Today I was looking for the famous "dangerous bend" symbol, but after installing manfnt or directly calling {\manual\char127} I still get a raster image. So I don't know how to obtain the vector icon. Since this (I think) is a pseudo-question, I'd like to present it here.
@AndreaL. The .pfb file resides in /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/hoekwater/manfnt/manfnt.pfb so I guess you need to install some TeX Live/MiKTeX package you didn't install.
@AndreaL. Here is the output of tlmgr, where the .map file is present. It's the difference between a community maintained distribution and a one man project.
> tlmgr info manfnt --list
package: manfnt
category: Package
shortdesc: LaTeX support for the TeX book symbols.
longdesc: A LaTeX package for easy access to the symbols of the Knuth's 'manual' font, such as the Dangerous Bend and Manual-errata Arrow.
installed: Yes
revision: 15878
sizes: src: 29k, run: 53k
relocatable: Yes
cat-date: 2014-02-26 23:03:13 +0100
cat-license: lppl
collection: collection-latexextra
Included files, by type:
run files:
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/hoekwater/manfnt/manfnt.afm
@AndreaL. Which probably explains the issue. C. Schenk forgot to add it and when the package is installed, the package manager doesn't run updmap, because of the missing .map file.
@egreg I'll save this inside my preamble (now that I'm typesetting my Calculus exercise collection); oh and the more important note: thanks for the help!
@Manuel This part of the plan is not so well tested
@Manuel I think I've found an issue, at least with MK IV ;-)
@Manuel One primitive we've only just started using with LuaTeX caught me out, I still have a second issue to track down (this was working, honest, not that long ago!)
@percusse so this is not about playing music (yourself) at all? Looking through the proposed kind of questions I have a hard time finding ones that aren't about what I'd call trivia. Could be a fun site but I'm not sure which benefit for me as a musician the site could possibly have?
@JosephWright > error on line 4689 in file /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex: ! Argument of \__tl_map_function:Nn has an extra } just loading that \input expl3-generic in the preamble and just text in the “document”. Sorry, but I don't know much about reading errors :)
@Manuel I'd forgotten that we realised recently we need \expanded to emulate \pdfstrcmp properly in LuaTeX. We added the code, but ConTeXt MkIV moves \expanded and replaces with something unexpandable. Next expl3 release will reflect this, but I've run across a second issue that seems more tricky.
@cgnieder The idea was that Music.SE would actually cover it but, due to many reasons, that site is not serving anyone other than a very limited audience. @tohecz would also chip in why. I recently closed my account so I might be biased. This one is probably wider audience hence maybe as we have here a more diverse audience. It surely would be a lot of trivia stuff like our TikZ questions but also, or what I hope is, that it would have some interesting twists to instrumentalists.
@JosephWright was just after some advice: I've just bought a new Windows 8 laptop (lucky, lucky me) - on my previous one that I have to give back to Uni, I had installed TeXnicCentre 1.0 and MikTex - is that a good combo (I appreciate I could upgrade the former but wanted to wait til thesis was submitted) or is there better software I could consider?
@FionaSmith TeXniccenter is popular on Windows, though I don't use it myself. MiKTeX has a long history on Windows, and many people find it very good. I prefer TeX Live, as although I have to install 'everything' up front this avoids some issues later.
@JosephWright thanks - I have seen that list but it is a bit too big for me! i.e. I was left feeling there were too many options and I wasn't sure whether I would need various features or not - I can rule out emacs and vim already however :-)
@JosephWright I guess the other question is do you always have to install the editor and the underlying MikTeX/Tex Live or whatever separately?
@FionaSmith Yes. The guts of the TeX distribution (all the packages, and the programs that actually turn your source into PDF) are completely independent of the editor.
I am a noob when it comes to TeX, however, I do use LaTeX for typing mathematical and engineering formulas, etc.
Recently I have taken it upon myself to try and write some technical papers to try and get published, however I do not know what... 'type'(?) of TeX software to use best, so that I c...
@FionaSmith Note that nowadays both MiKTeX and TeX Live do include an editor (TeXworks) as part of the standard install on Windows. TeX works is a relatively 'light' editor, but many people including me like it.
@AlanMunn @JosephWright thanks! 'light' editor sounds exactly what I want - I use linux at work and am not at all into anything WYSIWYG. I basically just want syntax highlighting and to be able to click a button that runs pdflatex.
