@egreg On the 'editing the thesis' point you've raised in today's chemistry question, : we've had this discussion before :-)
In my experience as a chemist, it's quite common for proof-readers/supervisors to have the drafts as Word files, and to make their suggestions as edits or comments. I make comments for anything substantial, but would edit for say a typo (with 'Track Changes' on). As most chemists use Word, that's what they know and are comfortable with.
Structure for at least some of a thesis may well be based on published papers in any case, and the 'boss' will have edited those pretty hard
@egreg I said suggestions: if they take them up or not is up to them. It's the same thing you'd do with a paper copy: mark things you feel need to be altered.
Almost certainly the Word file you get is not actually used by the student, as they'll have edited their version by the time you've read it
@egreg A lot of them will be typos/punctuation or 'this needs rewording, for example ...' from me
@egreg Different people ask for different things, in my experience. Some people much prefer it if I send back a Word file, even though I will print it off and mark up by hand first
What I know is that my boss (and previous ones) gets very annoyed if I try to send him anything other than a Word file. That's the reality. (OK, I'm not a student so it's different, but even so ...)
@JosephWright I was looking at the discussion you were having with @egreg. I understand both of your viewpoints. From one side, I personally belive no one should alter your work but you, but at the same time I do understand the necesity of "cooperation" and quick feedback from your supervisors
@MarioS.E. It comes down at least in part to what people are used to. You certainly do need not only proof-reading but also more 'broad' comments whenever you write something. It's a question of how they are fed back. In chemistry, almost everyone uses Word and so there are lots of people who simply don't work any other way: comments are 'track changes' in Word.
I also see the 'it is the student's work' point: particularly with non-native speakers, that can be a real challenge
@JosephWright If there is a requirement for the superviosr's permission, can you override it in the most weird cases? (Out of curiosity). In NL for example, you need an form signed by the supervisor but if you really push you can take out the mandatory sentence, This thesis is found defendable by Prof... (rough translation) and carry on. You will probably fail the defense though :) because supervisors don't make a big fuss about these anyway so there must be a significant problem..
@Nicola: I'm traveling today, but my dad poked me via smartphone that a package came in the mail today. I asked what the package looked like, and he said it was something written in a foreign language. I suspect your book has arrived! :) I'll confirm it later on tonight. :)
@DavidCarlisle I want to go and of course make you sign my TeXbook. :)
Why do I have the feeling you have a stamp written "Will sign this book for $5." so you will use it when I give you the book? :)
@TorbjørnT. Oh sadly I cannot do it now, I'm on my netbook now (I'm in São Paulo) and I had no TL in here. :( But I promise to try the code when back home.
I am trying to create a bibliography, using natbib, but only one of the references can be cited in my tex file - the others appear as ? in the tex and not at all in the References section.
Here is the bib file
@misc{Bates2013,
author = {Bates, Douglas and Maechler, Martin and Bolker, Ben},
...
@JosephWright Do you have a sense of what the main reasons would be in our existing closed questions? We kind of got focused on the TL issue, but maybe there are other closing reasons we should be considering. For example, bug reports don't seem to be that common, and might not need a prestated reason.
@JosephWright Perhaps, although I must admit I can't really get too excited about it one way or another. I've been active on the site for 18 months now and I still can't really see the point in closing in most cases.
@AlanMunn We may not need any custom reasons: my feeling is though that the generic 'it's off-topic' one that resulted from my last question was not really the right way to go.
@DavidCarlisle Also fair: it's much more important for SO than any of the other sites. I think 'tidying up' questions which we can't answer (for example typos) is sensible, but as I've indicated things like package-update-required would be OK
... I think I just don't buy the "stack exchange is so much better than..." arguments that prefixed the description of closing in those meta threads. It's not that different than c.t.t except with a newer interface and better search (but closing doesn't really seem to affect search as much as one might expect)
@JosephWright but if it takes 10 lines of explanation of why the question is closed and searching to find the duplicate and adding the links, is it really so much better than just saying "put label after caption" for the 10000th time?
@DavidCarlisle True, but for longer answers (for example a detailed explanation of why you have to have the label after the caption) it's not quite the same
@AlanMunn Also true
@AlanMunn The wiki-like element is good for longer more detailed points, certainly
My guide to using `PSTricks` and `pgfplot` Step 1) Look at manuals Step 2) Look at code examples Step 3) Run screaming from the room as your eyes weep tears of blood
I have a problem with this file tex:
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(1,3.8)
\psline{-<}(0,0)(0,.2)
\psline{-}(0,.2)(0,.4)
\psline{*->}(0,.4)(0,.9)
\psline{-*}(0,.9)(0,1.4)
\psline{-<}(0,1.4)(0,2.4)
\psline{-}(0,2.4)(0,3.4)
\psline{*-}(0,3.4)(0,3.6)
\psline{>...
@nuttyaboutnatty you need a postscript interpretter to use pstricks os latex/dvips or xetlatex not pdflatex or lualatex (you can use some limited pstricks functionality via pdflatex but only by it calling out to latex in a background process on a temp document)
@nuttyaboutnatty saying you need pstricks to work in luatex is like saying you need to make your fortran program work with a C compiler. There is stuff you can do, but you can't do exactly what you ask.
