I'll be driving almost non-stop (no hotels). I have some frozen curry and other things I'd like to heat up as I travel on down the line. Where is it possible to use find a microwave to use?
@JosephWright yes I worried (and re-worded) that compatibility warning a few times, how to say you can load it without error and it will break all your documents in a nice way:-)
any one here who buys books online to ask something? I saw this book, new, someone selling it for on,y 75 cents. But it is 120 dollars book. Is it scam if I buy it? worried
@Nasser there are two issues, it may be a scam and they try to steal from you, but even if not and they just take the stated money and give you the stated book, it may be a stolen copy, so it's a matter of ethics as much as anything. It's like buying goods cheap from "the back of a lorry" the question is do you ask where the goods came from.
@DavidCarlisle sometimes one can find good bargins online. I found books that sells at amazon for $100 for $20 elsewhere. but this one is way too cheap, and it says new also, that is why I am worried.
I just had an awful lot of fun using google translate trying to understand the matter of the linked picture/pdf. As it is obviously written for typewriter users, i don't recommend following the rules straight ahead for use with LaTeX and instead make it logically and look good. The recipient will thank you. — Johannes_B13 secs ago
There have been a few questions regarding installing this package in the past, but they now seem to be out of date. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 and TexMaker. When I try \usepackage{mathtools} in TexMaker it will try to install the package for me but will fail. I took the advice given in this thread:
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When I try to compile my paper I get the error:
! LaTeX Error: File `mathtools.sty' not found.
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I was trying to right left-top corner superscript, someone recommended mathtools package on this forum: Left and right subscript.
So I downloaded mathtools.zip from CTAN, unzip it, there's an "mathtools.dtx".
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@Nasser I guess if it's required you have little option, although I wonder what that actually means (we don't 'require' any texts, and those that are recommended are always in the library)
@percusse it is a class about learning about robotics dynamics in general. @JosephWright it is required, i.e. we need to have it, since HW"s and exams can come from material in this book.
@percusse We're specifically not allowed to require any particular texts. Logic: if it's required as part of the course, we should provide it (in the same way we do chemicals, etc.). We are after all teaching topics, so should give in the lectures plus the library resources sufficient flexible information on the area.
@JosephWright our school library have only one copy of this book, and it is already taken out. so students are forced to buy expensive textbooks, if they want to follow the lectures and pass the course !
@Nasser Like I said, anything recommended for us is held in multiple copies (I've been told by our librarian she works on 1 copy per 10 students for a core text)
@JosephWright , well, if the class has 30 students, I do not see how the library can buy 30 new books for each student, that will cost a lot of money for the univ. Sometimes, they have one reserved copy, but that is only for 2 hrs, and can only be used in the library. so it does not work, if I need to take it home and study from it.
@percusse Class of 100 means 10 copies in the library, one reference-only, 2 or 3 on one week loan, rest on four week loan. Course takes 12 weeks: are you really saying students can't borrow and return in that time?
@JosephWright Since two weeks before exam, you can forget about all copies. It doesn't matter how many. If you say that people should take it and xerox it and then pass it on yea maybe.
@percusse No, you miss my point. Just before the exams you should be reading your notes: they cover what's actually likely to come up. You read the books for interest early in the term.
@JosephWright I got that part. But what is also a very common practice is that the instructor makes people responsible from parts of the books that are very few in the libraries.
I know at least in US, NL, TR, GR
Then people go berserk mode and do all kinds of stuff such Xeroxing, copyright piracy etc.
Even scanning the book to PDF and having a 1GB book.
@percusse I can only comment on my experience: as long as the academics tell the library a book is 'core' they make sure they have a decent number of copies
@percusse Completely daft: no book will have everything as-expected by any one academic for e.g. exams
@JosephWright If all the hypotheses are satisfied that is the way to go. I completely agree but the system never works that well. Instead they can cut a deal for an ebook and let people buy the cheaper option from the campus website.
@percusse I'm not saying you shouldn't expect to buy the core texts, but for chemistry for example we have three (organic, inorganic, physical), so over a degree we are talking <£200 total.
