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Szabolcs
Szabolcs
12:14 AM
I'm trying to use a wrapfigure with an \includegraphics[width=5cm]{something.png} inside, but the picture just doesn't show.
It does show in a normal figure environment.
Is there some common mistake that would lead to this?
I have another wrapfigure in the document, a PDF, which does show correctly.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Szabolcs we don't believe you:-) wrapfig doesn't really know about its contents, so either that figure should fail everywhere or the figure is irrelevant and if you just use \rule{5cm}{1cm} inside the wrapfig the wrapfig fails and gets lost for some other reason to do with where it is used...
 
Szabolcs
Szabolcs
@DavidCarlisle I got fed up with wrapfig and decided to just use figure. I was asked to wrap them but visual presentation doesn't matter that much for this document anyway (readability does).
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
1:07 AM
@egreg flaggable comment?
Thank you for your answer! it is really great. Although I chose egreg's as it is an answer best suited to my problem. :) — Adam 11 mins ago
 
 
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Gilles
Gilles
2:35 AM
For the (La)TeX masters…
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Q: ASCII's 95 Characters...95 Movie Quotes

Calvin's HobbiesIn 2005 the American Film Institute produced AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, a list of the best quotes in American cinema. Here they are listed exactly as they should be used in this challenge: 1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." - Rhett Butler 2. "I'm gonna make him an offer he can'...

code-challenge restricted-source printable-ascii
The objective is to typeset a phrase without using certain characters in the source. ` is no longer available but ^` and # still are. I'd be curious to see a LaTeX solution. s is not available, and neither are the digits 3 and 0.
No ^^5ccsname or ^^5cc^^73name, no ^^5clowercase...
 
Christian Hupfer
Christian Hupfer
3:24 AM
Good maen
No one here ...
 
 
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Werner
Werner
5:51 AM
@JosephWright: Another funky review...
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
6:35 AM
All in all, a really great read. All against one and one against all.
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Q: Repeating part of document on every page

VaibhavI want to create a document which has the following structure Header Name, Date of birth, Address <-------- This will be written by people (before the document is compiled) who do not understand LaTex and will be repeated on every paper. contents ... footer ...

header-footer
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
7:13 AM
@Werner How do you spot these?
@Werner Noted, of course
@Johannes_B I've closed this one: the user has a number of poor questions and really should be editing them to improve
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright Thanks. I understand that limited english leads misunderstandings. But this was not a language thing.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B Indeed: I'd normally expect some form of improvement if only to explain why existing answers don't work
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
8:03 AM
I am thinking about some minor edit feature for answers that doesn't bring the question to the top of the main site. This way broken links or typos could be fixed. I have hidden some code in demo packages in my last answers and want to add the link to the answer within the package.
There is the potential danger of lots of unmarked package files in the future, maybe even different versions.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
8:22 AM
@Johannes_B Asked several times, turned down on the main meta
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright No use in raising it once again, then.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B For example, who decides what is a 'minor' edit, how do these get reviewed if they don't move to the main page, ....
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright I wasn't thinking that far. In my case i had a check mark/button in mind saying »minor edit«. But you are right, editing posts of others should involve the reviewing process.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B The worry is that people could use it to sneak through all sorts of stuff
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright It would be an open door to spammers.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
8:26 AM
@Johannes_B Yes
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright One could use a rep treshold tough.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Johannes_B Yes, but there would still be issues as all that is then needed is 'good' behaviour up to a point.
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@JosephWright I heared high-rep users can be naughty as well ;-)
 
Nisal Kevin Kotinkaduwa
Nisal Kevin Kotinkaduwa
Hi LaRiFaRi,
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@NisalKevinKotinkaduwa If you want @LaRiFaRi to notice, you need to put an @-sign in front of the name. ;-)
 
Nisal Kevin Kotinkaduwa
Nisal Kevin Kotinkaduwa
8:39 AM
Oh, thank you, Johannes. :) To-day only I first logged on to this chat-room.
@LaRiFaRi Are you a Physics undergraduate?
 
 
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egreg
egreg
10:07 AM
@DavidCarlisle Somebody who knows better.
 
