AlanMunn: I think it would help if there was some sort of standardized file exchange format, so that you could hit a button in your editor of choice, and it would zip up all the files you need, ready to give to someone else. Figures, LaTeX files, fonts, possibly even a subset of packages (nonstandard ones?) needed to build the file.
Also: As a person using LaTeX for scientific work I'm having a hard time envisioning using it without a bunch of figures inserted. ^^
@Canageek Well that's true, but users intuitively know that their figures need to be separate, but they don't think that way of fonts, was my main point. As a Mac user who has had to deal with font incompatibilities between Windows and Mac versions of Word, I'm just dying to relive that time :-)
Do any of the LaTeX systems work on a font file, rather then a system-installed font? I'd love to use fonts without having to install them in C://windows/fonts and slow my computer down.
@Canageek Anything you run with pdflatex uses fonts that are part of your tex distribution and not system installed fonts. Only lualatex and xelatex use system installed fonts. (Not quite sure what you mean by slowing your system down.)
If you install to many fonts on windows you can actually get the computer to slow down. It takes a lot, like installing all of one of those huge adobe cds
I guess that's possible depending on how fonts are searched for by the relevant software. I have a lot of fonts on my Mac and haven't really noticed anything. In this sense XeLaTeX is likely to be slowed down more than LuaLaTeX, I think, but I could be wrong. But with a regular TeX distribution, you technically only need the bare minimum of system installed fonts to run if you are using pdflatex or in fact, lualatex.
It wouldn't be LaTeX compiling slowing down, but every time you open a menu in word, excel, etc. At least, that is the old advice I learned years ago, they may have fixed it since then.
@Canageek That's what I meant too. But part of the slowdown with Office was that the default is to display font names in the font; if you turn that off, the number of fonts makes less of a difference. w.r.t. LaTeX, any engine that uses system fonts will be slowed down by lots of fonts unless it uses some sort of cache for the font names. luatex does, but xetex doesn't if I recall correctly.
@PauloCereda Some languages are written from right to left (Arabic and Hebrew, for instance). Other languages are written from top down (and columns from right to left), like Japanese.
@PauloCereda Well, it's 12:30 pm, here. How did you like my answer about \widetilde and \dot? Ten second answer, 5 upvotes and accepted: 65 rep easily gathered. :)
@egreg Here's -5 CEST (~ 7:41am). It's still early. Speaking of "deserved" rep, this \ifdefined answer gave me some points. And IMHO your answer was far superior than mine. :)
How do I combine the !.5! operator with the -| operator?
I want a node that has x-coordinate equal to the average of x coordinates of nodes A and B, and a y-coordinate equal to the average the y coordinates of nodes C and D.
@TorbjornT You mean from the cool package? No, I haven't had another look at it since you reported that it didn't work for you either.
Might be worth asking if anyone here has used it ...
*shouts very loudly* Oi! Has anyone here used the cool package for derivatives?
@NN Nah, not really. Jake's solutions are often more elegant than mine and many's the time I've produced some horrendous hack only for him to find a neat, concise way to solve it. So it's just fun to find a situation where the Horrendous Hacker is the more ... accurate solution (Jake's is still better, though).
(This is totally bizarre. I'm sitting looking out of my office window. It is raining, but not that cold, maybe 12 degrees (centigrade). And yet there is a skiing competition going on out there. The Norwegians are crazy.)
@AndrewStacey We have bright sun and 26 Celsius temperature. :) Going to be the same in the next days (weekend included). :) I'm already planning my bike tour.
@PauloCereda Everything well, it was just scheduled maintenance. I took it back yesterday, the people there are very efficient. Going again to Slovenia, I guess.
@egreg What a beautiful landscape! I envy you. Almost everywhere I look in here, I see sugar cane plantations. Thankfully my city is surrounded by some groves, but there are some sugar cane plantations, which are a plague for the soil and the environment (the way they are done).
Raphink: I'm an undergrad trying to get into research groups. I don't quite have the confidence yet to drastically go against what the career office tells me is good.
@Canageek: That said, I'd still argue that an original CV (yet not crazy) is something that makes it stand out on the pile, and might get the attention of a recruiter.
Think of recruiters as having a big pile of CVs that all look similar on their pile. If one looks different (and nicely so), he's more likely to read the contents.
