@percusse Knowing only Matlab, a tiny bit Python and even less Fortran, I can't answer this myself, but Google can, as expected, find a lot of stuff written about this. For example webonastick.com/php.html (which has links to several other sites).
@TorbjørnT I have seen them but they are not like boo, PHP made me loose my data or even something that cannot be worked around with some swearing and cursing. Those pages are full what we call nerd anger (clinging onto a few minor details and exaggerating their effects to something catastrophic ) There were short videos full of nerd anger. One of them was hilarious, let me try to find them
@percusse I didn't look too close, but I'm not surprised by that. (I'll try and remember the video for later though, as I'm in Mozambique these days, with a painfully slow connection.)
@N3buchadnezzar people want multipage tables inside multipage footnotes, and are surprised when it doesn't work out of the box (although it can be done with a bit of care)
@PauloCereda yes with a bit of care as I say, I think there's an answer on site. You can't have the repeating table head and so you just have to give longtable a bit of help to not try to do that but the main part of the table code just works in footnotes.
@N3buchadnezzar it seems to depend mostly on subject area. Lawyers and Biologists like to have at least three quarters of their document in footnotes if they can manage it.
Can anyone give me a hint on how to define an "optional" environment?
I'm working on a paper at the moment, and want to use the same files for both the conference and technical report versions. Mostly, I want to include proofs of the lemmas that appear in the output only if a certain flag is set
But my TeX foo isn't strong enough to work this out
the second one is more or less latex and makes an error if \theequation is not already defined, the first one is primitive tex and doesn't check anythjng. The definition is same either way
@PauloCereda I haven't really looked into arara since I use TeXShop and the standard engines do most of what I would like. But I'm wondering if arara + engines would provide a very simple way for people to make custom engines without needing to know shell scripting?
I'm the author, so I'm probably biased. :) The idea behind `arara` is to have a tool to "organize" the compilation process, so % arara: pdflatex % arara: makeindex: { style: mystyle } % arara: biber % arara: pdflatex would run all those command in that order, and also expanding the arguments. :)
We can have more complicated stuff, if we have a MetaPost rule, % arara: metapost: { files: [ a, b, c, d, e ] } would run MetaPost 5 times, each one for each file. :)
Yes, the idea was to have a compilation scheme per document. :) But we can perhaps mimic a builder script by creating a main Makefile.tex (or .dtx or .ltx) and use % arara: pdflatex: { files: [ mythesis.tex ] } in the body of the "makefile". :)
@AlanMunn No, it won't work. I thought of removing this "feature", but Marco suggested me to keep things as they are. To "cancel" arara's action, you need to use "% !arara:".
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@PauloCereda No rush for me right now. I was just thinking out loud. I have one document that might benefit from it, but for most things I do TeXShop engines work fine, and I have replaced my bibtex command with a nice little script that Mark Everitt wrote to choose either biber or bibtex on a per document basis; that's the main thing I need as I have a mixture of natbib and biblatex documents.
@JosephWright Didn't we have a question about context sensitive markup though, that was kind of similar? Maybe that's what he has in mind.
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Is it possible to create headings in LaTeX where you don't specify what level of the heading you want, but rather if you want to go up, down, stay or start over in the hierarchy that the heading is going to be placed within?
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It's a pity that one can't downvote more than once. :(
@egreg, "What kind of verbatim?" The \begin{verbatim}...\end{verbatim} kind. This must have been obvious enough, as David Carlisle below was apparently able to infer it without difficulty. "Where?" In an XY-pic node, as clearly stated in the question. I don't see how the size of the XY-pic package, nor the fact that it provides other features besides nodes, makes this part of my question unclear. — sampablokuper2 hours ago
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}}
This works pretty well, except that the equation counter won’t be reset to
zero at the beginning of a new section or chapter, unless you do it yourself using
\setcounter.
@DavidCarlisle "As clearly stated in the question": I have some words to describe this attitude, but unfortunately the size of these lines is too short. :)
I was looking for some hints in the amsmath documentation and found the following trick (adapted, of course):
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\thechapter--\arabic{equation}}
If we look at the original definition of \theequation, we can find that it's more robust than our first attempt:
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@JosephWright I would like to bother you with a biblatex-ieee question. Have a look at the following images with the same paragraph crop on the left hand side.
@percusse The issue for me with these 'formatting' issues is that ideally the 'internal' formatting of a bibliography should be independent of the 'outer' formatting. For me, the focus is on the 'internal' part (I guess I'd prefer it if biblatex did not actually change any margins at all).
@percusse biblatex provides some methods to adjust the bibliography layout without redefining it entirely. biblatex-ieee does not alter this at all (if you read the code you'll see I very deliberately do not do anything that can be left to the biblatex kernel).
@PauloCereda I've gave up on the system anyway OpenID, myOpenID, gravatar.com bla bla bla. All for a stupid small picture. It says that it hashes my email address and it's constant for a long time :) I don't know why it changes.
@JosephWright Ah, excuse my ignorance. Basically you have entered all the stylistic features how to handle repeating author names, how to handle URLs and DOIs, omit the month or not etc. However it's not biblatex-ieee 's job to define the final (or outer look) regarding the font size etc.
@JosephWright If the interface is similar to \savebox–\usebox I don't have any preference. I don't remember whether the LaTeX manual talks about this (\saveboxis local).
