quick question. Let's say I want to pass an option to a package, but not using the [] method. I think I once saw a command like passoption or something like that...
@HarishKumar sweet :) hopefully it'll be part of TeXLive 2013- not really sure how it all works, but I've been told that the TL folks are very efficient
since latex has no name space, how does one make sure that a command they make does not conflict with another command from the 1000's of packages out there? I always wondered about this. Since everything seems to be global in Latex
I mean, can one have a package in Latex and have commands inside the package? Like \mypkg\boo{} and \mypkg\foo1{} etc..
The scenario is that I'm writing a book and it looks like I'm going to need to do some munging as the document class Memoir has some wonderful features but Octavio has the presentation.
Now, one of the things that really bugs me with LaTeX is that they use a global namespace, which means they in...
@Werner , I see thanks! So no name space. Amazing how it works then, with all these thousands and thousands of packages and command, no two seem to clash. It is all like magic to me :) I wonder if there is a way to search CTAN for a command name then. For example, suppose I want to write a package, how does one find out if the command, say \loadFile is not used by anything else?
@Nasser There are compatibility issues between certain packages, and this is all established (and allows some relationship to exist) through load order...
...or perhaps pure avoidance. The approach used by package authors is to stick to their own namespace internally (as an example, see the xkeyval package which uses XKV@ for macro definitions, while keyval uses KV@), and hope that there's no similar commands for the user interface.
Since there's no other way around it, consider the naming of user interface macros carefully.
@HarishKumar Sure. I'm writing my own style and I want to be able to use the option showframe of the geometry package if the user specifies so in the style call options, i.e \usepackage[showframe]{mystyle}
@Ahm I just try to help. you use a lot of commands I actually don't or only know a bit. Even though someone who actually wants to help you does have to read a lot of stuff. Maybe they don't have the time
@Ahm you are confusing MWE with your full work. A Minimal working example is as short as possible. Is the problem really correlated to the number 50 ? so if you comment one out it goes to the new number 50 ?
@Ahm No that isn't how MWE work:-) Start with a copy of your document. Remove all bib entries except one good one and one bad one. remove every section of the document leaving just a couple of citations, Check after you remove each bit that the problem is still there then you should end up wth a one paragraph document with two citations, post that.
@DominicMichaelis I found the problem. When I separate \citep{ref1,ref2,ref3,ref4} to \citep{ref1}, \citep{ref2}, \citep{ref3}, \citep{ref4} the backreferencing start working properly. Could you tell me what could be the problem?
@Nasser well if -fi have to match, it is not really a comment it is like \@gobble a command that when executed expands to nothing (\if\textfont looks almost certainly wrong by the way)
@DavidCarlisle I am sorry that I am not following you. You are too advanced for me to follow. I simply wanted to comment out a block of code, like with C++ /* */ but I guess this is not how \iffalse works. So I need to learn more about it ;)
@Nasser iffalse is not like /* */. it is like if{false) {....} so it is executed but does nothing, but the stuff inside has to be syntactically correct
on a separate topic. Latex can be very powerful for layout. Many packages for this. The problem is, when I convert to HTML using htlatex, few things do not show in the same layout. So this is a problem really. a big problem. I spend lots of time fighting with htlatex to make generate the HTML in similar way in the PDF file, but it is a lost battle.
A simple example is this question I posted few days ago tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114732/… all what I wanted is to have text align with an image in a table. Impossible to do with htlatex>HTML. Easy with Latex.
sometimes I feel I am the only person in the world who uses Latex to make web pages with :)
@michal.h21, I know. I spend lots of time adding \Css , my htlatex config file is very large now. I just updated my web site, all in Latex+htlatex. But it is so hard since one is going though one extra layer to reach HTML from Latex. It is much easier to do things directly in HTML ofcourse, but then I lose the ability to have original latex source.
As an example, I spend 3 hrs trying to find out why something is coming out centered in the HTML page, when it is not in the PDF, and I gave up. Could not figure where it is was being set.
But even with all of this, I'd rather do it this way. I get nice table of contents, and many other things, which is hard to do with HTML. Although I read that there is software now that makes automatic table of contents from web pages. I did not look much into it.
@tohecz of course, this is because tex4ht only converts nodes in dvi code and it knows nothing about layout. also tex4ht is more concerning logical layout, than exact appeara
@michal.h21, please check my just updated site, let me know how it looks to you since it was done in htlatex. 12000.org I used \Css to make those box shadows. Should work ok on all browsers
The setup is simple. I have a file report.tex which includes an image from a folder. I send the output of htlatex to a separate directory. htlatex copies all images and HTML to that directory. The problem though, now all the links in the HTML are broken, since the links are generated relative to...
it is all thanks to htlatex ofcourse. I used to use latex2html for long time, but gave up on it. So now I am switching to htlatex for everything.
