@Jens The class is intended for a very specific purpose, formatting documents according to the style of APA, so it shouldn't really be very flexible, I think. For something like a thesis it is simply the wrong tool for the job.
@Jens how did you start with that (I'm surprised any tutorials would even mention it) The whole point of journal publisher classes is that they are inflexible, to force articles into the journal house style.
This seems to be a bug in the new version of the base compiler.
I had the same error using pdflatex and resolved it replacing
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
by
\usepackage[utf8]{input}
Then the compiler will say it didn't find input.sty and ask for a file. Just type 'inputenc.sty'. It should ...
@egreg I guess the problem is that e-mail addresses are not verified. Thus if you wanted to cause trouble you could register with someone else's address, send spam and get them blocked.
function find_letter (letter_to_find)
for key, value in pairs(lettersmatrix) do
for seckey, secvalue in pairs(lettersmatrix[key]) do
if secvalue == letter_to_find then
return key, seckey
end
end
end
return 'quack','quack'
end
@JosephWright It's not returning anything, actually. :)
I have a document made up of many sub-documents. These documents can be compiled separately using LaTeX and the subfiles package but not when I use both newtxtext and bm as well. How can I overcome this?
For example, file main.tex:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtx...
@egreg yes well that's why I broke the habit of a lifetime and used an \outer token to end the bm scan, it does have a natural tendency to eat your document if it mis-parses its argument
@Johannes_B mychemistry.eu/2013/01/latex-templates this did improve the particular template (which is much better now but still has room for improvements) but also convinced me not to promote the site!
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The code tags are a mess.
I was looking for interesting questions regarding source code formatting and highlighting within latex documents. I came across sou...
@egreg It was not "questioning" your programming style. I only tried to help you to do your code better. But if you needn't help... May be a user will ask you "why there is the `\q@nil` in your code?" And you have to answer: "it is redundant, it is my programming style". You can use dot (for example) instead `\q@nil` with the same effect: `\def\aaa#1{\aa@#1\q@stop.}`.
Is there a specific reason why I can't answer protected questions on sites where I have the basic 101 rep? What exactly do they mean by "we give you 100 rep because we're trusting you elsewhere"?
@wipet A lot of LaTeX "coding traditions" stem from having to contribute to an enormous code base in a global name space. Not every snippet may be optimal in isolation, but a lot of things simply need to be avoided to prevent conflicts.
@egreg Active period doesn't bother because the token isn't processed, it is only scanned to the parameter by your macro.
@egreg Another question from the hypothetical user: "why the trailing spaces at lines 14 and 15 of your code are absorbed?" The answer: "because the `#1` parameter of `\@gobble` and `#2` parameter of `\aa@` aren't separated parameters". Why the macro is such complicated?
@wipet Still the coding style of someone who mainly implements for LaTeX will not necessarily get better by adopting "more elegant" customs which will only work in plain.
@wipet It's always easy to search out some inelegant code and talk about "better programming". For instance, using an extremely common name like \end in \ifx\end#1\end means this will go up in flames if #1 starts with \end.
@Johannes_B It's all over Knuth's writings including tex-the-program eg:
$ strings `which tex` | grep -i wiz
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
If you're really stuck, ask a wizard to enlarge me.
in particular the introduction to the texbook says of teh "dangerous bend2 sign which marks many sections of the book: In order to make it possible for many types of users to read this manual effectively, a special sign is used to designate material that is for wizards only: When the symbol $$\vbox{\hbox{\dbend}\vskip 11pt}$$ appears at the beginning of a paragraph, it warns of a ``^{dangerous bend}'' in the train of thought; don't read the paragraph unless you need to. Brave and experienced drivers at the controls of \TeX\ will gradually enter
@StephanLehmke Do you know a full expanable test of empty parameter which is working at any circumstances of the parameter? PlainTeX user typically doesn't use \end in the middle of the document.
@StephanLehmke ... Also, with \def\aaaB #1#2\end you're reading the entirety of the input string in every stem.... NO. Please, read the code carefully.
@wipet Yea, sorry, I overlooked that. Still, if the argument is, say, a couple million tokens, there's still a difference between reading it two or three times ;-)
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@StephanLehmke But the other solutions (by egreg and heiko) does the same: each parameter is scanned two times and the input stream is copied at the start. This is three times in sum.
@wipet plain-tex as a tag doesn't necessarily exclude e-TeX: I often ask 'Are we allowed to use e-TeX?' in such cases to be sure. (We get plain questions using XeTeX and LuaTeX: those are still tagged plain-tex, but of course in those cases e-TeX is obviously allowed.)
@wipet: by the way, you write a lot of cool answers! Thanks for contributing to the community. :) Although I fail to understand most of the logic behind the code, I know there's a lot of effort put in every answer. ;)
@StephanLehmke ... Well using a cs containing a letter which is normally other surely helps if you know what I mean... But \ifx\cswithspecialletter\normalcs returns true if the meaning of these two cs are the same.
@JosephWright :) When I sent the package to you guys, the postal office could not set England nor United Kingdom as "destination country"; their system had Great Britain only. I was like, what?!
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I want to create a few plots that should have the same style as my main document and it seems tikz is more than capable of achieving that.
Now while browsing the current tikz documentation (2.10 CVS) I found a long new section about data visualization. On the other hand there is the extra packa...
This seems to be a bug in the new version of the base compiler.
I had the same error using pdflatex and resolved it replacing
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
by
\usepackage[utf8]{input}
Then the compiler will say it didn't find input.sty and ask for a file. Just type 'inputenc.sty'. It should ...
I have a document made up of many sub-documents. These documents can be compiled separately using LaTeX and the subfiles package but not when I use both newtxtext and bm as well. How can I overcome this?
For example, file main.tex:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtx...
I am just an occasional visitor here, but I thought I should take the time to revive this discussion and provide a readers point of view:
The code tags are a mess.
I was looking for interesting questions regarding source code formatting and highlighting within latex documents. I came across sou...
