This is not a duplicate of the linked question that shows how to get 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2 or 1,2,3,4,5 this question asks for 1,2,3,1,2 — David Carlisle21 secs ago
@JosephWright in l3packages xtemplate004 was the one expected to fail make.lua check? and make.lua ctan seemed to run without error resulting in total bytes=5597008, compressed=5342917 -> 5% savings
@JosephWright yes but we know that and it's better to check in a base result so if we do ever get round to changing xtemplate we see the resulting diffs against the current base
The \includegraphics command from the graphicx package provides options height and totalheight for resizing embedded graphics.
As long as the graphics file doesn't possess a natural depth, it doesn't make a difference whether the one or the other option is used.
Therefore I wonder why totalheig...
@tohecz would require a change to pdf or "inventive" interpretation of fields such as MediaBox though wouldn't it? although perhaps you could set ArtBox to be the part above the baseline, If the info is in the PDF, pdftex could probably use it... prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes
@DavidCarlisle but I would use it incorportated into tikz-standalone in order to be able to use TikZ figures easily in places like arXiv or like many journals.
I have a question @DavidCarlisle it is related to what you said yesterday
I have this snippet of latex : `\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm} \begin{picture}(10,120) \thicklines \put(0,0){\includegraphics{word07}} \put(120,120){\circle{10}{A}} \put(130,112){\circle{10}{B}} \put(120,95){\circle{10}{C}} \put(170,50){\circle{10}{D}} \put(40,50){\circle{10}{E}} \end{picture}`
@Alji as I said It's easier to use \makebox(5,5){A} then the A is centred at the specified coordinate rather than its baseline being at that coordinate
@JosephWright there was CVS although that predates CVS and it was RCS. I think Rainer gave up doing the cvs to svn conversion and simply checked in the top level files when creating latex2e-public, I'm sure he has the logs though. the changes file is though a better indication of who did what as we were using rcs synchronised via emailed pactches so each of us had our own master checkin and all activity would be logged as the local user.
@Alji if you use pict2e package the lines and circles are drawn using graphics primitives (pdf or postscript) and so if you go \linethickness{5pt} they will be very thick by default it uses fonts so limited to two widths. Or of course you could do what the youngsters around here will tell you to do and load half a million lines of tikz code which implements an entire graphics subsystem that would allow you to draw all kinds of fancy shapes with gradient colour fills etc
@JosephWright Rainer had implemented quite a sophisticated mail server hooked to RCS so al checkins automatically mailed patches to everyone and then we (got emacs to) apply the patch to our local copies and checked then in to local RCS. so basically DVCS before its time (and before UK was on internet:-)
@Alji It doesn't really matter how complicated it is (the code to picture mode is pretty horrendous:-) if you asked on site how do I circle a label with tikz you would get an answer in seconds saying you use \usepackage{tikz} ... \node[type=circle]{A} (I just made that up, don't try it:-) and then you just use it,
@Alji No it won't only with horizontal and vertical lines, unless you add \usepackage{pict2e} as by default circles and sloping lines are lots of characters from fonts patched together
@Alji which is why it's best to ask questions requiring code as real questions on the main site, formatting code here is a pain and it's better for chatting
@Alji It's the standard latex command to get bold text
@skullpatrol (I ask as the long division notation is highly dependent on location and culture) but in the standard and ams packages don't really support it other than using a array with \cline everywhere. There are I think contrib packages for long division (of numbers and polynomials)
@egreg well it works as well as can be expected I think, it arbitrarily chops some lengths to maxdimen but that's no worse that the existing arbitrary limits and the end result is a typeset tab;e that's probably too big but at least you can see it rather than getting a primitive arithmetic error
@egreg but I got a Necromancer badge for it as well so it must be good
@egreg only simpler because you thought you might get away with "use eplain" instead of the logically similar (and practically more sensible) "use latex"
@JosephWright AMSTeX was much lighter than LaTeX, as it was just oriented to mathematics and didn't want to do font selections. LamsTeX didn't add much and it had loading on demand. The big error was making it commercial.
