@Canageek Why don't you want to use Canadian? It will use the correct date format, but with American hyphenation patterns, I think, which is probably what you want.
@Canageek That's probably fine. It's unlikely that anyone reading your stuff actually knows hyphenation rules. Actually the date format for \today is Month dd, yyyy. The UKenglish version is dd-th Month yyyy. I don't think that's the preferred form in Canada.
@Canageek I don't know about slow as mud, but it's definitely slower than bibtex.
@Canageek Manually delete all of your aux files. (And I mean all) Your editing environment probably doesn't know them all (biblatex produces a lot of different ones) so you need to make sure they're all gone. Remove everything except your actual .tex file to begin with and then see what happens.
@AlanMunn Your file fails if I run LaTeX on it more then once as it tries to rewrite the *.bib file. Mine+your package loading fails with the same error.
@AlanMunn Actually we use dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd (The international one) I always use the second as there are lots of times you can't tell if the American or Canadian one is in use.
@Canageek Try removing aux files again, and making the backend=bibtex, (and then use bibtex instead of biber). I've tested my file with both and they work fine.
@Canageek I know, I'm Canadian. :-) I was talking about the long form of the date (in words) not the short form.
@Canageek I think by the time I posted my answer you had modified your example to remove all the cites altogether, since the truly minimal example also failed. But your example should actually still work with bibtex as well. (Again, especially if you're switching between the two you need to delete all the aux files and recompile before running either bibtex or biber. I'll update my answer.
Eh, I'm used to endnotes, as that is what is almost always used in chem. With hyperlinks it doesn't matter much. Do you know how to switch it to endnotes? The documentation is driving me nuts.
Man, it is so nice when I'm working in my own discipline and I have a package to take care of all such things for me.
@AlanMunn Nah, I'm on a role (Written ~1 page so far) and I'll just be printing it anyway. If you want to help tell me how to cut down on the space above the title on the first page.
Wait, duh, I can just make that into a title page.
Quick! Think up half a dozen really good questions just to make sure our 10,000th question is a good one. Maybe it should be @egreg's first question ...
@Jin: Any chance of getting the "new" image fixed? This is the little "new" which comes up in the headline when there's a new blog post. It looks absolutely awful, like it's blurred.
@Raphink Not me! If you like what Tom Bombadil's done (and it is very nice) then put a link to it on the "Favourite TikZ/PGF answers" thread on meta (search for the correct spelling of favourite and you'll get the question) and cross-list it in a comment at Tom's answer. If I'm typical, just being told "Wow, this is great! You should make a package out of it." is enough encouragement to do so.
@Jin: for example, in that case, Tom Bombadil answered a question about how to draw cubes in TikZ. He provides a lot of different parameters for that. Making a package would allow to distribute his code so anyone can use it.
@Jin: Detexify is a really great tool, indeed. It's often used as an answer here.
I came upon this letter when reading a book, I couldn't find its name on the internet, you can imagine how hard it is to search about it.
What is the name of the letter that follows "sample space"?
I know it's not really an English question, but I think this site is best fit for the question ...
@Jin Mathematicians are fond of exotic letters; someone uses Fraktur for denoting "big things", particularly in category theory. Fraktur is quite unreadable if one's not accustomed to it; see the difference between Fraktur "A" and "U", for example.
@PauloCereda There's the package yfonts that enables the use of three German fonts: Gotisch, Schwabacher and Fraktur (designed by Yiannis Haralambous). There's also a magnificent "initials font".
@egreg Sadly no. I kinda have two questions, but I don't think "good" is a proper adjective for them. The answers would probably be simple, like, "Do x, where x in {obvious things}". :)
@egreg: I'm looking for your question. It will be an earth shaking announcement. If you need a name for the project (like Marianne), I have some suggestions, e.g., Lavanda Pop, which is an anagram for Padova Plan. :-)
@Jin: Thanks. And I'll join in the general acclamation of detexify. I found out that there's an app for the iPhone/iPad and it's (almost) worth buying one of them just for that.
On LaTeX-Community.org I've noticed a strange problem with nested \tilde and \breve commands, when amsmath is used.
In this code the X appears also in the output of the second and the third formula:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[]{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[
\breve{\tilde{X}}
\]
\[...
@PauloCereda It's countably infinite, but not recursively enumerable. That's why sometimes I can't find an answer (the TikZ branch is the most difficult to reach).
And yes, the macros were ready yesterday night. :)
Long ago I saw complex TeX code as uncomprehensible, advanced wizardry that only TeXperts can write. Now I get the same feeling reading TikZ-related answers on tex.sx :-)
@Raphink Oh, I guess this text would be used when in a template, e.g., display the author names in the footer. Otherwise the \author content would be used.
@JosephWright Yes. I really wanted to get that replacement code to work (and I changed some internals during the weekend, making the code a little bit cleaner).
Hm. In fact, I'm remembering that repetition with { } is only half supported yet :(. A little bit more code to add. I must forbid myself from optimizing otherwise it will never be done.
@JosephWright A stipend from France, and I haven't really told them yet that I'm in Canada. I've got a prospective French co-supervisor, but I have never met him. I need to sort that out real soon, actually. Coding is more appealing.
Most of the bloated preambles I see have dozens of lines like \newcommand{\Acal}{\mathcal{A}} \newcommand{\Bcal}{\mathcal{B}} etc. \newcommand{\Abf}{\mathbf{A}} etc. It is quite easy to code a macro \letterdef{#1cal}{\mathcal{#1}}{ABCDEFG} to define \Acal ... \Gcal. Do you guys know if there is already a package for that?
