@egreg Getting up early (of course with going to bed early too) is good for health. But some times I go to bed late too and end up getting up early as the habit.
@HarishKumar the point is that if you get up at the same time every day, it doesn't matter if you slept only couple hours the very last night, as long as you get enough sleep globally
@tohecz Well, At department, we will be nagged always with some work and there is always class work. This site gives relaxation in the middle of that work. Spend some time here after your preparation for class gives energy and happiness.
@HarishKumar yep, indeed. But as well, it really improves ones abilities to explain something. Once you get into the stage of writing student books, you'll find it useful :)
@egreg well, you've got 200 rep 929 times. It could still be from accepts, the system seems to be proper in this sense. It only shows more than the true rep in the case you're capped
and well, it's been 23 times on Monday for me :-/
and it's 100+ for @Harish, so not much until Legendary!
@PauloCereda OK. Create an empty folder, and assign it in BTSync to the token A3RFPOVS7IBMMNUOIVCQ5INWSBUOAJVZC . You'll need about 400 megabytes. I hope you don't pay per bandwidth.
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I have a small question, I'm not sure if I should post a new question on tex.se, post a comment on a previous question that didn't completely solve my problem, ask it here, or what
@John In the question, add something like: "I didn't manage to use the answer in [the other question] because [whatever is the reason]," so that people know you have seen it. Then it'll be clear it's not a duplicate ;)
I want to add an arbitrary length to an axis, but I don't know how.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,french]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\pgfkeys{/tikz/.cd,
NbGrad/.store in=\NbGrad,
Noze/.store in=\Noze,
Noze=.5cm,
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[%
>=stealth,x=6cm,font=\footnot...
@PauloCereda or you might codefine it, but the problem is that then you instead of coffee get a cocoffee=ffee, and who knows what is it, I would not dare to drink it :p
@Brent.Longborough well, it was basically correct, just strange. And if you were about to use a pronouns, you'd more likely say "Ano, jsem tu", especially in Moravia
@Brent.Longborough well, it depends. I don't mind my friends correcting my French, I do mind people in the shops giving me weird looks because of my French
Are there other compelling reasons not to use TEXMFVAR instead of TEXMFLOCAL for the local tree? One obvious reason is that it belongs to a particular year's distribution, so packages located there won't be found the next year. Are there other reasons?
@egreg I know. That wasn't the question.... Suppose someone used it as their TEXMFLOCAL, what would be the bad consequences, other than the one I suggested?
@egreg The reason I'm asking is that somone commented on one of my answers that since he couldn't find the local texmf (since one is not created by default on a new installation) he just used TEXMFVAR. I'd like to explain why doing this is a bad idea, rather just saying "Don't do this".
@egreg Yes, that was my conclusion too. So it makes replying a little more difficult. I guess the "it won't persist into the next year" is actually the best argument against doing it.
@egreg It continues to puzzle me why TeX Live simply doesn't create the local texmf folder structure if one doesn't already exist, or at least add something to tlmgr to do so. This seems to a common problem for new users.
@egreg I guess that's true. For many single users however, the installation account is also the user account. But you're right in the general case it's not.
@AlanMunn That could be an addition for MacTeX: create TEXMFHOME as soon as a user looks at the Control Panel. But without some specific action the installer can't do it.
@egreg Yes, a while ago I suggested to Adam Maxwell that he could add that to TeX Live utility, but he never did. I actually have standalone script on my webpage to do it.
@egreg Sure, but that could be fixed with a checkbox in the installer script, for example.
@egreg But applications do this regularly: every time you install a new app, it will usually generate some folder/file within ~/Library/Application Support, for example.
@AlanMunn No. The same problem applies: some Mac users create a distinct administrator account for installing software and doing superuser maintenance.
@AlanMunn No, it happens when you run them, not when installing them
@egreg Right, that's why you make it a checkbox. :)
@egreg Frankly I think that's splitting hairs. It's not like when you double click on a brand new app it asks you if it's ok to create the relevant ~/Library... files.
@AlanMunn The brand new application doesn't ask. But until you don't run it, the folders are not created. Just installing the software doesn't create those folders.
@egreg Yes, but from a user interface point of view it's no more transparent than if the folders had been created at installation time. (I'm more addressing your expression of suspicion rather than the details of how the installation process necessarily works.)
@AlanMunn The fact that a machine has a single user is not of a concern for the installer software; the machine could be a 1000 user server, most of whom are not interested in the software that's being installed.
@tohecz Whenever something goes wrong with a public service, the answer is always "for technical reasons". I always answer grumpily: "Well I knew it wasn't for emotional reasons, now please have the courtesy to explain how you fluffed up"
@Brent.Longborough well, I fluffed up very straghtforwardly this time: I can't swim without my googles, I can't use my google without the anti-fog spray, and I can't find the anti-fog spray :(
@Brent.Longborough Just like at the railway station: “The train to X has been cancelled for technical reasons; we're sorry for the inconvenience". Said by a synthetized voice.
@egreg Wouldn't it be nice if they could credit us with the capacity to understand a technical explanation, and could emply people capable of giving such an explanation?
@tohecz There's a nice children's song here; it starts up with a woman telling his husband that there's a hole in the bucket. Some lines later the husband tells to get some water for doing the repair and she asks how she's supposed to get the water. “With the bucket!“ says the husband. Repeat.
Let me explain. Someone had a weird problem, unable to find a sty file. I talked him through it on chat, remote-desktopped in through copilot, and found the problem and fixed it. This person must have been very happy with the fix, and probably didn't know about the ethics of serial upvoting.
@Brent.Longborough and since they have not much rep, giving you a bounty is not really an option. Moreover, you didn't answer their question, after all :)
OH MY GOSH! I just came to Electronics.SE and saw the question scores: -1, -1, -1, -2, -2, -2, 0, 1, -6, 0, 1. I will think twice before really trying to get any help there
Can I use the tiks pgf on LaTeX to build a simple page of Acknowledgements?
I've found this template, but it is not simple and beautiful for a thesis statement.
Any brilliant idea, please ?
For completeness, here's an etoolbox implementation:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\newcommand{\Test}[2]{%
\ifnumequal{#1}{100}{%
\ifnumequal{#2}{100}{%
First arg = 100; Second arg = 100%
}{%
First arg = 100; Second arg != 100...
I want to add an arbitrary length to an axis, but I don't know how.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,french]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\pgfkeys{/tikz/.cd,
NbGrad/.store in=\NbGrad,
Noze/.store in=\Noze,
Noze=.5cm,
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[%
>=stealth,x=6cm,font=\footnot...
Can I use the tiks pgf on LaTeX to build a simple page of Acknowledgements?
I've found this template, but it is not simple and beautiful for a thesis statement.
Any brilliant idea, please ?
For completeness, here's an etoolbox implementation:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\newcommand{\Test}[2]{%
\ifnumequal{#1}{100}{%
\ifnumequal{#2}{100}{%
First arg = 100; Second arg = 100%
}{%
First arg = 100; Second arg != 100...
