TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2012-08-04 (page 1 of 2)

Harish Kumar

12:01 AM

@percusse: Yes. It works. You did it. Will you update the answer please.

percusse

@HarishKumar Will do in a sec.

@HarishKumar But does it work with long tables like 500 entries?

Harish Kumar

12:13 AM

@percusse: I checked it up to 230 entries. It worked. More testing going on. But struck up in incorporating the code inside a \pgfplotstableset{... . I want to save the data \namespgf for further sorting and hence remove lines having N/A while saving. But struck.

percusse

@HarishKumar You might want to use \pgfplotstablesave to a file or something like that to finalize the table.

Harish Kumar

@percusse: I am using it. But the trouble is it saves the lines with N/A also.

percusse

@HarishKumar It's because the column seperators become whitespace and the white space between the surname and name confuses the second reading.

@HarishKumar when saving you should save it again with comma seperated version to read it later properly.

Harish Kumar

@percusse: I got it. I saved it first, then read it and then sorted. It works. Thanks percusse. Have you updated the answer? I want to give a bounty. (You have to tell me how though).

@percusse: Pl. ypdate the answer. I will be back in 10 minutes.

percusse

@HarishKumar No need. I'm glad that it works. It's updated now.

Harish Kumar

12:59 AM

@percusse: Thanks percusse. I started a bounty. It seems I have to wait for 23 hours. This bounty is for your kindness to others. Thanks again freind.

percusse

@HarishKumar My pleasure. Hope it serves you well. It's already rewarding to hear that it's working anyway.

Harish Kumar

@percusse: So humble you are. That shows the greatness of you. Bye for now. and good night. (Hope it is night for you.)

percusse

@HarishKumar Indeed it is, maybe I should go to bed too :) Good night!

Paulo Cereda

2:12 AM

@MarcoDaniel, @StefanKottwitz: The idea I had was to create an app which would help people configure biblatex. I thought of a wizard-like app, with questions in the form "Do you want to ommit the ISBN, if any?", or "Which backend will you use?", or "Check the fields you want to clear".

Marco Daniel

9:35 AM

@JosephWright Thanks.

@PauloCereda The idea is great. Is it based on Java?

Paulo Cereda

9:53 AM

@MarcoDaniel Probably. :) I might give C + QT a try too. :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda or lua?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel I don't know about the GUI part. Probably via TK?

Marco Daniel

it would be a good point to start

Paulo Cereda

Indeed.

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Maybe I can use my lua book the first time.

Paulo Cereda

9:58 AM

@MarcoDaniel I have even the app name! :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda And?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel It's a secret. :P

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda :-)

is it a bird?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Heavens no, I'm scared of birds now. :)

I thought of calling it Ente, but this will be another app. :P

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda LOL

Paulo Cereda

10:02 AM

@MarcoDaniel: OK, I'll tell the name. :) Since biblatex/biber is a very powerful combination, I thought of something to confer immortality. So the name probably will be ambrosia. :)

Second option: Ente. :P

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Epic name.

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Let's see if I can come up with a code. :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Do you have structure?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel I need to think of the questions I'm gonna ask first. :) My plan is to follow the options in the biblatex manual, then at the end of the wizard, a biblatex header with package inclusion (with the proper options) and other commands (e.g, \AtEveryBibitem) will be generated. :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Interesting idea

Stefan Kottwitz

10:38 AM

@Paulo very good idea!

I read all, but could not write as it was impossible to login - browser issue

Paulo Cereda

@StefanKottwitz Thanks, Stefan. :) Let's see if I can write something. :)

@StefanKottwitz You were using Internet Explorer, isn't it? :P

Stefan Kottwitz

Safari

Now chrome

Never had probs with firefox

Paulo Cereda

Yay! :)

I'll be a Safari user soon. :)

Stefan Kottwitz

Good luck :)

Paulo Cereda

LOL

Stefan Kottwitz

10:41 AM

We will miss you

Paulo Cereda

I'll survive. I might use lynx for the rescue. :)

@Stefan: now I have a new toy: i.stack.imgur.com/CyLHq.jpg :)

Stefan Kottwitz

I liked lynx too - when I remember crowded university computer pools, queues of waiting people - monochrome text terminals were always available

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda But you can use firefox or chrome too ;-)

Stefan Kottwitz

(text terminals crowded by MUD players though ;)

percusse

@PauloCereda That's a great idea. But I think a Qtikz type of on-the-fly demosntration of the bib items would be beneficial instead of the wizard. Or maybe combining them even. What I'm concerned is that you have to ask a lot of question before you reach to something.

