There have been a few questions flagged recently for deletion (for example pgfplots: I do not know the key '/tikz/nodes near coords' error, Cross-referencing with amsthm and cleveref and cleveref package produces "??"). These have all been closed as 'too localized', and the flag...
I want to type up some spells from the RPG Call of Cthulhu and give them to my players. I could just type them up in Word or LaTeX, but that seems too...neat. I'd like to make these things look like they were scrawled by a gibbering madman, unhinged by the horrors he has witnessed. Bonus points i...
I've already googled it, without concrete success. So, I'd like to know if someone knows a converter from xml to tex. Something "simple" as latex2rtf.
Thanks
Is it possible to hide .aux and .log files? If so, what would be the most low-maintenance/simple way of doing so? They create quite a bit of clutter. I have a folder where I'm tending to a bunch of tex files, and ideally I'd like it so that I just see the .tex and output .pdf files.
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I really do not vote up for own questions, own answers and own everything else where voting or any kind of a counted positive commenting is applicable. Theoretically, given that I won't rethink my personal attitude against self-voting, and no more answers than my own -- to own question(s) -- wil...
@PauloCereda Same here. My guess is that he's wanting answers to be 'auto-accepted' under some conditions. That won't happen, as accepted answers are purely down to the OP. (There's a declined request on meta to allow mods to accept answers under some circumstances, for 'tidying up' purposes.)
A weird tikz optical illusion: tex.stackexchange.com/a/61796/2693 the empty end nodes look bigger than the ones that have letters inside, even though they're not.
I have a split rectangle node, and I would like either for the entire node to be a certain height, with the splits spread equally, or each nodepart to be a certain height. I have the following code, in which only the first part is stretched, how can I apply this to all nodeparts?
\documentclass{...
I am using TikZ with the rectangle split multipart node (detailed on pp 450ff in the PGF 2.1 documentation). I need to influence the text opacity of all parts, but whatever I try seems to work only on the text (=first) part of the multipart node:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
@AlanMunn So many of the style properties are out of reach by off-the-shelf settings and requires some manual \struts or other means of horizontal space.
@percusse Yes, this is kind of annoying, because then it requires manual calculation. But adding height is much easier than adding width because with width you need to have half on one side and half on the other, and you need to subtract the width of the contents.
I was hoping there was a simpler way. The comments to the second question seem to suggest that you can't apply it to the spacing issue.
@PauloCereda Sorry to give you more work on the manual. :(
@AlanMunn Indeed it is. However, if you attempt to read the relevant code for rectangle split it has so many different calculations to make e.g. border shape, find the largest entry, add/subtract linewidth differences and make different fills for colors etc. they probably should have said you know what, take it or leave it :)
@AlanMunn I was flabbergasted once I tried to make a custom rectangle split. Note that they have to anchor the parts and the splits too such that you can refer to individual parts. Having said that, TikZ receives the text saves it into a box and never looks back. So if something must be found, it has to be done before TikZ reads the nodepart text.
@percusse Right. There's also a funny fact about the anchors of the parts: the centre anchor is off a little to the left, and I have no idea why that would have been done.
@FrankMittelbach etoolbox checks that doing \detokenize followed by \scantokens will give a definition equal to the original one (see \etb@ifscanable). If that fails (as it does here) then no patching is attempted
[debug] tracing \patchcmd on input line 5
[debug] analyzing '\document'
[debug] ++ control sequence is defined
[debug] ++ control sequence is a macro
[debug] -- macro cannot be retokenized cleanly
[debug] -> the macro may have been defined under a category
[debug] code regime different from the current one
[debug] -> the replacement text may contain special control
[debug] sequence tokens formed with \csname...\endcsname;
[debug] -> the replacement text may contain carriage return,
[debug] newline, or similar characters
@egreg I tried to patch a command in TikZ library to answer Alan's question but the command has a structure in as above. IS there any hope to patch that command with a lot of @ characters.
This question led to a new package:
xpatch
This is likely a simple question, but I'm getting stuck on the small details. I have an internal command, defined by a package as
\newcommand\foo@[3][]{...stuff...}
and somewhere in there I'd like to patch the command to include a call to \la...
So the feeling on my meta question (meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2579/…) is to delete and aim for more 'canonical' answers on things like 'update your packages'. I'll give it another day to see if there is more to say before doing any deleting.
@JosephWright Yes, I think that seems appropriate. There may be a few of these that are worth saving, but even if they are deleted too, it's probably not a big deal.
I would like to draw a matrix with top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right blocks.
The top left should be a 3x3 matrix with numerical entries, the top right is 0, the bottom left is 0 and the bottom right is just a "single" entry uJ. Here is my attempt.
$
\left[
\begin{array}{c|c}
[\...
My son wrote a few words today, he wrote from right to left and bottom to top and even turned around the letters (all accidentally), so when you turned the paper 180° everything was fine. I laughed so much.
I am trying to draw surfaces with complete hyperbolic structures and surfaces which are topologically tori. The hyperbolic surfaces I need to draw are torus with one or two holes on it, or torus with punctures on it, or torus with a cusp attached to it . They could also be torus torus with one or...
@DavidCarlisle we just packed up a lot of it here ... 3 generations collecting means many boxes ... and all the sports games ... the only thing we don't have much is technic (as I always preferred fischer technik)
@FrankMittelbach Actually, the mindstorms was originally mine, and was bought for me when well into adulthood (one of the many fantastic presents my wife has gotten for me). But all my lego has been subsumed into my kids' lego.
There have been a few questions flagged recently for deletion (for example pgfplots: I do not know the key '/tikz/nodes near coords' error, Cross-referencing with amsthm and cleveref and cleveref package produces "??"). These have all been closed as 'too localized', and the flag...
I've already googled it, without concrete success. So, I'd like to know if someone knows a converter from xml to tex. Something "simple" as latex2rtf.
Thanks
This question led to a new package:
xpatch
This is likely a simple question, but I'm getting stuck on the small details. I have an internal command, defined by a package as
\newcommand\foo@[3][]{...stuff...}
and somewhere in there I'd like to patch the command to include a call to \la...
I would like to draw a matrix with top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right blocks.
The top left should be a 3x3 matrix with numerical entries, the top right is 0, the bottom left is 0 and the bottom right is just a "single" entry uJ. Here is my attempt.
$
\left[
\begin{array}{c|c}
[\...
