As I wrote to complain, it's only fair that I also write now to acknowledge and to thank: the community manager in charge of getting gifts in the mail to folks has contacted me and explain that my 200k gift was sent, but apparently got lost. He offered to send it again using a better mailing service. So, frustration on this account has started to vanish :) Thanks to Tim (the person in charge of mailing gifts) and to @JosephWright.
To be honest, I think you should probably be using a standard class with whatever packages. KOMA-Script is designed to be flexible within a particular set of constraints which are designed to make it more difficult to make bad choices about typography. Inevitably, this also excludes some perfectly good choices about the design and layout of particular documents. If you have clear ideas about how your document should look, you gain nothing by trying to use KOMA-Script and then fighting it every inch of the way. (Why do you care if it is well designed and documented if you want something else?) — cfr7 hours ago
You are trying to bake a cake and insisting on using a blow torch on the grounds that the blow torch is very well designed and comes with great instructions. That makes it a good blow torch. It will not make you a good cake. Then when people point this out, you say it is OK to dismantle bits of the blow torch and repurpose them, adding some other things if needed, just so long as you can still use the blow torch. So now people are jerry-rigging ovens from bits of your blow torch and bits of other things and you are complaining that your cakes cook unevenly, sink in the middle or burn. — cfr7 hours ago
@PauloCereda GUI programs launched 'normally' don't seem to be getting the correct PATH. Result: XeTeX can't run xdvipdfmx when using e.g. TeXworks and launching 'normally'. You have to launch from the Terminal, meaning if you close the Terminal you close TeXworks.
@PauloCereda Same here (I have three TL versions installed, so they all got moved 'somewhere' and back again)
For example, TeX Live Utility 1.17 and earlier will not work on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. If a shell task relies on the PATH environment variable to launch a command, rather than a fully-specified path, it will likely fail. A typical error message will look like this:
/usr/texbin/updmap-sys: line...
paulo@alexandria ~$ ls Vídeos/Bagpuss/
01 - Ship In A Bottle.mp4 08 - The Mouse Mill.mp4
02 - The Owls Of Athens.mp4 09 - The Giant.mp4
03 - The Frog Princess.mp4 10 - The Old Man's Beard.mp4
04 - The Ballet Shoe.mp4 11 - The Fiddle.mp4
05 - The Hamish.mp4 12 - Flying.mp4
06 - The Wise Man.mp4 13 - Uncle Feedle.mp4
07 - The Elephant.mp4
Why are questions usually put on hold because they are "off-topic" instead of more appropriate flags like "not a question"? (referring to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/209273)
@Harald The 'Powers' decided some time ago that 'off-topic' was the 'right' way to handle questions that sites do not answer for reasons of scope. For example, a question which is about a typo isn't one that will really be sensible to answer, so closing is the 'best' handling route and the issue is then what reason to give.
@Harald I considered using unclear what you were asking, but in this case it was pretty clear that he wasn't asking anything, so off topic seemed best. (When it is clear that a newcomer is asking an unclear question we tend (on tex.sx) not to close as unclear what you are asking, at least not for a while but instead encourage the user to fix the question without closing it first (which can be seen as hostile)
@JosephWright that's exactly what I was wondering about. Someone saying "Hi I have to read some TeX text" isn't exactly a question out of scope, but is a question ;)
It's probably just the boiler plate / canned text of the close vote ("This question does not fall within the scope") that has put me off ... ("which question?") :)
@Harald Understood: I was trying to get at 'As the tools have limitations, the best approach to things is not always straight-forward and new ideas are welcome'
i need to draw this plane, but i don't know how
can anyone help me? its important i need it in my master report. i try to use this from an old example to start with but it didn't work
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}
\clip[draw](48,1) to[closed,curve through={(50,3) .. (52,4) .. (51,6) ..(47...
which came first, the chicken or the egg
Is it because of your plans that you say which came first the chicken
or the egg?
no
Why not?
shut up
Maybe your life has something to do with this.
