arara reads the whole document looking for directives. This is what happens:
Currently, arara will extract all of those directives, except #5 e #6. I thought of making the strict syntax "% arara: " (% + one space + "arara" + : + one space), so #3, #4 and #8 wouldn't be recognized. I also thought of requiring "% arara: " to be the first substring in the line, so #7 would also be excluded.
I also thought of requiring the directives to be on top of the file. arara would look for directives until a line that is not a comment or empty is found, so only #1 and #2 would be recognized. Is this a good idea? Could this rule be compatible with dtx, tex and ltx files?
The advantages on this approach is that I read only the "header" of the file and I don't need to worry about using the keywords later in the document (so the arara manual could use arara too.)
As with lots of optimizations document generation can take a long time (and I mean really long: user 544m11.570s), to avoid needing two runs for getting references right, for documents which only have toc and index but no page references inside, I'm often using the following scheme: In the first run, generate only the "content pages" and labels, in the second run genrate toc and index, including the content pages as fixes PDF pages.
Now, for a recent project I had the problem that the main part of the document to be included was 3.5GB PDF, which pdftex failed to include as a single file.
So, now you can say <NewPDFFile/> anywhere in a document definition which will (1) end the current run, creating a clean PDF up to this point; (2) save references, current page number and "persistent" variables to a file (3) restart pdftex, restoring the labels, page number and persistent variables from the prevous run; (4) iterate until done; (5) now the toc and index can be generated, including the intermediary files one by one.
Maybe this would also be a possible workflow for arara?
@PauloCereda I wouldn't be strict in requiring % + one space + arara:. Any number of spaces should be allowed (even tabs, if possible), also before the directive. The %! would block. TeXShop and TeXworks use %! for their directives, but this shouldn't be a problem.
I am looking for how to hide the page numbering in TOC, could anyone give me a link or a quick word on how to do this? I tried \pagestyle{empty} \tableofcontent \pagestyle{plain}, but this does only hide the numerals on the first page of the toc.
@PauloCereda Just saw your comment about arara. I'll download the latest version and try it out at the next available opportunity - which might be a little while - thanks for implementing it!
Looking at the linked comments on the side, I see I missed quite a weekend. Sadly Wikipedia doesn't tell me which is the original out of "99 bottles of beer" or "ten green bottles" so I can't make any smart remarks about the Americans yet. But I do like Flanders and Swann's variant on Brent's comment: "Just think of that. Every third person is stark raving bonkers. Fortunately, there's only two of us."
(I'm sure this has been asked on the main site so I'll try here first in case anyone can quickly link it for me) My new work computer is a Mac. What do I do now to ensure the best TeXperience?
I want to write my final thesis using LaTeX, what should I do in order to be able to do that through Eclipse on a Mac OS X? If any another good editor exists, feel free to write your opinion on why using this instead of something else.
@TorbjørnT Looks pretty good. The statement that MacTeX contains the latest TeXLive is probably the most important as I want to be sure I'm using the same packages on this computer as my creaking Linux machine. For editor, it'll be Emacs in some guise, and for viewer then it'll be I-don't-care-so-long-as-it-can-change-page-without-changing-viewport.
\def\bottles{\x bottle\s of beer}
\def\bottlesw{\bottles~on the wall}
\def\take{Take one down and pass it around\advance\bottle-1,\par}
\newcount\bottle
\def\x{\ifnum\bottle=0No\else\number\bottle\fi~}
\def\s{\ifnum\bottle>1s\fi~}
\bottle=99
\loop\ifnum\bottle>0
\bottlesw,~\bottles,\endgraf\take\bottlesw.\endgraf\medskip
\repeat
\bye
I'm trying to use pgfplots package. I wrote a very simple document:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
\end{document}
When I compile the document, I get 0 Erros, 0 Warnings, and 0 Pages. The log also says that
"GUI franework cannot be i...
