@PeterGrill my usual user name is DavidCarlisle (no space) with David Carlisle being the name the system knows by, but for one line chat messages the system truncates it so it fits next to the image without taking more space than the text line
Well if this the real David Carlise, I have some good news, and some bad news. Bad News (well bad for you,good for me), I have passed you again!! But it seems that you are an expert in format files, and so if you can answer Can't get real currfile if used in precompiled .fmt file, you can get ahead again.
@PeterGrill the usual image is from my google log on, is there a chance that your connection to the google servers is flaky and so the sx network is filling in an icon?
@DavidCarlisle unlikely, as this is only affecting your icon on the left side of the chat. The one on the right shows up properly. And you longer (multi line) messages are displayed correctly.
@egreg Never heard that one, but it is a good quote. But, not sure that today's audience could handle the slow paced movies of John Ford. Just saw Orsen Well's Touch of Evil the other day, boy was it a slow movie -- and besides the opening shot not sure I'd recommend it.
@egreg :-)
But the opening shot is defintely one to see -- no edits for a looooong time.
@PeterGrill Do you remember some long shots by Hitchcock? For instance the theatre scene in the first version of "The man who knew too much".
@PeterGrill That's "Holliwood Party": great movie by Blake Edwards who did also "Operation Petticoat" and "Victor Victoria". But the greatest comedy of all times is "Some like it hot".
@egreg I don't know that one, but Touch of Evil is the one that is used as an illustration in film classes. And if you are don't know that it is one shot you probably would not even notice it.
@egreg Not sure if I have seen "Some Like it Hot". Will have to add that to my queue.
Dear friends, the interview with Peter is ready for review. Could you guys take a look? :) Sorry if there are some capital mistakes, I formatted the interview, offline, with a netbook, no internet, sit in the cold ground, while waiting for the bus.
I'm guessing from the following question that there's no way to globally define an environment. The reason I wanted to was that I wanted to define an environment with certain catcodes in place, whence in a begingroup ... endgroup. I ended up gdeffing the command and endcommand as that seemed the simplest way to achieve what I wanted.
The following MWE works just fine, but I had to resort to using \global\def (not that there's anything wrong with it). The intent of the MWE is to provide access to the value of macro as set in an external file, but don't want it to effect the current values that have been set in the parent file...
@AndrewStacey the latex begin/end code is a very thin wrapper around csname it doesn't do much, you can define optional arguments on \foo and they are optional arguments to the environment. Or of course you can not use a group then it doesn't need to be global. \begingroup\catcode....\lowercase{\endgroup \newenvoronment{foo}.......} will define the environment with your locally set catcodes
@DavidCarlisle Ah, yes. The \begingroup\lowercase trick! I'd forgotten that. In this circumstance, is \lowercase doing anything other than reading in its argument and so freezing the catcodes? If I wanted to define an environment FoO then lowercase would make that foo, wouldn't it? (So shouldn't I use a non-@ version of \@firstofone?)
@AndrewStacey that's all \lowercase ever does (it is useless and linguistically incompetent at lowercasing text:-) well yes you could use firstofone but I think lowercase is a bit quicker as it doesn't have to grab the macro argument and you can close the } group in more interesting places . After th e begingroup you are of course free to locally play with the lccodes so making \lccode`F=`F would mean that the lowercase of Foo was Foo if you needed that
Are \newdimens local or global in scope? If I do a \newdimen inside a group then does that have any effect outside the group (even down to using up a register of some sort)?
@DavidCarlisle So then there's a play-off between speed and flexibility versus hassle. Since if I use \lowercase then any uppercase letters have to be protected via \lcode but if I use \@firstofone (or equivalent) then they don't.
@AndrewStacey yes but speed may not actually be measurable, remember when I learnt this stuff I had the luxury of a sun 3, trying to keep code working on people running emtex on an 8086 PC, speed and token use are less of an issue now, but my brain hasn't been reconfigured
@DavidCarlisle Exactly, whence \@firstofone wins on the basis of not doing anything weird.