Which book (free or otherwise) was the most useful to you when you started learning LaTeX?
I am frequently asked this question by friends who want to learn LaTeX, and I recommend the book which got me started, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε, but I feel that there might be better option...
@PauloCereda some very frightening things appear if I google "latex nightingale".... I am not sure what either of these things are for - can you enlighten me?
@PauloCereda I get that it's yours :-) and I also get that it's an automation tool, and I get that it's similar to "rubber" etc - it's just that I have no idea what an automation tool does that I need! Is it a replacement for the "build" commands that I set up in TeXniC Center?
I have just over $140,000 in consolidated student loan debt with a fixed interest rate of 5.75% on an income-based payment plan. My current and previous employers qualify for the Loan Forgiveness program but I won't be eligible for loan forgiveness until the year 2023.
Currently I'm having to us...
Random question: I am confused. How does pgfplots allocate memory? I built some graphs in a seperate file and ran them and tweaked them to my liking. Now that I try to run them in the main document, nothing works, it's always the "TeX capacity exceeded" bit. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/177326/…
@henry Packages don't allocate memory, but it gets used up by adding command names, etc. Probably your real document has a lot more names than the short demo version.
@henry pgfplots doesn't create a miracle within TeX. It simply uses PGF for harvesting all the points(or data points) and then tells TikZ there you go these are the points these are the colors and linetypes, deal with it
@henry well the tex error message tells you what ran out so I usually just stick a 0 on the relevant value, there are absolute upper limits though documented somewhere.
@DavidCarlisle I ran out of main memory, which apparently is set to 5 000 000. Would that be, um, bits? I am clueless here.
@DavidCarlisle I meant that in the way that since do not foresee overcoming this problem, I'd take the huge pgfplots-graphs out, plot them with the standalone package and include the resulting PDF files via the pdfpages package.
@DavidCarlisle Hm, nothing changed. So I added said value to texmf.cnf in C:\texlive\2014 and then ran texhash in the windows cmd ("terminal"). Should I do something else?
@ChristianHupfer I think it is a good clone because many Germans aren't either proficient (concerning the English language) or "brave" enough to come post on tex.sx.
there was an asian girl walking by talking to her friend, and tough i didn't understand a word i think she said: »Oh, my head hurts from all this studying.«
@henry: My English is definitely not the best, but I dare it anyway, and I am quite aware, that native speaker shake their heads or giggle reading my english sentences here ;-)
I have never used luatex before. I am "traditional" like that, I just stuck to pdflatex. If it is all the same, given my preamble with my definitions and such, I can switch to luatex but I haven't gotten a clue about it.
@henry well first try would be to keep everything identical and just use lualatex instead of pdftex that works for many but not all documents but it shoud work for a document that only makes a single tikz/pgfplot thing
Btw running fmtutil as well as fmtutil-sys failed on all acocunts. Basically not file was created, everything existed already. I am way out of my depth here.
Thanks to those who helped or tried to. I'm out for today. Bye!
@Johannes_B: :-P ... Good night... By the way, you can connect your notebook to the power net ... just a tiny hint... no battery needed ;-)
@cgnieder: Perhaps I will register at TeXwelt some other time, but as I said, I will have to reduce my time for TeX.SX and there is no time left for other forums
Hey guys, i need some help in drawing a punchcard ( also posted as question here http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/194745/how-to-draw-a-punchcard-in-latex?noredirect=1#comment450346_194745). Does anyone has a good manual for drawing these kind of punchcards or just want to help me out? I appreciate your help!
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@AlanMunn It's a font to be installed with getnonfreefonts-sys, IIRC. Did you add the entry for the map file to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg? It should be Map ul9.map
@AlanMunn If you didn't, do it (create the file if necessary). Then run updmap-sys. You should never have the same problem in the future.
@egreg In my 2013 setup it's in /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg. Do I need to install the font again? Since the font is in texmf-local I assume no. Should I just copy the .cfg file to texmf-local?
@egreg That didn't seem to work. Font is still not found.
I am a noob when it comes to TeX, however, I do use LaTeX for typing mathematical and engineering formulas, etc.
Recently I have taken it upon myself to try and write some technical papers to try and get published, however I do not know what... 'type'(?) of TeX software to use best, so that I c...
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