@Nasser That's some awful generated code to boot :( Why would mathematica wrap it in \text{}? it's easy enough to try and recognize a variable like q1 ($q_1$) by regular expression
Anyway, would I be correct in remembering that it is not possible to query TeX over the control sequences it has definitions for?
I wouldn't say it's impossible in LuaTeX, but I think this might be a limitation of plain ole' (e)TeX
@JosephWright I think I know what's going wrong (again!): I have two infozip-s; one in TeXLive and one in Cygwin. The Cygwin one produces a zip file with unix, rather than FAT, entries. I'll send email.
When using the aiaa-tc.cls for writing a paper, the footer appears as "American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics" below the page number.
Is it possible to remove the footer so that nothing appears there?
Thanks in advance.
@Johannes_B don't know of anything. it would be easy to just run sed or perl or something over the bib file and generate a list of \cite commands then us an unsort bib style.
@DavidCarlisle I've discovered that TL2014 on Windows handily provides zip. That makes l3build have no dependencies beyond TeX Live, which is very useful to know even if there are a few Cygwin oddities! (Although I note you have no issues in this area, doing the sensible thing with that setup of sticking to Cygwin-only.)
Anyone know a good method of leaving a certain number of lines blank at the bottom of a given page? It came up in a question and there has to be a better way than what I was attempting. Also not sure if floats are the right methods either.
@JosephWright yes that's good which means you don't need cygwin and can just use texlive windows binaries, but If I understand @Brent.Longborough he's calling it from a cygwin shell and then things get tricky as you typically have the cygwin bin directories in front of whatever environment you have for windows, personally in that situation I find it easier to just go all the way and use a cygwin tex so its not confused over bianary and search paths and symbolic links etc
@DavidCarlisle that was what I suggested. It is for a copyright box at the bottom of the first page of articles in a collection.
this kind of solves the issue, but then every first page of a chapter breaks after a couple of lines, even if it should not contain the defined footer. Could I turn the definition after \memendofchapterhookon and off for different chapters? I also modified my question - maybe a cleaner solution would be to place a textblock or minipage or something like this at the bottom of every first page of a chapter... — r33ntry2 days ago
I try to make a copyright text and suggested citation as table, appearing only on the first page of an article, breaking the abstract to the next page if necessary. So far, I had no great success.
I tried to manipulate the footer on the first page, but this is not a very solid solution. I want to...
@daleif or maybe a simpler way would be to use \begin{figure}[!b] with the copyright notice rather than use \enlargethispage (which is a secret empty float) then use picture to overlay the notice.
@DavidCarlisle, I guess that is simpler, plus it can be automated. My worry would be if there are other floats on the page. But it is a title page, so the chance is small.
@DavidCarlisle The standard thing (IMHO) is to have a separate \pagestyle that contains the copyright, and issue \thispagestyle{copyright}\enlargethispage{-<whatever you need>}
I have 8 subfigures in each figure. I need 4 in each row. Based on a suggestion I found on this site, I have ordered it like this:
\documentstyle[psfig,eepic,epic,subfigure,pdflscape,natbib,amsbsy,graphicx,graphics,enumerate,multirow,amstext,mathrsfs,12pt,float]{strthestp}
\textwidth 5.0in
\setl...
@Johannes_B I bought three books from amazon 2 weeks ago. They are supposed to come in two packages. One has arrived ok, the other one seems not to have made it. :(
(@SeanAllred, you will love this story!) I was very angry in the morning because I found out Dell sent my brand new PC to be delivered to me by a bad carrier company, and the product got into an accident during the process. I was pissed and posted a tweet on the subject -- just for teh lulz, I added a #dell to the end of it. Surprisingly, there's a cool Dell bot with a very defective algorithm who decided I'm a nice guy for them to follow: @DellCares :P
@DavidCarlisle ok, thanks. As to 32 x 64 bit, that's another can of worms; my legacy-configured cygwin is still 32-bit, but I'm really scared at the prospect of changing.
Thanks for the question. I am submitting a paper to arxiv.org. It requires me to submit the source file because the pdf generted by pdflatex is not allowed. The arxiv site only use 'latex' and it does not load image in JPG format. So I have to convert the images to eps format so that they can be loaded into arxiv site. If there is a better and easy way to get paper accepted by arxiv.org, please let me know. — mike36 mins ago
@JosephWright Yes, I noted that and am seriously considering that path. But it would be nice to find a safe mixed solution. Nothing like a bit of hubris to produce a Greek tragedy. (;-)
@Brent.Longborough I'll do my best if there is a fix at our end, but as l3build is just some 'glue' to hold together use of existing tools we might be limited. Perhaps if I can think of a way to auto-detect Cygwin then some additional code might be sensible (normalise permissions, for example)
@JosephWright There's another problem, too, I've just remembered -- the test output files also have rather puritan file permissions. I've been hacking that by garnishing my Makefile with chmod-s, but it's really not satis.
@JosephWright No, I suspect that doing lua file ops under cygwin with the Windows version of texlua generates zero-access permissions.
@JosephWright The more I think about it, the better I like the idea of this logic: if (windows file separators and environment variable HOME exists and not ( cygwinok )) then error message and exit
@SeanAllred Only (A) is a real word obviously :) but a short phrase might be better. E.g., "Can you simplify your example to the minimum necessary to reproduce your error?"
