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7:49 AM
Yay! Today I marked the 1000th line of cstexec.sty (my first "authentic" package, not that tedious LyXbasic) and I feel like this, although I know my knowledge on the matter is still infinitesimally small
 
 
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9:45 AM
Good Morning ;)
 
@StefanKottwitz texwelt.de/blog seems to be down
@StefanKottwitz by the way: I haven't had time to look into the manuscript you send but I will and I'll get back to you afterwards
 
Ist it normal that a table splits text?
eg floats to the top of a page
ahh, found it..
 
10:11 AM
@PauloCereda I've just added a print-chords = (true|false) option so yes, now it's possible :)
 
10:28 AM
@JosephWright Does the following work with a new version (i have 2014/03/31)? Found here -> latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25202
\documentclass{achemso}%Works with article
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\title{}\author{}\email{}\affiliation{}
\usepackage[
maxauthors=3,etalmode=truncate
]{achemso}
%\setkeys{acs}{maxauthors=2}
%\setkeys{acs}{etalmode=truncate}
\begin{document}
Cite\cite{aksin}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
\end{document}
 
10:40 AM
@cgnieder Yay, thank you!
 
10:50 AM
@egreg: Could you please have a look to guitex.org/home/it/forum/12-tipografia/…? The problem seem to be solved, however the solution is just a workaround. I can only guess which is the cause. Thanks :)
 
@ClaudioFiandrino Agli ordini!
 
@AndreaL. Yay!
@ClaudioFiandrino Yay!
@egreg Yay!
Yay for everybody!
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:)
 
@ClaudioFiandrino Done.
 
@PauloCereda Yay
 
@Paulo you're welcome :)
 
11:07 AM
@egreg Thanks :) Seen it! I was asking because I was reading tex.stackexchange.com/q/22995/13304 but there was no direct connection.
Reducing the ehm.. very nice preamble to a minimum one, I noticed that it could be solved that way.
Of course, not a elegant one as yours ;)
 
@Johannes_B Yay!
 
@PauloCereda Yay!!! With 3 marks ;)
 
@ClaudioFiandrino woooo
@PaulGessler: Yay!
 
@PauloCereda ;-)
I guess you saw it, then. :-D
 
11:41 AM
do we have a reference question with a list of all catcodes and their meanings?
 
Hello
 
@JaDogg hello there, I don't remember seeing you here before :)
 
First time here :D
 
@JaDogg well, welcome :) please, put of your shoes off at the door, and get a cup of good English tea :)
 
Thanks
 
11:55 AM
@JaDogg haha, I now see that I made some sort-of negative comment on your only question here :D
 
@tohecz no worries that's a bad question
 
@JaDogg it's not exactly a bad question, it's just borderline off-topic ;)
 
yeah LOL
 
@JaDogg because somehow (and that's maybe the true burden) the problem is not well-defined: what should you do if a single word is emphasized in the original text, but it's not clear which word in the new text corresponds to it?
 
No the thing was I found a German tex file, But the user also wrote comments in German, That was my first time trying LaTeX, and in the end I just gave up writing.
soon I might need to write an SRS in LaTeX, So I decided to familiarize my self with the Chat Room and active users in case I need some help :D
 
12:01 PM
@tohecz Tom you are naughty. :)
@JaDogg: hello, do you like ducks?
 
huh ?
 
@JaDogg @Paulo is our duck door keeper
 
@tohecz :)
 
^^ I know that Duck :D
 
@Johannes_B Yes
 
12:04 PM
ooh!
 
@PauloCereda /blush
 
@JosephWright: Yay!
 
@Johannes_B Do you mean the commented out bit?
 
@Vogel612 hello
 
no worries @JaDogg , just stalking you ;)
 
12:11 PM
lol
 
/me takes off his shoes and hands them to @tohecz
 
@Vogel612 it's @Paulo at the door, not me ;)
 
@tohecz Who?
 
/me deeply bows in apolgy, turning to @Paolo
(upperclass british accent) Thank you James Paolo
 
@PauloCereda He who smelt it, dealt it
 
12:15 PM
@tohecz I'm sure English ppl drink Tea exported from my country :)
 
@JaDogg are you Indian?
 
@tohecz close, Sri Lankan
 
@JaDogg that counts too I think :)
 
Asian it is, then ;)
 
:D
 
12:17 PM
anyways ima head back to my documentation in ms word (shiver)
 
@Vogel612 ouch
 
@JosephWright I get the same error as latex-community.org/forum/…
 
@Johannes_B What error?
 
