@Alenanno There's also a problem with \tkzLabelAngle when the angle falls in the 3rd quadrant relative to the origin at the vertex. See my question from the fall about this.
@ChristianHupfer: Hi. :) Please, pretty please, do not take my meta post as accusing, I really have no idea of what's currently happening in the review alley because I don't get too much involved on it. When I joined TeX.sx in 2011, there was no review system and things seem to work better than they are now. Since when this system got into production, things became more automated than they should. (cont)
(contd) I am sure you do your best when reviewing. :) Sadly, a great deal of people does not, they do for badge or privilege hunting, or simply do carelessly for the fun of it. Worse, these gentlemen do never get involved in these discussions, so the gear does not move at all. That's why I'd say the sane approach would be either disable the system as a whole or catechize users to avoid the system as the plague. (cnt)
(cntd) I was in the first Answer the Unanswered session and can vouch of how great it was; everything the review system does now was done (way better) during two hours of dedicated work and healthy discussions in this very chatroom. Still, lots of questions were left untouched, to be tackled in the next session; such questions were not mature enough to receive a definite veredict on what to do. I think the review system wants to discretize something that is inherently subjective. (cont)
(cntd) I believe questions should be handled in a larger time frame in lieu of quick actions done almost instantly. But again, that's my view as an outsider, I don't do janitorial work because I am not competent enough. And I have a great admiration to everybody that handles this. Just a quick example of someone awesome for janitorial work: lockstep. He was an impressive tagging machine, awesome reviewer and friend. He always had posts on meta when in doubt.
@PauloCereda I'm not evil. At least, I don't think so. I'm not sure. Maybe that means I am. In any case, I should delete my account here. But I can't quite bring myself to do so. Which is stupid.
@PauloCereda When I first tried the review system, I gave up because I never managed to read the question quickly enough for it not to disappear from the queue. By the time I'd read it, it had already been closed.
@PauloCereda You shouldn't delete it, please. I'm not upset by your post. Really. I didn't like what felt like being bullied (not by you!) but last week, I realised that it was not just me. And I don't like it. I think the system is bad, but I don't think the campaign against 'recent residents' is helping. I think it will just make things worse.
@ChristianHupfer, @cfr and others: I deleted my meta thread. I probably expressed myself in a bad way, with my terrible English. Sorry if, by any chance, I hurt your feelings. I'm deeply, deeply, deeply sorry.
@PauloCereda I think your English is very good, but you probably didn’t start the discussion in a very sensible way. And the quotes from the Sermon on the Mount also sidetracked from the issue a bit ;-)
@PauloCereda By the way, my favourite quote from the Sermon on the Mount is Matthew 6:34 - where Jesus basically says that it’s a good thing to procrastinate ;-)
@PauloCereda Lucy is fine, thanks! Well, she has a bit of an issue with food and is very fussy. But she also has IBS which makes it hard to tell whether she is just playing up or whether we need to take her to the vet for another injection.
@cfr You know, I have a wacky idea! I will go into reviewing! That's a funny way to counterattack the review system: use the review system! Oooh it's so deliciously Godelian!
@ArthurReutenauer A cat, yes. You're not really intruding. I'm just upset and so I'm not being very welcoming. If a certain user was here, that user would no doubt tell you that it is due to my evil plan to take over the world.
That was my previous cat. This is before she went AWOL. Although she came back a few days later on her own. I'm not sure where she'd been - she was starving hungry.
@cfr Almost one week. She’s been seen in the neighbourhood recently, but apparently there’s a big bad tomcat who’s chasing here whenever she tries to approach the building.
@ArthurReutenauer Oh, dear. There's a white cat which has decided our garden is part of its territory and this has not gone down well with Lucy at all.
@ArthurReutenauer Yes, it is hard. Cross your fingers, I guess. Hope the other cat gets bored or chased off or something. Sounds as if your cat needs some mates, but cats aren't very good at that kind of thing.
@cfr This is one of the issues: the review system is really designed for the main site, where the number of questions is huge and a 'fast' approach is appropriate
@cfr I would be sad if you felt the need to do that. Remember that any comments, etc. which you feel are personal criticism should be flagged. Of course, there is a grey area between 'personal' and 'behavioural' but what is needed for any mod action (on anything) is a clear audit trail of data.
@ChristianHupfer As I said to @cfr, if anyone feels there are comments, answers, etc. which are personal criticism rather than about behaviours then please flag them
The mod team cannot read everything, and having a proper audit trail is by far the best way of bringing things to attention
@TorbjørnT. Not that one: I think we have one that is something like 'How can I create plots in LaTeX' and mentions pgfplots/Asymptote/PStricks/MetaPost in the answers
@JosephWright Prior to 1.10 it was a bit tricky, but with 1.10 filling is easy (one command). The problem was that the cos(x) was inverted (managed to do it) and then the ticks were not aligning with the wave (was still working on it).
