TeX, LaTeX and Friends

12:17 AM

People from Univ. van Amsterdam are doing some research on catchy tunes and human aspects of popular music. So if you have time please take a moment to challenge yourself in various games. They are really fun and cleverly designed.

hookedonmusic.org.uk

Oh and of course this is related to Univ. of Manchester and the Manchester Science Festival

Christian Hupfer

4:12 AM

@egreg: To what serial downvoting do you refer?

wipet

4:27 AM

@egreg "You surely don't need that mess..." This is no mess. My code has its cleanlines. On the other hand the code in expl3 syntax or most of old LaTeX packages includes mess.

@Manuel If something is possible in expl3 language then it is possible by primitives too. And more straightforward. Because expl3 is based on the same primitives. But the reverse implication isn't true. Result: what language is more powerfull? What language is better to know? IMHO primitives.

Christian Hupfer

4:57 AM

@JosephWright: Good morning

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Hello

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: It's useless to edit this 'answer', I suppose (;-)) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70414/…

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Usually they do get tidied up if only so the author can copy-paste the result for a new question

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: The user has a similar question ... tex.stackexchange.com/questions/199773/… (equally 'bad' in style)

Joseph Wright

5:13 AM

@ChristianHupfer Yes, saw that

Joseph Wright

7:14 AM

For info: River Valley have moved their videos to a new site, river-valley.zeeba.tv

egreg

7:31 AM

@wipet I wasn't referring to your code. Since you seem to have a definitive answer about expl3, I will no longer discuss it with you.

Christian Hupfer

8:10 AM

All quiet here...

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer tex.stackexchange.com/questions/199794/fancy-table-of-contents

@ChristianHupfer it's like running against a wall.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: I've seen and commented it... however, the downvotes are too harsh at the moment...

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Not my fault, i didn't vote this time.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: The upvote is from me... not for the output of the toc, but rather I am interested in a solution technique

@Johannes_B: Werner left no doubt in his comment ;-)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Edited ;-)

Christian Hupfer

8:23 AM

@Johannes_B: Removed upvote;-)

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer Why?

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Re the keyval question: I really wouldn't recommend xkeyval

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright:: Why? It's exansion problems?

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer Two reasons: first, it overloads some of the core keyval macros and this can be a problem, and second because ironically its interface is very confusing and would benefit from applying keyval methods

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: I thought about the question -- it should be improved. Perhaps, I will upvote it later on, but not at the moment

Johannes_B

8:28 AM

@ChristianHupfer Please have a look at other questions of the OP. The ones with the most upvotes are all the same.

@ChristianHupfer This is some kind of inconsistency in the community.

Christian Hupfer

@JosephWright: I definitely agree with you about the interface. I can't see anything about the internals of xkeyval redefinitions. At the moment, all my xkeyval problems have been solved so far (by you, for example, by egreg...)

@Johannes_B: Do you mean my retracted upvoting?

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer No. But those questions have been only upvoted and the answers are very good (i think, tl;dr). But there was no research effort in the question, just a »do it for me«.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: Wait a moment please, I take a look

@Johannes_B: Yes, I see .. you're right -- not much effort in it and some of them not even accepted

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer And always requests for more.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: I left a comment regarding his question - pile - up

@Johannes_B: Perhaps, it's the Banana-On-The-Backset-Guy? ;-)

Johannes_B

8:44 AM

@ChristianHupfer Maybe. But now, To The Kitchen!

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: Happy cooking

Joseph Wright

@ChristianHupfer In the context of the question xkeyval also won't help as it requires keyval, so if the latter is missing there is still an issue

Christian Hupfer

9:01 AM

@JosephWright: Yes, I added a statement already ;-)

Johannes_B

9:31 AM

FUN FACT: i am wearing an apron while cooking.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: Please post a selfie here... does the apron read "Kiss the cook" ?

Johannes_B

@ChristianHupfer It is a simple white apron made of cotton with an add for »SchapfenMühle«. Nothing fancy.

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: You are abusing TeX.SX chat for advertisment of a company named "Schapfenmühle" This will have severe consequences ;-)

egreg

@ChristianHupfer Founded 1452, according to their website.

