Whenever I include a table of a figure in my research papers, I cite the source of the information in the caption itself. However, I don't want this citation to appear in the List of figures/tables.
Therefore, an option for specifying a separate caption for the lists exists:
\caption[This is a ...
Not what you asked for. It's neither LaTeX, nor memoir. Nevertheless, here is a ConTeXt solution:
% Used for the fake text
\usemodule [visual]
% Defines the two main columns
\definecolumnset [maincolumns] [n=2]
% Defines the middle part
\definecolumnsetarea [middlecolumn] [both]
[
...
@PauloCereda true but even ConTeXt doesn't make the impossible possible:-) I really should look at luatex though: does anyone know if that lets you grab hold of the tokenlist and run it through the paragraph builder multiple times, with different paragraph shapes?
@DavidCarlisle Indeed. :) I found it interesting, we don't see a lot of ConTeXt-based answers (of course, I upvote your answer :P ). We can ask our LuaTeX expert @PatrickGundlach, he knows everything! :)
Is there any easy (scriptable) way to convert all of the vector images in a PDF to raster images?
I occasionally read PDFs of technical articles on my Kindle, and have found that reading a PDF directly is frustrating. Thankfully, Amazon's automatic conversion of PDFs to the Kindle format does a ...
Epic documentation is epic: "There are commands also for draw_venn_three and for completeness draw_venn_one and draw_venn_none (go ahead and laugh; see if I care)." :D
The system I use highlights LaTeX warnings in yellow. This is useful because I can easily notice missing references. However, the "overfull hbox" and "underfull vbox" warnings drown these out. Can I disable these warning specifically?
I cannot change what my program will highlight, and I have good reasons to use this program to be productive.
@PauloCereda And maybe submit it to CTAN. I don't know very well how to make it into an "official" script for TeX Live; probably looking how texdoc is realized...
@PauloCereda The "executable" in the bin directory for texdoc is
#!/usr/bin/env texlua
-- texdoc.tlu: small wrapper around main.tlu
-- (makes it easier to install a new version of texdoc in TEXMFHOME)
kpse.set_program_name(arg[-1], 'texdoc')
require('texdoc.main')
@JosephWright I've had a beamer theme + colortheme for my university hanging around for a while. I know that a lot of such themes are included as part of beamer; is there a method for contributions, or are people encouraged just to put them up on CTAN? (There seem to be very few such themes there.)
@AlanMunn If it can be used in a 'generic' way, then I'm happy to add it to beamer. If it really is university-specific, I guess it should be separate.
@JosephWright It's based on Boadilla with a set of greens that match the school colours (like the existing CambridgeUS and AnnArbor themes.) So they are generic in the same sense. There's no logo or anything specific to the university.
But for the colour theme, I don't have a clue on a name. They seem to be based on natural kinds. But despite @PauloCereda 's suggestion, I think that the colours are too subdued to be called parakeet. I guess the green is kind of spruce or pine, so we could use that. I like spruce.
@JosephWright One thing about the code. What's the correct format for the first line? I've just modified the existing \ProvidesPackageRCS line because a regular \ProvidesPacakge line doesn't seem to work.
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but it didn't fit on any other site as much as it did here. Here it goes!
So there are three desks at my workplace, for us three developers. These ones to be precise (or atleast, extremely similar looking ones, but it doesn't matter)
The problem i...
@JosephWright Ok. Being a mainly anti-social coder, :-) I'm not too versed on pull requests, but I'm willing to learn. So do I just put the code up into my own GitHub account and then ...?
@AlanMunn I think the way it works is that you clone the master version, make the changes then make a request for me to pull them. To be honest, I've not got a lot of experience with this! The other bits and pieces people have asked me to add have come in via e-mail.
@JosephWright If that's easier for you, I can do that. But since I'm always game to add more skills I thought I'd ask. Also, your code is all on bitbucket, so do I need to fork there to add the code?
@AlanMunn In order for me to be able to pull changes into the 'master' version, you need to create a fork somewhere 'public'. So the easiest way is simply to fork on BitBucket. That way, you end up with a public version that you can alter.
@AlanMunn An alternative is that I could simply add you to the list of people who can commit to beamer directly, but for a one-off theme addition that seems like the wrong approach.
@JosephWright Ok. That's what I thought. I'll give it a go, and if all else fails, I'll e-mail you. And I agree, it makes no sense to add me to the commit list for the master repo.
