Here's an answer that needs a vote to get the question out of the "unanswered" queue. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33146/… (Note that the answer is CW so I'm not posting this in an attempt to get more rep!). Do people think that this was an acceptable way to deal with this question?
@DenilsonSá The simplest way to do this is to put the content of all figures which should be on one page into onefigure. The figure environment is just a container, you can have multiple images and \captions in it.
You could of course also place them in an \afterpage{\clearpage <figures>\clearpage} (afterpage package).
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@wh1t3 By the rules of the game, by virtue of having your TikZ answer accepted instead of mine, you take my place in the TikZ-rankings. This means that you are now allowed to challenge Jake for the TikZ-title. Lykke til!
@speldosa In your community poll question on meta do you mean "What features is LaTeX missing?" Your question as it now reads means something like "What features did LaTeX use to have that it no longer has" or "What feature that I like in some other software do I wish LaTeX had when I use LaTeX.
@egreg Agreed. I already get confused with such constructs in Python and Ruby. MoonScript might be interesting because of the eventual easy learning curve, but I'd recommend to use Lua directly instead of another language built on top of it.
@PauloCereda Yes. I remember students doing TAMC going around with heaps of cards all carefully numbered. TAMC is the acronym of "Teoria e Applicazioni delle Macchine Calcolatrici", how the course in computer science for students in mathematics was called at the time (I didn't take it): "Theory and Applications of Computing Machines".
@egreg I'd love to see one of those computing machines. The closest I got was our "patinho feio" - "ugly duck" - the first microcomputer with a classical model built in Brazil. I have a conference in São Paulo in the beginning of the year, I'll take a photo of it and post here. :)
@PauloCereda Those weren't really "machines": there was a room full of I-don't-know-what. The students had to submit the cards to some clerk and come back one or two days later, maybe to discover that a card had been punched badly or a number was wrong.
Grrrrr. Microtype is evil. I'm now noticing every book that doesn't have hyphens protruding from the margin slightly and it is bugging me how much worse it looks.
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@Canageek As I noted in the second comment, Mac users generally understand how their files are organized in their computer; Windows users generally don't. This is a fundamental design difference in the MacOS and Windows: in windows, your main access to documents is intended to be via a specific application such as Office, rather than through the File Explorer. Because of this decision, Windows users tend to get lost if they need to use the same file with different applications. Mac users don't.
@AlanMunn You know very different Mac users then I do. I thought one of the guiding principles of MacOS was to hide things from the user, that everything should be automatic? At least that is what I've gotten from John Siracusa's writings.
Hiding "things" isn't the same thing as hiding files. At the right level of abstraction, any user interface "hides" things; the shell itself hide things from you. And a GUI obviously hides things. What I've noticed over many years of dealing with students who use both systems is that generally, naive Mac users have a better understanding of their computer's organization than naive Windows users.
Since I have no reasons to believe that either set of users is smarter than the other, this observation must follow roughly from some property of the OS. I.e. in the normal course of using the MacOS you come to understand things differently than in the normal course of using Windows.
@AlanMunn Interesting- I think you might be right about file systems, but I'd wonder about understanding of the rest of the OS, how often users get away from the pre-installed programs, understand how email/web browsing works, etc
@AlanMunn On the other hand, I'm the crazy bastard who is taking a Computer Arcitecture class as he doesn't like computers being black boxes, so now I'm learning assembly and CPU diagrams.
@Canageek I guess that depends mainly on your needs. Most students have MSOffice; Safari is a pretty good browser, and almost everyone uses Gmail instead of a dedicated mail client these days. The kind of understanding I'm interested in is functional understanding: do I understand things enough to do the stuff I need to do. Most Mac users don't know anything about using the command line, but they don't need to.
@AlanMunn Whereas I think everyone should understand the basics of how the computer does things (File types, URLS, how RAM and the hard disk work) to make them less vulnerable to phishing and trojans and such.
@Canageek Certainly some of that basic knowledge is useful; I haven't seen much of a difference in different OS users at that level. Some people understand it and some don't. What is interesting to me is how many of your generation don't really know very much about computers despite most having used them since they were kids.
Nous avons donc, mémorisé avec chaque nœud, une représentation de sa couleur, sous la forme d’un entier représentant la chaîne de caractères utilisée pour nommer cette couleur dans le format de sortie.
Thus we have, memorized with each node, a representation of its color as an integer representing the string used to name this color in the output format.
À titre anecdotique, signalons que la gestion des langues a connu, en passant de PDFTEX à LuaTEX, un glissement similaire à celui présenté ici pour les couleur, passant de l’usage de bidules au stockage individuel avec chaque nœud.
@Patrick: As a note, let's note that language management, from PDFTEX to LuaTEX, has overcome a similar change to that of colors, going from using whatsits to individual storage within each node.
@egreg There are always tag badges. But I don't need to tell that to you (2 silver, 21 bronze tag badges, another bronze tag badge scheduled for tomorrow).
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