@cgnieder when including questions from an external file, is there some way to avoid an especific exercise? For example something like \includequestions[random=5,avoidID=7]{calculusExercises.tex}
anyone here on xetex list? (Did a message I sent at 22.50 GMT get delivered?) the list system claimed It had subscribed me and the message hasn't bounced but I don't see anything in the archives (perhaps initial messages are moderated?)
@cmhughes Yep, it's really impressive to watch him when he's on form. Must be frustrating for his opponents when he plays a frame or two with his left hand only.
@TorbjørnT. indeed, indeed :) He absolutely destroyed everyone last year at the Crucible, just a complete league of his own (when he's playing well) :)
@leo you need to handle #1 in the begin code, if you need to access the value in the end code stick \def\myargone{#1} in the begincode and use \myargone in the end code
@DavidCarlisle There has been no message from you on the XeTeX list. It's possible that subscriptions are moderated, so perhaps your message is waiting for approval because you appear at the moment as a non-member?
\begin{question}[type=exam,topic=graficas]{1}
Seg\'un la gr\'afica adjunta de la funci\'on $f(x)=2x^3+1$, considere las siguientes propuestas:
\begin{enumerate}
\item[I. ]El dominio de $f$ es $\mathbb{R}$.
\item[II. ]$\displaystyle\lim_{x\to 0}f(x)=1$.
\end{enumerate}
De ellas, son verdaderas
\begin{enumerate}[label=\emph{\alph*})]
\item Solo I
\item Solo II
\item I y II
\item ninguna
\end{enumerate}
\SetQuestionProperties{ciclo=I2012}
\end{question}
@AlanMunn thanks for the confirmation, I signed up just before posting, but perhaps it tales a while, I'll see if it gets through by tomorrow:-) (trying to get bm to work with extex/unicode-math is proving an interesting excercise
@leo can't you move setquestionproperties to just after \begin{question}[type=exam,topic=graficas]{1}
@DavidCarlisle The list is pretty efficient, but I think the mods are in your timezone, so most are probably sleeping. I'm sure it will show up by the morning.
@AdorableCreature I don't think there is a fixed general date. Probably different offices have different closing hours. There is no general holiday apart from the 1st of January and weekends, but of course it might be that some institutions are closing "between the years". Usually such things are announced on the respective websites.
@leo Just set the question properties in the begin code of the environment as David said. But beware that question properties are not the same as options to the question environments. Thus type=exam won't as question property
@PauloCereda Not too bad :-) Had a spate of bad luck with "next-day" deliveries :-( Delivery drivers can't seem to find my address. In the end I had to look up my GPS and when the driver finally arrived, it turned out he'd delivered my parcel to someone else!
@unNaturhal It just displays the contents of its environment in a typewriter font "as is".
(It doesn't apply any syntax highlighting.)
I've added a section on the listings package to the new version of "Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis" that I'm currently working on. I might add a list of recommended typewriter fonts to it.
@unNaturhal Cool :-) Hopefully "Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis" will be ready soon. (I got distracted by other things, so I stopped working on it for a few months.)
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@PauloCereda Okay. So far I've got txtt and beramono. Any other suggestions?
@unNaturhal The code I've used before. For the font, just \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt} (of course this should go after the magic code for Latin Modern Typewriter, if you want to experiment without modifying your preamble too much).
I'm using the natbibpackage for managing my references in my latex document.
Is it correct to refer to a reference in the following way:
A survey can be found in Ref.~\citep{Radke:2005ug}
Which is typeset as: A survey can be found in Ref. (Radke et al, 2005)
Since my bibliography is not numb...
@egreg I don't like football so much. I "sympathize" for Naples, but I admit when someone is a great athlete. And Del Piero is one of the greatest :)
@PauloCereda I saw your comment to the post you linked about "zebras" (another kind of zebras :P).. Do you know if there is a way to keep line numbers using that zembra escamotage??
@StephanLehmke: for some reason, our customs decided that your package had to be taxed, and the guys at Porto Alegre had to pay +60% of the value in order to get the package.
@PauloCereda I suppose only declared value (international postage is not due to VAT and import taxes AFAIK), but I can be wrong. When you don't insure the package and the reseller is nice to you, they can claim a lower value :)
@PauloCereda We really need a foreign customs office here at QS. Very unprofessional to know nothing about all that. Sending post in the EU is like sending a christmas parcel to my neighbours...
