@PauloCereda The real trick to spell checking is understanding the corrections it suggests, which if you don't really know how to spell can be quite dangerous. But aspell does a pretty good job. Now that I have Mtn Lion, it also does a lot of spelling correction for me, which can get annoying sometimes, but I haven't turned it off completely yet.
I wanted to chat about your mini rant. :) Although I agree with the sentiment, Yoav actually has reasons for not updating, and also I think as an answer it is a bit off limits.
If you're in the middle of a project, then updating your whole distribution is not necessarily a good idea. But if you need an updated package, then the best solution may be to update manually. I just think the reasons are a bit more complicated than your answer makes it out to be.
As I say, I agree with the general sentiment, but I'm not sure in the context of the question it's really an answer at all.
Every year TeX Live provides a new version. My recollection is that soon after a new version is released, the old version's tlmgr stops fetching updates to packages. They provide upgrading instructions with the disclaimer
This procedure is not bullet-proof, or especially recommended
There i...
So I'm not quite sure what the right solution is. He also seems to have tried to follow the advice he was given but ran into a brick wall trying to install TL 2013. I use a Mac, so my installation was 1 click, so I don't have the experience with other systems to help out on that issue.
@Xavier Indeed. And I think that he probably should be using xeCJK instead, which would solve a lot of his problems. But if he's in the middle of something, I can understand his reluctance to change.
@Xavier I think your answer doesn't really help much, so I guess I would delete it. Since you can't manually install a package using the package manager from an earlier year.
@Xavier As for helping him, this is trickier. I think that the root of the problem lies in solving his installation question for TL 2013. If that is solved, the font problem will probably disappear for him.
@Xavier Yes, sometimes I feel CTAN should be hidden from view. :)
@Xavier On the other hand, for simple packages, CTAN is helpful. For example, I maintain a thesis class for my university and put the latest version up on CTAN. People don't need the most recent TL to run it, so even if they have an old distribution they can easily get the latest version for themselves.
@Xavier Maybe less than I think. When you visit a page it does tell you whether the package is included in TL and MikTeX, so maybe some sterner advice would help. That wouldn't be too hard to do.
I'm building a song book with the songs package from songs.sourceforge.net and I'm trying to create topical indexes for songs. The small indexes consume an entire page each.
@DavidCarlisle Has there been any progress on numbered equations in MathML? Searching on the internet I found an old post of yours saying "Err, we'll get back to you on that" and mtableatr (or whatever it is) hasn't yet been implemented in Gecko. For a single-line equation I can stick it in a div with a number on the side, but for the equivalent of align that gets tricky. Any suggestions (I'm generating the numbers myself, by the way).
@AndrewStacey I think current situation is that mathjax supports mlabeltr them and firefox doesnt. Frederick has a firefox addon that uses some xsl of mine to fill in the gaps generating mathml that gecko can render (just adding an extra column in this case) and adding it to native gecko rendering and also adding a layer to mathjax so it can use the native rebdering mostly but rewrite things that do not work in particular browsers are both on his to-do list..... so for now I'd just
.. use an extra column to hold the numbers (or just put them in an mtext and move them over to the right with some css positioning
I need to install a new TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt package on my computer. I'm running Ubuntu/Fedora/Slackware/Some-Version-Of Linux. What are the possible ways to do this?
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@Sosi I guess it would. (I don't use the TeX Live in Ubuntu repos myself, but install using the installer from Tug.org. Then you can use TeX Live manager to manage your TeX distribution (e.g. updating packages, installing packages that are new in TeX Live). )
PGFPlot'ers: I want to put two plots aside. I thought of two minipage's, is there any auto-scale width for a plot or I have to explicitly tell them to 0.5\linewidth?
@PauloCereda You could perhaps use groupplots (look in the manual). Or I think you could use \pgfplotsset to set the width globally. (Or, if within a figure environment or group, locally.)
Running XeLaTeX... SUCCESS Running Biber... FAILURE marco@imac:~/Desktop/test$biber test INFO - This is Biber 1.7 (beta) INFO - Logfile is 'test.blg' INFO - Reading 'test.bcf' INFO - Found 0 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 1 INFO - Found 0 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 2 INFO - Found 0 citekeys in bib section 0
The log file of arara shows:
INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'references.bib'
25 Jun 2013 18:42:37.429 WARN CommandTrigger - 'Biber' returned an error status.
25 Jun 2013 18:42:37.429 INFO Arara - Done.
@PauloCereda Ok. Than we have a new issue related to biber or arara ;-)
marco@imac:~/Desktop/test$biber test
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@egreg Probably not, unfortunately. I'm no Middle English scholar. It's best to get help from the professionals so a good annotated version would be much more reliable than me.
A puzzling choice made by Leslie Lamport was to define \include in such a way as to issue a \clearpage before reading the file. This has been puzzling me for sometime as it is not a very good choice in terms of the author interface. This question has two parts:
Are there any valid reasons for t...
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Anyone know why the command biber <filename without extension> would generate that?
Please always post complete documents as for example the text width is important her eand that can not be seen in your fragment.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\small
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@MarcoDaniel I've seen today that poster preamble in another place: it confirms that bad code spreads too easily. There's \usepackage{epsf} (among other beauties).
I wanted to have the 8 or so pictures side by side and it does work but the only problem is it comes back with errors saying
lofdepth undefined and lotdepth undefined and I have no a clue how to fix it, any help would be very appreciated.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage...
@egreg funny you should say that I just posted a long comment on the \include question saying it would have been TL but now possibly unclear, but then the MWE was made more usable and it's a breqn bug so not closed at all:-)
Is there any situation in which using 0 as the number of arguments in a command definition might result useful? I mean, one can do something like \newcommand\Test[0]{a} but [0] here is superfluous. Are there any cases in which this use of [0] is not superfluous?
@GonzaloMedina For future reference, you get there by clicking on your profile, then by clicking on the "helpful flags" link just below your "profile views".
I am in despair! My city has an average temperature of 17 degrees C, but today we were over 26 degrees C; I only can stand temperatures like that at the sea shore and on vacation!
@PauloCereda: I now implemented it for dvips in Postscript.
There was an issue with the scaling I had to fix first. Apparently the normal dvips clipping driver is off as well, because of the different understanding of the point unit between TeX and PS.
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Every year TeX Live provides a new version. My recollection is that soon after a new version is released, the old version's tlmgr stops fetching updates to packages. They provide upgrading instructions with the disclaimer
This procedure is not bullet-proof, or especially recommended
There i...
I'm building a song book with the songs package from songs.sourceforge.net and I'm trying to create topical indexes for songs. The small indexes consume an entire page each.
I need to install a new TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt package on my computer. I'm running Ubuntu/Fedora/Slackware/Some-Version-Of Linux. What are the possible ways to do this?
Note: We get a number of questions that essentially reduce to this one; it was felt a good idea to have one question-and-answe...
Please always post complete documents as for example the text width is important her eand that can not be seen in your fragment.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\small
...
I wanted to have the 8 or so pictures side by side and it does work but the only problem is it comes back with errors saying
lofdepth undefined and lotdepth undefined and I have no a clue how to fix it, any help would be very appreciated.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage...