Christian Hupfer

@egreg: Thanks... They brought their website online perhaps one year later ;-)

Johannes_B

9:46 AM

@ChristianHupfer Their products are only of relevance to large bakeries. I don't think they read this chat :-p

Christian Hupfer

Not meant as an advertisement on behalf of the company

►

@Johannes_B: \begin{grind}...\end{grind} ... that's how they do it ;-)

@Johannes_B: Besides all that, what's on the today's menu?

percusse

@egreg I hope you were against this notation when it was being proposed... Spent two hours thinking what is wrong with the font with the bold i characters in this PDF?

Rng (algebra)

In mathematics, and more specifically in abstract algebra, a rng (or pseudo-ring or non-unital ring) is an algebraic structure satisfying the same properties as a ring, without assuming the existence of a multiplicative identity. The term "rng" (pronounced rung) is meant to suggest that it is a "ring" without "i", i.e. without the requirement for an "identity element". There is no consensus in the community as to whether the existence of a multiplicative identity must be one of the ring axioms (see the history section of the article on rings). The term "rng" was coined to alleviate this ambiguity...

I agree it is clever to drop I to make a point, but horrible for writing about it.

egreg

@percusse The term has been used by Jacobson himself! So I like it. ;-)

percusse

@egreg It treats the reader as l3regex. I can't read the article without spending 2 seconds on every rng or ring

egreg

@percusse General rngs are just a mathematical curiosity; the useful ones must have further properties, for example “rings with local units” (note that “ring” is used, nobody working on them used “rng”).

@percusse Unfortunately there still are algebra teachers who insist in not imposing a 1 on rings, which in my opinion is a big error when teaching undergraduate algebra.

percusse

10:02 AM

@egreg We have bigger problems when it comes to teaching first course on algebra ;) I sometimes think that intro. algebra courses should be taught by non-professional mathematician teachers. So that there is an inherent \bgroup...\egroup.

I have some MSc. students and they cannot break the outer hard shell and reach for the mushy parts

Because of the extreme definition-forest at the beginning holding the fort.

@egreg By the way, I think we have another Ahmed Musa for you recently eh? heheh

egreg

@percusse ?

percusse

@egreg Nevermind. Late TeX discussions etc.

egreg

@percusse Oh, I see. ;-)

Johannes_B

10:28 AM

@ChristianHupfer Kleine Thürigner Klöße mit Champignon-Sahne-Sauce

Christian Hupfer

@Johannes_B: Ah, leichte Küche ;-)

Christian Hupfer

10:43 AM

@PauloCereda: Oh, good morning ... how are you today?

Paulo Cereda

@ChristianHupfer Hi! :) I'm feeling better, thanks. :) Another day towards my recovery. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda No fever?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Nope. :) But coughing a lot. :(

Manuel

@wipet Well, since expl3 is based on TeX, I definetly prefer it, you have the primitives and a ton of new macros already defined. You can use the primitives in case there's no “interface” to it in expl3. For instance, I prefer \token_if_expandable:NTF rather than your “hand made for the ocassion” \ifexpanded\tmp\iftrue … \else … \fi. I still don't see why are you against expl3 (I see reasons against LaTeX, since it has obvious flaws), it's just a collection of TeX macros.

David Carlisle

@egreg, one for your specialty I would guess: latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=babel/4394

Manuel

10:50 AM

@wipet Moreover, those macros are much more uniform in naming scheme and behaviour. What's the problem with that? It's like having tons of tools in your garage rather than a screwdriver and a wrench… and for free! Plus they all come with a good instructions manual and are perfectly classified and in the right order in the garage. Why would you refuse?

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle It's a guy named Eric using a Mac. :P

egreg

@DavidCarlisle No, it's normal behavior. Check with any other language: \selectlanguage{<lang>} doesn't end with \ignorespaces.

@DavidCarlisle Here's the example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dutch,english]{babel}
\begin{document}
X{\selectlanguage{dutch} Dutch}

X{\selectlanguage{dutch}Dutch}

\end{document}

Of course \foreignlanguage{dutch}{Dutch} should be used.

David Carlisle

@egreg Oh I hadn't actually run the test, I just went by the subject line:-) I assumed he meant it was adding a space

@egreg I knew you were the expert in these matters:-)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle :)

Henri Menke

11:07 AM

@PauloCereda There is a spelling mistake in the pdflatex rule of nightingale. Find the missing word: "I am sorry, but I expecting a list when using the 'options' argument."

