@AlanMunn great answer to the 'Update... ' question. I usually use tlmgr update --self --all , which is just a tiny bit different from what you've written (the -- are in different places)
@JosephWright I noticed that the answer doesn't mention anything about sudo or else something like sudo chown -R cmhughes /usr/local/texlive/2011 ... do you think it should?
I've edited the FAQ to link to the new question, rather than have the partial advice we had before
@cmhughes Would be worth editing in
You have to watch the fact that sudo may not have the same path as a 'normal' user!
On my set up, sudo is fine on the Mac but Ubuntu needs the path to tlmgr. For Windows it's easiest to simply run Command Prompt with elevated privileges (runas is not something most people know)
@MartinScharrer I've interpreted is as 'TL10 and Tl12 are two different distributions (you can install both), so it's about for example updating TL11 to the latest available packages'.
@DavidCarlisle I understand why you want an example for the processkv question, but you won't get one. As I've said to others, if you don't feel you can help with it then just walk away: the message might eventually get across!
@MarcoDaniel The regex matches zero or more occurrences of a minus sign followed by one or more digits. And it must be the whole token list, since it starts with \A and ends with \Z
@MarcoDaniel It depends on what applications you have in mind. If the number is given explicitly (not buried in a macro), you can strip off macros and braces from the token list with another regex and then perform the test on the result.
@egreg At the moment I have nothing in mind ;-) Tonight I thought about a package that will compute the day of a special date. On the other hand I think about switching some internals of mdframed to LaTeX3. ;-) You see at the moment it's like a game ;-)
@JosephWright " David is looking at the parcolumns documentation" me, read documentation? no, didn't even read the source in this case (which would be more likely) I just guessed that the first column would be numbered 1 :-)
I think the issue with the OP is that he's used to other programming languages, and rather than learn how TeX works wants TeX to somehow magically work the way he's used to. For example, on the columns question he's just gone 'index from 0' without thinking that as a author/designer you don't think of columns 0, 1, ... but rather columns 1, 2, ...
@JosephWright C has a lot to answer for. Half my working life is spent generating C (0 based) documentation from Fortran (1-based) documentation. It's a pain in the neck but sufficiently complicated I think my job is safe:-)
@KannappanSampath Just write your common preamble in a file mypreamble.tex and say \input{mypreamble}. You can put mypreamble.tex in a directory searched by TeX (where precisely depends on your operating system and TeX distribution).
However, I warn you against doing this. You end up accumulating things in mypreamble.tex that may be useless in some document (and also potential compatibility issues).
@egreg Oh, thank you very much. I have lectures on finite fields on Monday. So, I am gearing up for Live TeXing!
@egreg I see. I don't know how to do Live TeXing then! I am looking forward to having all the fonts at one place. And things like that.
And, is it advisable to have also my document class in the common preamble? Given that I am going to do this only for one course--14 lectures and I'll hope to become better with this stuff later.
@KannappanSampath That's possible, but I usually prefer to have the \documentclass line in the document. Some editors rely on the information about some loaded package to set up themselves (Emacs, for instance, looks for inputenc and babel).
@MarcoDaniel The only limitations are set by the operating system.
@MarcoDaniel mainly there is a limitation to my typing skills
@MarcoDaniel if you always use the latex file writing commands (and we always remembered) latex doesn't assume that the "extension" is made by concatenating name. and extension there were operating systems (weird mainframes and archimedes as I recall) that didn't really like file extensions and used a syntax something like [ext]name so the extension was more like a directory.
there is some funky code at format making time that tries to figure out the file name syntax or you can specify it by putting weird definitions in texsys.cfg before the format is made
@egreg \typeout{^^JDefining Mac style filename parser.^^J}
@egreg Art Ogawa sent in 1001 bug reports at the time to make sure the graphics system didn't force you to have extensions (which is a major reason why there is a type= key) as he was a big textures user
I once saw a friend of mine biking while it was heavily raining. He was holding an umbrella with one hand, and holding one side of handlebars with the other hand and also with a bread bag. When he passed by me, I waved at him. He just looked at me and said, "Paulo, if I greet you, I'm dead!" :P
@egreg: I remembered the "Tools/Ferramentas" translation we were talking the other day. There was a funny episode of me trying to avoid English expressions in an article. I try to avoid any buzzwords (CS has a lot), but I had to mention the word framework. It's an English term which I don't like, so I used the Portuguese translation, which no one around here uses it: "arcabouço". It was funny when the reviewer wrote his/her considerations: "Are you a linguist?!". :P
And he/she added "-1 for making me look at the dictionary!" :P
arcabouço 1. esqueleto, armação dos ossos do corpo humano ou de qualquer animal. 2. ossatura do tórax, arca do peito. 3. delineamento inicial, esboço, madeirame (arcabouço de uma pintura, de um romance). 4. estrutura (de madeira, de ferro, etc.). 5. armação de uma máquina, carcaça. 6. fig. capacidade para produzir, criar, etc.; preparo, envergadura (falta-lhe arcabouço para tanto). ETIM: arca + el. de orig. obsc.
