@FrankMittelbach It appears that Tschichold did use a grid, I drew one using LibreOffice draw (it's rough and may have inaccuracies both as I used a scan copy of the original cover (from the LaTeX3 repository) which might also be inaccurate), but the pattern is clear. We are off today, but tomorrow I will draw the grid using AutoCad which is very accurate. Link github.com/yannisl/MWE/blob/master/xcoffins/grid.jpg
@FrankMittelbach Can't find my copy of the book, probably I left in in South Africa. If you have one can you please rescan and post a more accurate reproduction - that is if first one is not accurate.
@YiannisLazarides good morning. Are you sure you are not kidding yourself? On that level you are likely to imagine a grid on nearly everything :-) like the lines being above or below etc. I still believe that my assessment on the relationships to objects are closer to the truth, but we may never know.
@FrankMittelbach Good morning as well. I think your assessment is correct and there is a grid also. After the grid one needs to work with some form of relationships, but I find it highly unlikely that a grid was not used in the original design, or at least a partial grid.
@JosephWright Didn't get the notification as you missssspellllled my name. I'll take a look.
Really only dropped by to ask if we were still noting notable reputation scores. If so, I humbly offer my current reputation on Maths-SX as a silly candidate, particularly given that the site is about maths.
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@JosephWright I'm also dubious about the sentence that @egreg highlights. I don't like the word "descendents" as, to me, it carries a connotation of "replacements". Also, I'd put a colon after the emphasised text in the first paragraph. A comma could be read as an "or" so if you're a TeX-enthusiast or a Word-user who happens to want to produce beautiful documents, then ask your question. Not quite the right impression.
I want to make C# look nice in my book, but with the following:
C\# it looks like this:
When it should look more like this:
For the second one, I used verbatim, but I don't want that and I've also used a macro like the following everywhere so it should be easy to replace:
\def\Csharp{C\#}...
@PauloCereda I'm interested to see answers to this question, because I couldn't invent something right on the spot. Computer Modern's roman hash symbol looks out of place indeed.
@PauloCereda I found a good match, but it can be used with fontspec only. I'll wait for other answers before suggesting hacks to get it working in pdfTeX. :-)
@PauloCereda The names of the notes were invented by Guido d'Arezzo, but "do" was called "ut". It became "do" in Italy several years later. Some say that it was Giovanni Battista Doni who propagated this usage in a 17th century treatise, just because it was the beginning of his name. But it seems that "do" had been used before.
@egreg I remember when I was a little kid and had to find "dó" in the piano. My teacher said, "look at the piano keyhole, the key above it is 'ré' and the one before is 'dó'." It still works. :P
@egreg Ah very interesting! :) I once experimented the Pythagorean scale, but it messed with my head. :)
Oh, I can't find on YouTube a video of Victor Borge trying to play "Bagatelle in the key of C". He's very frustrated because no one marked the C in his piano for him to play. He looks at the keyboard and says, "Where the heck is C?" :P
I realize its too much to post the entire document. Here is a small portion of document, it just keep repeating itself for various verses. Sorry this is the minimum example size I could squeeze it to.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
%\usepackage[left=0.15in,right=0.15in,top=0.75in,bottom=...
Is it possible to disable most of the boilerplate information that is output to STDOUT, like package and font paths? For example some Unix commands have "verbose" or "quiet" command line options that allow you to adjust how much information gets written to STDOUT.
It is very common that I will m...
When I run pdfLaTeX, I get very verbose output:
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/librarie
s/tikzlibrarycalc.code.tex)
...
Is there a script to soak up all the verbose output and allow the important stuff to pass through, like errors, overfull hboxes, and s...
In this page, I've found one way to display one counter only if it is used at least two times.
The problem with this solution is that it doesn't work with two counters. Is there a way to allow this kind of feature ?
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\defineoneshotcou...
If anyone see Stacey around, could you tell him it is "Delta" who is organizing the LaTeX thingy at NTNU? He asked me about it, but I did not see his question untill much latex.
@FrankMittelbach Thought on coffins and grids. Sample syntax \PutCoffin[relative={boxA, pole=tr}, pos={2\xgrid, 5\ygrid}, align=bl, rotate=90, offsetx=2pt, offsety=1pt]{boxB}. Either relative or absolute to trigger, absolute or relative positioning, can be useful. At absolute simply something similar to put.
