@egreg can I increase a penalty of space in a part of a paragraph? I have a centered list of names and I would like to prevent break between First name(s) and Surname, as long as the whole name fits into one line.
@tohecz Well there are ways around it, but is different depending on where you are coming from and where you want to get to. For instance in Canada I had difficulty getting to Google.com as it took me to google.ca. So instead I went to news.google.com and form there I was able to redirect to google.com.. Not sure if that trick still works, but you try going to the google Czech news site...
@tohecz me neither... Looks like Google knows too much... Not sure why egreg got Chuck Norris though... Not that I am saying there is anything wrong with that (Sienfeld reference in case it is not obvious).
@egreg considering I'm inside centering: setting positive \linepenalty and adding \penalty-\linepenalty in between the authors might work, nah?
@PeterGrill just an example for all: I use different firefox profile for some shopping, yet facebook offers me ads that are obviously biased by this shopping
@tohecz Well Facebook probably has some agreements with Merchants and they share info. Besides using a different browser you need to use one that you do NOT log into Facebook with.
@tohecz Right; it's a parameter that influences the number of line in a paragraph. However it's automatically inserted and doing \penalty-\linepenalty is nonsense
@DavidCarlisle yes, but that would likely introduce unnecessary breaks, which I want to prevent. It seems that for now I will keep my \hbox{#1} and once someone with a long name publishes his article in our journal, I'll do something about it.
@tohecz Since you are not expecting many spaces you could instead of \hbox{#1} do \zz#1 \relax where \zz is a space delimited macro (like latex's zap@space except it puts the space back with a penalty and iterates until it sees the relax
If I'm using fancyhdr, is there a way to make \headheight update automatically based on the contents of the header? (The documentation suggests it is sometimes necessary/beneficial to increase it manually)
@jtbandes The issue is less about \headheight than about \textheight, which would need to decrease accordingly. But the order of processing is (a) cut off a chunk of content according to \textheight to make up the page (b) extract the marks from this chunk of content (c) build the heading content from these marks (d) construct the page from page content and headings. So there's a temporal paradoxon lurking in your question....
@StephanLehmke @tohecz that's what I had in my head of course, also (and probably more relevant) is \interlinepenalties which makes me realise I don't list the etex extended penalty lists in my answer here, I should probably update it tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51263/…
@DavidCarlisle Well, if you only talk about math, then JavaScript is fine. But that is not what I think when someone talks about "LaTeX". You can't produce a full document using JavaScript.
@MartinScharrer There are pretty much full pdf renderers written in javascript, full xslt-2 engines written in javascript, and Stephen pointed to a git project that appears to be porting the texlive executables to javascript, It may not be quite there yet but there isn't any reason at all why it can't be done (and it would likely be orders of magnitude faster than latex was when I started to use it)
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I just saw @Stephan's link. That's standalone javascript or what? AFAIK javascript is not allowed to write files when executed in a browser. I didn't even know it had file IO at all.
@MartinScharrer Haven't looked what that does, It can't write files but it can generate pdf (of just dom directly) and render them, if you can go from tex source to rendered view in real time you don't need an output file exactly
@MartinScharrer You mean having to write tex macros and then have a gazillian lines of javascript interpret them as DOM calls to render a page isn't the idea of friendly javascript programming he had in mind, shame:-)
@DavidCarlisle Speaking of gazilians, I once heard the following joke:
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
@DavidCarlisle No soldiers were actually harmed in the making of this joke. :)
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And according to some unproven facts, when Brazil and US fought together in WWII, the US soldiers played a trick on the Brazilian side by stealing some of their food. The Brazilian commander reported the incident to the US commander, which laughed and said, "This is a war, not a party." Two days after, the US commander came to talk to the Brazilian commander saying, "Here's the food. Now, for God's sake, please give us our tank back." :)
@JosephWright Thanks. I didn't know that the units were also boxed. I've already removed the comment anyway :-)
It would be a feature request but in the lines of csquotes package, maybe you can introduce a punctuation option, empty by default, such that it can be fed into the box.
@tohecz I'm not. :( I have three vowels in my name!
!!/help
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- Mid West Rhinos 279/10 v Mashonaland Eagles 166/10 & 1 *
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- India 162/4 * v England 257/7
- Barisal Burners 167/8 * v Rangpur Riders 174/4
- Western Cape Invitation XI 3 * v England Under-19s 132/7
- Khulna Royal Bengals 97/4 * v Sylhet Royals
- New South Wales v Western Australia
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- Oh dear, nothing happened so far.
