Friends, I have a simple layout to typeset a songsheet for my parish which consists of two columns provided by the multicol package and a custom environment that simply wraps each song. The following document might give you guys the idea of the layout (I added the colours just to visually indicat...
@richardbrucebaxter Re your edit: I've not rejected it, but it doesn't really improve the question. The convention for some time has been that issues due to older versions of packages get closed as the answer is 'update your TeX system'. Historically we used 'too localized' for that, but when it got removed had to switch to 'off topic'.
@richardbrucebaxter Logic of the 'powers' is that questions are 'off topic' if a site doesn't answer them 'by convention', even if they seem to fall within the scope of the site. We don't necessarily agree with that idea but there is no better way to close questions that otherwise have no good answer as they are fixed in some 'trivial' way (such as 'update').
This is less a direct LaTeX question than it is about compiling LaTeX.
I am using eclipse and in my project properties i set Output File = document.pdf . My demoproject compiles and outputs the File.
What i want is to define something like document_$DATE$_$VERSION$.pdf .
I want eclipse to gene...
@Johannes This is much more an Eclipse question rather than TeX/LaTeX. Changing \jobname is done with the -jobname command line option, so it's a matter of persuading Eclipse to provide the required name.
I want to print the current time in my LaTeX file but both \usepackage{datetime}
and \usepackage{scrtime} show the wrong time. Can I correct to a different time zone? Adjust for daylight savings?
I am writing in https://www.sharelatex.com/ so I suppose it is the server time that is being shown.
@PauloCereda Somehow I knew you'd chime in :) take a look at gist.github.com/9787557. I'm running it through PyYAML (I don't know of any other way to validate it off-hand) and it keeps throwing an error. I'm more inclined to believe I'm writing it wrong than to believe this library has an error.
@PauloCereda I think a I got it! It looks like you can't mix maps with lists in an object. Just wrapping all of the rules in a rules: mapping solved the issue. See the updated gist.
@PauloCereda At any rate it was definitely a good starting place for the tool (which is very, very useful by the way!). :) DSLs just seem very hard to come up with just out of the blue, though. There's so much to keep in mind.
`$ tlmgr install biber (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) tlmgr: package repository http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/mirrors/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet Package biber is not relocatable, cannot install it in user mode!\\
@PauloCereda I'm using Debian with tlmgr sets to use a folder inside my /home folder so I don't need sudo or su mode
`$ tlmgr install biblatex (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet `
it works with biblatex
but not with biber :
$ tlmgr install biber (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.mines-albi.fr/systems/texlive/tlnet Package biber is not relocatable, cannot install it in user mode!
@ppr: perhaps the tlmgr devs can give you a better insight on this (or even PLK? /pokes @JosephWright). Since the error message speaks of user mode, that's my guess about some privileged access. :)
Hello, I'd like to use TeX (and friends) to print out qrcodes on avery labels. The qrcodes are just images, but is there a "preferred" way to create a grid of images for labels?
@JonBuys some people may prefer tikz but that's overkill just for that, standard latex \begin{picture} allows you to \put(1,2){\includegraphics{xx}} to put an image at specific coordinates
Hi all-- I have sort of a general question about [La]TeX usage that popped into my head so I thought I'd come here to ask. What %-age of scientific publications do you think get submitted as LaTeX compared to MS Word? In my own field, Com Sci, this is actually very small. I used to flirt with a Physics major for a bit and it was huge in that building.
I should rephrase the last sentence-- I was flirting with the idea of GETTING a Physics major. Not flirting with a person who had a Physics major.
@Vic But there are other things to consider, for example, regions. In Germany, TeX is a serious business. In Brazil, except for a few math departments, no one uses.
I saw that WriteLaTeX launched a collaborative writing service called Overleaf. Their homepage boasts "2013 saw over 50,000 authors create over half-a-million projects using WriteLaTeX’s services, from over 1,000 universities and institutions across the world." -- That's where my thought train started. I didn't realize there was that much traction.
I mean, I also don't know how big the pie is, and if 50K authors is a lot or tiny.
@Pau
@PauloCereda - That's interesting. Even outside of technical fields?
@Vic hard to know but I'd guess online services such as writelatex were a small minority of tex usage, similarly people who pay for latex books are a minority (and they sell in 10s thousands too) so actual users would be x times that (for some number x that I wouldn't want to guess:-)
perhaps you can tell me if you think it's worth posting
TexShop allows you to define your own macros, but limits what you can choose as your hotkey. (it only allows cmd+x). however, going to System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts allows you to select any hotkey.
Shortcuts also allows you to re-assign hotkeys,
do you think that's worth posting? I figured not many people know of it.
@FarZin hmm editor questions are sort of tolerated but borderline off topic if they aren't close to tex. But if you think it's useful, perhaps. worse that can happen is that it gets close votes:-)
This is less a direct LaTeX question than it is about compiling LaTeX.
I am using eclipse and in my project properties i set Output File = document.pdf . My demoproject compiles and outputs the File.
What i want is to define something like document_$DATE$_$VERSION$.pdf .
I want eclipse to gene...
I want to print the current time in my LaTeX file but both \usepackage{datetime}
and \usepackage{scrtime} show the wrong time. Can I correct to a different time zone? Adjust for daylight savings?
I am writing in https://www.sharelatex.com/ so I suppose it is the server time that is being shown.
