I've seen quite a few questions proposed to be closed as "unclear what you're asking":
http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34255
http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34260
http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34257
and a few more. I voted to leave open (on the above three) bec...
@JosephWright why have they come up now? I looked at the XML quote one and it has a perfectly good answer from Heiko over a year ago so presumably the question was clear enough to be answered. It seems it is being closed as "you haven't accepted" but that seems wrong to me.
I've read that in insert mode in vim, one can use <C-Left> and <C-Right> to move by words. However, for me, <C-Left> instead throws me out of the insert mode and gives an error:
E388: Couldn't find definition
This error is explained in the help to have something to do with definition search...
Hello I was wondering if TeX is where I can post the following question: "I have 40 frequency tables, all two-columned but has different lengths of rows ranging from 3 to 50. I want to know if anyone knows how to present them all in a neat and organized way in LaTeX."
@user75782131 Hi! Well, this is quite a borderline problem, since it doesn't seem to be about "how to do it in LaTeX (i.e. implementation)", rather it's about "how to do it (i.e. design)", which is not exactly on-topic :-/
@user75782131 that is bordering off topic as stated, but if you posted it with a latex attempt and said "the output doesn't look good, how could the code be improved, you could probably keep it on topic (a full examplel document always helps people try different layouts)
@tohecz ooh we are in agreement:-) (but not about editors:-)
@user75782131 Hello! :) I think the real problem is that LaTeX is not as automatic as the question appears to suggest. I believe you need to have some sort of layout already defined, then LaTeX might help.
@DavidCarlisle ooh under 2 minutes. Remarkable. :)
@everyone, thank you all for the wonderful responses. Actually I am having a hard time finding a layout first because most frequency tables in Google Images feature complex examples.
@PauloCereda we could send him Rainer's RCS mail server which takes rcs diff commands (vvencoded) and updates everyone by mail so they can check the patch into their own rcs repository, it's how we did 2e, basically a DVCS implemented over rcs, before CVS came along and centralised everything:-)
@tohecz English writes double consonants, without really pronouncing them. But dessert is the French word, unchanged in English (in writing, they say it in a rather peculiar way).
@egreg Psmith, the TeX bot: TranslateApiException: Cannot find an active Azure Market Place Translator Subscription associated with the request credentials. : ID=1601.V2_Json.Translate.21A458BF
@PauloCereda you know, it's not funny. I leave in 2 days to a conference, I need to fucking prepare my presentation, and I don't have a reasonably working text editor
Referring to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40794/… I would like to know how much space I should add to indicate a multiplication. Is f(x)g(x) or f(x)\,g(x) perferred?
@PauloCereda :) It used to be common for people in my region to go wrong in cases like that, because we don't do elision in our dialect. So “l'America” was interpreted as “la Merica”, just like some said "la vagna” instead of "la lavagna”. Or they hypercorrected and talked about “aradio” (from "la radio” interpreted as “l'aradio”).
According to biblatex doc (p.80-81) :
\Parencite is similar to \parencite but capitalizes the name prefix of
the first name in the citation if the useprefix option is enabled,
provided that there is a name prefix and the citation style prints any
name at all.
\Textcite is similar t...
@ppr I don't know. I thought it was common to print names in small caps (as recommended by French guidelines in typography).
@PauloCereda Yesterday, my neighbor on the train had his laptop opened on a text document (guess what program) in the legal field. All in sans serif (Arial, of course), with underlining and zero hyphenation. The white spaces in the lines made my eyes bleed.
@MarcoDaniel I have some problem to apply the solution describes in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53309/…. I had \DefineBibliographyExtras{french}{\restorecommand\mkbibnamelast} in my preamble but I have an error.
@MarcoDaniel It is working also for me in the MWE but not in my real document. I will investigate...
@MarcoDaniel ok it was just misplace (I putted the command just after babel and it was not working ; if I place it just before \begin{document} it does the job)
Is there a difference between \bsc{test} and \textsc{test}?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\bsc:
macro:->\protect \bsc
\bsc :
macro:#1->\leavevmode \begingroup \kern 0pt \scshape #1\endgroup
@ppr: from the documentation of babel-french: Family names should be typeset in small capitals and never be hyphenated, the macro \bsc (boxed small caps) does this
They kept that blog post I made about Frescobaldi in their homepage for a long time. :)
Since you guys are talking about hyphens, let me ask you some "weird" requirement from our new language reform: if I have a word to be hyphenated, the hyphen must appear in the end the first element and in the beginning of the last one. Say:
ara-
-ra
Needless to say, I found this form offending. :) This would be a PITA to be implemented in TeX, I suppose?
@egreg: last weekend, a friend of mine shouted at me: "Arial is the only acceptable font for academic publications!" :)
@StephanLehmke Goodman posed a problem for induction based on an imaginary predicate 'grue', which means 'green' at times before t and 'blue' after time t. The problem for induction is that based on observations before t, both statements 'All emeralds are green' and 'All emeralds are grue' are equally supported, even though 'All emeralds are grue' is not actually law-like.
