Hello, \input opmac \localcolor \headline={Foo\hfil\Red bar\lower1ex\null\vadjust{\hrule}} I have no problems with {\Green colors \vfil\break at more pages}. Really. \bye
Hello @DavidCarlisle
@DavidCarlisle This show that LaTeX colors are superfluous complicated.
DVI output is not supported because this is only more complication today. But XeTeX (internally outputs to dvi) is supported automatically. And pdftex or lusTeX with direct pdf output is supported. If someone needs dvi output then he/she really know, why it is needed, and he/she can replace one line with \input opmac by three lines: \newcount\pdfoutput \pdfoutput=1 \input opmac \input opmac-xetex
Or with two lines: \let\XeTeXversion=\relax \input opmac
@wipet yes true it works in this case (using the pdftex color stack support which is newer than latex) that helps in some cases but it's still the case that in general box setting is unsafe unless extra groups are added.
@DavidCarlisle Fisrt: the \setbox is not the case of \headline typesetting. And when users use the primitive \setbox then they know the behavior of the primitive and they know that \localcolor declaration in opmac sets the colour restoring by \aftergroup. All is documented.
And opmac is older then pdftex colorstack support too. The re-implementation using colorstack was done in Dec. 2014. Before this, the external file was used to simulating the colorstack, so the right result was printed after second run of TeX. But another behavior was identical.
@wipet documentation doesn't really help the problem. Of course it's OK in typical plain (or opmac) use where the underlying macros are simple macros that cover simple cases, and the assumption is that the document author is in control of the macro stack. LaTeX aims to be used for a rather wider set of documents and document authors
@wipet No, it wasn't because unlike opmac latex has users, and changing implementations breaks things, the extra group added to the headline for colour is there because there was nowhere else to add colour support so it was "wrapped" around the existing headline box. that avoided breaking lots of documents, if it means 20 years later one stackexchange answer needs 7 \aftergroup, that's a reasonable tradeoff
I have drawn a simple car with this code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\shade[top color=red, bottom color=white, shading angle={135}]
[draw=black,fill=red!20,rounded corners=1.2ex,very thick] (1.5,.5) rectangle (6.5,2.5);
\draw[draw=black,fill=gray!50,thick] (3,.5) circle (.5);
\draw[...
LaTeX is so not designed for this kind of document. But if you must, must.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\setlength\unitlength{1cm}
\vspace*{\fill}
\noindent
\begin{picture}(0,0)\bfseries\large
\put(4,3){\includegraphics{house}}
\put(0.5,5){\parbox{5cm}{\ragge...
@JosephWright the strangely off-topic questions are in fact spam. I think we can zap them. Usually if I search the text it is literally garbled from some common source
Some one understands some thing in regards to a-game called "Warfare"? I have no idea what type of sport it's (card or board-game or something that way), However , I just know its title, and I need to understand more about it.. Please, assist me! Thanks!!
Some one understands some thing in regards to a-game called "Warfare"? I have no idea what type of sport it's (card or board-game or something that way), However , I just know its title, and I need to understand more about it.. Please, assist me! Thanks!!
I am presuming everything you are doing i...
@Johannes_B You need SumatraPDF if you have windoze
@PauloCereda :) Nice
@PauloCereda I made the mistake of hey I haven't listened to Haken for a while let me do that and it's been on the repeat mode for a few days now . youtube.com/watch?v=DO61NWKkyWQ @AlanMunn might also like it.
My school requires the bibliography to be in this format:
author (year). title. address: publisher
I've managed everything except the parentheses around year and the colon after address by editing the plainnat style.
I can't seem to wrap my head around the syntax for the functions in the .bst ...
@egreg I was too 'slow' to comment on the Albinoni. (I was trying to find the adjectival form of 'adagio' but I don't think it exists.) Or is it both an adverb and an adjective?
@AlanMunn Use numbers. Saves you the trouble of using a pipe and putting a clever face when you have to mention a tempo :)
grave slow and solemn ~ 40
largo very slow 40 - 60
lento very slow 60 - 66
adagio slow and stately 66 - 76
andante at a walking pace 76 - 108
moderato moderately 108 - 120
allegretto moderately fast 120 - 132
allegro fast and bright 120 - 168
vivace lively and fast ~ 140
presto very fast 168 - 200
prestissimo extremely fast 208 -
@egreg It makes a huge difference in which tempo it is played. But emphasis is also important. I think you would like this pseudoanalysis youtu.be/FJO176NhyDU?t=7m28s
@AlanMunn I listened to a few performances of the finale: Toscanini played it as slow as possible, Bernstein quite fast, Furtwängler a real prestissimo.