Anyway, I've been off the grid for a while, has anything happened around here for the last six weeks?I see the profile page has been revamped at least.
I want to read this from .csv file but getting error
Items, FactorLoadings
Social Needs (Cronbach's a = 0.695)
Smartphone allows me to stay connected with those I care about,0.758
I use smartphone to stay connected with friends and family through social networking websites (Twitter, Facebook...
@TorbjørnT. The "apices" of the sine wave are not aligned to the x ticks. Like the first apex is a little bit after the 3, the second a little bit after the 6, and so on. I was wondering if there was a way to tell pgfplots to use an amplitude/frequency of 3, for example, so that it aligns.
@JosephWright It turned out that i am one of the careless reviewers. All meta posts addressing this in the past (in the time i was active) got my full support. I was never aware of the fact, that i am one of them. I actually thought it might be a good idea to get some old questions off the list and i i think ashort Slow down, no need for closing them might have been a very very good idea when i started that. Instead, now we have this \huge rage around.
I almost feel paranoid when leaving a short comment leaving a quick hint in fear that it might upset someone.
@JosephWright @percusse ^^^^^ I hope we can figure this out.
@JosephWright Out of interest, do you know how many regular helpers we got on LC? What do you think, how many regular helpers do we have for the three largest sites (TeXwelt, goLaTeX and mrunix)?
@JosephWright I can understand that… it's just strange that you wouldn't have any clue what you downloaded. Most people go the other way with it – 'I ran MiKTeX on my document' or 'MiKTeX is crashing'.
@JosephWright Something I'm going to try to clearly address in a video, for sure. There are tons of written resources out there, but I find people are more likely to watch a video than read an article.
@JosephWright thanks :) wouldn't be the first time I tried to teach something that seemed obvious to me, but at least this is admittedly not-obvious.
People can rag on teachers all they want, but it takes an extreme depth and breadth of understanding to be able to explain the same thing a thousand ways.
Hello guys! I'm currently in the process of developing a lightweight LaTeX editor with remote collaboration support. If anyone feels like trying it out and submitting their opinion, the download link and contact e-mail are under: sebbrudzinski.github.io/Open-LaTeX-Studio :)
@JosephWright yes I wondered about that but they could usefully add \declareprimitive\Ucharcat{... lua like directlua} that allowed you to declare a tex primitve using lua
@JosephWright although that's not sustainable long term, supporting unicode engines in the core means we need a core font mechanism that supports unicode fonts
@JosephWright for 2e it might just mean "adopting" fontspec, not sure but the direction started by the support for unicode engines we added this time will lead to pressure to formalise the relationship with fontspec/unicode-math/luatexbase/ in some cases moving code to the kernel, in others just adopting the packages, to be determined....
@SebastianBrudzinski: cool, an editor based on the NB platform. :) I used to use this very same platform for a couple of commercial apps, it looks quite interesting. :) Good luck with the project, seems quite interesting!
@JosephWright would be interesting to see how much l3 they really use or perhaps l3 is acceptable for the core packages. Either way we can't claim to support Unicode engines in the core if you can't use any Unicode fonts.
@DavidCarlisle Well fontspec is all written in expl3
@DavidCarlisle Of course, as it is already written that way one can argue it's clearly acceptable to users already (and we are nowadays pretty careful about expl3 changes)
@Johannes: my meta post was confusing because I could not express myself properly, so I was worried that I hurted people I like because of the recent discussions on similar topics. That's why I decided to delete my thread.
@DavidCarlisle You are probably thinking of l3unicode-data.dtx
@DavidCarlisle We should probably have a (quick) internal discussion about the LuaTeX support stuff then involve the obvious people who do the low-level Lua support. Most of what we need is likely copy-paste :-)
@JosephWright @SeanAllred For now there's not much you cannot do manually. I'm planning to add the ability to enable auto-sync to Dropbox (the app will upload file for you every x time). Moreover, you get the ability to easily view past revisions of a file and restore them with one click. I'm also collecting any ideas for new Dropbox-support features at the moment.
@SebastianBrudzinski Personal opinion (as a developer): if the user wants the file in Dropbox, he/she will have the file in Dropbox. Have your software detect if it's in a Dropbox-synced folder and enable functionality from that (i.e. automatically). If it's not in such a folder, use that spot in the UI to offer to move that file (and all related files) to a Dropbox-synced directory.
You get the added benefit of having Dropbox manage Dropbox.
Poll (that likely doesn't affect anyone but me at the moment ;)): In naming functions, how would you distinguish between a function that executes one action given a parameter and a function that executes any action based on user input?
@PauloCereda for termmenu, I want to have a convenience macro that displays the menu, gets input, and runs the bound action AND a function that takes input (as a parameter, e.g. #2) and runs that bound action.
