Hello, I just zapped this question, but then I realized that it can be easily reworded to be a good question listing the pros and the cons of one or the other. Any opinions?
Is it a good idea to maintain a single large bibtex database or should one split it into multiple files? I have compiled a very large India-specific database (over 100,000 records) from various sources. Should one keep it as a single file or split it up? What is the best practice?
@tohecz yes seems like it could be a good qn, there probably are not that many 100K record bibtex databases he can look to as examples, so asking for any experience seems reasonable
@PauloCereda: Tired, too much time on computer, preparing this meeting... organzing the catering which my school refuses to do.... Public Relation is a term they never heard of ;-)
@PauloCereda: No coffee, no cookies, no apple/orange juice water, no brezels ... it's a mess. I will prepare the coffee tomorrow, having an apron: "Kiss the cook" :D
@ChristianHupfer that's something I like here in Paris: they don't mind spending significant amount of money on good food. After all, having guests feel good at the place is investment worth some permilles of the lab budget I think.
@PauloCereda I believe that the directive frontespizio should not do the full process, but it should just compile the -frn file. Not a big deal, though.
@egreg: done. :) Without any parameters (% arara: frontespizio):
[DR] (Frontespizio) The frontispiece
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Authors: Francesco Endrici, Enrico Gregorio, Paulo Cereda
About to run: [ pdflatex, teste-frn ]
with frontespizio: { engine: latex }:
[DR] (Frontespizio) The frontispiece
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Authors: Francesco Endrici, Enrico Gregorio, Paulo Cereda
About to run: [ latex, teste-frn ]
[DR] (Frontespizio) The DVIPS program
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Authors: Francesco Endrici, Enrico Gregorio, Paulo Cereda
About to run: [ dvips, -o, teste-frn.eps, teste-frn ]
and with full: true, everything is processed. :)
And as a bonus, % arara: frontespizio: { engine: potatotex }:
I have spotted an error in rule 'frontespizio' located at
'/home/paulo/Arara/rules'. I could not evaluate the flag
expression of one of the arguments. This part is quite tricky,
since it involves aspects of the underlying expression language.
I will do my best to help you in any way I can. There are more
details available on this exception:
DETAILS ---------------------------------------------------------
[Error: throwError('The provided engine is not valid.'): The
provided engine is not valid.]
@PauloCereda any ideas? because I'm lost with ideas here. Remember that it's for a journal, so I don't quite have many options w.r.t. colours and stuff
From the name, it sounds like it but I dn't understand something in this line \ifvoid\csname pgfpages@box@2\endcsname\pgfpagesshipoutlogicalpage{5}\vbox{}\fi
@PauloCereda and after all, there's the 2nd table: lines are (and need to be) ordered by b first. But isn't it ridiculous to have the b column before the a?
@tohecz: I was thinking the first table could be represented in terms of a binary plot, but there is a third element in there. :) Maybe a Hinton plot, but I think it might be a misuse (an people won't probably understand). What if you replace 1's by darker gray and 0's by lighter gray, while * is white? Then a nice caption might suffice.
@tohecz: the second table, perhaps, you could remove the horizontal line and add some vertical space to indicate it's another block. Or perhaps with a dashed line instead of a solid one.
@tohecz Good question. :) You once wrote me a code that creates a table with equal columns, I think that might help, after all the code is ready. :) Oh and there's ctan.org/pkg/eqparbox and ctan.org/pkg/tabstackengine. :)
A version lighter than using TikZ:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\kumarsymbol}{%
\begingroup\setlength{\unitlength}{\fontcharht\font`A}%
\begin{picture}(.5,1)
\roundcap
\put(0,1){\line(2,-1){.25}}
\put(.25,.875){\line(0,-1){.75}}
\put(.25,.125){\l...
@tohecz A few points in the left margin with much white space around is hardly noticeable, the attention is to the table; of course it can become noticeable and in this case a different solution should be found. For instance $b$ and $a/b$ in a row above the table.
@tohecz They should have the same width; remove left and right padding
@DavidCarlisle While I was groping blindly for an answer to the red-blue noun-verb permutation question, you had the solution right at your fingertips. Amazing!
Hello everyone! I have made some improvements to the moderncv banking style, and I would like to make them public. But being not very experienced in LaTeX matters, I would be happy if someone could give a look beforehand, and tell me if something in my code is embarrassingly stupid. Any takers?
@ChristianHupfer As David said, it's LPPL and on launchpad. Plus, I did not even change the core, I just load their banking style and change things around.
The difference between a poor or meh question and a stellar question can often simply be someone understanding it and providing it a great answer. I can't begin to count the number of times I've justified re-opening a question as a moderator by saying:
Look at the answer it got, though. This ...
Timothy Gowers finally managed to get a hold on to the mind-boggling costs of journal subscriptions (sans IEEE-Elsevier) in UK. 75 M£ only in 2010-2014 to six publishers!!
Extrapolate that to Europe and US. Reminder; publishers force universities to undisclose how much money they pay to the publishers to keep the bargaining power.
@JosephWright He has been trying since the last two years together with a few other people. Has been rejected a lot but used the Shawshank Redemption technique I think; Annoy until you get a response.
@percusse The University of Chicago just received a $100 million gift for their endowment, but they can't afford the $582 paper+electronic subscription to the Journal of Early Modern History. It took me over two years to publish an article with them and in the end just got a PDF (purchasable for only $30!) I could have made for free with LaTeX.
@AndrewCashner Do it anyway. I've placed everything I published online on various places. By changing the documentclass and a few modifications you are out of copyright binding.
Because you are allowed to put preprints elsewhere.
