in general decimal alignments (with omission of digits after a certain point); I'd try avoiding the punctuation just following it. If unavoidable, maybe 0.333\cdots is a possibility.
Btw, can you tell me what is "obsure" on a sentence: "Our de nition below is a restriction of the very general numeration system considered by Thurston [11], which permits for the base also complex numbers."
@egreg yeah, something like that would be better, but he suggests to remove everything after [11].
btw, another one I'm not sure about: The Proposition 2.5 suggests how to choose a suitable ordering on the set $R _A(x)$. The Proposition 2.5 suggests how to choose a suitable ordering on set $R _A(x)$.
@egreg Then my assumption is wrong. I assumed that a certain privilege is given after the rep points reach the corresponding threshold no matter how the rep points will be in the future.
@DavidCarlisle For some reasons, hyphenation cannot be disabled during the second pass over a paragraph and a \language should be present, explicitly or implicitly.
@JosephWright While there is no provided infrastructure, the current file handler for the .aux file still can be used.
@JosephWright That requires rethinking to the whole subject, of course. Keeping in mind that BibTeX or Biber (as they stand) need some predefined structures in the .aux file.
@tohecz If the question/answe is very recent, there's not much harm in correcting typos. Correcting some grammar issues can make the question/answer clearer and in this case (but it's quite rare) I would deem it acceptable.
I am trying to make a 3D surface in pgfplots with input data. I am not able to get the expected graph. I would highly appreciate if you could point out to me what I am missing.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{mydata.dat}
x ...
@tohecz I agree that some edits are trivial (such as removing Thanks), but correcting grammar and typos is definitely necessary sometimes (as @egreg says). You'll never stop people removing thanks that are really determined though!
Is there a link that describes voting on the site? I just noticed a user who has 31 questions, and hasn't cast a single upvote- perhaps they are unaware?
@tohecz that was my point when I said that you'll never stop people from removing thanks :) Personally I never remove the thanks, it just seems rude. I know there is something of an 'official' policy not to write thanks, but still....
This has happened to me 3 times already: you start doing some research, and after couple months, you find out that someone else has done that before you. I'm seriously considering giving up science and becoming a professional typesetter.
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Automating quoting across LaTeX documents
I'm working on 2 documents: 1.tex and 2.tex.
2.tex is a metadocument about 1.tex, so that 2.tex has a lot of quotations from 1.tex. Thus, if I modify 1.tex, I need to modify 2.tex to reflect the changes accordingly. Such a ...
@DavidCarlisle I don't find that reading each time the auxiliary file until finding the required key can be considered efficient. However I did upvote your answer at the time, because I read your answers and am not afraid about you catching me up. ;-)
@DavidCarlisle I'm only 60 behind for the week. :)
What is the secret to getting something all the way to the right? I know there is already question on the site, but can't find it. So, in the following, I want #3 to always be on the right -- currently fails for the case where \mbox{#3} does not fit on the line (and the text preceding does not occupy more than one line), so it ends up on the left side of the second line:
@DavidCarlisle I enjoyed reading about cricket in P. G. Wodehouse's novels, and a few other similar things. He made is sound much more interesting than it really is. Mostly it is a bunch of people standing around.
@FaheemMitha Yes the most interesting thing about it is trying to get people from non cricketing nations to understand a cricket scorecard, it's kind of a cruel spectator sport like bear bating
@DavidCarlisle Wow, so the one place where separate taps might actually makes sense is the place where you use the new fancy technology of combining hot and cold taps. :-)
@DavidCarlisle I wouldn't go that far, but perhaps driving on the "right" (correct) side would be good. :-)
@egreg Hmmm. I think I have seen both ways, but I am not much of a musician. This is another of those things that I wish he world had just standardized on -- either will work just fine, but having both does not really add any value, IMHO, btu does add extra overhead...