Okay, next question. In LaTeX3, what's the proper way to execute the decision of a conditional outside the conditional group? Sort of \ifx\this\that \let\next=\same \else \let\next=\different \fi \next
I was answering a question at the tex.sx site when an old friend I happened to see I introduced him to the question, and while he was answering my friend stole the checkmark from me
By chance have any of you heard of the software GIS? I made a map in it and am having a very difficult time incorporating it into LaTeX. I just cannot center the darn thing. Not sure if the problem I am having is with GIS or LaTeX since I'm not fully comfortable in either. I have incorporated .pdf files using includegraphics so I know I can incorporate docs into LaTeX. Just curious if anybody every heard of GIS and there being a fundamental incompatibility with it
@JG Try using \fbox{\includegraphics[...]{file}} so that the presence of white padding becomes evident. Some softwares export "full pages" and not only the cropped picture.
@egreg I tried adding hspace or vspace before the map, and it moves discontinusouly.
For example, putting hspace{1.0cm} might make no movement, neither might hspace{1.1cm}, and then next thing you know, hspace{1.2cm} made it move like 5 cm.
same with adjusting the width and height within the includegraphics
@JG If there is white padding around the picture the best is to crop it with some software or within LaTeX: \includegraphics[trim= a b c d,clip,<other options>]{file} where a b c d are the length you want to trim at the left, bottom, right, top.
@JG well to take a simpler example, if tex is trying to make everything move up as far as possible and leave space at the bottom, adding \vspace{1cm} will move it down a centimeter but if it is trying tio flush everything to the bottom it may make no difference, if it is vertically centering the page it will move the image by 0.5cm as it will center the space and the image.down
@egreg And you are saying that might be the cause of the jumping when I make a slight perturbation in the includegraphics dimensions or the lack of a movement when I make a small increase?
@JG both, TeX will stretch all the white space on a page (typically) to make things fit according to its algorithm to minimise the badness on the page. If you change the image size or add explicit space before it you change the input to that algorithm so TeX will find a new best way of splitting the page and distributing space, which doesn't necessarily fit human intuition.
@JG it puts a visible box around the image so you see any white space included, as it is that total area that TeX will center if you use \begin{cemter}
@JG It draws a box around the graphic object, according to the dimensions it has to TeX's eyes (possibly including large white space, if so the software exported the picture).
@JG That changes the effective size by 0.5cm so will move it up by that amount normally but if you are using a theme that is vertically centering the page it will only move by half that amount (which sounds complicated but it's obvious when you see it happening)
@JG vspace is fine, or you could use \raisebox{-1cm}{\includegraphics...} or you can (if you are not clipping to the viewport) modify the bounding box dimensions in the includegraphics options so the image over-prints its alloted area. It all depends.
well just cut and paste it in and then click the {} button, or actually better for anyone trying to help put it at the start of your latex document between \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.csv}...\end{filecontents} then latex will create the file when anyone runs the MWE
As a follow-up to my earlier question (here), here is a question that is perhaps a little more latex than gnuplot. having used gnuplot and pgfplots to generate a fitted curve, is there an easy way to have latex automatically report the fit parameters (in this case: Ymax, EC50, nH) from the gnupl...
@JG in that case yes, the filecontents environment just writes its content verbatim to the file named in the argument. I didn't look what that actual question was about just searched for an example of a pgfplots MWE using filecontents to make it self contained
The graph below is currently plots a point at each value of x that is an integer between -10 and 10 and connects them.
What I'd like to do instead is more like this:
http://www.southalabama.edu/coe/bset/johnson/lectures/lec10_files/image013.jpg
First, I'd like to add a red, light line at x = 0....
@DavidCarlisle I don't mean to be lazy. I just don't fully see how to change the syntax to get the data that I typed to be the data that is plotted since I don't normally use that function but rather I use the .csv.
@JG all I meant was that if you have a working example of something that has a tex file and a csv file you can post a self contained tex file as a MWE by putting the contents of the csv file into filecontents and getting latex to create the file.
or even if it is not working and the question is "how do I plot the data in this file?" it is helpful to make a MWE that generates the csv file even if it does nothing else.
@JG you mean instead if {data/File.csv}; ? You just put whatever filename you used in the filecontents, if filecontents wrote the data as the file wibble.foo and you want to read it back you would use wibble.foo as the file name>
@JG you don't need to use that filename anymore than you need to use the same code. the filename is entirely arbitrary. \begin{filecontents} (which doesn't need any package, it is part of latex) just writes to the specified file.
