@FaheemMitha I was working with the algebraic topology group, mostly working as I had on my thesis at Manchester with representation theory of matrix groups over finite fields
@FaheemMitha yes thesis was 85 I remember once looking round a math department and there wasn't a member of staff who hadn't been there for 20 years, it seemed like not the best career. So I worked in theoretical computer science for 12 years as a post doc, then a further 2 back in math then decided that fixed term contracts were getting less and less fun each time, but actually I'm better off where I am in the end, funny really to be working at NAG as I hardly did any numerical math courses:-)
@FaheemMitha at the time I would have done, but they were not appointing anyone. UK universities had undergone massive expansion in the 60's and basically they took on lots of people then and then ran out of money. that's what I meant by no one new for that period. If a department hasn't taken on any tenured pure mathematican for over a decade and you are on a 2-year post doc, the odds of getting tenure at the end are slim:-)
@FaheemMitha yes it comes and goes in waves but when you have a fixed term contract you can't always wait for the next upturn:-) But as I say things worked out for the best in the end, so no complaints really.
I'd like to prepare a book of abstracts of a scientific conference with about 650 articles. Suppose the articles are all the same document class and all have the following structure (feel free to change its structure):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just for this example
\newcomm...
@egreg Good morning! :) I had something done towards these lines (I wrote a quick Lua script), but I didn't finish. To be honest, I got a bit annoyed by the provided answer which seems to add an unecessary complexity layer and gave up coming up on my own answer. :( I think a Python script would be very efficient and not so painful. Although I'm really really tempted to show how arara 4.0 can do this. :)
@PauloCereda I mean, it would be easy adding code that writes the data out in a file, but then a script would be needed to collect all these files anyway.
@egreg Ah, I thought of a script that extracts info from every single .tex (sounds too dangerous and error-prone), but if data is consistently available, we could use a very simple template engine to do that. :)
@PauloCereda I think you can assume that titles are the argument of \title, authors the argument of \author and the abstracts are delimited by \begin{abstract} and \end{abstract}. Then it's the OP's business to provide a way for producing the booklet from the data.
@egreg I have a solution for this, however, it's completely mixed with the class file and 200 bounty is currently not interesting enough for me to spend time on it ...
@PauloCereda I thought that this is your favourite. You don't write your CS papers on bagpipe tunes? Well, maybe that's the reason why you struggle to get them accepted :P
Many years ago, probably in TUGboat, I saw
a shortish piece of
\TeX\ that immediately deploys catcodes and very quickly becomes
completely unreadable, but when typeset produces the old "twelve days of Christmas" ditty (benefitting from
recursion due to the repetitive nature of it).
I tried to ...
I am new to LaTex. I am reading the book "Latex" by Stefan Kottwitz, but under "creating our first document" I was supposed to write the following:
/documentclass{article}
/begin{document}
This is our firstdocument.
/end{document}
When I write this in Texworks, I only get this message in the c...
It's good to have package documentation to back you up:
4
afterpage is working as documented in two column mode. The footnote to the first sentence of the documentation says: This implementation does not work in two column mode — David Carlisle2 mins ago
Can someone please help me to understand why the \drawline command with an optional argument works OK inside \caption but needs to be \protected if the argument is mandatory?
@GonzaloMedina Partly space, partly logic :-) The logic part is that testing for an optional arg uses \futurelet and so cannot be expandable. Thus any command with an optional argument needs protecting. On the other hand, mandatory args are grabbed without any tests so can occur in expandable commands.
@GonzaloMedina Space wise, robust commands need two csnames, fragile ones only one (pre-e-TeX)
@GonzaloMedina Seriously, use \protected\def or etoolbox and \newrobustcmd: the engine mechanism is much more powerful than the LaTeX2e one
I was not able to find any help so far, that's why I turn to tex.stackexchange again. I would like to use the sublisting mode of mciteplus. Strangely, it just doesn't create a sublist. By reading through the manual I didn't get further and examples from other websites also did not create the subl...
@yo' True. The best "notation" will always be "A is a finite subset"; I don't quite understand why some people dislike using plain words and think that introducing more symbols makes life easier...
Is there a difference between $A$ and $A_{}$ (in general, empty subscript to something in math mode)? I mean, other than the problem with double subscripts...
@yo' It's an empty superscript that can affect the position of a subscript, not the other way around. Of course, an empty subscript also inserts the \scriptspace, so it affects the width of the object.
@yo' So $A$ is 7.5pt wide, but $A_{}$ is 8pt wide.
I've tried to define a macro with staggered sub- and superscript and added a formula with mhchem to the superscript. the typesetting seems misaligned especially the subscript seems to be typeseted to high. is there a way to fix this?
MWE:
\documentclass[numbers=noenddot,plain,ngerman,a4paper,12p...
@karlkoeller You can't call the person this way I think (he's not reachable unless his name is offered in the auto-complete), you'd have to ask @Joseph to do that for you (if he were willing to)
@PaulGessler Thanks. I guess I'll lurk for a bit to see what goes on... By the way, I got here in response to a message. How does one get here directly? Are there multiple tex chat threads, or one for the whole site?
@StevenB.Segletes this is the main one, the others are mostly special-purpose rooms (for extended discussions migrated from comments on posts, for instance).
@StevenB.Segletes at the upper left of the main site, click on the SE logo. Then under "Current Community" you should see TeX - LaTeX - to the right of that is a link to the chat.
Hmm, now I see. It's not \makeat letter that's undefined. Rather, it appears to be \f@size, which appears to have a line break between the f and the @. I'll post the log somewhere and get a link here in a minute.
I have what appears to me to be a rather simple template code to produce a presentation using the Beamer package:
\documentclass{beamer}
\title{Presentation Title}
\subtitle{Presentation Subtitle}
\author{Your Name}
\institute[My University]{Department of Mathematical Sciences\\MyUniversity}
\da...
@Gregory that's tex's error format showing you how far you got it is saying \f is not defined and it hasn't seen @size yet, which means @ is not a letter so youv'e not used \maketletter or not used it in the right place
@Gregory well there you go: <argument> Specimen Name \makeatletter you can not use \makeatletter in the argument to a command (it is like \verb)
Aha! All I'm really trying to do is figure out the default font size for headings in the article class, but I thought that this would be a general solution to figuring out font sizes wherever.
So I was trying to use \section{Blah blah \makeatletter \f@size \makeatother}
I'd like to prepare a book of abstracts of a scientific conference with about 650 articles. Suppose the articles are all the same document class and all have the following structure (feel free to change its structure):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just for this example
\newcomm...
Many years ago, probably in TUGboat, I saw
a shortish piece of
\TeX\ that immediately deploys catcodes and very quickly becomes
completely unreadable, but when typeset produces the old "twelve days of Christmas" ditty (benefitting from
recursion due to the repetitive nature of it).
I tried to ...
I am new to LaTex. I am reading the book "Latex" by Stefan Kottwitz, but under "creating our first document" I was supposed to write the following:
/documentclass{article}
/begin{document}
This is our firstdocument.
/end{document}
When I write this in Texworks, I only get this message in the c...
Probably use ordinal/cardinal numbers?
$$|A| < \omega$$
$$|A| < \aleph_0$$