\def\b{\x bottle\s of beer} \def\bw{\b~on the wall}
\def\t{Take one down and pass it around\advance\B-1,
^^L}\newcount\B\B=99 \def\ib{\ifnum\B} \def^^L{\par}
\def\x{\ib=0No\else\number\B\fi~} \def\s{\ib>1s\fi~}
\loop\ifnum\B>0 \bw,~\b,^^L\t\bw.^^L \medskip\repeat
Time to buy some more beer\dots\bye
@StephanLehmke Wow! That's a very cool feature! :) I'm not sure if I can write such advanced stuff like this one. :) Specially due to the fact I'm a humble TeX newbie. :)
@AndrewStacey well I just assumed the beer version was a parody on ten green bottles for grown ups. You mean some people think that's actually an original work of art?
@MarcoDaniel Looking at the input sources, I think I'm going to go for Unicode Hex Input. Save time in the long run. Hmm, someone doesn't like those north or south of the border: there are input sources for British, Welsh, Irish but no Scottish or English.
@PauloCereda I would suggest the following. Supporting a dtx-file is very useful. However everybody who writes a dtx-file is able to understand the basic idea of LaTeX and so one. So the supporting of a dtx-file is done by an encapsulation of the word {arara}. (You know what I mean)
@MarcoDaniel done; you can go ahead. Suggestion should we just put comments in there first? Such as \todo{we should really use utf8 here, not latin1} or such? That way we might be quicker spotting the necessary changes. There is a package called todonotes for that (but I am open to other packages for that) - but you can do whatever you want
\let~\catcode~`x12~`y~`x~`z~`y~`j0 jlet~jlet~^^Ljpar
~~jdef~jx{jy bottlejz of beer}~jw{jx on the wall}~jt
{Take one down and pass it aroundjadvancejB -1, ^^L}
jnewcountjBjb99~ji{jifnumjB}~jy{ji=0NojelsejnumberjB
jfi}~jz{ji>1sjfi}jloopjifnumjB>0jw, jx, ^^Ljtjw. ^^L
jmedskipjrepeat Time to buy some more beerjdots \end
@egreg Thanks. :) For now, I'll leave arara as it is, since this new version seems a lot better than the older one. :) For the next release, I might add this feature. :)
@egreg looks more like classical plain TeX now, apart from that strange \end at the end which I think you intended to be jend. But it doesn't actually work, just typesets "99Time for more beer"
Excuse my manners but can somebody remind me how to reference to sections compactly with \ref such that Section~\ref{sec1,sec2,sec3} would give Section III.A-D? Preferably with not breaking down cite package...
\let~\catcode~`x12~`y~`x~`z~`y~`j0 jlet~jlet
~^^Ljpar~jBjmscount ~~jdef~jx{jy bottlejz of
beer}~jw{jx on the wall.}~jt{Take one down %
and pass it aroundjadvancejB-1, ^^L}jB99~ji%
{jifnumjB}~jy{ji=0NojelsejnumberjBjfi}~jz{ji
>1sjfi}jloopjifnumjB>0 jw, jx,^^Ljtjwjvskip%
8.0ptjrepeat Time to buy some more beerjdots
\end
@egreg I thought that was the plain TeX way, never have more than 2 backslash. (I spent quite a while trying to think of how to have no backslashes in xii, but finally gave up and accepted 2)
@tohecz Thanks, I also decided not to use any since they didn't play nicely with IEEEtran. I don't get IEEE at all. There is so much room for improvement anyway.
I hope they don't ask for the .pdf files for TikZ and PGFPlots. It will break down all the pagination tweaks.
@percusse they won't need the pdf files. They will scan the documents to get the plots as bitmaps, and re-enter all the text into word to typeset the rest.
I got interested in the Soviet space program and was interested to discover that the software on the Buran spacecraft circa 1988 was written in Prolog.
Does anyone know what languages might have been used in earlier missions, especially the Mars PrOP-M rover missions of the early 1970s which w...
I came across this phrase while reading an article by Paul Krugman on the New York Times website. Here's the quotation (boldface added):
. . . non-GIPSI [the group of Eurozone nations—Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland—that are grappling with the debt crisis, my note] European leaders sh...
@egreg @PauloCereda A bit of both. I'm teaching a summer course, and our department has just moved to a new building so things are a bit of a mess. We have nice new lab space, and new offices, which is great, but moving is a bit of a pain. And I've just come back from Toronto having seen Einstein on the Beach for the second time now (the first time in January in Ann Arbor).
