A local sports bar surveyed 67 of its customers about their favorite teams, and the following information was obtained: 30 people were Alabama fans, 44 people were Texas fans, 23 people were Michigan fans, 20 people were both Alabama and Michigan fans, 5 people were Alabama and Michigan fans, but...
@Kurt Hmm there is someone now with the badge “peer pressure”: I’ve got a ‘404 Page not found’. In general we try downvoting not tooo much. There must be be a text building block, too.
Thats the same I'm thinking. But this question was a little bit special. Perhaps a spam? A joke? Btw it was a nice mathematical question ... But I was too late to flag for migrating to mathe.SE ...
@Jake and down at the bottom of the other list I see we have two inhabitants from the new independent republic of Brighton. I hadn't noticed border fences being erected around that bit of the south coast:-) (But despite its quirks it is still likely to be way more accurate than a voluntary poll)
@Nyx so you can copy that to your own environment but change it to {\list{}{\leftmargin=-1cm\rightmargin\leftmargin}% and it will stick out 1cm on either side
@egreg Sure, there are many, many things wrong with that query. It is merely a very rough approximation (although surely, assuming that people have entered their country on an English speaking website in English is not too far-fetched)
@egreg The only part of the answer I understood was the \expandafter I added, than heavens for MWE:-)
@PauloCereda yes the traditional symbol with knuckles forward means essentially f@@@ @ff, Winston Churchill introduced a V for victory sign with the hand reversed....
Life is unfair. While some people can vote 41 times a day, now for whatever reason I can't use my last vote, so I'm stuck at 39! It's a tragedy! :)
tohecz: Paulo's profile is a good calendar: (# of votes in month)/40 = (day of month)
I'm pretty sure I already spent all my 40 votes today (yo...
Stiff, P. (1996). The end of the line: a survey of unjustified typography. Information Design Journal, 8(2), 125–152.
No empirical data, but a good overview. Science would tell us that inconsistent word-spacing as a result of justification may inhibit saccadic eye movement by creating irregular ...
@PauloCereda Delle vecchie fa conquista pel piacer di porle in lista./ Sua passion predominante è la giovin principiante./ Non si picca se sia ricca, se sia brutta, se sia bella,/ purché porti la gonnella, voi sapete quel che fa.
So were you going to vote for @egreg or me on that one? If the former it doesn't matter, if the latter I agree it's a tragedy that you were not allowed to vote. — David Carlisle2 mins ago
@PauloCereda I'm hoping to make another rule called (something like) 'warnings' which would grep the .log file. It could be used something like % arara: warnings {hboxes,vboxes,references}. I'm somewhat confident that I can get it working on Linux, but may post a question to get it working on Windows :)
@cmhughes You could use the item iterator in the rule scope and then call % arara: warnings: { items: [ warnings, hboxes, vboxes, references ] } :) If your Windows machine has a grep version in the path, everything will work just fine. :)
BTW, the launcher is now fixed in TL for Windows. :)
@PauloCereda cool, that's great to know- I'll have to study the item iterator, it looks powerful :) I wouldn't mind using a tool other than grep if it makes it universally available- presumably arara itself uses some kind of file-searching tool?
@PauloCereda oh ok, that sounds good- I really like the tool, and think that you and the team have done a great job- thanks for releasing it to the community :) You've got me really interested in how arara knows what to do.... :)
@cmhughes Thanks for the kind words. :) But I must tell you, arara does nothing more than just expanding directives into rules and them into commands. There's no magic there. :)
This does the job in 12 lines of code, giving a nestable environment and allowing edit racking to be switched on/off independently of the environment using \on{eddy}/\off{eddy
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{color}
\def\on #1{\csname #1true\endcsname \relax}
\def\...
Better tested than the last version, which is not to say well-tested.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{color}
\newenvironment{analyze}[1]
{\def\analyzename{#1}}
{}
\newcommand{\deleteline}[2]{%
\def\test{#1}%
\ifx\test\analyzename % Check name (\1) matches \analyzename
\textsuperscript{\textcolor{black}{ #1}}%
\textcolor{red}{\sout{#2}}%
\fi
}
\title{Latex Document}
\author{Eddy}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{analyze}{Margret}
As part of this project, we intend to study the complex structures of Latex.
\deleteline{eddy}{This line will be stroked through.}
egreg's code is very lean - I like this more than the expl3 version
@tohecz Since David P. C. is at the moment shown first in tex.stackexchange.com/users I searched for “David”: 33 users with this name and no family name.
@PeterGrill Sorry for stealing a green tick from you. ;-)
@CharlesStewart The expl3 code allows for checking more than one editor for free. You can also decide differently what to do when no argument is specified (maybe define a global list of editors and use it).
Stiff, P. (1996). The end of the line: a survey of unjustified typography. Information Design Journal, 8(2), 125–152.
No empirical data, but a good overview. Science would tell us that inconsistent word-spacing as a result of justification may inhibit saccadic eye movement by creating irregular ...
@PeterGrill Try adding "USA" ("US" would not be recognized)
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%ADELAIDE%' THEN 'Australia'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%AFGHANISTAN%' THEN 'Afghanistan'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%AGGIELAND%' THEN 'United States'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%AHEMEDABABD%' THEN 'India'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%AHMEDABAD%' THEN 'India'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%AJMER%' THEN 'India'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%ALABAMA%' THEN 'United States'
WHEN UPPER(Location) LIKE '%ALASKA%' THEN 'United States'
@PauloCereda I see that you have made a lot of progress with the documentation since the last time I was here in chat. I have to admit I just used it today when I tried Torbjørn's answer and I have to say I am very impressed with the ease of use. Thanks.
