@AndrewStacey I think we should go through all of SO and SX with a robot changing all language to newspeak to make things easier to read for foreign speakers. Max. total of 500 distinct words allowed.
I am writing my master thesis using Latex and I have a problem in sorting the index.
The problem is that I am not able to divide the index into letter groups, and symbol groups. I want the groups to be separated by a capital letter that describes the group.
My system is win.7 64 bit, my distrib...
Ho necessità ddi impostare la bibliografia di latexc in modo automatico. Ci smatto da due settimane. Quisotto c'è il mio font
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
%\graphicspath{immagini}
\usepackage{booktabs}
%\providecommand{\abs}[1]{\big|#1\big|}
\usepackage{caption}
%\usepackage {tabl...
@lockstep I'm afraid I have to agree since in this case, the person does not seem to be able to communicate in English, so translating the question would be of no help...
My humble attempt. :)
First of all, I'd like to say that I really admire your work in the main SO site. I learned a lot from your answers. It's an honour to have a SO fellow user here. Make yourself at home, I really hope you enjoy this community.
Please, don't take my next lines personal. It's...
@percusse I don't think we should be too worried about the departure of Bill the Lizard. It's very unclear that he ever arrived here with intentions of staying. As far as I can tell, he only ended up on our site in order to edit the questions he discussed.
@AlanMunn Yes, that's true. But still there is no reason to avoid the hospitality that we are kinda proud of :) You can't predict how people start to hang out here since the questions are answered quite rapidly and newcomers usually don't have a chance to get on the bus early.
@AlanMunn Why not? Many answers regarding the Python or other goodies that complement some shortcomings came from such users. I can't point to any exact example right now though.
@tohecz Let me leave the room and reenter, hopefully you would see too.
@percusse I have some difficulties getting the "hospitality" thing. It seems the only appropriate form of hospitality in this case would have been total submission to his opinion of what enhances a post...
@StephanLehmke but there is a reason for it: my nickname comes from my real name and country code, and I find ToHeCZ much more ugly and hard-to-write (hence impolite?) than tohecz
@StephanLehmke Writing in mixed style is not for the writer, it's for the reader. You should be aware that many readers might be seriously annoyed by that.
@PatrickGundlach That's exactly what I was thinking before yesterday. But this discussion has made me think otherwise. It's one thing to put someone in your killfile in news and quite another one to edit someone's posts and demand your edits are not to be rejected because of majority rule. When a community starts turning in the wrong direction, one has to stand up at some point.
(I deleted some bad words from that message on second thought)
@StephanLehmke I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but I don't think Bill the Lizard ever had any intention of being a part of the community. And the consensus here seems to be that we're willing to put up with barbara's lowercase posts but not as a general rule.
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So this is an isolated incident that isn't reflective of the community here at all and therefore no stand-making is required. :)
@StephanLehmke You can write as you want, but don't expect me to read your posts (I did until now :-)) I won't edit your posts either (unless I have something substantially to be added - which i doubt)
@AlanMunn As I already stated yesterday, I still have difficulties understanding why a typographic tradition shared by well-known typographers and with a substantial body of publications on top of that, could have any acceptance problems on this site. If readability is really the utmost goal and individual style counts nothing, then with certainty unusual words are the next to go. And then long sentences. Next, all posts above ten lines. That would be a big step towards readability indeed.
IMO this whole subject has too much attention. If I don't like to read a post, I ignore it. Period. If I think it is a bad question/answer (whatever my personal reason is), I downvote it. I am not trying to educate someone, only correct mistakes. Its all about community. If people think it's funny to write all lowercase it's ok, I don't read all posts. If most of the people here write lowercase, I go away to a place where there is more to read. No big deal.
@tohecz Well editing is the solution in this case obviously. This whole argument stands and falls with the question whether writing lower case is poor english or even wrong.
