Hi. In the tabular environment I understand that with using the array package, you can achieve a vertically centered column using m{width} for the column, i.e. \begin{tabular}{m{5em}}.
Is there a way to have a column vertically centered and right aligned?
Alright, I have a document that is mostly set with old style figures, and I like this as there is very little math. However, one characters name is Zen0, which renders almost identically to Zeno in Venturis ADF with Old Style numerals, so I'm using lining figures for this one word.
However, whe...
@egreg I don't exactly know what the difference is between an autobiography and a memoir, except for perhaps in the latter you have no need to be exhaustive. I'm not actually in the initiated crowd, so I'm about as clueless as you. Maybe I should go to the seminar and report back. ;-)
It seems my intuition was right: (from a writing website) "An autobiography focuses on the chronology of the writer’s entire life while a memoir covers one specific aspect of the writer’s life."
Mac users: How to diagnose a program (InDesign CS3) that won't open at all, but puts out no error. I can't seem to find anything in the console log either. It's supposed to be compatible with Mavericks AFAIK.
@PauloCereda I noticed a problem with the "MakeGlossaries" arara directive when I was doing some glossaries tests with file names containing spaces. (Not that I'm recommending file names with spaces :-P )
@AlanMunn Is anything showing up in the process list (I think the GUI for this is called 'Activity Monitor') as you open it up? A particular process might be hanging. If so, you can find out what it does and try to track down the source.
I'm adding a link to this from the biber documentation from version 1.9 and removing the meagre comments about this I currently have in there. — PLK35 mins ago
Is there a definitive question about installing perl on Windows? I know this isn't a specific TeX-related thing, but there are quite a few TeX applications that require perl (e.g. makeglossaries, xindy, latexmk, epstopdf, latexdiff). It would be useful if there was a link we could use everytime this comes up. I've found:
I downloaded MikTeX and got TeXworks. I try to follow the manual and create an example document. But I get an error message in the "Console output" window: "Latexmk.exe: The Perl intetpreter could not be found."
Is this Perl interpreter something that I have to download separately? I thought eve...
I am new to LaTeX and using it for my thesis. However, right now I am having trouble in using latexdiff. I did the instructions as follows:
Question: How to generate latexdiff on Windows?
Answer:
Download and install ActivePerl?
Assume you install ActivePerl? in C:\Perl
Download latexdiff p...
@NicolaTalbot I read your latest mail some minutes ago. A silent update should be enough for this patch. Otherwise you must change the bug tracker entry. ;-)
@Werner or another one who wants to answer: In past such questions like Apparent package bug/conflict were closed as “Too localized”. But which of the close items can I choose now as close reason? Off-topic, too broad? In my eyes it is not unclear what the OP asks here.
@Speravir I changed the version number of the new makeglossaries to 2.12 and uploaded glossaries v4.03. Thanks for your help. :-) I think I'll probably edit the bug tracker entry to change the version number (as say which glossaries release it corresponds to).
@Werner I think the one with 3 votes is better as the answer gives a link to Windows Perl distributions, but I wonder if it needs elaboration or perhaps we need some default text to use whenever the issue comes up.
@NicolaTalbot I just noted this: Both MiKTeX and TeX Live come with their own rudimetary Perl interpreters. At least for MiKTeX this only works for scripts, already part of MiKTeX. See what I’ve written in my tutorial How to use Xindy with MiKTeX? under “Prerequisites”. Also, in MiKTeX there exist wrapper executables for what is originally a perl script. There is for instance a makeglossaries.exe.
I am new to LaTeX and using it for my thesis. However, right now I am having trouble in using latexdiff. I did the instructions as follows:
Question: How to generate latexdiff on Windows?
Answer:
Download and install ActivePerl?
Assume you install ActivePerl? in C:\Perl
Download latexdiff p...
Which I thought was really a good reference. But, since both of us might not be firing on all cylinders (yes, me included), I haven't actually read the linked question to know whether it helps.
@Werner :-) Actually I shouldn't have written "need" since the OP could manage just by calling makeindex directly, but since that's in my website link I don't think I'll confuse matters further.
