Whenever a counter is stepped it is increased by 1. For example the first chapter is numbered as 1, the second as 2 and so on. What if I want to number chapter n by f(n)? In particular, I want f(n) = 4 + (n-1)*9, so chapter 1 is 4, chapter 2 13, and so on. Is there some nice way to achieve this?
@texenthusiast In this case one approach would be just redefine \thechapter, something like \renewcommand\thechapter{\arabic{4+(\value{chapter}-1)*9}}. I've already tried that with the calc package. However it doesn't work. I think it's because \arabic expects a counter name as mandatory argument. The other thing I'm thinking is something like patch the \chapter command adding a \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\thechapter}{4+(\value{chapter}-1)*9} just after the \stepcounter{chapter}
but this wouldn't work in all cases
so perhaps it must be something that redefines \stepcounter in some cases
@egreg In your answer somewhere, you use \tag right after the environment but before the the expressions, what is it for? As far as I know, the \tag should be used at the end of line but before\\.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
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mixed | 2.18%
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@Bugbusters \tag goes where you want it to act. If you put it before a \\ it refers to that line. After, \\ refers to the next line. But there's no required position.
@MarcoDaniel: there's a new card I added in Trello about a pull request I got. Could you please take a look? I'm not sure (let's not answer in the GitHub right now, but in Trello first).
@PauloCereda Hmm, I think, for this site, reputation requirement for uploading images seem unnecessary! After all, if people could write code for showing what they want (esp. tikz questions), they'd not have questions. But, I do understand that, this is good!!
Some image hosts are feral with hotlinks. If you get the link, copy and paste in the URL bar, it works (no referral from the URL), but from a context, it's considered hotlink. Again, not the OP's fault, but he/she chose poorly his/her image host. :) @percusse: where's the he/she ligature? I need one now. And some fries too, please. <3
@egreg would have required more emacs lisp than I used to change \@m to 1001
@egreg do you recognise this notation? is it restricting a 2-arg function by fixing one parameter if f|_{x=2} ? It looks weird to me tex.stackexchange.com/questions/109198/…
@JosephWright Mine came with Lion, and AppStore gave me ML for free. Just to be safe, I got the .dmg file from ML and created a bootable USB, in case I need it again. :)
we have new things, like tex/sx (whose reputation system i don't
understand, so i don't try to "answer" things). we have the old
original texhax mailing list. we've lost the uk-tex list (subsumed in
texhax), info-tex (subsumed in the upstart comp.text.tex in the early
90s, i guess), and so on.
Robin in one of the TL lists. :)
Rep is for fun games, like...
!!/battle
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The current score is egreg 275 vs. 230 David. So far, egreg is winning.
@egreg: What is the correct vertical adjustment for tex.stackexchange.com/a/109238/19356? The current implementation seems to work but the baseline is not exactly aligned as shown in the following screenshot.
@GonzaloMedina tex.stackexchange.com/a/109256/16595 is one of the decorations that shouldn't be in a postaction, then the not-filling would work perfectly if it weren't for the arrow.
@MarcoDaniel I successfully installed arara (which is really amazing), and used the following derectives: % arara: xelatex: { synctex: true }
% arara: makeindex: { style: stylefile.ist }
% arara: biber
% arara: xelatex: { synctex: true }
% arara: xelatex: { synctex: true } and this error can not be solved: \abx@ffd@*@labelalpha #1->\padded
{#1}
l.56 \endentry — Shea14 mins ago
@Qrrbrbirlbel Do you know why the arrows behave oddly with this kind of decoration? Is it meant to be applied only to straight lines? The following code shows the bad behaviour with arrows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,positioning,decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\fill[orange] (-1,-4) rectangle (4.5,1);
\node(n1) {n1};
\node(n2) [below right=3cm and 3cm of n1] {n2};
\draw[-latex,decorate,decoration={markings,
mark connection node=mynode,
mark=at position .5 with {\node [transform shape,fill=orange] (mynode) {Text};}}] (n1) -- (n2);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
@Bugbusters It's actually tricky to get completely right (you need LaTeX3 coffins) TeX boxes only have one alignment point so if you use [b] to put that alignment point on the bottom row then the spacing from the box above only knows there is a "big box" coming, it doesn't know the position of the first line within the box. So long as the first line doesn't have anything too big you can make assumptions that it is as big as mathstrut and it'll probably be OK in practice. (@egreg:-)
@GonzaloMedina Exactly what I was talking about. No, I don't know. I guess the path is somehow divided into three parts: the one from the start to the marking node, the one from the marking node to the end, and a zero-distance final part from the end to the end (similar to \draw[->] (0,0) edge (1,1);). Erm, now that I have tried your code, that I haven't seen before. I guess the latex arrow has a big left extension.
