I have some code that I wrote to do a slightly more "proper" handling of 3D coordinates than TikZ currently does. Amusingly, it's in the TeX-SX launchpad package already despite not (until now) being part of an answer. It's the tikz3d.dtx package. The idea of it is twofold:
More advanced han...
In this answer Andrew Stacey talks about a TeX-SX launchpad project about better 3D support in TikZ. Where can I find this so I can test it?
hm. I wonder, just suggested the guy worried about the difficulty of learning TikZ that for simpler diagrams you can get away with Graphviz. Does Graphviz have here roughly the same reputation LyX has? :P
@StephanLehmke Easy for some, difficult for others. For example, even the coveted bronze set {Student, Teacher, Scholar} badges seem out of reach for @egreg... ;)
I'm going to answer as a longtime user of PStricks. Everything I have to say applies to TikZ as well, but the learning curve for PStricks is longer and steeper than the learning curve for TikZ. (I have done a few TikZ things, but I already know PStricks, and while TikZ is better, it is not enou...
Another point I about TikZ is the integration with TeX. The fact that the font is the same as the document and some of the other smaller similarities just adds up to a much neater look. SmartArt directly from word would look out of place in (most) documents made with LaTeX and I actually think the reverse is true too
@HenrikHansen Before I learnt the One True Way, I used xfig for diagrams that xy couldn't cope with and there you could export it in such a way that the text was processed by TeX.
@HenrikHansen What Torbjørn said. Also, you might like to know of the "From Answers to Packages" chat room just over there: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/409/from-answers-to-packages which is where people tend to tell me what's wrong with my code. Please let me know how the testing goes.
@badp A quick search shows a few hits for Graphviz on the site, including the dot2tex script fauskes.net/code/dot2tex/documentation. I've used Graphviz for Big Graphs but it would never have occurred to me to use it for very little ones. Maybe someone should write a package that could use graphviz as an external program much as it is possible to use gnuplot for plotting tricky functions.
@badp I'm no stranger to Graphviz: math.ntnu.no/~stacey/HowDidIDoThat/Random Just wouldn't have thought of it as a tool for use in LaTeX documents. Certainly for me it's a "Oh, I wouldn't have thought of doing it like that. That's neat. But I won't change how I do things." rather than "You should never use Graphviz with TeX. Go away and never darken our doors again with your nefarious practices."
@tohecz I think everybody has the same version (it's not as if I change my packages every day:-)
@MarcoDaniel no, if you test \pagegoal in the normal page it will be wrong as often as not. if you test it in the \output routine it will be mostly right but will be wrong sometimes (more or less at the places where latex's \marginpar puts notes on the wrong margin)
@tohecz no please do:-) If you add enough comments to it I might be able to remember what it's doing:-) actually I do have a bit of an update in the works based on an answer I gave here for making LT work in multicol and similar envrionments (basically if you have an option give up the repeating headers and just unbox the halign, you don;t need a custom output routine so it "just works" more or less anywhere, inside a box, in multicol etc..
Can I call @ChristianFeuersänger into chat? If so, I've been playing with pgfkeys filtering and getting annoyed at the lack of recursion of styles. I've hacked together something that attempts to test if a key is a style and if so tries it again against the filtering. Would you be interested in the idea? At least you might be able to tell me what things to be wary of.
@JosephWright: Do you remember that you want to become a member of DANTE if the DTK will be published online? Every DTK older than one year can be downloaded now. dante.de/DTK/Ausgaben.html
@MarcoDaniel well..... it depends. It can give the wrong answer, but it's your package so you can always say that using it in a way that gives the wrong answer is mis use.