Paulo Cereda

@HenriMenke ooh I can't spells! :)

@HenriMenke The error is in all engines. Uh-oh. :)

Henri Menke

@PauloCereda I spotted it in your video which is very entertaining :) You should have used "The Entertainer" as background music.

Paulo Cereda

@HenriMenke A good option. :) There's also Maple Leaf somewhere during the video. :)

Spelling errors fixed in the repo, thank you! :)

percusse

@HenriMenke Switch to Benny Hill at the bug moments :)

Paulo Cereda

@percusse LOL

@percusse: or this one: youtube.com/watch?v=RSaNju8R_Rk :)

Johannes_B

12:43 PM

I am the king of timing.

Paulo Cereda

2:09 PM

2 hours later...

wipet

"It's like having tons of tools in your garage..." Imagine that I am child playing with Lego blocks. There are 300 types of
blocks (300 TeX primitives) from which I am able to build everything what it
is possible to build from Lego. Each type of blocks has well know and good
defined feature. I am using these features _actively_ without reading of
manuals because there is only 300 types and I am able to remember them. On
the other hand there exists thousands of prepared Lego buildings (houses,
cars, boats, airplanes etc.), each of them includes hundreds pages of manual

Paulo Cereda

@wipet: I wish one day I can survive the TeXbook. :) I'm stuck in one of the chapters. :(

That's one of the reasons I haven't delved into LaTex bowels yet. I'd love to understand TeX first. :)

wipet

@PauloCereda One of the disadvantage of TeX is that TeXbook isn't written sufficiently good. What I did first after familiarizing with TeX: I wrote my own book "TeXbook inside out", a complete TeX reference manual. I am using only this book when I forget something. But this book is only in Czech...

Joseph Wright

@wipet I find TeX by Topic pretty good myself

Paulo Cereda

@wipet Oh my! :) I was thinking of trying TeX: the program, but I'm not sure I'll have the guts to read it. :)

@JosephWright I printed it to have on paper. :)

Joseph Wright

2:25 PM

@PauloCereda Same here, in my case the recent DANTE reprint

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright You are powerful, I'm not. :P

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Erm, more I'm a member of DANTE, you are (probably) not

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright :)

@Joseph: English or German?

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Huh? I'm clearly not German

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I meant the edition. :)

Joseph Wright

2:31 PM

@PauloCereda It's exactly the same as the electronic version: in English

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright aaah got it. :)

Joseph Wright

dante.de/index/Literatur/tbt.html

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Awesome!

Das Buch scheint sehr kompliziert.

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda I think Herbert Voß did quite a bit of work

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Indeed.

@Joseph: I believe Dante meetings have a myriad of TeXperts: Heiko, Herbert, Frank, ...

Johannes_B

2:52 PM

@PauloCereda Not to forget Ulrike and barbara

Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Indeed. :)

Johannes_B

3:10 PM

4

Q: Problems with arabic page numbering in LaTeX

I am writing my thesis using \documentclass{report} so that I will have chapters. I have used \renewcommand{\thepage}{\roman{page}}% Roman numerals for page counter at the beginning in order to use roman numbering before the first chapter begins. Then I have used \renewcommand{\thepage}{\ar...

numbering

I think this is a duplicate. I just have to find it.

egreg

3:37 PM

#Harish update: -120 Party tomorrow!

@PauloCereda The sum of those three's rep is 317186, less than 2% more than mine. :P

Joseph Wright

@egreg Or he can get a load of accepts during Answer the Unanswered ;-)

tohecz

Hello, everybody!

Johannes_B

3:53 PM

@egreg Want to join DANTE? ;-)

egreg

@JosephWright Maybe. But consider that the session will start when the local time in India is 2:30 am.

Joseph Wright

@egreg Yes, I know

@egreg He could start now :-)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg You are aready amongst the demigods of TeX. :)

wipet

4:14 PM

@egreg IMHO this number doesn't declare about all;-)

Joseph Wright

@wipet Certainly: at least in part a function of time since first registration on site

@PauloCereda I sorted out the OpenHub stuff: openhub.net/p/latex is now up-to-date (I hope!)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Yay!

egreg

@wipet It's just an inner joke.

