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@Werner I did see. That's why I asked. However, I don't believe the bit about being able to opt in individually. Or I don't understand it.
@Werner OK. Sorry. I thought you'd link to something else which I had read. Thanks ;).
@JosephWright But last year you could opt in. Of course it is silly. It goes with the traditional 'upside down rule' of the 12 days of Christmas. (Before Christmas existed, though, I think.)
@Werner You could always lobby for hat-friendly mods :-)
@cfr The network have altered the set up, so perhaps that is true. But they only asked the mod team about whether the site was opting out (last year they asked if the site was opting in)
While compiling my book, I encountered the following error:
(./Book.aux
./Book.aux:94: Undefined
control sequence.
l.94 ...\defcounter {refsection}{0}\relax }\@write
The thing is that a simple fix is to delete Book.aux and after that the code compiles fine. However, if I encounter a separat...
@PauloCereda Is biber included in fedoras (at least 20) repos by now? Seems it was not in the past, but somehow am to stupid to find any traces of biber in 20 or 21 as well.
@Johannes_B IIRC Ubuntu has some package that fakes apt to think there's already a TeX distro. Nothing close in Fedora, I guess (mostly because I think it's against the packaging guidelines of Fedora itself).
@Johannes_B I think it's worth a try if you have a good hands-on guide nearby, specially with some post install info. :) For example, see my guide for F21 people: github.com/cereda/f21-setup :)
@PauloCereda A friend of mine had problems with the Xubuntu i installed on her machine. She gave it to a friend, he discarded Xubuntu (too difficult he said later) and installed arch linux. TL 2013 along with custom classes and packages where gone as well.
@DavidCarlisle Nothing special I am asking. I am not a member. Except a DVD of the tex softwares, CTAN and probably a printed magazine; are there any other benefits in becoming TUG member?
Does it really worth to pay and become its member?
@EnthusiasticStudent There was a question on site exactly about that within the last day or so. It depends on what you mean by "benefit" tugboat is quite good sometimes. But if you think having texlive or ctan is a benefit then someone needs to be a member or there would be no support for it at all. Volunteers can do so much but having some paid infrastructure helps...
As a member of TUG, the TeX Users Group, I recently received an email about a new membership drive in hopes of reversing the trend of a slowly declining membership. I know one can learn more about TUG on their website and can read the membership form online. I also know that I enjoy reading TUGBo...
@PauloCereda I think I managed to overcome this somehow, can't remember how, maybe I have both Fedora's TeX Live and vanilla TeX live installed and vanilla is earlier in the path
paulo@alexandria ~$ which -a tex
/opt/texbin/tex
/usr/bin/tex
/bin/tex
paulo@alexandria ~$ /bin/tex -version
TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2014/dev)
kpathsea version 6.2.0dev
Copyright 2013 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.
paulo@alexandria ~$ /opt/texbin/tex -version
@DavidCarlisle No no, not at all -- I was going through my lowest voted (some of my earliest questions) and stumbled upon a typo. The edit history will reveal my shame.
@PauloCereda btw I use Ubuntu 10.04 in Work and some things are going to stop working here, this chat doesn't work in Firefox anymore, for example. maybe I should upgrade here as well :(
@SeanAllred yes was a pretty poor dupe really (as the other question was just about \left\right spacing) but you clouded the issue by using that as the example of macro replacement
The most simple solution that comes to mind is just putting different pdf together using package pdfpages.
With version 3.15 of KOMA-Script, which is available at the develepors homepage, it is possible to include features of a letter within the other KOMA-classes.
We have seen in the past, th...
@DavidCarlisle Perhaps when I have time tomorrow I may edit the question to remove that example and self-answer so it can be put to rest -- it seems that the question itself is null since the macros of TeX are 'dumb', as I say
@SeanAllred I note wikipedia says of it but (as with any macro processor) problems can be hard to debug. clearly the author hasn't seen tex, a macro expansion language that is a delight to debug....
When comparing MS Word vs LaTeX the proponents of Word often say that many advantages of LaTeX over Word from say 1997 disappeared over the years as Word evolved to the current 2013 version for example:
Nowadays Word doesn't have a binary format anymore, the files are just zipped xml files
Wo...
@DavidCarlisle Actually, if I can get my hands on the TeX source code, I might be able to effect something like that. A visualizer is well beyond my skill, but inspecting the state of TeX shouldn't be too bad if done within TeX itself.
