I get "There were undefined references" errors and can't fix it after two days of trying. I have tried switching editors from Sublime Text 3 to TeXStudio on a Mac, then trying both on a PC. I am willing to try anything at this point.
My test.tex file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=n...
I find we have several questions partly-covering this. Do we need to try to organise a 'big list' question 'How to set up my editor to run ...' with say one (CW) answer per editor?
@Johannes_B quite. Most interesting to me is that a few users try to stay anonymous but have such a unique way of answering that it's quite easy to tell it's them... (not mentioning names here, though)
@FaheemMitha \itshape is a switch: it switches to another font shape until the current group ends or another switch like \upshape changes it again. It has no argument
I have only ever used \textit (and \emph for emphasized text), but have noticed that in some TeX examples, \itshape is used instead of \textit. Is there a difference between \textit and \itshape? If so, what is that difference?
@cgnieder This may (and I think it is) dumb, but what if SE merges with other sites on multiple languages, so that one user can navigate through SE(italy) and SE(UK), this may be spread over the world! World Conquest!
One of the most memorable lines from the Lord of the Rings movies is when Gandalf stands before the Balrog and says "You shall not pass."
He doesn't actually say that in the book.
In the Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf blocks the Balrog saying:
You cannot pass....I am a servant of the S...
@cgnieder Uh... Maybe I was misunderstood. The language SE deals with Language Related Questions, but the network I imagined deals with Questions regarding TeX on multiple platforms spread over different countries on different languages. For example, in France, one user could see TeX related questions by the users on his state and communicate with other countries.
@cgnieder Talking about TeX.SX, now it's only in English (the most spoken language over Earth), but who said that one SE format couldn't exist by another language such as Italian, french, spanish, et similia?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Bengal 317/10 & 267/10 v Railways 222/10 & 314/10 *
- Pakistan 165/10 & 359/10 v Sri Lanka 137/1 & 388/10 *
- Australia Women 57/5 & 207/10 * v England Women 201/10 & 190/10
- Border 136/3 * v Eastern Province 134/3
- Easterns 89/10 * v North West 118/8
- Pakistan Women v South Africa Women 115/6 *
- Knights v Lions 77/1 *
Our cricket expert David might explain these results later on.
!!/answer question What is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
(according to Douglas Adams' humorous science-fiction novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
Alexander Grothendieck (mathematician)
full name | Alexander Grothendieck
date of birth | Wednesday, March 28, 1928 (85 years ago)
Mathematician known for his role in the development of the modern theory of algebraic geometry
Discovered the (script l)-adic étale cohomology, the first arithmetic Weil cohomology
Especially influential in the fields of algebraic K-theory, motivic homotopy theory, and motivic integration
Grothendieck's constant | Grothendieck's theorem
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
indium | group
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!!/answer tell me a joke
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode:
Tell me a joke.
Q: What do you call a young eigensheep? A: A lamb, duh!
(according to what passes for mathematical humor (my favorite sub-genre), drawn from several sources but primarily from P. Renteln and A. Dundes in their paper "Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor" in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 52, pp. 24-34, 2005)
I need to compile file using psfrag ans eps figure. I use texworks on windows and I have read that there are problems with pdflatex and I should go the latex->dvi->ps way but all I have found so far is not at all understandable for me... could you help me please? Thanks by advance :)
@FaheemMitha well, of course they do. It's basically the only way to go if you use PSTricks, for instance. Many journals have never switched to PDF, basically because it's a proprietary format.
many people also don't like that it's called "portable" while it's "stupid" in their opinion. You can ask Brent about it, but he doesn't seem to be around...
@PauloCereda well, 4 years ago, with Fedora12, I got some java that was a bullshit, unable to run 80% of java stuff. I've never managed to install the Sun java, so I just let it be. Gladly not many people use it.
btw, I got a nice metal puzzle for Christmas, I solved it, but then I was like: "Is my solution optimal?" and "Is the puzzle optimal?" So I wrote a nice program solving the puzzle, guess in what language ;)
@FaheemMitha PDF is now an open format, with a public specification, and now regulated by a standards organization (that's why @Joseph mentioned ISO). :)
@JosephWright yeah, because it's soooo difficult on any machine to install a second TeX distro along the old one, check that everything work (having the old one as a backdoor) and switch once they debug it
@cgnieder This is actually something I've been thinking about: some sort of TeX sandbox, where you can keep versioned stuff, so say, $ tool-name l3-stable will set the stable branch of L3 as default, and $ tool-name l3-nightly will make things bleeding-edge. :)
@tohecz Only a small number: most are happy with Word
@tohecz Articles are converted from Word (or indeed LaTeX) into a proprietary XML format. It's then used to generate PDF/HTML output using an automated typesetter, but not TeX
@JosephWright well, good to hear :) I would be basically most happy with the distros packaging an improved tl-install script that would be universal throughout time
@FaheemMitha There are lots of people with the same name on the site, which can be confusing enough. I can do a ping by user ID, so can be sure I get the correct person.
@FaheemMitha Think of this: TeX is a language in which @ has a special meaning. Think of the madness if any occurrence of it resolves to a random ping. :)
@JosephWright but sometimes it's more complicated than that. After all, if you rollback thinking the edit was bad, they wouldn't even know
@FaheemMitha btw, in chat, you can ping @Paulo more @Joseph people, in comments, only one person per comment, and remember that the Q/A owner gets pinged automatically
@tohecz Well if they watch the front page they would :-) Again, I think the idea is that it's not supposed to be 'personal'. If you roll-back an edit, presumably it's got some 'generic' reason such as 'All: I really did mean \relxa not \relax'
@JosephWright Message received! I've actually been waiting for the results of this election; our financial person has been after me for those names for days.
And yes, you can @-notify people who aren't in the room, but they have to have been in the room recently. (Otherwise if you tried to do it for "user" or "tim" or something you'd annoy and confuse a riot-grade horde of people.)
@PauloCereda Fun for a day: change your user name to »foo« (one for @StiffJokes?) and get a lot of confusing messages. The rest of the month until you can change your name back, well...
I have only ever used \textit (and \emph for emphasized text), but have noticed that in some TeX examples, \itshape is used instead of \textit. Is there a difference between \textit and \itshape? If so, what is that difference?
One of the most memorable lines from the Lord of the Rings movies is when Gandalf stands before the Balrog and says "You shall not pass."
He doesn't actually say that in the book.
In the Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf blocks the Balrog saying:
You cannot pass....I am a servant of the S...
I need to compile file using psfrag ans eps figure. I use texworks on windows and I have read that there are problems with pdflatex and I should go the latex->dvi->ps way but all I have found so far is not at all understandable for me... could you help me please? Thanks by advance :)
