@Werner you think so? I must admit it wouldn't have occurred to me to vote for that, passing \begingroup as an argument of a command has been a common error since forever.
Anyone know of an online service where a thesis can be typeset quickly with Calibri font ( which requires xetex)? I have to submit in a few hours and would like to get it done by someone who knows how to do it professionally!
@Werner I tend to vote for questions that uncover surprising behaviour, or for answers that are better (or quicker) than mine (which sadly means egreg gets some of them:)
@Werner wel l not because of the package (you could have used l3keys to go with xparse, and I'd still have voted) but just for steering the OP towards that kind of syntax
I've got a standalone document that uses siunitx:
% subdocument.tex
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\SI{10}{\kilo\newton}
\end{document}
I'd like to include this standalone document as a sub-document in a different document, using the standalone package. Becaus...
I am installing 2013 now on linux using the command sudo ./install-tl --gui=wizard and it is running now. I was wondering, is there a way it is storing a log file of this output coming to the screen so I can save it for reference? I forgot to pipe it to a file :
.....
Installing [2212/2691, time/total: 43:56/51:48]: sseq [144k]
Installing [2213/2691, time/total: 43:57/51:49]: stack [6k]
Installing [2214/2691, time/total: 43:57/51:49]: stage [55k]
Installing [2215/2691, time/total: 43:58/51:50]: standalone [464k]
wow, installation is smart. It saves a log file on its own at the end.
Most importantly, add /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/i386-linux
to your PATH for current and future sessions.
Welcome to TeX Live!
Logfile: /usr/local/texlive/2013/install-tl.log
nice.
after installing TL2013, it only says to update these env. variables
Add /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/man to MANPATH, if not dynamically found.
Add /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/info to INFOPATH.
Most importantly, add /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/i386-linux
to your PATH for current and future sessions.
what about TEXMFHOME and TEXINPUTS ? these not used?
@Nasser by default they are not used as environment variables (they are used if set) the same names are used as kpathse variables set in texmf.cnf (it's always been that way in web2c tex)
@DavidCarlisle Thanks. I need to read more about Latex installation and all the env. variables it uses. I had to set these for using make4ht on my other VBox, since make4ht is not included in LT and have to be installed separate and it needs these 2 env. variables set.
I've seen many programmers here at tex.se, and I'd like to know how they view TeX/LaTeX as a programming language in relation to other languages, and whether it would boost my progress as a beginner using other (non-typesetting related) languages, that is of course in an abstract or semantic sense.
I think the questions says it all! :)
By TeX, I mean any derivative of TeX as long as the code is clearly a derivative of TeX, i.e. that it could belong on TeX.SX (and not pure Lua for example).
I'll give two answers myself so you see what I mean.
@Nasser programming on latex is like programming in the c pre-processor without C, it is a macro expansion language. It doesn't have double (or single) precision numbers available in any real way (you can fake fixed precision using lengths) it doesn't have structs or arrays or matrices or any other datatype.
@DavidCarlisle Thanks. I read some of the reviews from Alan's links he showed. It does not look I'll be learning to program in it. But it is good for typesetting Math, so that is what I'll keep using it for. I program now mainly in Mathematica (it is functional programming language)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- England 179/3 * v South Africa 175/10
- Netherlands 188/7 v Nottinghamshire 190/6 *
- Leicestershire 231/10 * v Glamorgan 265/8
- Kent 337/7 * v Sussex 336/5
Our cricket expert David might explain these results later on.
If I had the pretest version of TL 2013 installed, can I now (that 2013 is public) simply change the repository to the main one and perform updates in the usual way?
@egreg Thanks. After doing so and attempting tlmgr update --self --all nothing has happened after 5 minutes. Perhaps the servers are too busy right now?
I'm trying to implement an algorithm from a paper on streamline tracing on a control volume finite element mesh (Painter et al, 2012). One of the equations includes this expression:
$(\mathbf{B}^T(\mathbf{G}^T\mathbf{G})^{-1} \mathbf{B})^{-1}$
where $\mathbf{G}$ is a $n \times d$ matrix with $n>...
@egreg In the north/northeast region, is something very crazy. :) I have a friend who lives in João Pessoa and 25C is considered (for her) like a freezing winter. :)
Anyone know of an online service where a thesis can be typeset quickly with Calibri font ( which requires xetex)? I have to submit in a few hours and would like to get it done by someone who knows how to do it professionally!
I think the questions says it all! :)
By TeX, I mean any derivative of TeX as long as the code is clearly a derivative of TeX, i.e. that it could belong on TeX.SX (and not pure Lua for example).
I'll give two answers myself so you see what I mean.