(If you have used Qtikz by the way otherwise nevermind)

Paulo Cereda

10:47 AM

@MarcoDaniel I know. :) I want to experiment Safari, but of course my beloved Firefox will be there for me. :)

@percusse Wow, great idea! :) I'm still trying to figure out the best way of presenting things. But a "live preview" of the bibliography is surely fantastic, so even if there are a lot of questions, users will know they are going somewhere. :)

percusse

@Paulocereda I think the user can plug in 3-4 custom bib items and see if the settings are doing the things they want.

It's not this easy of course but the idea is very nice.

Paulo Cereda

@percusse I like the idea. :)

percusse

@PauloCereda As far as I know QtikZ uses QT too and the linux source code is available on the site. hackenberger.at/blog/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language So maybe it can speed up things a little

Paulo Cereda

@percusse I'll take a look. :) The QT SDK just scares me - 2GB! :P

percusse

@PauloCereda I don't even know exactly what it does :)

Paulo Cereda

11:00 AM

@percusse Neither do I, yet. :P

egreg

11:10 AM

@JosephWright Why? \ensuremath is useful. :)

Brent.Longborough

11:26 AM

@PauloCereda OMG, that must cost the price of a house in Brazil!

@PauloCereda Old Chines Proverb: "Beware of what you wish for, as one day your wish may be granted"

Paulo Cereda

@Brent.Longborough 15 years ago, a used car. :) Ironically, Apple had the best price amongst all hardware companies here (Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc), so I went for the cost / benefit. :P

@Brent.Longborough LOL

Brent.Longborough

@PauloCereda :)

Paulo Cereda

@Brent: sadly Brazil doesn't have top hardware specs. :( Apple was the only one with the specs I wanted for a reasonable price. Dell wanted almost the same price for a lower spec. And since I payed cash, they gave me a huge discount. :)

Paulo Cereda

12:33 PM

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Q: Image next to Equation

I am trying to make my first LaTeX file and have been reading syntax for a bit and have not been able to figure one thing out yet and don't seem to find anything about it online so I thought I might just ask:) How is it possible to place an image next to an equation? I tried to do it by wrappin...

@DavidCarlisle + @JosephWright = David Wright :)

David Carlisle

:-) (not sure why align needs the extra braces, shouldn't be necessary really)

lockstep

1:41 PM

@JosephWright or another moderator: Please have a look at this request to create tag synonyms (it's in the OP's comment to the question):

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Q: xelatex: Japanese + latin diacritics with cedilla/comma, slanted text

In a document, I need to get all these working: japanese text latin diacritics with cedilla, e.g şţ and with comma, e.g șț slanted text This is a book I also distribute to others, so I can't change back to pdflatex, it has to remain xelatex (and besides, in xelated the second criteria is fulf...

fonts xetex accents cjk

Frank Mittelbach

3:11 PM

@HiggsBoson just 8/9 finished an answer to your question when you deleted it und me :-) Actually I think it is a valid question even if you found an answer yourself

Marco Daniel

4:44 PM

Can this question be closed as too localized?

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Q: How to setup the caption and listings package to insert code?

I used caption and listings package in my .tex file as below: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{xcolor} \lstset{ %Settings for listings package. %language=[ANSI]{C}, extendedchars=false,% 重要！解决中文跨页出错的问题 backgroundcolor=\color{lightgray}, basicstyle={\ttfamily}, breakatwhi...

listings captions

A new cw answer: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61941/…

Joseph Wright

4:59 PM

@PauloCereda A fellow Brazilian TeX user: latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=21057 [OK, not here but close enough :-)]

Stefan Kottwitz

@PauloCereda Now you can found a Brazilian TeX Users Group :-)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Cool! :) I hope she likes TeX and friends. :)