@egreg It took me a while to learn how to read the error messages. If they just downloaded TeXLive and are from a windows background they might not have any experience with log files, they just know when they hit 'go' it doesn't work.
@leo I recall that the PracTeX journal may have had some things along those lines.
@leo No, but it would have been in the just for fun section, and there were very few issues, just glance at the titles in the index.
@AlanMunn I don't think that is inherently a bad thing then, as if I, as a rather poor TeX user looking to get help will see a higher voted question more easily. Also people who want help with 'obscure bug from crazy layout Y' will probably know the search terms better and be able to find the more obscure question. I'm not saying it is good that you guys don't get credit on it, but don't you hit reputation cap most days anyway?
@Canageek Doesn't happen to those that started from the command line and no fancy syntax coloring, as the terminal showed only green characters. :) But there were some handy facilities for TeX on the EDT editor on our university's Vax running VMS.
@Canageek I was explaining not complaining :-). The comment was mainly a response to @DavidCarlisle amazement at getting so much rep for a very simple answer.
although actually I started out using TeX with the luxury of sun3's and dviview (one of the nicest previewers ever) but my friends over in maths just had terminal connections to the mainframe and it wasn't so nice
@AlanMunn, I got a second badge for that one later:-)
@DavidCarlisle I only used xdvi on a HP-UX workstation, other than Textures and OzTeX. OzTeX previewer was terrible, it got better only after some years when antialiasing was introduced.
X came out later but sunview on the suns was way ahead of its time, and the vortex project's dviview was spectacularly good even back in 87 when i started with TeX.
@DavidCarlisle I was in a math department, no need for workstations. The HP-UX was in the department where I moved later, which had a good computer science group.
I think region codes are important, so we can have localized translations, like en_US and en_GB, pt_PT and pt_BR. Norbert wrote a fantastic patch to make tlmgr work with region codes, but for some reason, the English fallback failed in my tests. I tried to track down the abnormal behaviour, but it's quite difficult for me since I'm not versed in Perl. :(
@DavidCarlisle My Dad and I still have a C64 collection in our basement, with one set up and working. The only problem is we are low on disk drives, they seem to wear out more quickly then anything else
@PauloCereda Once we were at the GuIT meeting in Pisa and I suggested him some enhancements (regarding downloading only a small part of the database when checking for updates); in less than ten minutes he had a working version (but also had found a few bugs). tlmgr was at the beginning, at the time.
@egreg ....you can syntax highlight the tex log file? I was just running grep "! " -A 5 -B 5 to get 10 lines around every error. But I meant, if you are from a windows background you aren't used to opening a log file to find errors: You expect all the information to popup on screen (Like TeXMaker and TeXStudio do, for better or worse)
@PauloCereda Has anyone made a Canadian English version of it? :D
@Canageek I find that kind of filtering too scanty. But, as I said, I'm used to the screen messages. It shouldn't be too difficult to write a nice filter: the output is well structured, if package writers adhere to the conventions.
@Canageek A good filtering program should be configurable to show only what is important and this can change during document preparation: for example, I never worry about "Overfull hbox" messages until I'm in the final stages.
And I must say, the log file does seem to be a lot easier to parse then say, the stupid Gaussian output file. @JosephWright might be able to tell you about that thing.
Currently, the FAQ has a list of things to ask about that reads
TeX or any of its descendants like LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt
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(La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewers, and converters
Now, t...
I want to make C# look nice in my book, but with the following:
C\# it looks like this:
When it should look more like this:
For the second one, I used verbatim, but I don't want that and I've also used a macro like the following everywhere so it should be easy to replace:
\def\Csharp{C\#}...
I realize its too much to post the entire document. Here is a small portion of document, it just keep repeating itself for various verses. Sorry this is the minimum example size I could squeeze it to.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
%\usepackage[left=0.15in,right=0.15in,top=0.75in,bottom=...
When I run pdfLaTeX, I get very verbose output:
(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/librarie
s/tikzlibrarycalc.code.tex)
...
Is there a script to soak up all the verbose output and allow the important stuff to pass through, like errors, overfull hboxes, and s...
In this page, I've found one way to display one counter only if it is used at least two times.
The problem with this solution is that it doesn't work with two counters. Is there a way to allow this kind of feature ?
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\defineoneshotcou...
