Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Central Zone (Bangladesh) 433/9 v South Zone (Bangladesh) 343/10 & 31/1 *
- East Zone (Bangladesh) 143/4 * v North Zone (Bangladesh) 499/6
- Dolphins 548/6 v Titans 133/8 & 167/10 *
- Lions 348/10 & 111/2 * v Knights 293/9
- South African Invitation XI 120 * v New Zealanders 311/6
- Bengal v Railways 214/9 *
- Mumbai 24/1 * v Gujarat 244/10
- Rajasthan 191/3 * v Hyderabad (India)
- Saurashtra 212/9 * v Madhya Pradesh
@egreg Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: signs point to yes.
@DavidCarlisle oopsie. :)
!!/answer explain cricket.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: 1 | noun | leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together :: 2 | noun | a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs :: 3 | verb | play cricket
!!/eightball Should we believe in the cricket scores you showed us before?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: my sources say no.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: 1 | noun | a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air :: 2 | noun | a water-base paint that has a latex binder
Does anyone know where I might find other people interested in helping me with this volunteer typesetting I'm doing? It's for a newly finished translation of the Bible. I have already generated the full LaTeX source but there are some things with the template that I just don't know how to do. Full source and project is here: github.com/kieranclancy/isv_tex
are you allowed to reprint that source (or are you the original traslator?) The licence says The ISV text may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic, or audio) up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses without the expressed written permission of the publisher but this is presumably more than 500 verses?
I often feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole with LaTeX though... I've learned a lot but I still think I end up with a lot of cargo code, and every time I fix one thing it breaks something else.
seems like 6 megabytes of TeX code makes a good test suite
funny story. They had the entire thing in Word documents going back since the late 90s. I converted them to the latest docx format so I could read them in XML and then I wrote a 3000 line program to carefully extract the information and work around a myriad of inconsistencies
@DavidCarlisle they don't actually have a printed version yet. I volunteered to help them because they weren't able to meet their fundraising for getting it typeset a a publishing house
(on second thoughts, it was not really that funny, it was actually really painful and I never want to see MS office XML again)
I just finished all of my coursework for my PhD program, and am entering the research phase of my degree with a topic already in mind. I've already started the research, but I'm already finding that I end up procrastinating a lot of my time away. When I was taking courses, I felt like i didn't ...
@PauloCereda Unfortunately I didn't have TeX available when I was doing my thesis. :( But I did find some ways to procrastinate anyway. :) "PhD thesis" and "procrastination" are pretty much synonymous.
@PauloCereda At the Padova train station there's a chocolate shop; we're never without chocolate tablets. Black chocolate, of course! They have some Lindt tablets with 99% cocoa.
!!/eightball Is the immediate future = next year? :)
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: cannot predict now.
!!/answer To be or not to be.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: ...that is the question. :: (according to Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet)
!!/answer Tell me a joke.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Q: What's nutritious and commutes? A: An Abelian soup. :: (according to what passes for mathematical humor (sorry, I only know mathematical jokes), drawn from several sources but primarily from P. Renteln and A. Dundes in their paper "Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor" in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, pp. 24-34, 2005)
@egreg Well it'll take some time until I can write an answer. There are still some rough edges to polish on the assignment handler, and then I'll implement the macro expansion handler before I answer. I'm at 900 lines and expect about the same still to go. I'm on leave till end of next week, so I'll try to get it out before, otherwise it'll get very sluggish.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Q: Do you know Hilbert? A: Then what are you doing in his space? :: (according to what passes for mathematical humor (sorry, I only know mathematical jokes), drawn from several sources but primarily from P. Renteln and A. Dundes in their paper "Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor" in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, pp. 24-34, 2005)
!!/eightball Is longtable a trusted source?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: only egreg knows the answer.
@AlanMunn I didn't notice that. Still it seems to be a new problem for that user as he accepted the mdframed solution of the other question and explicitly said he can't use mdframed on this instance. Anyway, there is another question from december here
and that one was closed as duplicate of another question from october. So maybe it's a subjective impression of mine that there are a lot of these questions.
Still it would be a nice extension, offering new fields of application.
!!/answer how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. :: (according to the song written by Bob Dylan and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)
At least he got that one. :P
!!/answer where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: Not sure, but wherever she is, it isn't here.
@StephanLehmke Absolutely. It would also be nice to have a multicolumn version. supertabular can do that with some hacking but not longtable: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13895/… but not longtable
@codebeard oh the top level page at isv.org says The ISV 2.0 Has Been Sent to Typesetting and Will Be Available Soon in Printed Editions is that you? :-)
@StephanLehmke what's the full spec? So many questions sketch it out with a single column which is a p column of text which makes it too easy (I think I did that once) but in that case often you don't want a table at all, something liek mdframed with a breakable frame. If longtable claimed to allow breaking within the row people would assume it worked when one column had an image another had text and the third had a multirow spanning three rows....
@DavidCarlisle That's the challenge of course :-) It's true that indeed a lot of cases can be handeled without using longtable at all, which doesn't make the application less interesting. It should probably be possible to specify on a per-column basis whether this column is breakable, unbreakable (i.e. a break has to occur at a vertical position "below" that cells content), or (special case) should be replicated at the beginning of the next page after a break.