LamsTeX macro package is on CTAN but is not installed in my TeX Live. How can I install it? Where should I put the files?
Note that, in addition, LamsTeX uses the index-processor and dvipaste programs. So they should also be installed.
@JosephWright funny: I just noticed the other day while looking round my local svn for a place to sore some longtable experiments that I had a latex interface to dvipaste, I had forgotten all about it (the program and that I'd written a latex package)
@JosephWright oh ok that's not only LPPL it's also mostly by Frank and Rainer the only reason it didn't go into 2e was space reasons, that's why it was made part of latex/required
@ClaudioFiandrino And yes, I definitely don't like that kind of usage for \ensuremath. ;-)
Did anybody notice that pdflatex in the 2014 version always throws a warning when the PNG example images in the mwe suite are used?
libpng warning: iCCP: profile 'icc': 0h: PCS illuminant is not D50
libpng warning: iCCP: profile 'icc': 'RGB ': RGB color space not permitted on grayscale PNG
@egreg :) As I told you, I was expecting a comment from you. Telling truth, I agree: coming back to the source code later on, it is far way better not having such macros. However, everybody has right to decide how to suicide, that's why my answer ;)
Is "place a sheet of paper over the projector's lens and slide it from left to right slowly uncovering the lens" a valid answer to tex.stackexchange.com/q/177383/3954?
I want to write a Latex-API on a Server!
It is possible to transmit all the data of document (picture, .tex and so on) through an string to the latexcompiler (pdflatex or lualatex).
Or shall the data represent by real file-objects?
@JosephWright He could encode stuff in, say, Base-64 and reconstruct it in the other side. But how is he supposed to write a webservice if he doesn't know the inners of the stuff itself? :)
@PauloCereda some people write web services that just push everything to wolfram alpha and hope something good happens without really inspecting the content of the request
@cgnieder code freeze for tl2014 is today with package updates from ctan allowed for a few more days so now would be a good time to mail:-) (<tex-live@tug.org>)
@JosephWright expl3: You are defining l3kernel.strcmp in \directlue. But this definition is lost, if expl3 is put into a format. Therefore the definition needs to be repeated in \everyjob=\expandafter{\the\everyjob\directlua{...}}
\newcommand*{\FixExplThreeLua}{%
\directlua{%
if not l3kernel or not l3kernel.strcmp then %
l3kernel = { }%
function l3kernel.strcmp (A, B)%
if A == B then %
tex.write ("0")%
elseif A < B then %
tex.write ("-1")%
else %
tex.write ("1")%
end %
end %
end%
}%
}
\everyjob=\expandafter{\the\everyjob\FixExplThreeLua}%
@JosephWright Of course, you can put LaTeX packages into a format, if they do not depend on a document class. The only problem is \directlua, because the Lua code does not get dumped into the format.
@JosephWright You can even put a whole preamble of a LaTeX2e document into a format. There are even some tools that support this (mylatexformat, ...). I think, expl3 should survive this, because it is also loaded by other packages. Then these packages would inherit the problems of expl3.
@HeikoOberdiek I meant 'I assume you want me to make sure that we upload to CTAN asap so the DVD version has this fix in it, so other people can use it'
@JosephWright If you want, that other people can put expl in a format file, then yes. For me personally it is not urgent, because I am using a workaround.
@JosephWright if it's just this then probably not, but if there were a lot of code you might want to not do it if it isn't initex (as \everyjob is dead code in that case)
You want the someone quotes the documentation of package `caption`? Here, the start of description of option `position`: "The `\caption` command offered by LaTeX has a design flaw: The command does not know if it stands on the beginning of the figure or table, or at the end. Therefore it does not know where to put the space separating the caption from the content of the figure or table. While the standard implementation always puts the space above the caption in floating environments (and inconsistently below the caption in longtables), the
@HeikoOberdiek yes but the LT version seems particularly bad, I was just experimenting with some possible extensions and thought I'd broken the caption code, but then saw it was like that already:-) (It has had hooks for caption package since forever though ) oh well.