I think its completely annoying behavior to keep posting in lowercase letters, and yes, that includes our "holy" Mrs B. I just don't want to make a rule of it, if I am annoyed by something I either try to change it or I just leave. Live 's too short to bother too much about such things
@StephanLehmke You're falling into the trap of rationalizing a social convention. Social conventions are just that, social conventions. They're not right or wrong, nor are they 'designed' with a particular purpose in mind. Such rationalizations are added post hoc to buttress arguments about their correctness. So the capitalization convention is one that is generally followed in English; there is no tradition in English typography of all lower case that I know of.
So adopting an all lower case strategy when writing in English doesn't fit the social conventions of writing in English, and since we've agreed that English is the language of the site, we should follow that convention. And in fact most of us agree that we would like Barbara to follow it too, but we're willing to put up with her peculiarities because we value her input otherwise, and the lowercase thing isn't so big a deal.
I just picked all the cherries from the little tree in front of our house. Which is a rather pleasant assignment because not all cherries are reaching the bowl :-)
@StephanLehmke Yay! :) I do the very same with an acerola tree we have here. :)
@BrentLongborough: I once was walking distracted around my old department in the university. All of a sudden, I bumped into a huge jackfruit. :) There were a lot of those trees around. :P
@PauloCereda Curious! How did you "bump into it"? (That iumplkies it was standing in your way.) Or did it fall on your head, or did you trip over it? :)
@StephanLehmke Strange coincidence, I was talking about cherry-picking in an answer today.
@AlanMunn At least we must be grateful that barabara doesn't use all caps, so she can spell god correctly, like the chairman of the Teletype Corp. back in the olden tymes.
@BrentLongborough I was walking looking at the sidewalk. :) I saw the tree, but I didn't notice a particular branch with a huge jackfruit over the sidewalk path. Then I hit the fruit. :P
@AlanMunn On a slightly serious note, I think there is beauty (and utility) in the ebb-and-flow of mixed-case text, but I don't think we should be so serious on TeX.Sx. In the last analysis, language, spelling, and typography will evolve, sometimes in directions we don't like (such as the BBC dropping diacritics LR&C), but there's nothing we, nor King Canute himself, can do about it.
@JG Just make a screenshot of a part that shows the problem and upload that. (The upload button is just for images, PDFs are converted to PNG, same as on the main site.)
@BrentLongborough It may indeed be an artifact of the screenshot. I converted from Adobe Professional to .png and I think that short of stuff happens when going through Adobe
@JG Ah, OK. On the general question of table art and fonts, you may like to start by sarching on the site for table, and for booktabs. Memoir, too has some good stuff on tables.
@JG There is no such thing as perfection, so too much rewriting is a waste of time. Of course if you give drafts to people to read, and get feedback you should try hard to pay attention to that. Also, science writing doesn't have to be the most artistic prose in the world so keep it simple and clear; don't try to make things fancy, (this includes word choice). Any paper you write you should be able to summarize in about 500 words.
@AlanMunn That makes a lot of sense. I feel like I'm just a bad writer. I look at what I writhe. Then I come back to it a month later and I realize I could have been incredibly more concise and better organized!
@JosephWright Are you going to still be in chemstiry?
@JG The other thing is don't be afraid to start over, though. The biggest problem I see with some of my students is hanging on to the way they came to the problem as opposed to writing things from the point of view of the solution.
@JosephWright I am sure your beamer slides totally helped whether you want to admit or not!
@AlanMunn I feel like I'm not sure what to include and what to exclude. So I'm always trying my hardest to mimic the style of young and successful academics in my field.
@JG For example, suppose you did 5 experiments. It's easy to think that you should present them in the paper in the order that you did them: "first we did this, then we did this etc.) but it might be much better to present them in a very different order to make the larger point that the study as a whole is trying to make.
@AlanMunn I find the results section actually so boring to write. The other sections I'm ok with I think. Like the methods, the theory, and all of that.
@JG I often tell my students that no one cares about the process by which you arrived at a solution, they care about the logic that would argue for the solution. But we have a tendency as humans to be too attached to history for our own good.