@StefanKottwitz I had considered to found a local TUG, but sadly I don'y know how the reception would be. :) And I don't think I have an infrastructure to support a users group. :(

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda :-) The UK-TUG infrastructure is mainly in my bedroom

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Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Oh I might talk to you about founding a group then (and probably with Barbara too, I guess). :)

Marco Daniel

Need an upvote - cw answer ;-) : tex.stackexchange.com/questions/61941/…

Paulo Cereda

5:11 PM

@MarcoDaniel I'm out of votes since 0:10 today. :P

Marco Daniel

On vote to close needed: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55942/…

@PauloCereda OH :-)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel I forgot about our session today. :)

@JosephWright: I won the free ML update, they sent me the code to get ML for free. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Cool

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda You have a mac and ical -- I can't accept any arguments :-)

cmhughes

one more vote to close needed here too tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65798/…

Paulo Cereda

5:14 PM

@MarcoDaniel I need the furniture first! :) The mac is still in the box. :P

Marco Daniel

@cmhughes Done

cmhughes

@MarcoDaniel thanks :)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Cheater, I was gonna for that. :P

cmhughes

@PauloCereda was there a textalk interview this week? I thought so, but didn't see it in the blog? :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda :-) -- Today I have a big ear worm (I hope the word is correct) youtube.com/watch?v=LRLdhFVzqt4

Paulo Cereda

5:16 PM

@cmhughes Oh the interview happened. :) The blog post is almost ready, we are waiting for our beloved reviewers. :)

cmhughes

@PauloCereda ok, thanks a lot! and thanks for running the interviews, I always find them interesting :)

Paulo Cereda

@cmhughes Thanks. :) BTW you are in the line to be interviewed too. :)

Marco Daniel

This question is too localized. There is no feedback by the op: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60602/…

cmhughes

@PauloCereda no way, I don't qualify! I'd love to read more about @MarcoDaniel and @JosephWright though :) I'm not just saying that to deflect either. And when will you be interviewed! :)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Cool! :) My time: youtube.com/watch?v=xKWgJNm9Mg0 (I bought this game only because of the cool soundtrack)

@cmhughes David is plotting against me. :)

Marco Daniel

5:19 PM

This question can be closed as duplicated: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65689/…

cmhughes

@PauloCereda we all are! I can't remember... have you already interviewed @JosephWright ?

or @StefanKottwitz?

Paulo Cereda

@cmhughes Not yet, but he's on the list. :) Joseph can't escape. :P

@cmhughes Stefan promised us an interview this year, but he forgot to specify the month. :P

cmhughes

@PauloCereda cool, sounds good :)

Joseph Wright

@StefanKottwitz I hope you like the FPU code I posted :-)

Brent.Longborough

5:46 PM

Anyone got a good pointer for best practice for full-page rotated tables?

Just done a lovely one using xcoffins, but my OCD caterpillar says to polish it.

Joseph Wright

@Brent.Longborough Will probably come back on coffins questions later :-)

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Q: Should 'how to install package X on Ubuntu' questions be consolidated?

This came up in a discussion of this question. It seems to me that almost all users of Debian-derived OSes have two options when it comes to installing LaTeX packages: (1) using the native sources (including the recent backport in the case of Ubuntu 12.04 [or here]); or (2) installing TL from CT...

discussion

Brent.Longborough

@JosephWright Hmm, coffins questions are usually answerable on the Day of Judgement

How's this for simplicity?:
\NewCoffin \stats
\SetVerticalCoffin \stats {\textheight}{%
\centering
\begin{tabular}{etc}
...
\end{tabular}
\captionof{table}{Statistical data, as collected and delivered}
\label{tab:stats}
}
\clearpage
\RotateCoffin \stats {90}
\noindent\TypesetCoffin \stats [t,r](0pt,\onelineskip)

Joseph Wright

@Brent.Longborough Nice :-) I use coffins a lot for doing alignment: 'just works', for example vertical centring stuff in table cells

Marco Daniel

closing votes needed

0

Q: How to escape single quote in lstlisting?