GBeau
GBeau
10:54 AM
Anybody here have a recommendation for what I should use to typeset decay schemes ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_scheme )
 
Harald
Harald
11:09 AM
@GBeau The examples in wikipedia seem to be created with inkscape, which also can export to TeX. Alternatively one can use tikz for almost any schema :)
 
 
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tohecz
tohecz
12:21 PM
@Gilles you made a rather nice job there :)
 
Christian Hupfer
Christian Hupfer
12:38 PM
Good maen again ;-)
 
tohecz
tohecz
1:12 PM
@ChristianHupfer hi there
 
 
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David Carlisle
David Carlisle
2:50 PM
Is there any particular reason for doing so? — egreg 2 hours ago
@egreg isn't generating rep for me reason enough?
 
egreg
egreg
@DavidCarlisle When somebody asks me what's pure mathematics useful for, I answer that it earns me a salary.
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Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@egreg Our departmental glassblower has a similar line about lab equipment preferentially being made of glass
 
Holene
Holene
3:06 PM
@DavidCarlisle Could you help me out with a small detail to your TeX leaders in this question? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/136200/…
How do I expand the box vertically?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Holene you could use \begin{minipage}[l][2cm]{\whatsleft}
 
egreg
egreg
@DavidCarlisle Shouldn't [l] be [t]? With a strut, of course.
 
Holene
Holene
@DavidCarlisle Yeah, but you gave an answer using TeX leaders. The \whatsleft doesn't really do the job with multicols, while your TeX leader based box works like a charm...
However, I can't get my head around where in your leaders you set the height of the box
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Holene did I? hang on I'll look again what I did:-)
 
Holene
Holene
It's your second solution!
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
3:15 PM
@JosephWright Does it make explode things?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Holene change \normalbaselineskip to 2in
@egreg possibly:-)
 
Christian Hupfer
Christian Hupfer
@Johannes_B: I would have provided a solution/answer, but the example given by the OP was incomplete
 
Faergen
Faergen
Hello... I asked a question yesterday in the forum, and usually people are really quick to reply something, but this time; nothing. So I was wondering whether this might be the place where I could ask whether my problem cannot be solved, and I should just leave it?
 
Enthusiastic Student
Enthusiastic Student
3:46 PM
hi, is it possible to plot the bessel function in tikz?
 
egreg
egreg
4:05 PM
@Faergen The mark system in LaTeX needs a very thorough revision, let's hope for LaTeX3 to give better methods. In the meanwhile, you can try my fix for your problem.
 
Faergen
Faergen
4:18 PM
@egreg Wow, thanks! It looks pretty complicated... no wonder I couldn't find a solution! :0D
 
egreg
egreg
4:31 PM
@Faergen LaTeX uses \firstmark, that is, the first mark found on the page, whereas \topmark refers to the last given mark when the page started. The patch works because you don't need to show marks in the chapter pages. I see possible problems in limit cases when the page break is chosen before a \section command is seen (which is the case, for example, of a forced page break).
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@egreg @Faergen latex doesn't officially support topmark mainly I think because it doesn't try to preserve topmark information across float pages.
 
egreg
egreg
@DavidCarlisle The patch should be good anyway if floats are not in dangerous position.
 
Stefan Kottwitz
Stefan Kottwitz
 
Faergen
Faergen
@egreg I see... I have to try to avoid using pagebreaks before sections, however I use slobby bottom, so latex doesn't really force me to. By floats do you mean figures, tables and all that? What would be a dangerous position? I plan to have them fixed to the bottom of the page consistently, if I have any... would that be a problem?
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@egreg yes sure,
 
Stefan Kottwitz
Stefan Kottwitz
4:44 PM
@EnthusiasticStudent Sure, you could use pgfplots or pure TikZ, perhaps combined with gnu plot or self calculated, see tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160748/…
@EnthusiasticStudent Inspirations for plotting: pgfplots.net
 
egreg
egreg
@Faergen I guess that only page floats may give problems.
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@Faergen If I recall correctly figures within a normal page won't be any problem but if latex makes a page with just figures then there are occasions that \topmark can get a surprising result but I forget exactly (and looking at the code just now, it's not obvious where it can go wrong) just a vague 20 year old recollection of potential issues:-) so basically just use egreg's code and if it fails complain to him and he'll fix it:-)
@Faergen oh well on the float page itself \topmark will have the value it had on the previous page which might be wrong if there are marks on that page. (But that's easy to fix actually)
 