@PauloCereda Well, I can understand "elemento de origem obscura". :) Strange how the Latin "originem" became "origine" in Italian and "origem" in Portuguese, but you have many "-em" words, I believe.
@egreg Ah yes. As far as I can remember, some purists of the language don't accept words ending with "n" as part of the Portuguese language, but nowadays we have quite a bunch of words ending with it.
@egreg @PauloCereda Portuguese lost Latin /n/ and /l/ between vowels, I think, then there was regressive nasalisation of vowels preceding /m/ and /n/ (which were subsequently lost except in spelling.)
So 'originem' -> loses the intervocalic 'n' and then the final 'm' nasalises the 'e', leaving you with the current pronunciation [oʁiʒẽ] (roughly).
Found two things that are absolutely amazing and need to be shared (1) Vivaldi by Cecilia Bartoli - the quality of the video/sound in this version are beyond amazing:
I need to find some of Carreras work. I don't remember his voice though I have heard of him. Any recommendations?
@egreg I know, that particular concert blows my mind. Not a single note out of tune. She is like a precision instrument with so much emotion. I could replay the whole hour over and over!
@egreg So dramatic! it gets better and better but yes its one of the best bits! I have no idea how Vivaldi imagined something like that - wild imagination, I guess.
@egreg If you remember some time ago, there was a foreach loop problem and you provided a solution using etoolbox. I tried to imitate that but I guess I'm missing a detail. Can yo please have a look what's wrong with it?
@ClaudioFiandrino Just as a remark to your edit to tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55536/…. We usually don't wrap "LaTeX" into backticks and neither do we capitalize the name of packages (write beamer instead of Beamer).
@egreg The \pgfkeys has an expanded assignment option which solved my problem: Adding \tikzset{mymatrix/.estyle={\mystyle}} assigns the list after expansion. And then I can use mymatrix as a style container. In case you were anxious to see a solution :)
@PauloCereda Sure, and tell me if you'd like to have any comments. Either here (but you have to wait a few minutes before I can comment (I have to read something to my son now)) or via e-mail at patrick@gundla.ch.
I tried \fp_compare:nTF {\l_my_fp < \l_other_fp} {<true code>}{<false code>} but it complained vociferously (and the error message wasn't all that helpful!).
@Jake Not that I'm begging for votes, you understand, but ... I'm quite proud of my latest answer (@JosephWright you might find it interesting too).
@AndrewStacey That is very impressive indeed! Not looking forward to having to decide who to award the bounty to. "All the answers are wonderful, I wish you could all get the bounty" sounds trite, but it's true.
@StefanKottwitz Works really well here in Switzerland, good job! Although the quality of the data connection somewhat surpasses that of the program. Why don't they just show footage of the ship and the harbour, instead of the entertainers that will be on the ship?
What does it mean when a journal rejects a paper because it is not of sufficient interest for them or because it does not meet the standards of the journal? When a paper is rejected, do reviewers let you know if they found any error or they will never tell you even if they found one?
@AndrewStacey Great answer! It's a major accomplishment indeed ! Did you manage to get the path closing even in your experiments? I can't think of a way to use the cycle or \pgfclosepath after a ..controls (a) and (b) .. command. I'm only asking for a nice line join, of course we can simply repeat the last coordinate.
@JosephWright It doesn't work for me (with the current TeX Live version). OTOH, \fp_compare:nNnTF { \l_hobby_tempb_fp } > { \c_pi_fp } {...}{...} works. :(
@leo One of my favorite anecdotes is about Herstein's book. A professor from Oxford was visiting my advisor, who told him that the book had been translated into Italian. "I'm very pleased", said prof. Corner, "it's a shame it hasn't yet been translated into English."
My textbook was Jacobson's "Basic Algebra", I'd recommend it.
anyone know scrartcl and nomencl ? and could look at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55501/… ?? I asked for the OP to provide a MWE and one supplied that looks plausible but when I run it I get an empty nlo file, but I'm not sure I've got a good setup and haven't used the class before:-)
@egreg well that's what I'd expect but I got pages but no index entries written, just an empty file. But I'm using whatever text came with cyygwin since I switched machines this week, don't really trust the package setup, I think I'll get a real tl install:-)
What does it mean when a journal rejects a paper because it is not of sufficient interest for them or because it does not meet the standards of the journal? When a paper is rejected, do reviewers let you know if they found any error or they will never tell you even if they found one?