I have searched a lot to find an answer to this question, but I could only find how to remove a newline after \section (or \chapter).
How can one remove the newline before \section, as defined by book class?
Basically, looking at the MWE below, I am looking to a way to have:
Text before. Sect...
@DavidCarlisle I've done similar things before with large matrices: blocking them (i.e. defining them by block scheme), or using auxiliary functions like here. Never it has happened that the authors would complain. But it's most likely because they don't actually proofread what we send them :D
@tohecz yes or in this case it would probably work to print the transpose of the matrix (ie rotate the layout but not the cells) with some implied adjustment to the surrounding text:-)
@DavidCarlisle well, of course, simply transposing the matrix is likely the way to go here (with the ^{\mathrm{T}} or whatever after \end{bmatrix}). But since this way it fits in, where's the problem? :)
@Jake After some mails I'm trying to expand that simulating hand-drawn thingy to arcs but I had to dissect it down to the system layer because I don't know how to hack in to arcs and curves.
Hi, I'm doing a fit of node with tikz but somehow can't manage to remove the separation between fit and the inner nodes... Any hint? \begin{tikzpicture}[line width=.5pt,every node/.style={anchor=center,minimum width=.75cm,minimum height=.75cm}] \matrix (m) [matrix of nodes,nodes in empty cells,row sep=0cm,column sep=0cm]{ & & & & &\\ & & |[fill=green]|AC & |[fill=yellow]|DC & AC & DC\\ & DC & & & & \\ & AC & & & & \\ & DC & & & & \\ & AC & & & & \\ }; \node[fill=blue,fit={(m-1-3) (m-1-4)},line width=.5pt,inner sep=0pt,label=center:{$U_s$}] {};
It's a bug in longtabu.
\newline and \linebreak have (more or less) constant definitions throughout LaTeX, but \\ has different definitions depending on context. \\ in an array is completely different to \\ in center and both are different to \\ in normal text.
what happens here is that in the h...
@ChenStatsYu no worries. The basic thing, you can call someone either by @ + their name (there's autocomplete by the TAB key), or by clicking the arrow at the right of a post that appears there if you hover over the message ;)
@tohecz However, one of the computer packages Maple, was used to calculate it's symoblic rank. But the problem with Maple is that, it returns a WRONG rank.
@ChenStatsYu another option is (not unseen): Maple fails on a matrix $A=[A_1, A_2]$ whose first five columns are \begin{equation} A_1 = \begin{bmatrix} ... \end{equation} and the other five columns are \begin{equation} A_2 = ...
@ChenStatsYu It is maple which does the mistake. For us to understand what the problem is, you don't need to replicate the exact input. You can simply say this closed form doesn't lead to correct result but if fractions are explicitly typed out such \phi^{-1}\to \frac{1}{\phi} then correct result is obtained.
Unless Maple needs to parse your thesis, you are really making things difficult for your readers.
@percusse Well, I think i follow your input and where this is coming from. But me and my supervisor feel that I have too many "short" and "compat" forms in the thesis, it's better to have some detailed examples to follow
@percusse well, if you have lots of them, then you need a wide space for them. Maybe allowing math formulas extend to the marginparspace when necessary
@percusse export and import? that's what I do now for arXiv: Many figures generated by TikZ, but the TikZ package is not even loaded. Still, when I need to change anything in them, I can do that instantly, from inside the document.
i need to draw this plane, but i don't know how
can anyone help me? its important i need it in my master report. i try to use this from an old example to start with but it didn't work
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}
\clip[draw](48,1) to[closed,curve through={(50,3) .. (52,4) .. (51,6) ..(47...
I have searched a lot to find an answer to this question, but I could only find how to remove a newline after \section (or \chapter).
How can one remove the newline before \section, as defined by book class?
Basically, looking at the MWE below, I am looking to a way to have:
Text before. Sect...
