I created a command that creates a table and do some computations on it.
And I would like to use this command several times.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotstableset{%
create on use/tmp/.style={create col/set={2}}}%
\newcommand\createonecol[1]{%
\pgfplotstablene...
@StephanLehmke That's strange, it looks like the upvotes didn't get counted towards your reputation, but the downvote did. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the question is closed, but I don't think that should affect the reputation gains from votes. Probably best to post a question on meta.tex.stackexchange.com.
@jake Technically the reason is probably that the upvotes didn't count because of the 200 rep cap. It's just strange that I didn't get 200 rep from upvotes after all that day though I had more than enough upvotes to balance the -2 from downvote.
@StephanLehmke Ah yes, that's probably it. Still, it's a bit misleading that it's called a "daily rep cap", where it's really a running rep cap that's reset every 24 hours, instead of being calculated at the end of the 24 hours.
It's conceivable that it would be technically much more difficult to account for recent non-counted upvotes before subtracting rep from a downvote. You'd need to store the sum of dropped rep and subtract downvote rep first from there.
@Paulo pointed out that this Saturday is Easter, so it's not such a good choice for Answer the Unanswered. I'm also likely to be unavailable as I'll be on a dial-up connection. Taking his suggestion, unless I hear otherwise I will schedule the session for a week on Saturday.
@Canageek Yes, I really don't think it's emacs' fault, it just doesn't click with me. The problem is, at the moment, there's so much water in the boat that I'm too busy baling out to fix the pump. But I'm encouraged by your comment, and I'll give emacs (yet) another try before long.
@PauloCereda Seriously, though, I'd love to be able to use Notepad++. TeXWorks is great for the (...)TeX stuff, but as a pure editor, I think it a bit poor, with some really unexpected behaviours.
@BrentLongborough I had a bad experience with N++ in the past when in Windows, so I decided to stick with Vim - I already used it in Linux and recently migrated to MacVim in Mac. But I'm sure N++ has evolved and it's now more stable than ever. About TeXworks, I decided to give it a try as my main editor, but it takes take for me to understand how things work. I'm still used to Vim and some of its plugins, like snipMate and Tabular (pathogen makes Vim plugin deployment and management so easy).
@JosephWright Yes, I don't want to be unjust; but I'd like to be able to use regexes, and I particularly dislike "repeat change"'s habit of changing the first instance, rather than the next.
@PauloCereda I confess to using Vim (and having something of a soft spot for it, when it doesn't irritate me), but I really only use it to tweak my OpenBSD firewall configurations (it runs on a tiny box, cmd line only).
I'm currently working on my dissertation and am using Palatino for text with the Euler font for mathematics. As part of my work I'll be presenting quite a few code examples, and was wondering if someone could suggest a good monospace font to go with them. As an alternative I was thinking of using...
My document uses the txfonts package, which provides Times Roman, Helvetica and what appears to be a facsimile of Courier.
However, I dislike the monospace font and find it to be particularly ugly. I am therefore interested in alternatives that ship as part of texlive. Bera mono is nice however ...
Out of curiosity, and speaking of monospace fonts, is there a better way to adjust the scale of beramono? I'm currently using \usepackage[scaled=0.8]{beramono}, where 0.8 came from a bad visual measure from my side.
@BrentLongborough I tried to learn emacs one time but gave up. The other time I tried I did not give up. I think it had to do with me being more motivated and allowing myself to initially use another editor in parallel until I worked out how to do everything I wanted in emacs.
@BrentLongborough As you say, if you got loads of editing work to do it might be a bad time to learn emacs. Try to first learn it when you have time, e.g. spend an evening doing the built in tutorial, then do more and more in it as you learn.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{luacode}
function checkIfFileExists(theFile)
-- open a file handler
local fileHandler = io.open(theFile .. ".tex","r")
-- check if the handler is valid
if fileHandler then
-- the file exists, close
fileHandler:close()
tex.print("\\input{" .. theFile .. "}")
end
end
\end{luacode}
\newcommand\inputFileIfExists[1]{\luadirect{checkIfFileExists(\luastring{#1})}}
\begin{document}
Hello.
\inputFileIfExists{meow}
\end{document}
@PauloCereda I believe that Brent was referring to the font scaling question. Yes, fontspec has Scale=MatchLowercase or Scale=MatchUppercase. It can be done also in (pdf)LaTeX, but at the end it's not so important.
Hi, does anyone here know how I can backup/transfer Texnic settings (paths, toolbar setup) to another windows OS? copying the folders/files doesnt work and I dont find other paths on C: containing 'texnic'
Check out the Functionality differences Between Log4j and Java.util.Logging Package
While Log4j and JUL are almost conceptually identical, they do differ in terms of functionality. Their difference can be summarized as, "Whatever JUL can do, Log4j can also do - and more." They differ most in the...
Then I read "Figure 2 provides a summary of JUL's handlers and Log4j's appenders."