@JosephWright ! LaTeX Error: Unknown option etalmode=truncate' for package achemso'. analog for maxcitenames.
 
@Johannes_B That will only happen if you try to use them at load time
 
12:21 PM
@JosephWright Not sure i can follow.
 
@Johannes_B The options for achemso as a package are meant to be as \setkeys{acs}{...}. They are not load time options as that would be the wrong place to set them.
 
@JosephWright `\setkeys{acs}{maxauthors=2}
\setkeys{acs}{etalmode=truncate}` is the correct way to go?
 
@Johannes_B Well \setkeys{acs}{maxauthors = 2, etalmode = truncate}
 
@JosephWright Section 4.1 last paragraph. It's there very clearly.
@JosephWright I should have read that more carefully. Sorry, and thanks for your time.
 
@Johannes_B Class options are a bit different: it makes logical sense to set the style for the doc as a whole. For a package, option clashes are possible and so I tend to favour only setting in the document.
 
12:27 PM
Is there an audio file with correct pronunciation for LaTeX
?
 
@JosephWright interesting point of view. However, have you considered \newcommand\setacs{\setkeys{acs}} to hide the underlying level? I would feel a bit strange using keyval's macros to set up a package I use...
@JaDogg I don't think so, but there's always:
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A: How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?

Paulo CeredaHypothetical dialogue follows. Dear <insert subject name here>, I would like to spend a few minutes talking about something cool. In fact, it's not just cool. It's amazingly cool. It's not "Albert Einstein playing guitar" cool, neither "Abraham Lincoln riding a bear with a machine gun" cool, it...

 
@tohecz The package is really there mainly as it's possible to do, while the class is the main aim of the bundle. For the latter, ideally people should just be picking a target journal.
 
Hi.
 
Nice I found the pronunciation, Hopefully It's correct
 
12:37 PM
In pgfplots, does \nextgroupplot not reset a cycle list?
 
@JosephWright Sorry to bother you again, are there any news from Will concerning the footnote-problem we discused a few weeks ago? Reference
 
@Johannes_B I've not heard anything
 
@JosephWright ah ok, got it then ;)
 
 
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3:01 PM
25
Q: How can users of our site (who are not TUG members) utilize the site-wide members area benefit of our TUG institutional membership?

Paul GesslerAs a TUG member myself, this question does not strictly apply to me. But, I was reading some pages on the TUG website and noticed the following benefit of our institutional membership: In addition, institutions may have site-wide electronic access to the members area, without needing accounts...

@JosephWright ^^ are we correct in thinking that this needs to be checked out by the powers?
 
@PaulGessler More a question for TUG, I suspect, in the sense that institution access is clearly aimed at physical sites/bodies
 
@JosephWright yes, answering the questions in my last paragraph would require some input from TUG.
 
3:19 PM
@PaulGessler My feeling is we signed up for the 'support TeX' aspect with a handy side-part being the 8 subscriptions. I think that was it.
 
@JosephWright I understand. But I saw that benefit listed and if there is any way our users can get that benefit, I think it should be made possible. But I also understand that it might not be possible. Either way, barbara commented that it's being discussed, so we'll get a response at some point.
 
@PaulGessler That's the best we can ask for
@PaulGessler It's hard to see how to fairly allow this benefit to be used I suspect
 
@JosephWright indeed. I hope it doesn't seem that I'm saying we should or are entitled to have access to it. I more asked the question to see if it was possible for us to have access. Should I make an edit to this effect?
 
@PaulGessler No, I think it's a clear enough question
@PaulGessler For some of us it's academic anyway :-)
 
@JosephWright yes, of course. :-) Thanks for your comments on this. I need to get back to work now, haha!
Have a good one, everybody!
 
4:15 PM
Good maen...
@PaulGessler: I read (and upvoted) your question (;-)), but what is the benefit of being a TUG member at all (now I expect some stones or 16ton weights thrown at me ;-)) I am member of DANTE only, but why should I be in TUG? (Ok I could read on their web page, of course)
 
4:47 PM
I need to know how to make something larger then
\huge RIGHT NOW
Making a card for someone who is getting to work any minute now
 
@Canageek fixcm, anyfontsize, moresize, \resizebox... I think they all can help. :)
 
@Canageek: \scalebox{1000}{This will be really large} (from graphicx package ;-))
 
moresize is perfect, thanks
 
5:23 PM
You peple rock
 
5:37 PM
@ChristianHupfer additional benefits of being a member: print copies of TUGboat, discounts on fonts and print materials, joint membership options.
 