\let~\catcode~`x13~`q~`x~`z~`q~`H~`q~`B~`H~`j0~`jA009
jlet~jlet~Hjpar ~Bjmscount~~jdef~x{q bottlez of beer}
~jw{x on the wall}~jt{jadvanceAB-1ATake one down Aand
pass it around,H}B99~ji{jifnumB}~q{ji=0Nojelsejnumber
Bjfi}~z{ji>1sjfiA }jloop jifnumB>0 jw, x,Hjtjw.jvskip
8ptplus1ptjrepeat Time to buy some more beerjdotsjend
I chose a new song for my new arara 2.0 video demonstration. I mentioned it to a friend of mine and he said, "ah, it's from that Coca-Cola ad!". I was like, "What?! You should apologize for being the Coke generation." :(
@AlanMunn I was thinking of "Whatever" from Oasis. :) It's a recent ad from Coca-Cola I guess. I think the Coke generation is probably younger than that song. :)
@MarcoDaniel I think so. I have never used that package. I like the appearance of the code samples in l2kurz, so the new env should not change too much.
@MarcoDaniel I had an idea to use arara to build the arara manual! :) For LaTeX listings, we space the arara directive by one or two spaces then gobble=n. :)
@egreg :) One of my computers (my netbook) is named Hamunaptra. It's a reference to the fictional "city of the dead" from the movie "The Mummy" (with Brendan Fraser). Or a real city in India. :)
@PauloCereda Doesn't fit in with my current scheme. Spot the odd one out (and guess who chose the name): Thargelion, Nargothrond, Anduin, Ithilien, Ratatouille
@JosephWright Makes the "vote early, vote often" maxim seem all the more real.
Day One Conclusion: Have found tilde lurking on the "British PC" keyboard (why coppers get their own is a mystery to me), though still no sign of it on the Norwegian one. Also learnt the importance of power cables, so experimenting over for tonight.
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@JosephWright Oh luckily I'm not on SO! But I did get the Constituent badges that day for voting.
@JasperLoy I'm not really, either: I used to visit a bit before TeX-sx was set up, to look out for TeX questions. So I have enough rep there to vote :-)
@AndrewStacey Apparently, Alt + ^ (ie. the key above the @) -- see mac1.no/forum/viewtopic.php?t=275341. There's an on screen keyboard somewhere, if you open that you can see which key has which symbol, when holding down various combinations of the modifier keys.
Limitation (but it holds also for your solution): no \caption command in an environment where there's also \specialcaption
With \@captype this can be used also for table environments. But one has to pay attention to the symbols one puts there. Something like \specialcaption{\textbf{A}} would be disastrous
I often pose this "logic-cultural" question: what unique number can possibly follow in the sequence "640, 231, 100, 91"? And the next is "5, 10, 20, 30, 36": what number follows?
The two sequences are oeis.org/A027885 and oeis.org/A027884 in the The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences™ (OEIS™) :) But looking there is cheating.
@egreg Wow, had to look, but even after looking it requires knowledge beyond what I have to understand it (trying not give out any hints in case someone else is trying to solve it).
Introduction
As part of the celebrations of our first birthday, we decided to interview great members of our community. Since we received a very positive feedback from our beloved users, the TeXtalk became a regular event in our community blog.
Our interviews are also indexed in the TUG's Int...
I want to write my final thesis using LaTeX, what should I do in order to be able to do that through Eclipse on a Mac OS X? If any another good editor exists, feel free to write your opinion on why using this instead of something else.
I'm trying to use pgfplots package. I wrote a very simple document:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
\end{document}
When I compile the document, I get 0 Erros, 0 Warnings, and 0 Pages. The log also says that
"GUI franework cannot be i...
In Lyx 2.0, I would like to change the background color for toolbars and menus, make it darker. Anyone could suggest how I could do this?
I came across this phrase while reading an article by Paul Krugman on the New York Times website. Here's the quotation (boldface added):
. . . non-GIPSI [the group of Eurozone nations—Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland—that are grappling with the debt crisis, my note] European leaders sh...
Yes, I promise, I will vote -- but 72 notifications seems like overkill.
Introduction
As part of the celebrations of our first birthday, we decided to interview great members of our community. Since we received a very positive feedback from our beloved users, the TeXtalk became a regular event in our community blog.
Our interviews are also indexed in the TUG's Int...