@percusse We get all the general chemistry texts aimed at the US: they don't have enough in for the entire degree, but cover the first half happily for £50
@JosephWright my experience is similar to yours, I don't think I needed any books as an undergraduate, a couple we could pick up as backup if needed, the lecture notes were supposed to cover everything you needed to know.
I just need to make a few plots for a physics class I'm taking- I can look right now what they are in particular, but I just want to make sure I know how to do something like that before I start trying to do it all. Maybe I should just use Excel... Let me look at what I need to do really quick.
Alright, for instance I have a problem where I measured input and output amplitudes as a function of frequency, and I need to plot their ratio using a log scale for frequency.
@JosephWright Did you calculate with different rows already? Such as summing up or getting the average? Had such a task here: Durchschnittswerte mit pgfplots Luckily the Openleaf compiler supports Perl within LaTeX
@StefanKottwitz I have an example where I need some calcs and a regression, for which I read everything, do some work, write a second table and use it for plotting
@JosephWright Sorry to bother you again, but is there a way to give it unevenly space x-values, like 10,20,50,100,200,500,1000... and plot this logarithmically? I suppose that I could manually take the log of each, and just use those as my x-values, but then how do I leave blank spots?
@Manuel Sometimes it happens that SE asks for a check; IP changes, for instance. It often happens to me when on the train, if I lose connectivity for some moments.
@JosephWright Yes, it's interesting too see calculation saved and used, I just looked for something with pgfplotstable instead of using an external script for calculating data over several rows, such as summing up all rows with equal first value
@egreg That's weird, I mostly connect from one place, only from my laptop. Yet TeX.SX has doubted about me two time in the last two months IIRC. Good to know, anyways.
@StefanKottwitz Okey. @egreg It was just like a “global call” to see if it was usual or just me. I don't have any problem, really. I found it kind of funny.
@PaulGessler sorry they were not great answers really, If I had more time to think about that stuff perhaps we'd get xor out of cold storage, it worked quite well at one point but probably if we look again we'd redo a lot of it as the memory constraints are rather different
@PaulGessler soon be 10000, you may need a few downvotes though if you want to hit 10001
@DavidCarlisle I thought the first one was good, the second I was less enthused about, but I know this stuff is in flux. Based on the comments following I decided to accept.
@DavidCarlisle indeed; rep capped today though. But one picture mode solution tomorrow and I expect I'm golden! haha
@PaulGessler maybe you should have held off the green tick, and maybe one of the others would comment Joseph could (he has a different view as he joined later) or Frank but Frank's not on site so often these days
@JosephWright OK so plan is, get latex 2015 out before TL2015, then sort out inputenc in xe/lua tex then fix all undocumented features in longtable, then finish xor. It'll all be over by Christmas?
@JosephWright well, whoever tackles it, I'm sure it will be well-done. I know this is a process that takes time, especially given that you're all volunteers.
@JosephWright (not intending to be snarky, legitimately asking) works meaning the same state as when I asked about grid typesetting some months ago? That is, implemented but not stable enough for use in real documents?
I'm only asking because I'm trying to stay abreast of that development, and wasn't sure if I'd missed something. The grid is something I'm really interested in trying out for myself.
@JosephWright ok, maybe I need to take a look at xo-grid again then. Thanks!
@PaulGessler The equation turns out to be OK. It's the track changes chaos that every Word proponent puts on the table that is laid out properly.
Oh, and if you forget to enable Track changes, then your changes are completely lost. This is because Word tracks actual changes rather than comparing two versions like a sane version system like Git would do.
@percusse People at my office don't know how to use Track Changes properly, so inevitably we get revisions of some old document inside a new document copied and edited for some different purpose. It's great. :-)
@egreg yeah...I have heard bits about that, but I don't really understand the process/workflow yet. Have to read the documentation properly. Mainly, I am interested in it because it will let me draw diagrams with more ease?
currently, that's where I am stuck in my workflow: I write notes by hand, and then come back home to typeset them (and in the process, also review), but drawing the diagrams in TikZ has been a...mixed bag
@egreg Better to use TikZ, or Metapost is better than Tikz?
also, not sure why my chat username is different from my tex.SE username