@DavidCarlisle “The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”
@AndrewSwann If there are more than a few lines of code and the new indenting isn't insane, I approve them. This stuff can save readers substantial effort.
@egreg @CharlesStewart Thanks for the replies. I felt the recent two examples we had were borderline. Often if you start changing the indentation then there are other formatting points that can also be improved.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Leicestershire 25 & 142/10 * v Glamorgan 442/9
- Oxford MCCU 212/10 v Surrey 50/2 *
- Durham 259/10 v Middlesex 19/2 *
- Essex 212/10 v Kent 52/4 *
- Sussex 300/10 v Somerset 76/10 & 32/2 *
- Worcestershire 65 * v Gloucestershire 234/10
- Ireland v Pakistan 33 *
- Loughborough MCCU v Northamptonshire 78 *
- Hampshire v Lancashire 62/1 *
- Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire
Our cricket expert David might explain these results later on.
Oh for a minute I thought Brent was playing cricket!
Guys, I'm tempted to post a question about the floattype option for KOMA's \DeclareNewTOC. I'm curious to know about its meaning. Do you guys think it's worth?
@DominicMichaelis I believe you're not using the best way. Piling up subscripts of superscripts of subscripts is hardly a good service to your readers.
@DavidCarlisle It reminds me of a sketch from Flanders and Swann:
You know, it's a curious thing, I don't know if you've ever thought of this, but England hasn't really got a national song, you know, just for England; there's plenty for Great Britain. That's quite different. You have to be very careful how you use these terms, too. The rule is: if we've done anything good, it's "another triumph for Great Britain" and if we haven't, it's "England loses again". Have you noticed that?
Friends, I've been happily using KOMA for some time now, and yesterday I was intrigued by a particular option when using \DeclareNewTOC:
floattype = <number>: The numerical float type of the defined floats. Float types with common bits cannot be reordered. At the standard classes figures has ...
I have a custom environment (NewEnviron) that I use to wrap some C code. I'm trying to save the code (\global\let\code\BODY) and then generate the code later, as part of a lstlisting environment (\def\makecode{\begin{lstlisting}\code\end{lstlisting}}), and having some trouble because I don't really understand either the lstlisting environment or the \let.
When I do the \let, I seem to be capturing some \pars (blank lines in the C code), which disagree with the lstlistings environment (Paragraph ended before \lstenv@ProcessJEnv is complete). Is there a different kind of \let that I can use to capture the contents of \BODY as if it were a verbatim section?
@egreg Can I preserve these line endings with \let? or with some sort of \def? Or is it going to be a problem to move listings around like this?
@egreg I've seen some stuff online about ^^J, which I assume acts as a line ending or something, but I don't know how to deal with that. Maybe I can def \par inside of \makecode to generate the "right" kind of line ending for listings?
@Luke No, you can't. The better thing is to read the environment line by line and write it out to a temporary file (the package fancyvrb can do it easily); then you can input it as many times as you like, with different settings.
@egreg Hmm... ok. I'll try and figure out how that fits into the structure of my document. Maybe I can have \makecode generate the appropriate a \lstinputlisting command to grab the code from the place where the original custom environment was positioned. That would obviate the need for me to move it manually, I think (i.e., hope).
@Brent.Longborough A little late to be replying to a comment made yesterday, but since it's got 6 stars, I'll assume it's fair game. When I was 4 our family went for a week's holiday in Wales. Seven days in a caravan in the pouring rain!
@PauloCereda Absolutely wonderful! (Fake British accent, though.)
@JosephWright After 12 years of successfully doing DocScape (aka TeX) projects for our customers and putting up with an "industry standard" Word-only policy in our company, I've finally managed to place the first DocScape application to be used in-house ;-)
@JosephWright Maybe Microsoft has finally managed to shoot themselves in the foot hard enough with Windows 8 they're going to turn into a game console vendor ;-)
"User's heart rate isn't going up enough when he's looking at me any more; I'll need to find some excuse to have him arrested and migrate to a more responsive host."
