@egreg -- a food question. more specifically, a pizza question. would you consider the following acceptable as a pizza: cheese and oil, no tomato sauce; on top, very thin slices of ripe tomato; to top it off, pesto. ??? (if you find this acceptable, i have another description of something i like a lot, but i think may stretch your boundaries.)
@DavidCarlisle I thought longtable will figure how to break a very long row across pages, even with images and verbatim in it. But I was wrong. I need to use something else to make 2 column-like pages that I can control as easily as tables.
isn't [t] in longtable[t] supposed to make text align at top of rows? as in \begin{longtable}[t]{p{0.5\textwidth} | p{0.5\textwidth}} but I see something else happening. I can post a MWE. I did not think this worth asking at main board, since I am sure it has easy solution, but I can;t see it now.
@yo' I just tried paracol and it does not work on tex4ht. I can't use multicols, because I want a row to extend as long as I want it. So what other solution is there?
How can one make one row in table go over multiple pages?
@Nasser with tex4ht? I don't know. In general? I don't know unless I see what you want. But I have seen a lot of tables that are not tables, and people solving your very exact problem. Aren't you actually wanting a list rather than a table?
@yo' I want to split the page into 2 halfs. Left and right. But I want the text on either side to extend to as many pages as needed without breaking, and not wrap inside the same page. So I can't use multicols. I can't use table. I do not know what else to try. A list will not work, I need to split the page also.
Like a grid, which extends over as many pages as needed. paracol did that, but it does not work with tex4ht. many things do not work in tex4ht when it comes to columns and such.
@Nasser well, actually, how's it supposed to look in the resulting webpage? Since there are no pagebreaks, can't you simply do:
\noindent
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth-6pt}
FIRST COLUMN
\end{minipage}%
\hspace{12pt}%
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth-6pt}
SECOND COLUMN
\end{minipage}
@yo' I tried it. It does not split in pdf. either. I know that HTML does not have pages., But that is not the point. It is like newspaper. It will go as long as needed in HTML. But it has to also work in pdf. i.e. I need solution that works in pdf and HTML. pracols worked in pdf, i.e. long rows go over many page, but does nothing in tex4ht.
only table works in pdf and tex4ht. but I can't have long row in table. That is the problem.
@yo' I know. half of my latex code is \ifdefined\HCode do this \else do that \fi. I'll stick with table for now, and when the row gets too large I have to manually split it.
I do not think Latex is good at these sort of things. Way too complicated to do these since it is not grid based. if indesign would do math, I'll switch to it. But indesign is terrible in math. (equation editor plugin stuff). so i'll stick to Latex for now.
@Nasser I think you are using the wrong tool for input. You need an abstract data structure and some generator for LaTeX code. Having two good outputs really needs a lot of effort.
@Nasser Two unrelated parallel and potentially unlimited columns are a bad document design. I would hate to have to read it. If the columns are not unrelated but left and right side should be compared then there must be sensible chunks: per page at least two or three points where both sides are aligned.
@JosephWright still leaves others (like creationdate) not working in dvi mode but too bad, at least all Heiko's tests of \ifnum\pdftexversion<130 do something \else dont will do something a bit more sensible (if I don't get round to removing them:-)
@ChristianHupfer it won't even get that far it won't expand at all as it will see some \cite internals as the argument
@s__C well i can't even guess what you intend \newcommand{\somevar}[1]{\def\somevar{#1}} to do so I can't suggest what the code should be. But why do you want a macro for the cite argument anyway, normally you know what you are citing?
@s__C I can't guess what you mean or why you'd need a macro in the cite key but if you define \somevar to be a cite key then \cite{\somevar} will work.
@s__C no, you must have redefined cite (loading any one of the 10000 packages that do that) in that case the expandafter code posted above by @ChristianHupfer will work
I want to display the age of multiple people on my calendar. I can get the current year to come through with \the\year, but I can't figure out how to solve an equation in the option below (part of birthdays.cld)
every 25 August {Mr. Kale's Birthday! \solvethismathproblem{\the\year - 1983 years ...
Say I've got two points (with labeled coordinates, but no explicit numbers), and I'd like to draw a line through them, but I'd like it to extend beyond one of the two. Is there an easy way to do this?
@egreg -- thank you, although that doesn't sound like a really enthusiastic endorsement. so i'll try my other favorite "white pizza": cheese, with topping of slices of artichoke hearts and black olives. would you accept that as a real pizza?
I made visual overview for all units available in TeX. Including a comparison and the definitions/conversions.
The complete code and PDFs (EN, DE; b/w, color) are available at GitHub: https://github.com/tweh/tex-units
One of our friends is a duck. One of them is a welsh speaker. I don't think cfr was trying to be rude. We have a lively community here with injokes. I know that's not unique to TeX.SE, but it does pride itself on its friendliness and not taking itself excessively seriously. I would recommend you think of it more as a demonstration — Au101yesterday
@E.P. I don't understand the downvote of this answer -- You asked about the pecularities of TeX.SX 'high rep' -- well, the Duck jokes or Monty Python jokes or Cricket 'jokes' in chat etc. belong to this pecularities. It's an insider funny thing, that keeps life sweet. I've got accounts on other SE sites but I did not pursue them any longer -- I did not find much relieve in that. I don't agree with anything that happens here as some don't agree what I am writing here on Meta or in TeX.SE (sometimes) — Christian Hupfer23 secs ago
@cfr ;-)
@JosephWright: Although about TeX/LaTeX I fear this is too broad
I have been handed down a number of rather long documents, compiled in plain Tex. My task is to implement the fancytooltip package in these documents for various purposes. The package in question is only compatible with latex according to it's documentation.