Faergen
Faergen
@egreg allright, I will not have a page full of floats with a new section, so I guess that's not going to be a problem. :0) One little question though, what does: "emitting a mark als before the section" imply I have to do? Or is it what you have already done by coding "\let\memoirsection\section\RenewDocumentCommand{\section}{oom}{...."?
 
egreg
egreg
5:01 PM
@Faergen That's the patch for emitting a mark before the section
 
Faergen
Faergen
Alrighty! :0D thank you again!
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@egreg We have the structures, but someone (looks at @DavidCarlisle) needs to finish xor
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@JosephWright maybe we could get @egreg to do it
 
Werner
Werner
@JosephWright A while back I picked up on something strange that was specific to a single user. And, I guess, once I've identified something peculiar, I tend to revisit it when I have the time.
With the review queues, it's easy to see patterns on specific user's actions in specific queues... once it's identified, of course. I think mod's can do a little more in terms of queries.
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Werner What I meant is what do you look at for a query in the first place: that I know of, the only way to see who's done recent reviews is via mod tools
 
Werner
Werner
5:09 PM
I don't know whether my suggestions are helpful, but I recently heard @GonzaloMedina's concern about such behaviours - something that is evident in his current lack-of-presence on the site.
@JosephWright I view the specific review queue history. The most suspect queues are usually Late Answers and Low Quality Posts.
 
Faergen
Faergen
@egreg Alrighty! :0D thank you again!
 
tohecz
tohecz
Let's just agree that Papiro get's +1 review done for any post that has ever gone into the queues and at the same time, that his reviews don't count at all towards finishing the review. The wolf will be fed and the goat will do just fine.
 
Werner
Werner
You first have to identify a suspect reviewer, then the rest is just being persistently nosy about it. :-|
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@Werner Ah
 
 
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Holene
Holene
6:58 PM
@davi
@DavidCarlisle Great, thanks! :-)
 
tohecz
tohecz
7:55 PM
@Paulo Are you around, by any chance?
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
8:49 PM
@tohecz Now I am. :)
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda on my Xmas wishlist:
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz Oh my! I want too! And the instrument thingy as well. :P
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda I'll spank you once we meet :D such bad jokes :D
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz <3
Wub you Tom. :)
How the heck does she play that devilish thingy?
 
tohecz
tohecz
Theremin
The theremin (/ˈθɛrəmɪn/ THERR-ə-min; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox), is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from...
 
Torbjørn T.
Torbjørn T.
8:56 PM
 
tohecz
tohecz
the vertical antenna controls the pitch, the horizontal one controls the volume. But since there's a true oscillator inside, you can of course do some crazy stuuff with it (I mean, it's more complicated than just the distance from the machine, you can actually vibrate with the pitch hand in such a way that the sound gets very loud, oscillates in volume very quickly etc.)
I call that instrument becoming music rather than playing music
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@TorbjørnT. She is a witch!
@percusse should get one of those.
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda maybe he's got one, they're quite popular now :)
I just have to find out whether you can play it one-handed (with the second hand on the piano of course)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz Nose player. :)
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda you could control it by feet!!!
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
9:03 PM
@tohecz Wow!
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda (that was just an idea, I don't know if anybody tried. The problem is that it needs to hover in space)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz Ah.
 
tohecz
tohecz
btw, have you got spare BRL 2000? :)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz I wish. :)
What would you like to get, Tom? :)
 
tohecz
tohecz
well, it's the return ticket price from Sao Paulo to Prague :)
 
Henri Menke
Henri Menke
9:35 PM
Hello everybody!
Is somebody familiar with the internals of beamer? In the following MWE I set \abovecaptionskip to 0pt but still obtain a gap of unknown width between the graphic and the caption. I'd like to know what length this is. 
\documentclass{beamer}
\setlength\abovecaptionskip{0pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \vrule width .5\linewidth height .5 \textheight depth 0pt\relax
    \caption{Caption}
  \end{figure}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz awww <3
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@HenriMenke Don't have time to take a closer look, but since beamer doesn't use any floating stuff, the caption is most likely implemented in a non-standard-class way.
 
tohecz
tohecz
@HenriMenke remove caption and explain the fiigure in words, and you'll do just fine.
@PauloCereda well, I should go probably, it's 22:40 here
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@HenriMenke What @tohecz just said seems to be a much better approach.
 