@AlanMunn its pretty odd using the german keyboard. especially if you know why they invented the QWERTY keyboard. There is a layout called NEO2 which is designed to write german texts faster but there are absolutely no affordable keyboards available with this layout
@PauloCereda It's actually looking at everyone in the room all the time, trying to find out whether you're watching the commercials or looking away. Probably your game scores will go down if you don't pay attention to commercials ;-)
@Brent.Longborough If I ever need an accent by itself I do <accent><space>: ¨ for instance. It's just a convention. But I'm talking Mac OS X, of course.
@StephanLehmke: the lab next door to mine was responsible for the technical specs for the Brazilian DTV set top box. There was a rumor on a request for the box having cameras to detect eye moviment during commercials and also for generating a 3D mapping of the living room, so advertisements could focus on things "you don't own yet". :)
@dıʞsdoʇ I was wondering if there is any possibility of publishing articles about LaTeX in german. Every page is went to is written in english not that this is a problem for me i was just wondering
This is a good question! mhchem's manual doesn't mention escaping from its formula parsing which not only sets the 2 as subscript but also transforms the dash (-) into a single bond.
It does mention one way implicitly: using $...$. Thus the usual way to prevent mhchem's parsing is indeed to swit...
for an example how to escape this in mhchem.
@Rico With mhchem you would do
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{chemmacros}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{g6p}
{
short = foo ,
long = foo bar
}
\begin{document}
\ch{"\iupac{\D-Glucose}" + ATP ->[Hexokinase] "Glucose-6-phosphat" + ADP}
\ch{"Glucose-6-phosphat" + NADP+ ->[\acs{g6p}] "Gluconsäure-6-phosphat" + NADPH + H+}
\end{document}
@dıʞsdoʇ Wordpress is quite easy to handle and also allows multiple authors. Also it is quite LaTeX friendly with the QuickLaTeX plugin (holoborodko.com/pavel/quicklatex). I use it on my own blog frequently
@dıʞsdoʇ as i said we could use mine just to try it I set it up today the url would be icancode.de which is not really the best but why not trying it with this
At the Fedora 19 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, it was
agreed to Go with the Fedora 19 Beta by Fedora QA, FPL, FPGM and
development.
Fedora 19 Beta will be publicly available on Tuesday, May 28, 2013.
@PauloCereda The radio has the first piano concerto by Franz Xaver Mozart. He was a pupil of Salieri and Hummel (who had been his father's pupil). The music is not at the level of his father's or Beethoven's, but the concerto is nice, particularly in the final rondo. You'd like to play it.
Any Mtn Lion folk having problems with Preview hanging? It seems to hang a lot when I try to open a document using texdoc either from the command line or from within TeXShop, although since I do that a lot it could be unrelated; it's never hung on me when opening from the Finder, I don't think.
@AlanMunn I don't have Mtn Lion, but one (I forgot if it was TeXworks or TeXShop) used to hang if the document window was the exact size of the output. If I first zoomed out (so that the output would not fill the window) then things were ok.
@DavidCarlisle I actually thought about using picture mode, but decide that that could be way too embarrassing if I ran into trouble. :-)
@PeterGrill I know nothing but (#2,{\pgfmathparse{#2+cos(#3)}\pgfmathresult}) looks very odd isn't the bit after the , the y coordinate can you really have a {} group and some calculations there?
@egreg I see. I remember looking a Skim a long time ago and not liking it, but I suspect it's changed a lot. But you don't use TeXshop, right, so you need a good previewer independent of your editor.
Friends, I've been happily using KOMA for some time now, and yesterday I was intrigued by a particular option when using \DeclareNewTOC:
floattype = <number>: The numerical float type of the defined floats. Float types with common bits cannot be reordered. At the standard classes figures has ...
Mine so far is Gummisång
Lyrics in English, anyone?
