@AlanMunn Raticosa and Futa are tough hills indeed. I've never done the Gotthard Pass, it's surely very hard. But Pordoi is just another thing: from Arabba to the top, 33 hairpin turns in 10 km, from 1600 m to 2239 (salite.ch/pordoi.asp). Not with a bicycle, for me. :)
I use MiKTeX and it’s TeXworks and there is the command for making XeLaTeX+MakeIndex+BiBTeX at once. This uses texify and when your file is somewhere in the directory tree where there are non-standard (long or non-ASCII) names of directories or of the file in the path, the texify won’t take it.
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@MartinScharrer I've seen the question by xport; it's quite a different problem than what you think is a duplicate. It seems to me that xport needed only to write a file with answers and then print them at the end, just like Knuth does for the TeXbook or the endnotes package works. This doesn't require to close and reopen the file many times; so long that a write stream is open, TeX appends to it.
@egreg I see. I didn't closed it, but xport did. She called it a "shared file", so I thought is was shared by multiple documents.
@egreg Ok, in that case it would be a duplicate of another question :-) See my second comment on the now undeleted question.
I now wrote macros to collect an macro argument (at least something which looks like one) verbatim or as box. These complete the other collect macros provided by the collcell package and the environ package to collect tabular cells and environment contents, respectively. After my thesis is finished I might write an article or blog post about all of these.
Using my standalone class and package it is possible to compile diagrams etc. inside own files stand-alone or as part of a main document. However, a common user error is to keep an empty line between the end of the content and the \end{document} which causes the diagram etc. to be part of a parag...
Thank you for the kind offer. Here we are.
Speaking at the TUG Conference 2011
Done for now:
Chosen the most important conference, which is the Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group, held for the 32nd time
Discussed who is interested to go to the conference and who likes to speak, one of our ...
@Seamus Yes, indeed. I was having the funny idea to put the package folders of CTAN on such a repository, and then 300MB are not enough. But I don't know if I really do it.
@MartinScharrer I think the good thing about github is that it's built specifically for one version control system. This means it supports all and only the features of that system (git) but it does it well...
I think one of the major features of GitHub is the ability to fork any project by simply clicking a button, then the "new" repository is automatically built into your project stack.
I was wondering if it is possible to draw line which goes through some columns in table(not all columns). I have a table which looks like that
\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\caption{some text }
\label{tab:artificialShapes}
\\\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Shape} & \multirow{2}{*}{$C^...
I'm impressed with the progress here. Two days ago when the discussion about reducing the number of unanswered questions we were at about 250. Now we're at 180.
@JosephWright Heiko Oberdiek uses sp values in his zref package to write the positions of elements on the page to the AUX file. I always thought this is done because the expression of \the is not 100% accurate.
@MartinScharrer I believe that with five decimal digits you can represent uniquely all numbers with 16 binary digit fractional part; after all 2^(-16) > 0.00001. The uniqueness is only one way: 0.00001pt = 0.00002pt, but that's not a problem
@egreg I agree now, it does accurately represents the value TeX uses with the 16 fractional bits. So when you turn it into a string using \the and read that string back you will end up with the same value again.
@egreg However, the value of \the is still rounded, e.g. 1sp = 0.000015259pt, but displayed as 0.00002pt. For TeX it doesn't matter because it is rounded back to 1sp when read in again.
But if you would export it to another system (PostScript, MatLab, own script, ...) which uses more than 16bit you would be able to see the rounding error. Then sp output would be better. Not that it matters really in practical applications.
@MartinScharrer TeX always chooses the decimal representation that is closer to the actual binary fraction. 16 bits are sufficient for TeX's purposes, but of course some calculation may be performed differently if 31 fractional bits are used; usually floating point computations round instead of truncate.
I'm getting an error with soul highlighting, and am not sure what to do about it. The manual quotes the error message, but doesn't give details that help me. The message is (via auctex): I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything. For example, `\def\a#1{...}' and `\a}' would produce this error. If you simply proceed now, the `\par' that I've just inserted will cause me to report a runaway argument that might be the root of the problem. But if your `}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away.
I'm not sure what this means. Am I doing something stupid? Should I post a question?
@lockstep The question itself isn't bad, and there's enough to go on without a minimal example. It's easy with tocloft to put a heading over the TOC entries if the TOC is just one page. Is there an easy way to get that same header on subsequent pages?
@MartinScharrer: I don't see any mention of \ref in the soul manual, nor do I see any more general discussion of this point. However, I am running tex live 2009 on Debian squeeze, which is outdated.
hmm, let me check the latest manual. i was looking at the one with my distribution.
@MartinScharrer: The manual looks really old, so maybe no point in trying to follow up. Also, there is no email address given. Are there any alternatives to soul for highlighting. I have a second related problem: adding {\itshape Italic text} gives an error. Should I add to the question or post a new question>
@JasperLoy The TL 'delay cycle' is a bit awkward, I'd agree
I'm sure Karl has good reasons, but it can be a bit frustrating
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@JosephWright If I want to copy my TL installation from one Linux to another, I just need to install the first as usual, then copy the whole ~/texlive/xxxx folder to the other machine, then run fc-cache -fv and context -generate right? No need to connect to internet again?
@Seamus I don't think those are all defined in article.cls. grep environment /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls produces: description, abstract, verse, quotation, quote, titlepage, titlepage, figure, figure*, table, table*, thebibliography, theindex (edited output)
@Seamus Note that my using grep to search for 'environment' isn't at all a robust way of finding environments, since it will only find those defined (or redefined) using \(re)newenvironment. Many environments are defined using \def\foo and \def\endfoo and so those environments can't be found that way.
@AlanMunn The kernel environments are not defined with \newenvironment, but rather with \def\foo{...} and \def\endfoo{...}: flushleft, center, flushright, enumerate, itemize, description, trivlist, list, displaymath, equation, eqnarray, minipage, lrbox, array, tabular, @float, sloppypar. None is defined with \newenvironment.
Thank you for the kind offer. Here we are.
Speaking at the TUG Conference 2011
Done for now:
Chosen the most important conference, which is the Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group, held for the 32nd time
Discussed who is interested to go to the conference and who likes to speak, one of our ...
I was wondering if it is possible to draw line which goes through some columns in table(not all columns). I have a table which looks like that
\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\caption{some text }
\label{tab:artificialShapes}
\\\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Shape} & \multirow{2}{*}{$C^...
