@kan i updated vanilla TL (ubuntu) few days before it was frozen announcement hence i am not aware of this issue. On Windows TL today i updated till the update status before it was frozen.
Is it just me or are the demands on answer quality (as reflected by "bad answer" flags) increasing? I reviewed again after some time today and disagreed with 90% of the flaggings...
TeX Live 2012 is frozen forever and will no
longer be updated. This happens in preparation for a new release.
If you're interested in helping to pretest the new release (when
pretests are available), please read tug.org/texlive/pretest.html.
Otherwise, just wait, and the new release will be ready in due time.
tlmgr: package repository ctan.imsc.res.in/systems/texlive/tlnet
You don't have permission to change the installation in any way,
specifically, the directory /usr/local/texlive/2012/tlpkg/ is not writable.
@egreg I think the end warning is freaking me out:
package: tikz-cd
category: Package
shortdesc: Create commutative diagrams with TikZ
longdesc: The general-purpose drawing package TiKZ can be used to typeset commutative diagrams and other kinds of mathematical pictures, generating high-quality results. The purpose of this package is to make the process of creation of such diagrams easier by providing a convenient set of macros and reasonable default settings. This package also includes an arrow tip library that match closely the arrows present in the Computer Modern typeface.
@egreg I am tempted to suggest the second of my diagrams to OP. :-)
I remember one of John Cleese's interviews and he said that England has a special holiday not found anywhere else in the world: summer. :) One day of summer. :)
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command weather does not exist.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
weather | São Paulo
temperature | 13 °C (wind chill: 11 °C)
conditions | cloudy
relative humidity | 82% (dew point: 10 °C)
wind speed | 5.1 m/s
(2 hours 3 minutes ago)
between 13 °C and 18 °C
rain (early morning to mid-afternoon) | cloudy (early morning to early afternoon) | few clouds (early afternoon onward)
between 7 °C and 13 °C
few clouds (late afternoon to evening | early morning onward) | clear (evening to early morning)
| | |
low: 7 °C
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 80/3 & 154/10 * v New Zealanders 289/5 & 199/5
- Afghanistan Under-19s 421/7 v Thailand Under-19s 26/9 *
- Hong Kong Under-19s 117/10 v Saudi Arabia Under-19s 118/8 *
- Bahrain Under-19s 63/10 * v Nepal Under-19s 259/9
- Malaysia Under-19s 92/2 * v Kuwait Under-19s 88/10
- Warwickshire v Kent
- Lancashire v Durham
- Surrey v Hampshire
- Middlesex v Glamorgan
- Unicorns v Gloucestershire
- Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore
@PauloCereda Of these two statements one is true, because one is the negation of the other: "An existent unicorn exists" "An existent unicorn doesn't exist". Since an existent unicorn can't unexist, the second statement is false. Therefore the first statement is true. Thus an existent unicorn exists and we have proved the existence of unicorns.
@Nicola Soon, the flowfram will also be classified under two more topics: poster, magazine. I received a mail saying the change has been committed to the repository. Yay!
@Sigur Regarding this answer, could you check what you have under Shortcuts -> Editor -> Basic Key Mapping "Next placeholder or one word right" (fourth last entry)?
@Qrrbrbirlbel In the first Macintosh models there even wasn't a Ctrl key. Just "Command" for keyboard shortcuts and "Option" for alternative characters. You could have "Command-Option" shortcuts, or "Command-Shift" or also "Command-Option-Shift", but at the beginning it was just "Command-<key>". Later "Option" came to be known as "Alt".
IIRC, the first program with "complex shortcuts" was Word version 3, where you could even customize them.
Customizing shortcuts for the system or applications was possible through careful usage of ResEdit (resource editor).
Is it possible (and not too difficult) to draw a table in the shape of an arrow? I think it's best explained giving an example:
I'd like to draw a table almost exactly like this. However, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th row don't have to be like that but can be just regular cells.
Is it possible to draw...
@egreg On ebgaramond.sty, a rather disappointing solution from Bob: add \renewcommand{\bfdefault}{b} after the usepackage. Guess I'll just clone it and roll my own...