@hpesoj626 Oh my. :) That duck is actually a famous meme in the Internet, called Dolan Duck - based on Donald Duck from Disney. It's terribly vulgar, I added just for the fun of it. :) knowyourmeme.com/memes/dolan
@tohecz The OP says that well established standard typographical devices are based on "anecdotical wisdom", but offers no evidence whatsoever supporting the contrary.
@PauloCereda So used to big rivers when the text is justified. It's surely true that rivers are distracting and less frequent in ragged right text. However, reducing the whole process of reading to rapid eye movements (saccades) seems arbitrary.
I use Geogebra to draw by five knowing points on a plane an hyperbol. Then I used the intern command to translate into tikz code my figure. I create a file source code latex/tikz, but after compilation (pdfLaTeX), points are drawing, but not the correct hyperbola trough the fives points.
Questio...
@tohecz "Primitive" is also used for terms that are undefined, that is not formally defined based on axioms or other definitions (ex set, element, true, false) -- based comment by egreg here a few days ago..
@tohecz Yes, good comment. I should said that, but really hate looking at machine generated tikz code. I actually tried to tweak the code at this question and then gave up:
I need to color in arc BC red and make my points D and C darker. Does anyone know how to do this?
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pgf,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\definecolor{qqttzz}{rgb}{0,0.2,0.6}
\definecolor{ttqqqq}{r...
I have noticed a trend that bothers me.
It is not uncommon that questions, especially of new or non-regular users, are of poor quality. This leads to the inevitable "what have you tried?". There have been discussions on that on meta I am sure.
However, I also see a trend of negative, or passi...
@egreg yes I was trying to imagine a description of what \protect does that would admit an "opposite" behaviour at all, and in particular one that had anything to do with the question.
@PeterGrill your answer is basically the same as the one I gave to the linked question (although making the redefinition global is better in case the first use is in a group)
It's hard to answer the question as the two constructs are different in almost all respects so it's a matter of where to start.
\relax is a single token, an unexpandable TeX primitive that does nothing when executed.
{} is two tokens which (assuming the standard catcodes) mark a TeX group or no...
@egreg yes I just used \gdef\foo{} in my answer to keep the code to one line and save using \makeatletter (using \empty rather than \@empty seems a bit risky)
@egreg I had to notice, that your nice code for Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom does not work, when there is a paragraph or even a new line is in. The box will get linewidth then. Luckily this is only once in my real document.
@Speravir That's expected. All the text is typeset on a long line, as if \par weren't there, when the \sbox is built for getting the length.
@Speravir What would you do in the case when there are two paragraphs, both short lines? I don't think there's any particularly good way to cope with this case.
A solution might be to pass an optional argument for the test, so if the first line has to be short, its length will be used for the whole environment.
@egreg Actually I was not surprised, that this does not work with paragraphs, but I was because of the newline. Did I told you, that parts of your solution are Voodoo? :-)
The offending line appears to be \setsecnumformat{\relax\makebox[0pt][l]{\csname the#1\endcsname}\hskip\secnumlen} (secnumlen is the length of "00.00" in the section font)
@egreg Speaking of strange things: You use in your code the commands instead of the environment adjustwidth. As I adjusted this to KOMA-Script, I used the built in addmargin, and so: \addmargin{3em} and \endaddmargin, of course. But in my real document with lots of pacakges this broke while or straight after \maketitle. Alas I could not reproduce this until now in a minimal document, obviously it was too minimal.
@egreg that still doesn't explain why the heck lualatex doesn't have problems with my original file, but pdflatex does. That just doesn't make any sense to me
@egreg Oooh, I must correct: I now compiled my full document again with commands instead of environment and no error occurred! It must have been a remnant from an earlier compilation (no typo, this I would have noticed, when I changed to environment before).
@egreg Short notice in the beginning of your answer? Because I wrote a bit about the different environments in my code example. BTW I do not know, if memoir makes some redefinitions …
@egreg: 24x17cm seems pretty common. Is there any reason to specify stock size different from trimmed size? The print shop can always set it up for mass production, right?
Is it me, or is 24x17cm a very normal size for books? I looked at my shelf and I found lots of books right around that size - particularly math books
Any particular reason why you used \fixpdflayout manually? I thought memoir handled that itself. I think that's part of the reason why it loads ifxetex, ifluatex and ifpdf
@kahen it is quite possible, 17cm goes along well with the good line length, and 24cm is 17cm*sqrt(2). Actually, 17x24 is B5, if I remember correctly (one of the most popular paper sizes for good prints)
Life is unfair. While some people can vote 41 times a day, now for whatever reason I can't use my last vote, so I'm stuck at 39! It's a tragedy! :)
tohecz: Paulo's profile is a good calendar: (# of votes in month)/40 = (day of month)
I'm pretty sure I already spent all my 40 votes today (yo...
This does the job in 12 lines of code, giving a nestable environment and allowing edit racking to be switched on/off independently of the environment using \on{eddy}/\off{eddy
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{color}
\def\on #1{\csname #1true\endcsname \relax}
\def\...
I have noticed a trend that bothers me.
It is not uncommon that questions, especially of new or non-regular users, are of poor quality. This leads to the inevitable "what have you tried?". There have been discussions on that on meta I am sure.
However, I also see a trend of negative, or passi...
