@DavidCarlisle Not to provoke a discussion at this time of the night while I'm solving matrix Riccati equations but what is the closest thing to a full rewriting of TeX as you can recall ? I mean one that almost got halfway and decayed later?
@DavidCarlisle I don't know if I should be happy or sad :) Finally I know what e-TeX did.
This project, called "e-TeX", extends TeX in many areas without requiring a complete re-implementation. E-TeX is implemented as a changefile to "tex.web".
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Since there aren't 8 nominations in the tray, I'd like to nominate myself for a sponsored TUG membership.
I was a TUG member a few years ago, but in recent years I stopped being a TUG member in favor of being a member of the ConTeXt group.
I enjoy reading TUGBoat and have contributed semi-regu...
@DavidCarlisle I sudo apt-get install emacs23 auctex and am preparing to mess with my already comfortable life just to see why the very short wiki answer;)
@DavidCarlisle Certainly it's good but still if you look at the output quality and blending in with text it's very primitive. Also I don't know where MathType comes in with the Eq Editor.
@DavidCarlisle I was thinking about trying something crazy- using pgfplotstable to measure the width of each element, check if it's the biggest so far, and if so dump it to the .aux file; read it back on the next run.... I've never written nor read from the .aux file though....
@cmhughes Yes but I guess internally it will be mapped to a newcolumn type. However, you can squeeze in a dimension register and set it at each cell. But it needs to check the data beforehand . So two steps are needed.
@cmhughes Oh, I mean you can execute a code using \pgfplotstableforeachcolumnelement so you can pass over the data once at each column get the max size then use the typesetting command. So no need to write two runs.
@percusse oh ok, that's much easier :) I'm trying to put something together, but I think it's the kind of thing that you could bash out much quicker- fancy writing an answer? :)
This peace of code is compiled with 'Underfull \hbox (badness 1484) in paragraph at lines 23--23' message. Line 23 is \node[draw, inner sep = 10pt, fit=(MUL1) (MUL2)] {};. How can I get rid of underfull box?
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,fit}
\pg...
Need to test: with the code as-is, that you get an underful hbox. Then add the code \tikzset{every fit/.append style={text badly centered}} in the preamble and see if it goes away.
@DavidCarlisle Presumably you got the message You appear to be compiling a document with TikZ. You are about to be logged out as you are not the real David Carlisle.
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@DavidCarlisle Ah, I should have said "After \usepackage{tikz}" you mean?
@PeterGrill Did you see the question that Jake linked to? That contained a solution but before I cast the final vote-to-close I thought it best to check that the solution there actually worked. David's confirmed that it does - you could double check just so that David doesn't have to confess that he's compiled a TikZ document.
@AndrewStacey Wow!! Your solution works!! Where is text badly centered documented???
@AndrewStacey Does David even know how to compile a tilz document? Would that mean he read some documentation? :-) No, I had not seen the one Jake linked to, I think your solution should be posted.
Never mind. I do get errors with TL2012 as well as TL2011. Not sure what is going on. Had "System Preference" quit on me, so perhaps I need a reboot... :-)
@DavidCarlisle Wow, have you gotten the lead tikz badge yet?
Its about 0.01% on the way to a bronze badge. :-)
You were very clever to make the emacs answer a community wiki -- that has saved you 4 points so far (and I haven't even downvoted it yet). :-)
@PeterGrill I think it's automatically cw because the question was (or something) It's my first ever answer to get two downvotes (so far:-) I blame the vi users, you know who you are....
@DavidCarlisle I wouldn't mind a bit more detail on the emacs answer. I'm not using auctex (just the basic tex mode) and while it does recognise dtx to a certain extent, none of the useful stuff seems to see past the % signs.
@DavidCarlisle Indeed you do. I feel so much better now that I know I won't be able to catch up anyway. Plus it got tiring trying to find answer to down vote without being noticed.
@AndrewStacey Having gone to some effort to post an apparently 5 character answer, I plan to resist calls to expand on it. Anyway since I have used emacs virtually every day since 1987 and have used essentially no other editor in the full-screen editing era, I'm not exactly in a position to give an unbiased objective review.
@PeterGrill you were noticed. Retribution will come later.
@DavidCarlisle Yes, but as a pure mathematician I'm extremely lazy so if someone else has done it already I'd rather steal^H^H^H^H^H build on their work. Anyway, it's probably a good thing: means I don't spend too much time editing dtx and spend more time writing articles.
it depends what you mean by "work" when I load up a dtx file it uses docTeX mode: Major mode in AUCTeX for editing .dtx files derived from `LaTeX-mode'.
I would like to nominate myself.