@Raphink 'How to write a CV in LaTeX'. There are a number of classes, or one can 'roll ones own' (which is what I've done, having found curve more trouble than it was worth)
Of course, these things are very country- and discipline-dependent
I am putting together a CV in latex, and I am trying to get my list of publications to display in reverse chronological order. I can use \bibliographystyle{unsrt} as a workaround, and just order the entries manually, but I would naturally prefer if bibtex did that for me.
Edit: Hmm... There see...
@PauloCereda I've used BibTeX for my publications in the past, but the chemistry titles are very hard to line-break automatically, so there is an element of hacking needed. So it was faster in the end to do everything by hand. (We don't use paper titles in general, so this does not show up when writing papers.)
I am writing up my exam past papers solutions for a student group, is there some collaboration tool like google docs, that supports visual editing, but supports math tex markup?
actually which wiki has the best tex markup support/
@JosephWright: At the moment, one answer is flagged as "low answer quality score". Is my understanding correct that if I flag as "incorrect flag", both the person who flagged originally and I won't experience any positive or negative change in flag weight?
@lockstep Yes, more evidence that tag badges are related to popularity of the tag rather than expertise per se. Around here, the tikz badge is probably the easiest one to get since tikz questions are so frequent. (Of course people like Jake and Andrew can put a significant damper on one's progress.) I've got plenty of votes for bibtex, but only 14 questions.
Re: CVs As someone who's chaired and/or served on many faculty search committees/tenure review committees, I can say that other than basic readability and lack of typos, no one cares what your CV looks like. I may turn up my nose at the obvious Word travesty, but it will have no bearing on whether the person gets the job or not. At least in academia, letters of recommendation and actual publications are what matter.
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And in industry, many large companies only accept electronic CVs which then get pumped into analysis software, so all your formatting is for naught.
First of all, using the MacTeX distribution of TeX Live, you should set any paths in your editor to point to /usr/texbin, not to the particular folder for the distribution. This is so that subsequent updates will not require you to reset these paths. /usr/texbin will always point to the binarie...
This took a while to solve via chat, because the OP had installed TeX Live using tl.install rather than MacTeX. It seems that the TL people should really discourage the tl.install route for Macs a bit more.
@AlanMunn Good, I should have a paper out by the time I graduate. Well, I'll have contributed work to the early part, and not actually have written the paper, but I'll be listed as coauthor.
Is there an easy way to make a lower case L look less like a 1 in Latin modern? I have ml2 (ML2) at the end of my email, and have trouble with people emailing -m12 instead. I could use capitalizes or smallcaps, but that draws the eye to my email in a way I don't like...
What is the procedure if you have a very similar question to one posted, but the answer that was accepted for the original asker doesn't work for you? i.e. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11847/…
But that doesn't let me copy $\gamma$ from my document.
I've added a comment to the answer, should I also add a bounty, or reask the question with my note that the original answer did not work for me or ?
I asked a question, Mico answered, then I refined my question, and Mico decided to grant a bounty for it, I answerd myself, Mico gave me his bounty (on my own question) and I kept the right answer for him
@JosephWright I'm not sure, but I was thinking of (a) smart code completion based on known macros or even the user-defined ones, (b) an integrated TikZ drawing tool, (c) a chart wizard based on pgfplots, (d) table assistant, (e) fancy output and... dunno, how about a TeX.SX button which actually exports the current code to the main site and opens the question form?
(Fun fact: USP is also an acronym of University of São Paulo.)
@AlanMunn There's no need for it. More seriously, some textbooks use it do denote something which has no real mathematical meaning: they distinguish between "arithmetic radicals" and "algebraic radicals" (the latter have "double sign" when the index is even). In my experience this is didactically absurd.
@egreg I'd love to! TBH it would be a great opportunity to learn Italian. :) And WOW, "Appunti di programmazione in LATEX e TEX" looks like a... a... (asking mom about the right word...) ... capolavoro!
I need to match all of these opening tags:
<p>
<a href="foo">
But not these:
<br />
<hr class="foo" />
I came up with this and wanted to make sure I've got it right. I am only capturing the a-z.
<([a-z]+) *[^/]*?>
I believe it says:
Find a less-than, then
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@Jin Way faster than me in posting it. Some of us here encountered it for the first time when someone posted it as an example of how to typeset text written by a madman.
I want to type up some spells from the RPG Call of Cthulhu and give them to my players. I could just type them up in Word or LaTeX, but that seems too....neat. I'd like to make these things look like they were scrawled by a gibbering madman, unhinged by the horrors he has witnessed. Bonus points ...