How to escape single quote ' in lstlisting? I tried \' and ''' but doesn't work.

listings

Joseph Wright

6:02 PM

@MarcoDaniel Done

Brent.Longborough

@JosephWright I was amazed. I've always shunned things like landscape and such, with the impression they're 'dangerous' in some way. Then I thought 'why not xcoffins?', and, once I'd worked out the naughty bits -- [t,r] (0pt,\onelineskip) -- it was a doddle. Chuffed to bits

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright Next one ;-) tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60602/…

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Done

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Q: Gummi Not Using TexLive 2012

I use Gummi was LaTeX document editing. I recently installed TeX Live 2012 as per instructions here. Also I previously had TeX Live installed from Ubuntu Software Center which I uninstalled. Now, when I start Gummi and load some old LaTeX documents, it seems Gummi doesn't know anything about ne...

installing texlive

A good example for the meta question I posted above

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright Indeed.

Maybe a blog post is useful.

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel First, we should sort things on meta, then a blog post perhaps

Marco Daniel

6:09 PM

@JosephWright You are right.

Marco Daniel

6:29 PM

6/12 listings questions are closed/answered. I will answer a new one soon.

Paulo Cereda

Ubuntu: NAROS

/ducks

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda ?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright I'd be beaten if I unveil the meaning of that acronym. :P

Not... A... Real... Operating... System... Run, Forrest, run!

<3

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Ah right

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright just kidding. :)

Joseph Wright

6:43 PM

@PauloCereda Worried about the Sender of Eight?

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Omg

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright :P

@MarcoDaniel <3

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda I am a Ubuntu users :-(

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel On the other hand, and to make you feel better, Fedora is a Red Hat playground. :P

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda ;-) Thanks -- and rpm vs. deb ;-)

Paulo Cereda

6:46 PM

A little help with English! How do you call that thingy that you put glasses, cups and other recipients over? The thingy in which the glass rests over it.

It's not a cupholder.

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Coaster?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Yay, that one! Thanks! I want to buy these ones for my desk: hmmm.com.br/prod/Porta-Copos-cubo-magico-Rubiks-Cube-Coasters

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Is this your kind of invitation ;-) ?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Best coaster ever. :D

This one is for @JosephWright: lojageek.com/acessorios/canecas-copos/… :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Indeed ;-)

Joseph Wright

7:02 PM

@PauloCereda :-)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel: and this will be my mousepad: lojageek.com/acessorios/outros/…

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda LOL -- I thought a cat is in the background ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel LOL

Marco Daniel

7:41 PM

Yeah only 5 unanswered listings questions ;-)

@JosephWright: Thanks -- Copy paste error

Does anyone understand this question?

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Q: How to customize the font and margin for lstlistoflistings TOC entry?

In my LaTeX template, I define the chapter and section TOC entry with the titletoc package: \titlecontents{chapter}[0pt]{\vspace{.1\baselineskip}\bfseries} {\thecontentslabel\hspace{2.8mm}}{} {\hspace{.5em}\titlerule*[5pt]{$\cdot$}\contentspage} But I don't know how to apply this to th...

listings titletoc

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright: do you use KeePass?

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Did in the past, not at present

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright In Mac?

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Windows

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Ah. :) I was looking for a Mac equivalent.

Joseph Wright

7:51 PM

@PauloCereda That's why I don't currently use it ;-)

Stefan Kottwitz

@JosephWright yes, very nice to see the fpu code, thanks!

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda keepassx works for linux mac and windows

Andrew Stacey

Who fancies a sweepstake on when Heiko will get a first gold badge?

Joseph Wright

@AndrewStacey Couple more days :-)

Andrew Stacey

@JosephWright That's your bet, is it? What's the stake - a pint at the UK TUG meeting? (Have to be virtual for non-participants, I suppose)

Paulo Cereda

8:28 PM

My bet: last week of August. :)

Frank Mittelbach

8:40 PM

@AndrewStacey which of the gold badges are "reasonably" reachable? other than being a member for a year? :-)

I think I need 9 more votes for one ...

Andrew Stacey

@FrankMittelbach Something tells me it's not going to be "Famous Question" ...