@AlanMunn So you'll need to (1) fork on BitBucket (2) pull the code to your own local system (hg clone ...), (3) make changes, (4) push back to BitBucket (hg push ...) (5) make a pull request
@AlanMunn By the way, make sure you read the information about getting beamer working on the Wiki: the keyword expansion business is important. (I'd drop it if it were down to me, but Vedran decided on this and I can't.)
@PeterGrill In the UK, a 'pot plant' would be one of the various varieties of plan one grows inside the house, in as I said a pot. According to Wikipedia, I guess 'houseplant' would be a synonym.
@PauloCereda: :-), Wow!! That is the 2nd funniest thing I have seen on this site.. First still is Andrew Stacey's answer to question on "How to draw this?" where he showed an answer and said I have no idea. But of course I can't find it now...
@PauloCereda Yep, after I couldn't fit it here, I went to Google and still couldn't find and then was heading back here to look at Mathews question by which time you already found it...
I have the following page from the book
Mastering your PhD - P. Gosling and B. Noordam (Springer 2006), page 42:
Now I wish to make this in LaTeX. I'm in particular interested in how we can make the frame as wide as the page (or maybe two of these on one A4, and the dotted line.
Is the following easily possible? --> Put two figures and nothing else on a single page. The two figures need to have separate captions and labels. The page must not come at the very end of the document.
This should preferably be achieved while using standard or usual packages only, as this should be submitted to a journal ...
This is not my own requirement, it has been asked that I do it this way and I'm somewhat lost.
@JosephWright Looking at the documentation in the beamer repo it seems that some of the other themes have been removed from the documentation? There's a script called beamerthememakeexamples.sh which seems to generate only a subset of the ones that are currently in the distributed docs. Is this by design, or am I missing something?
@DavidCarlisle Thank you, I'll try that again, but doesn't that break the text at the position of the \clearpage, resulting in half a page of empty text? I think this happened last time I tried ... I need the figures inserted as if I had printed the whole thing without any figures included, then printed the figures in a separate page, and inserted that in the middle (except I also need to get page numbers right)
@DavidCarlisle Thank you, it has worked. For some reason I though [p] would push the figures to the very end, but it does not.
Are there any tools that will auto-remove everything from a bib file that is not referenced? Or maybe it's better if I just inline the bib output into the main tex file to get rid of unnecessary stuff ...
I am trying to import my references into an IEEE style article. I use .bib file for saving my references. My code is:
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}
\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for Conferences}
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}
\IEEEauthor...
@Szabolcs JabRef can generate a new bib-file based on the aux-file. Never tried it, but that should give you a new bib-file with only the works that are cited.
@JosephWright I used SourceTree to interact with bitbucket. It's actually quite nice. Of course if you're used to the command line for most things, it's probably not useful, but since I'm not doing this all the time, it's nice to have a GUI.
@DavidCarlisle Oh, me too! But then when they do work, I feel I've invested so much time and effort in them that if they later go belly-up I have to do my best to resuscitate. Perhaps I should mark my most hackish answers "DNR".
@JosephWright That may be. When it comes to sports, Canada is much more influenced by the US than by the other commonwealth countries. So neither soccer nor cricket are terribly popular (although, as in the US, there's lots of youth soccer, but it doesn't translate into creating a market for pro teams.)
@PauloCereda Yes, it is nice. But now that I've had my first experience with SourceTree, it's pretty nice too. It might make me switch over to BitBucket, in fact.
When your use of a command line tool is sporadic, having a GUI is really helpful.
Not what you asked for. It's neither LaTeX, nor memoir. Nevertheless, here is a ConTeXt solution:
% Used for the fake text
\usemodule [visual]
% Defines the two main columns
\definecolumnset [maincolumns] [n=2]
% Defines the middle part
\definecolumnsetarea [middlecolumn] [both]
[
...
I want LaTeX not to give warnings for overfull hboxes up to some maximum of say 2 pts. How to achieve this?
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but it didn't fit on any other site as much as it did here. Here it goes!
So there are three desks at my workplace, for us three developers. These ones to be precise (or atleast, extremely similar looking ones, but it doesn't matter)
The problem i...
I have the following page from the book
Mastering your PhD - P. Gosling and B. Noordam (Springer 2006), page 42:
Now I wish to make this in LaTeX. I'm in particular interested in how we can make the frame as wide as the page (or maybe two of these on one A4, and the dotted line.
I am trying to import my references into an IEEE style article. I use .bib file for saving my references. My code is:
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{cite}
\begin{document}
\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for Conferences}
\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Michael Shell}
\IEEEauthor...
