How I can change style of all same objects in document?
For example, \description {}
I'm a newbee in LaTeX, so I don't know how I can make style for all document, as css in web
I'm new with LaTeX and like to change some parameters of the description environment throughout the document.
As minimum, I like to have two arguments: color of text of item and background-color behind text as description.
In other words, I want to give style.
@PauloCereda Hey, Paulo, rather than correcting yours, I added my own alternative. Please feel free to delete, or to use the bits you think useful. Your move now...
@N3buchadnezzar The main requirement is for the figure not to come before the abstract. That's quite a normal requirement. article class sets topnum to 0 on maketitle for the same reason
@N3buchadnezzar could have been, not saying... Either way is bad really (as is putting \global\@topnum=0 in the document. If the document class has a requirement that figures not before the abstract it should make maketitle or \abstract (or both) set \@topnum=0 then the author just uses \begin{figure} separation of concerns. Class designers are supposed to worry about the title page, authors are supposed to worry about the text.
(and I live in some strange utopian world where I still believe that happens)
@BrentLongborough Not at all, the problem itself is that I'm bad at grammar. :) The sentence as it is is way easier in English than in Portuguese, maybe because it requires further explanation (say, "Acredito que, nesta discussão, devamos adotar uma postura mais aberta possível."). Portuguese fails when you need to communicate stuff in a few words. :P
@egreg you know really we don't need the OP's we could just recycle all the standard questions, except neither of us has figured out how to post a question yet...
"In academia, this user-hostility is viewed as a feature, not a flaw, since the mandatory use of LaTeX in some publications and conferences prevents people who are not smart enough to master it from actually producing an article, therefore sparing reviewer's precious time. Many worthless papers have been accepted for publishing based solely on the fact that they were successfully compiled the first time."
@PatrickGundlach rather than babe; shorthands I suppose languages doing that a lot should changethe hyphencode to the spare hypen character, then set up full hyphenation patterns treating ascii - as a normal letter
@PatrickGundlach ah hm except classic tex at least would have problems not pytting in the discressionary hyphen after the explict one if it were a normal letter...
@DavidCarlisle This circulated in my department years ago
Poincaré had eaten cucumber and was murmuring in his slumber. His wife was incensed and asked with vehemence "Who is this Betty and what's her number?"
@DavidCarlisle No, that I did, which solved an alignment problem of the third element in the last column. But if you look at the total % vs. the individual values in that column, the total doesn't align with the rest (or more properly, the cells in the body of the table in the last column seem to have some trailing space not present in the total of that column.)
@AlanMunn it's same thing (it's same thing it _always is:-) space tokens in macro definitions:-) {\totalAmount}% adding column B and similarly the other lines lose the space before the %, normally white space at end of line is discarded but the % there is protecting the space from being discarded
@DavidCarlisle I see now. Yes, it is always the same thing. Obviously my space hunting skills are deficient. Thanks. Now I can update the answer to make things look right.