@AlanMunn All of the other sections are the "hard" parts. Coming up with the right methods, the right theory, and so forth. The results to me are just like ok, I got results. You can see them in my tables and graphs too.
@JG For example, in chemistry you often make a series of compounds, and find out after the fact that there is some systematic variation. When writing it it, the focus will be on the system, not the order in which things were made.
@JG Despite what we might think, a lot of science begins with a kind of educated fishing. But ultimately we should be testing theories, so the fact that you started with a "I wonder what happens if I do X" type question doesn't mean that when you have interesting results that you should present them in the same way.
@AlanMunn Yeah that I have totally learned recently.
@AlanMunn Like we are interested in some general theory and the experiment we are doing helps provide evidence in support of (or not support) of that theory.
@AlanMunn Even if it was not the case that I ever set out to test that theory. Instead I must step back and realize the broader implication of the experiment is the testing of the theory.
@JG Right. But the reality of the way science works is that often times we come up with the facts and only later realize that they are directly relevant to some theory or other. Now of course, usually that means that you should then test the theory more explicitly with further experiments.
@AlanMunn I guess it is a little different because I work in the social sciences (quasi-experimental) and not an experimental science. So what we do is say that we observe something that is effectively quasi-experimental, like a policy change. Then we abstract to say what theory the quasi-experimental setting is actually testing.
@JG From what I remember your work is more correlational than experimental, but the same principles apply. You might come across some correlation that you hadn't been looking for, and only then go looking for similar ones. But when you present the work, the first correlation you found might be the one that is best to present last in your paper.
@AlanMunn Or a better example is some environmental change or natural catastrophe.
@AlanMunn Yes correlational is a good what to put it.
@AlanMunn The goal is to provide as much indirect evidence as possible that there are no "unobservable" characteristics that affect our control group and treatment group differently other than the shock (i.e. the policy change or the environmental change or whatever it is that is driving the change in the correlation)
@AlanMunn I'm probably being extremely My apologies! boring going into the details.
@AlanMunn I am very appreciative of your advice!
@RyanReich Hi!
@AlanMunn After I have a solid draft, what is your advice on how to proceed?
@DavidCarlisle: Kind request... Would it be possible to define a command like \rowalpha{<num>} that could be used in a similar context to \rowcolor in your answer to:
I'm using the colortbl package to color table cells. I've combined this w/ the xcolor package to define my own colors. However, it appears that xcolor does not support transparency. I saw the package transparent, but it is oriented toward text and I wasn't able to set the transparency level of...
@Werner probably. That's the first document ive done with transparency, I'd need to go off and read Heiko's doc and see what the possibilities are,
@Werner I would have thought a nicer interface would be to allow it as a color component so you could \definecolor{...}{50% transparent red} then \color and \rowcolor would just work
@JosephWright I've already gotten a head start on some things. I've also encountered a question where my answer is the only answer, but I've deleted it. For the life of me I can't remember why, so I'll just undelete it and hope for the best.
@N3buchadnezzar Yes, and since TikZ questions probably outnumber almost any other sort, then there will be proportionally more of them unanswered as well.
@AlanMunn I'm always a little disappointed by how few tikz-pgf points I have, since I feel like that kind of question was a big thing for me last year.
@RyanReich It's often the case that if there's an answer by one of the other TikZ experts, to the same question, they're tough to compete with (not that we're really competing).
I'm extremely new to LaTeX, and I'm using the PhD template found at http://openwetware.org/wiki/LaTeX_template_for_PhD_thesis My problem is that after I included my .bib archive into the specified folder (I used the same way they use as to prevent any error) I can't seem to get any cite to work:...
I was trapped by this citation for a long time. All my citations in bib suddendly didn't work and tex make told me there are not found in my bib.
My main tex file is as following:
\documentclass[GBK, colorlinks, notocbibind]{pkuthss}
\usepackage[backend = biber, style = caspervector, gbk]{bibla...
@JosephWright Yes, there's a link posted in the comments: tex.stackexchange.com/a/8348/3240 (so happens to be my answer too, although I didn't post the comment.)