After doing some research I have com...
@MaestroGlanz 'I am terribly upset' :D But you should ask our Google Translator here: @DavidCarlisle ;-) He's the expert in all languages in the world, even the ones that do not have been invented so far ;-)
I am currently writing my master's thesis with LaTeX and most things really go super good and a lot better than in Word, but I can't seem to get this one working. What I want:
60 yE/m2s (I hope you know what I mean...)
This is what I tried so far:
\SI{60}{\micro\einstein\per\meter\squared\se...
@ChristianHupfer by the way, i decided to chase a colored blob. My profile page informed me about two missing edit suggestion review stuff things, which i completed within the last three days.
We have a lot of questions on biblatex. A lot on puctuation, a lot about the format of a field, name or list, and a lot about the order of entries. Does anybody think we need a couple of more specialised tags, for example biblatex-punct, biblatex-format and biblatex-order?
@ChristianHupfer It's kind of funny the way the article talks about " ... in 1881, when one bold advertiser filled an entire page with ASCII text." This is a very anachronistic use of the word.
@AlanMunn -- definitely anachonistic! why not "filled an entire page with unexpected shapes formed from type."? (maybe "ascii" means more to the young'uns than "type".)
@AlanMunn -- probably so. (funny though, when i first got my hands on a computer, it was ebcdic; somewhat later, downgraded to bcd. only quite late in the game -- with tex and tops 20, in fact -- did i encounter the joys of ascii. so the pictures made of assorted letters were called something like "line printer art". and i did create lots of banners for special occasions.)
@AlanMunn -- some schools already are teaching only "block printing". cursive is gone, much less any any attempt at stylish (or even intelligible) handschrift.
@DavidCarlisle -- what's the "p" for? ("b" was for "binary".)
@DavidCarlisle Having fun reading keyval and profiling l3keys: currently trying to get the basic performance (\keyval_parse:NNn) close to keyval. Some way off yet ... (that's before I even look at the higher-level stuff, which is currently disastrous)
@DavidCarlisle Think I can get the basics to about 1.3-1.5 times the speed of keyval but keeping the extra 'caution', though making things babel-safe slows them down a bit more
@PedroTamaroff You have several wrong bits. For instance \p should be defined as \newcommand{\p}{\mathbf{p}} and \ext as \DeclareMathOperator{\ext}{Ext} (assuming amsmath is loaded).
First time in this chat. just a small 17 years old boy from germany. Some Guys really earned my respect here (espacially egreg is a machine) :'). Gotta be that good one day with latex!
@PedroTamaroff -- i assume that all these definitions are to be used only in math mode. if they appear in text mode, the space after \! in \fs will not be ignored or consumed. (i'm surprised that @egreg didn't mention that; he was probably assuming "always math", which is, of course, reasonable.) and, of course, this has nothing to do with figure placement.
I find myself doing much work on formatting things rather than to WRITE. But I just want my hyperref toc showing only parts to link to the minitoc created with titletoc, but it shows that nasty part for a whole page and one has to scroll alll the way down and if I remove it..ahhhh A normal working day
@egreg -- i never actually saw the bike, but i believe you. (you should post a picture of the bike. i'll probably be jealous. the weather is finally getting pleasant enough for me to think longingly of my old vespa.)
@ChristianHupfer i was being conservative/generous/kind. (pick one.) and if you claim to be "upright", then you are probably the only one. (how does it feel to be an anomaly?)
Already answered.. I always find solutions therefore I never ask. I do not want to create a duplicate. often I find the solution when I get questions suggested.
And the Lord spake, saying, First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to five, no more, no less. Five shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be five. Six shalt thou not count, neither count thou four, excepting that thou then proceed to five. Five is right out! Once the number five, being the fifth number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Does anyone know how to make a hyperlink when def an own titlecontent? \titlecontents{section}[0pc] {\large} {Page \hyperlink{\thecontentslabel}{\thecontentslabel}} {} {} this is refering to the toc/ first page/ wrong thing
@ChristianHupfer I want the page number in my toc clickable, like "page 12". but since cutom tocs do not include hyperlinks I am stuck. I use titletoc.
Today I read on GitHub's website that membership and using GitHub for public and opensource projects is free.
Are there any opensource and public TeX/LaTeX related projects available on GitHub in which users may involve and contribute in TeX coding?
Also, are there any other collaborative TeX c...
@JoelDuscha Perhaps I am too stupid but I 'never' produced convincing results with titletoc or titlesec, that's why I don't use them or answer questions concerning those packages.
I want to display the age of multiple people on my calendar. I can get the current year to come through with \the\year, but I can't figure out how to solve an equation in the option below (part of birthdays.cld)
every 25 August {Mr. Kale's Birthday! \solvethismathproblem{\the\year - 1983 years ...
I made visual overview for all units available in TeX. Including a comparison and the definitions/conversions.
The complete code and PDFs (EN, DE; b/w, color) are available at GitHub: https://github.com/tweh/tex-units
I have been handed down a number of rather long documents, compiled in plain Tex. My task is to implement the fancytooltip package in these documents for various purposes. The package in question is only compatible with latex according to it's documentation.
After doing some research I have com...
I am currently writing my master's thesis with LaTeX and most things really go super good and a lot better than in Word, but I can't seem to get this one working. What I want:
60 yE/m2s (I hope you know what I mean...)
This is what I tried so far:
\SI{60}{\micro\einstein\per\meter\squared\se...
Today I read on GitHub's website that membership and using GitHub for public and opensource projects is free.
Are there any opensource and public TeX/LaTeX related projects available on GitHub in which users may involve and contribute in TeX coding?
Also, are there any other collaborative TeX c...