@PauloCereda \termmenu_do_all:N vs \termmenu_do_something_specific:Nn
Sebastian Brudziński announced an Open Source LaTeX editor that supports remote collaboration. Users will be able to store their projects on any, free cloud storage solution (for example Dropbox, Google drive). More information can be found at LaTeX Community and the Github project site.
@Johannes_B XD Well, it won't be me (probably) who implements the tool. I'm focussing on a simple expl3-based debugger – this is where termmenu came from.
Perhaps I'll mention the biblatex business in the documentation, though – give someone some inspiration, perhaps :)
@Johannes_B That's the great trouble with developing the tool. expl3 will certainly be a boon, but I'm personally confident the tool, if implemented, will be done in a language like Python or Perl.
@SeanAllred The default user on Windows doesn't have access to python or perl. @Nicola has done some GUI for glossaries. Dragging and swaping elements around to change the order of them seems to be pretty nifty.
@DavidCarlisle @Johannes_B Ah, since the Lua interpreter is embedded in the TeX engine. If you don't have access to that TeX engine, you probably don't have access to any of them
@SeanAllred Have you taken a look at the question for Franks answer? A mention of the quick-list could be made there and would fit better, imho. For a quick ref see Stafans answer. But what can be done for fine control?
@SeanAllred We had been talking about this yesterday, the tab was still opened and the issue unresolved, so i brought it up again. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/39017/…
I think something like the following would be good:
> This answer will focus on the greater problem of float placement and the algorithm LaTeX uses to solve it. If you're very new to LaTeX, it may be wise to view [[Stefan's answer to a similar question]], which will likely answer the immediate question you have. When you're comfortable with using LaTeX, it would be wise to come back here and understand why some of these decisions were made and how LaTeX decides where your figure or table goes in the first place.
@Johannes_B Agreed, but you don't want to overload a new user with information. That's part of why Frank's (fantastic) answer is so useless for a newbie with a deadline.
The demand for LOF and LOT on the same page evolve every once in a while. Highest and to the point answer would be the folowing. Reading Q/A/and comments, the could be some polishing done.
You can temporally disable the \clearpage (and/or \cleardoublepage) command which generates the page break at the beginning of the second \listof... command:
\listoffigures
\begingroup
\let\clearpage\relax
\listoftables
\endgroup
You might need to manually adjust the spacing before the second ...
Helpful members of the community just solved my problem with \newcommand: What's wrong with my newcommand?
But in trying to solve it, I got an error message referring to p. 192 of "the manual". I would like to look up the error myself.
I am compiling under windows using the command:
latexmk -...
Searching for arrow in the pgfmanual nearly kills my whole machine with a load of nearly 8, where the usual load is around 1. This is more than annoying. Does anybody stay in contact with Till and can suggest the splitting? I know i am not the only one with issues.
Maybe this question is just not a good idea in general, but, I'm curious. This could make package development simpler for some in the future. (Of course, this would not be forced on any package developer, but he/she could choose to use this approach or the traditional approach.) I guess the real ...
I have a rather big macro definition which sets a boolean to true, like \booleantrue (with \newif\ifboolean declared previously of course). Is there any situation (other grouping \booleantrue lower/deeper than the point where I'm evaluating the boolean) where the boolean would still evaluate to false even though I set the boolean to true?
@SebastianBrudzinski :) (in the future, by the way, you can reply to a specific message using a the arrow in the lower-right corner of the message. that way, i can just jump right to it to remember what i said:-)
Yes, I think that quote was by @egreg, about Kaveh’s election as TUG president. I got @-pinged about something unrelated around that time, so read the chat transcript.
Enrico was referring to Kaveh’s activity as recording TUG conferences, of course.
If I remember correctly, guillotine executions were made private (= on prison grounds) in France in the 1930s, after the execution of a serial rapist and murderer saw, somehow, many women rushing to the place of execution to dip their handkerchief in the convict’s blood (deemed good fortune for whatever reason).
How can I create the image in the attachment? And have any software to create graph in physic and convert its to Latex?
I want to read this from .csv file but getting error
Items, FactorLoadings
Social Needs (Cronbach's a = 0.695)
Smartphone allows me to stay connected with those I care about,0.758
I use smartphone to stay connected with friends and family through social networking websites (Twitter, Facebook...
You can temporally disable the \clearpage (and/or \cleardoublepage) command which generates the page break at the beginning of the second \listof... command:
\listoffigures
\begingroup
\let\clearpage\relax
\listoftables
\endgroup
You might need to manually adjust the spacing before the second ...
Helpful members of the community just solved my problem with \newcommand: What's wrong with my newcommand?
But in trying to solve it, I got an error message referring to p. 192 of "the manual". I would like to look up the error myself.
I am compiling under windows using the command:
latexmk -...