I'd love to be a TUG member for a year, and I'd take it as motivation to finally write the TUGboat article on using PGFPlots to create Tufte style scatter plots (a follow-up to the bar chart article on http://latex-community.org/know-how/437-tufte-charts).
Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally considered in the order Galliformes.
Quail may also refer to:
* Buttonquail, a bird in the family Turnicidae
* Quail, Texas, U.S., a census-designated place
* ADM-20 Quail, an unmanned drone aircraft
* HMS Quail, several ships of the Royal Navy
* USS Quail (AM-15), a Lapwing-class minesweeper
See also
* Quail Island (disambiguation)
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* The Quails, a UK indie band
* The Quails (US band), a punk band
* Quayle, a surname
@AndrewStacey no I don't think so, at least I don't recognise the name quail, I use the emacs input methods a bit, but just whatever is in the default install
Rubber duck debugging, rubber ducking, and the rubber duckie test are informal terms used in software engineering to refer to a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to a likely apocryphal story in which an unnamed expert programmer would keep a rubber duck by his desk at all times, and debug his code by forcing himself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck.
To use this process, a programmer explains code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck, in the expectation that upon reaching a piece of incorrect code and trying to explain it, the programmer will notice his/her...
@tohecz **Psmith, the TeX bot:** I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command `helo` does not exist. Did you mean: `help` @tohecz **Psmith, the TeX bot:** According to my book, `texdef` runs our favourite tool `texdef` with the provided arguments.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\dotfill:
macro:->\leavevmode \cleaders \hb@xt@ .44em{\hss .\hss }\hfill \kern \z@
@JosephWright Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm able to recognize the following commands: help, list, cricket, ctan, texdef, eightball, question, choose. You probably noticed that all commands must start with !!/ followed by the command name, didn't you? Splendid!
@DavidCarlisle Getting a long table header to wrap at a particular width while still able to justify the contents of the column. I think p{width} does the former, but then one cannot justify the column.
@DavidCarlisle Ooh. Hard ball.
@DavidCarlisle I actually don't know how to do this with tabularx if it is even possible - I've been meaning to read the documentation.
But reading documentation gets wearisome, and I do too much of it. Also, LaTeX package documentation lacks entertainment value. Maybe if they added some lions.
@FaheemMitha you can justify p columns in exactly the same way as X ones. tabularx just does a relatively inefficient multipass algorithm to fill in the width and then literally just inserts p{zzz} for some zzz. So if you know in advance the width you want then just use that.
@DavidCarlisle Um, we are talking about tabular, right? I mean, you get something like \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} and that centers those columns, as far as I can tell. Or one can put in like p{2cm} instead, but not both as far as I can tell.
array package >{\centering}p{2cm} or just put \centering at the start of the cell.
@FaheemMitha centering in a p column is exactly the same as centering in a \parbox (because it's the same thing) you need \centering before the text is typeset.
@doncherry " don't think I need to explain why I don't deem this an adequate answer" The OP asked two questions in his question. the answer is a complete answer to the first of them. It doesn't address the second question, but that's not a real question as it just invites discussion had the second part been asked as a question it would be closed as not constructive.
@FaheemMitha booktabs isn't a standard package (although it has a lot of fans on this site) It's good if you want exactly the layout the author likes, but by design it tries to convince you that any other design is abhorrent and shouldn't be attempted....
@FaheemMitha Very true: I'd be tempted to consider the advice about vertical rules (which needs no packages), even if you decide against using booktabs.
@JosephWright Oh, I came across that before somewhere. Somebody wrote an answer here suggesting that I use tables with no vertical rules, because they were ugly.
Perhaps a suggestion, but here is an alternative to your current set up. I've used tabularx to allow for variable-width tabular columns (via column type X), filling up to some fixed with using the tabularx environment. Additionally, booktabs provide a cleaner spread of tables vertically, while vi...
@FaheemMitha The argument against them is they often suggest that the table is poorly thought out: if you need vertical rules, it's likely the table is hard to follow, while if you can follow it without them then they are not really adding anything
@FaheemMitha If you post a table to this site using black vertical rules then you inevitably get loads of comments saying it's ugly and you should read the booktabs doc. If on the other hand you post a table with 3d translucent shadowed multi-colour tikz annotations, you get up-voted through the roof.
@tohecz Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm deeply sorry, old chap, but the command texdoc does not exist. Did you mean: texdef
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\dotfill:
macro:->\leavevmode \cleaders \hb@xt@ .44em{\hss .\hss }\hfill \kern \z@
@JosephWright Actually, there should be a parameter for this, as for many other aspects of typesetting. So a standard spacing defined by a parameter, which is however modifiable locally.