I'd like to have another mass on Sunday, but unfortunately we don't have enough people to work on the liturgy. I play in all the masses we have.
@egreg: Speaking of litanies, one day, we had a visiting priest. Then in the middle of the mass he asked me to sing the litany. My songbook wasn't there that day. I started looking at the altars "hunting" for saints. I was singing: "Saint... er... er... ELISABETH OF HUNGARY..."
@PauloCereda At the time many kings, emperors and nobles became saints. My patron saint was a German emperor and also his wife is a saint: Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg. They're buried in a wonderful church in Bamberg, Bavaria.
@PauloCereda Oh, no: there are some modern ones that are terribly awful. Others are disputable, also among the ancient ones. But ancient towns have several beautiful churches. In Venice there are at least 10 of the highest quality, and maybe 20 that are very beautiful. The simply beautiful are hard to count. One is always surprised at seeing how many churches there are in Venice.
@PauloCereda I once was at a Mass in a Benedictin monastery in Tuscany. Almost two hours! But very spiritual.
That monastery has also an important cycle of frescoes in a cloister: Monte Uliveto Maggiore.
@egreg Ah, surely Italy has marvellous churches! My mom has an old photo of her first communion in front of a church, it seems to be Santa Maria Assunta. Seems to be a beautiful place.
@PauloCereda The church was built in the '50s, because the old church had been damaged during the war. Monghidoro was on the "Gothic line", the last line of resistence of the Wehrmacht.
All those villages on the mountains south of Bologna suffered heavy bombing.
The church of St. Anthony in Lisbon is not in my list of beautiful churches, I'm afraid. It's an anonymous baroque building. But the Lisbon cathedral is among the finest.
@PauloCereda It's a mixture of gothic and romanesque; it has many domes and is very characteristic. Inside there are gorgeous bronze statues by Donatello and many other works of art: it's 700 years old, after all.
Now it's bed time; I'll let Mozart's oboe concerto finish.
@wh1t3 Convert your comment on my question tex.stackexchange.com/q/34729/86 to an answer: that'll give you another TikZ answer. I don't think that that would work in the most general case (where one picture really is a sub-picture of the other) but would work where the two are more "side by side". Nonetheless, I think that it would still be a suitable answer for this question.
@wh1t3 When I try to imagine what you're suggesting then I imagine that you'd define the two separately in the code, so each could only refer to the other in a static way. You couldn't define a bit of the first picture, then the second, and then return to the first (at least, not easily). You'd need to do this if you wanted to position the second depending on some other stuff in the first, and then position later stuff in the first depending on the size of the second.
But maybe I'm picturing it all wrong, which is why I want to see an example.
@AndrewStacey: Hmm, I don't directly see a way to accomplish that.
perhaps the first (sub) picture can be put in a box, then used in the second picture. That way the position can be determined in the second picture and it's width is known and can be used after it is placed to influence later stuff in the second picture...
My school's prescribed book uses the weird letter E character without explaining what it is in the first chapter when it talks about the binomial equation. I can't find it on Google either because I don't know what it means or its name. Please help me!
$\huge (x+a)^n = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{n}{k...
@egreg I don't think so. :) It's probably a new pedagogical approach, so instead of saying summation, teachers say "crazy E letter". :P
That reminds me of a famous trolling episode. Someone wrote d(>_<)b in a forum; someone then asked, "how do you get that backwards b?", and one replied, "it's called d."
Do you know the scene in GB Shaw's "In Good King Charles's Golden Days", where Newton tries to explain his servant how to do multiplications by summing logarithms?
@PauloCereda The servant wants to buy three fish at seven pence each and doesn't know how to compute the total, because she's only accustomed to "sixpence" coins, and "sevenpence" coins don't exist. So Newton tells her that log3 is so and so, that log7 is so and so and the sum gives x, which is the logarithm of a number between 20 and 22. :)
I found that a bounty which I awarded ws not recorded. I assume that that has to do with the use of several tabs in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The issue with the tabs I have already noticed once or twice when voting for questions or answers. Then the count of 'Votes cast' on my user profile...
@egreg I suspect the behaviour is unlikely to happen because it would be more an abnormal Ajax-stuff behaviour going on than a browser issue itself. As fair as I know, there's no way of communication or exchange between tabs contents, unless of course is - again - Ajax related. Oh, maybe a persistence mechanism (cookies). :)
@egreg Ajax is the fancy name of asynchronous request/response processes. They happen in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page, e.g., when clicking the arrow button to upvote a question, a request is sent to the server, which "saves your action" and return a response. :)
I was useful! dances I finally found a question I could help with, answered, and am now the highest voted answer. And here I was worried that since it was kind of a workaround (Reduce ugly hyphenation by using microtype to have less hypenation, period) that it would be downvoted.
@Canageek: I have hardly ever seen anything downvoted. Not to take anything away from your glorious answering, seems like a perfectly acceptable answer :)
@MartinScharrer I see from the starred messages that you are a legendary user. Congratulations! We knew that already anyway. But nice to get a yellow dot additionally. Almost at the same time with the birthday of the site...
@PauloCereda I think to have been the 100th upvoter. I upvote old answers and questions when I find them interesting (but I'm not chasing after them either).
See my code: With \diamondshape it works but with \circleshape it does not. What is wrong?
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{shapepar}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\shapepar{\circleshape}
{\lipsum*[1]}
\end{document}
I need help to install the comicsans package and the fonts. My system is TeX Live 2011, and Windows 7. Below is what I did:
Copied comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf in
C:\texlive\texmf-local\fonts\ttf. (I created the ttf directory.)
