@induktio Just let it flow; and don't question the choices TeX/LaTeX make until you're experienced and can do judgments. Among the worst errors one can make, there's trying to customize the output like it can be done with word processors. The motto is: if something is difficult to do with TeX, there are good chances it's typographically disputable.
@induktio Please, also tell you always wanted to chat with @DavidCarlisle, or he'll get offended.
@egreg Mostly, I am curious as to how best to devote my time to become more proficient in TeX and LaTeX. I definitely have the passion and the willingness. That is certainly not the issue. Mostly, I've just thought reading Knuth would be the best idea. But are there any books (in English because I'm not multilingual unfortunately) that you would consider very outstanding that are not part of what I have already mentioned I have?
@induktio Yes, if you have TeX Live, just do texdoc texbytopic; or you can download it from texdoc.net, just type texbytopic in the top search box; the same for source2e
@egreg You might chuckle at this (or at least find it somewhat amusing). I kind of "laminated" my three Knuth reward checks on the cover of my hardback version of the TeXbook.
Interesting question: Why does a miktex user think it is the mathtools maintainers problem that miktex has mh/mathtools problems? I don't really see the connection here.
@JosephWright private email. See the many questions here on the site about miktex users and the former mh package.. I'm not sure why their package repos/list does not automatically update.
@yo' @yo "well, we've got an OPmac template by @wipet, but students seem to prefer LaTeX :-)". This is not exactly true. There are many tens of students theses done in my plain TeX template, but there are individual students which call for LaTeX. And today, I have 50 students in my TeX course (i.e anti-LaTeX course).
@DavidCarlisle I agree. And also, @wipet, they may have difficulties publishing in journals, one day.
@wipet Also, you're teaching stuff you develop, basically, that's quite different. If everybody had their own ABmac, it would be quite a mess. Also, needed to say, if every country had a pdfxyplain and pdfxylatex, it would be quite a mess. That all needs to be considered I think :-)
@JosephWright Have you got an idea why i don't get a package name with these error messages, please?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! keyvalue error: "option-unknown"
!
! Unknown option 'auther' for package .
!
! See the keyvalue documentation for further information.
!
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................
@yo' The same as for any generic keyval processor: at the point you get the error, l3keys doesn't know where the keys 'come from'. In siunitx I provide a custom unknown key to cover this.
@DavidCarlisle Because LaTeX is bad idea how to use TeX. I wrote some arguments in my article "Why I don't like LaTeX" petr.olsak.net/ftp/olsak/bulletin/nolatex.pdf from 1997. This article is only in Czech (maybe google translate helps). Unfortunately, this bad idea is most common way how to use TeX.
@yo' You are wrong. Nobody needs to write his own ABmac because OPmac is here. And there is no need to generate pdfxyplain because pdfcsplain is multilingual. The name "cs" is here only for historical reason.
@wipet I know that's your view, you put it in your profile here for one thing. You choose not to use latex, but that's not the same as describing your course as "anti-latex" rather than just saying it is an opmac course.
@wipet nobody needs to write OPmac since LaTeX is here. Sorry, it's the very same argument :-/ Anyways, mail'll on the way later today, the first alpha version is almost ready.
@yo' I have no problem with publishing in journals because the author-level is something different than full usage of TeX. And if I look into the macro code of many journals templates I am very sad.
@DavidCarlisle not really, I just wanna give some insight from all three sites of the process (class developer, journal typesetter and article author). You also realize that the goal of a thesis class is very different from the journal class.
I am creating a presentation with beamer using relative overlays. When the order overlays should appear in is different from the order the tex code is parsed things become difficult (see e.g. relative overlays).
First Part
Consider the following example. It is not easy to understand the order...
@DavidCarlisle It is not opmac course. LaTeX was mentioned in one lecture (today), ConTeXt will mentioned in one lecture, OPmac in one half of lecture. The rest is only TeX and first quality of typography. I accept that my word about "anti-latex" was slight excessive.
@DavidCarlisle @yo is now working on the LaTeX template for theses at our university. And I will the supervisor. I hope that I'll not sad when I'll look into the macro code...
@wipet I expect you will take one look, realise it's latex, be converted and update opmac to say \errmessage{Sorry I was wrong, please use latex from now on}
It seems that you know me:). Of course I included similar message in my apnum.tex macro: \ifx\documentclass\undefined \else % please, don't remove this message \message{SORRY, you are using LaTeX. I don't recommend this. Petr Olsak}\fi
@JosephWright Thank you. :) I'll take a closer look. I'll probably merge a lot of things, including stuff from dandelion and other private projects of mine. :)
@wipet Yes, of course. Your position about LaTeX is much like closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. I find it much better trying to improve LaTeX coding than pretending it's not there.