I have to vertically and horizontally align the chapter headings. Based on answers on this forum I was able to achieve this via this command
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\vfil\normalfont\Large\bfseries\centering}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Large}
But this increases the space be...
I'm using Tex with Telugu and English languages. When a word is hyphenated, the hyphen symbol, as apparently is not found in Telugu font, appears as undefined symbol. I want to change it's font to English hoping it would then appear properly. This is what I do for many other symbols in default La...
What is a cause for making all citations points to the first page of the article instead of the bibiliography?
documentclass = article
bibliographystyle = IEEEtran
related packages = hyperref, url
everything is working fine, the bibliography is correctly created.
Is just that the citation embe...
I am doing an experiment, and would like to generate images of Binary Trees and Exponential Trees using LaTeX.
The difference between these two structures is the number of children allowed per node at each level. Binary Trees have a maximum of two, whereas Exponential Trees have 2dimension (with...
i have the following Code:
\definecolor{dkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.39063,0}
\definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.50}
\definecolor{mauve}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82}
\definecolor{lines}{rgb}{0.00,0,0.50}
\definecolor{defaulttext}{rgb}{0.0,0.0,0.5}
\newcommand{\CodeSymbol}[1]{\textcolor{black}{#1}}
\lstset{ %
langu...
Often I have the need to type up a document which needs nothing fancy; just basic formatting that looks reasonable and won’t appear too strange to people who are used to Word. Something like: title, author, headings, body text that all fit nicely together.
(In particular, the last time I tried L...
I have manually installed the newtx package to TEXMFLOCAL (with admin rights), placing everything into the appropriate folders in TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/ and TEXMFLOCAL/tex/latex, and running updmap-sys --enable Map=ntx.map and texhash. And everything seems to work fine.
However, it seems like I am mi...
In a latex document I have got a section heading as the last line on a page, followed by the section content on the following page. How do I prevent this page shift between section heading and section content?
A BibTeX question (using BibDesk). I am having trouble working out how to make BibTeX handle the new Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) web page. No authors or editors are listed. DLMF itself suggests (http://dlmf.nist.gov/help/cite)
When referring to the web site from a print p...
As a regular user of Eclipse, I finally decided to give TeXlipse a shot. But I cant seem to find keyboard shortcuts or any sort of graphical menu or a popup such as content assist for advanced math symbols. For example, the "underbrace" symbol in this statement
$\underbrace{e^{i\pi}+1=0}_\text{i...
I recently encountered a number of "Underfull \vbox" warnings after switching a document to twoside. Strangely, all of them are reported as being at line 1.
After comparing the twoside output with the non-twoside document the layout seems to be exactly the same.
What could be the problem?
So, I was not able to run latex on my machine (Windows 7) until I installed CTEX after a friend's recommendation. After which I was able to run latex, but then I discovered that my entire Path system variable is replaced by the paths of CTeX, and everything else (Python, Java, System and other, a...
I want to draw a tree which is similar to the Merge sort recursion tree in this Tikz sample from TeXample.net:
However, I don't want to draw all the + and = signs, I just want two columns: one from the left and one from the right. I'm using tikz-qtree package. I wonder is there a way to add cus...
In the process of finalizing a book I observed that it would be much better if I could translate the hyperref from the, e.g., Chapter name (left) to the page of the chapter (right). This means that I would rather like to make the page numbers to be colored in red, and to link to exactly that part...
I have built my .bib file using parentheses, like this:
@ARTICLE(Campbell2006,
author="Campbell, K. and McKay, M.D. and Williams, B.J.",
title="Sensitivity Analysis when Model Outputs are Functions",
journal="{Reliability Engineering \& System Safety}",
volume=91,
number="10-11",
pages="1468...
Modules of software I created produce Tikz QTree diagrams for visualisation. The problem is that some trees grow quite broad...
Even when I try to massively shrink them by Tikz settings, I cannot fit them on the page. I use the following, which has no effect:
\begin{tikzpicture}[level/.style=...
