Are there are some special clashes with the cmbright fonts? While lmodern and other fonts compile without a whine, the minute I change the font to cmbright, the compilation stops with errors that have nothing to do with fonts - complaints about geometry etc.
Okay this is the problem => !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file hfbr10.pfb)
OK, after talking to Joseph Wright I went ahead and wrote a patch for cmssi, which is the standard math font in beamer. The problem is that this font (computer modern sans serif italics) is designed as a text font, so it doesn't contain any information about positioning of accents. Compare these ...
I found this slides on internet with a very nice style. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~tov/pubs/alms/alms-popl2011-slides.pdf
How can I overlay blocks and image as in this slides??
Specially this effect:
Thanks for your help.
@percusse My idea was simply to cut-and-paste with a little explanation. I feel that if we asked the original authors to do it they'd all think of things that could be changed in their answers and never get round to doing so.
@Ariel mathjax can use various fonts depending on configuration, including some web fonts derived from the standard TeX cm fonts. But you may be using STIX fonts (the official latex support for which isn't out yet but look for stix and xits)
The MikTeX package server seems to have issues. I get a 500 error when trying to install MikTeX. It happens when it tries to load the list of mirrors. This seem to have happened already several times in the past. Any experiences with this?
@MartinScharrer well to be fair (not that it is necessary to be fair when discussing operating system biases) you could turn off auto-update, and/or if you installed a linux distro of similar vintage and asked it to do a full update from a repository it would take a while.
@DavidCarlisle Yes, sure. Installing Ubuntu 6 or so and then updating it would take a while, too. Ok it depends if you update it to the latest version of Ubuntu 6 or to Ubuntu 12. The first case would be less painful than under Windows. Windows makes you reboot a lot between updates, i.e. you need to get updates first, restart, then get SP2, restart, more updates based on SP2 etc. That takes quite a while. Ubuntu is here faster, requires one reboot AND updates most other software you have.
@MartinScharrer windows makes you reboot all the time it's just the way it is. It's like banging your head against a brick wall, after a while you don't notice the pain, and miss it if it stops:-)
@MartinScharrer I am writing a small article for our DTK. How can I add a path? Based on information of the web I wrote the following. Is that correct?
Windows 7 Nutzer\footnote{Für früherere Versionen ist es identsich}
ergänzen ihre Suchpfade wie folgt:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Öffnen der \emph{Systemsteuerung}
\item Auswählen von \emph{System und Sicherheit}
\item Auswählen von \emph{System}
\item Auswählen von \emph{Erweiterte Systemeinstellung}
\item In dem neuen Fenster den Reiter \emph{Erweitert} wählen
\item Button \emph{Umgebungsvariablen} betätigen.
\item Zeile \emph{PATH} wählen und den Pfad |ARARA-ORDNER| hinzufügen.
\end{enumerate}
Ok, I now copying the MikTeX packages directly from the mirror using FTP. Who needs an installer ...
@MarcoDaniel Yes, it is. There should be also a shortcut for this, by typing a command into the "Run" / "Ausführen" prompt under "Start". This should pop up the last window directly.
I handled environment variables just the other day for testing standalones convert option under Windows. It needs Ghostscript in the PATH.
@DavidCarlisle I'm not sure that's fair. Windows 7 does not have to be rebooted very often, in my experience. Some programs say they need to reboot after installation, but usually that's not true.
@MarcoDaniel After reading support.microsoft.com/kb/192806, I figured that you can also use control sysdm.cpl under "Start"/"Run", then select "Advanced", "Environment Variables"
@MartinScharrer The space is no problem. I asked Herbert ;-). I am writing a second article about LaTeX3 and I need more than 30 pages ;-). Frank Mittelbach sent me a lot of information which need space ;-)
Write it this way: Section 2.1: Linux Installation ... Section 2.2: Windows Installation Step 1) Format Harddrive Step 2) Install Linux Step 3) See Section 2.1 ;-)
@MartinScharrer Based on the given Information I will do it. At the moment I tried to combine both methods. But you are right I must divide the systems.
@PauloCereda I am trying to avoid special highlighting of tex commands containing a @. Inside vim I can call :syn match texStatement "\\[a-zA-Z]\+ but the entry doesn't work inside my vimrc. What can I do?
From the TikZ manual (section 16.8 “Placing Nodes on a Line or Curve Explicitly” in v2.10):
In the simplest case, the previous
path operation was a “line-to”
operation, that is, a -- coordinate
operation [...]
The next case is the
curve-to operation (the .. operation).
[...]
...
So I was trying to node-position through other ways
@Alenanno The curve is parametrized with the Bernšteĭn polynomial in the interval [0,1]; you get the points corresponding to the various values of the parameter. The "speed" varies along the path (it's a cubic curve, not a quadratic one), so the points are nearer to each other at the vertex (when the curvature is larger) than at the end points.
@percusse: When I saw Jake's fantastic answer (tex.stackexchange.com/a/53795/3094) and your comment about the wall, I was tempted to add a comment: "All in all they'are just another plot in the wall". :P
The script arara.cmd uses java -jar "%~dp0\arara.jar" %* -- I tested the command java at work but I got the message command not found. Does the script need an exact path?
@PauloCereda to set it via a gui yes, but if you are anyway calling java from a .bat file you can just set it in the bat file (as long as the bat file itself is in the standard path)
can't you just dump it in whatever directory has tex.exe in? Real Windows users don't need a path because they click on icons on their desktop:-) (and the rest of us install cygwin and pretend we are on linux)
@DavidCarlisle I guess this depends when it was installed. My dad's system is older, and it's not on the path. My test system is a newer installation and it is.