@Jin Yes, that's the one. It's kind of sad that semi-frivolous questions are so popular. (Not that the answers were frivolous (if I do say so myself :-) but in the grander scheme of things, this is not quite as useful many other low vote questions and answers.))
@AlanMunn: regarding that question, I love percusse's comment on your answer: "That is a very calm, professional, psychopath handwriting. Mad, angry but disciplined!"
@Canageek Don't take my comment as meaning you shouldn't have asked the question: it was a perfectly fine question, it's the popularity of it that I was remarking on.
@Jin Yes. But as you say, it may bring more users into the site. Also, sometimes such questions actually pose really interesting puzzles, and many of us simply like to solve them. I was working on a random baseline answer to the madman question myself, but another poster beat me to it with one, so I stopped. There's only so much procrastination one can do. (The rest has to be put off until tomorrow.)
i find it so interesting that, even though a lot of the SE sites were seeded by programmers from SO, now they've developed their own subculture and personalties
every site "feels" different, not just because of the design/topics
@Canageek Of yours? Or others. Sometimes things get overlooked. We have a monthly "answer/deal with the unanswered questions" session on the site, but if you have some examples, we can take a look.
The non-math mode greek one I posted today- I'm not really worried, I only put it up a couple hours ago, and it is more of a 'it would be nice' then a 'I need this to get my thesis to compile' type of question.
I've read two or three times (in comments) that this is a friendly SE site, and got the impression that some other sites must be a little harsh. Is that really so?
@GonzaloMedina Weren't you just leaving? Anyway, I think that especially in programming sites, the signal to noise ratio is low relative to ours, with lots and lots of potential duplicates, which leads to understandable frustration among the users. On the other hand, I've heard that de.comp.text.tex is brutal if you ask a question without a MWE.
Also, some sites just aren't suited for experts. I would go mad myself I participated in the English Language site. (And probably the linguistics one in Beta now, too.)
@GonzaloMedina I think we are very receptive to the newbie. @Raphink said something very nice, "we don't close noob questions, only bad questions". It's nice to have a friendly place, we have a moderate and sober humour (as Alan pointed out), and the majority of users is willing to share their knowledge.
@PauloCereda Apropos to my previous comment, we also have a really good base of real experts.
@GonzaloMedina Ah, I wondered that. In that case, you have to say "Good evening" (although that sounds terribly formal, so just Hi would probably have worked best.) :-)
@AlanMunn; well sometimes I feel like going mad when no (or uncomplete) MWEs are given. And, Hi!
@PauloCereda maybe it's because we suffer from linguistic interference, and Portuguese and Spanish use the English equivalent to "Good night" as a greeting
@GonzaloMedina It's true, but we seem to keep our rage in check, and so people don't feel like we're jumping down their throats as soon as they ask a question. Every so often though we certainly get a "WTF kind of a question do you think that is?" sort. I find it quite interesting that some just don't seem to get the MWE idea at all.
MWE: (i) it must be a complete, compilable document (no fragments) (ii) it must use only the minimum packages needed to show the problem.
@GonzaloMedina Yes, interference is always a problem for second language speakers. And when the languages are really close it can be even worse, since it's very subtle. (For example if you decide to learn Portuguese.)
How do I combine the !.5! operator with the -| operator?
I want a node that has x-coordinate equal to the average of x coordinates of nodes A and B, and a y-coordinate equal to the average the y coordinates of nodes C and D.
I am putting together a CV in latex, and I am trying to get my list of publications to display in reverse chronological order. I can use \bibliographystyle{unsrt} as a workaround, and just order the entries manually, but I would naturally prefer if bibtex did that for me.
Edit: Hmm... There see...
First of all, using the MacTeX distribution of TeX Live, you should set any paths in your editor to point to /usr/texbin, not to the particular folder for the distribution. This is so that subsequent updates will not require you to reset these paths. /usr/texbin will always point to the binarie...
I need to match all of these opening tags:
<p>
<a href="foo">
But not these:
<br />
<hr class="foo" />
I came up with this and wanted to make sure I've got it right. I am only capturing the a-z.
<([a-z]+) *[^/]*?>
I believe it says:
Find a less-than, then
...
HardOCP has an image with an equation which apparently draws the Batman logo. Is this for real?
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