I have a small booklet in half-letterpaper size:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-13]
\end{document}
But when I run pdfbook on the resulting PDF, I invariably receive—no matter what the original page siz...
I'd like to make a new line after \paragraph, and by using the answer described at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32160/new-line-after-paragraph I'd like to redefine the paragraph command, but latex it giving me the following error:
@SeanAllred I had a look, but the question is very far from being clear. I solved the spacing problem, but rereading the question it doesn't seem the main concern, which I can't understand.
I'll try to edit the question to make it clearer. I may even have an idea on how to solve this problem, at least in sane formats where double \n is a \par.
Don't do
\paragraph{Topic}\mbox{}\\
In article class \paragraph is defined as an inline heading. If you want a display heading you should adjust the definition rather than put \mbox{}\\ after every heading (which looks horrible in the source and breaks LaTeX's attempts to control page breakin...
@egreg Ah… Well, I can get rid of it. gmverse was a convenience for not having to end each line with a \\, but there is probably a cleaner/leaner way of doing this. I'm going to mess around with the \ior_ functions (particularly _get_str: and _if_eof:) to see if I can draw something up.
ERROR: Undefined control sequence.
--- TeX said ---
<argument> ...@base \Gin@ext image\GPT@AttrShort
\ifx \GPT@print \ltx@empty...
l.6 \includegraphics[50pt,50pt]{example-image-a}
--- HELP ---
TeX encountered an unknown command name. You probably misspelled the
name. If this message occurs when a LaTeX command is being processed,
the command is probably in the wrong place---for example, the error
can be produced by an \item command that's not inside a list-making
@egreg What I'm really trying to achieve is to convert macro taking an argument to an environment with opportunity to use it's \begin{} and \end{} in other macros, possibly unpaired inside other macros' definitions, as with \bgroup and \egroup.
@AndrewZabavnikov do you mean like ams alignments (or tabularx) etc that use a \begin{align} \end{align} syntax for something really called as \internalmacro{the body of the environment} ? If so you want the environ package
@DavidCarlisle Almost. I also want to be able to \def\startalign{<some work> \begin{align}}\def\stopalign{\end{align} <some work>} to work! And the environ seems to use delimited arguments, which would scan for \end, not \stopalign. (align here is just for example, of course)
Basically, I need TeX to do expansion to some temporary place until some stop signal occurs in the stream of tokens. (It seems to me that this is impossible and not how TeX works, but please explain me that.)
@DavidCarlisle Ouch, don't remind me of that. :) I can imagine the wonders the international press is talking about how Brazil is ahead of the schedule in building the stadiums, and to to mention how we are saving money. :)
@DavidCarlisle Which reminds us of
!!/cricket
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 393/9 * v Hampshire 328/10
- Durham 308/10 & 152/7 * v Somerset 185/10
- Glamorgan 145/10 & 31/2 * v Gloucestershire 231/10
- Kent 248/5 * v Leicestershire 333/10
- Lancashire 247/10 & * v Warwickshire 324/10
- Surrey 156/2 * v Essex 306/10
- Yorkshire 459/9 v Northamptonshire 118/2 & 94/10 *
- Mashonaland Eagles 194/10 * v Matabeleland Tuskers 202/8
- Mid West Rhinos 180/10 v Mountaineers 181/3 *
@AndrewZabavnikov It's hard to do that (although not impossible) but really you shouldn't want to, latex tries hard to give things a consistet syntax and in latex that is \begin/\end. other formats (texinfo, context etc might use a \startfoo \stopfoo syntax which is fine as it is consistent with the conventions being used there but in latex but unless you wantt verbatim you can (but shouldn't) go \def\startalign#1\stopalign{some work\begin{align}#1\end{align} some work}
@DavidCarlisle Well, my bad. The thing is not about \start<thing> \stop<thing>, it is about <some work> part of these macros. (I know that these names are chosen in ConTeXt, but did not think that it will misguide someone.)
@DavidCarlisle It seems that after all I need to redefine \ as active character, then get it to record somewhere whatever cs name is following it, then expand it. That's in loop. If then \end is defined to watch for balance and to interrupt on zero balance it would work. But it seems SO much work.
Does anybody know how to translate delimited arguments to token scanner fast?
(I mean the deal breaker in my case is some macro with delimited arguments)
(In my case = in that part that I didn't tell you)
The "duplicate" question and its answers are specifically about unicode and fontspec, which isn't the case here. I voted to re-open — David Carlisle47 secs ago
@user42634 Bom, depende o que seria "gerenciar" no seu caso. :) Existem algumas sugestões no Q&A sobre organização de figuras, estrutura hierárquica, etc. Em alguns casos, o seu editor LaTeX pode oferecer algumas funcionalidades, como destaque de seções, rótulos, matemática inline, e outros. Realmente depende de cada caso. Ferramenta em si eu desconheço, depende de como você pretende organizar cada projeto.
procurava um editor latex que a estrutura hierarquica do documento fosse como uma lista de tarefas, na qual eu possa marca o status (completa, não completa)...
@user42634 Eu realmente desconheço. Talvez algum usuário emacs pode dar alguma dica sobre como conciliar edição de arquivos .tex com Org mode. Mas eu não sou usuário emacs. :)
@user42634 Particularmente, eu esconjuro TeXlipse, mas aí já é outra história. :) Se for o caso, talvez existam editores que reconheçam algum comentário com padrão % TODO e que possam gerar essa lista de coisas para fazer. Não seria muito complicado implementar até mesmo no TeXworks via Lua scripting, mas de qualquer forma é trabalhoso.
