@izabera Well this is a problem I'm having with sharing in particular, rather than LaTeX, so it is probably quite specific unfortunately. Do you have a ShareLaTeX account? If so, perhaps you could help me test the problem I'm having.
Here's a link to a public project of mine. I'd like it to be read only and not publically editable but when I try to share it that way it seems not to work. But maybe it's just the message and not the actual status. sharelatex.com/project/541ac71edb749944790b9e78
Perfect! Thanks then. That's what I wanted to be true (I will share this with my students, but I don't want them to edit it). So it must be a bug in the message ShareLaTeX gives you when you share the document.
In the answer to this question tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5148/… it shows this:
\begingroup
\everymath{\scriptstyle}
\scriptsize
%your equation
\endgroup
Is the second \scriptsize above (one just before %your equation) will have its effect also end after \endgroup as well? When I used the above in scientific word, it ended up making all the rest of the document scriptsize as well!
The above solution is not working in SW, it is confusing it. It works in pdflatex. I need a way to reduce math size, just for one equation in the whole document.
@izabera it works ok in pdflatex, but SW gets confused, and it ended up adding {\scriptsize....} to all the rest of the document, starting from the above. I think it is a bug in SW
@JosephWright: Yes, after 2000 rep, but I did not know that even unregistered users may edit. Thanks for clearification
@JosephWright: Another technical question: Is a user, whose post has been flagged for low quality (and it was deleted then) notified about the reasons, apart from the usual comments below the post?
@JosephWright: Sometimes I feel that the whole SX bunch misses a message system, a real inbox, not only a comment notification, but I am not the first one having this request most likely ;-)
@ChristianHupfer Thanks. I've been digging through that for almost twenty-four hours now with results that leave too much to be desired for what is acceptable in terms of visual appeal. Even simple three column, predefined layouts, give outright horrible results.
@1010011010 have a look at Frank's talk from tug 2013 (slides and recording are available here) he discusses multicolumn layout in tex and mentions flowfam and multicol and other attempts latex-project.org/papers
@ChristianHupfer Flowfram is just extremely flawed. Consider \Ncolumninarea[1]{3}{\textwidth}{\textheight}{0pt}{0pt} vs. the regular {multicols}{3} environment. Linebreaking, hyphenation and so on and so forth are all changed for the worse, with column overflow being a rule rather than an exception. Even if you fix that (manually), there's the next issue: flowframes are defined on a page-by-page basis, so what happens to flowing frames when they occupy two seperate pages?
The question has no single answer, since the algorithm just gets messed up completely. My earlier code example shows exactly that, but even more simple cases exist.
@1010011010 flowfam isn't really addressing the same problems as multicol (and it's a problem tex doesn't really address at all) having multiple flows in tex is hard and all solutions are only partial (eg the various environments for parallel paragraph settings)
@1010011010 Not really:-)
@1010011010 multicol and flowfam do (differnt) vast amounts of work chopping up vertical lists and arranging them as specified, typically in either case you are typesetting to a different (small) measure so they may have slightly different settings for tolerance (\sloppy etc) or multicol may have just got lucky, but in either case neither package does essentially anything about linebreaking
@1010011010 that said I know multicol quite well but I've not llooked at flowfam internals (but essentially tex's linebreaker has no hooks so there is not much a package can do about it other than set \emergencystreth and \tolerance etc)
@DavidCarlisle Yeah, e.g. \tolerance=5000 does the trick for flowfram multicolumn layouts. Still disappointing that the output on the transition from page 1 to 2 is soooooo underwhelming.
Okay, this is a bit different....
My son recently got underwear for his birthday. The underwear came in a set of 5, packaged as Justice League underwear.
On the packaging, you can see The Flash, Superman, Green Lantern, and Batman. Each of those four have a clearly-recognizable pair of underw...
@ChristianHupfer From the user guide: "The flowfram package tries to make TeX do something it wasn't originally designed to do. It modifies the output routine and may not always perform as desired." The problem is that it's hellishly difficult modifying TeX's output routine, which, I suspect, is why xor isn't finished.
@ChristianHupfer :-) What I'd really like to be able to do is automatically adjust the line width at a page break for the cases where a paragraph needs to span frames of different widths, but that's not possible with the way TeX's output routine works.
@DavidCarlisle The frames work essentially like the standard columns in two-column mode.
@NicolaTalbot I'm using colorbox elsewhere in my document. I figured it would be a good idea to remain as consistent as possible, e.g. if I decided to use a hook that I would want to affect all coloured boxes.
with the rule `console.yaml` from @cgnieder - see: http://texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/5097/wie-kann-ich-mit-arara-einen-kommandozeilenbefehl-ausfuhren/5109
===> FIND: "Parameterformat wrong"
The version % arara: console: { command: 'cmd /c dir /b *.tex >Files.csv' } works well....
@DavidCarlisle Do you happen to know where I can study some examples for the usage of keys? Maybe I can define a set of macros that will allow building these boxes almost automatically... I just need to be able to allow the use of an argument such as [TR] for TopRight, [BL] for BottomLeft, etc.