@PauloCereda I wondered about that.... but if I leave @action then I can still use % arara: pdflatex: {action: errorstopmode} if I want it to stop on errors
@PauloCereda ah yes, that's much better! :) kudos :)
@PauloCereda without this, the default rule can cause a bit of pain in TeXnicCenter, as pdflatex hangs and can only be stopped by opening up the Task Manager.
On a side note, you can create a pdflatex.yaml and put it into a personal rules directory. When ararasearches for rules, the custom directories have higher priority than the default one.
@PauloCereda I my opinion it isn't the right way. In the file latex.ltx you can see the default mode \errorstopmode. If you change it in the rule the default settings are overwritten. In the case of @cmhughes you need a new rule ;-)
@GonzaloMedina Yes, that's the problem with using at position 1, here I needed to use -1pt. Have you seen the second answer, it uses \pgfdecoratedpathlength which seems a more robust way to get the path length. :|
@GonzaloMedina Line 756 in pgfmoduledecorations.code.tex: \let\pgfdecoratedpathlength\pgf@decorate@totalpathlength. And it is even mentioned in the PGF manual!
@Qrrbrbirlbel hmmm... perhaps the one I first read was not that one... I don't remember that initial image. Perhaps it was the one from version 1.01 (but that one has more pages).
Here's an example of using the spy library that Martin mentioned. I've written a couple of styles that can be used to create an array of magnficiations, with an arbitrary number of rows and columns, placed on any side of the original image, with specifiable gaps. The magnifications will take up t...
@kan actually tracingall is a bit confusing as it is several different trace outputs all jumbled up (the clue is in the name) normally you want \tracingmacros2 or \showoutput the tracing of the line breaking is a bit more arcane
@kan well if a command like \` or \protect` (or to a lesser extent \MessgeBreak which has a different definition in every context what would you have it do?
I did search on here for a solution and I did read the manual, but i couldn't find an answer (or at least one that I understood).
I am plotting some data in a .csv file and for some reason when the x axis value goes above 930.08 it gives the error "Dimension too large". What is strange, though, ...
@PauloCereda I installed arara with the Windows installer. While installation the anti-virus program interfered and took arara.exe into its virus container. I informed the producer it would be a false-alarm with the information, that I downloaded from programmer's homepage (with link). One day later everything went fine! :-D
@cmhughes Yes, your Windows exe version does use the same mechanism like biber for production of the executable. So, expect the same issue, that sometimes the only cure consists in deleting the par<many-ciphers-and-letters> subfolder in %temp%. Also, for regular use I would need to set it twice (!) as exception in my anti-virus program. For testing I just confirmed the warning window popped up on every execution of both indent.exes (original one and in %temp%\par…` subfolder).
@PauloCereda Yes, that’s highly probable. The error message wrote something with “Windows.dropper [gen]” or something similar.
@cmhughes In other words: Apart from this all went fine!
Awesome image collection, two of the images are even semi (SIC!) on-topic here: Weird Animals.
@PauloCereda Of these two statements one is true, because one is the negation of the other: "An existent unicorn exists" "An existent unicorn doesn't exist". Since an existent unicorn can't unexist, the second statement is false. Therefore the first statement is true. Thus an existent unicorn exists and we have proved the existence of unicorns.
(From Smullyan's "What is the name of this book?")
The link given to BOTH the package chaptersx and documentation is dead:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B75n0wtctw00YVJGRmJ4d2FUajZyVFBPTTVPNGU0Zw