It's a bit like supertab and longtable, supertab tries to second-guess where the output routine will break the page but doesn't always (or didn't always) guess right. longtable hooks in to the output routine so will always get the page breaks guess right (it ay not be the optimal brea but it will break where LT thinks, as it has control)
@MarcoDaniel If there is a lot of stretch or shrink on the page and the next thing (that TeX hasn't seen yet) is big, then TeX will have to shrink the page you are on so the pagetotal guess will be wrong (or not relevant) similarly (perhaps, depending where that test is, if latex decided to float a later float up to the top of the current page you lose
I wonder, is there a TeX template that's the moral equivalent of taking a Word document, setting the font at bold 60 pt centered and typing (think "PSAs")? My attempts to google for that kind of failed. If this is a good question for the site (I kinda doubt it) just say so and I'll ask it over there.
@MarcoDaniel well it's easier to say what's wrong than say how to fix it. As I mentioned it's basically the same issue as \marhinpar (well a bit worse if you are doing it on the main list) but while it's easy to see that marginpar is wrong no one has suggested a fix that doesn't require rewriting swathes of latex and being incompatible with everything.
Sometimes you just have to tell the user, ooops sorry that's a bad break stick \clearpage at the point it shoulld have broken and everything will be alright.
@badp Use the standalone class to produce a PDF that is cropped to the size of your message with that message in normal sized font, then use your PDF viewer to print it with resizing to as big as possible to fit on a page.
@badp I had occasion to do this myself earlier this week. It was so much easier than trying to remember how to get massive fonts in LaTeX, or remembering how to start OpenOffice (or LibreOffice, or whatever we're meant to call it nowadays). evince has an option that lets you resize the PDF to the page when printing and that made it all easy-peasy.
@JosephWright: Do you remember that you want to become a member of DANTE if the DTK will be published online? Every DTK older than one year can be downloaded now. http://www.dante.de/DTK/Ausgaben.html
@JosephWright internal, definitely. Integer, not so sure. However, I think that after performing the operation, a command to \relax is definitely needed.
@PauloCereda Not at the moment: I need to write some more blog posts. I'm sort of hoping @egreg might write something, as he's very keen on using LaTeX3 syntax!
@MarcoDaniel Mainly I see the English ones. Herbert has a series out, which I've not bought yet. I may have an excuse soon (some 'incoming' Amazon vouchers, for various reasons)
@MarcoDaniel I think they ship to Brazil, I didn't manage to get my account to make international payments yet (it's one of the reasons I'm not a member of UK-TUG yet).
@MarcoDaniel I don't think so. I know there's some sort of mailing list for Brazilian TeX users, but I pretty sure it's not affiliated to TUG neither other group. And the quality of the messages, oh the quality! :(
I think there's something important lacking with our mailing lists and courses: people simply make assumptions on what should work and spread their solutions without even knowing why. Also people mix concepts. For example, I once saw someone mentioning rubber as a LaTeX compiler.
@PauloCereda I know. That's why I try to promote good support material, for example LaTeX and Friends or our own course notes. It's important to get things right for new users.
I am working on my resume (CV). I maintain an English and Danish version of it. Right now, this is two separate .tex documents. However, I figure there must be a more elegant way of handling multiple language versions of the same document.
All the entries and sections in the CV are the same. (sa...
Some people of this community write packages but there are also those that write books. Therefore I ask, what community members have written books on TeX and friends?
This is how the page I want looks.
If you see, what I want is for the text to stretch to the margins like in the figure. Of course I can use a \parbox to achieve it but the text is longer than can fit in one page. So what do I do then? I tried a \hbox mentioned somewhere in this forum but that...
@egreg Indeed. After a small editing of the question, it's a normal question
@JosephWright It's ok.
I answered a question via e-email and provided the following example. How does the example look? I am thinking about an implementation to the documentation.
@NN On tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52460/…, do you want it migrating back (which might raise some questions), or are you happy to let this go as there is an answer?
The OP at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52392/… is requesting advice on what he should do since the question was closed. I actually thought there were some tests that one could do.
@Werner you shouldn't ask questions that are impossible, it's disquieting and makes it hard to concentrate on other things, trying to come up with an answer. At least, I think it's impossible....
Damm!! How do you do code formatting here?? I Can't belive that that piece of code actually worked as I wanted. I thought I would have been require to pass in textbf and use \csname ...\endcsname
@MarcoDaniel Yeah that is what I was going to do, and hence the surprise when it worked without that. So was wondering if there were other problems that would eventually crop up.
