11th Commandment: Thou shalt not forget to include babel.
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I was singing the psalm when I look at the song sheet and found something strange with the hyphenation. I had forgotten to include babel, so Portuguese was being hyphenated with English rules! I almost stopped in the middle of the psalm. 12 hyphenation errors in the whole song sheet. :(
I know the house rules: "in ginocchio sui ceci". :)
Would anyone care to comment on my marginfootnotes package (tex.stackexchange.com/a/50942/12850)? I'm a bit at a loss right now whether to go on with it or not. I know there are some obvious shortcomings (no support for oneside, for instance), but the basic idea has been demonstrated, so it really relies on somebody seeing a practical use for it.
Hi, I have idea about the question, but I don't know if it's not off topic. I want to collect list of useful lua libraries, together with examples of use with luatex or texlua. Would it be OK?
@michalh21 List questions are generally discouraged on the Stack Exchange network but I think there are cases where they can be justified. So you might want to ask yourself whether such a list reflects a practical problem and if there already is such a list somewhere else.
A practical problem for someone working with LuaTeX might be "How can find out what lua libraries there are that are relevant for TeX?"
@michalh21 I have never worked with lua so I may the wrong person to ask but it seems relevant to me. Make sure to motivate the practical problem of finding such information in the question. I think that will help to get the right kind of list answers.
I have never used Emacs in Windows but I started to learn and use Emacs only eight or nine months ago and I now use it for most of my work.
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First you need to get comfortable with the basics of Emacs and probably this is what will be your main frustration. For a new user the commands fo...
Everyone else: please read this; in my view it's a model of what a good answer should look like, combining information and encouragement. And please consider upvoting it accordingly
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@DavidCarlisle That damn' something again, interfering with our lives...
@BrentLongborough You are welcome! I felt that since I have not used Emacs for long and have thought about how I should learn it frequently over the last couple of months your question was very fitting for sharing my experience and what I have learned so far.
@NN Would it be ok for you to publish this as a separate article on another site, with a link back to your answer here? I would prepare the formatting for you.
@WillHunting It's good that it's long! Fine for this site. I just think, as Brent said, it could be told to more people, and I did not reach much so encouraging about emacs.
@RoelofSpijker I was hoping to inspire people to convert in writing it. As I started to get the hang of Emacs I thought "Why didn't I convert earlier?". The first time I tried to learn Emacs I failed and shyed away from it. Then, some year later I was more motivated I guess and started reading Learning GNU Emacs and after I while I converted. Still got loads to learn though!
@WillHunting TeXworks is not installed with TeX Live on GNU/Linux systems because they would have to support several different installation methods (.deb, .rpm and whatnot).
@egreg: Yesterday, after the mass I said to the Father, "I'm sorry Father, I forgot to include babel in my LaTex file, so the hyphenation pattern got messy." He stared at me and said, "You forgot to include what in what, so what got messy?" :P
@PauloCereda Well babel is, among other things, a synonym for the wrath of god, so including it on the psalm sheet might be received with mixed feelings :-)
I guess saying too many thanks is usually frowned upon at stackexchange, but @DavidCarlisle, I just wanted to drop by and thank you a million times over for all the lovely longtables that I am able to construct and tweak because of you!
@Canageek People have the right to profess their religion, don't they? If this means that some shops are closed to allow people going to church, I'd call this freedom. :)
@egreg Nono-- A lot of things close because it is easter, that wouldn't normally close on Sunday. There is an old practice here of not working on Sunday, but it is really only practiced on easter. And for big stores with lots of empolyees it makes no sense; just pay the non-Christain ones a bit extra to work Easter.
Anyway, I got lots of compliments on how nice my thesis looked
@StephanLehmke Babel is a reference to the bablefish from Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy I bet, which you put in your ear and you understand any language.
@PauloCereda I don't think the quality was so low it needed masking. However, I was worried to find out mine was only 22 pages when many were over 50, and one over 70.
@Canageek I have a custom keyboard layout which is basically all of ISO 8859-1 plus a few Turkish characters. For example, my AltGr-j gives me a dotless ı. I've set everything I can see in .emacs to utf-8, but when I type my dotless i, she puts a dot on it, as if to say there, I know you really wanted 8859-1.
@BrentLongborough Huh, sounds like something that needs tweaking. Have you asked about it on the normal, programming Stack Exchange? There are lots of emacs people there.
@BrentLongborough Treat your questions one at the time. Make a list and handle them as you get time. Emacs is most irritating to begin with as it is so much different and you try to do everything in the ways you are used to handle things.