I am using at present TeXshop under Mac OS 10.7; when recently installing Aquamacs, it turns out that it does not find the TeX installation (Texlive 2011). I tried to set the search path for Aquamacs accordingly, but I did not find the place where to do that.
Any suggestions?
I have TeXnicCenter and GSview. If I have a .tex file house.tex, and the resulting PostScript file house.ps, I'd like to be able to jump from a line in house.ps to the corresponding line in house.tex quickly.
A while ago, I remember seeing a package which made annotations in the margin really easy. By this, I mean coloured boxes with text in the margin, and possibly arrows going to places in a block of text as well (I might have made that last one up).
Does anyone know which package I am thinking of?...
I need to express things like (longhand) 'this fullword contains the elapsed time in units of 1048576 microseconds'.
I would imagine something like '... units of µs × 2²° ...' (horrid superscript, I know) might be an adequate shorthand, and thought of siunitx:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackag...
I am using multimarkdown to produce LaTeX files. I decided to create a series of templates and use a simple /def/dtype in my document to decided which template to use. The header produced would be something like this:
\def\dtype{Sermon}
\input{mmd-header}
\def\mytitle{The Spirit of the Antichris...
I would like to highlight the min/max value in pairs of values on each row in a table with pgfplotstable.
I had a look at Highlighting Extremal Values in Table which seems to provide much of the machinery needed.
I am quite new to pgfplotstable, is there a better way to do this than reading the...
This MWE is from a real case where an error occurs (with a hint about WSF from suffix package, but below the error is different) with \globaldefs=1\relax in a \begingroup \endgroup pair, in order to make \newcommand macros visible outside the pair.
This is main mwe.tex.
\documentclass[a4paper,1...
I am working on fcolorbox but i don't need color in box (need transparent color). In the background, there is shading color so i want that color to be in box. I tried to use transparent package but does not seems to be working. How can I implement it?
I tested the combine class, but I have a problem in the document to be combined figures exist, but I get this problem when there is no compilation and how to fix the problem I get is:
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 72--73 [3]
<oblique.pdf, ...
Ciao guys, in my original file I have this table (in the MWE) and it is cut in between (more specifically until Mumbai) when I compile. But when I create the MWE it is OK (apart from the page number). There seems to be something with the document specification but I am unable to figure out the pr...
How to align this symbol (\blacksquare) to the right?
I made a proof of theorem but to align this symbol is more difficult than the proof ;)
I like take this in the right of my paper.
\blacksquare
This question follows this Applying TikZ options stored in a file. I just wonder why the following fails to read the file. Please ignore the content of filecontents; although it works, it's just for developing a MNWE. The problem is with my use of \input.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{file...
The process of pdfLaTeX is extremely time consuming. It takes 12 seconds to compile the simple "Hello Word" text (no figure, no table, no nothing). I have tested both TeXmaker and TeXnicCenter with my MiKTeX 2.9. I don't really know what happened, but it used to be far faster than it is now.
I wo...
I am writing my master thesis using Latex and I have a problem in sorting the index.
The problem is that I am not able to divide the index into letter groups, and symbol groups. I want the groups to be separated by a capital letter that describes the group.
My system is win.7 64 bit, my distrib...
My humble attempt. :)
First of all, I'd like to say that I really admire your work in the main SO site. I learned a lot from your answers. It's an honour to have a SO fellow user here. Make yourself at home, I really hope you enjoy this community.
Please, don't take my next lines personal. It's...
I'm using the colortbl package to color table cells. I've combined this w/ the xcolor package to define my own colors. However, it appears that xcolor does not support transparency. I saw the package transparent, but it is oriented toward text and I wasn't able to set the transparency level of...
I was trapped by this citation for a long time. All my citations in bib suddendly didn't work and tex make told me there are not found in my bib.
My main tex file is as following:
\documentclass[GBK, colorlinks, notocbibind]{pkuthss}
\usepackage[backend = biber, style = caspervector, gbk]{bibla...
