My grandmother sends me email with borders, forest background motive and midi birds singing - shudder. - all I see is the text, and the attachments :o) Plz don't tell her.
@PauloCereda: Don't know how she does it. She is 83, and she only speaks danish, but she still knew what 'stationery' meant before I did - crazy world - crazy women:o)
I need to output the below text but since \ is a special character, I cannot:
[RegularExpression(@"\d+")]
Also sometimes I need use dollar sign $ as well but it seems to be a special char, too.
What is the way to escape those in LaTeX?
UPDATE:
I used \verb as suggested but I am unable to ru...
@lockstep You're mean. ;-) Actually I think both might be useful here. In the context of a programming language, these are all characters; they're not being typeset as symbols, strictly speaking. But given my tag wiki suggestion, this one doesn't quite fit, unless we take 'language' to include computer language. :)
@JosephWright Hey, siunitx question: Is there a way to get it to use textmode numbers? So when I write "in a \SI{100}{\milli\liter} culture" it looks right? Or do I have to do all my units by hand?
@JosephWright and all: Next question, when typesetting chemical formula are they endash or emdash in soemthing like isopropyl-1-thio-$\beta$-\textsc{d}-galactopyranoside? I can see when I use \ce{} from mhchem that it is longer then a hyphen...
endash looks about right, and lets me have \textsc{d} for the rotation.
@Canageek I know nothing about that, but I would guess en dash.
@PauloCereda It's going ok. I've already reworked quite a bit of the code to make it cleaner and less hacky but there's still more to do. There's also some features that are needed (things I didn't think of initially). The OP of the question said he would e-mail me with suggestions, so I'm waiting to see if he does, since I don't know what would be useful to potential users.
If you don't know much about backgammon I'm not sure you'd be able to use it very sensibly though, especially since there's no documentation at the moment other than a list of user commands.
Footnote and footline are slightly overlapping, how to fix it ?
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{footline footline footline footline footline}
\begin{frame}[fragile]%
\begin{semiverbatim}
Text\footnote{footnote footnote footnote}
\end{semiverbatim}
\end{frame}...
@Canageek mchem is wrong here, as it detects hyphens as bonds and uses an en-dash. Hyphens in names are just normal hyphens. BTW, some publishers use en-dashes for bonds and some use em-dashes: pick a style!
user19161
8:17 AM
@JosephWright Not being a chemist, I might think that the en-dash represents a stronger bond than the em-dash!
tadaaaa...
It all worked out!
Thanks for all the help
Any thoughts on what should happen here? The OP has given an answer with no explanation, so I'm left suspecting the question is 'too localised'. Any other views?
@JosephWright I think the answer of tim should be deleted and after this the question can be closed with the hint "An updated system doesn't produce any errors".
user19161
8:47 AM
@JosephWright Either wait for him to post an explanation or delete it altogether!
@WillHunting Well, he's had a couple of days after Martin's comment and has not done anything, so it's going to have to be some form of mod action. I'm minded to go with @MarcoDaniel's suggestion, but want to see what others think.
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@JosephWright On ELU some questions are so bad that they are deleted almost immediately!
@WillHunting We have a different approach to what might be seen as the 'official' SE policy (which seems to be 'close with the possibility of reopening').
At the following link in the MathJax documentation it lists the supported LaTeX symbols alphabetically that it supports, followed by the set of supported environments...
http://www.mathjax.org/docs/2.0/tex.html#symbols
My question is where are each of these symbols/enviornments described and do...
@JosephWright Why do you think it is off topic. I understand the question in this way that the op wants to know where such commands / environments are documented. A simple answer is mathmode ;-)
@MarcoDaniel I guess it depends on whether the OP wants to know about general TeX documentation for these things, or MathJax-specifics (focussed on how it works with them)
so I don't really disagree with classing mathjax as off topic, but is it possible to really define an objective rule that distinguishes (say) mathjax and luatex. Both are different languages implementation of a TeX like syntax (C and javascript, respectively) allowing extensions in a non-tex syntax (lua and javascript respectively). there is a sense in which luatex is tex and mathjax is not but what is that sense?
@DavidCarlisle LuaTeX, like pdfTeX, XeTeX, e-TeX and other 'successor' engines is a TeX-like page layout engine, which can be tested by TRIP or a modified derivative thereof. On the other hand, MathJax parses and lays out only input related to the math mode of TeX. It is only relevant within web pages, and so cannot be regarded as a full typesetting system.
