In Canada the spelling litre is standard, though both liter and litre are common and accepted. However, the unit is always written US style, mL.
It turns out that in siunitx \litre and \liter are not synonyms. \litre gives l while \liter gives L.
I have used \litre quite a few times throughtou...
I voted for deletion on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/236733/… because it is an exact duplicate and hence two questions with the same title were on the top of another questions related Q column.
@Nasser @egreg: You will get the same issue with book too as soon as you use \frontmatter and \mainmatter. If you want to number the page consecutivly in the pdf use the pdfpagelabels=false option of hyperref. You should also disable the pageanchors for the titlepage to avoid that hyperref complains about a double page1.
@Nasser I personnally do find pdfpagelabels=false a bit confusing as the page with 2 in the footer must be printed as page 3, So I normally would number e.g. the titlepage in roman, so that I get "i, 1-10".
@Lembik it's an inconsistent solution. TeX has a standard way of looking into directories, and this shall be followed. BIBINPUTS is really a wrong patch to a non-existent problem
@yo' I wish. :) At first, due to time restrictions, I was not able to submit anything to Stringology. Then they extended the deadline to last Thursday, so I am trying very hard to send a submission. :)
@Lembik @JosephWright It works fine for me. If I do "set BIBINPUTS=test1" on a command line then biber finds a bib in the subfolder test1 which it didn't find before. Beside this biber supports the switch --input-directory.
@JosephWright I see that sometimes people use the mathematica tag when they really mean math. Would it be useful to rename that tag to wolfram-mathematica, like they did on StackOverflow? That would clear up the confusion.
@JosephWright People sometimes want a tag that refers to "math" or "mathematics", which is called "mathematica" in many languages. They start typing "mat..." and the "Mathematica" tag comes up, so they just accept it. Either because they don't pay attention (which is understandable) or because they don't realize that it doesn't mean maths in English. If instead "wolfram-mathematica" came up, they wouldn't accept that tag accidentally.
On StackOverflow that tag used to be misused all the time. It isn't misused since the renaming.
On TeX.SE though it's not a very common tag, and there didn't seem to be that many misuses. I corrected two today. In total there were 68 questions only. So it's not a big deal.
On Mathematica.SE we get math questions daily because people confuse it with Math.SE.
Yep, @Nasser is active both on Mathematica.SE and he was a regular contributor to the mathematica tag on StackOverflow (when that tag used to be popular), so he is very familiar with the situation.
@Szabolcs @JosephWright @Nasser yes, simply raise the question on meta. We had a lot of tag related questions and answers specially at the beginning. There may be an easy way such as adding a tag-alias or several aliases to catch possible tag synonyms and choose a canonical tag. A meta discussion leads to the best solution and is a reference for future similar cases, better than just chat. Though it's ok to discuss here as well.
@JosephWright I think there is a bug in the \clearpage definition in l3galley. You are storing the equivalent to \write -1 {} in a tl-variable but it is never executed.
@PauloCereda Yay! I can't remember if I've already asked (my memory's so unreliable) but is there any way of accessing the file basename. For example % arara: xindy: {modules: [basename]}
@PauloCereda @PauloCereda: You know that's he's a spoof version of that other Austrian guy, .... I can't remember his name ,.... that bloke with sun glasses and who says: "I'll be back" ;-)
@JosephWright luacolor, apart from not working at all with luatex 0.85 was using\luatexluaescape so probably hasn't worked since start of last year when we dropped the prefixing
Hello everyone! :D I was wondering if you guys could help me achieve something. I want to quickly check how some numbers look in every available font for pdflatex. Do you guys have a small document that does a loop printing say "1,2,3,4" in all the fonts that pdflatex offers?
@Alenanno tex itself doesn't know which fonts are available but you could generate a file using find as above that just made a list of filenames to loop through, not all of them will have an encoding that has 1,2,3,4 in the usual slots, that's harder to detect
You are replacing the first Algorithm with a word that contains Algorithm, so your second patch will change ggggAlgorithmus, and so you now need an third patch ...
@Johannes_B I have never heard of any of these formats. I know of MLA, APA, IEEE, ACS, RSC, and Chicago. Oh, and Science and Nature each have their own I think.
That I've seen RSC is the best and other people should switch to it.
D. B. Leznoff is shorter then Leznoff, D. B. by 1 character.
Which on a lot of papers will add up to quite a bit. Plus I find their use of italics much nicer then the ACS version.
@Johannes_B Idea: Every year the citation format with the least number of users in each field must merge with another format. In the end each field will only have one. :D
@Johannes_B Databases are unreliable. dx.doi.org has gone down before. I think there should be a human-parables format included with the paper. I think all papers should ADD the DOI as part of the citation though.
@Johannes_B Now, if you were to make a new PDOI (Parsable DOI) that was formatted something like JournalShort.YEAR.ISSUE.NUMBER.PAGE I'd be down for that.
@Johannes_B Yes, but when I compile the document one will take more characters, and thus be more of a pain when printing it out.
@Johannes_B Also take up more space when I'm citing it in things that have page limits, or on posters.
@Johannes_B Have you tried reading scientific papers on a smart phone? It does not work well. Also: Government applications have very strict page limits, and lots of people still present posters at confrences.