There are no figures in the answer. :P
Tell me that answer was not simply copied/pasted. :P
@PauloCereda I flagged it, but probably someone else did the same. After flagging I clicked to see a comment, just to discover that the answer had been removed.
@PauloCereda That was too extensive for being allowed anyway: the source says "All rights reserved" after a copyright notice. One can quote a passage (with attribution), but not almost the entire article.
More than one hole, I mean…
I’m trying to export from Mathematica into the X3D format, with the longer term goal of generating 3D figures for PDF inclusion. But I'm stuck at the first step:
p = ParametricPlot3D[{(2 + Cos[v]) Sin[u], (2 + Cos[v]) Cos[u],
Sin[v]}, {u, 0, 2 Pi}, {v, 0, 2 Pi},...
@PauloCereda Read the last message by the OP, which shows exactly what I thought: the OP doesn't know much about TeX and LaTeX and wants to be sure he won't learn about it. Saying that fontspec can't be used for cross-platform development is ridiculous.
@egreg Indeed. IMHO the UX link he provided (a Wikipedia) has nothing to do with TeX at all. It's dangerous when people mix concepts and definitions, and prefer to come up with their own theories instead of learning more about a subject. :(
@percusse No, no charge, I thrive on the fame! Couldn't work out what you mean by "that Bitcoin thingy in my profile"; was it when I had a stop acta banner stamped over my face, in March? Otherwise, it must be a bronze badge...
@PauloCereda Yes, using my "Brute force and Ignorance" methodology. That is, I did the basic TeXLive install from the TUG DVD, then just synced it up-to-date from my desktop.
@PauloCereda Ah, yes, my Mum said not to hang out with those rough boys...
@PauloCereda I should be so lucky. No, it got held up because of some damned CE certification or such (I think it's like some kind of ABNT certificate that it won't stick 2000 volts up my nose)
@BrentLongborough It's an infinite loop. :P We could use the following pattern: "TeX can't do X. Why can't TeX have Y. I hate when Z happens when I write a TeX document."
@BrentLongborough Indeed! I'm beginning to suspect it's a plot. Somebody in an obscure corner of the Internet is now rubbing his hands and saying, "can't wait until this discussion gets out of control, so I can unleash my araras!"
@PauloCereda Actually, I think it's all Al Quaeda steganography. Hidden somewhere in the posts is how Osama's heirs are going to explode a public toilet in Edinburgh and thus cement independence for the Scots and the repossession of the Falklands by Venezuela. (PS I hope the CIA doesn't shut down this site now by siccing the MPAA onto us for copyright violence)
@PauloCereda Yes, I remember there was a bit of that when I lived there. "Drain" is probably the best translation for "bueiro", though "manhole" and "culvert" are more formal (but different) translations. So, "Exploding Drains", or maybe "Exploding Manhole Covers"
I am running LaTeX on a Mac and am getting the following error message when I run BibTeX:
White space in argument---line 19 of file file.aux
: \bibdata{\protect
: \unhbox \voidb@x \penalty \@M \ {}/Documents/University/references}
Any suggestions?
@AlanMunn It was clear that the wrong tokens came from ~ standing for the home directory. I was doing something else, when I prepared a MWE Ulrike had just commented and the OP also.
@AlanMunn No, the hole is a topological invariant: you need a discontinuous transformation, for example eating it. :)
@AlanMunn That's the point: They have a hole. So they are a disconnected topological manifold: one component is a sphere (the filling), the other is homeomorphic to a torus. :)
@egreg I thought a coffee mug is homeomorphic to a torus because of the handle, but isn't the donut dough just homeomorphic to a cup, or a plate, or a ball for that matter, because the hole doesn't go through the whole thing? (I know nothing of topology, that's just what I thought I picked up from reading Wikipedia entries)
@NN When I explain why the inverse of the product of two matrices is the product of the inverses in the reverse order I usually tell the students that it's similar to the problem of socks and shoes: you first put on the socks, then the shoes; when you go to bed, you have to put off first the shoes, then the socks. As long as the socks don't have holes, in which case it's possible to put off them first.
@BrentLongborough No problem, I see that there is an SE site about bitcoin and it was showing the logo of that. I'll make sure that your legendary priviledges are granted. :D
Pff, my avatar is changed again. I have multiple-avatars syndrome and now I see that they are even not called avatars but gravatars (nope, it says they are identicons), meh, you need a PhD to be a nerd these days. Wait.....
@percusse Gravatars are avatars provided as a service that works across multiple websites. That is why I had my Mordon as one automatically, while most people have an abstract pattern when they log in.
Is there a fancy mod person around? @JosephWright is one I think, anyone else? Did I do well on editing the Tag Wiki?
@DavidCarlisle hides from the scary math people
I'm still amazed I got a B in 1st year Linear Algebrea; there must have been a LOT of people who did way worse then me for that exam to count as a B. What is more annoying is the only thing most chemists use it for is Egienvalues and Eigenvectors. Oh, and basis sets, but we always work in infinite dimensions anyway, since it is easier, so I've managed to only mostly understand that all the way through my courses.