@JosephWright well if it's not on the path (or not installed) you are doomed anyway, you either need to ask the user where it is or search the disk....
@echo off
set JAVA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Java\jre7"
set CLASSPATH=.;"%JAVA_HOME%\lib"
set PATH=%PATH%;"%JAVA_HOME%\bin"
java -jar "%~dp0\arara.jar" %*
We just took delivery of a new Avaya 2500 48-port switch, that has 24 PoE ports. The problem is that all the PoE ports are on the left-hand size of the switch, and our PoE device cables can only reach the right-hand side of the switch (we're upgrading from an old switch to a new one, and the old ...
@DavidCarlisle I wish. :) I had problems with the arch. The Wii emulation is very very slow, so when I finally set up the correct arch (which was PPC, I guess), the underlying Linux distro (a barebone Debian, I guess) had a problem with glibc. I could not update the distro (my Wii has no Internet connection), so I thought of trying to install TL2007 or TL2009, but it would take so long, so the project is postponed. :)
@DavidCarlisle It doesn't support fancy definitions, like these which change catcodes etc.
One other problem is that some macros/environments are defined multiple times in different if-branches, and the script is of course not smart enough to figure out which branch will be used.
I could check the rest of the file for a second definition and produce a warning etc.
Closing arguments on the "Can we copyright an API?" ludicrous question today in Google Vs. Oracle. For open-source software's sake, I hope Oracle loses. and loses BIG.
@JasperLoy No I still haven't finished my chapters... :/ I am going to do a clean install once everything is submitted and with the committee. In that case, if something goes wrong or if I need to run analysis once again, I don't have to struggle too much
@JasperLoy have you switched? How is it? Any major differences from earlier versions?
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@Ariel I tried it. It's not to my liking. I think I will stick to another distro which defaults to GNOME shell instead. Unity still does not work too well for me. But since you have not tried Unity you should take a look.
Grrrrr, moderncv seem to have renamed the them files from moderncvtheme<name>.sty to moderncvstyle<name>.sty and changed several non-@ macros. On other words: My custom theme must be completely rewritten!
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It is funny how SX works. For some time I have had a note in an Org file about trying the Firefox plugin It's All Text at some point. Today I found an SO question for which the plugin can be used. So I finally try out the plugin by writing an answer to that question. Also, I think I will use it myself since it proved effective.
@egreg Funny you should mention that.. Very shortly after I posted that I came across the threads on "xy" question and realized I fell in the same trap. All I waned to do was to remove dupes from a comma separated list defined by a macro. Was thinking of posting a separate question for that, but then David Carlisle already provided a solution for that as well. I will update the question to reflect this
@egreg Wow, that simple??? Will try that out. So, are all these functions documented somewhere? Are they stable and unlikely to be modified (except of course for bug fixes). Reason I ask is mostly from Joseph's comments to my comment at tex.stackexchange.com/a/10811/4301 that the catcode function names were changed.
Few month ago I saw a big pdf-manual of all LaTeX3-packages and the new syntax. I think it was bigger than 300 pages. I can't find it on the web.
Does anyone have a link?
@PeterGrill Stable, yes; absolutely will not change, no. There are still a few rough edges in expl3 that are to be sorted out. We announce any breaking changes on LaTeX-L nowadays in a pretty 'formal' manner.
@JosephWright I am very slowly starting to use those solutions that I can get to work (as I have not fully grasped the syntax). I think it would be a good idea when you change a function name to map the old one to the new one (if possible of course) and print out a message that a DEPRECATED function has been used (at least for a while). Am a little afraid that things will break after an update at some critical time...
Sorry, not trying to to suggest additional work for you... Just a thought..
@PeterGrill Current policy is a three-month minimum once we change a name before we drop a function. Even then, they are still in the .dtx files but DocStrip'ed out. We have one set of outstanding 'tidy up' things to do (@FrankMittelbach is working on the list).
We can't always add anything to the log as this can't be done expandably
There is also the floating point unit to swap over to the new one. I'm going to try to do that on the SVN in May, but we don't plan to update CTAN again until after the TL freeze
@JosephWright could be ... I did't come in for a while ... first because of hiking and then because of my hands ...
@YiannisL in case you are around ... remember you wanted to make your collected layouts available somehow (after your vacation)? I implicitly mentioned that in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45838/… in the part about the Design layer
I found this slides on internet with a very nice style. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~tov/pubs/alms/alms-popl2011-slides.pdf
How can I overlay blocks and image as in this slides??
Specially this effect:
Thanks for your help.
From the TikZ manual (section 16.8 “Placing Nodes on a Line or Curve Explicitly” in v2.10):
In the simplest case, the previous
path operation was a “line-to”
operation, that is, a -- coordinate
operation [...]
The next case is the
curve-to operation (the .. operation).
[...]
...
Integrating Emacs and Stack Overflow
As mentioned you can use markdown-mode. To integrate markdown-mode with Stack Overflow you can use the Firefox plugin It's All Text which lets you edit textareas with an external editor. Here is how to set it up:
Install markdown-mode. If you use Debian or ...
Few month ago I saw a big pdf-manual of all LaTeX3-packages and the new syntax. I think it was bigger than 300 pages. I can't find it on the web.
Does anyone have a link?