Paulo Cereda

@Joseph: Speaking of aprons, can we start a L3 store where we sell silly things L3-branded? :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Ask Frank

Paulo Cereda

4:22 PM

For example, a Go away or I will replace you by a macro. mug. :)

@JosephWright No, it has to be you. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Added myself as 'manager' for beamer and biblatex (OK, for the latter I'm just a minor player, but ...)

wipet

@JosephWright OK, and we know that the mentioned number doesn't depend on time linearly:)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright A good plan. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Any idea how you rename 'stacks'?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Let me check. :)

Joseph Wright

4:33 PM

@PauloCereda Ah, got it

cgnieder

4:45 PM

Hello everyone! Enjoying your weekend? :)

Joseph Wright

@cgnieder So far yes

cgnieder

5:04 PM

@JosephWright That's how it should be :)

tohecz

5:36 PM

@cgnieder I'm a lazy, lazy boy :)

cgnieder

@tohecz sounds perfect :) ... and relaxing!

tohecz

@cgnieder yep, but I should go fetch some food before the shop closes

Manuel

6:39 PM

@wipet That's an argument towards learning TeX rather than hating expl3. It's true what you say, but still there's no reason against that renaming scheme of expl3, and all those macros already written. \token_if_eq_meaning:NTF is \ifx•• … \else … \fi, which I found just by searching \token_if_ and seeing the results.

Joseph Wright

7:20 PM

@Manuel Plain users tend to have a different approach to 'pre-packed' solutions

Paulo Cereda

Welcome to the oh wait.

Johannes_B

Am i too late?

tohecz

7:40 PM

@PauloCereda Houston, we've had a problem here :P

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz :)

Johannes_B

8:00 PM

To remind us, what is »Answer the unanswered« all about?

Mar 1 at 21:12, by Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Help us cast upvotes, notify questions that can be closed, ping/annoy @Joseph/@Stefan because they have the mod hammer, write an answer for an unanswered question, convert a comment to an answer, post random photos of ducks, downvote David's answers, use the force, and at last but not least, have fun!

2

wipet

8:34 PM

@JosephWright TeX was not designed to implemet new layers over it: there is no namespaces, no error handling for new layer, no tracing support etc. LaTeX and expl3 uses TeX in the way which was not assumed when TeX was designed. This brings problems. This site tex.sx.com is full of questions related to such problems.

tohecz

@wipet this discussion again? :-/

Johannes_B

Ok, common seriously .. Who is starring a quote from Paulo?

Joseph Wright

@wipet I meant more that most plain users tend to like the programming side and feel that understanding the 'basics' is something all users should do, while the experience of many LaTeX (and I think ConTeXt) people is that many 'end users' really don't want to do this.

tohecz

I'm tempted to VTC this as OT, since it's really about lilypond-book and not about TeX:

3

Q: Lilypond-book seems to skip included files

I am experimenting with using Lilypond from windows. It seems lilypond-book skips sub-files. I created a minimum working/not-working example in main.lytex, which I'm processing with a CMD-file (see below). The first two versions (lilypond-environment and lilypondfile) work, while the third one ...

lilypond

Joseph Wright

@wipet Also, there's the question of 're-inventing the wheel': I'd rather not have to re-solve the same problems in different documents and avoid if possible copying the same code from one place to another, and prefer to use well-defined pre-built solutions if available

Johannes_B

8:38 PM

Ulrike Fischer once introduced the term Grabenkämpfe related to TeX. I can't remember the specifi topic, but to put the result in a nutshell: If both sides have their opinion, that's pretty much it ...

Clarifying: Grabenkampf (pl. Grabenkämpfe) -> Trench Warfare

wipet

@JosephWright "'end users' really don't want to do this..." Yes and this is the basic problem. I needn't think about electrons and transistors in my computer when I am using (for example) TeX because the new layer is possible over such transistors. But the same isn't possible over TeX.

Joseph Wright

@wipet Depends on your point of view: I'd say LaTeX2e does a reasonable job, ConTeXt better and something like Stefan Lehmke's DocScape even more so (it's a Lua-based typesetter which uses TeX just for the line breaking, as I understand it)

@wipet What I do know is that I wouldn't be using TeX is plain was all there was

tohecz

9:13 PM

So has the session started or not? :)

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Hopefully

tohecz

@JosephWright well, I've already started some cleanup

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Saw that

Johannes_B

2

Q: How to remove a line under number chapter in classicthesis?