@AlanMunn I still think there has to be a lot more to it to actually make this science. But I often have this problem with philosophical "observations": Somehow disregarding a temporal dimension seems to be quite common.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
Benoit Mandelbrot (mathematician)
full name | Benoît B. Mandelbrot
date of birth | Thursday, November 20, 1924 (89 years ago)
place of birth | Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
date of death | Thursday, October 14, 2010 (age: 85 years)
(3 years ago)
place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mandelbrot set | Mandelbrot set lemniscate | Mandelbrot tree
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets (2004)
That reminds me one episode of Blackadder (/pokes @JosephWright): - "Something that starts with B." - "Honey!" - "What?" - "Honey starts with a bee." :)
@StephanLehmke But philosophy isn't claiming to be science. But the problem of induction is non-trivial I think, especially in cognitive science, where there are lots of people who think that's how we learn.
@ppr It tries doing \lefthyphenmin=1000, but this setting doesn't really work. If you say in your preamble, after loading biblatex, \renewcommand{\nohyphenation}{\language255 } you shouldn't get hyphenation in that case.
Prologue
We love hanging out in our main chatroom. It's a very friendly place, where we talk about virtually everything - even TeX, sometimes! I decided to give it a try and add a few "extra features" to our chatroom, and the result is presented in this meta thread.
I was planning to implement ...
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last basketball results:
- Magic's Nelson fined $15,000 for obscene gesture
- Lakers' Young, Suns' Len ejected for skirmish
- Ex-NBA player Crittenton arrested in drug probe
- Williams returns to Minnesota as a King
- Retired NBA star Robert Horry unhurt in L.A. crash
- Heat's Oden active for first time this season
- Ten Before Tip: NBA news from Wednesday night
- Judge: Hunter lawsuit against NBPA to continue
- Warriors acquire Celtics' Crawford in three-team deal
@alanmunn There are a lot of meanings to "induction", for instance in AI :-) But tbh I don't believe we learn that way. Nothing I can observe about learning supports this. I think of learning more as a 'holographic' process: Everything we observe affects everything we already know to some degree.
Retrieval then consists of 'masking' with some pattern, and verbalization comes after.
@StephanLehmke I agree that we don't learn by induction, but I think that for learning the 'automatic' things there needs to be some filtering so that information is encapsulated and quite domain specific. (So everything can't affect everything.)
For instance, very often when trying to remember something, I know that I know something on the matter, but I can't get a sufficiently clear image to 'lift' it to the verbal level The result is the same as coming up blank.
@StephanLehmke This may be true for conscious knowledge. I'm more concerned about learning things like your first language, which is really unconscious knowledge, by and large.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Here is your fortune: Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.
@AlanMunn :P
!!/answer What's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
estimated average cruising airspeed of an unladen European swallow
11 m/s (meters per second)
(asked, but not answered, about a general swallow in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
590 miles per day
25 mph (miles per hour)
0.41 mi/min (miles per minute)
36 ft/s (feet per second)
130000 ft/h (feet per hour)
~~ 0.89 × maximum speed of the world's fastest human (fastest 20 meter split by Usain Bolt in the 100-yard dash) (~~ 12 m/s )
~~ 1.1 × average speed of the world's fastest human (Usain Bolt in the 100-yard dash) (~~ 10 m/s )
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
42
(according to Douglas Adams' humorous science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
@alanmunn For instance, my kids have a couple of (rather common) words which they. Ontinually pronounce and spell wrong. Despite continued corrections and correct examples. Them being part of an extremely large pattern from which they can't easily be untied would explain this easily.
@AlanMunn No, unfortunately. ;-) There's Rue Laplace, much smaller than Rue Lagrange, to Laplace's dismay. It's near the Panthéon, while Rue Lagrange is a big avenue in the Rive Gauche.
@ppr Did you solve your problem with \DefineBibliographyExtras{french}{\restorecommand\mkbibnamelast}? In my experiment it works and prints names in normal format.
@egreg well, originally, because the Second Law on the Large Prague, the 10 municipal districts were of approximately the same size, or at least the same population. But when they enlarged Prague for the second time, the outer districts (no. 4-6 and 8-10) became too large. So they introduced municipalities.
Only 12 of them are numbered, though, but there's IIRC 38 of them
I've seen quite a few questions proposed to be closed as "unclear what you're asking":
http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34255
http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34260
http://tex.stackexchange.com/review/close/34257
and a few more. I voted to leave open (on the above three) bec...
I've read that in insert mode in vim, one can use <C-Left> and <C-Right> to move by words. However, for me, <C-Left> instead throws me out of the insert mode and gives an error:
E388: Couldn't find definition
This error is explained in the help to have something to do with definition search...
According to biblatex doc (p.80-81) :
\Parencite is similar to \parencite but capitalizes the name prefix of
the first name in the citation if the useprefix option is enabled,
provided that there is a name prefix and the citation style prints any
name at all.
\Textcite is similar t...