With DocScape which offers a rather rich table model (also no breaks within a cell though ;-) I've made the experience that easy to use, powerful tables which can in some cases span the whole document make it easy to express some types of formatting. Wouldn't it be much easier if everything which can be done with packages like parallel or mdframed is in some sense a special case of a powerful table package? It would immediately open access to completely new applications.
@PauloCereda The gravatar to the left of the chat box sometimes show weird flags in other rooms, if you mean those then yes they are really interesting :).
I'm sorry if this has been asked here before, but I need to create a presentation. You know, something like a PowerPoint slideshow, but with TeX or LaTeX in it. I am running Windows 7. Can someone recommend what the best software to use would be?
@DavidWallace Yes, Beamer is great. And it doesn't take very long to learn the basics if you're content with one of the basic styles (of which there are plenty).
Hi all! I'm considering buying the TeXbook. I hear great things about it. Also, I read (some of) TAOCP. Well, Knuth is a great writer. Just one question: it seems the book has been on its first edition since 1986. Has TeX really changed that little since then?
TAOCP volume 1 is on its third edition, on the way to a fourth. And the material in that book is supposed to be timeless. TeX is a piece of software, which seems anything but timeless.
So, any comments from people who read the book would be appreciated! :-)
Of course, knowing Knuth, the book will be on its umpteenth print. But still, I'd have expected a second edition.
@mhelvens: I'm a TeX newbie. I had no chance to finish reading the TeXbook (my time is very complicated these days), but so far the text is superb. While I agree that no software is timeless, the concepts of the book are, and Knuth is very good at presenting the topics and proving each point of his line of thought. The book is very well written and typeset, and it gives a fantastic insight of the idea behind TeX.
@PauloCereda I appreciate the insight. :-) To be more specific: I wonder if everything I read in the TeXbook will still be relevant when using TeX today.
@mhelvens I think it depends a lot on whether you are writing documents or packages. If you're writing documents, I don't think the TeX book is in any way essential. If you're writing packages, it's very useful. Another good resource is TeX by Topic (which is part of the TeX Live docs).
@mhelvens So then, yes, I think it's very useful. And even if you're planning to mainly write using LaTeX3 code, it's helpful to understand how TeX works underlyingly.
@mhelvens I share @Alan's POV. The book is more suitable for people who want to understand what happens in the backstage. I was curious to understand some things, and the book did a good job on telling me. :)
@PauloCereda Strange, huh? You'd think that there would be an equally comprehensive reference on the internet. And a more easily searchable one at that.
On a completely unrelated topic (if I may): I recently discovered the semantic package. More specifically, its ligature option. That thing's great! My math code is more readable than ever.
@mhelvens I checked texbook.tex (on CTAN) to be sure: it does cover TeX3 (see tug.org/TUGboat/tb10-3/tb25knut.pdf for details of the new primitives Knuth added, which give the game away)
@PauloCereda I've defined about 30 ligatures so far. My math is now full of 'ascii' arrows which typeset correctly as real arrows.
@PauloCereda And I have ligatures like =def. I also wrote a new command which defines a family of ligatures for custom spacing to reflect precedence, like: .and., ..and.., ...and..., etc. I'm going a bit overboard with ligatures right now.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\P:
macro:->\protect \P
\P :
\long macro:->\ifmmode \mathparagraph \else \textparagraph \fi
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\mathparagraph:
\mathchar"27B
\the\mathparagraph:
635
\textparagraph:
macro:->\OMS-cmd \textparagraph \OMS\textparagraph
In mathmode it typesets the character "7B in family "2, in text mode it chooses the font associated to the OMS encoding and typesets the character "7B from it. Which is usually the same as before.
@JosephWright Really? I bought VDQI a couple of years ago after a question appeared here, I think, but by the time I had finished, I thought it all a bit underwhelming
I even tried the tufte... packages, but had a lot of difficulty making them work to my cóntent/contént.
@Brent.Longborough I went to my campus Waterstones to buy a copy. Their computer claimed they had a copy, but no-one could find it and they had no idea where to look. So in the end they had to order one in.
@Speravir Not a toy in Brazil either. I only knew it because of a Simpsons episode.
!!/answer Erwin Schrödinger
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: full name | Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger :: date of birth | Friday, August 12, 1887 (125 years ago) :: place of birth | Vienna, Vienna, Austria :: date of death | Wednesday, January 4, 1961 (age: 73 years) :: (51 years ago) :: place of death | Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Central Zone (Bangladesh) 433/9 v South Zone (Bangladesh) 343/10 & 31/1 *
- East Zone (Bangladesh) 143/4 * v North Zone (Bangladesh) 499/6
- Lions 348/10 & 313/8 v Knights 13 & 293/9 *
- South African Invitation XI 274/6 * v New Zealanders 311/6
- Bengal v Railways 214/9 *
- Mumbai 24/1 * v Gujarat 244/10
- Rajasthan 274/5 * v Hyderabad (India)
- Saurashtra 212/9 * v Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra v Karnataka 306/4 *
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