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Paulo Cereda

12:02 AM

@GonzaloMedina LOL

Paulo Cereda

12:13 AM

Out of curiosity, guys: do you use WhatsApp too?

Nasser

12:36 AM

Hi. I need some help. I just installed TL on new PC on new Linux installation. I setup the path correctly. TL install went fine with no problem. When I now try to compile a latex file, I get this error

pdflatex report.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./report.tex
LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.

! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.

Here is the end of TL installation log
mktexlsr: Done.
setting up ConTeXt cache: running mtxrun --generate ...done
pre-generating all format files, be patient...
running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luajittex --all ...done
running package-specific postactions
finished with package-specific postactions

 See
   /usr/local/texlive/2014/index.html
 for links to documentation.  The TeX Live web site
 contains updates and corrections: tug.org/texlive.

 TeX Live is a joint project of the TeX user groups around the world;

Let me check one thing. I will right back....

It is not working.

>cat t.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

test
\end{document}
>
>which pdflatex
/usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex
>pdflatex t.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./t.tex
LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.

! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)

I think my problem is similar to this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/111853/… so I am now looking into it,.....

Paulo Cereda

12:56 AM

@Nasser Sorry to ask this basic stuff, but I think it doesn't hurt: output of which tex

Oh sorry, you did that.

Apologies.

Nasser

I found the problem. I had this
export TEXINPUTS=.:$HOME/
in my .bashrc file. I removed it and now it worked !!

How do you like this? I had same thing in my old .bashrc and latex never complained. Now it did. But now I can compile things. This is TL new, 64 bit, new pc, new installation

David Carlisle

1:12 AM

@Nasser if that is active nothing should work, there is no trailing : so only the current directory and your home directory is searched, it wouldn't even find article

@Nasser oh I just scrolled up and see that was exactly the reported problem:-)

Nasser

1:27 AM

@DavidCarlisle It might have been

export TEXINPUTS=.:$HOME/

that last "/" which was causing the problem. I remember editing this line, and cut stuff off, and left the "/", but I did not think it will matter. Either way, removing this from my .bashrc, now latex is happy. Very strange

David Carlisle

@Nasser with the / it will stop latex always, without the / it would be OK if $HOME was empty as that would leave a trailing :

Nasser

@michal.h21 are you around? I installed your make4ht on the new pc, but it does not know about the new "-e" option. Very strange. I installed it from git:

git clone git://github.com/michal-h21/make4ht.git

Do I need to do something more? thanks

@DavidCarlisle I see. Yes, it must have been the "/" then. My mistake then. But I removed the whole line, since I do not really need it now.

@michal.h21 see:
>make4ht
setting param packages
make4ht:missing required parameter: filename

make4ht - build system for tex4ht
Usage:
make4ht [options] filename ["tex4ht.sty op." "tex4ht op." "t4ht op" "latex op"]
-c,--config (default xhtml) Custom config file
-d,--output-dir (default nil) Output directory
-l,--lua Use lualatex for document compilation
-s,--shell-escape Enables running external programs from LaTeX
-u,--utf8 For output documents in utf8 encoding
-x,--xetex Use xelatex for document compilation

@michal.h21 I think I found the problem. Please ignore.

OMG!! The speed difference is amazing !! It is like 1000 times faster now. I can't believe how much faster the compilation is now.

Now I can make one large pdf and do not have to break things into small pieces any more.

David Carlisle

1:43 AM

@Nasser I give you a week and your tex file will be 1000 times bigger and taking as long as before.

Anthony

@DavidCarlisle Quick question, how do I get Latex to ignore the spacing with regard to minus signs?

Nasser

@DavidCarlisle I am now putting all my latex files into one latex file. It will be about 50,000 pages pdf file when done.

Anthony

Like the reverse of \hphantom

Paul Gessler

2:11 AM

@Anthony I think you might be looking for \mathrlap, \mathclap, or \mathllap (depending on required placement), all from the mathtools package.

karlkoeller

9:23 AM

@HarishKumar Probably you are interested in my new add-on "Floats" (it substitutes "Figures&Tables" and has many new nice features. winedt.org/Config/Tree/Floats.php

@David Oh, no..... I've noticed that you've surpassed me in the yearly rep league. I've been crying all night for that!

Harish Kumar

9:41 AM

@karlkoeller Hi Karl. I already installed it :-)

Thanks.

:-)

@karlkoeller: Just not allowing you to sleep! ;-) How difficult/annoying it is to develop a package manager for winedt that can install/update all these addons from winedt.org? I am talking about package manager similar to the one found in sublime text or emacs.

@karlkoeller: @DavidCarlisle is aiming one more place ahead! ;-)

@StefanKottwitz around?

karlkoeller

@HarishKumar A today's update has been uploaded with a few improvements. Uninstall the old one and install the new one.

Harish Kumar

@karlkoeller I did already. I am fast you know ;-) Thanks to your mail in winedt group. :-)

karlkoeller

@HarishKumar I don't know sublime text and emacs, but in WinEdt it will be much difficult....