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@tohecz both sides still playing but only the batting side can score anything, it's a one day game so England have scored 257 and India then have 50 overs (300 balls) to score that many to win, unless they are all out (10 out) so far they have 166 in 32 overs with 4 men out. It could go either way
@tohecz Ah. :) When I tried to learn German, I found out there are nouns that are male in Portuguese and female in German (and vice-versa). And that there are neutral gender, which does not exist in Portuguese.
@PauloCereda well, each species has somehow the "default gender", by which you refer to the whole species in biology. For instance dog is "he" and cat is "she" (unline in French)
notice that the male ones (almost) always end in a consonant, the female ones always end in a wovel and the child ones always end in \v{<consonant>}e or <consonant>\v{e} (which mean somehow the same)
As the topics, is there any mathematical blog support latex? I think people commonly use wordpress but i am not sure whether it supports latex as it doesn't show the latex format. Is there any supports latex?
@DavidCarlisle Upvote grandma on news.ycombinator.com/newest to have the chance to lure some new users to here ;-) still with 1 point on #21, going down
@tohecz @PauloCereda Some terms to avoid confusion: for grammatical gender of nouns we use 'masculine' , 'feminine' and 'neuter' (if the language has it) ; for natural gender (i.e. sex) we use 'male' and 'female'. In the Czech examples, the species names have a arbitrary grammatical gender (like all nouns) but the nouns that name individual animals are encoding (something close to) natural gender as well which is why there is a version for mail, female and immature.
@StefanKottwitz What about protecting grandma? It's highly likely that we'll start to get "low quality" posts - the most recent ones have been quite short.
@StefanKottwitz the point is that "protecting" the question makes even 100+ users step back and not provide another answer
@AlanMunn Example - dialog between two children: I want a (he-)dog for Chrismass.And should it be he or she?It doesn't matter to me, as long as he can have children.
@tohecz For any given species there's no way to predict whether the species name will be the masculine form or the feminine form (just like for any given noun there's no way to predict what gender it will have.) So the initial assignment of gender to a noun is fairly arbitrary. (There may be some preferences that people have, but there's no system for it I would bet.)
@tohecz Yes, I don't doubt there are some sub-regularities to be found; some may be conceptual (like your predator example) but others may be phonological (species that end in a particular set of consonants, for example, might have a preference for one gender or the other.)
My humble attempt with etoolbox, thanks to one of Leo Liu's answers. I used \csdef and \csuse to store and use the values, and \DeclareListParser to iterate through the items in the comma-separated list. Finally, the modulo feature is provided by the intcalc package.
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@PauloCereda loading a package just because of one month in 4 years is not something I gonna do. Result: Usually, the issues will be published on the last day of the month. The only exceptions will be issues number 1/56 and 1/60
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Mid West Rhinos 279/10 v Mashonaland Eagles 166/10 & 67/3 *
- Ruhuna 219/10 v Kandurata-Uva Combined 162/4 *
- Uthura-Neganahira Combined 190/3 * v Wayamba 188/10
- India 258/5 * v England 257/7
- Barisal Burners 167/8 * v Rangpur Riders 174/4
- Western Cape Invitation XI 74/5 * v England Under-19s 132/7
- Khulna Royal Bengals 145/7 v Sylhet Royals 113/3 *
- New South Wales v Western Australia
- South Australia v Victoria
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last fencing results:
- Oh dear, nothing happened so far.
Our fencing expert Alan might explain these results later on.
@PauloCereda The perpetual lack of fencing results is the result of the FIE (Féderation International d'Escrime) failing to feed its RSS feed. The problem is as intractable as the the problem of making Psmith logical.
@tohecz Psmith, the TeX bot: I'm able to recognize the following commands: help, list, cricket, fencing, say, ctan, texdef, eightball, answer, choose, define. You probably noticed that all commands must start with !!/ followed by the command name, didn't you? Splendid!
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To clarify: In TeX Live, once the new year comes out, you can't update any package without updating the distribution to the current year. Is MikTeX roughly the same (substituting MikTeX version # for TeX Live year)?
@JosephWright So in the beamer question which I've already answered by e-mail but is now posted on the site (after the fact) it should be possible to update to the latest version of beamer without updating the whole distro? The person is still using 2.8
I signed up just to say you only need to hit shift twice for LaTeX if you have caps lock on, or no times at all if you alternate with the caps lock key. — Rob44 mins ago
Can I answer: "How marvellous. Do you happen to use fncychap as well?"
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As the topics, is there any mathematical blog support latex? I think people commonly use wordpress but i am not sure whether it supports latex as it doesn't show the latex format. Is there any supports latex?
My humble attempt with etoolbox, thanks to one of Leo Liu's answers. I used \csdef and \csuse to store and use the values, and \DeclareListParser to iterate through the items in the comma-separated list. Finally, the modulo feature is provided by the intcalc package.
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