In answer tex.stackexchange.com/a/86674/12571 the author says that he cannot upload an image. I produced one, so I could edit the answer and add the image. However in order to get that image I had to fix some errors in the code.
Should I upload the image and fix the errors in the code? It seems a bit rough to alter someone's else code...
Should I upload the image and leave the errors? It does not seem right either...
@JLDiaz The author now has enough rep to post an image - you could point that out to her/him. Are the changes big? If not, one option is to add an "appendix" - I sometimes do this. I add a horizontal line (---) and then something like "Added by Andrew Stacey some versions of TikZ have a bug with remember ...; if using such a version replace the line ... with ..."
@JLDiaz The other thing that I do when doing this is to make sure I leave a comment explaining what I did and usually ending in something like "hope that's alright". It almost always is, the purpose being to say "I've edited your stuff, but it's still your stuff".
wow, user mwibrow, who joined tex.SX two days ago, just posted, a very elegant answer to my nucleosome drawing TikZ question. Who IS that? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/85576/…
(note to self: read the last dozen or so comments on chat before posting)
@unNaturhal do you mean an official repository install (in which case tlmgr install zzzz) or do you mean a local file in which case just leave it in a directory on tex's input path.
@GarbageCollector you're too late, 12/12/1212 (or even better 12/12/12) were the interesting dates, nothing special about 12/12/2012.
@unNaturhal It's best not to put things into texmf-dist as that's under the control of the package manager, there is a separate texmf-local tree for local files. TeX itself doesn't care but texlive updates will preserve local files but assumes it has full control over texmf-dist
:7239210 more complicated, there are standard ways how to do it, my favourite low-level way is to put this in the preamble:
\long\def\COMMENT#1\ENDCOMMENT{\relax}
and this in the text:
\COMMENT
blabla
...
foo
bar
\ENDCOMMENT
@unNaturhal With Aquamacs I can select the lines to comment and do Command-' and all lines are prepended with % (or the comment character and the space is removed if present). The same can be done on all varieties of Emacs. Probably other editors have similar features.
Well, your fix felt like it did the right thing. daleif went back to the memoir default one and that feels dangerous without knowing that float does not change something important i caption considering float changes a lot of behavior. Or do you not agree?
true, (one reason I like [H] is because it's a short way to make a Figure non-floating, which as far as I know is needed when putting it inside a shaded area) maybe there is some nice trick for doing that?
@percusse I would have had to fake the caption and figure numbering and that would be more work. I now got told about \newfixedcaption which might be what I need
Actually, IMHO memoir is too much a world on its own. The things it does it does great, but try to need something that is not natively supported by this class...
@tohecz I also think it's too ambitious but you have to admit that they have a incredibly solid base for that. And only upper intermediate level people start to notice the missing parts.
We need @Brent.Longborough for this. Also I missed him :)
I mean, I learnt how to do all the tricks with titlesec, fancyhdr, caption, float, ... with the basic classes, so I prefer to use these. But it's just that I don't want to learn everything again in a different concept.
@jonalv scrbook from the KOMA-Script bundle is the canonical alternative. I think Memoir is a bit more US-centric and KOMA-Script is a bit more Europe-centric.
@jonalv [H] is always the wrong fix though, even when it works. LaTeX has a big machine for positioning floats subject to certain constraints, notably that they never go out of order and [H] just smashes a sledgehammer through the entire architecture. ('H' began life in one of my packages:-)
Especially after looking at scrreprt, scrartcl, I feel it's the same along the lines of writing C:\Progra~ as a solution to the long folder names by M$.
@PauloCereda \begin{youwouldcrytooifithappenedtoyou}[Theorem} \(x^2 + y^2 = z^2\)\end{youwouldcrytooifithappenedtoyou}Examiner's note: This seems to be a result due to another mathematician. Thesis failed.
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@PauloCereda Just got a new one myself with Retina and I'm frankly amazed at how good the screen is.