@PaulGessler Rubber ducks also offered. :)
 
5:58 PM
@PauloCereda really! I never got one! How do I sign up?! :-)
 
@PaulGessler Courtesy of UK-TUG! /pokes @JosephWright and runs away
 
This is also somewhat interesting:
 
@PauloCereda oh, I am in (USA-)TUG only. :-( No duckies for me, I suppose.
 
@PaulGessler I'm actually kidding. :) If I were to found a Brazilian TUG, I'll offer ducks. :)
Speaking of which, I need to subscribe to TUG sooner or later.
 
@PauloCereda I figured you were. :-)
 
6:23 PM
Noob here. I'm trying to install an individual package, not included in TeXLive, on my Mac. I've read tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73016/… but still don't have a clear picture of what I need to do.
 
@Gregory Are you installing it to use for just one file or to use for your entire install?
(your entire install meaning for use in multiple files from time to time)
 
@Gregory Don't worry, we are all noobies here (specially @DavidCarlisle). :)
 
If it's just the one, putting the .sty in the same directory as your .tex file will work
 
@SeanAllred, the latter. It's a package I'll need fairly often.
 
Oh, yeah @DavidCarlisle has no idea what he's doing.
@Gregory Then put it in ~/texmf/base/tex/latex/... ... @PauloCereda, can you look at your fs? I don't have a distro on this machine :(
 
6:26 PM
@SeanAllred Sure:
paulo@alexandria ~$ kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
paulo@alexandria ~$ kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
/home/paulo/texmf
 
@Gregory after looking at en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installing_Extra_Packages, try putting it in ~/texmf/tex/latex/<packagename>/package.sty. Then run sudo texhash.
Thanks @PauloCereda
:)
 
So ~/texmf/base/tex/latex seems accurate. :)
 
Actually, base? Dunno. :P
Oopsie. :)
 
Yep :) 'Twas my mistake
 
6:28 PM
@SeanAllred @PauloCereda I'll try that and let you know what happens.
@SeanAllred, @PauloCereda: That worked. Thanks!
 
@Gregory Yay!
 
Now I just have to deal with the minor frustration that this package, newicktree, appears not to be compatible with pdflatex . . . something to do with EPS graphics from PSTricks. I'm planning to make compiling a little less labor intensive with a Makefile that'll take care of .tex -> .dvi -> .ps -> .pdf, unless someone here has a better idea.
 
@Gregory If you know how to use latexmk, that will help compile quickly.
 
@WillHunting: I didn't even know that latexmk existed, but I'm looking at its man page now!
Hmm, apparently I need to dig deeper into the latexmk man page. latexmk -pdf calls pdflatex, which won't work. I'm pretty sure that this has to go tex -> dvi -> ps -> pdf.
 
6:47 PM
@Gregory latexmk -pdfps does it.
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Q: configure latexmk in Texworks 0.2.3

ptrcaoSomeone told me "You can configure latexmk in 0.2.3 in texworks". How, please? (I need it so that compilation is done properly for bibligraphies.) I'm in Debian 6 and using TexLive.

 
@Gregory :)
 
See my old answer here especially if you use TeXworks.
 
@Gregory XeTeX has native PSTricks support
(As far as I recall)
So you should be able to compile with xelatex myfile.tex
 
Will do, @WillHunting.
 
You could also use the cool TeX automation tool: arara :)
 
6:50 PM
@SeanAllred: Bingo!
 
@SeanAllred Does xelatex support microtype?
 
I will check out arara
 
@Gregory But seriously, there are a ton (a ton) of awesome things coming out in arara shortly.
@WillHunting I believe it does now
 
@SeanAllred I have never used xelatex. So the result is the same as using pdflatex, something like that?
 
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mwe,microtype}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
@WillHunting Yep, but with a lot of neat font features
@WillHunting I've also heard very good things about LuaTeX (which also supports the font stuff (ans also embedded metapost?)), but I've not tried it
 
6:54 PM
I am considered a beginner, so I only ever used pdflatex and latex, lol.
 
ahem
% arara: xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mwe,microtype}
\begin{document}
\lipsum
\end{document}
 
@SeanAllred: I'm confused. What is arara, besides being something with a ton of awesome things? Can you some it up in brief?
 