@PeterGrill It's simple: when TeX expands \FormatOutput it finds #1 to be \textbf and #2 to be Foobar, so it builds \textbf{Foobar}. Exactly as you requested. :)
Just to make sure I understand: You are saying it is ok to use it as I posted? So I don't need to resort to using the \csname... version?
@MarcoDaniel Where is the "fixed font" button to press? I hope that is not one of those "ANY" keys that documentation often refers to but does not exist on the keyborad. :-)
The ouput of kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME states that this directory is located in my home directory. But this directory doesn't seem to exist, because I can't change to it: if I want to do that, i.e. change to the directory as it was located by kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME, the system states...
Is it possible to use biblatex with the Tufte document classes (tufte-handout and tufte-book). If so, what modifications should I make to my preamble or class wrapper in order to use bib latex?
I've tried the recommended patch in a simple example:
\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-handout}
\usepac...
@MarcoDaniel Yes. Just in time. I was getting impatient. About the duplicate - yes I already voted. It would be nice if domwass could give an edit, though. I made a comment to him about that yesterday.
The ouput of kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME states that this directory is located in my home directory. But this directory doesn't seem to exist, because I can't change to it: if I want to do that, i.e. change to the directory as it was located by kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME, the system states...
@Werner Well it's not possible to remove the last token if it is } or the first token if it is { 9so I redefined token to mean token-or-brace-group, which @StephanLehmke complained about in the comments:-) then even with that redefinition I don't think it is possible to remove the last token in general
addendum to log: To do: Go back in time. Distract Riccati with other matters. Let there be no Matrix Algebraic Riccati Equations. Finish PhD like a boss.
@Werner No because I thought somewhere there was a reverse token lust trick, and if there was obviously you could remove the last by reversing removing the first and reversing again, but I can't find it (probably because google hasn't yet indexed my brain)
I am using below code but color is not going to be changed.
cat("\\centering","\n")
cat("\\hline","\n")
cat("\\rowcolors{1}{}{yellow}","\n")
cat("\\begin{tabular}{>{\\rule{0pt}{.5cm}}c >{\\centering\\arraybackslash}m{2cm}>{\\centering\\arraybackslash}m{2cm}>{\\centering\\arraybacksla...
@MarcoDaniel I think cat refers to the external program that the person uses (perhaps just a bash script; see cat MAN Page) to output code to a file, which is then compiled under LaTeX.
That's why some characters need to be escaped in order to be properly processed.
A complete LaTeX answer would therefore be sufficient in my opinion, since the OP will most likely just transfer it to their setup.
I'm using vim with the latex-suite package installed on Ubuntu 11.10 to edit LaTeX files. The latex-suite highlights the LaTeX source as I edit it, but it seems to get very confused after something like $\sigma_{\{x,y\}}$. The LaTeX code is correct; it compiles and displays fine, but highlighti...
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@egreg just looking at that now after your comment to @MarcoDaniel, with a few more expandafters could you avoid the csname holding the original definition?
@DavidCarlisle And it's not itself completely expandable, because it has to check for the optional argument. And also \@item isn't, because it performs many assignments.
@DavidCarlisle Of course braced groups count as one item.
In my KOMA-Script document …
\documentclass[smallheadings,a4paper,twoside=false,12pt]{scrbook}
… I currently use the following header options related to footnotes:
% footnotes
\usepackage[hang,flushmargin]{footmisc}
\renewcommand{\footnotemargin}{1.1em}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{...
@egreg yes, just to make it interesting. @Werner, see? @egreg is getting sucked in too...
@egreg actually if needed that isn't so hard as you can do a prepass over the list generate macro names that are definitely not in the list to use as marker macros in the reversing code. For example you always know that a token register \aa does not contain this token
So do I get an egreg-badge now? I answered no questions and quested for no answers today, but I hit the rep cap! *I want a badge!*
Incidentally, while I'm here. Is anyone else worried by the latest SE blog post? blog.stackexchange.com/?blt=1 Fortunately, no-one in the SE team knows who we are, and probably thinking up a contest for TeX-SX is beyond even CHAOS's superpowers so we're probably safe. Probably.
