Except that here, the ranting could end up being about how awful Word is. :) For example, I was tempted to say that I can no longer open my dissertation file (created in Word). And for years we put up with bugs that persisted from version to version of Word. etc. etc.
Not to mention that every document my PC/Word using students give me that's PDF turns all italic text into sans serif. No idea how that happens (doesn't happen with Mac Word users.)
@AlanMunn I think there are a lot of parts that LaTeX really sucks but you have to be quite proficient to give concrete arguments (not me!). The rest is usually about the initial frustration about typing too many backslashes and braces.
I can only come closer to a point where it starts to need nontrivial hacks then I start to think hmm, this was not so nice to do.
@percusse That's definitely true. Until XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX showed up, fonts in LaTeX was a nightmare if you wanted to use anything other than the basic bunch, for example. LaTeX is definitely not for everyone.
@AlanMunn Besides, nowhere in the documentation it says LaTeX is easy. It's says beautiful as in Michelin star not fast as in McDonalds and I definitely agree.
@PeterGrill There doesn't seem to be a problem when align is not used inside the parbox in the table. I am working from some files that were converted from Word and Excel which I have to fix into some sort of book in high school math
Many editors (TeXnicCenter, Texmaker, TeXworks, ...) offer auto-replacement of " by the desired form of quotation marks, be it `` and '' for English, "` and "' for German, or whatnot. Usually, I know right from the start which quotation marks I want to use throughout a document, and I hardly ever...
I did not know that latex had different symbol for opening and closing quotation marks. I've used it like "abc" every where and just realised that I really should have used ``abc". Is there anyway I can convert all the quotations to become like ``abc"? Doing it manually will take forever as I hav...
@PeterGrill Actually, I don't want quote marks at all, I just want the quotes offset in an indented para, possibly in a different type font. I guess the quote environment is good enough.
I occasionally face the following situation when writing LaTeX documents. (This question is probably not LaTeX specific, though). Suppose I have a document, say orig.tex. Then I quote from that document in another document, say new.tex. So, for example... orig.tex is
\documentclass{article}
%% ...
@Nimza It's a set of rules imposed by the Brazilian National Standards Organization which determines how academic documents should be prepared. They have some ugly typographic styles and coordinates.
@hpesoj626 That's another problem: they don't look the same. The universities have the autonomy to define a subset of their own rules on top of the master ABNT norm (one of the norms), so the mess is complete.
This is from a document of mine. Don't tell me this looks good.
England beat India by 7 wickets
India won the toss and decided to bat
India 1st Innings
316 all out (105.0 overs)
India 2nd Innings
247 all out (84.4 overs)
England 1st Innings
523 all out (167.3 overs)
England 2nd Innings
41 for 3 (12.1 overs)
@JosephWright Can you have a look at this question? I tried to answer it after studying the siunitx manual, but this particular case is not covered in the examples
If I have a table like this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[separate-uncertainty=true]{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{
l
S[table-format=1.1(2)]
S[table-format=-1.1(2)]
...
Regrettably, people have got the idea that the S column is something more than a 'convenient extra'. The main purpose of siunitx is consistent handling of units, hence the package name.
@Jörg I'd say the data input here is basically wrong: there are two columns, one of values and one of uncertainties
@JosephWright Okay, so the answer is that you can align uncertainties using the format 2.2(2), but something like 2.2(1.1) is currently not possible. Should I write an answer or do you want to?
@JosephWright Something I wanted to ask is about compilation speed. So for some of my result tables I have around 6 columns, 50 lines...so 300 numbers set via siunitx but essentially only for alignment. When you have a couple of theses tables compilation speed get's quite slow. Is there something that can be done at the user level about this?
@Jörg If they are relatively simple numbers, the parse-numbers = false option may help. It uses the same alignment method as dcolumn, which avoids parsing the number and just uses some box/mathcode stuff to do alignment. However, a lot of the time taken by siunitx in these cases is for the font stuff.
Perhaps with hindsight I'd tackle this a little differently, but it's tricky to alter now as the defined behaviour can't change
So if you want really fast alignment, you will be better using dcolumn (which just uses math mode directly without worrying for example about \boldmath)
I have a problem with colortbl and amsmath. Is someone here aware of a conflict between these two packages?
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%\usepackage{colortbl}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}[b]{cc}
Correct & Incorrect\\
\parbox[b][]{0.4\linewidth}{
\be...
I like it somewhat: central heating is on, I have a cup of coffee and christmas cookies, sitting in my (not too small) living room, wearing warm socks :) looking at the snow and doing some paid LaTeX work ... Life can be wonderful :)
@GTK where in mindanao? yeah. Baguio is way north or Mindanao. And since there is no direct flight from the local airport to Mindanao, it will take eight hours of bus travel to Manila and 2 hours of air travel to Mindanao.
@GTK It was indeed very painful. He is like a god here. I got over with it easily because I know that marquez will get to him in one of their future fights. With the kind of training these athletes have these days, they have the same chances of winning the belt. It is therefore as simple as probability catching up to Pacquaio. And Marquez definitely have seen that move by Manny many times over. Marquez is a tricky bastard.
@egreg wow! That must be some bug. For what it's worth, I can't log into chat with Firefox, and use Chrome. I haven't tried Safari, but it's very strange that your inability to log in was triggered by a question on the main site.
Hi all! What's the simplest way to get \input, but without the empty line that LaTeX adds at the end? There are so many related questions on TeXexchange, I can't see the forest for the trees.