I love slides created with Beamer, and I am using it.
Yet, I also quite like that PowerPoint is able to show my script on my screen and show the slides on the projector while I am presenting.
Is it a way to achieve this with Beamer or other TeX techniques?
@JosephWright as long as he doesn't specify how should the PDF file look like, it's OT or UWYA, but let's see what'll happen :-) (And IMHO: if you need notes, your lectures may not be well prepared. If you still need notes, make ones. On paper.)
@yo' I agree with the parenthetic comment: I very much favour the idea that you should be able to talk about your slides, and if necessary any notes should be 'to hand' (that's how I lecture)
@yo' Yes, hence the fact my comment on the question is purely about trying to understand the technical requirement, and the fact that as (lead) beamer maintainer I am committed to doing my best to make this sort of thing work
Is OverLeaf the best choice of online service for teaching workshops on LaTeX? I would need to set this up without the benefit of a 'Teaching Plan' or 'Pro' account i.e. just using what I can get for free. As far as I can tell, this should be possible but any advice would be welcome.
@JosephWright Well, as sure as I can be of anything IT related. If there's no network access, the students won't be able to login to the network to use the computers at all, so there really isn't much I can do to mitigate the problems that would cause.
@JosephWright Yes. We're scheduled for a computer lab, so they should have network access ;). And they should be able to login and use a web browser. And I should be able to use LCD and I should even have a working monitor. The world of 'should's is a great place to teach!
@JosephWright To be fair, for some for whom English isn't a first language, it can be helpful to have written bits of your talk. (Even though I agree with you in general).
@JosephWright I think one of the differences between the humanities and the sciences is that in the sciences we are mainly concerned about content, not form, but in the humanities, they are concerned about form a lot, so they think that the way things are written matters.
@JosephWright This 'read a paper' method is common in literary studies as well.
@AlanMunn Not sure: older papers are written as transcripts of what was said, so I suspect they worked the other way around more. I was thinking though that advice on good rhetoric goes back to ancient Greece at least.
@JosephWright Well, I've never done this before. Ask me after the first one on Wednesday! Each workshop is 8 hours, with 1 hour of that for lunch and breaks. I've sort of been given the materials used previously but they only cover one workshop, they don't include the slides except as a handout and they don't include the source or the USB keys with portable TeX Live. So, er... I'm panicking somewhat.
@AlanMunn I don't know about 'usually'. Some philosophers do this. Many do not. And advice varies wildly, too: everything from read it no matter what to read it unless you are confident speaking it to don't read it no matter what.
@JosephWright Actually I think we should take it as exactly that, given that 'read' was the word chosen. And the fact that the use has steadily declined makes me think that it's initial use was relatively literal.
@AlanMunn Pre-war is pretty common in the 'synthesis' section for chemistry, I was at the time making something of a point to my boss by going back to ~1800
@yo' Well it's really weird to say "With X", when the person is dead for sure, and even if the person is alive, it's a bit odd to use "With X" where you are a student and X is a super important person in the field.
You typed your question in a system that can do pretty much all those things, the only one it doesn't do natively being pdf generation which depends on the print to pdf capability of the client browser. Not to say don't use TeX, but there are alternatives. — David Carlisle1 min ago
@AlanMunn ?? Isn't that conflating modal with deontic logic?
@JosephWright Thank you. That looks more promising, although I haven't investigated very thoroughly yet - just noticed that the sources are here. (Half the stuff I've been given in PDF form isn't even formatted for A4, while the other half is.)
@cfr Both Lewis and Stalnaker are considered the co-creaters of possible worlds semantics for the analysis of counterfactuals. I don't know enough about the formal logic side of the differences, though.
You might want to use \not\cap. I'm not sure whether this symbol is official, but it worked for me (I've seen it being used in popular proceedings though).
btw, can anybody explain me, (@Alan?) how do you really work with verbs whose past and 3rd form are identical to the infinitive? I seems to me often really difficult to know the tense.