Expanding on Andrew's answer, here is a solution without \expandafter:
\makeatletter
\@tempcnta=\@ne
\def\@nameedef#1{\expandafter\edef\csname #1\endcsname}
\loop\ifnum\@tempcnta<27
\@nameedef{b\@Alph\@tempcnta}{\noexpand\mathbb{\@Alph\@tempcnta}}
\advance\@tempcnta\@ne
\repeat
This wil...
@egreg I guess something like a \forloop construction may help. Basically, my supervisor keeps telling me that I'm putting weird code in the files :). So I'd prefer a packaged solution where I can tell him "upgrade to TeXlive 2011" (he's happy to do that). Perhaps I should just write that package.
Recently, a question was asked about how to get enumeration with non-sequential, random-ish numbers. (I say random-ish because the point of the question was not to generate random numbers, but to take a given list of random looking numbers and enumerate with them. The obvious answer is just to use the optional argument of \item to do it manually. Tobi’s answer suggests exactly this. This is, I think, The Right Answer in this case.
So why did I suggest my own answer which, by my own admission, was an insane way of achieving the same thing? Given that the right answer had been given, why di …
Right, conference paper prepared, three blog posts published (in different blogs) and some tex.sx voting done. Now it's time for a lego star wars break!
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We have mailed out the swag packages for our top users. Some of you have already received them.
Unfortunately, I made a terrible error. I misspelled the site URL on the T-shirt in the vector file I sent to the printshop. It was spelled "english.stackchange.com" instead of "english.stackexchange....
for swag package, besides the items, joel also sends out a hand signed thank you letter. For the English site, he intentionally misspelled a bunch words and made grammatical errors, then went back corrected them with a red pen.
@Seamus This doesn't make a difference. Top 11% of users, sorted by reputation. Should be 1.1%.
@Seamus What's more, my own user page displays "top 0.89% overall". I'm no. 5 of >5000 users -- it should read "top 0.089% overall". Seems we discovered a bug.
Using Firefox 7.0.1 on a Mac (OS 10.6.8) the following behaviour is reproducible:
Select some text in chat.
Type command-C to copy it
this causes a 'c' to appear in the chat input area
Type command-V to paste it
this results in the following being pasted:
(*) TeX, LaTeX and Friends | cha...
@Jin The uploaded files will be pngs, but they will all have been generated by TeX and so available as PDF. Any that are pure image (no text) can be converted to SVG.
@Jin: I don't know enough about Picassa to know if this will work. I've just uploaded all the pngs in my TeX-SX scratch directory to Picassa (it's not actually all of them, but as many as I could do without thinking). Try this link to see if you can see them. If there's anything close to what you want, let me know and I might have something a bit more suitable elsewhere. picasaweb.google.com/110765980098077923527/…
@Jin: As I said, I don't know much about Picassa! I've now found the right place to make an album public so it should work. I guess the link is the same, but in case not here it is again: picasaweb.google.com/110765980098077923527/… (you'd think that when you click on "share" then it would give you the options for sharing the album, but no)
In fact there's one T-shirt being printed: "There are only 11 types of people in the world: those who understand balanced ternary, and those who don't."
@Jin (Just in case you need it formally) Yes, you have my permission to use this image.
I wonder what the exact licence covering the images would be. I've put the code that generates them explicitly into the public domain. I suppose that legally that doesn't cover the actual images, since anyone running the code would technically generate a new image.
@Jin: Anyway, you have my permission to use any of my images which were generated for the TeX-SX site for TeX-SX promotion (including implicit TeX-SX promotion such as something about the whole network). Attribution is nice, where possible, but not required (and if given, it should link back to this site rather than any other website I happen to be active on).
Oh, and I'd like to know of any such use. I think I'd also make that "you" generic, so anyone can use my images in such use as outlined above.
my goal for all of our SE sites tshirt design is, not to make it overly "advertisy." i know all the free swag tshirts i get from confs, it has huge logo, name of the companies.. so i only wear them at home :)
i try to make our t-shirts classy so people will actually wear them outside.
I came upon this letter when reading a book, I couldn't find its name on the internet, you can imagine how hard it is to search about it.
What is the name of the letter that follows "sample space"?
I know it's not really an English question, but I think this site is best fit for the question ...
On LaTeX-Community.org I've noticed a strange problem with nested \tilde and \breve commands, when amsmath is used.
In this code the X appears also in the output of the second and the third formula:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[]{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[
\breve{\tilde{X}}
\]
\[...
Expanding on Andrew's answer, here is a solution without \expandafter:
\makeatletter
\@tempcnta=\@ne
\def\@nameedef#1{\expandafter\edef\csname #1\endcsname}
\loop\ifnum\@tempcnta<27
\@nameedef{b\@Alph\@tempcnta}{\noexpand\mathbb{\@Alph\@tempcnta}}
\advance\@tempcnta\@ne
\repeat
This wil...
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Using Firefox 7.0.1 on a Mac (OS 10.6.8) the following behaviour is reproducible:
Select some text in chat.
Type command-C to copy it
this causes a 'c' to appear in the chat input area
Type command-V to paste it
this results in the following being pasted:
(*) TeX, LaTeX and Friends | cha...