The site is focussed on TeX and related typesetting systems, not TeX-like mathematical input. The latter would apply for example to Word 2010's math system.
@JosephWright, yes that's sort of the answer I'd have given as well but it worries me a bit, because I know what the trip test is, I've even run it a few times, but for someone asking questions \begin{array} works in latex and mathjax and not in context or virtex or plain tex or xmltex or etex or ... In other words if you know enough to know it's off topic, you probably don't need to ask the question.
@lockstep Not always: there is the odd 'I think this is off-topic but do not know where to go' question. But for the MathJax ones, I'd agree: they see 'TeX like input' and think 'well, this is TeX then'.
@DavidCarlisle To some extent, the on/of-topic boundary is always going to be difficult for new users of the site. These things are decided by convention, and so you need to know a reasonable amount about the site to be able to make a judgement in edge cases.
I don't like the format of this question/answer, but please upvote Tobi's "overview" answer so that it floats to the top (self-accepts don't do that automatically):
I wonder which changes are made by the draft option?
Note
I know that this depends on the loaded packages and if they react on the draft option or not. But I thought it could be helpful to have a overview which packages do what.
I suggest the answers to be CW and using this layout
Package/Cl...
@egreg It's a very famous "daily order of mass" sheet. We have a subscription for one year, they send all the liturgy for every sunday. I don't know why they used those fonts. :(
This one is called "Deus conosco". There's another one called "O Domingo", but it's from other publisher (and it's more expensive). I prefer their simplicity:
I have a pretty large and messy BiBTeX file (who hasn't?), and I would like biblatex to clean up a little the mess. In particular, I would like to abbreviate all authors' first name with a single letter followed by a dot. I used the option firstinits=true, but when the original entry is already a...
@JosephWright I found the problem: TeX Gyre Termes isn't math-complete, so it was using a Computer Modern beta, that is why it stood out; the beta should be italic in this case. By switching to \usepackage{mathptmx} it looks much better.
Alright, here is a question: TeX Gyre Terms has a beta at 03B2 (3. Standard other unicodes 0080 .. DFFF (actually in 00A0 .. uni2AB0)) pg 10 of the technical documentation: How do I get LaTeX to print that?
I would like to sort my bibliography by year and month in reverse order. For example, a publication from Jan. 2011 should appear after one from Dec. 2011. Is there an easy way to do this?
I have to write a document in Times. Therefore I started writing it in TeX Gyre Terms, based on the note on Time's font page. However, I use PDFLaTeX, so I can't directly type Greek characters. So if I want to write isopropyl-1-thio-β-D-galactopyranoside I need to type isopropyl-1-thio-$\beta$-D-...
@AlanMunn Actually I don't know. I just read the manual. I want to do a similar (simpler) class to produce documents with some insignia. But I don't want to tell to my fellows that they must place the insignia documents in the directory where they are working
@leo They should work with the images within the class folder itself. I have a letterhead package for my university that works the same way. Then you just have to put the class folder in the local texmf.
@leo Right. Suppose your class is called leo.cls Distribute it in a folder called leo which contains, e.g. leo.cls plus the appropriate graphics e.g. leo.pdf and leo.eps (in both pdf and eps). People just have to put the leo folder into their local texmf and it will work as you want. Within your class you should use \includegraphics{leo} (no file extension) so that the right image will be picked depending on the engine.
(By that I mean, when the document is compiled with pdflatex or xelatex or lualatex the pdf version of the image will be used; when compiled with latex+dvips then the eps version of the image will be used.
Proposal for a new text building block: "Welcome to TeX-SX. Your request to draw your picture for you probably won't get answered. Please read Tom Bombadill's most excellent advice instead." With a link to:
First of all, welcome to TeX.SE.
You are probably wondering why your question got downvoted. The problem mainly is that you are throwing in a problem, but are not showing that you made any effort to solve this. While this site is intended to help with specific problems it is not intended to do ...
@Hiperion No I haven't. It seems more work than it's worth for the packages that I write. I document my code inside the package and then write a separate user documentation file. Some people here do use it, however.
@GonzaloMedina Ah. :) In here, every region has its own "symbol", like caipiras from the interior of SP, samba and morro from Rio, capoeira and berimbau from Salvador, and so on. :)
@GonzaloMedina How nice, I didn't know about it! It looks like a Fedora, I guess.