Mmm, this doe not to work correctly in DVI mode with letter page size, but it doesn't even with the normal current page node, so it seems to be a bug in TikZ! The upper border of the current page node is to low! And all vertical coordinates of my node rely on it, so they are placed also to low!
@egreg Yes, I'm constantly amazed at the things that gain reputation and the things that don't. I have one question that I answered a while ago solving an incompatibility between the lineno and syntax packages which garnered only three votes, and took quite a while to figure out. On the other hand, I almost instantly got 15 votes for how to code ß in bibtex. Go figure.
@egreg Really, I hadn't heard that story. Brain was an amazing horn player, for sure. Speaking of horn things, do you know of the 1960s comedy duo Flanders and Swann? They have a wonderful sung version of a movement of one of the Mozart horn concertos.
@MartinScharrer I think so. That PostScript error makes me think: it doesn't appear during dvips+ps2pdf conversion, though. Of course it should be -sPAPERSIZE=letter
@MartinScharrer On lines 752-757 of pgfmoduleshapes.code.tex there is code for current page; I added a \showthe to the definition of \pgf@sh@np@current page and it seems that the dimensions are passed correctly. So the problem seems to be in the positioning of the picture.
@egreg: I now added a \draw [fill=green] (0,0) circle (10pt); to the test file and get the correct position of that for both modes. So the explicit tikzpicture is positioned correctly. It seems that the page origin is places incorrectly instead.
@egreg: Re: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/28295/… Your answer reminds me of a cartoon of a scientist holding a ball of enriched uranium and saying to a small child, "Baby want to play with nice ball?".
I'm starting to think it is a bug in \pdfsavepos itself. I get the same offset for zref-savepos which also use \pdfsavepos. I have to check that again.
@AlanMunn I have no idea how he gets all those sounds. :-P At least, the regionalism is well represented (e.g., viola caipira is a typical rural instrument).
@egreg: Pff, it seems it is really a bug in pdftex: In the preamble (with letterpaper in DVI mode) the \pdfpageheight is still 297mm (A4) while \paperheight is already US letter. If I put \pdfpageheight=\paperheight in the preamble it works.
Couple of migrations of old SO questions on typesetting tildes just came in. I've voted to close as duplicates of tex.stackexchange.com/q/10858/86.
Harping back to the comments on "reputation earn =/= work involved", my major rep hike for the day has come from a suggestion to use \verb instead of \texttt and I've gotten a pittance for some of my more intricate stuff! (This isn't a call for anyone to go and vote for those answers - I'm near the rep cap! - but one or two could do with an eye from those more experienced than I in the mysteries of TeX.)
@PauloCereda yes, definitely. The clarinet has a single reed while the oboe has two, so the technique is very different.
the clarinet is much more similar to playing the saxophone, while the oboe is similar to the bassoon
@PauloCereda: this is an oboe reed, which you put entirely in your mouth to play:
and here is a clarinet reed, which you put on a beak to play
you put the reed on it, so you only have one lip on the reed and the top teeth on the mouthpiece, while on the oboe you have your lips on both sides of the reed.
so the oboe (and bassoon) have a double reed and the reeds vibrate on one another, while for the clarinet (and saxophone), a single reed vibrates on a mouthpiece.
@AndrewStacey: I think I got a working query, but I suspect there's a DB cache, so it's not the most updated data (no real time). At the time of the caching, you had 5. Top five are: lockstep (12), Martin Scharrer (8), Alan Munn (7), Stefan Kottwitz (6) and Andrew Stacey (5).
@egreg No, I never played the English horn, although it's a beautiful instrument. But unfortunately oboe is not for amateurs. Not only do you have to learn to play the instrument, you also have to learn how to make reeds, which is itself a very hard thing. Now I stick to playing recorder.
@PauloCereda Looks like it as according to my user page, I have 12 of these badges. What was the query, by the way? I've wondered about playing with the DB explorer, but haven't the foggiest how to start.
Really?! So I failed miserably! Here's my attempt: -- Revival Badge Counter -- I liek badgez select u.DisplayName, count(b.UserId) as total from Users u, Badges b where u.Id = b.UserId and b.Name = 'Revival' group by u.DisplayName order by count(b.UserId) desc
@Raphink It is a nice instrument. I just wish the repertoire was more varied. There's virtually no Classical music written for it, and just a handful of 20th C. pieces.
@AlanMunn How nice! I had no idea that a recorder was a "flauta doce"! I was supposed to learn it (a conservatoire requirement), but I had no luck. I like the sound, it's very pleasant!
@PauloCereda Next question ... where do I go to play with that! (It may be a cache thing, I think I got most of those revival badges quite recently. The DB might actually update on a weekly or monthly basis.)
@AndrewStacey: There's a list in the right of the text area. You can find the tables names (e.g., Users) and the fields (aka columns) of each table, represented by the bullet items (e.g., Reputation). Let's say you want to display the username and the reputation, sorted by reputation:
select DisplayName, Reputation from Users order by Reputation desc (ouch, the chat trims the leading spaces!)
@Raphink Yes, for sure the Baroque repertoire is great, (and that's mostly what I play) but my musical listening taste extends beyond that era, but my playing can't. The instrument was effectively forgotten after 18th c. at least by any of the major composers.
@PauloCereda Thanks! Looks like the information is cached, but at least the list of names told me who to check. Lockstep now has 15 revival badges so I'm still 3 short. Have to wait until tomorrow, now, as I've hit the cap (I think).