@WillHunting And I was certainly a beginner at one point :) to a large extent, I still am. Learning things every day.
@PauloCereda might be able to a better job at that than I, but...
 
Is it something I'd use in place of pdflatex, XeLaTeX?
 
Arara is essentially a program that looks at the head of the file for directives (like % arara: pdflatex and then runs rules by the same name
You can add options to the rule, but you can look at that in texdoc arara
 
6:56 PM
Anyway, I did not get any LaTeX books in the end, cancelled my amazon orders, will think again what to get...
 
@WillHunting It's essentially like latexmk, but you specify what needs to happen and it doesn't run as a daemon
It's a build tool
 
@SeanAllred You mean to ping Gregory instead? =)
 
@SeanAllred, I'm looking forward to learning more about arara. I'll compile the documentation this evening!
 
@WillHunting concerning arara, did that make sense?
Ah, yes @Gregory :)
When the images to the left are moving quickly, I often just can't keep track of who I'm talking to :)
 
I am so glad I just discovered this chat room. I have a feeling that I'm going to become a nuisance around here. ;-)
Gotta run to class. Thanks again.
 
6:58 PM
@Gregory :)
 
@SeanAllred I can't bloat about my own creation, it's against my principles.
:)
 
@PauloCereda Do you prefer pgf or pstricks? =)
 
@PauloCereda Fair, but know that it deserves it :)
And I wouldn't call what I said bloating / boasting about it... it is a build tool
 
@SeanAllred ;)
@WillHunting TikZ/PGF. :) At least I use it more than I ever used PSTricks. :)
 
I would like to propose a third option: illustrations of any sort are for magicians
 
7:22 PM
@henry I was a bit cofused when reading your edit. To clarify, you don't need to add the Word code/Code. Indenting the lines by marking and pressing ctrl + K does the job.
 
@Johannes_B the standard 4-char indent (or using the shortcut/button) does not work there because Markdown recognizes it as inside a list. You need another set of indentation (8-char instead of 4) to get a code block in that situation.
@Johannes_B or end the list by typing some other text (as @henry did in his edit)
 
@PaulGessler Ah, to be honest, i didn't look that closely. But you are right, it was recognized as a list element.
@henry Sorry for the noise, good job ;-)
@PaulGessler Thanks for the hint.
 
7:50 PM
Woah. Just an edit and so much responses. :)
Ireally do like this site.
*many
 
8:01 PM
@henry If you learn how to write good questions, you will start to see good answers :)
(Not saying any question you asked wasn't good)
(Just saying that this is the pattern)
We tend to be a very nice bunch.
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8:52 PM
kieranhealy.org/files/misc/workflow-apps.pdf Interesting read. It's been up on my desktop all day; don't know where it came from (probably somewhere around here); thought I'd share it here. (It also conveniently bookmarks it for my home computer ;))
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9:13 PM
@SeanAllred And he mentiones biblatex. Will the days of »How can i tweak the bst?« be over soon?
 
10:11 PM
@PauloCereda hmmm
@SeanAllred just learn to ask better questions than egreg and me.
 
10:33 PM
@DavidCarlisle All my questions have been absolutely irreproachable.
 
@cgnieder Thank you, I fixed it
 
@egreg pity we can't say same about your answers
 
10:49 PM
 
@egreg sorry it's all in Italian, I don't understand.
 
@DavidCarlisle With heavy accent from Naples, too.
 
11:09 PM
@egreg That probably explains my difficulty in understanding
@PauloCereda is Psmith around? we need to cheer egreg up with the cricket news
 
11:45 PM
@DavidCarlisle I'm in oxford right now, Psmith lives in alexandria. :)
 
@PauloCereda Is your Italian up to understanding the above? it's all beyond me
 
@DavidCarlisle Let me check.
 
@PauloCereda apparently in reply to something I said....
 
@DavidCarlisle I got one third of the whole sentence. :)
 
@Gregory Oh, goodness you don't have to compile the documentation!!
You should just be able to run texdoc arara in your terminal. (OSX: spotlight terminal; Windows: Windows+R "texdoc arara"). If all else fails, use texdoc.net.
@Selena Instead of deleting your question, you should self-answer.
 

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