@JosephWright Thanks for the reassurance. Mind you, I was quite looking forward (in a schadenfreude sort of way) to seeing them suggest a contest on the maths site.
Once upon a time, Taco, Herbert and egreg had an interview with Don Knuth himself. Taco entered the room, while Herbert and egreg were waiting outside. A few minutes later, Taco left the room and said, "Wow, he's right! I'll take a look on the TeX implementation.". (ctd)
(ctd) Then Herbert entered the room. Ten minutes later, Herbert left too and said, "Knuth is right! I'll write a bugfix.". Then egreg entered the room. After half an hour, Knuth left the room scratching his head and saying, "wow, I need to learn more about TeX."
I am trying to produce a package, combining tufte-book and beamer,
in order to produce lecture slides and handout (with explanations)
for students from the same source. I found the useful hints in thread
Beamer slides and tufte-handout.
I attach two sources. The file mwe.tex is essentially ident...
I have used hyperlink(say fig.pdf) for my presentation in main pdf. In the fig.pdf I have again used hyperlink to main document. But my problem is when I come back to main document its starting from first page. I should come back to the slide where I left. In ubuntu document viewer its working f...
I've got problems making TexMaker / MikTeX 2.9 use polish hyphenation rules. As from what I've read on this forum (e.g. here), babel package should automatically load polish hyphenation rules after setting:
\usepackage[polish]{babel}
but it doesn't seem to do so. Until now, I always end up cre...
I just saw a similar question about Emacs/AUCTeX so this one was coming. I use nvi for all my editing including TeX and it would not change it for anything. However, even after almost 20 years of use I never stop to be amazed by clever trick people show me of and on.
This is my favorite list of ...
I have a document with a lot of subfigures which are different heights and need to be placed side-by-side and centered vertically. It seems like the floatrow package is ideal for this.
After much trial and error, I finally made it through the documentation enough to get the subfloats to center c...
I'm going to answer as a longtime user of PStricks. Everything I have to say applies to TikZ as well, but the learning curve for PStricks is longer and steeper than the learning curve for TikZ. (I have done a few TikZ things, but I already know PStricks, and while TikZ is better, it is not enou...
Some people of this community write packages but there are also those that write books. Therefore I ask, what community members have written books on TeX and friends?
This is how the page I want looks.
If you see, what I want is for the text to stretch to the margins like in the figure. Of course I can use a \parbox to achieve it but the text is longer than can fit in one page. So what do I do then? I tried a \hbox mentioned somewhere in this forum but that...
Is it possible to use biblatex with the Tufte document classes (tufte-handout and tufte-book). If so, what modifications should I make to my preamble or class wrapper in order to use bib latex?
I've tried the recommended patch in a simple example:
\documentclass[nobib]{tufte-handout}
\usepac...
I am using below code but color is not going to be changed.
cat("\\centering","\n")
cat("\\hline","\n")
cat("\\rowcolors{1}{}{yellow}","\n")
cat("\\begin{tabular}{>{\\rule{0pt}{.5cm}}c >{\\centering\\arraybackslash}m{2cm}>{\\centering\\arraybackslash}m{2cm}>{\\centering\\arraybacksla...
I'm using vim with the latex-suite package installed on Ubuntu 11.10 to edit LaTeX files. The latex-suite highlights the LaTeX source as I edit it, but it seems to get very confused after something like $\sigma_{\{x,y\}}$. The LaTeX code is correct; it compiles and displays fine, but highlighti...
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I've got problems making TexMaker / MikTeX 2.9 use polish hyphenation rules. As from what I've read on this forum (e.g. here), babel package should automatically load polish hyphenation rules after setting:
\usepackage[polish]{babel}
but it doesn't seem to do so. Until now, I always end up cre...