I have to vertically and horizontally align the chapter headings. Based on answers on this forum I was able to achieve this via this command
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\vfil\normalfont\Large\bfseries\centering}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Large}
But this increases the space be...
What is a cause for making all citations points to the first page of the article instead of the bibiliography?
documentclass = article
bibliographystyle = IEEEtran
related packages = hyperref, url
everything is working fine, the bibliography is correctly created.
Is just that the citation embe...
I am new to LaTeX. Can somebody please show me how to do APA referencing in LaTeX? I am using Texmaker and TexnicCenter. I guess I need basic help.
i have the following Code:
\definecolor{dkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.39063,0}
\definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.50}
\definecolor{mauve}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82}
\definecolor{lines}{rgb}{0.00,0,0.50}
\definecolor{defaulttext}{rgb}{0.0,0.0,0.5}
\newcommand{\CodeSymbol}[1]{\textcolor{black}{#1}}
\lstset{ %
langu...
A BibTeX question (using BibDesk). I am having trouble working out how to make BibTeX handle the new Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) web page. No authors or editors are listed. DLMF itself suggests (http://dlmf.nist.gov/help/cite)
When referring to the web site from a print p...
I recently encountered a number of "Underfull \vbox" warnings after switching a document to twoside. Strangely, all of them are reported as being at line 1.
After comparing the twoside output with the non-twoside document the layout seems to be exactly the same.
What could be the problem?
I want to draw a tree which is similar to the Merge sort recursion tree in this Tikz sample from TeXample.net:
However, I don't want to draw all the + and = signs, I just want two columns: one from the left and one from the right. I'm using tikz-qtree package. I wonder is there a way to add cus...
I have built my .bib file using parentheses, like this:
@ARTICLE(Campbell2006,
author="Campbell, K. and McKay, M.D. and Williams, B.J.",
title="Sensitivity Analysis when Model Outputs are Functions",
journal="{Reliability Engineering \& System Safety}",
volume=91,
number="10-11",
pages="1468...
Modules of software I created produce Tikz QTree diagrams for visualisation. The problem is that some trees grow quite broad...
Even when I try to massively shrink them by Tikz settings, I cannot fit them on the page. I use the following, which has no effect:
\begin{tikzpicture}[level/.style=...
I am using at present TeXshop under Mac OS 10.7; when recently installing Aquamacs, it turns out that it does not find the TeX installation (Texlive 2011). I tried to set the search path for Aquamacs accordingly, but I did not find the place where to do that.
Any suggestions?
I have TeXnicCenter and GSview. If I have a .tex file house.tex, and the resulting PostScript file house.ps, I'd like to be able to jump from a line in house.ps to the corresponding line in house.tex quickly.
I need to express things like (longhand) 'this fullword contains the elapsed time in units of 1048576 microseconds'.
I would imagine something like '... units of µs × 2²° ...' (horrid superscript, I know) might be an adequate shorthand, and thought of siunitx:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackag...
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8174 explains the error.
I need a work-around please.
I would like to highlight the min/max value in pairs of values on each row in a table with pgfplotstable.
I had a look at Highlighting Extremal Values in Table which seems to provide much of the machinery needed.
I am quite new to pgfplotstable, is there a better way to do this than reading the...
This MWE is from a real case where an error occurs (with a hint about WSF from suffix package, but below the error is different) with \globaldefs=1\relax in a \begingroup \endgroup pair, in order to make \newcommand macros visible outside the pair.
This is main mwe.tex.
\documentclass[a4paper,1...
I am working on fcolorbox but i don't need color in box (need transparent color). In the background, there is shading color so i want that color to be in box. I tried to use transparent package but does not seems to be working. How can I implement it?
I tested the combine class, but I have a problem in the document to be combined figures exist, but I get this problem when there is no compilation and how to fix the problem I get is:
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 72--73 [3]
<oblique.pdf, ...
How to align this symbol (\blacksquare) to the right?
I made a proof of theorem but to align this symbol is more difficult than the proof ;)
I like take this in the right of my paper.
\blacksquare