Looking at the list, "Great Answer" is about the only one that actually has any merit (of the "answering" badges, that is)

Paulo Cereda

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Q: TeX logo in the main tex.stackexchange.com disappeared

I noticed that the TeX logo in the main site (not the meta site for sure) disappeared. Is it a bug or under construction? Edit: I was using Chrome. After the interview notification link is removed, I can see the logo again as follows:

bug design

Anyone with Chrome?

Frank Mittelbach

@AndrewStacey so then how likely you are to get that one in this community? So my bet is his first gold will be the yearling

Paulo Cereda

The notification bar is now displayed.

Andrew Stacey

@FrankMittelbach Not going for "Fanatic", then? Or "Legendary"?

Werner

8:45 PM

@PauloCereda Yes, I'll check...

Andrew Stacey

@PauloCereda Just checked, am not logged in with Chrome so maybe that matters, but I can see the logo just fine.

Paulo Cereda

@AndrewStacey Thanks. :) Let's wait for @Werner. :)

Werner

@AndrewStacey @PauloCereda: Same here... no problem on Chrome.

Frank Mittelbach

@AndrewStacey I take the comment back: yearling only gives silver. so yes. probably fanatic then ... but even that can be difficult... I lost mine when i was at 96

Henry DeYoung

I also have no problem seeing the logo on Chrome.

Paulo Cereda

8:47 PM

@Werner Hm so the issue is not reproducible. :(

JLDiaz

Chrome for iPad here, the logo and the notification bar are
displayed OK

Paulo Cereda

@HenryDeYoung Thanks, Henry. :)

@JLDiaz Oh cool! :)

Werner

@PauloCereda Yes, I think so - too localized. I'm thinking it could be a short loading error at that time, for whatever reason.

Andrew Stacey

Oh, yeah, I'm on a Mac right now.

Joseph Wright

Also fine here

Paulo Cereda

8:48 PM

Maybe the logo had to answer the phone. :)

@AndrewStacey ooh! :)

Marco Daniel

Can be closed: There is no registration by the op

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Q: Too many authors for a bibliography in latex

I'm writing a paper in latex, and I have papers I'm citing with many authors, in some cases hundreds, more than you would ever include in a bibliography. Using bibtek and natbib,how can I cite these papers so that the cite shows up (Author et al., 2000), and so that I have an "et al." in the bibl...

author bibliographies

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Done

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Is the answer "The upcoming ambrosia app will fix that." valid? :P

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright Thanks. In my opinion here is the same problem: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/62931/urls-and-bibliography

@PauloCereda ;-)

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Agreed

Paulo Cereda

8:53 PM

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Q: A LaTeX log analyzer application (visualizing TeX expansion)

Consider the following MWE, test.tex: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \tracingassigns=1 \tracingmacros=1 \def\aaa{something} \def\bbb{else \aaa, else} \edef\ccc{third \bbb, level} \tracingassigns=0 \tracingmacros=0 \end{document} If you build this with pdflatex test.tex - ...

macros tex-core expansion debugging logging

Now I'm tempted to write something about it. :)

Welcome to the Answer the Unanswered session.

Bruno Le Floch

@PauloCereda The right approach is to do part of the work within TeX I think. Simply doing \tracingall and analysing the log file would not be enough.

(Hi guys.)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Indeed

We start with 528 questions with no upvoted answers

Paulo Cereda

@BrunoLeFloch Hm I had no idea about it. :) My TeX-fu is still in the early stages, so I might try to earn a better "belt". :)

Joseph Wright

Remember, I (and @StefanKottwitz or @MartinScharrer, if about) can close without any other votes and never run out of close votes

Now, where is @lockstep?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Lucky guys. :) Can I have an infinite number of upvotes? :)

Andrew Stacey

9:02 PM

@JosephWright Another sadly missed privilege from my pro-tem days ...

Joseph Wright

@AndrewStacey We can always ask for an election ;-)

Paulo Cereda

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Q: Grids for A4 paper (golden ratio)

I'm about to construct the most important document of my life - my Ph.D. thesis. A while back I came across this for web design: Grids are Good Is there anything similar for typesetting A4 papers? Preferably that adheres to the golden ratio. I want my thesis to be as amazing as possible. Thank...

grid-typesetting

egreg's comment converted to an answer, perhaps?

