@Johannes_B Ah, ha, I see. I use startpage, which is basically an anonymous mirror of Google, but some of that doesn't come up when you search Natalie Weber on start page.
And yes, I emailed her a while ago. I think she's writing her dissertation or something, so she might be busy. I was going to try emailing her again in a few weeks. I think it's been about 4 or so months now since I originally emailed her.
@Johannes_B I've never been, but I'd love to go. The standard abbreviations used in linguistic glossing were jointly developed by Balthasar Bickel at the University of Leipzig, and so I imagine that's why they've come to be called the Leipzig Glossing Rules. :p
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Another question for anyone who might happen to know the answer. How do the different distributions work in terms of handling packages on CTAN? For example, if there's a package that is in TeX Live, is there a way to request that it also be part of MiKTeX, or is that something that is up to the package author?
@ChristianHupfer @yo' Try number one with wet sheets did not work at all. The air was standing still, all i got was a hot room with tropical heat and dampness. Now a nice breeze is going on, opened windows in the west and the east of the apartment. If that doesnt work, i don't know.
@Johannes_B that's strange. It worked for me really well in the morning, when I left the sheet on my (West) balcony. I closed the balcony door at about 2pm and opened the kitchen window at about 4pm, and all went "well"---I didn't get over 32C inside.
@yo' I was looking forward to drinking a nice non-alcoholic beer this evening. When opening, half of the bottleneck came off. Definitely risky drinking it, but maybe running it through a coffe sieve?
What a blasphemy! How dare you visit egreg's profile? His stats are basically numbers coming out of integer overflows. It can very well be 3 instead. — percusse20 hours ago
Hi guys. Is it wrong to use already defined class for your thesis? I have used one and although It has produced beautiful document, I ended up with errors I do not even know where they came from.
@Reem that's what happens a lot when you use a "foreign" class. Other than that, you are fine with using a "foreign" class, given that (1) the license allows it and (2) it's not a complete crap.
I think I'm fine with the license. The problem is my thesis is using xlatex while this class says Package epstopdf Warning: Drivers other than `pdftex.def' are not supported.
@AlanMunn I think it's an age thing: it's a few years old so has epstopdf in the class rather than relying on the fact graphics now loads it as required
@reem The problem is that people who write classes for their own use usually load them up with the packages they used, rather than leaving that up to the document itself.
@reem Learn to use a proper document class (scrbook, scrprt from the KOMA classes) or memoir, and learn to modify it. Those classes provide lots of good and fairly simple methods for customizing the looks of things, and you will save yourself many headaches in the long run. (And learn some more LaTeX along the way.)
@Reem Would you have said 6 days i would have answered with Don't listen to @Alan. But there is enough time to learn the very basics (few days, a week max) and you should really listen to @Alan's advice. ;-)
@PauloCereda In the middle ages, towers were built by rich families to show off their power. Few towers survived, because if a family went in disgrace their tower got destroyed. For some reasons, San Gimignano kept most of its towers.
@AlanMunn -- maybe for most of n. america, but for rhode island, going to the other end of the state is "pack a lunch, and maybe an overnight bag". and that's at most 100 km.
@cfr :D Already forgotten that line ... But I am a little bit angry about that guy. Apparently he is doing Astronomy/Astrophysics and writes such rubbish!
@PauloCereda I am the mod and single user there, and I have to delete my posts there continously, because I am blasphemic as user and am I believer as moderator :-P
We are working on a book (class scrbook) where we would like to have two separate table of contents: one at the beginning of the document for the actual "content" of the book and another one just before the first chapter of the appendix starts, which only contains the chapters and sections of the...
@barbarabeeton Yes, well you do live in the tiniest state. (Or is Delaware smaller?) But here in Michigan I routinely drive to Ann Arbor for concerts and movies, and that's about 100km each way.
@AlanMunn -- rhode island is the smallest; delaware is second. (i've never lived in a "big" state; grew up in maryland, which is sixth. little states have a lot to recommend them. small packages, you know.) but i'm not afraid to drive farther. there's a book fair held in delaware every two years that we attend; about 400 miles. and in an earlier life, i drove from providence to china lake, california, in three days and 10 hours. not bad in a car with a 2-cycle, 45 hp engine.
@barbarabeeton Yes, I went to grad school at UMd, so I know the Md/Va/DC/De area quite well. But I grew up in Toronto, and Ontario is huge (takes two sides of the standard highway map).
@ChristianHupfer Just don't read his questions. Or read them if you feel like it, but don't respond. (Which is actually what I do.) I really do have a mental blacklist. So far, this is the second person to make that list. However, the first person is no longer on it, so there was nobody on it when I added this second. So there is currently one person on it.
[That is, 'read' means 'read with at least the possibility of leaving a comment, posting an answer or otherwise engaging'.]
@yo' Fair point. Christianity SE (if it exists) has never done anything bad to me that I know of, so I agree that it would be mean to encourage this user to visit them as well.
@cfr I have actually only read three of his questions and two them revealed his connection to Astrophysics. As a former Astrophysicist I feel bad about such people ... Well, my blacklist is a little bit longer ;-) But only a little bit ;-)
@cfr So then this interactions with babel and biblatex is just plain screwed up.
@cfr But those errors are from the German, not the English. So I think my solution is correct for the error, but there is an independent problem with ngerman-apa.
@AlanMunn I don't think so. If I use the original code and tell compilation to continue, ignoring the error, I get no errors on the next compilation and no warnings about undefined bib strings. Also, the output then looks correct. I think that entry is supposed to use English strings, isn't it? The manual says that hyphenation was renamed langid so I assume the entries are meant to use english strings.
Hi everyone. I've got a short (and probably easy) question: Is it possible to define a new amsthm environment which is just like the proof environment, except it has "solution" at the beginning instead of "proof"?
@ChristianHupfer It seems to me like the documentation only discusses how to define new environments that are like theorems/definitions/remarks, but not ones based on "proof"
@Danu So you could just copy the code that @ChristianHupfer quoted, put \makealetter before it and \makeatother after it, and change proof to solution, and proofname to solutionname and Proof to Solution.
@Danu If you don't want the qed then you would need to remove that code.
I have this in my preamble now: \makeatletter \newenvironment{solution}[1][\solutionname]{\par \pushQED{\qed}% \normalfont \topsep6\p@\@plus6\p@\relax \trivlist \item[\hskip\labelsep \itshape #1\@addpunct{.}]\ignorespaces }{% \popQED\endtrivlist\@endpefalse } \providecommand{\proofname}{Solution} \makeatother
@Danu If the documentation is unclear, it's most times really necessary to look in to the .sty or .cls file. I was just surprised that proof isn't defined with \newtheorem at all
@ChristianHupfer I guess that, in this case, that may have worked. However, I would've taken much longer! I'm already having trouble finding the latex files in my computer :P