@JG so you can delete the Here is the code: bit so it is all one section change drc1.dat to \jobname.csv and change data/File.csv to \jobname.csv then it will work as a self contained tex file without needing a data subdirectory to be present before it is run
@AndrewStacey: I think I found a possible solution. If I generate a test .jar file, could you reproduce the same steps and see if the process is correctly terminated?
Oooh, braces are important. \only<{\numexpr3+1\relax}->{what frame?} works but \only<\numexpr3+1\relax->{what frame?} is beamer's version of the fork bomb.
@PauloCereda In the subject line. Presumably at some point it went through a spam filter and the filter gave up in disgust. (One of these days I'd like to get hold of our spam filter and feed it some genuine spam just so that it knows what it looks like as it clearly has no idea.)
@JosephWright Did you know about the electron configuration for Fe2+?
I didn't quite understand that one when I looked up the answer
I would think it would be [Ar] 4s^2 3d^4, but the book says [Ar] 3d^6. Do you know why it's taking electrons out of the 4s shell instead of the 3d shell?
@Gnintendo [Chemistry lecture] The energies of the 4s and 3d orbitals in neutral atoms are similar, and you may partly fill the 3d and also fill the 4s. However, in the ions you always find the 3d lower in energy than the 4s.
@JosephWright What was the way you were drawing the figures with the electron pairs? You indicated you were doing it with a different method than I was?
@JosephWright Also, I can't figure out why this shifts the N downward: `\chemfig{\Lewis{4:,N}~\Chemabove{\Lewis{0:,O}}{\scriptstyle(+1)}}` One would expect a simple triple bonded NO with the charge, but the N is shifted awkwardly downward unexpectedly. Am I doing something wrong?
It shifts the O downward, I mean
we really need a package for making lists and whatnot where each item is unbreakable
@Gnintendo If you look at published works, the running text is always all serif. It's only the schemes which may not be: some books use serifs for everything, but most journals use sanserif for these.
@JosephWright There isn't a simple way to line my electrons up along the axis of the bond (using angles other than the 8 positions given to me), is there?
Does anyone know an alternative to latexdaemon that works on OS X?
What latexdaemon does on Windows is two things: 1. automatically recompile when the tex files or any dependencies change 2. speeds up the compilation significantly somehow (by precompiling the preamble? I don't really understand the details)
I found that latexmk should be able to do 1., but what about 2.?
@Gnintendo All I know is that subsequent compilations are really much faster. It makes a huge difference. Also, there's some emacs package that is able to do the same, but I really don't want to use/learn emacs.
I need to find the correct term for what it does though, so I can google it ...
I try to improve the time pdflatex needs to compile my book.
For the interested reader I create this two files:
===book.tex===
%&preamble
\begin{document}
Hi
\end{document}
and
===preamble.tex===
\documentclass{article}
I run the following commands on bash console:
$ pdflatex -ini -job...
I would like to speed up compilation of my LaTeX documents using the precompiled preamble approach, and I was wondering whether any of the Tools for automating document compilation have support for this.
The main idea is:
split the document into a "static" and a "dynamic" part, preamble.tex an...
@PauloCereda Searching for English words Hey, don’t let them interfere with the colours. You proofed a good feeling for nice design! And for writng a great manual, too (arara version2)!
@PauloCereda Ok, have reviewed -- mostly grammar clean ups. Do I need to "save" it? I did notice that the link to my embarrassing question (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79358/…) is not there, so not sure if that got deleted, or if it just does not show up there. Also, not sure how you are counting badges? :-)
Also, since it is not clear that some of the text in the interview is a response to one of the other comments, not sure if some stuff should be removed. In the chat here you can mouse over to see what the comment is referring to.
The graph below is currently plots a point at each value of x that is an integer between -10 and 10 and connects them.
What I'd like to do instead is more like this:
http://www.southalabama.edu/coe/bset/johnson/lectures/lec10_files/image013.jpg
First, I'd like to add a red, light line at x = 0....
I would like to speed up compilation of my LaTeX documents using the precompiled preamble approach, and I was wondering whether any of the Tools for automating document compilation have support for this.
The main idea is:
split the document into a "static" and a "dynamic" part, preamble.tex an...
