This question/concern may sound like a troll but is not. I'm more and more concerned on how relevant it is to dedicate energy to the development of next generation tools like LaTeX3, LuaTex, Tikz... Some people agree that the pdf format is doomed to disappearance because of its lacks of interacti...
What do people make of this? I'm minded to comment something like 'If you go down the totally flexible route then clearly not only TeX but any idea of typesetting in advance of viewing are out'.
Damn those snob editors sitting in Starbucks spilling their lattes over expensive Macbooks just because the barista wrote their names with bad kerning. ♥ — Paulo Cereda17 secs ago
In my .log file I get multiple errors of the following format:
pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier
(name{equation.5.1.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored
Where if I look up these hyperref references in the .aux file I indeed see that different labels are attach...
I have defined two custom macros:
\translation{ORIGINAL}{TRANSLATION}
\printtranslations
The first macro prints out the translation and puts the original and the translation into a list. The list can be printed using the \printtranslations macro.
This is working great. However i also want to ...
@percusse On the 'novels' question, I'm thinking about a lot of what one sees in supermarkets an bookshops: novels consisting almost entirely of text. That is admittedly a subset but I would say from what I see in the shops quite a large one.
@JosephWright It is not only about the text itself. From the cover to the introduction they just don't know anything other than publishing software. Plus if they don't use them they feel like they are not being professional.
So it's a reinforced behavior.
And of course there are lots of novels that have images and illustrations, two of them looking at me now.
@percusse Covers are not really something TeX is right for in any case: also true of a textbook or whatever
@percusse Yes, I wasn't saying all novels have no illustrations (most of the ones I have are either very graphical to the point where TeX would be a disaster or have plate pages that would be fine)
@JosephWright I wouldn't want to show how colophons and ToCs of many Penguin or Norton books can be done in TeX to an outsider. That would surely drive them away.
@percusse As I say, I was thinking of a particular subset of novels: mass-market ones, no notes or whatever, just text. There are a lot of them when I visit the bookshop.
The point is that they won't learn by themselves. And learning TeX is really tough. My point is not that they can't do it. But the parts that they can't do are enough to skip TeX.
@percusse My reading of the question is that it's really about the typesetters, not the publishers: the latter presumably read the drafts in a form that the authors are happy with, so most likely word processed
@percusse Interesting, but they only focus on one aspect of the issue with reflowable devices
@percusse No discussion of e.g the 'correct' typeface for different text, size of text versus margins or the idea of manual intervention/rewriting, all of which feature in classical typography
@percusse I wasn't criticising, just saying that there are more issues than just the linebreaking algorithm
@percusse It's a general problem with any reflowable stuff even on a powerful PC, something they perhaps avoid mentioning (would people be happy if their desktop PC took several seconds or more to show content of a website when resizing?)
@percusse I'd only seen the DEK one before, not the line breaking one. It is pretty good: explains the reasons clearly.
@percusse Perhaps the one thing they could have added is that the algorithm used by the Kindle or whatever has to work all of the time: there is no chance of the odd manual adjustment that there is in preparing a static document
I am using LaTeX to write my dissertation, and I have realised that on the table of contents and on every chapter page, LaTeX leaves a lot of empty space.
What I mean is that lets say in the page where chapter 1 begins, from the top of the page until the chapter title there is much more vertical...
edit legend, also all parametrs my graph under my pictures,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usepackage{caption} % <----
\captionsetup{font = small} % <----
\usepackage[active,floats,tightpage]{preview}% <---
\setlength\PreviewBorder{1em}
...
@DavidCarlisle I am working on .NET... Can handle any possible version numbering on that planet. Even the stupidest (oh, already mentioned .NET before)
@Paulo Survived some food poisoning, now back to work. It's the bike shed problem, though---too many important things to worry about so instead I worry about fonts, etc.
I see the "LaTeX for novels" question was closed after I answered, and I can understand why. Do people normally delete their answers to closed questions?
@egreg I've seen numerous 17th-century Spanish pieces of music where "Victor" is used as an exclamation like "Huzzah!"
@egreg and don't forget the Silesians! They should get a part of the Poland, too, and create a new state. However, the most important are the Lower Sorbians.
s/Sorbians/Sorbs/ I always get this one wrong in English
(it's all confusing: Slavic vs. Slovak vs. Slovenian, Czech vs. Bohemian, Sorbs vs. Serbs vs. Serbians, Cyrillic vs. Russian Cyrillic vs. Serbian Cyrillic vs. Ukranian Cyrillic [all commonly called bukvy], Latvia vs. Lithuania)
@ChristianHupfer I was online every day for the last two weeks, even if it were just ten minutes. But what do you expect sitting in front of the library with \SI{-8}{\celsius} and a crappy battery? :-p
@yo' Sorry that was my dumb mistake. (Technically it's G augmented; B augmented would have an F double sharp.) But I see, you're using the augmented on the dominant -- why not if you like it!