@michal.h21 but you can see the few math fonts there on the page are colored pink? did you notice this? I have no idea why this is so. For some reason, math png images is colored pink on that page only. But may be pink colored math is not too bad :) I need to try to find out why sometime.
Do you know of another way to go from latex to html other than using htlatex? That might produce better results? I do not know anything about your build system. do you have a link please?
@Nasser latexml is the other main contender (or the original and still maintained latex2html) (there are some questions on site discussing the differences between them)
@DavidCarlisle I do not think Latex2html is still maintained ! I am on the l2h mailing list, and there was no activity on it for months now. I used l2h for years myself.
@Nasser maintained doesn't mean changes, latex itself goes for decades without change but it is still maintained (I haven't used ilatex2html myself for a while, it's true:-) there was I think a time when a reasonable fraction of the web was generated with latex2html:-)
@DavidCarlisle is it possible with xslt to convert tags in form <p>Blah <b>w</b><b>o</b><b>r</b><b>d</b> other text</p> to <p>blah <b>word</b> other text</p>?
@michal.h21 yes (although don't mention the word "tag" in XSLT forums:-) more or less <xsl:template match="p"><xsl:for-each-group select="node() group-adjacent="self::b"><xsl:choose><xsl:when test="self::b"><b><xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()/node()"/></b><xsl:otherwise><xsl:apply-templates select="."/></xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose></xsl:template> (or of course just use sed -e "s@</b><b>@@g"
@DavidCarlisle thank you :) sed would be harder to use, because in fact these tags (or elements are better?:) are <span class="some class"> and it could be also <span class="a">a</span><span class="b">b</span> :(
@michal.h21 on tags/elements they are tags when you write them like this in linear syntax but xslt doesn't see that it only sees the parse tree generated as a tree of nodes (so one node/one element = two tags usually) This distinction shows up when people ask how to do what I suggested in sed (delete the tag pair </b><b>) but you simply can't phrase it that way in xslt you have to think of it as grouping child nodes of the parent p (which isn't always the way people think of it;-)
@egreg I'm sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clear. If I add the hyphenation, everything works OK. But why is it that babel is not aware of this? Shouldn't it be doing it automatically? The only thing "weird" is the fact that there is and and/or expression. I'm guessing there must be something related to it
@MarioS.E. Somehow, "provider" and "providers" slip through the hyphenation algorithm. It's not the only case: look at the ushyphex.tex file you should have on your TeX system. Curiously the words aren't in the list either.
@MarioS.E. If TeX doesn't realize the hyphenation of a word, you can check the correct one at many online dictionaries like marriam-webster
to see the hyphenation points of a word or couple words, just use \showhyphens{and/or providers} -- it will show the hyphenation points in the log (both on-screen and in the log file)
folks, I've been looking at HTML5+CSS3, and that with MathJax, and the ability to print webpages as PDF now build into browsers (like Chrom), I'd want to warn the Latex community to watch out. I think in few years time, things on the web will start to look just as good as Latex in paper.
My dark guesses, freely adapted from Sybill Trelawney's divination lessons:
2013
Since the latest changes (3.1415926) were put into the main TeX engines (TeX, pdfTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX) I would expect the same for changes of this year, because
these engines are more or less maintained.
2020
Ch...
@JosephWright I know. I was just wondering. With \newcommand\foo[1][]{} it would be no problem. Seems to me the problem with brackets in optional arguments has not vanished with xparse but is only a different one... it's not the closing brackets it's unbalanced ones
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
relatively prime
A term describing integers that share no common positive divisors except 1.
Two integers are relatively prime if they share no common positive factors (divisors) except 1. Using the notation (m, n) to denote the greatest common divisor, two integers m and n are relatively prime if (m, n) = 1. Relatively prime integers are sometimes also called strangers or coprime and are denoted m(up tee)n. The plot above plots m and n along the two axes and colors a square black if (m, n) = 1 and white otherwise and simply colored according to (m,…
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
anaphora (English word)
1 | noun | using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier
2 | noun | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
uhn'aferuh (IPA: \:0259n\:02c8æf\:025d\:0259)
a-naph-o-ra (8 letters | 4 syllables)
anaphoras
epanaphora
repetition
(none among common words)
anaphoric
(none among common words)
anaphora.info | anaphora.biz
Rhetorical device like "this earth, this realm, this England"
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
CoprimeQ[58685, 188682]
58685 and 188682 are coprime
58685 = 5×11^2×97 (4 prime factors, 3 distinct)
188682 = 2×3×13×41×59 (5 distinct prime factors)
@MarioS.E. :)
!!/eightball Do you know what an anaphora is?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: nope.