@PauloCereda: Ways back in the late 90s, we were doing Age Of Empires II campaigns, renaming the turkeys to Combat turkeys and the sheep to Elite Combat sheep, but unfortunately, their usage was limited ;-)
(sorry, I leave tomorrow for 3 months, I spent 2 hours re-booking flights and trains and the new flight will be tomorrow at 7am, so I'll be getting up at 4am. Today, I have to prepare for the stay and go to my parents' place for my bro's Bday and stuff, so I'm not quite in a chatty mood.) No new title now, it's only the exams, the defense will be probably autumn 2015
@DavidCarlisle that's what scares me a bit, I'll have a lot of stuff with me
however, it's all not my fault, so I'll just scream at them in agony that this whole business is screwed if they aren't able to deliver you to your destination, and they'll hopefully let me in ;)
@DavidCarlisle because of ~3 kilos of all my luggage overweight? especially since my schoolmate travels only for couple days so he won't be quite overweight? (yes, we'll drop the luggage off together)
@cis Considering the current scheme, yes. :( I'm testing a new way of creating complex commands and it might be possible to achieve this via shell invocation, but the current scheme will make bash -c 'foo bar' fail. :(
@cis: I can test it with nightingale; if it works, I can assure the upcoming version of arara will work as well. :)
@DavidCarlisle It's frowned upon by the main network. Maybe makes the database calls heavier or something... who knows why. I would assume to be OK too.
@percusse I assume they are ok because I often get an automatically generated flag because of too long comment threads on the main site, but never one on the meta site
Hi. Is XCharter thinner and smaller than the vanilla or am I going crazy? Looking at Siarhei Khire...'s thesis and my own document, I definitely got something thinner and smaller... hm. :/
Self-contained minimal examples always help me a lot when trying to get the hang of a new package. TeXample doesn't offer anything on the keyval package though. :-(
@DavidCarlisle I really don't know how you keep your cool when so many people depend on something you possibly wrote in a weekend or for fun or the worst that you know it's broken and you forgot and found out later that people built on top of it. .
@1010011010 it is just \def in disguise \includegraphics[height=3cm]{file} just does \def\something@height{3cm} then calls the macro it would have done anyway, which can, if it wants, look at the value of \something@height so the default behaviour is that nothing happens.
@percusse after a while you get used to it:-)
@percusse I really thought afterpage was a joke, It's shocking how often it gets used in answers here:-)
@percusse oh no, I wrote it, but I wasn't trying to do anything, I was just reading about output routines in the texbook and musing what would happen if you \aftergroup out of the output routine, where do you end up, I just made some little test cases and some joke documentation, I didn't think anyone would use it
\newenvironment{<env-name>}{}{} produces something along the lines of \begingroup\<env-name>#1#2\end<env-name>\endgroup???? Can I define all of that manually?
@egreg I'm trying to define an environment, where I wish to measure the contents of the environment, to then typeset them into a box with extra specifications... Should I use a macro instead then? An environment feels intuitive...
@egreg: so I have a couple of songs typeset with songs. Sometimes, I have to transpose the notes from a specific song (I simply use \transpose{<integer>} inside the song environment). I was wondering if I could create a command like \transposesong{<comma separated integer list>}{<song environment>} and use an inline mapping to replicate the song to each transpose value. I managed to come up with a nice idea, but I'm failing to pass the whole environment via macros. :)
@egreg Oopsie. :) Have a nice mass and a nice dinner. :) See ya!
@PauloCereda \NewEnviron{transposesong}[1]{\@for\next:=#1\do{\begin{song}\transpose{\next}\BODY\end{song}}} with the usual \makeatletter and \makeatother?
@DavidCarlisle It's a little more complex. I want to create an environment, which holds a content, say, \x, and some keys. I want to measure \x and save the contents of the environment into a box, to then measure the box and adjust the page layout according to where the \end{<env>} is issued, to then make the box fancier by applying some options to the frame (be it a minipage, tcolorbox, etc.) that holds the box. lrbox is still going to work for me? :-)
I suspect that there is an ISO standard that bomb makers follow. As evidence of this is the fact that in about 50% of the movies, there is a statement like "remember to clip the red wire and NOT the blue" or some similar statement. SO I suspect that embedded in the ISO document is a standard tha...
@1010011010 it depends. If you save a box you can't re-set it (you can of course put borders etc) but fonts and line breaking width etc are fixed. If you save it as a macro then you can reset it as often as you like but you have to be careful things don't get re-executed, eg counters incremented more then once
@PauloCereda Well, with expl3 you have a fancier loop that trims off spaces at either ends of the items in the csv list. That's the exercise for the evening.
Is there Documentation Generator for LaTeX like Javadoc for Java or Doxygen for C++?
Especially when defining macros or environments for LaTeX-files throughout a big project it would be useful for the team to have a nice documentation at best auto generated from commentary in the LaTeX-file.
Okay, this is a bit different....
My son recently got underwear for his birthday. The underwear came in a set of 5, packaged as Justice League underwear.
On the packaging, you can see The Flash, Superman, Green Lantern, and Batman. Each of those four have a clearly-recognizable pair of underw...
Is there Documentation Generator for LaTeX like Javadoc for Java or Doxygen for C++?
Especially when defining macros or environments for LaTeX-files throughout a big project it would be useful for the team to have a nice documentation at best auto generated from commentary in the LaTeX-file.
