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3:26 AM

Hi

anyone here?

3:50 AM

yes

@user1460166 sorry didnt see until now

4:48 AM

@DanZimm thanks

whats up?

@DanZimm I have a small question

hopefully ill have an answer :D

tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114356/… :D

you should answer Gonzalo's question

im not sure how you would do that I apologize

Q: Referencing a figure throwing up '??' not '1'. LaTeX beginner

4:50 AM

thanks :)

Werner

6:13 AM

Any Mac user around that uses LaTeXian? Here's a question that might be specific to settings with this editor:

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I've only very recently started with LaTeX and can't seem to get this to work! \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{figure} [h!] \centering %\includegraphics[width=40mm]{UNSWlogo.jpg} \caption{UNSW Emblem}\label{fig:logo} \end{figure} Please see Figure \ref{fig:logo} blah blah blah \e...

cross-referencing

8:14 AM

Tuddeluu and good morning, everybody!

!!/answer weather in Trondheim, NO

8:33 AM

@DavidCarlisle A friend of mine claims that the Article class doesn't have font size 13. That it renders in 12 pt if one specify \documentclass[13pt]{article}. Is this correct?

@Holene No it uses 10pt (and tells you there is no 13pt option)

@DavidCarlisle Aha, thanks.

@Holene note the options are not really about font size so much as design layouts You can use \Large to get 14pt for example but the 10 11 and 12 pt options set up page size, and margins spaces around lists and headings and lots of other stuff, and there are only three the moresizes collection has eg extarticle with more options if you really need it, but mostly, you don't.

@Holene PSmith follows Paulo around, If Paulo isn't here, Psmith isn't either.

Aha

@DavidCarlisle Much to learn, I guess =)

user4035

@DavidCarlisle Hello, did you see the bug report about the array package: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68732/…

We sent with @PauloCereda 2 days ago

9:18 AM

@DavidCarlisle I have a minipage with a couple of sentences in. I would like these sentences to stretch out equally. How can I do that?

 \begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
    \begin{center}
    {\fontsize{75}{75}\selectfont NTH }\\
    {\scshape\sloppy Universitetet i Trondheim} \\
    {\scshape\sloppy Norges Tekniske Høgskole}
    \end{center}
    \end{minipage}

When I compile, the first sentence, Universitetet i Trondheim, is slightly tighter than the last. I would like both sentences to be of exact equal width.

9:33 AM

@Holene Measure the two lines

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tgtermes}

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
{\fontsize{75}{75}\selectfont NTH}\\
\settowidth{\dimen0}{\scshape Universitetet i Trondheim}%
\settowidth{\dimen2}{\scshape Norges Tekniske Høgskole}%
\ifdim\dimen2>\dimen0 \setlength{\dimen0}{\dimen2}%
\makebox[\dimen0][s]{\scshape Universitetet i Trondheim} \\
\makebox[\dimen0][s]{\scshape Norges Tekniske Høgskole}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

@Holene Or let TeX do the job

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tgtermes}

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
{\fontsize{75}{75}\selectfont NTH}\\
\leavevmode
\vtop{\halign{#\cr
\scshape Universitetet i Trondheim\cr
\scshape Norges Tekniske Høgskole\cr}}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

@egreg Nice! Could I then have \fontsize{75}{75}\selectfont NTH as my width by including thtat line after \vtop?

@Holene Yes, but you have to choose a size such that the word spreading in the lower lines is not too large.

@egreg Right now it looks like this: grab.by/myvI . I would like NTH to set the overall width for the two last lines. I didn't notice untill now that They don't completely match..

@Holene And, finally, no need to guess the width at all

\mbox{\vbox{\halign{#\cr
{\fontsize{60}{60}\selectfont NTH}\cr
\scshape Universitetet i Trondheim\cr
\scshape Norges Tekniske Høgskole\cr}}}

Or with the fontsize you prefer; it depends on the typeface, of course. With Times that I used, 75 is way too large.

With Latin Modern it's still too wide. Maybe 70.

9:50 AM

I'm getting error upon compilation: ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \maketitle.
<to be read again>
\cr
l.194 }

?

It runs if I comment out your block from the .cls-file that generates the layout.

@Holene Aha! If you want to put that in a definition you have to say \halign{##\cr

@Holene use ## instead of #, that's my guess

@tohecz Ciao, Tom!

@egreg Hello!

@tohecz Compiling! Thanks =)

9:53 AM

@egreg How do you do?

Going to catch the train. See you later.

Can someone help me debugging this error message:

) [1] (./misc/preface.tex [2]) [3] (./thesis.toc [4] [5]
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/t1lmtt.fd)) [6] (./thesis.nls
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [7])
(./thesis.lof [8])
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [9]
(./thesis.lot

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.72 \addvspace {10pt}

I get it every other time I compile my thesis. It's like 5 such messages in a row, and I may just <return> my way through. Can't observe the error in my PDF...

10:10 AM

@user4035 haven't noticed a bug come in, do you see it on the bug tracker? But see the chat thread starting here:

yesterday, by Marco Daniel

@DavidCarlisle: Did you notice this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68732/vertical-alignment-in-table-m-column-row-size-problem-in-last-column

@Holene I'm not sure what you mean but don;t do \sloppy Universitetet i Trondheim} or ` {\fontsize{75}{75}\selectfont NTH }` as in both cases it makes the scope end before the paragraph which gives the wrong baseline for a font change and means \sloppy does nothing at all.

@Holene It means you are in horizontal mode at the point that l.72 \addvspace {10pt} is executed. You can't add vertical space in horizontal mode.

@DavidCarlisle Those lines were figured out by @egreg , it's no longer in my files =)

@DavidCarlisle Yeah, that much I get, but where does it originate from? I would say it shows up in ./thesis.lot...?

@Holene a buggy file is writing something to the lot that it should not. or alternatively whatever is writing addvspace to the lot should put \par in front of it

@DavidCarlisle Oh... Ok. In the thesis.lot, a lot of \addspace{10pt} are listed, and six tables (which is the correct numeber). Is it a table that wants to create the addspace?

@Holene Every chapter writes that to the file, to make a small skip between tables from different chapters. However, multiple identical commands like this effect only once.

@Holene Each \chapter command adds \addvspace{10pt} to the .lot file, which is normal. Maybe you have fiddled with the typesetting of the List of Tables?

10:27 AM

@egreg No. But.... oh, this is going to sound really silly. Could it be because I've renewed the commands \d, \r and \u ?

@Holene should not be:

!!/texdef -t latex d

@Holene That's definitely not a good idea, \r in particular is used for å

@egreg and \r{u} ů :)