@DominicMichaelis No; I've only 13. :) Two days ago I got the 92nd upvote on an answer of mine.
@DominicMichaelis Another nice stay in Math.SE; I stated that the function f(x)=0 for -1<x<1 and f(x)=e^x for 2<x<3 has f'(x)=f(x) and f(0)=0, but it's not constant. Someone observed that this function is not continuous, let alone differentiable. :( The answer got 10 upvotes and 1 downvote (I've no doubt by whom).
In fact you can even make a funktion $\overline{f}$ such that $\overline{f} \in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})$ and $\overline{f}=f$ everywhere where $f$ ist defined
@DominicMichaelis By the way a similarly stated question as the one I answered was posed for the high school state exams some years ago. The questioner expected the students to say that the solution is unique; of course it isn't if you don't specify in advance the domain of the function. :(
@egreg the statement is wrong anyway? because of ArcTan is an odd function, hence $f(x)=-f(-x)$ and as arctan is not 0 everywhere this statement can't be true
To be more precise as $\arctan(x) + \arctan\big(\frac{1}{x}\big)$ is not zero everywhere
in fact it is $f(1)=\frac{\pi}{2}$ but $f(-1)=-\frac{\pi}{2}$
@MarcoDaniel latex2e [] arguments end at the first ] so nested use of [] has to be protected by {..} l3 [] arguments match [] so nested [] work automatically but unmatched [ has to be protected by {[} You can't win them all.....
@DavidCarlisle Hehe, I don't see why not. All it takes is for me to write a question, you to answer it, me to accept a different answer, and you get a gold star for your efforts! :-)
@FaheemMitha The new years resolution is to get a tikz gold badge by answering tikz question with tex primitives, picture mode, or if really pushed pstricks, doing quite well so far this year.
As the title says, the command \footfullcite{test} does not give the full citation, but only the label "test", "test1" and "test2", respectively. I'm using biblatex and the beamer class (downloaded yesterday, so hopefully the newest versions).
Any ideas? :(
Code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepa...
% \begin{macro}{\@arrayrule}
% There is only one incompatibility with the original definition:
% the definition of =\@arrayrule=. In the original a line without
% width\footnote{So the space between \texttt{cc} and \texttt{c|c}
% is equal.} is created by multiple insertions of
% =\hskip .5\arrayrulewidth=.
% We only insert a vertical line into the
% preamble. This is done to prevent problems with \TeX's main
% memory when generating tables with many vertical lines in them
@Werner I removed amsmath and just used mathtools in one of my documents but the file wouldn't compile without errors unless I had both. I was under the impression from reading the links you gave me that mathtools superseded amsmath since it offered improvements not found in it.
@dustin It adds some functionality to it and fixes some stuff. The line \RequirePackage{amsmath}[2000/07/18] (line 2577) inside mathtools.dtx leads me to believe that you're doing something else as well.
@Werner I don't know what that may be but I use a lot of complex equations and symbols since I work in orbital mechanics. For some reason or another, I need both packages.
She did that for a number of years and then quit for a while (before I met her) and then started up again (after I met her). Perhaps she felt the need to get rid of some frustration after meeting me. :)
She is a Shodan now, but the road after that is a long one.
@MarcoDaniel well given that it was in an answer where I was modifying multicol internals, a bit of hacking is OK:-) (actually I was getting errors from mdframed anyway as it seemed to want to be in vertical mode which is a shame as I wanted to replace \fcolorbox in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116809/shaded-multicols-ii
Do not forget to replace [!htbp] by [!p] otherwise, it will get placed as a top float.
Cheers!
My dark guesses, freely adapted from Sybill Trelawney's divination lessons:
2013
Since the latest changes (3.1415926) were put into the main TeX engines (TeX, pdfTeX, LuaTeX, XeTeX) I would expect the same for changes of this year, because
these engines are more or less maintained.
2020
Ch...
As the title says, the command \footfullcite{test} does not give the full citation, but only the label "test", "test1" and "test2", respectively. I'm using biblatex and the beamer class (downloaded yesterday, so hopefully the newest versions).
Any ideas? :(
Code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepa...