@JLDiaz I've yet to try it. Partly because I would aim to use TeX writer to do it and that doesn't support TikZ yet, and partly because when I'm on my iPad I don't really feel like answering questions.
@JLDiaz Certainly Codea can do http requests and it can load images from the Photo Library (though it has to be a two-step process due to the sandboxing) so so long as one could figure out the API it would be possible.
@JLDiaz I hadn't done any lua programming before using Codea (not even with luatex, my few lua contributions here were done after I started with Codea). I've also done almost no python so would be on equal footing there, but somehow lua is less daunting than python for me! (I remember well your python version of hobby's algorithm.)
@JLDiaz As there are two, "with either of them" would be correct.
@AndrewStacey Well, I didn't know Lua either before Codea, and I managed to write a "hangman" game. I find Codea much more friendly to write games (2d physics is cool!), and Pythonista more useful to write "console-mode" scripts or automation hacks.
@JLDiaz Hangman's a popular choice! I wrote one too. (Are you on the Codea forums, by the way?) It is certainly aimed at the game market, but it's fun for other things too.
@JLDiaz I like to think that the Codea forums are as friendly as this place.
@JLDiaz On another tack, I'm guessing that your question about tikz behind text was motivated by a more complicated example. Would it be useful to have something embedded in the header that provided hooks for doing stuff with all the tikzmarks on the page?
@AndrewStacey My question was related to my answer to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/86442/… in which I first draw a table and then put a colored background. For that case I used transparency but was worried about how to solve it in a more general way
But Ulrike's comment to my question made me wonder if a general approach like the one you just suggested could be useful for more people
It also motivated a new question, but I didn't ask it because it is mostly academical and I have not real need for it (nor can envision any real world case in which it could be useful). The question is: would it be possible a macro like \putatbangroundofpage{6}{this stuff}
@JLDiaz Presumably you wouldn't want to constrain yourself to using that macro on page 6. It should be possible. Incidentally, do you know of the background package?
@DavidCarlisle Is there a standard way to add something to the header without disturbing what else is there? One problem with using the header to put stuff in is that other packages do the same so one could easily end up with a race condition.
@AndrewStacey well no not really, of course you can do the usual of ignoring all the published interfaces and adding your macro at some random place at the top of the output routine, but I couldn't possibly suggest that.... (even if that's what I'd do:-) Heiko has a per page hook I think,
@AndrewStacey I was playing with background package. It is a nice one! I managed to use it to draw on remembered nodes, and thus is another answer to my question, which avoids the problems noted by Ulrike
You could use the verbatim package then define your own variant
\newenvironment{myverbatim}%
{\verbatim}%
{\endverbatim}
then you can use myverbatim if you want to have literal \end{verbatim}
\begin{myverbatim}
Bla, bla,
\begin{verbatim}...\end{verbatim}
Bla, bla,...
\end{myverbatim}
When I edit a BibTeX file with EMACS, pressing the tab key takes me to the middle of the line, even when I am at the beginning of an entry. This is incredibly annoying. Any clue why it is happening?
A vegetarian friend of mine posted a status on facebook:
You are what you eat. That's why I don't eat cows, chickens or pigs.
My main point was that being (called) "a vegetable"(=brain-dead) is no better than being (called) "a cow"(=fat), "a pig", or "a chicken"(=a coward). A counterargumen...
@mhelvens While it's in my mind. I was thinking about your data structure business. It struck me that one reason we aren't fussed about fixed versus flexible keys in a prop or similar is memory. In C, etc., there is an effect on allocating memory if you know some part of a variable is fixed in length. That's not the case for us: everything is left to TeX, and for macros there is no concept of a 'fixed length'.
@Werner Getting it isn't a bug - but it's empty for me which suggests something buggish. Try saying something "offensive" here and see the flood of people from other chat rooms who come to see who dared to say something out of line in the TeX chat room.
A publication I am submitting to has the rather annoying requirement of needing the document title to be size 16pt (and the regular text size being 12pt, which I know how to do). I have absolutely no idea how to change the font size of the title (beyond adding \Large, \LARGE etc. but none of thes...