I've been working on a thesis with TeXShop for three years now and I'm finalizing my writing. I'm trying to change my classicthesis template a litte bit. I would like to remove the line under the number chapter. Indeed, I put a minitoc in front of each chapter and therefore, there are three lines...

classicthesis

The last commet seemed to give a solution

@JosephWright Are there any guidelines concerning »answer the unanswered« sessions?

tohecz

Mar 1 at 21:12, by Paulo Cereda

@Johannes_B Help us cast upvotes, notify questions that can be closed, ping/annoy @Joseph/@Stefan because they have the mod hammer, write an answer for an unanswered question, convert a comment to an answer, post random photos of ducks, downvote David's answers, use the force, and at last but not least, have fun!

Joseph Wright

9:18 PM

@Johannes_B Look through the older unanswered questions

tohecz

(it's the first starred comment on the right)

Anybody got a spare upvote please?

0

A: Footnote in table appears on wrong page

This problem has no standard solution. Footnotes in floating environments in general belong inside the floating environment. Some ideas how to achieve this are: enclose the inside of the table in minipage: \begin{table} \begin{minipage} \begin{tabular}{ll}\hrule A & B \\\hrule C\footnotemark &...

And another one (both CW):

0

A: Including .eps figure in PDFLatex

You shouldn't add the extension The / at the beginning of the path looks wrong. You have a better chance with \includegraphics[scale=1]{../model_1_2} However: You might not be allowed to work with a file that is one folder up, due to (reasonable) security restrictions disallowing this.

egreg

One vote here, please (CW as Khaled didn't add an answer as asked).

0

A: Linux Libertine small caps fail for some Unicode characters

The font simply doesn't have small caps substitution for ħ. Probably the font viewing software is able to fake the glyph or take it from the PUA.

Johannes_B

2

Q: Add an equation at the bottom of a KOMA-script article in twocolumn mode

how can I place a large equation at the bottom of a page when using the document class scrartcl with the twocolumn option enabled. I know about this solution using multicols, but I'd rather stick with twocolumn mode and not use the multicols package because of problems with figure placements. A...

equations positioning koma-script two-column

Seems to be answered by a comment, so in this case: duplicate

tohecz

@Johannes_B voted.

egreg

I voted for closing this one, but it seems nobody noticed it (or everybody disagreed)

0

Q: How to get "XeLaTeX + unicode-math" output as close as possible to that of pdflatex?

I've started exploring XeTeX and the unicode-math package in order to use unicode in my input. Of the six math fonts described in unimath-symbols.pdf, Latin Modern Math seems to be closest to what pdflatex produces. However, I've already noticed a number of differences I don't like, such as \var...

fonts xetex pdftex unicode-math

Johannes_B

9:26 PM

@JosephWright or any ohter -> How about Qs with a request for a MWE?

0

Q: Problems for use differents fonts in a document with XeTeX

I'm working a document using the scrartclclass with the following options and packages: \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,DIV=14,titlepage=false,twocolumn=on]{scrartcl} %\usepackage[DIV=14]{typearea} \usepackage[spanish,activeacute,mexico]{babel} \usepackage[english=british,french=quotes,german=qu...

fonts xetex fontspec

Answered by a comment

tohecz

@Johannes_B it depends on how old it is

egreg

No reaction to comment: unclear

2

Q: Arxiv undefined control sequence. \XKV@tempa ->\field

I would love to upload my document to ArXiv, but ArXiv cannot process my file: Package biblatex Warning: File 'myfile.bbl' created by wrong version. ! Undefined control sequence. \XKV@tempa ->\field l.1324 \end {document} ? ! Emergency stop. \XKV@tempa ->\field I am using the following pa...

packages arxiv

tohecz

my threshold is ~6 weeks to 2 months, some vote after a week, some after a month. Conclusion: older than 1 month seems to be the age for it to get closed (as UWYA = unclear = unclear what you're asking, to name some vocabulary)