@PauloCereda Chrome: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-title-adder/… But I'm sure there is a FF extension around somewhere. It also detects if the video is blocked for me (the forbidden sign). The last icon (the little play button) activates inline-view.
@PauloCereda I just don't happen to have two gig spare RAM to accommodate Chrome-Bloat. What's worse, Firefox is beginning to get fatter, again. Maybe I need to switch to Opera...
@PauloCereda I don't know what to recommend. The whole business is extremely annoying. I'm now thinking very carefully whether I shall "fart in Google's general direction".
I wrote a book about LaTeX, and my proud grandma wanted to have a copy. So she got it, said "What a beautiful picture on the cover!" and - "What is this, LaTeX?".
She doesn't know Word, never used a computer. But she reads books. How can I explain what makes TeX and LaTeX special to a non-techni...
@Brent.Longborough I don't know. I've been using Word ever since I started using a computer. Though I know a bit of programming (really, only a bit), I'm lazy and tend to avoid using the mouse as much as possible
@Sosi "avoid using the mouse" is probably an excellent signal for emacs or vim, but there's quite a learning curve, especially for all the muscle memory (Ctrl-V = scroll forwards)
Progress Report
Four months on, I thought it a good idea to "report back" here, and I wrote something. Then, I had better thoughts and turned it into a blog post.
You can read it on the TeX.sx blog.
Prompted by a recent conversation in the chat room, I am thinking of revisiting emacs as my s...
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 220/9 & 154/10 * v New Zealanders 289/5 & 199/5
- Afghanistan Under-19s 421/7 v Thailand Under-19s 26/9 *
- Hong Kong Under-19s 117/10 v Saudi Arabia Under-19s 118/8 *
- Bahrain Under-19s 63/10 * v Nepal Under-19s 259/9
- Malaysia Under-19s 92/2 * v Kuwait Under-19s 88/10
- Warwickshire v Kent 239/8 *
- Lancashire 216/9 * v Durham
- Surrey v Hampshire 228/10 *
- Middlesex v Glamorgan 280/3 *
@Sosi The other thing I haven't quite got sorted is the formatting. I use emacs for the editing, but when the time comes to compile, I do that with the TexWorks editor (and TeXLive)
One more thing: I was looking into this post (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/232/…) and am anticipating some problems I may have. Namely, that most of the people I work with use Word, and are very unlikely to start using LaTeX soon (or ever). In your opinion, commenting+editing pdf's is the way to go, or are there any better alternatives?
@Sosi Well, I always send out PDFs for annotation, but then I'm old enough and grumpy enough to make it stick! LOL. You'll probably meet some resistance, whining, and so forth, but in return, your typography will be better than anyone else's.
@Sosi In my experience, collaborative writing of a paper doesn't work, unless all authors fully agree on how to use the writing tool, whatever it is, and keep with the style. If only one is in charge of putting the contents in typeset form, the result will be probably better.
In a paper I had to manage, I found three distinct notations for sets: there were three authors, of course.
@egreg Yes, that is one of my concerns: collaborative writing. But I'll see. In the end, the worst it can happen is that I would have to copy paste the text into Word and then format it again
@Sosi atleast your typography will be better than others in latex. two options either convince others or convince yourself in collaboration( part of compromise with word users). Have a look at Seeking review on a document with people unfamiliar with TeX and Linked Q's
@Brent.Longborough When I see our church reading books all in an awful sans serif font, I have a sense of repulsion. Oh, and they often have a hyphenated word at the end of a right hand page. :(
@egreg Yes, quite awful. I'm thinking of moving all my technical writing to something like Garamond or Dante. No bold, no sans, structure through geometric arrangement rather than varied grey level
Is it possible (and not too difficult) to draw a table in the shape of an arrow? I think it's best explained giving an example:
I'd like to draw a table almost exactly like this. However, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th row don't have to be like that but can be just regular cells.
Is it possible to draw...
Progress Report
Four months on, I thought it a good idea to "report back" here, and I wrote something. Then, I had better thoughts and turned it into a blog post.
You can read it on the TeX.sx blog.
Prompted by a recent conversation in the chat room, I am thinking of revisiting emacs as my s...