@NN Yes, I'm pretty certain my reaction is just infantile (or maybe geriatric) frustration like "I wannit now!" :) The worst thing is, I can see how valuable it is going to get for me.
@StephanLehmke From the tower of Babel obviously, but that is why you have the package named for letting people communicate. When dealing with geeks nameing things look for Monty Python and Hitchhikers Guide references over Biblical ones any day.
@BrentLongborough I think that is just the reaction most people trying to convert have. That is why I wrote about learning process in the answer. The gist of learning Emacs might be to overcome that feeling and allowing the process to take time.
@someonr it all depends on the magnitude of the integers and the precision of the result you need. There are definitely no floats on register level in TeX, only fixed point.
@NN I've never read anything printed on it, but hte online help all assumes you know what you are talking about already. IF I KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT I WOULDN'T NEED HELP.
@BrentLongborough As you start to expose your hypothalamus more and more frequently to heat it will eventually stabilize. In the end you will be neurologically addicted to Emacs.
@BrentLongborough Learning Emacs is a bit like learning a new keyboard layout. Takes time and sweat.
@BrentLongborough Emacs is like an operating system with its own history. It has a flavor and mindset different from many other environments. Takes time to think differently.
@NN I remember reading a copy of Byte magazine, once (maybe in the mid-90's), with a review of something called Mince, standing for "Mince is not complete emacs". Still haven't quite worked that one out.
@StefanKottwitz Maybe some char is missing in the process, it already happened to me. :( or the error is right above the "offending" line, so it's a false positive.
@NN It is really annoying; If I want compatibility with other tools, vim is great. If I want a text editor that doesn't suck, emacs is great. There is no middle ground with sensible keyboard shortcuts, power and good integration with other things.
@Canageek You do not have to use all the features of Emacs. Just use the commands you want and do not mind the other features. With today's computers performance of Emacs is no issue.
@NN In order to lessen the burden of learning the emacs keyboard shortcuts I would highly recommend the ergoemacs keybindings created by Xah Lee, please do check his webpage out. He has a lot of great advice for novices (I used it extensively in the beginning). Even though many in the emacs regime consider him a troll I think he has some key points,
I agree it could look better. It was something that irritated me while I started to use it. As I have used it more and more I do not think it looks as bad. Dunno if it depends on me accepting bad looks and getting used to it or if it is me understanding the concept better.
@zeroth But probably less fast once you get used to them. My one problem is the meta key was chosen for an older model of keyboard then the one currently used.
@Canageek Exactly my point. Why three strokes when two? I know the standards, and I used them and was quite happy about them. But when one uses them so often why not make it easier for one selves.
@zeroth Because it is pretty fast when I want to save and close? Also C-s does something else, I can't remeber what. Also I already know most of them, and found they work quite well, since I can move around documents so quickly.
@Canageek Less fast? Which? Meta keys are always a pain. However they can be circumvented by editing the keyboard layout to change keys to react in a different manor.
@Canageek I am glad you are fond of them. Each to their own preference, however as I noted I think that his key styles are a more easy for new comers. And also he has his keybindings for DVORAK!!!! WUHU! :)
@Canageek But isn't n++ capable of customising that? It has been a long time since i used it...
@zeroth Why not? right beside your finger, so you can hit it quickly. Also mine has fallen off (I need to take my laptop in for maintince next week v.v)
@zeroth I spot a mistake in his logic; On my keyboard, and most IBM ones, the control key is in hte same position relative to the main keyboard as the one in the Space Cadet keyboard.
@zeroth That is, just to the left of the Z. The keyboard on his is wider, , so alt fits in under the X on mine, whereas on his that is still spacebar.
@zeroth They interface with the OS in dumb ways, not just by sending another keyboard code. They actually send a code to some software that holds macros. Also not arranged as meta keys from what I've seen.
@Canageek But then you are still limited to what meta keys are installed by the keyboard modulator in the os, in nix systems this is relatively easy to accomodate. In windows, i do not know if it can be done...
@Canageek But that is still software handled, i suppose. I think you cannot get past a macro step of some sort. I would however, be very interested in keyboards of such sort. I am constantly rebinding keys in the os to do certain stuff. However, sometimes i overlap with software, and that can turn out nasty...!!! :)
@PauloCereda bad seed. kind of grows on you. I now want to send it to other people over the net. But I have a feeling some will consider not helping me once they see it. ;-)
I spend a lot of my periferals, since they last so much longer if you do
@zeroth Right, but I don't think most keyboards do that. What is REALLY annoying is how underused the Windows key is, right there, wasted. Only has a few shortcuts, but the OS grabs it as its own.