@percusse I just couldn't believe that in the end they really are just producing PDFs. If the U of C can't afford the paper copy, then few other institutions will, either.
@percusse It's a lot less clear-cut in chemistry: industry puts in a lot of money at the moment for journal subscriptions but they make relatively little contribution as authors. Quite a few chemists are worried about how that will fall with an open-access model, especially as almost all the top chemistry journals are owned by learned societies.
@JosephWright sometimes I'm happy for purely theoretical topics. At the same time, we really watch the situation in another fields with some sort of fear. After all, it's research money that goes there mostly.
@percusse I'm not saying I like the smoke-and-mirrors business, but then again I don't really believe in price negotiations (you don't expect to got to the supermarket and not pay the list price, so why should it be different with anything else: everyone should pay the same and it should be public)
@JosephWright @Paulo this is the whole point: by making the prices private, you twist the market, because this information has a value in the market suddenly.
@percusse It would probably be best to block negotiation, e.g. Universities UK here in the UK should do negotiation for all of them (same as a union does for salaries)
@JosephWright I think I've confused my argument so it's not converging. My logic is as this : - Publisher promotes bundles as opposed to cherrypicking by unacceptable price differences - Then universities are bound with nondisclosure items such that you cannot declare how much you have paid for the journal bundles (by law) - If you try to break the price by mentioning the prices of other universities paying, they leave the table and send you a court order threatening that this is a violation of the current contract.
I don't know you but this is basically ponzi scheme in purple colors with TeX on top.
@percusse I can only say what I see: there is value added by the copy editing and typesetting done in my area, as reading the 'raw' submissions one sees nowadays as 'advanced articles' is often quite painful
@JosephWright well, this is somehow the point. There is true work behind the process. But it shouldn't cost that much. On the other hand, it's difficult, and if I had to estimate the costs in our journal per article, I don't think it would be a small chiffre
@percusse still, I ask how many articles is that? What is the cost per article? Because without this information, 18M pounds is a number that doesn't say anything.
@percusse I've just been involved in getting two articles published 'gold', both with learned society owned journals although one is published by Wiley. We've paid I think £3500 for one and about £2500 for the other.
@tohecz Gold means you pay a lot of money and the publisher removes the paywall specifically from your article. Other articles on the same issue are still behind paywall.
@tohecz Gowers et al. don't argue that it should be free. They argue that the cost of being a journal and the cost of having a subscription to that journal are impossible to justify
Given that the crucial part relies on reviewers, authors and editorial part, the journals are practically leaking money from this system under the cloak of being the mighty publisher who embodies the history of science.
Which is also not true. Anyway long story short, Elsevier finally pressed under the boycott and opened every article that is at least 5 years old on certain math journals.
@JosephWright I've got some experience "from behind the walls". We're a small journal and open-access, which might make a difference. But we basically run a journal with something like 100 articles on 600 pages per year. I'm a part-time, my boss is a part-time, the language editor is a part-time. Then only the printer has to be paid, which could be avoided if we switched to online-only.
Plenty of tasks require hard work but still have no economic value. Research has its own kind of value within the academic community, but this depends on how rapidly it can circulate. So by pursuing economic value of research we are killing its intellectual value.
@tohecz I'd base costings on the RSC (rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/OpenScience/Fees.asp) as I know that there is a keenness to support open access, etc. from the top and as while there is profit made it goes back into the wider profession
@tohecz So about 10 people for an average journal, then?
@JosephWright depends on what your average journal is. I would, for instance, spend much less time on typesetting if we were more strict in it (and forbid word)
@JosephWright well, 50k per worker, one worker per 300 pages, that's like 150 pounds per page, so yes 1000 pounds per article seems like a good figure. Because as I say, we are probably very inefficient, I would be able to do much more than twice as much as I do now as a full time.
@percusse In chemistry, Elsevier are a small player for the 'core' stuff (and mianly the 'also ran' journals) while Wiley mainly publish journals owned by learned socs, with the two biggest players being learned socs themselves (RSC and ACS). So it's much less of an issue from where I look.
@tohecz Tell me about it. When my former supervisor left, I had to submit everything as a single author. Let me copy paste a review I got because of this fact
This paper is practically useless. It needs to go to control theory conferences.
Then it got published on IEEE as a recommended paper when I had another supervisor
@percusse Of course you do take a quick look at who the author(s) are, but that's mainly for interest. Then you read the science and it doesn't matter who wrote it.
@JosephWright I think academic system is not scalable and we are stuck with this. Many irrelevant traditions are mistaken as rigor. I can't shake of the bitterness of the practice even after I got out of it.
@percusse I meant that if you have a series of papers ongoing on a subject then quite apart from the fact they are yours they have to be cited in a good paper anyway
@AndrewCashner I know experts on guessing the reviewers, their success rate is above 50% for those cases where they were able to verify the name in some way.
Is it a good idea to maintain a single large bibtex database or should one split it into multiple files? I have compiled a very large India-specific database (over 100,000 records) from various sources. Should one keep it as a single file or split it up? What is the best practice?
A version lighter than using TikZ:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\kumarsymbol}{%
\begingroup\setlength{\unitlength}{\fontcharht\font`A}%
\begin{picture}(.5,1)
\roundcap
\put(0,1){\line(2,-1){.25}}
\put(.25,.875){\line(0,-1){.75}}
\put(.25,.125){\l...
The difference between a poor or meh question and a stellar question can often simply be someone understanding it and providing it a great answer. I can't begin to count the number of times I've justified re-opening a question as a moderator by saying:
Look at the answer it got, though. This ...
OK, how about this?
Should be understandable by everyone, irrespective of culture.