@Speldosa underlining is not a property of the font so you cant't normally youse it like \Large, but as \underline{text} but mostly you shouldn't underline:-)
@egreg yes shame you can't see the mathopen but the request was the {\true} loses the space and that works
@DavidCarlisle Oh, okay. I knew about the \underline command. Anyhow, I'm writing for a scientific journal and they seldom have any taste anyway, so I'll probably get away with it :)
@Speldosa If you want more flexible underlining (allowing line breaks etc) look at ulem or soul packages but best not to underline (did I mention that:-)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Cape Cobras 224/10 & 81/6 * v Lions 270/10
- Titans 335/10 v Knights 190/7 *
- KwaZulu-Natal Under-19s v Free State Under-19s
- Boland Under-19s 147/10 v Eastern Province Under-19s 95 *
- Gauteng Under-19s 422/5 * v Northerns Under-19s
- Griqualand West Under-19s 219/4 * v KwaZulu-Natal Inland Under-19s 209/10
- North West Under-19s v Easterns Under-19s 209/5 *
- South Western Districts Under-19s 84/10 & 7/2 * v Western Province Under-19s 303/6
@Speldosa It's group-think if you hang around typography circles. underlining is widely seen as handwriting or typewritten instructions to a typesetter to do bold or some such, not anything you'd actually ever put in a printed document
Does anyone know if a WYSIWYG editor for biblatex exists, where I simply can enter some kind of template (e.g. regular expression or whatever) and the needed commands to produce this style would be generated.
Especially for the style of entries in the reference list. Considering different order...
@PauloCereda what you need in that case would be an xml technologies group who'd manage your documentation needs (under a brilliant and inspired group leader)
@DavidCarlisle And what is your job? If I may ask. It sounds to me like a developer of Mathjax or something like that (given the topic of the chat room and your collection...)
@MartyIX well as you may guess from my reply to Paulo above My job title is group leader of the xml technologies group but I'm editor of MathML spec (and XML(/html5) entity definitions and one or two other bits and pieces so I need to make sure that browsers that people will be using next week show mathematics (our documentation has a lot of mathematics) Before that I had something to do with making latex2e I don't really use tex now I just hang out here for old times sake and cricket news
@percusse I spend about 95% of my time at present trying to make things work in IE (or rather mshtml rendering engine as exposed for example in visual studio help) let's just say it isn't my favourite browser and often I only come here to get a bit of (relative) sanity:-)
Oh, I see. You are the first editor of a specification I've ever encountered :)) I hope one day IE will support MathML (as far as I know IE10 does not) because one of my projects would benefit from that :)
@MartyIX Chrome 24 went stable today so that just pushed MathML support to several million people, and leaves IE as the only major browser without anything out of the box, next plan is to embarrass them enough to fix that
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I've read that earlier today. I'm watching gs.statcounter.com closely to see falling IE's share. It's slow but steady. Thank god.
I don't know much about MathML but is it better than LaTeX? When I see LaTeX syntax I can understand what it means but MathML employs xml notation and it's not easily legible for me. Obviously you need an editor for MathML.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Good night! I'm Psmith, the friendly TeX bot - the p in my name is silent, as in pshrimp. I'm here as a companion to our fellow users in the typographic land. As you probably noticed, I always reply under Paulo's account, but do not despair, I say, my replies are always preceded by my own name. Enjoy your stay at TeX.sx! If you need any help, just ask our chat residents. Cheerio!
Phew.
!!/eightball O powerful oracle, are we sane here?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: only egreg knows the answer.
I am trying to make a 3D surface in pgfplots with input data. I am not able to get the expected graph. I would highly appreciate if you could point out to me what I am missing.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{mydata.dat}
x ...
Possible Duplicate:
Automating quoting across LaTeX documents
I'm working on 2 documents: 1.tex and 2.tex.
2.tex is a metadocument about 1.tex, so that 2.tex has a lot of quotations from 1.tex. Thus, if I modify 1.tex, I need to modify 2.tex to reflect the changes accordingly. Such a ...
I'm adopting for my thesis times new roman as text font and eulervm for math fonts. Which is the correct package for times to use?