Johannes_B

no response to include an MWE for 6 months

0

Q: putting a logo in a classic-thesis report

I am currently writing some documents using the template that is present at this link: http://www.lorenzopantieri.net/LaTeX_files/TesiClassica.zip It uses koma-script and classic-thesis/ars-classica. Now I am facing this problem: i need to put a logo into all headings of all pages of those docu...

header-footer koma-script double-sided classicthesis

tohecz

@egreg how did you vote there?

egreg

9:30 PM

@tohecz I can't remember; it was in the May session. Probably “opinion based”

tohecz

@egreg well, I would say "off topic because it has no answer" :p

egreg

@tohecz Agreed

tohecz

@egreg voted. (I know that you can't vote, but others can)

I classified this as unclear, since what OP wants is a nonsense to me:

0

Q: Endfloat: How to hide figures but show the list of figures

I'm preparing a manuscript for a journal paper, and the journal is requiring to include only the table of figures (ToF) at the end of the manuscript and not the figures (which will be uploaded separately). Is there any way to achieve this using endfloat package (or any other way without tearing i...

endfloat

Johannes_B

Can i as a low rep user somehow cast a close vote to support those sessions?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B No, but you can find questions that can be answered, suggest ones to close, ...

@Johannes_B Much of the closing comes down to the mod hammer anyway

Johannes_B

9:35 PM

@JosephWright Ok, i'll keep looking ;-)

tohecz

@Johannes_B especially if there're answers in comments, just make a CW (community wiki) answer summarizing the comments, and link it here so that we can upvote it; this way it gets removed from the unanswered list.

This looks like another rather strange unclear question:

3

Q: Tabular form wrapped around article

I have a strange beast of a technical report format for my job that I would like to port to TeX to help formatting. The problem is I'm not sure where to start. The essential problem is this: every page of the report is a tabular form. Cover page has boxes to input document control data, and a ...

article wrap forms

Joseph Wright

@tohecz Off-topic based on last comment by OP

egreg

Non reproducible

0

Q: tcolorbox and figure: error when using a figure in a tcolorbox

I have figure in a tcolorbox but I keep getting the following error: ./helix.tex:33: Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \T1\i l.33 \end{axis} Thanks to Gonzalo Medina, we now have a MWE, and he has identified the cause. \foreach \i/\angle in {1/60, 2/30 }...

floats tcolorbox

tohecz

@JosephWright ah I missed that, thanks

Johannes_B

@cfr just made an answer to the Q (which seemed to A the Q)

0

Q: Problems for use differents fonts in a document with XeTeX

I'm working a document using the scrartclclass with the following options and packages: \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,DIV=14,titlepage=false,twocolumn=on]{scrartcl} %\usepackage[DIV=14]{typearea} \usepackage[spanish,activeacute,mexico]{babel} \usepackage[english=british,french=quotes,german=qu...

fonts xetex fontspec

tohecz

9:39 PM

too broad IMHO:

2

Q: Article with mathjax to latex document

I write articles in my site, and use mathjax, $ and $ for inline mode and $$ and $$ for display mode. I want to move some articles to latex document. What is the simple way to do it?

html mathjax

Johannes_B

No input by helpers

5

Q: With beamer, prevent animation from restarting on 2-step slide

I have a slide with an animation with autoplay on the top and two graphs at the bottom. The graphs appear in two stages. At the moment, the animation restart when I go to the second step, how I can prevent that? To be clearer, I would like the animation to stay on its last frame (instead of resta...

beamer animations

egreg

Opinion based?

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Q: How to denote a "work in progress" in BibTeX

What is the correct way to reference in BibTeX an article that has no title yet? All the information I have right now is a list of authors (not even certain), a year (perhaps), and the knowledge of what I am going to write in that article. The bib entry I currently use is @misc{work-in-progres...

bibtex

Joseph Wright

@egreg Realistically yes

Johannes_B

@egreg Definitely

egreg

Unclear

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Q: Drivers other than "pdftex.def" are not supported - - Need advice

Hey I'm configuring my TeXMaker 4.0.3, I did this few times and never had such a problem like that! I have this message: Drivers other than "pdftex.def" are not supported. PDF does not generate too. Any suggestions?

texmaker editors epstopdf

Johannes_B

9:42 PM

OP wanted to give an answer, but never did. Last comment by @joseph

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Q: Why \nointerlineskip if background of Beamer-color frametitle is empty?

