@MarcoDaniel No, I'll do further testing (especially if/when you add other entry types). But as the question turned indeed out to be a feature/package request, I felt that acceptance was warranted as soon as there was a working trad-plain style.
@MarcoDaniel If you think that accepting your answer may put off potential testers because they think the styles are already finished, I can revoke my acceptance for now.
@MarcoDaniel I didn't spot anything incorrect in your styles. (I thought that trad-abbrv was missing the abbreviation of editions to "ed.", but that's indeed also the behaviour of abbrv.bst.)
The only exception is that biblatex doesn't cope with field formats like month = "1~" # jan.
@MarcoDaniel You might want to edit out/correct the "sorting" description in your answer: The sorting is different for the various styles, and it's author -- title -- year for plain.
The zref package is really nice. Just implemented auto grid typesetting with this (after quotation environment for now, but more will follow). After the second run, the following text is aligned on the grid.
first image = first run, second image = second run. See the regular text "Dies", it aligns itself nicely on the line.
@MarcoDaniel I'll hire some TeX cheerleaders to encourage you during the race. :) "Give us a M, an A, an R, a C, and an O! M-A-R-C-O!!!! siunitx, imakeidx, biblatex, all in a knowledge base, xparse, tikz, pstricks, po-po-po-ker face, \expandafter's, \newcommand's, a bunch of \space, go Marco, let's win this race!"
Maybe I can avoid the definition of biblatextradversiondate and manipulate the optional argument directly \ProvidesFile{trad-unsrt.bbx}[\biblatextradversiondate]
@PauloCereda: Finished ;-) Do you know what I mean?
@MarcoDaniel Have a close look at the ouptut of the @book entry with plain.bst. It's not only the month, but also the day. This is done by month = "1~" # jan, in the .bib file.
Please, how can I reduce spacing between items ?
\begin{itemize}
\item[\textbullet] first
\item[\textbullet] second
\item[\textbullet] third
\end{itemize}
@KannappanSampath It's all part of the plan. :) There's also a plan where Patrick and Stefan will be in strategic parts of the course sabotaging other competitors. :)
@PauloCereda First thing to do is to relax. Release the mouse slowly and at each breath repeat after me, I won't use MS Word, ever again. Now hold the mouse slowly and click on Emacs once. Then press Del
@KannappanSampath I'm using memoir class for my thesis. I've cooked up a page style that is giving me warnings at chapter headings and bunch of other stuff. That's the current report for my compilation.
@PauloCereda My girlfriend told me to draw something using thumb indices such that a picture appears when the book is closed :) Then I've put an animated cartoon at the corner of the page playing snake :) I think I'm procrastinating but I'm not sure.
Back from the tour; this time Kobarid/Caporetto/Karfreit (it's the same place in Slovenian, Italian and German), where the Italian army suffered a bad loss in WWI, which caused the retreat described in Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".
I read that CTAN does not approve bundling images with a package. Would it be appropriate to include them in the dtx as filecontents? Can filecontents encode binary data?
Great! The process is simple. Everything is explained on the upload page (see below for the actual links). My own guidelines are listed below.
Make sure the material is licensed appropriately. Most LaTeX package are licensed under the LPPL, but you can also use the GPL or one of the Apache/BSD/...
@StephanLehmke TL need the source for the usual 'open source' concept that you can take the original and change it. But an image or similar would simply be edited in whatever program was appropriate
How can 0123456789 be aligned as shown in red: Same baseline as abcdefghij, aligned left with ABCDEFGHIJKL?
\vlines are just for illustration. I am designing a poster where exact text positioning matters.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\begin{document}
\begin{t...
As covered in the xparse documentation, the v argument type is very similar to \verb, and has to be ended within a line. You can grab multiple lines using the 'long' indicator, +:
\DeclareDocumentCommand{\macro}{+v}{#1}
You should note that you will get
This^^MIs^^MA^^MTest
when you grab v...
Sometimes I feel like we might be too tender on downvoting answers. The answer is wrong, I point it out, and the poster says "I might correct it" and does not. Yet, I do not downvote...
@tohecz It wouldn't do any good but only more tension. TeXies read the comments which is surprisingly effective. So this can't work because such and such... is a sufficient alert for many.
Oh, the theological conversation is dissipating enthusiasm in that chat room
I'd like to apply the following shading effect
proposed in " Fake sheet effect " as a background for a mdframed environment. How can this be achieved?
Please, how can I reduce spacing between items ?
\begin{itemize}
\item[\textbullet] first
\item[\textbullet] second
\item[\textbullet] third
\end{itemize}
How can 0123456789 be aligned as shown in red: Same baseline as abcdefghij, aligned left with ABCDEFGHIJKL?
\vlines are just for illustration. I am designing a poster where exact text positioning matters.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\begin{document}
\begin{t...
As covered in the xparse documentation, the v argument type is very similar to \verb, and has to be ended within a line. You can grab multiple lines using the 'long' indicator, +:
\DeclareDocumentCommand{\macro}{+v}{#1}
You should note that you will get
This^^MIs^^MA^^MTest
when you grab v...
