I have been running a Latex compile build 24 hrs day, for the last 4 days, non-stop, and still it is only half way through! I am running it on a virtual box with Linux and that makes it sloooooow. I really need to get a new PC with Linux on it. Building Latex files can be slow for large files (actually it is tex4ht which is slow, lualatex is fast)
@FaheemMitha it is pages with lots of math in them., The integration tests. Here is the current page 12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/index.htm there are about 55,000 integration in there. converting to HTML is slow., but running on virtual box does not help either.
@FaheemMitha I have not bought a computer book for long time (unless I find real cheap one at book sale). Even for engineering and math books, almost everything can now be found on the net. As I said before, paper books are dying. Everything going digital now.
I have lots of books, but when I want to find something I go to google first :)
@FaheemMitha yes. But pdf is still better. I can search a pdf for something. With paper books, I keep flipping pages looking for something. sometimes index does not have it.
@JosephWright sure but it's one thing to say that developer time is limited and volunteer and that testing is of necessity done by the end users, but luatex development goes further and seems to be actively antagonistic towards the idea of anyone testing anything.
@yo' I remember those from when I started giving LaTeX support here at work. Though never seen it done with Z, mostly I\!R (most even forgot to make them upright)
@Nasser if you still have that core file you could try gdb as described here. see what luatex was doing when it segfaulted stackoverflow.com/questions/8305866/…
@hhh It probably is. How did you create the example environment? If you look at the code (either after exporting, or in the source pane), do you see anything obviously wrong?
I imported the latex document to lyx and the comment sign messed up with Lyx creating situation where "hello %not this \end{example}" so it commented out the command by accident in import
Where does the babel package store the translations for numbers? The german translation for "twenty-one" seems to be "einsundzwanzig" instead of the correct "einundzwanzig"…
@UlrikeFischer I don't know if you have seen tex.stackexchange.com/a/299072/37907 and the comments. There is a link to an answer by me on academia. Guess who i was thinking about writing that answer ;-)
I want a sentence or two at the bottom of each page of a document. I can force the text to the bottom with \vspace*, but that requires me to specify the size of each space. I'd rather have an automatic approach, something like \vfill, but \vfill doesn't work to start a page.
\bfseries is for bolding but what is for italics in tikz?
Example where italics needed for "Not SP graph".
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
\tikzstyle{every node}=[draw, circle, fill=white, inner sep=0pt,minimum size=0pt]
\draw (0,0) node(in){in}--(1,0) node{}--(2,0) node(b){b}--(5,0) node(e){e}-...
@hhh well, first of all, your code is not a MWE; why should people even bother trying to help you if you don't provide a ready-to-modify starting point?
I was posting some question about this strange thing LaTeX is doing when I try to compile my thesis. Someone asked me to provide a minimal example that reproduces the problem. My thesis is now a few hundred pages long and spans along ten different source files! How am I supposed to know what or w...
@hhh Don't get me wrong, but are you sure to be starting with TikZ? To me, you are just getting stuff from different sources and trying somehow to make them work together. The TikZ manual has a very nice intro and spares you of those annoyances you are currently facing in your code.
@FaheemMitha I've never actually seen lyx:-) but any such editor is fine if it makes the documents that you need but @hhh is a regular here asking how do you do \foo in lyx, and the answer is always more complicated than "type \foo" so i draw the conclusion that using an interface that obscures the code is not helping in this case.
@yo' we must have an \l3_thingy_jobname name for \jobname don't we?
@FaheemMitha Actually I'm not sure I have a debian machine with the right access 9yes I know I could get Debian as well, or i could put lyx on this machine but...)
I think it works well if you don't want to be too bothered by the unlying workings of LaTeX, and would like to be "shielded" from them. How well that works, I don't know.
@DavidCarlisle Lyx is nice for fast homeworks. I am using TextMate for more serious things and I would use Emacs instead of Lyx but my comp is soon dead: when I get new comp, I am not afraid that my harddrive breaks up...
Yes Lyx helps but solving the problems there requires basic Latex/Tex things, and well I like to learn new things :)
Good night and thanks to everyone for helping, this is pure awesome community :)
(I am running Mactex 2014, not 2015, due to the harddrive issue)
@DavidCarlisle I started with Vi but I use it nowadays every-now-and-then and yes I combine it with others: many times I have no idea how to do things otherwise :D
@FaheemMitha In theory, yes. Sadly, people want to change everything, then disaster and chaos and devastation and hunger and Justin Bieber will follow. :)
@PauloCereda well, honestly, CT is something I don't like and don't plan to like in any foreseeable future :) I was just guessing what your preferences could be
\bfseries is for bolding but what is for italics in tikz?
Example where italics needed for "Not SP graph".
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
\tikzstyle{every node}=[draw, circle, fill=white, inner sep=0pt,minimum size=0pt]
\draw (0,0) node(in){in}--(1,0) node{}--(2,0) node(b){b}--(5,0) node(e){e}-...