I thought you give the thing to a nice man from UPS and then he'll fly over to Brazil and hand it out to the recipient. What business have other people sticking labels on my package???
I'm trying to compile my own version of pdftex which works fine.
However, I must compile my own format file (fmt) for that.
This should be done with mktexfmt. My problem is that I don't know where to find the souce code for mktexfmt (for linux).
Can anybody give me a hint where to find it?
Chee...
@PauloCereda This has been happening a lot to us lately. Someone in the post office has decided on a make money quick scheme. Every package we've sent in the past few months has had extra duties imposed on it, some of them enormous.
@tohecz Regarding commath: why defining \pd in that way when \newcommand{\pd}[3][]{\frac{\partial^{#1}#2}{\partial#2^{#1}}} would do (almost correctly) as in the author's intentions? I think he never tested it.
@PauloCereda Yeah, we were fine while we were with our family, but when we went anywhere on our own we might as well have had a big sign on us saying "rip us off!"
@AlanMunn In '89 I went to Romania through Yugoslavia; at the Yugoslavian border we exchanged 100000 lira, they gave us something like 3 million dinar. After a week in Romania, we discovered that the gasoline price had increased by something like 10%.
@PauloCereda There's also a variation "keep you a troshun" (they both mean "keep on threshing" - it's a rural county). I think my favourite Norfolk expression is "thass a rummun hintut".
@NicolaTalbot my reverend in Paris is Scottish, as well as many other people there. To amuse us non-Scottish, he said a Scottish sequence, then it took him 5 minutes to explain it :D
@NicolaTalbot I think it needs. If you don't specify the package, we end up with only commands only defined in LaTeX.
!!/texdef -t latex -p graphics rotatebox
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
\rotatebox:
\long macro:#1#2->\leavevmode \Grot@setangle {#1}\setbox \z@ \hbox {{#2}}\Grot@x \z@ \Grot@y \z@ \Grot@box
@tohecz And pretty useless: the first argument of \mathchoice is typeset in display style, so using \mathpalette inside it will obviously choose display style; you're typesetting 12 boxes instead of 4.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Jharkhand 310/6 * v Punjab
- Saurashtra 469/10 v Karnataka 45 *
- Mumbai 524/6 * v Baroda
- Services 263/10 v Uttar Pradesh 134/10 & 138/4 *
- Barbados v Leeward Islands
- Combined Campuses and Colleges v Guyana
- Melbourne Stars v Sydney Thunder
Our cricket expert David might explain these results later on.
@NicolaTalbot Dang! Can you please finish the "Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis" 4 months ago. :) I've caught myself fiddling with csquotes package which means contentwise the thesis is done.
@NicolaTalbot Actually texdef uses \show internally, but removes the linebreaks afterwards. There is also the -s or --source option which tries to extract the definition from the original source. This doesn't work with 100% of all macros however, therefore it is not the default setting.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Here's the output from texdef:
% graphics.sty, line 319:
\long\def\rotatebox#1#2{%
\leavevmode
\Grot@setangle{#1}%
\setbox\z@\hbox{{#2}}%
\Grot@x\z@
\Grot@y\z@
\Grot@box}
Okay, given how often I instruct people to use the latest versions of my packages, it's really about time I updated my TL distro. I think I'll have an hour and a half long coffee break while it installs.
@JosephWright you might try using \roundcap in the picture environment, shortening a bit the line, so that the corner will overlap the end of the diagonal line.
@tohecz ;-) I needed this feature in another package of mine. Relying on changepage was not really an option as it does much more and I saw no reason to place it inside my other package as it was a dedicated feature. Therefore -> new package!
@JosephWright probably the thing to do in pure picturemode is calculate the slope but use the diagonal line to adjust the column width so it matches in the end
@egreg's after my green ticks again. I spot the tactic of answering the question the OP should have asked rather than the one asked. (Not to mention making an answer that is 100 times longer than the accepted one.)
I'm using the natbibpackage for managing my references in my latex document.
Is it correct to refer to a reference in the following way:
A survey can be found in Ref.~\citep{Radke:2005ug}
Which is typeset as: A survey can be found in Ref. (Radke et al, 2005)
Since my bibliography is not numb...
I'm trying to compile my own version of pdftex which works fine.
However, I must compile my own format file (fmt) for that.
This should be done with mktexfmt. My problem is that I don't know where to find the souce code for mktexfmt (for linux).
Can anybody give me a hint where to find it?
Chee...