@yo' It's not too hard to play, and will transport you to a strange and different world of harmony. (Also interesting because Liszt literally sets every single word of the Latin mass in the organ music.0
Every year I need to refill my beloved organiser. But the refills on simple A5 paper are sold for incredible prices around $20.
Is there a way to create organiser inlays using LaTeX?
@Christian I guess it's nice when something is still left for the community to fill in. It's a do-it-for-me question where the OP does it for her/himself.
@Christian What if someone develops a new package? Is there a legit way for them to promote it to the community here?
@AndrewCashner: I don't think so as it copies the design of that inlays, and his most probably copyrighted by some company (the manufactorers of such inlays)?
@yo' Oh, it's a very odd work to actually perform. But it's interesting to study. Wish I could play through it for you. Maybe I will figure out how to make a recording. I used to have nice equipment but sold it a long time ago when I needed the money.
I'm just curious, how many mosquito "bites" (mosquitoes which have removed blood from a person) would it take to remove enough blood to put a person into shock? (Putting aside all reasons why it wouldn't happen, how many would it take?)
@PauloCereda Of course a more relevant question is how many mosquitoes does it take to get dengue or malaria or any other potentially fatal disease. A: 1
Any way of adjusting \sqrt's rule in a similar way one can adjust \frac's rule via \genfrac?
That is remarkable, I checked it with Photoshop CS6 and it found a different color (#231f20), is that zoom too? Is the same sort of command like \genfrac possible for square roots? — I.L. Polak3 mins ago
TeX By Topic (section 21.3 Radicals, p 194) mentions:
> The control sequence `\radical` is followed by a <24-bit number> which specifies a small and a large variant of the left delimiter as was explained above. Joining the delimiter and the rule is done by letting the delimiter have a large depth, and a height which is equal to the desired rule thickness. The rule can then be placed on the current baseline. After the delimiter and the ruled expression have been joined the whole is shifted vertically to achieve the usual vertical centering [...]
"the desired rule thickness" seems to be some adjustable quantity... Yes?
@JosephWright I want to append tex4ht hooks for inserting html codes to existing macro defined with \DeclareDocumentCommand
"Although this package has been written with the experimental L A TEX3 macros, the commands can’t be used to patch commands defined with the xparse interface, in general."
@michal.h21 No, doesn't help here as most document commands are not templated
@AlanMunn The problem with patching is it's a mess. What should happen is that defined changes should be made using clear mechanisms. Of course, the problem is that this is a 'work in progress'.
I'd like to add TeX4ht support for my package, which is written in LaTeX3.
Is it safe to switch \ExplSyntaxOn inside a .4ht file? Should I switch it off at the end?
If it was NOT safe, how should I proceed to redefine (in classic syntax) a macro that has a LaTeX3 name (with underscores)
@AlanMunn My point is that a 'well designed' command created with \DeclareDocumentCommand should basically just pass all of the (now required) arguments to some code-level interface, so it's at that level one should be altering behaviours.
for commands created with xparse: the idea is that and changes to behaviour not interface should happen in those two code-level things. (Frank has in the past wanted another level of abstraction: not sure if that is still the case but it's certainly not what people do!)
@ChristianHupfer @JosephWright @PauloCereda I have to be honest with you, i am standing in the students club, and i thought this would work out of the box now. Installing the CTAN-package containing the font and just run the code. Works for me. Why is metafont called here? I am not completely sober right now ...
@Johannes_B The name in the fontspec command has to be the name as it would appear in e.g. a regular app, not the filename. So perhaps "Free Serif" is the name?
@ChristianHupfer This is were i live (hometown and students club) -> club.tu-freiberg.de/… :-D
@JosephWright @AlanMunn If i understoof that correctly, you both are saying the opposite. As far as i know, XeLaTeX will find the name (not file name) if the font is system installed.
@evinda Hi. To be honest, that was a bit like »My red sock has some difficulties with the toaster«. Can you give us some more information? What package for algorithms do you use? What line do you want to change iin which way?
@evinda This might be a good question for the main site. Maybe there is already a question on that by another user we could find.
@Johannes_B I wrote two long sentences and instead of the rest of the line being under the first line where the first part finishes, it is cut...Do you have an idea what I could do?
@evinda it is best to ask questions on the main site with an example document, but presumably you wrote the text into a construct that does not linebreak eg \mbox or a tablular c column or ....