Bruno Le Floch

@PauloCereda If you like, I can try to figure out a way to get the information from TeX (probably partly tracing and partly other things), and you'd write the non-TeX part.

Andrew Stacey

@JosephWright Tempting .. except that will remind them of our existence (and given the latest posts on the main blog, I'm all the keener for us to keep a low profile)

Joseph Wright

@AndrewStacey We are, or at least were, the 8th most popular site in the network, so that's not likely

@@tex.stackexchange.com/users/2388/… Perhaps you could convert your comment on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65279/… to an answer

Paulo Cereda

9:06 PM

@BrunoLeFloch Wow, Bruno! It's very tempting! :) I have some stuff on queue right now (cough arara cough), but I'd love to write a nice analyzer (at least, the GUI part). Can I be a TeX padawan? :)

Bruno Le Floch

@PauloCereda of course :). Now the question is whether the task is doable or not. Well, of course if we're allowed to modify the engine, it is, but that's probably not a good assumption.

Joseph Wright

Ten minutes in, no close requests yet?

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Q: Beamer dependencies

I understand that to run beamer one needs to install beamer, pgf and xcolor. What are the dependencies (and dependencies of the dependencies, etc) of these three packages? (Im using MikTex 2.8.)

beamer

TL?

Oh yes, for newcomers: TL = Too Localized, NARQ = Not A Real Question, NC = Not Constructive, OT = Off Topic

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Marco Daniel

biblatex can do everything. Thanks @PLK: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/62779/…

Joseph Wright

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Q: how to install Tikz and PGF on WinEdt6.0

Now I want to use Tikz and PGF， and I referred this instruction How to install a current version of TikZ? However, I don't know where the settings of MikTeX on WinEdit?

tikz-pgf winedt

Another possible TL?

Marco Daniel

9:24 PM

@JosephWright DQ = duplicated question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2063/…

Paulo Cereda

@BrunoLeFloch Indeed. :)

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Does the WinEdt part make a difference here, do you think?

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright NARO too. :P

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright No winedt uses the default path of the system.

@JosephWright NARQ

Andrew Stacey

@PauloCereda Not A Real ... Onion?

Joseph Wright

9:27 PM

@MarcoDaniel OK

Andrew Stacey

Not A Real ... Octopus?

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel OK

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A: 7-2012 l3kernel & l3packages updates | 'broken'?

Updates in l3kernel required matching changes in packages using LaTeX3 coding conventions. Both chemnum and unicode-math have now been updated on CTAN and in TeX Live, and should be updated in MiKTeX too pretty soon (there can be a week or so delay there).

Does my answer make sense?

Marco Daniel

TL:

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Q: Having issues compiling with MiKTeX, perhaps a missing \item. It stems from my cuthesis.sty file (I think)

I am trying to write my thesis and downloaded the necessary templates from my school. I am using emacs to edit and MiKTeX 2.9 to compile. So what happens when I try to compile the document given without making any changes, I get an error about missing a \item \end{bibliography} Here is what the ...

bibliographies errors miktex

Paulo Cereda

@AndrewStacey Oops I forgot an S too! NAROS: Not A Real Operating System. :)

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Yup

Frank Mittelbach

9:28 PM

@JosephWright sure. assuming it is true :-)

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright Your answer is time related. So I think it's ok.

Andrew Stacey

Here's one with no response from the original poster which can therefore be closed either as a duplicate or TL:

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Q: What is / are the softwares to use to draw surfaces of the form of a two or three-holed torus , or torus, or torus with cusps attached to it?

I am trying to draw surfaces with complete hyperbolic structures and surfaces which are topologically tori. The hyperbolic surfaces I need to draw are torus with one or two holes on it, or torus with punctures on it, or torus with a cusp attached to it . They could also be torus torus with one or...

diagrams technical-drawing

If duplicate, it's of:

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Q: Topological Quantum Field Theory diagrams with pstricks or tikz

This question led to a new package: tqft — Blog: The TQFT Package I'm going to write a brief note about topological quantum field theories, so I need to draw some copies of the "pair of pants"... I'm wondering if there's a simple way to obtain such an object with tikz or PStricks; the cha...

tikz-pgf pstricks

Joseph Wright

@FrankMittelbach Well, it works for me with TL. I'll double-check on MiKTeX.