Henri Menke
Henri Menke
@Johannes_B I looked at the definition of \caption in beamer but didn't find anything but \vskip\abovecaptionskip.
@tohecz I'd like to use the caption to put the reference below.
 
tohecz
tohecz
9:42 PM
@HenriMenke \begin{tabular}{r}\includegraphics{fig}\\\footnotesize[Smith et al. 2007]\end{tabular} would do
it's better to make it small and right-aligned IMO
 
Henri Menke
Henri Menke
@tohecz That's too much to type and that's why I want to use the caption. Also it keeps the code more "literal". Who expects an image inside a tabular?
 
tohecz
tohecz
@HenriMenke \newcommand\includegraphicssource[3][]{\begin{tabular}{r}\includegraphics[#1]{#‌​2}\\\footnotesize[#3]\end{tabular}}
 
Johannes_B
Johannes_B
@HenriMenke You can use a macro. Or sumply use the includegraphics and a cite alone
 
tohecz
tohecz
\includegraphicssource[width=0.5\linewidth]{fig}{Smith et al. 2007}
 
Henri Menke
Henri Menke
@tohecz That is actually a good approach. I might stick to that one.
But it still bugs me what length this is.
 
tohecz
tohecz
9:48 PM
@HenriMenke beamer is wicked :)
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz Oh.
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda just we want to submit that paper tomorrow and just today discussed that we might change some notation, which I decided we ought to now, so I'm coming there
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@tohecz Oh my.
You should take some rest.
 
tohecz
tohecz
@PauloCereda I will on the weekend. We've been working on it for too long, and if we don't submit it, I'll have a restless time. It's much better to just overwork it now.
 
Mario S. E.
Mario S. E.
10:15 PM
Hello all
 
Werner
Werner
How long have you waited to click on the "Achievements" menu?
user image
3
I already wanted to click it a couple of days ago... click click...
 
tohecz
tohecz
@Werner I tell you, frankly, that you're a funny guy :) I really like you :)
 
egreg
egreg
@Werner I have better to click it often. :P
 
tohecz
tohecz
I understand solidarity upvotes on some posts, but on spam? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/209809/…
 
Werner
Werner
@tohecz He he...
 
tohecz
tohecz
10:31 PM
@JosephWright @DavidCarlisle I would like to meet some of you guys in London. Will you be around on Nov 14-18?
 
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright
@tohecz I can be
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
@tohecz possibly
 
tohecz
tohecz
Well, I'll be there with my family, but I could easily tell them that I'd like to have a beer with some friends one evening :)
of course if you were interested in spending time with a crazy Czech guy with a funny accent :D
so, have you got a preference which day to meet? @Dav @Jos
 
percusse
percusse
10:48 PM
@tohecz @PauloCereda I made one ;) instructables.com/id/Arduino-Optical-Theremin
 
tohecz
tohecz
@percusse there's an AD in Arduino?
 
Paulo Cereda
Paulo Cereda
@percusse Wow.
 
percusse
percusse
@tohecz There is an analogread
 
tohecz
tohecz
@percusse cool, I wasn't aware of it. This is missing on RPi unfortunately...
 
percusse
percusse
@tohecz You can use shields for cross platforms
 
tohecz
tohecz
10:50 PM
@percusse what for what? :D
 
percusse
percusse
@tohecz For example, learn.adafruit.com/…
 
tohecz
tohecz
@percusse ah ok, thanks
The Englishmen seems to be absent, and I really gotta go. See you tomorrow!
 
David Carlisle
David Carlisle
11:35 PM
@tohecz sorry was distracted:-) hmm Friday 21, or the weekend is perhaps a possibility, although London isn't the easiest place to get to:-) where will you be?
 

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