@Johannes_B Also less space taken up on a powerpoint slide
@Johannes_B Actually I format those by hand in LaTeX. Well, I produce the citation in Biber, then recode it to look the same. Easier then figuring out how to put citations in body text under various headings.
Ok, here is an idea. Multithreaded LaTeX. Thread one compiles the PDF, thread 2 starts and stays a page behind, to get the references right. You could also add a .bib thread between these if needed.
@Canageek and I suppose it took some terrible time like a couple of seconds to process the document. If it took less than 15 minutes per page (where I started) I have no sympathy.
@DavidCarlisle No, it didn't take long, it was just really annoying as then it would then cool the CPU off, and spin back down right away. So I'd get these bursts of noise whenever I compiled. Don't know why the CPU was sitting right at the border of fan off/fan on.
Question: Should it be title = "{{\it SHELXT} -- Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination}" or title = "{{\it SHELXT} --- Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination}"?
Also, is it worth finding every case where IUPAC's export system did \it instead of \textit?
@yo' If they do and provide a zip containing your files, the user will have them, ready for access, and probably alter them (though that is harder with L3). So you will possibly have a dozen different files with the same name around. Much more unlikely, if you publish on CTAN, since nobody would add article.cls or something like that.
I again assured myself that people aiming at "the correct look" in LaTeX rather than "the correct code" always end with a complete mess all around the place. If you do it the right way, the mess is mostly limited to the preamble.
@UlrikeFischer Pfefer is my typo, agreed, but blame the package for the \unit command, about the comma, well I ask a teacher of German language about that ;-)
@ChristianHupfer Back in school, there was a guy in our class, very intelligent, a physics guy. He didn't speak much. In a german lesson the teacher aasked: Can you tell us something about commas?. The reply was a very stern: I don't use commas.
@yo' If you want a little freak out, check the comments section on Overleaf. Some crazy stuff in there.
@ChristianHupfer I don't care about duden but about the reading rhythmus of the cooking steps. If you want to put a comma there, then you need a semicolon before the mitrösten so that is clear to which step the bis-sentence belongs. As a cook I like clear separations of the instructions.
@ChristianHupfer I'm assuming a cook who is stressed. But I also like a consistent style. Actually I think the best would be if there were an "und" before mitrösten as it is the last instruction.
@UlrikeFischer I wanted to change the german wikibooks thingie on lists to contain a sample of \item Braunbärand \item Schwarzbár and \item Stachelbär but Nasenbär would fit in quite well. :-)
U+005c REVERSE SOLIDUS \ \backslash \textbackslash
U+006e LATIN SMALL LETTER N n
U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E e
U+0077 LATIN SMALL LETTER W w
U+0063 LATIN SMALL LETTER C c
U+006f LATIN SMALL LETTER O o
U+006d LATIN SMALL LETTER M m
U+006d LATIN SMALL LETTER M m
U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A a
U+006e LATIN SMALL LETTER N n
U+0064 LATIN SMALL LETTER D d
U+007b LEFT CURLY BRACKET { { \lbrace
U+005c REVERSE SOLIDUS \ \backslash \textbackslash
@StrongBad you have zero width spaces in that line see ^^^
@StrongBad ` U+200c ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER ‌` immediately before the # (just delete the [#1] and retype it)
I use Texstudio. I have installed package {algorithm} and {algpseudocode}. The unrecognized command are all marked in red, but they can be complied. I want to know, why this problem appears and how to solve it.
Many thanks
Latex experts: I have basic question on fonts. I know nothing about how fonts work in latex. But when I compile my document to pdf, and inside pdf, asks it to tell me which fonts some text is (I have pdf pro, which can do this), it tells me the font is NimbusRomNo9L-Regu, but in my Latex, I load the package \usepackage{times} , expecting the font to be Times Roman? Is this just different name for same font?
In Latex, I do
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{times}
And the interesting thing, is that if I open the above menu in pdf, I do see Time-Roman down the list. So why is it not time Roman already?
And if I try to change the font inside PDF to Time-Roman, I get this message
Followed by
So why isn't my font in PDF time-roman already? Isn't this what the package times supposed to do?
So, I've been loading Times in my documents via the following method
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{tgtermes}
So as to get the math support of mathptmx but the better kerning and such of tgterms.
However today I noticed there are a TON of Times packages on CTAN:
Ti...
@Nasser Times is a Typeface. Times New Roman is one version of it. LaTeX has a few others that look ALMOST identical, but how well they are put into the computer file varies a lot. times is the oldest one, and a lot of people have put a lot of work into making it better since then
Here, use this block and see how it looks: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} \usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
@Nasser Nah, Times New Roman is Microsoft's cheap Times knockoff. That is why they keep trying to get people to move to Cambria, they are embarrassed by it.
@Nasser But yeah, check out tug.dk/FontCatalogue it shows you what every font LaTeX has looks like, and has commands you can copy and paste in to make it work.
In Canada the spelling litre is standard, though both liter and litre are common and accepted. However, the unit is always written US style, mL.
It turns out that in siunitx \litre and \liter are not synonyms. \litre gives l while \liter gives L.
I have used \litre quite a few times throughtou...
I use Texstudio. I have installed package {algorithm} and {algpseudocode}. The unrecognized command are all marked in red, but they can be complied. I want to know, why this problem appears and how to solve it.
Many thanks