Andrew Stacey

I'd go for duplicate, but might be biased.

Hmm, seems I can't vote to close as I originally voted to close but that vote expired.

Joseph Wright

@AndrewStacey I think you're right

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Q: Underfull \hbox and Underfull \vbox

I get the following couple of warnings when compiling my tex code. The \hbox warning is due to one of the articles I cite from my bibliography. What is the way to fix it? Underfull \hbox (badness 1997) in paragraph at lines 151--153 []\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 Author X (year) Name of the article. Name o...

warnings

TL?

@egreg Perhaps convert your comments on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64178/… to an answer

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Q: beamer over miktex 2.9 is not working with math environment

I have this problem where I can't built slide documents with beamer every time I include a math environment as simple as $\mu = A$. The log file posts this message at the end: !pdfTeX error: miktex-pdftex.exe (file mathkerncmssi10): Font mathkerncmssi10 a t 657 not found ==> Fatal error occu...

beamer math-mode packages

TL?

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Q: htlatex gives me a lot of "random" errors

I'm using htlatex to convert LaTeX into HTML and I'm getting errors on things that I haven't specified, such as my own environments. An example is \def\inline{\lstinline[style=inlineStyle]} which lets me write: \inline{x == 10} I'm also using it like this: \inline!new[]{}! This is just one e...

tex4ht htlatex

Another possible TL?

Marco Daniel

9:41 PM

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Q: Is there an ebib-like bibliography manager for emacs designed for biblatex?

I've been using ebib to manage my .bib files, but I've just switched over from using bibtex to using biblatex & biber to actually generate the bibliographies in documents. Obviously the file format is still the same since I'm still just using .bib files, but a couple of things make ebib non-i...

bibliographies biblatex bibtex emacs

Frank Mittelbach

@JosephWright yes, or duplicate ... I think i wrote a longer answer on a similar question about underfull

Marco Daniel

OT:

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Q: Does anyone have suggestions on a workflow for correcting bugs in Mendeley's automatically generated citations?

Mendeley's automatic BiBTeX file generation is a godsend in terms of avoiding the mindless and potentially error-prone work of copying citation information from PDFs of research papers to to BiBTeX. However, its automatic bibliographic information extraction algorithm is a little error-prone, and...

bibliographies bibtex workflow

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Hmm, borderline

Marco Daniel

@JosephWright See my comment. I asked this question at the developer site.

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel OK

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Q: Automatic build and forward search in TeXlipse

I just switched to TeXlipse for editing latex documents. Right now, after the document is built automatically, I have to explicitly use Ctrl+4 in order to activate the forward search. I would like that TeXlipse automatically issues the forward search command after the document is built. Does ...

forward-inverse-search texlipse

A feature request?

Marco Daniel

9:46 PM

@JosephWright Yes

TL:

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Q: What package \isp macro from?

What package macro \isp comes from? As I understood, there is not way not get such infomation quick, reliable way. I hope I am wrong. EDIT: My problem is that I have legacy code, that used a very ancient versions of everything. Now I have a take to build it on moder LaTeX environment. It looks ...

macros packages tools

Any ideas or TL:

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Q: How can I remove the blank space before and after a command

I create a command, \newcommand{\cmd}{b} but when I use this command a\cmd{}c What I get is a b c but what I want is abc How can I remove two blanks?

macros spacing

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel No real MWE, so TL

Marco Daniel

@DavidCarlisle: Can you provide an answer please: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/62210/…

Joseph Wright

@Werner Care to convert your comments on tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63339/… to an answer?

Marco Daniel

Duplicated:

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Q: Is there a package or scripted solution to generate the program for scientific conferences

I am looking for a solution to generate the program to a scientific event with multiple conferences and workshops. I would like to use a database or text files (even an Excel or OpenOffice spreadsheet file would be possible) to generate multiple things: A complete scientific program, which cou...

macros packages templates scripts

Joseph Wright

@MarcoDaniel Just thinking the same thing ;-)

Marco Daniel

9:59 PM

I provided a cw: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65425/…

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