@DavidCarlisle Zsmith, the traineé bot: Er sir, I think they are talking in Portuguese about editors and stuff. And Paulo apparently recommended emacs, which seems very odd.
@egreg I am not really familiar with the inner works of imakeidx or with the general procedure for building indices, but would it be possible to make some modification so one could use \printindex before using any \index commands and still get the index? I mean, is it possible to typset an index at the beginning of the document?
@GonzaloMedina It's simply not possible to do the automatic run of MakeIndex in that case, because the .idx file needs to be closed for running the external program.
@DavidCarlisle Actually I formalized my dream. I want for argument to the macro to be substituted into it as stream, lazily. I mean the whole stream of tokens is placed as argument then the macro begins execution which proceeds until some cs like "return" is expanded.
I'm using the texlive 2014 pretest, and use a script I can source to prepend the 2014 path, is there anything else I should be aware of that might still use the 2013 version because of other environment variables or something like that?
my current 2014 workflow is: open a new terminal window, source texlive2014.sh (contains just export PATH=/path/to/2014/bin:$PATH) and do compiling from that terminal
@hugovdberg I think you are good to go. :) I usually take a different approach, I always create a directory in /opt which is a symlink to the current TeXlive bin folder, then I add this path. Every time there's a new release, I simply recreate the symlink to point to the correct location. :)
@hugovdberg: if you have the TL TTF/OTF fonts mapped systemwide, you might need to update them as well, I guess.
@PauloCereda I have installed both versions in /usr/local/texlive and created /usr/local/texlive/current currently pointing to 2013 as the 'known to be safe' version, and added that to my global path so 'permanently' switching to 2014 should be quite easy, but for now I'd rather just use 2014 as testing only
@PauloCereda it probably is relatively safe to use, otherwise it wouldn't be a public testing version I guess, but pretesting still sounds a bit scary (not encountered any problems so far, but still.. :P)
@egreg @PauloCereda do you understand dutch speaking? If you do you should really search for the cooperations between Bart Moeyaert and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (Dutch Wind Ensemble), they have two lovely stories in which they play a piece of classical music and Bart telling the story (with much humour) in between the parts
a few years ago they did Haydn's 'Die Schöpfung', and more recently 'Die Jahreszeiten' :)
@AndrewZabavnikov yes but which tokens? If you are not doing expansion you can use a delimited argument. If you are doing expansion you can't really collect tokens you need at some point to start execution (and so collect a horizontal or vertical list) it's not possible to expand an arbitrary token stream to get anything useful (hence the "fragile command in moving argument" problems in latex)
@DavidCarlisle Lol, just looked at the revision history, didn't know the system only counts characters at creation of a new post :P (and a minimum number of changed characters for an edit)
@GonzaloMedina also new, \documentclass{shoppinglist}\begin{document}\printshoppinglist\end{document}, that's all arara will need to predict what you'll need to buy at the supermarket tomorrow :P
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML.
@hichris123 Neither do we, but the key here is to play cool. :)
@hichris123: allow me to introduce you to the two big guys hanging out here: @DavidCarlisle: Half of LaTeX's stuff is signed by him, and during leisure time he parses XML with TeX. @egreg: After ten minutes Knuth created TeX, he already had a production-ready package. :)
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...
@hichris123 well of course that isn't saying much more than the fact that you can increment an integer counter. but anyway xmltex imlements every production in the xml and xml namespace grammar, the only known non conformance is that its end of line handling strips some white space at ends of lines that shouldn't be stripped.
@hichris123 well i thought it was a joke and a couple of weekends play when I made it then 10 years later I found that people were (are) making a living using it commercially. scary:-)
I'm surprised no one else has asked this question. It's not explained very well in the FAQ or site descriptions either.
I know many of you will think "LMGTFY", "RTFM", or "ask wikipedia", but I'd rather get the answer straight from the experts.
I'm so green I don't even know what to tag th...
@egreg and @PauloCereda If you have time, could anyone of you please check this answer tex.stackexchange.com/a/172913/3954? I would like to know whether the processing of the document can be simplified (the instructions are at the bottom of the answer).
@egreg I run makeindex -s myright.ist add.idx and makeindex -s myright.ist mul.idx, but the indices were not generated. Was I running the wrong commands?
@GonzaloMedina Surely you need \if\relax\detokenize{#1}\relax and not \ifx\detokenize#1\relax, that compares \detokenize with the first token in #1 (which will always be false, I guess).
I have a small booklet in half-letterpaper size:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-13]
\end{document}
But when I run pdfbook on the resulting PDF, I invariably receive—no matter what the original page siz...
Don't do
\paragraph{Topic}\mbox{}\\
In article class \paragraph is defined as an inline heading. If you want a display heading you should adjust the definition rather than put \mbox{}\\ after every heading (which looks horrible in the source and breaks LaTeX's attempts to control page breakin...
I'm surprised no one else has asked this question. It's not explained very well in the FAQ or site descriptions either.
I know many of you will think "LMGTFY", "RTFM", or "ask wikipedia", but I'd rather get the answer straight from the experts.
I'm so green I don't even know what to tag th...