I'm trying to read the source of Beamer default outer theme (the file beamerouterthemedefault.sty). In line 144 there is this code: \defbeamertemplate*{frametitle}{default}[1][left] { \ifbeamercolorempty[bg]{frametitle}{}{\nointerlineskip}% % more things here } My question is simple: what...

beamer color source

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B I'll ask him again!

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Q: Beamer equivalent of Keynote's old web view

Is there a beamer package that will display a non-static, locally hosted web page? I think I am looking for something similar to Keynote's old web view, but since I have Keynote 09, I'm in a pickle. This question is similar to Beamer and JavaScript in a web browser, which currently does not hav...

beamer html javascript

'No'

What to do?

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Concerning what specific Q?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B The one I just linked to

Johannes_B

No reply by the OP over years ->

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Q: Get rid of toc in header with Beamer

I am using this \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{beamerthemesplit} %\usetheme{Berkeley} %\usecolortheme{beetle} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{verbatim} \mode<presentation> { %\usetheme{Madrid} % My favorite! \usetheme{Boadilla} % Pretty neat, soft color. %\usetheme{default} %\usetheme{...

beamer

tohecz

This question appears to be off-topic because it has no reasonable answer. — tohecz 13 secs ago

^^ something like this? :)

egreg

9:46 PM

Too broad (requires fonts not generally available and probably a huge amount of work); or Unclear, if you prefer

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Q: How can I stop automatically-inserted hyphens acting as boundary character?

When TeX inserts a hyphen, ligature rules that apply to the boundary character are applied before the hyphen. How can I prevent this? (I checked that the font is not changing at this point.) Checking out https://github.com/rrthomas/adobecaslon and running "make expert" will demonstrate the probl...

fonts hyphenation ligatures

Johannes_B

@JosephWright @keynote -> OT

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Yes, but the question is about how to achieve the same in beamer, which you can't (no live display inside DVI or PDF files)

tohecz

Hi @Mico! :)

Mico

@tohecz - Hi! This is the first time I'm participating in this particular group

tohecz

@Mico ah cool! :) welcome and relax, you can keep your shoes on if you wish ;)

Joseph Wright

9:50 PM

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Q: Embedding PDF while rewriting fonts in Latex

I have some PDF-files which I embed as graphic-objects into my latex-project. Those PDFs come from different sources. One I created in Powerpoint myself, then exported to PDF to make it vectorized and another one is cropped from a PDF usermanual. Now I'm wondering what would be the best and easi...

fonts graphics pdf miktex texify

Another one where 'sorry, not doable' seems the best answer

Johannes_B

@JosephWright Which Q exactly?

Joseph Wright

@Johannes_B Same one as before, the beamer one where 'no' seems the only reasonable answer

Johannes_B

@Mico Welcome from germany

Mico

@Johannes_B - Danke!

tohecz

@JosephWright it seems more complicated than that. It was closed, he said he'll answer that, it was reopened etc.

Johannes_B

9:56 PM

@JosephWright I don't know keynote but there really seems to be no definite LaTeX answer

Inactive for 1.5 years but one upvoted comment

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Q: Source code for navigation bullets in miniframes outer theme?

I would like to know the code used to obtain the navigation bullets when using mini-frames. (The idea is to make my own custom template with a bullet for each frame in current subsection.) Cheers, S.

beamer mini-frames

tohecz

@Johannes_B VTC as unclear, thanks.

Joseph Wright

One upvote if poss

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A: «Undefined reference» when using an URL in Bibtex

As indicated in the name, ieeetr-fr is an adaptation of the IEEE style for use in French. As such, it hard-codes in an assumption that babel is loaded with the french option to define for example \fg. You will either need to load babel appropriately or use a different style (say the standard IEEE...

egreg

Non reproducible=unclear

Johannes_B

VTC as unclear. @egreg commented, but no response to the xparse Q

@JosephWright +1 ;-)

egreg

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Q: Texmaker stopped indicating mistakes!