@egreg Your first sentence is exactly true. But I really improved LaTeX because OPmac is something like LaTeX but with much better coding than original LaTeX.
@JosephWright Thanks for the link, I was in a hurry because of the registration process for the conference in Barcelona. Now I have more time to focus on TUG. :)
@yo' writing few lines of TeX code, only If user needs it, is much more comfortable than searching if something is done in 3307 packages and hundreds thousands pages of documentation.
@ChristianHupfer I suppose @PauloCereda has an automated prioritized queue of things for upvoting, that takes care of voting for enough Qs too etc. :-)
I have recently presented statistics of breast cancer and made a powerpoint image:
Please notice that the icons are not exactly the same (I was lucky enough to find similar icons with different colours). I was wondering if I could draw this with latex. I am writing my M.Sc. thesis.
Thank you!
Please help me with the following problem:
TeXForm[2/3]
The Answer is correct:
"\frac{2}{3}"
I don't understand why Mathematica gives me a wrong inverse:
ToExpression["\frac{2}{3}", TeXForm]
The Answer is:
23 a c r
@DavidCarlisle: We won't tell @JosephWright what you've done ;-)
@Johannes_B: I think, the books question is off-topic, as the OP states he looks for books written in LaTeX on subjects such as Physics, Chemistry, etc....
Is there a list of open source LaTeX books? I've only found this books but I want to know if there is a list with more diversity as this has only mathematical books. I want to find open source books about physics, chemistry, electronics...
@Johannes_B: Oh man, you're missing 90 % of all hints in chat here, let alone all references to MP or Lord of the Rings ... how do you survive life then? ;-)
I use Matlab print command to generate an .eps file (abcax) stored in the same directory as my TeX file.
However, while compiling, I end up with the error
Unknown graphics extension: .eps.
\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{abcax.eps}
Does anyone know what's wrong?
I used
\usepackage{graph...
Is there a list of open source LaTeX books? I've only found this books but I want to know if there is a list with more diversity as this has only mathematical books. I want to find open source books about physics, chemistry, electronics...
@GonzaloMedina: I can understand your objection. The question is on the edge, but the OP states that he don't want to learn LaTeX, just 'copy' code examples. It's not really about LaTeX itself
@ChristianHupfer He didn't say he wanted to copy code. He only stated that he was not going to take the source code as his model to learn LaTeX. He wants to see how people write books using LaTeX, and perhaps grab some ideas for his own work using LaTeX; that is about LaTeX itself, I think.
@GonzaloMedina: Admitted, he did not write 'copy', but I still hold it off-topic. I have, however, no problem, if it would be reopened.
@GonzaloMedina: it's true, some questions might be closed too early, but the OP has been here a while already, so improving the post would have clearified right from the start
@ChristianHupfer -- the op did make some useful comments, which i've edited into the main text. i was going to vote to reopen, but the queue "shut me down" before that was allowed. it's not clear that i'll get another chance at that.
@Johannes_B Honestly, I realized that it's good to watch some such videos if you wanna not panic in a really serious threatening situation like a car accident. I've got some training already, I (almost) failed some practical rescue exams, and it all was a good lesson.
@DavidCarlisle which is a dupe itself. I'm going to vote as TB, we'll see what happens. :)
The publisher is springer,. It is 2010 book ! amazon.com/… Why would Springer not use Latex?
$300 book also !
terrible looking math and text.
It says below, it is 1993 reprint. But latex existed in 1993? "Publisher: Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993 edition (December 15, 2010)"
I am creating a presentation with beamer using relative overlays. When the order overlays should appear in is different from the order the tex code is parsed things become difficult (see e.g. relative overlays).
First Part
Consider the following example. It is not easy to understand the order...
I have recently presented statistics of breast cancer and made a powerpoint image:
Please notice that the icons are not exactly the same (I was lucky enough to find similar icons with different colours). I was wondering if I could draw this with latex. I am writing my M.Sc. thesis.
Thank you!
Please help me with the following problem:
TeXForm[2/3]
The Answer is correct:
"\frac{2}{3}"
I don't understand why Mathematica gives me a wrong inverse:
ToExpression["\frac{2}{3}", TeXForm]
The Answer is:
23 a c r
Is there a list of open source LaTeX books? I've only found this books but I want to know if there is a list with more diversity as this has only mathematical books. I want to find open source books about physics, chemistry, electronics...
I use Matlab print command to generate an .eps file (abcax) stored in the same directory as my TeX file.
However, while compiling, I end up with the error
Unknown graphics extension: .eps.
\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{abcax.eps}
Does anyone know what's wrong?
I used
\usepackage{graph...
I tried to load an .eps picture, but an error occured, 'errorUnknown graphics extension: .eps.'. Please help me!