@DavidCarlisle I knew it! TeX and Postscript, the obscurantist's programming languages. Not to mention brainf**k and, possibly, Forth or APL (aah, APL, he sighed)
is there a reason \includeonlyframes cannot include carriage returns between entries in Beamer? It would be nice to comment out some frame names quickly
@SeanAllred What are you using the executable .tex for? I use some scripts to run text files through LaTeX for prettyprinting, so I can run texprint file and it goes right to the printer. Not sure if that's what you're after.
@AndrewCashner A lot of my questions just stem from raw curiosity XD I have a similar script for a domain application here at work, too -- I output the filenames on stdout and xargs them to lpr -- what do you do?
@PauloCereda I think it was Dijkstra who said "APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection". I think he was probably right, but I look at R today and think "My God, what a bunch of amateurs"
@AndrewCashner For egreg and his friends, "innovative composer of the nineteenth century" is an oxymoron. Beethoven was an eighteenth century composer who happend to overflow into the 1800s
@Paulo @egreg It's just that Liszt's overblown show-off works are played too much. The "Annes de pelerinage" and late works are in another world, much more serene and beautiful.
@Sean: just to expand my Apple Genius explanation here: I was wondering if I could connect an iDevice to an Apple TV without the need of data flowing to my wireless router. The genius told me that wasn't possible. While she was writing some technical mumbo jumbo, I found out the manual online and discovered I could use wireless + bluetooth from my iDevice to establish a direct connection to the Apple TV. When I sent the link back to the "genius", she got speechless for a moment. :)
You can have plain text variables and different formats this way. I have a main var.tex file that includes this, a couple of common packages, a %#! DEFINITIONS line, and then an \input{format-n}. The program inserts \Set{var}{value} near the flag line and the input uses the variables with \Get{var} :)
@PauloCereda This was six months ago. I love Debian and am glad I switched. I bought a used Lenovo for USD80 and it runs better on that than it does on the shiny MacBook I had received as a gift.
@AndrewCashner I wrap it up in a Python script, but it could probably be done with sed if it weren't for all of the database garbage. After the file is created, you can just pdflatex generated-file.tex :)
ProCrastinaTeX, designed specifically for PhD students. Every third time you run it, it prompts you to ask if you would like to change your font again? Every tenth time, it suggests changing the documentclass. In --verbose mode it keeps telling you that writing in pure XML would be a more robust long-term solution.
"Modern Family: Snip (#4.3)" (2012) Cameron Tucker: Does this look like the work of someone who's unfulfilled? Mitchell Pritchett: It's a mermaid costume. Cameron Tucker: Hand-stitched from my own design. Do you know how hard it is to sew lycra? It's like sewing water. Mitchell Pritchett: Seems a little small for Lily. Cameron Tucker: It's not for Lily, it's for the cat. [Starts crying] Cameron Tucker: My master project is a mermaid costume for a cat!
@PauloCereda did I ever show you the sheep collection that M and I had? we had every possible colour (I suppose we still have but minecraft seems to be on a back burner these days:-)
@DavidCarlisle Let's say I wrote a document in LaTeX but defining macros to match all TEI XML tags except for <p> (e.g., \term{} for a technical term) and don't use any math or tables. Would converting the source to XML be mostly a matter of regexp substitution?
@AndrewCashner yes but no one ever manages that, the temptation to define new commands always wins. that's why it is easier to go the other way: write valid xml (where you crash and burn if you don't follow the rules) and the write out tex for typesetting.
@Sean: on a more serious note, it would be great if we could have some sort of social info of TeX people, say, gamertags, profiles, etc, so we can play altogether. :) E.g, @Joseph pwns n00bs all over the PSN.
In the style of Who are the package maintainers here? and other big-list questions, I was wondering who here (package maintainer or no) has a GitHub, Bitbucket, CTAN author page, Launchpad, or other place where they keep a portfolio of their code (some of which is bound to be TeX in this communit...
@DavidCarlisle Thanks -- would something simple like \newcommand{\fl}{$\flat$} cause too much of a problem, or are you thinking of more elaborate macros that include formatting?
@AndrewCashner I know journals have tried this, to accept author written tex and push it to their sgml back end systems, but authors just always add catcode changes or tikz or expl3 or or babel languages that make half the alphabet active or ...
@AndrewCashner well as a day job I don't use tex at all, but we write in xml and generate html, pdf, C, Fortran, VB, C# etc from the same file, doesn't solve all problems but it solves some
Does somebody step a counter each time a question of the kind »Can somebody help me to draw this?« is asked? Are there any stats like stepcounters per day?
Article of interest in the new issue of the Journal of the Society for American Music: "How Santa Claus Became a Slave Driver: The Work of Print Culture in a Nineteenth-Century Musical Controversy"
@ChristianHupfer packaging/Uploading the whole buch of files to ctan seems to be complicated (not to blame anyone). Markus decided to publish stable releases on KOMA-script.de. You can grab it there, or wait till somebody puts it on CTAN.
@ChristianHupfer We were talking about a facebook group, where Clemens, Frank and i are members.
@Johannes_B: Somehow ... but not really ... we are still cursed to watch the mail traffic, but can't do anything, apart from using 'comedy' as a playground ;-)