In a previous question ( How do I globally set the text color in XeLaTeX ), I've asked how to globally set a text colour in XeLaTeX and got some excellent answers.
However, while the proposed mechanisms seem to work in most cases, they also seem to fail consistently for the colour white. I'm not...
@Raphink \newif\ifxyz defines \ifxyz to be equivalent to \iffalse; but it defines also \xyztrue and \xyzfalse that switch the meaning of \ifxyz to be \iftrue or \iffalse respectively.
@Raphink And the \if@imp... was false, so the undefined token \ifluatex was skipped during the search for \else or \fi; the \else was mistakenly paired with \if@imp... and an extra \fi was sensed. If \if@imp... had been true, you'd have discovered that \ifluatex wasn't defined.
(This is intended as a consolidated reference for one of the "frequently asked questions" at tex.sx.)
Some document elements (e.g., figures in the book class) are numbered per chapter (figure 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, ...). How can I achieve continuous numbering (figure 1, 2, 3, ...)?
And vice versa: Some...
@AndrewStacey: I got the sample text for internet.cls testing. It's just a short text, but if it passes the test, all the rest will easily follow. How should I send ya?
@AndrewStacey No, I didn't. Thinking about it I guess it would be more work than my other idea. I would need to insert some extra virtual pages before and after each real page and then overlay them using pgfpages.
@MartinScharrer Sort of, but not really. You define two more virtual pages and set things up at the start so that these go one on top and one underneath, but then you set each to be just an empty box. Then each virtual page is allowed a border, which is just a bit of PGF code. So you can then hook in to that to carry the tikzpicture stuff. Take a look at: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27869/…
How do I fix the above error? I got this error by running :Latexmk with a tex file open in Vim. Running latexmk file.tex works just fine. The tex file has no errors in it and compiles without any errors. Latexmk version is 4.26. Thanks.
I have been reading some of the posts but I have not really found any solution. I am looking for a master's thesis template formatted for APA 6th edition (tables and references are a must). I already found a template that fits most of my needs (http://www.mun.ca/sgs/etheses/templates.php) with th...
I am using the Beamer class and would like to redefine \emph to use \bfseries instead of \itshape. I have tried the following command:
\renewcommand<>{\emph}[1]{{\only#2{\bfseries}#1}}
but I get the following error
! LaTeX Error: Command \beamerx@\emph already defined.
Or name...
@AndrewStacey Oh, that one. That was fixed in the source ages ago, and has been waiting for a release (see bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/issue/119/…). Originally Vedran was going to handle it, hence the delay.
@lockstep Great! I've been chasing a few in the list I get for "unanswered" (which filters according to tag, it seems). Sadly, all my work today will go unrewarded due to one incredibly simple answer where I was just first-to-post!
@JosephWright I'm waiting on that one! I have it hacked in at the start of my lecture since I wanted to change the quotation environment.
I am wring a research report in (theoretical) computer science. It does not target at any conference or journal at this stage. The only requirement is "LaTeX, article, 11pt, a4.". I am wondering if there is any conventional style, especially for margins and font for this kind of paper, to make it...
I just went for Not a Real Question, based on the actual wording of the reasons.
@JosephWright I would say that this shouldn't be answered in its current form. It's not a good fit for the site, being too vague, and converting godbyk's comment to an answer gives it a sort of legitimacy that I don't think it deserves.
@JosephWright A comment with 6 upvotes is probably worthy to be converted into an answer with at least one upvote ... but I don't like this sort of question, to be honest.
I am working on a document, which uses multicolumns. I am also using several boxes (Minipage, Simple frame) as well. The problem is: everytime a box -which is near to the end of a column- doesn't fit in that column where it has to be, Lyx automatically transfers it to the next column and leaves t...
Without setting up an index, is it possible to have multiple sorted (alphabetized) lists in the same document? Here is what I have thus far using the datatool package:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{datatool}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=1cm, right=1cm]{geometry}
\use...
@lockstep too localised. I think that questions where there's a wrong version or old version of a package are "too localised" (unless there's some more complicated stuff going on). They are honest questions, and answerable, so "not a real question" doesn't feel quite right, so the flavour of "no-one else is likely to have this problem" of "too localised" seems a better fit.
@PauloCereda What format do you want the maths in? MathML? Or some sort of HTML hack, or what?
@AndrewStacey Things. It's an interesting idea, but not really easier than my current code. Also then users couldn't use pgfpages themselves, could they?
I wrote a new package: ifoddpage (bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/ifoddpage). It is a substitute of the similar functionality from the 'changepage' package or the 'memoir' class, and has some benefits over them.
(This is intended as a consolidated reference for one of the "frequently asked questions" at tex.sx.)
Some document elements (e.g., figures in the book class) are numbered per chapter (figure 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, ...). How can I achieve continuous numbering (figure 1, 2, 3, ...)?
And vice versa: Some...
How do I fix the above error? I got this error by running :Latexmk with a tex file open in Vim. Running latexmk file.tex works just fine. The tex file has no errors in it and compiles without any errors. Latexmk version is 4.26. Thanks.
I am using the Beamer class and would like to redefine \emph to use \bfseries instead of \itshape. I have tried the following command:
\renewcommand<>{\emph}[1]{{\only#2{\bfseries}#1}}
but I get the following error
! LaTeX Error: Command \beamerx@\emph already defined.
Or name...
Without setting up an index, is it possible to have multiple sorted (alphabetized) lists in the same document? Here is what I have thus far using the datatool package:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{datatool}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=1cm, right=1cm]{geometry}
\use...