@FaheemMitha It defines the default family for \textrm or \rmfamily so it is cmr if you are using teh default computer modern family and it is not cnmr if you are not
@FaheemMitha well actually not quite default family you can set \familydeafult to (say) \sfdefault rather than \rmdefault so the document default is sans serf but rmdefault still controls \textrm
@FaheemMitha probably not (of course if you go \def\rmdefault{cmss} it will but...) safest to say it determines what \textrm selects without committing yourself to any actual result in the output:-)
@FaheemMitha Probably the answer is fine, If you have specific requirements about point size of heading fonts there is probably specific choice of fonts as well so making it more or less generic is not that imprtant, whichever is easiest. probably I'd just have written it as \reset@font\bfseries\fontsize{16}{20}\selectfont which is probably equivalent to what is there now but perhaps a bit less obscure although not as efficient as it runs \selectfont nore often
I'm wondering if there is any alternative to "bodegraph" for plotting bode graph with latex.
Especially I would ideally be looking for something easy to run (avoid external computation like with gnuplot for example).
I could use matfig2pgf and export from Matlab but there are some misterious er...
@PauloCereda I'msure yours are well earned:-), but Ive got 102 but only 3 tag silvers so there doesn't really seem to be any similarity in difficulty, not that it really matters:-0
Hi everyone :) I have something of a Meta question about chat "registration": I've registered for attending the TexTalk Interview tomorrow with Ulrike Fischer but I'm still not sure I'll be able to attend. Should I keep or remove my registration?
@ricmarques Don't worry. :) The "registration" is not a real registration, it's just a friendly reminder of the event, just in case you forget. :) You can join the chatroom freely, and even post questions to Ulrike. :)
If you register in the event, SE will send you an email one hour before to remind you. That's about it. :)
@PauloCereda: Thanks! :) The problem for me is that part of it will overlap with my Lunch hour and part of it will overlap with my "work hours". BTW, I'm not complaining: I'm just explaining why I may not be able to attend it in whole or in part.
@ricmarques Ah I see. By the way, post-interview questions and remarks are welcome. We usually wait a few days to then "lock" the interview and get it ready for publishing. You can read the whole interview later on and eventually ask other questions to Ulrike. :)
@PauloCereda: Cool :) I didn't know that you could write post-interview questions. Thanks for the info. I did find the Blog where previous Textalk Interviews are posted: great stuff! :)
Introduction
As part of the celebrations of our first birthday, we decided to interview great members of our community. Since we received very positive feedback from our beloved users, the TeXtalk became a regular event in our community blog.
Our interviews are also indexed in the TUG Intervi...
You could use the verbatim package then define your own variant
\newenvironment{myverbatim}%
{\verbatim}%
{\endverbatim}
then you can use myverbatim if you want to have literal \end{verbatim}
\begin{myverbatim}
Bla, bla,
\begin{verbatim}...\end{verbatim}
Bla, bla,...
\end{myverbatim}
When I edit a BibTeX file with EMACS, pressing the tab key takes me to the middle of the line, even when I am at the beginning of an entry. This is incredibly annoying. Any clue why it is happening?
A vegetarian friend of mine posted a status on facebook:
You are what you eat. That's why I don't eat cows, chickens or pigs.
My main point was that being (called) "a vegetable"(=brain-dead) is no better than being (called) "a cow"(=fat), "a pig", or "a chicken"(=a coward). A counterargumen...
I'm wondering if there is any alternative to "bodegraph" for plotting bode graph with latex.
Especially I would ideally be looking for something easy to run (avoid external computation like with gnuplot for example).
I could use matfig2pgf and export from Matlab but there are some misterious er...
Introduction
As part of the celebrations of our first birthday, we decided to interview great members of our community. Since we received very positive feedback from our beloved users, the TeXtalk became a regular event in our community blog.
Our interviews are also indexed in the TUG Intervi...