This problem arises only in some files. I don't know if it is because of the size or simply because I add more and more package, some of which I don't know the utility ... Here are all the package I've upload. And the last package I added before it stop indicating the errors is soul \documentcla...

errors texmaker

@Johannes_B Agreed

Joseph Wright

10:05 PM

I decided to write an answer to

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A: Beamer equivalent of Keynote's old web view

Short answer: no. Longer answer: PDF files, which are produced by TeX (either directly or via DVI) do not have the possibility to show the type of dynamic content required here. This essentially requires a web rendered 'built in' or 'called' by the viewer, and that is not part of the PDF spec.

One can argue about Flash I guess, but really PDF doesn't support this

Another 'not possible' one?

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Q: Pair kerning strategies in (pdf)LaTeX

I'm using the microtype package on pdfLaTeX and I'm wondering over the possibility to implement pair kerning, as opposed to single-character kerning, within the facilities provided by that package. If this is not contemplated in microtype, then I'd like to ask about different strategies to do so....

microtype kerning

Doable in LuaTeX of course, but not the same thing

cfr

@JosephWright It is doable with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX but I don't know that it is doable at the document level. That is, you could adjust the kerning pairs when setting up the TFM files to configure the font. At least, if I've understood correctly. ('pair kerning' seems just equivalent to 'kerning' as far as I can tell.) So I guess 'not possible' seems overly strong...

Joseph Wright

@cfr Clearly you can change the font in any way you choose to, so that to me seems to be a non-answer

Mico

re the Pair kerning question - I'd say that under the Lua(La)TeX the most straightforward approach would be to set up a "feature file" that provides the improved/corrected kerning pairs.

Joseph Wright

Anyway, too late for me, so I'll check back for any mod-hammer requests tomoorw

egreg

No MWE: unclear

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Q: Empty space on the rest of the page after a figure

I get an empty space on one page, as you can see in the picture. There is clearly enough space there to put the text from the next page. Also, I use \makeatletter \setlength{\@fptop}{0pt} \makeatother because originally it was putting the image in the middle of the page, and I thought that if...

spacing

cfr

10:22 PM

@JosephWright I meant more that you can change the TeX font without changing the font font. That is, you don't need to edit it in fontforge or whatever. You can adjust the kerning in the TeX support files. But I'm not suggesting it is a good solution. Only 'not possible' seems too strong.

Mico

I've added a comment (not a full answer) to the pair kerning strategies question to suggest the OP look into using LuaLaTeX along with a feature file.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

tlmg autoremoved mh... anyone knows why exactly?

Mico

@MarianoSuárez-Alvarez - I think the 'mh' bundle was broken up into two separate bundles.

Mariano Suárez-Alvarez

ah

thanks

egreg

11:28 PM

There's no closure reason with RTFM ;-)

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Q: How do I prevent text after inserting a greek letter from being italicized?

I'm new to LaTeX, and I'm trying to write some relational algebra with it. When I put a \sigma or \pi into the code, all the text that comes after it becomes italicized. Here's a quick example: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \begin{document} \sigma \ hello world \end{document} This produces...

italic greek

Unclear (no MWE)

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Q: delete all \textdoublevertline and hyphen from dictionary header

I have a dictionary (https://www.writelatex.com/343314jtmhbx), which appears the words ordering in groups / family (saves paper and helps in the learning), like this: \documentclass[a4paper,twoside,12pt]{scrbook} \usepackage{fancyhdr,multicol,lipsum} \usepackage[bf,sf,center]{titlesec} ...

characters

Unclear (see comments)

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Q: My graph will compile in metapost but the x and y axis scaled is off

beginfig(1); numeric u; path xaxis,yaxis; u=0.5in; yaxis= (0,-4.1u) -- (0,4.2u); xaxis= (-4.1u,0 )-- (4.2u,0); pickup pencircle scaled 1pt; drawarrow xaxis; drawarrow yaxis; pickup pencircle scaled 0.1pt; for i=0 upto 80: draw (-4+i*0.1,-4)*u--(-4+i*0.1,4)*u; endfor; for i=0 upto 80: draw (-4,-4+...

xetex graphs metapost

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Q: Cyrillic and microtype: pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts

I have a rather huge document and everything worked fine. The problems started when I tried to insert some Russian text. I was able to resolve some issues, but now I'm stuck with the following error: ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts. It was r...

pdftex microtype cyrillic

egreg

11:48 PM

A vote here, so it won't affect my rep, if done in 13 minutes. ;-)

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