@yo' Well in English, as a general rule, an eventive verb (as opposed to stative) can't be in the present tense, it must be in the present progressive unless it's talking about a generic/habitual action. And I think those verbs are all eventive so typically they will be interpreted as past not present.
but imagine a situation like this (sorry for a bit of silliness): A: Who's putting the missile into the weapon? B: I put it there. (Meaning, I do that always) A pushes the fire button, interpreting the above sentence as "I have put it there"
@AlanMunn sorry I missed that one (missing apostrophe in my nickname). Well, you're probably right. But I think that what bothers me is that as a mathematician, it feels to me that having verbs like put is similar to calling two quite different mathematical objects the same way. And what probably bothers me truly is that we do that! :-/
@yo' You'd hate Welsh. We are very short on present/future tenses. In the written language, we only have one. In the spoken language, we can distinguish present from future.
@cfr In linguistics possible worlds semantics is applied to all sorts of modality. Modals are treated in terms of quantification over possible worlds, with the different types of modality being different types of quantification or different restrictions on the domain of quantification.
@yo' Which about what John should be here by now means?
Imagine you send a child to your friends 10 blocks away and you tell them. In 20 minutes, they say to themselves: "John should be here by now. Has something bad happened?"
@JosephWright Nobody in the US reads Fowler, I don't think. Strunk and White is a common US style guide. (I've never read it.) I have a copy of Fowler from when I was an undergrad.
@JosephWright But on 'shall' and 'will', 'shall' is simply falling into disuse, I think. Other than sort of frozen expressions like "Shall we go", nobody uses it in speech or writing except legal documents. And 'would' replaces 'should' in things like "I should like that", which is ok for you, I suspect.
Deontic logic is a kind of modal logic in one sense. So syntactically, it is similar although you might want axioms to make things come out correctly. But the semantics is different so 'possible worlds' is for possibility - one interpretation, if you like, of a particular syntactical system. But the semantics for a deontic logic would have to be different. You can have a single system in terms of syntactic validity (axioms are the same, formulae are the same etc.) but you might interpret that system in different ways semantically. (Syntactic - proof; semantic - truth.) The syntactical syste…
@AlanMunn I always remember when I was a high school teacher and a colleague came into the teachers' room waving a paper by a student who had spelled illuminismo with an apostrophe: ill'uminismo
@cfr I think we're talking at cross purposes here. I'm not talking about different logics, but the way modality in natural languages is modelled in linguistics.
@AlanMunn Yes, I think you are right. But my original use of should was not to do with possibility at all. So possible worlds wouldn't help, unfortunately. (There may be no possible world in which the university's IT works as it should.)
@AlanMunn I read a week or so ago that such-and-such would resolve lives hiccups and problems in a student's submission. This had me extremely confused for a while....
@cfr I am still confused. What a strange conjunction of things. And how do you resolve a life?
@cfr Yes, I understand the meaning distinction, but in linguistic accounts of modality these are all modelled in terms of possible worlds, and the different types of readings are based on restrictions on those worlds.
I'd like to make the cover page as seen in the image below and be able to put it in a .tex-file.
This cover page itself is made within LaTeX, but it's not compatible with XeTeX, and it uses at least 3 different files with definitions etc.
I'd thus like to know if it's possible to make a fresh, n...
@cfr I'm falling into the hole with you, I'm afraid. This is not my area , so I don't think I can easily explain things in a way that would connect up with the philosophical literature that you know.
I have drawn a simple car with this code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\shade[top color=red, bottom color=white, shading angle={135}]
[draw=black,fill=red!20,rounded corners=1.2ex,very thick] (1.5,.5) rectangle (6.5,2.5);
\draw[draw=black,fill=gray!50,thick] (3,.5) circle (.5);
\draw[...
LaTeX is so not designed for this kind of document. But if you must, must.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\setlength\unitlength{1cm}
\vspace*{\fill}
\noindent
\begin{picture}(0,0)\bfseries\large
\put(4,3){\includegraphics{house}}
\put(0.5,5){\parbox{5cm}{\ragge...
I love slides created with Beamer, and I am using it.
Yet, I also quite like that PowerPoint is able to show my script on my screen and show the slides on the projector while I am presenting.
Is it a way to achieve this with Beamer or other TeX techniques?
How can I use latex symbols in SciDAVIs graphs.
Is there any way I can export the SciDAVIs graph to TiKz compatible TEX files?
Please Help
You might want to use \not\cap. I'm not sure whether this symbol is official, but it worked for me (I've seen it being used in popular proceedings though).