@Canageek I agree. Very nice. I would love to have "draw out keyboard". However, the first models i have tried broke by stress. (maybe i rest my hands too much on that pin... :)
@NN I guess this settles that nix users really want more meta keys, however they do not have the power to add more, due to market issues. As soon as a meta key hits the market it will be adopted for special needs! I like!
@zeroth Got this a LONG time ago though, not sure if they still sell it, probably not, also not 100% positive it is ikea, though most of my stuff is. Looks like ikea.
From twitter
PLT Alain de Botton @PLTAlaindeB Lisp is like punk or goth fashion. Unchanged after decades, still popular with a subculture, and always looking weird to the mainstream. Retweeted by Emacs Knight
@zeroth No, and I'd have to take everything off the desk to do that. This one is fixed height, the other (non-computer) desk I have has changable legs, but you have to screw them up and down one at a time.
@PauloCereda Didn't know you were an emacs person, Paulo.
@Canageek I'm not a big fan, but I do have a huge respect for emacs. :) In Mac one of my favorite editors is Aquamacs. :) In general, I use Vim (even in Windows) with some plugins, colorschemes and key bindings already deployed. I used emacs for the first time when I was actually learning Lisp. :)
@Canageek Yes, much like a regurlar office chair with a pressurised pin to push it up and down, the same concept, just for tables. At my office i use it to change position from sitting to standing.
His keyboard is much more boring then mine; Logiect gaming keyboard. He needs the lighed numbers as he can't touch type, whereas i can on both split and flat, though my typos go up when I switch, though only for a little bit.
This question is a follow-up question to: Access mdframed node coordinates with TikZ?
@MarcoDaniel: Awesome package (mdframed)! Nice clean code, too.
@Tobi:
I really like your new excursus environment! However, there is an issue when it splits on pages: the first box (\mdf@putbox@first) is sent...
@someonr Nothing fancy: when you call \test, everything up to the first / is the first argument, the second will be gathered as usual: one token or the next braced group.
I have a longtable defined as \begin{longtable}{>{\raggedright}p{4.2cm}rrrrr} but I need one of my header cells to be small and centered to fit. So I tried {\footnotesize\centering{Oneheader}}. This doesn't center the "Oneheader" though it does make it footnotesize. Any ideas where I am going wrong?
Thanks @egreg Clueless tinkering on the latex template sometime produces results. :) I will take a look at the other engines - wasn't sure of what they were.
Sometimes I have slightly "smeared" fonts so I was wondering where the problem lay. Getting rid of T1 enc and using the lmodern fonts have helped somewhat. Changing viewers from evince to okular helped as well. I am still unable to pinpoint the source of those smears.
Installing them right now. So basically, if I install them the fonts will be embedded in the PDF?
And maybe it was you but in one of the posts lmodern was recommended over the default sans serif. I was under the impression that cm fonts were different from lm fonts... Ah found this post: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1390/latin-modern-vs-cm-super (reading it now)
The summary of that thread seems to agree with what I thought, both cm and lm have their limitations for screen display - so someone recommended usepackage{ae}, hmm
@egreg Not yet, I'm finishing the manual. But the code is already "stable" enough and the repository created. :) I'll try to release it until the middle of next week. :)
@egreg: I'm writing an answer about double space. I know I should avoid this at all costs, but I'm providing a \linespread solution. The OP wants the double space inside an environment, and simply using \linespread{1.6}\selectfont inside it does the trick. Can I say that this change in the line spread is local due to the environment?
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Latex Editors/IDEs
I need a tool to write my thesis. It should work with TeX, support multiple languages (want to publish this work in several languages), bibliographic references, create table of contents, and be able to export the result to pdf format. What editor...
I have never used Emacs in Windows but I started to learn and use Emacs only eight or nine months ago and I now use it for most of my work.
Learning
First you need to get comfortable with the basics of Emacs and probably this is what will be your main frustration. For a new user the commands fo...
This question is a follow-up question to: Access mdframed node coordinates with TikZ?
@MarcoDaniel: Awesome package (mdframed)! Nice clean code, too.
@Tobi:
I really like your new excursus environment! However, there is an issue when it splits on pages: the first box (\mdf@putbox@first) is sent...
Possible Duplicate:
Latex Editors/IDEs
I need a tool to write my thesis. It should work with TeX, support multiple languages (want to publish this work in several languages), bibliographic references, create table of contents, and be able to export the result to pdf format. What editor...