@HeikoOberdiek, @DavidCarlisle Proposed new version of code in l3bootstrap:
\expandafter\ifx\csname directlua\endcsname\relax
\else
\ifnum\luatexversion<36 %
\else
\catcode`\_=11 %
\catcode`\:=11 %
\def\tempa
{%
l3kernel = { }
function l3kernel.strcmp (A, B)
if A == B then
tex.write ("0")
elseif A < B then
tex.write ("-1")
else
tex.write ("1")
end
end
}
\directlua{\tempa}
\ifnum 0%
\directlua
Obviously hijacking @HeikoOberdiek's test for IniTeX
@HeikoOberdiek That one I suspect we can live with :-)
@PauloCereda A Lua question: I'm trying to do something like foo = "text " if bar then .. "more text" end, but Lua doesn't like it. Is there an easy way to do this other than if bar then morefoo = "more text" else bar = "" end; foo = "text " .. morefoo?
@HeikoOberdiek On the other hand, it costs nothing so I'll add it
@PauloCereda, @HeikoOberdiek Next issue: how do I get Lua to return an errorlevel? We have a 'chain' of scripts, and they call each other viaos.execute so I want to be able to set the errorlevel on exit.
I have a document with some text in light colors. It's looking good on screen but I need to print it. Unfortunately, once printed on a black and white laser printer, the light blue is no longer legible due to dithering.
How can I render a document in which the text is going to be correct once pr...
@crasic oh you mean the third header that's wider that the column it spans? you just need to make the spanned columsn wider (if you are using tabular* you can use shrinkable tabskip glue to automate it
It's a feature of the \halign primitive:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\centering
\parskip2\baselineskip
\begin{tabular}{*5{c}}
\multicolumn{5}{c}{This is a piece of text. The longer it is, the longer the last column.} \\
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
\hline
\end{tab...
@crasic yes so i assumed but the last one is wide r than the columns it is spanning isn't it? (really this sort of question is much easier if you make a small example and post it on site)
@crasic if you make a multicolumn wider than the columns it spans all the extra width goes into the last column, as seen in your image: don't do that:-)
@crasic so if you want the heading that wide force the columns under it to be that wide (by adding \hspace{anything} if necessary so all the columns get wider not just the last
This is a revisit of Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts? that seems to have grown stale without any solid answer.
Just recently I was baffled by a user's ability to review a "First Post" almost 6 hours after it had been reviewed previously:
In my experience, certain rev...
It's one of those things were I'd post a bounty for a question (to get more attention to it), but I don't know what a bounty would do in terms of a bug in the software...
...they'll get to it when they get to it I guess; and it doesn't seem important.
@crasic just once per column so for example in the last case the min^{-1} column is too narrow but \makebox[half the width you used for the multicol header]{$min^{-1}$} would make that columns wider
According to the OP¿s last comment, the problem here tex.stackexchange.com/q/177451/3954 was just an editor issue, so I guess it can be safely closed? If so, what's the standard reason in these cases?
@egreg ...my question revolves around the fact that I was unable to review it 20 minutes ago, although the history does show that reviewing was going on unperturbed.
The \includegraphics command from the graphicx package provides options height and totalheight for resizing embedded graphics.
As long as the graphics file doesn't possess a natural depth, it doesn't make a difference whether the one or the other option is used.
Therefore I wonder why totalheig...
LamsTeX macro package is on CTAN but is not installed in my TeX Live. How can I install it? Where should I put the files?
Note that, in addition, LamsTeX uses the index-processor and dvipaste programs. So they should also be installed.
It's a feature of the \halign primitive:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\centering
\parskip2\baselineskip
\begin{tabular}{*5{c}}
\multicolumn{5}{c}{This is a piece of text. The longer it is, the longer the last column.} \\
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
\hline
\end{tab...
This is a revisit of Are certain users favored the opportunity to review posts? that seems to have grown stale without any solid answer.
Just recently I was baffled by a user's ability to review a "First Post" almost 6 hours after it had been reviewed previously:
In my experience, certain rev...