@Gregory as far as i can see miktex tries to be more "like a windows program" but texlive (which I've used since before it was called that) is a straight port of unix tex
@Johannes_B if a font can't be found, kpathse's last ditch attempt to find it is to run metafont and hope it makes the font. time was that would work for most fonts used from tex but if it's a system truetype font it just causes lots of confusing spurious errors before it finally gives up and says the font can't be found
@evinda verbatim will just reproduce the lines that you type. perhaps listings is what you want or just \texttt{...} hard to know, as I said at the beginning it is best to make a small complete example and ask a question on the site, you can not format code here
@DavidCarlisle Thanks for that insight into the difference between TeXLive and MikTeX. From what I read here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175121/… I don't think it'll make a big difference to me as a basic end user. Unless TeXLive is easier to use with Cywin, which is how I'm trying to come to terms with Windows.
@Gregory ah I am a big cygwin user and texlive has cygwin implementations (which is what I use myself) this differs from the native windoes tex live port in that it knows the cygwin file path structure etc
Oh, my. I can narrow that down to two choices easily enough as they gave me a 32-bit machine. Is there a package manager for cygwin that'll install a complete TeXLive package for me?
@Gregory cygwin comes with tex but as with linux distros it's better really to go to tug and just get the texlive installer from there
@evinda i just answered, you know all I did is type texdoc listings and then searched the manual for break until I found the option for linebreaking
@Gregory but just to get started you could use the cygwin package manager tex if that's easier, just run the usual cygwin setup program and select tex.... you only need the one from tug if you want the bleading edge 2014 release of everything
@DavidCarlisle I am writing pseudocode, so it won't exist an other colour, right? So is this better that verbatim? Should I use at all the code listings instead of verbatim?
@evinda if you are writing pseudocode you may instead want one of the algortithm packages (there are several algorithmix, algotrithm2e etc that give a far more "typeset" presenttaion that listings/verbatim/
@evinda they are very different verbatim as its name implies is versy simple and just turns off all latex special codes and prints the text verbatim. listings has a 60 page manual just for that package and it does lots of stuff
@evinda you don't have to change any commands it's up to you, the input using an algorithm package would be completely different looking more like normal latex input than a code section see the example on site eg:
The question is advanced version of my previous one.
I need to name algorithms (package algorithmic) with arbitrary names so it appears like:
Algorithm MyAlgo
and \ref{...} will appear like MyAlgo.
Next code is (by cmhughes) puts A in front of a number:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{a...
@evinda they look very different typically, listings normally looks like code (even if you add some colour and font changes) the algorithm packages typeset pseudocode looking more like math typically
@cassiodoroVicinetti see what I mean: I give you the working document and then mail Frank, then you give him the tick for saying it's hard to fix:-) — David Carlisle19 secs ago
@percusse not too bad. I wrote the original convertor that I showed earlier as fortran to c# as for some classes of function it can be a lot faster to convert (even though the code is slower) than to have a wrapper as there is a high cost of marshalling data from .net to the compiled library especially in quadrature routines where it spends forever marshalling the ages then a millisecond taking an average of a few function evaluations then forever marshalling all the data back...
@percusse the core blas routines are written in assember and re-written for each generation of chip instruction the pure fortran implementations are the "slow" ones:-)
@DavidCarlisle Yes I can imagine. I've also talked to a few closer-to-the-metal people and they also mentioned similar things. I don't know anything about it but seems like the bottleneck indeed.
@DavidCarlisle Ah I didn't know that. But FFT stuff is just crazy. I'm really amazed.
In my .log file I get multiple errors of the following format:
pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier
(name{equation.5.1.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored
Where if I look up these hyperref references in the .aux file I indeed see that different labels are attach...
I have defined two custom macros:
\translation{ORIGINAL}{TRANSLATION}
\printtranslations
The first macro prints out the translation and puts the original and the translation into a list. The list can be printed using the \printtranslations macro.
This is working great. However i also want to ...
edit legend, also all parametrs my graph under my pictures,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usepackage{caption} % <----
\captionsetup{font = small} % <----
\usepackage[active,floats,tightpage]{preview}% <---
\setlength\PreviewBorder{1em}
...
Every year I need to refill my beloved organiser. But the refills on simple A5 paper are sold for incredible prices around $20.
Is there a way to create organiser inlays using LaTeX?
I'm just curious, how many mosquito "bites" (mosquitoes which have removed blood from a person) would it take to remove enough blood to put a person into shock? (Putting aside all reasons why it wouldn't happen, how many would it take?)
I'd like to add TeX4ht support for my package, which is written in LaTeX3.
Is it safe to switch \ExplSyntaxOn inside a .4ht file? Should I switch it off at the end?
If it was NOT safe, how should I proceed to redefine (in classic syntax) a macro that has a LaTeX3 name (with underscores)
The question is advanced version of my previous one.
I need to name algorithms (package algorithmic) with arbitrary names so it appears like:
Algorithm MyAlgo
and \ref{...} will appear like MyAlgo.
Next code is (by cmhughes) puts A in front of a number:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{a...