@SeanAllred I'm working with macros and implementations since the beginning of the year (PhD stuff). A possible way of visualization that I'm using right now is to keep track of the concrete syntax tree (or let it build itself). A simple Lisp-like output (S-expressions) is easy enough to achieve. :)
@PauloCereda Do macro languages even have ASTs? You cannot predict the behavior of a macro until you reach it, at which point you can simply query how many tokens it grabbed
@michal.h21 :) I ride a bike twice a day in Paris, but my bike here in Prague was stolen last summer (in Nusle ... :-/ ) and I didn't have time and energy to solve this problem somehow, especially since I travel a lot and I dunno where I spend the next years
@tohecz For the purposes of a macro language debugger, you can just say that \x takes one argument and replaces it with \y which may take however many it uses.
@PauloCereda It really is sad :( everybody wants to create the next great mobile app or web application -- fine pursuits, but not worthy of a degree in computer science
What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?
Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.
This question is undergoing a systematic refurbishment, see Let’s polish the Editors/IDEs questi...
@SeanAllred no (well yes but it isn't used) it is transiently converted to C as a first stage of compilation (as no one has a pascal compiler these days) but the output from web2c isn't designed for humans and is usually discarded once compiled
@SeanAllred yes but it's probably better just to think of it as a pascal compiler that uses c as an intermediate format (just like many other language compilers these days) rather than a translation to usable C.
@SeanAllred historically very few people have in fact extended tex-the-program mostly I think because of the conservatism of the user base getting them to use any extension. For example if you wanted to add IEEE floating point operations to a program ultimately compiled in C you might think just extending the language to expose floating point arithmetic might be simpler than implementing a IEEE arithmetic engine in macros implemented using integer arithemtic array handling internally, but .....
@egreg yes and he's doing it for luatex, but Taco and Peter and ... is I think a "few" when you look over 30 years when people have had the sources and could be playing with it
@DavidCarlisle Ask Barbara (uppercase because I'm thinking to her in her official position at AMS) if she'd like that people use different versions of TeX with different results at low level.
@egreg I meant the variable direction stuff in general. I'd love to image John Plaice's suggestions on this to be incorporated into LuaTeX (and perhaps XeTeX), but I'm doubtful. RTL is bad enough as it is with the TeX--XeT business in XeTeX (and pdfTeX, I guess, but I have a simple position on that one)
@DavidCarlisle I'm not saying this is your fault... but I am struggling with tabulary. I have a column for date ranges; each row has yyyy/mm/dd --yyyy/mm/dd. I would sure like the second date to move to a second line, but the table keeps breaking after the dash and giving me three lines.
@Paulo That game was my first foray into Ruby. I would much rather implement it in C, but I have no idea how to make the graphics. It's just putting a big letter on the screen, how hard can it be?
@Paulo Note the font choice! When you blow it up to an enormous size, LMSans looks like a "fun" font. Which confirms my feelings about Knuth's childlike playfulness in programming and writing.
@DavidCarlisle I was trying to the package's work for it by putting a space before the dash; when I remove the space, it makes two lines. Definitely not your fault.
@egreg I was in a basement a few days ago, there were satanic symbols at the walls. But the reason i saw them was my flashlight, so without it, i wouldn't have seen it at all in this freaky dark basement.
The Winterbash FAQ mentions:
I'm on Stack Overflow (or on one of a few other sites). Where are my hats?
Users on these sites have to choose to opt-in individually. Just click the "Winter Bash" popup at the top and click "I love hats!", and you'll be able to earn hats and see other hat-lo...
While compiling my book, I encountered the following error:
(./Book.aux
./Book.aux:94: Undefined
control sequence.
l.94 ...\defcounter {refsection}{0}\relax }\@write
The thing is that a simple fix is to delete Book.aux and after that the code compiles fine. However, if I encounter a separat...
The most simple solution that comes to mind is just putting different pdf together using package pdfpages.
With version 3.15 of KOMA-Script, which is available at the develepors homepage, it is possible to include features of a letter within the other KOMA-classes.
We have seen in the past, th...
When comparing MS Word vs LaTeX the proponents of Word often say that many advantages of LaTeX over Word from say 1997 disappeared over the years as Word evolved to the current 2013 version for example:
Nowadays Word doesn't have a binary format anymore, the files are just zipped xml files
Wo...
My favorite (La)TeX editor is...
What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?
Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.
This question is undergoing a systematic refurbishment, see Let’s polish the Editors/IDEs questi...