@nuttyaboutnatty Not simply. For some things you can use \usepackage{auto-pst-pdf} but this is not a good general solution and IMO should only be used in a pinch. If you want to use LuaTeX stick with TikZ and don't use PSTricks. There's very little the latter can do that the former can't also do, and TikZ is much better documented.
could it be that for some applications of mdframed (such as tex.stackexchange.com/questions/118565/…) pstricks is really neater than tikz (or am I just doing sth wrong) ?
what I'm seeing is a minimal gap (zooming into the *.pdf)
between the outer frame and the backgroudn colour of the title
which is annoying and I can't find a way to make that gap disappear and make the "glue" watertight
@nuttyaboutnatty That is just some simple box colouring you shouldn't really need tikz or pstricks, but it might be convenient to use one or the other. If you think tikz is doing it wrong you should post a q with a MWE
@nuttyaboutnatty It is always possible that you get 1pixel gaps if you adjoin two coloured panels, the pdf renderer is allowed (has to) snap the boundaries to the device pixel boundaries and rounding error can give a gap. The only way to not have that is to overlap them or merge them into a single filled region. But practically (except wehn making low res png or zooming in byond readable size) modern device resolution mean that a theoretical oixel gap is not often a problem
Open source viewers don't have the army of Adobe coders to code anti-aliasing stuff who are copy pasting from Photoshop and Fireworks projects :) So glitches are OK.
@MarcoDaniel another question: (ok, it's some sort of rendering / viewer-dependent issue, but still): I don't needtikz features; I only switched to it (from default), cuz it seemed to give a cleaner result (on screen). Is that me just having a false impression, or would tikz generally produce something neater?
(... and hence be recommended even if no tikz-specific features are used)
@nuttyaboutnatty Are you sure about that? In IT, many companies want Word documents so that they can just feed them into some software that picks out likely candidates. And in academia, we don't pay much attention to CV format beyond general neatness/organization/typos.
@AlanMunn dunno how Word could ever be more handy than (a well-done and copy-and-pastable) pdf
but then again, I already have a Word (libreoffice) template, but it's a nightmare to do even such a simple thing as change the colour of the (entire) table (at least in free libreoffice)
not only a nightmare, but - adding insult to injury - buggy
@nuttyaboutnatty What does 'handy' mean to a program? If you're plugging something into some program that extracts information out of it, Word is as good as any other format.
@nuttyaboutnatty People had enough of fancy CVs. They are not that important anymore. Any above average company is filled with fancy CVs that are not even read twice.
The HR department advocates clean sentences with almost zero extra words. Then you won't be wasting the RAM memory of the reader. No offense but they are around 256 kB.
Of course these don't apply in US. There you have to sprinkle the CV with awesome,fantastic, challenge... between every two punctuation mark including commas.
@percusse One of the more serious (but just as bad) reasons that's often used in academia is "they won't stay and we'll have to do this all over again". This is how mediocre departments maintain their mediocrity.
@AlanMunn Oh, I'm not cooled down yet. I can write yet another Why I left academia? article. But I'm out and actually things got better on a very large scale. But that's my personal thingy. So I better don't comment on that hehe.
@PauloCereda You duck book is already signed by both of us. :-) Perhaps I should get a stamp that just prints \signature{quirky message} ;-) Is that what @David does?
@Islands I think the fleqn class option is what you're looking for.
Installed Xubuntu 13.04 and vanilla TeX Live according to my directions; installed equivs so apt-get install auctex doesn't require dependencies. Worked like a charm. :)
This has nothing to do with LaTeX but I have to boast: MY SECOND PAPER IS OUT! dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.05.013 (Well, it was written in LaTeX, which is why the table is so pretty)
@egr @per Yep, my browser is definitely unsupported and the chat does not refresh. And not, I'm not really working, I'm on a conference in Budapest, and again I'm sick, everything hurts, and I probably have like 38C fever. Moreover, I got very angry at a restaurant tonight. Now, I'm off to bed.
@egreg Monitoring rainwater and seaweed reveals the presence of 131I in southwest and central British Columbia, Canada following the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan
@egreg Not really; The conclusion is "Not enough that anyone would have ever noticed, if we hadn't been looking for it". We measured about 5 Bq/L, safety regs say anything up to 50 Bq/L is fine for human use.
@Canageek and IMHO (I'm a mathematician, used to be a physicist) the fact that we are able to measure it at various places is not caused by a high concentration, rather by a very good equipment.
@tohecz Yes, yes it is. We needed a HPGe detector with 1.5 TONS of lead shielding and still needed hours and hours of measurements to get a decent count. Even in the seaweed where it bio-accumulates, I think we worked out that you'd need to eat several kilograms of it, a day, for six months to hit a noticeable dose...and it doesn't last more then a couple of weeks.
Hi, do you know about an English grammar checker? I mean a website or a program that checks typical mistakes in a text such as missing "s" (e.g. he speak) and other cases. It need not to be perfect.
well, I guess it's about time I upgrade to TeX Live 2013
"Due to the merge of the top-level texmf/ tree into texmf-dist, no upgrade procedure is viable in 2013, for either Unix or Windows. Please do a new install."
@DavidCarlisle The problem seems to be in the fact that the line before the first display ends at the right margin and somehow the glue after it doesn't get removed. If I add a % after the last word umaeoiuaemm, the display is correctly spaced.
@egreg presumably a hyperref special? I can't try the updated MWE yet that shows the problem as the update is still making formats and spinning my disk..
@egreg there was a bug report saying it had to use ^^ as previously I think it assumed some 8bit encoding so failed in xetex but working ^^ syntax would b e better....
I'm working in a two-column multicol environment, and trying to create pullquotes using wrapfig. The problem is, I'd like these pullquotes to hang in the margin: the left margin if I'm in the left column, the right margin if I'm in the right.
Is there any way to detect the current column number,...
I am trying to create a bibliography, using natbib, but only one of the references can be cited in my tex file - the others appear as ? in the tex and not at all in the References section.
Here is the bib file
@misc{Bates2013,
author = {Bates, Douglas and Maechler, Martin and Bolker, Ben},
...