Well, I had a nice setup going on. Then I upgraded to the latest macvim and latex-suite, keeping my customizations. Earlier compiling a document used to just show a short message on the status line... something along the lines of : "latex1... bibtex... latex 2... latex 3, etc." Now it dumps the full output on the screen
@PauloCereda I think you should post more questions here, when I'm around, and have a document using the needed package and environment open for testing. ^^
@egreg I think this is an unfortunate case where the topological result depnds on where you are. In the North American corner of the Atlantic, a doughnut is equivalent to a mug, but everywhere else, it's equivalent to the saucer.
@PauloCereda It happens. A bunch of mine are only partial answers, as in, I don't how to do this, but this subproblem can be fixed like so. Or I had no idea how to answer, but no one else had, so I linked to the relevant documentation, figuring it was better then nothing.
@BrentLongborough I'm pretty sure a doughnut is food, and a saucer is tableware.
4125879 Good question. :) I guess they were clones (we are too star wars inclined today), maybe because of some weird license clash. I remember pico because of pine. :) I used mcedit a lot too. :)
@BrentLongborough I am writing an answer to your emacs question and suggesting a .emacs to start with. Might be good to know some of your preferences. Do you use csquotes?
@BrentLongborough Been there for some time, I think (inherited from Qt?)
@michaelsazonov About your MimeTeX question: I know it got migrated here from another site, but that does not make it on topic for us. The people on other sites may or may not get our scope correct: there is no guarantee.
@PeterGrill I'm trying to make the \pm symbol scalable but is it something you want to have? So that I don't bother again with my edit to the answer :)
@DavidCarlisle Well apparently you don't know how ignorant I am and ignorance is bliss (which means I don't have the taste to stay away from hacks that you wouldn't bother with) :-)
@egreg I think \char24 cedilla can be put such that it sits in the \pm symbol as you describe in the short course. That would eliminate the smashing step. Is that reasonable to you?
@egreg In question 22371, where you have the explanation of \ooalign you give an example to put a cedilla under some operator. I was thinking of a horizontal rule instead of the minus sign
By the way, for a quick reference for everyone here it is:
Here is a possibility:
\newcommand\opn{\mathrel{\ooalign{$\subseteq$\cr
\hidewidth\raise.225ex\hbox{$\circ\mkern.5mu$}\cr}}}
\newcommand\cls{\mathrel{\ooalign{$\subseteq$\cr
\hidewidth\raise.225ex\hbox{$\bullet\mkern.5mu$}\cr}}}
The symbols will change size according to the context. They d...
@percusse As David says, it's specially designed. It might be faked with a minus sign, but as you saw in the answer about \pm it's not very easy to manage different dimensions with \mathpalette and resorting to \mathchoice is very cumbersome. Moreover \mathchoice typesets four boxes at each usage, It's a pity that troff had the 1\over 2 syntax for fractions, from which Knuth draw inspiration.
@percusse When there wasn't PGF we had to do with what the system provided, so the tricks with alignments were used very frequently. Can you suggest something about this one?
If I try to compile this,
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node [rectangle,
\node [rectangle] (a) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
compilation never stops. Why?
I use this version of latex:
...
@DavidCarlisle Yes; the problem seems to be in the fact that TikZ has to parse a very complex syntax and in this case it fails. I don't know whether a \node can go inside the bracket there.
@StephanLehmke afterpage has been waiting a year or two for a use, I suppose bounty hunting is a good a use as any:-) (I started an answer to that qn a while ago but I think I gave up or got busy or something)
I created a command that creates a table and do some computations on it.
And I would like to use this command several times.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotstableset{%
create on use/tmp/.style={create col/set={2}}}%
\newcommand\createonecol[1]{%
\pgfplotstablene...
More than one hole, I mean…
I’m trying to export from Mathematica into the X3D format, with the longer term goal of generating 3D figures for PDF inclusion. But I'm stuck at the first step:
p = ParametricPlot3D[{(2 + Cos[v]) Sin[u], (2 + Cos[v]) Cos[u],
Sin[v]}, {u, 0, 2 Pi}, {v, 0, 2 Pi},...
I am running LaTeX on a Mac and am getting the following error message when I run BibTeX:
White space in argument---line 19 of file file.aux
: \bibdata{\protect
: \unhbox \voidb@x \penalty \@M \ {}/Documents/University/references}
Any suggestions?
Here is a possibility:
\newcommand\opn{\mathrel{\ooalign{$\subseteq$\cr
\hidewidth\raise.225ex\hbox{$\circ\mkern.5mu$}\cr}}}
\newcommand\cls{\mathrel{\ooalign{$\subseteq$\cr
\hidewidth\raise.225ex\hbox{$\bullet\mkern.5mu$}\cr}}}
The symbols will change size according to the context. They d...
If I try to compile this,
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node [rectangle,
\node [rectangle] (a) {};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
compilation never stops. Why?
I use this version of latex:
...