Copied dvips, tfm, and vf directories from the comicsans.zip to C:\tex...
@PauloCereda Would you like to answer? I won't. A student of mine once presented her final essay for a "cultural" course I was lecturing. She had to talk about the essay and did well. I made her promise not to use ComicSans any more in her life and only after that I told her the grade.
So I have an essay which has a 10 page limit, must be doublespaced, with 1 inch margins and 12 point typeface.
I'm currently at 11 pages, and while going a little over the pagecount is fine, I still have to write in a conclusion and add a couple of more footnotes.
I know this is blasphemy, but ...
I am submitting a paper to a conference that has a limit of 10 pages. I have edited and edited the text, but the paper still fills 11 pages, and I am reluctant to remove anything. What tricks can I use to make the paper fit in 10 pages?
I know about \vspace{-1mm}, but are other and better tr...
@JosephWright Is there anyway I can point out that a old answer is outdated? For example that \usepackage{times} should be TeX Gyre Termes? Also, microtype to save space? I tried my 10 page (double spaced) with and without it, and there was no change in length at all.
@PauloCereda I assumed there was when I typed it in and it added in curly braces.
You can still get a "doublespaced" appearance by saying something like
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{.3\baselineskip plus .2\baselineskip}{.2\baselineskip}
for the section titles. For oldstyle numbers I'm afraid that no Times clone usable with pdflatex has them (Times was actually born without them, I've looked at the first copies of *The Times* published with it).
@egreg I like microtype too much, and I'm trying to keep most of my tricks compatible with ACS submissions. Hopefully they'll have updated their installation by the time I get my PhD in 10 years or so.
@egreg Why don't you make that an answer to the question I was a dupe of? Also I hate Times, I just was going to use it as it was small.
@Canageek I don't think it fits the context of a scientific paper. But there you find many suggestions: if you have lists, then enumitem has the "compact" option. Also titlesec has it, maybe \usepackage[compact,small]{titlesec} does something if you have many sections.
Dirtiest trick: \setstretch{1.5} instead of the default 1.655 of setspace. Times has also a small x-height, so this could still pass as a doublespaced document.
Just to show some variations, here is a key-value approach:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{keyval,booktabs}
\makeatletter
\def\ui@key#1{\define@key{ui}{#1}{\@namedef{ui@#1}{##1}}}
\ui@key{name}\ui@key{place}\ui@key{phone}\ui@key{mobile}
\ui@key{email}\ui@key{website}\ui@key{style}...
I have read How to protect text from being split by a float? by it does not exactly cover what I want.
I have a text that is interspersed with figures. I do not wish to copy all the figures to the end of the document, but wish that they all appear there, leaving the text proper uninterrupted by ...
@egreg: I was ready to write a question about commands with named parameters (other name we give for key/value entries), and then you write this great answer. :)
@lockstep My TA looked over my essay and said since I'm only citing one work by each author I should admit the works title from future short citations to save space. Is there an easy way to do that?
@lockstep If not I'll just go and specify a short title, which I noticed when looking over the documentation last night.
@Canageek Is this some sort of authortitle or verbose style? I don't use these normally, sorry. So ... either ask a question and hope for Audrey or Marco, or resort to specifying a short title.
@PauloCereda Yes, it's a great achievement: people remember names. I always go to the manual for the obscure optional arguments of \parbox and I never remember what's the first argument of \rule for.
\vrule width ... height ... depth ... is way better.
@egreg So true. :) I can't find the link, but I remember a really really bad Java code available on a well-known project. One of the class methods had 80 parameters.
I am writing a history essay using biblatex-chicago. My TA said that since I am only referencing one work by each author I should omit the title of the work from the shortened citations (each citation after the first one)
For example: Right now for the two of the citations in my essay I have:
"...
@PauloCereda 80 parameters? How can one remember them? Yes, I've written macros with 9 parameters, but they were just for internal processing, something like \@startsection
I found that a bounty which I awarded ws not recorded. I assume that that has to do with the use of several tabs in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The issue with the tabs I have already noticed once or twice when voting for questions or answers. Then the count of 'Votes cast' on my user profile...
See my code: With \diamondshape it works but with \circleshape it does not. What is wrong?
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{shapepar}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\shapepar{\circleshape}
{\lipsum*[1]}
\end{document}
I need help to install the comicsans package and the fonts. My system is TeX Live 2011, and Windows 7. Below is what I did:
Copied comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf in
C:\texlive\texmf-local\fonts\ttf. (I created the ttf directory.)
Copied dvips, tfm, and vf directories from the comicsans.zip to C:\tex...
So I have an essay which has a 10 page limit, must be doublespaced, with 1 inch margins and 12 point typeface.
I'm currently at 11 pages, and while going a little over the pagecount is fine, I still have to write in a conclusion and add a couple of more footnotes.
I know this is blasphemy, but ...
I am submitting a paper to a conference that has a limit of 10 pages. I have edited and edited the text, but the paper still fills 11 pages, and I am reluctant to remove anything. What tricks can I use to make the paper fit in 10 pages?
I know about \vspace{-1mm}, but are other and better tr...
Just to show some variations, here is a key-value approach:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{keyval,booktabs}
\makeatletter
\def\ui@key#1{\define@key{ui}{#1}{\@namedef{ui@#1}{##1}}}
\ui@key{name}\ui@key{place}\ui@key{phone}\ui@key{mobile}
\ui@key{email}\ui@key{website}\ui@key{style}...