@percusse Yes, that's my point. To me, a bibliography style is something like 'author(s), journal, year, volume, start page--end page', where things like 'the volume will be given in bold' are included. But how you then lay out the bibliography on the page will depend on the document design. I use the same bibliography style for my own documents and for articles, but the layout of the documents in a 'global' sense varies.
@egreg OK, I guess I should check what Leslie says about this (if anything). The context here is 'coffins' :-)
@FrankMittelbach and @DavidCarlisle should get it, as they'll have received an e-mail from me :-)
I'm experimenting with xcoffins for a cover page (and enjoying myself immensely, BTW, what an ace package).
What I'm trying to to at this moment is fit a logo, some horizontal white space, and a coloured horizontal bar nicely into \textwidth
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@JosephWright Thank you I got it now. In my humble opinion, it would be great if you include a small sentence in the manual such that people don't turn away from that. I'll try to match to output and let you know if you are interested.
@percusse OK, fine with me. As I say, I've tried to 'follow biblatex' in not only the IEEE style but also the others I've written. (The Nature, Science and chemistry ones don't have a 'definitive' version to check against, so the IEEE one is somewhat different.)
What's the best way to add references and a bibliography to a LaTeX document?
Note: I'm using Zotero as my citation manager, which has an export to bibtex feature.
I remember when I wrote my first application. I was young and inexperienced – an unskilled programmer trying to learn the ways of the Force. The code – ah the code! – was a real mess. But hey, the application was up and running. And I was happy to make things work.
At some point, I got interested in opensource. It was way stronger than me. But how would I embrace the cause? I’m not a perfectionist, but I knew my code – at that moment – was bad, and I was afraid of being ridiculed because of it. Reluctantly, I took the first step and published my first code in the wild. …
In our company, LaTeX is actually used, one of us writes a thesis about project management in our company. A typical LaTeX user btw. - a friendly and pretty blond young woman who runs marathons in leisure time.
@StefanKottwitz Cool! (both descriptions, of course) :) Sadly, there's no TeX tradition in Brazil - noTUG, only a few people in universities use it, never heard of a company that makes use of it. I know there's a mailing list, but there's nothing much to see, only trial-and-error stuff. :(
@N3buchadnezzar well it's always full width so centering is a no-op. But that probably isn't the answer you wanted, so put it in a minipage and center that:-)
@N3buchadnezzar I hate to think what it does. It can only do anything by accident actually I can't guess what you intend it to do. the argument of hspace is a length but phantom is a box
Thanks again =) I am learning more. I forgot \phantom was both length and height, for a moment I hoped that it was pure length.
@egreg Indeed. It is great having you guys around, always reminding me of how little I know. Just give me some toddler toys, and I will go back to play in my corner.
@N3buchadnezzar You can do something like that with the calc package, but using \widthof instead of \phantom: \hspace*{0.5(\textwidth-\widthof{\texttt{2.5*exp(-ans/2)}}}
But it's overkill. Use \verb or \texttt; for longer verbatim use fancyvrb.
@N3buchadnezzar but even if it was a length it would be \hspace{that length) and you can't put hspace in hspace either. Also you can't do infix expressions on lengths unless you have calc loaded. Actually it doesn't matter what length you put there as the only effect of an \hspace* before verbatim is to make a paragraph with a blank line. verbatim is a display environment you can't change its left margin by putting hspace in front of it
the thing about it compiling is essentially that latex is a macro expansion language and in 1985 or whenever hardly any tpkens could be spared for error checking. so \hspace{2cm any old thing it doesn't matter} expands to \hskip 2cm any old thing it doesn't matter\relax so makes a 2cm skip, typesets the text and the \relax that was supposed to end the length is ignored. It's latex's little secret that most of its commands do this.
@N3buchadnezzar That would be a kind way of describing what is happening, it's more accurate to say it hasn't the faintest clue what just happened and just executed the tokens on some order and did something. LaTeX is doing no checks at all here, stuff is just falling through.
Would be nice to have a GUI for biblatex files. There are plenty of bibtex only, but does anyone know if there are any biblatex-specific reference managers?
@PauloCereda I think you'd be better employed elsewhere :-)
@PauloCereda There is an open feature request for JabRef about this. Broadly, all that is needed is a different set of entry types/fields for standard BibTeX style and for biblatex
@DavidCarlisle Oh no! :P The funny thing is that arara - the software - is ready at least from two weeks ago, but arara - the manual - is still incomplete. :P I'm terrible at writing documentation. :D
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This question led to a new package:
coseoul
Is it possible to create headings in LaTeX where you don't specify what level of the heading you want, but rather if you want to go up, down, stay or start over in the hierarchy that the heading is going to be placed within?
That is, instead of ...
I was looking for some hints in the amsmath documentation and found the following trick (adapted, of course):
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\thechapter--\arabic{equation}}
If we look at the original definition of \theequation, we can find that it's more robust than our first attempt:
\long macr...
What's the best way to add references and a bibliography to a LaTeX document?
Note: I'm using Zotero as my citation manager, which has an export to bibtex feature.
Would be nice to have a GUI for biblatex files. There are plenty of bibtex only, but does anyone know if there are any biblatex-specific reference managers?