Hi everyone. Someone (using MikeTeX on window) asked me how to extract the references relevant to a paper from a big .bib. I know solutions (documented here or here with bibtool or bibexport. However, this person uses MikeTeX and do not know how to use a terminal.
Is there a simple way to extract references from a big .bib with MikeTeX on window ?
@Speravir Perhaps wait for him to return? That's definitely one for the old "too localised" close reason, but I'm not sure what to use now. It's not really off-topic, so perhaps "too broad" although that doesn't seem quite right.
@Speravir Oops ;-) Still not firing on all cylinders. I ought to make myself a nice hot cocoa and sit in front of the fire in my slippers and dressing gown. ;-)
@B.S. Do you mean you want to draw a graph by just specifying the vertices relationships to each other without any coordinates or do you mean you want to describe a graph and get TeX to work out which vertices are adjacent?
@NicolaTalbot: Dear Nicola, some times we want to represent two vertices are adjacent so we write " ...assume that $v$ and $w$ are adjacent....". I want not to write. I want to describe this property just by a possible symbol in Latex. Thanks.
@B.S. I don't know what symbol is used for that. As far as I recall I've always written "adjacent" rather than using a symbol. Wikipedia doesn't suggest a symbol.
Today, this question popped up:
Is there a hierarchy between packages?
I was sure it was a duplicate, and found this question:
What's the right order when loading packages?
which then led me to this question:
Packages that need to be included in a specific order
But this question simp...
@Werner Well it's personal choice, I guess. But I'd prefer to know what it is I'm clicking on with some actual descriptive content (like it's title). It's especially true here, where there are lots of questions that those of us who are here a lot know without actually having to visit.
I've got a document set with Venturis ADF and old style numbers, as they match the body text of the document much better. However, one of the characters names is Zen0, and with an old style zero this looks like Zeno. Therefore I'm using \textl{Zen0} to write hir name. This works perfectly fine, e...
@JosephWright I initially wanted to ask you, but short before I logged in, you went away :-) so, let me repeat: In past such questions like Apparent package bug/conflict were closed as “Too localized”. But which of the close items can I choose now as close reason? Off-topic, too broad? In my eyes it is not unclear what the OP asks here. I now opted for opinion-based.
I stumbled upon AutoLaTeX today and it seems to be very similar to LaTeXMk indeed. Can you summarise the main differences, which might help me choose between the two tools?
I never will understand the review mechanism: Sometimes a close vote seems to appear very fast there. But sometimes they do not: This question I voted 5 days ago makeglossaries call to xindy failed. For the question LaTeX-Referenz package in MiKTeX for about a week one final close quote was missing, and now the close votes are “deleted”, what is not fully true, because one cannot vote again.
Strange that the whole world thinks that Sauerkraut is typically German: the French and the Americans actually eat more than we do... and it's not even a German invention... OTOH I think I'll have some this week
@PauloCereda doesn't ring a bell... I do like Kartoffelknödel. And Semmelknödel although I think they're Austrian rather than German. Now I'm even more hungry...
@PauloCereda :-) I do not, whether you were there, but about a month a regional radio station from Berlin and Brandenburg broadcasted for a week from the Goethe-Institut São Paulo, and they told that there is a restaurant, too.
@PauloCereda Now, it’s very easy for you to learn German. ;-)
@Speravir Oh I don't know where the Goethe institute is, but I can find out in my next trip. :) I went to the mall and there's a well-known German food franchise in there. :)
I am new to LaTeX and using it for my thesis. However, right now I am having trouble in using latexdiff. I did the instructions as follows:
Question: How to generate latexdiff on Windows?
Answer:
Download and install ActivePerl?
Assume you install ActivePerl? in C:\Perl
Download latexdiff p...
Today, this question popped up:
Is there a hierarchy between packages?
I was sure it was a duplicate, and found this question:
What's the right order when loading packages?
which then led me to this question:
Packages that need to be included in a specific order
But this question simp...
I stumbled upon AutoLaTeX today and it seems to be very similar to LaTeXMk indeed. Can you summarise the main differences, which might help me choose between the two tools?
