the lien doesn't break as you have put it in an `l` cell which is always single line put in a `p` cell or perhaps better move the LEGEND title and that paragraph out of the inner table so they are just text in the p-column of the longtable as introductory text before the legend table. but here is the minimum change changing l to p{something} `\multicolumn{6}{@{}l}{\textbf{LEGEND}}\\ \multicolumn{6}{@{}p{4in}}{the really ..`
you got rid of the [8pt] but changed it to [9pt] which doesn;t change the document just changes the error message `LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s): [9pt].`
@DavidCarlisle Thanks, it works now! Also experimented with 0.75\textwidth and that works too. Is there a entity tablewidth that will work the same way as textwidth?
@DavidCarlisle that is odd - I am not getting that error message in my compile (using texstudio / command line) The only errors that show up are overfull \hbox errors - which I guess I need to address at some point {based on the interesting thread about hboxes you linked yesterday}
@DavidCarlisle Oops. I am getting that message. Sorry about not spotting it in the middle of all those \hbox ones.
@Ariel no, I could actually provde one since lontable actually measures every column wdth and records it in the aux filre to line up the chunks, so if you look in the aux file you will see a command such as \LT@i defined which 9after enough runs to be stable) has all the columns widths, so you;d just have to write some code that adds up those numbers. You would have to take some care not to do it in a way that breaks longtable though,
@DavidCarlisle That is so cool! I will take a look and see if I scrape those numbers out of the aux! And wow I have an error that it 331.2 points too wide in the 73rd line where the small tabular legend ends.
@DavidCarlisle When I change it to 10pt, it goes away. Is it because the font set I specified (lmodern) does not have 9pt fonts?
Ah found the answer to that one: "Without any special package, standard (pdf)latex only accepts options for 10pt, 11pt or 12pt font size. Use the extsizes package for extended font sizes. "
@DavidCarlisle Sorry for more clueless questions {I was trying to write a perl script for extracting those numbers and adding them - and then manually putting it in the p {}} How do I use this snippet you have just provided?
well if you stick that in any longtable you will get a \showthe error messages showing the value of domen@i which will be the value of longtable with last run. If you take out the \showthe\dimen@i bit then you won't get an error but you could use \dimen@i as the total table width.
@DavidCarlisle I have tried putting that snippet in the preamble, between the begin document and the begin longtable - and not seeing the error message. Have to be doing something wrong...
@DavidCarlisle Latex is complicated - I guess so is any other language, but you don't really use it before its crunch time and you have to meet the Uni's barbaric margin and typesetting reqs and Word drives you over the edge...
@DavidCarlisle so my heartfelt thanks to you for being here and tackling exasperating questions, and in the process reducing the trials of getting to the finish line! :).
So in this answer I have a command defined with \newcommand which has 2 arguments, one optional. The comment asks if there's a way to define it so that the delimiting {} aren't required. Is it possible, and how?
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I think that's right. This is the problem of using normal programming language thinking with TeX. I can just eliminate #2 from the definition altogether and it will just work.. Couldn't be simpler. Thanks.
@MarcoDaniel No, what I meant was why not just say "System Architecture" without any kind of "view" unless there are other possible views that could also be shown.
The following question:
Using quotation marks
was just closed as a duplicate of this question:
Automatically convert quotations in the form of "abc" to become ``abc"
But the accepted answer here uses the quotes package, whereas I think the best answer should be to use the csquo...
@MarcoDaniel Oh, I don't know about that. Take a look at this answer tex.stackexchange.com/a/50732/2693 which is a pretty cool way to have your quotation cake and eat it too. Also, since nested quotes form a CFG you can't use a simple regex to replace them. See stackoverflow.com/q/1732348/958220 for the definitive answer on this. :)
@MarcoDaniel Sorry for snatching the acceptance of the latest biblatex question away from you -- I wasn't sure whether my bibstring details made my answer different enough from your one. (You have my upvote!)
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@DavidCarlisle @PauloCereda Also, if you show it at more of an angle, you could show the fact that it has a triangular cross-section, which would make it clearer that it's a cricket bat and not a giant machete.
@egreg Compared to most sports, fencing is pretty safe. When you're deliberately poking pieces of metal at each other you tend to take precautions. The big danger is if a blade breaks, but even then jackets are designed to withstand 800N of force.
The following question:
Using quotation marks
was just closed as a duplicate of this question:
Automatically convert quotations in the form of "abc" to become ``abc"
But the accepted answer here uses the quotes package, whereas I think the best answer should be to use the csquo...
I need some Information for my Bachelor Thesis and I couldn't find something in the web...because I didn't know exactly which term I should google...
I'am interested in everything which try to provide some LaTeX features, like auto generated tables of content ore sections and subsections...
Are...