No wait who gets -2 points the downvoter or the downvoted. By the way the downvoted is a great name for a nerd metal band. I should keep this in mind :) Anyway I've missed the sexiest number around now I need 300K more.
Quick q. ... I'm having enough headache with verbatim-like environments that I'm considering having my TeX-generating code "escape" things instead. (I.e. turn '_' into '\textbackslash', etc.) If I get it working, is it worth posting in a Q+A, or is it unlikely to be helpful to anyone else?
I often hear that the best thing when dealing with floats in latex is to let latex do its thing and place them where it wants. I have mostly not listened to this but instead used the float-package and the H option to force the figures to where I want.
But then a while ago I decided to follow the...
@egreg How can I find the Hex codes of characters as in \^^12. I'm looking for asterisk * for the question tex.stackexchange.com/questions/86198/… but ** interpreted as math so I need to bypass that.
@egreg Yes but I need to find the character *. I think I'm looking for the the list to lookup. The question is about ignoring ** characters if found in the data file. And pgfplotstable offers a possibility to do that by adding the option ignore chars={comma separated list} but if I enter ** it's parsed as a math power function so I thought maybe I can enter it via chardef notation
@egreg Indeed and it removes one by one every asterisk it sees. I want to be able to instruct that if an asterisk is not followed by another asterisk don't remove it.
I should place a single asterisk in the data to make it obvious
Is have two enumerate environments in two different sections which just continue the numbering very eccentric? From what I know, it is a matter of saving the counter from the first and explicitly passing it to the second.
@FaheemMitha No restarting list counters is quite a common requirement, although the base latex format doesn't provide a wrapped syntax you can as you say just set a counter at the the end of one list and use it to reset the enumi counter in teh seconf
@AlanMunn quite a lot of things probably. First, after this person decided to make their future packages "commercial", I asked him not to use any code I sent him before in our mail discussions. Then I pointed out that his self-answer is not better than the previous one and has a bug, which he did not admit, so I downvoted the answer (IMHO correctly, the answer was wrong). But that all with his previous 3 accounts, he downvotes me with the 4th one.
@egreg ok thanks. I'm quite tired after this weekend, I was helping my supervisor to move in a new place and they live in 3th and 4th floor (where base floor is 0)
For instance, I suggested him not to redefine some macros in a certain way that conflicted with other packages. The answer was: "My package came first and I won't modify it for cooperating with the others".
@egreg yes, but as soon as people get to know this, they will drop his package. He's not Apple to make everything people need and get lots of money from it.
@tohecz There was a package for drawing commutative diagrams that was written in obfuscated form; I don't remember precisely the conditions under which it could be used. But it's dead from many years.
Hey @PauloCereda ! Andy Rehfeldt made a video about Rage Against the Machine (less angry version) check out the first comment youtube.com/watch?v=mOE9fE72QLg
@AlanMunn But downvote is not improving it just reassuring that the answer sucks and 10 people agree with it. Of course the owner goes These people are idiots, carbon bricks can't understand a diamond like me etc. (I'm not wearing my poet cloak so bear with me :P)
@PauloCereda I've found your anti-matter twin. I shan't post the link because I don't want the universe to blow up but in browsing elsewhere on SE I found someone complaining that they were out of down-votes that day.
@percusse Well you could always do a reputation recalc and see if that changes it. Otherwise if you're not sleeping at night because of it, you could post a bug report on meta. :)
@tohecz probably for a 2-line cases it would be better to align the rows above and below the math axis (like a fraction) then the brace would naturally centre on the axis between the rows
“’The things that I want’, by Max Payne. A smoke. A whiskey. For the sun to shine. I want to sleep to forget. To change the past. My wife and baby girl back. Unlimited ammo and a license to kill. Right then, more than anything, I wanted her.” – Max Payne 2
@PauloCereda Whatever's easier. If it's simpler to do it behind the scenes, that would be fine too, although it's probably six of one, half a dozen of the other.
@tohecz Of course I wouldn't bother too much for a single application.
\lipsum*[2]
\begingroup\addtolength{\abovedisplayskip}{4pt}\begin{equation}
\begin{dcases}
u = \smash[t]{\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}}(i+j)\\
v = k
\end{dcases}
\end{equation}\endgroup
\lipsum*[2]
@tohecz well all ams alignments process the argument twice, you need to be careful of \write (eg \label) as you don't want it to write twice, and of course global increments.
The room itself will probably disappear. It was created in response to a question that was closed as being non constructive as a question, even though the question was worthy of discussion.
anyways, the OP seems to be happy with my solution, and after all, I'm not sure that it's bad if the space above the equation is smaller if only this fraction "sticks out" to the padding
@egreg (soon to appear on the main site): How do I do numbered cases in dcases with the correct labels ;)
Is it like the holidays are coming in US or some other high population country? All we get lately is angry users ranting about LaT.... What the fuck has just happened? Somebody took the sledge out.......
whoa that was cool hahahaha
I wonder the person who decides on these animations.
If I have a table like this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[separate-uncertainty=true]{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{
l
S[table-format=1.1(2)]
S[table-format=-1.1(2)]
...
I have a problem with colortbl and amsmath. Is someone here aware of a conflict between these two packages?
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%\usepackage{colortbl}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}[b]{cc}
Correct & Incorrect\\
\parbox[b][]{0.4\linewidth}{
\be...
Whats the command for this symbol: ⇅
I've found ⇈ \upuparrows but I can't find the other one.
