Some of the available classes of documents in LaTeX are well known and widely used, such as the article and beamer classes, while others are not so well known, such as the standalone class.
I found this figure
which lists the main classes and is a good starting point, but the description is ...
Hi I have a new computer, I want to install Latex Complete, also I want to install TexMaker as an editor. I have windows 7. could you tell me the download site for the above? Thanks
when I click on download the self-extracting protext.exe file there are three files: ProTeXt-3.1.3-060313.exe 07-Jun-2013 17:06 1.6G ProTeXt-3.1.3-060313.exe.md5 07-Jun-2013 17:06 59 protext.exe 07-Jun-2013 17:06 1.6G which one I choose?
Add to their aux file the following code snippet, which is a quine. When the aux file is \input at the start of a LaTeX run, the code here will build a copy of itself and write it in the aux file for the next run. Additionally, it will run the code contained in \toks2 below. For instance, the ...
@PauloCereda would be even more fun if the time were returned in seconds, then move the \ifodd inside the \everypar and maybe even reset the \parindent on even seconds :P
@egreg could you a recommend an Italian newspaper that I can read online? I'd like to learn a little Italian (at least be able to read and understand for now), and since the global news is usually quite easy to compare with newspapers in languages I'm more familiar with it's a nicer way to learn a language than only learning a dictionary by heart ;)
@egreg the inconsistent application of the OpenType features was/is indeed a bug in luaotfload, where a race condition occurred that apparently overwrote previously selected features
Dear friends, let us rejoice! Our good friend Marco Daniel is dad of a little boy! Soon his son will begin expanding macros and taking care of dad's packages! :)
I'm trying to install the latest luaotfload from github.com/lualatex/luaotfload but the make install fails at mktexfmt luatex.fmt, constantly complaining it cannot find files..
@LordStryker it depends on what's in the preambles, as long as there are no duplicate/conflicting or missing definitions in the final preamble it should be no problem
@LordStryker so merging chapters from a book into an article will not work, although adding the sections from the article to a chapter in the book will be no problem
@egreg would it still count as a prank to write a bash script that makes a backup of pdflatex and lualatex and replaces them with another bashscript that writes Bruno's code to the aux file if that doesn't exist and then calls the original executable to process it? :P Or is that just plain evil?
@DavidCarlisle It would require some significant effort (at least with my 'skill level'). DocB contains a lot of fancy shenannigans to get the styling right (and it differs drastically from DocA)
Posted as an answer instead of a comment as the code is too long. Based on Bruno Le Floch's answer, with a little twist hinted at by egreg in the chat.
Add this to your aux:
{%
\toks@{%
\ifx\@nodocument\relax\else
\toks2{% Here you put whatever mean code you want
\ifodd\tim...
Wow, my code is even more evil than I thought, which pdflatex still returns the original location, while pdflatex test.tex runs the 'updated' script :P
There are code-trolling questions on CodeGolf.SE, but it seems that TeX is not very popular there (it seems that this question is the only one under the tex tag).
Now, I have a friend who uses me for LaTeX support. He isn't very tech savvy but likes LaTeX and so I help him out when something he ...
@JosephWright It started out fitting on neither main nor meta... but it may have progressed to fit on main. But I think it would definitely require the fun tag... however "unfun" it may be for the recipient.
@Werner since it originally asked whether such a question would be fit for the main site it is actually a meta question, isn't it?
@PauloCereda haha talking about karma, of course I tried that nasty script of mine, was bitten by it a few moments later when trying to compile some more serious matter :P
@Werner well it definitely seems to me there are some people here who like to pull a prank on someone, and IMHO the answers make the question main-worthy indeed
@PauloCereda do you know how to install a development version of a package from github in a vanilla texlive 2013 on ubuntu? (please don't mention update-tl.sh:P)
does that work with sources? according to the `luaotfload` readme on the github you need these steps: 3. a. Grab the sources from CTAN or github. b. Run 'make install TEXMFROOT=/path/to/texmf'. c. See 2c.
When I set TEXMFROOT to /home/hugo/texmf it says: /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexfmt: 395: /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexfmt: /home/hugo/texmf/texmf-dist/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
@egreg so it seems, because if I try to install it into /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist it fails with the same error, if I use /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/ (note the trailing slash) it starts to compile the luaotfload.dtx, but then fails with the same error
@egreg it seems they sometimes add the texmf-dist folder in the installation path, and sometimes they don't, if I leave that out it can't find tcfmgr.map..
@egreg I guess I will add it to my still open issue with them ;)
@PauloCereda LOL, hopefully you do know how to make a good cup of coffee? I mean, life's all about prioritizing, and I'd rather walk barefoot with a cup of coffee, than have beautifully tied shoelaces but no coffee :P
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Dolphins v Lions
- Border v KwaZulu-Natal 337/5 *
- Cape Cobras 282/5 * v Warriors
- Eastern Province v Western Province 274/3 *
- Free State 171/10 v Easterns 117/5 *
- Namibia v Gauteng
- North West 131 * v Northerns 204/10
- Titans 268/7 * v Knights
- Mashonaland Eagles v Mountaineers
- Southern Rocks v Mid West Rhinos
- Australia v West Indies
- Bangladesh Women v England Women
- Bangladesh v India
- Sri Lanka Women v West Indies Women
@egreg I still need to get one of these, have one before, and I loved it, now I have to make do with a dripstyle coffeemaker (I guess I'm one of the few students in the netherlands who can say he owns a Porsche :P) and a cheapass DeLonghi espressomaker
@egreg haha, yeah they both make quite good coffee in their own way, you just need to know how to handle them, I've ruined quite a few cups of espresso by being either too slow or too impatient to let the machine warm up, but then again also enjoyed many great cups of espresso
@egreg and the Porsche is actually only designed by Porsche, it was built by Siemens, so still Deutsche Gründlichkeit, but as it is a dripstyle machine it's inherently slow ;)
What is the best way for someone who has never used indexing in LaTeX before? I'm not looking for the simplest tutorial, but rather for the most flexible method (a bit like everyone can learn BiBTex in half an hour, while biblatex takes a little longer to get used to but provides more flexibility in the end (or is that just because I had relearn a few things?) )
it seems to me that indexing really is one of those things you can do in a thousand ways but noone really provides an overview of the possibilities and where to learn more about the details of those
@hugovdberg Add \usepackage{imakeidx} in the preamble, followed by \makeindex; then add \printindex at the end. For a simple index, add \index{<word>} at the spot.
Some of the available classes of documents in LaTeX are well known and widely used, such as the article and beamer classes, while others are not so well known, such as the standalone class.
I found this figure
which lists the main classes and is a good starting point, but the description is ...
Add to their aux file the following code snippet, which is a quine. When the aux file is \input at the start of a LaTeX run, the code here will build a copy of itself and write it in the aux file for the next run. Additionally, it will run the code contained in \toks2 below. For instance, the ...
Posted as an answer instead of a comment as the code is too long. Based on Bruno Le Floch's answer, with a little twist hinted at by egreg in the chat.
Add this to your aux:
{%
\toks@{%
\ifx\@nodocument\relax\else
\toks2{% Here you put whatever mean code you want
\ifodd\tim...