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda Yo!

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar Hi Harish! :)

Harish Kumar

9:56 AM

@karlkoeller I doubted! :(

@PauloCereda Hozit going?

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar In a hurry as usual, but fine. :) And you?

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda I am fine too. little engaged with my mother and then children and then work.... :-)

@PauloCereda Enjoying Ph.D.?

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar Getting a little wackier than usual. :)

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda More is to come ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar LOL

Harish Kumar

10:00 AM

Hi @TorbjørnT.. How are you?

Paulo Cereda

@egreg: Fran added this comment to my answer: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/229394/… Any hints on a mutable version? :)

Torbjørn T.

@HarishKumar I'm doing good.

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda Ph.D. is something which can kill. If it doesn't kill, it makes one very strong (like a buffalo, Sorry) :-)

@TorbjørnT. How is your unanswered questions book keeping going? I am really amzed that one can do it like you. :-)

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar I wrote my own macro expander a few weeks ago. I fear nothing at the moment. :P

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda So we are growing strong :)

Paulo Cereda

10:04 AM

@HarishKumar Hope so. :)

@Harish: I'm still stuck with the arara manual. Hopefully the new version will hit CTAN one day. :)

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda Good going mate. While it is difficult to stick to time schedule in a Ph.D., one has to some how manage to be in time.

@PauloCereda Is there any thing I can do?

@egreg Good morning Enrico.

@DavidCarlisle Good morning David. You people are sleeping very late these days :-)

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar Have faith. :)

@HarishKumar Our DST has ended last night, so I won +1 hour. :)

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda I have lot :)

@PauloCereda What is DST?

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar Daylight saving time. :)

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda Oh!. So you have 25 hours a day now ;-)

Paulo Cereda

10:11 AM

@HarishKumar I wish. :)

One more hour dedicated to ducks. :)

Harish Kumar

@PauloCereda If I were having that extra hour, I would sleep (which is a luxury for the time being) :-)

Stefan Kottwitz

@HarishKumar Now, yes

Harish Kumar

@StefanKottwitz Just saw your blog. Thought I will try posting few answers if I can. Needed few details like, is there any thing like posting comments for a mwe etc there too. Is there any page that I can read to get familiarised to the site?

Why nobody is talking cricket? Today India South Africa are fighting.

Johannes_B

@HarishKumar Hi and a very warm welcome from me at LaTeX Community :-)

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar Yay cricket!

Stefan Kottwitz

10:18 AM

@HarishKumar There's a FAQ, but that's for the forum basis

Torbjørn T.

@HarishKumar Huh? What are you talking about?

David Carlisle

@HarishKumar what is that game? We are only interested in football around here.

Johannes_B

@HarishKumar The site works like any discussion forum. Posts, requests for clarification, discussion, all in a unsorted (well, by time) way. No comments, no upvotes.

Stefan Kottwitz

@HarishKumar All new features are explained in the Announcement forum

Harish Kumar

@Johannes_B Thanks. I already posted two today. :-)

@TorbjørnT. Your work on the un answered list :-)

Johannes_B

10:20 AM

@HarishKumar I saw that. In fact, i read (or at least skim) every post.

Stefan Kottwitz

@HarishKumar It's great to see you there again!

Harish Kumar

@StefanKottwitz Looks like a long list. Thanks. I will go through. In case of any doubt, I will ping you or @Johannes_B.

Torbjørn T.

@HarishKumar I haven't really done much lately to be honest. If you're referring to that list of questions I made (bitbucket.org/torbjornt/temporary-repo-for-some-links) you'll see that it hasn't changed since august.

Harish Kumar

@DavidCarlisle Foot ball ah! After all that debacle! ;-)

Stefan Kottwitz

@HarishKumar Don't worry, smart human writng plus using the code button is usually already fine. Tags, shortcuts etc. are advanced thingies

Harish Kumar

10:22 AM

@DavidCarlisle We are cricket loving nation. Come on :-)

South Africa 153-5 (33.3)

Stefan Kottwitz

@HarishKumar As people get (if not opted out) a mail, when they get an answer, some will positively surprised to get help to an older anwer and return. In any case, adding a possible solution or advice is positive for incoming googlers

David Carlisle

@Anthony not sure what the context is but do you mean $1{-}2$ instead of $1-2$

Harish Kumar

@TorbjørnT. Oh!. the same list, but I didn't visit lately. :-)

@StefanKottwitz Sure. Whenevr I am free, I will give a visit. :-)

David Carlisle

@HarishKumar I think I'd better get @PauloCereda to put your name at the end of Psmith's cricket results:-)

Harish Kumar

@DavidCarlisle hehe I support England though. They need all the encouragement now ;)

@DavidCarlisle The fact is, I don't watch cricket these days. Our players mint money like hell and quite often you know... things go enigmatic :)

Awow South Africa 153-7 (34)

What happend to them?

Good news from here is Almost 70 percent of our Ph.D. students started using latex for their typesetting needs. I am getting happier. :)

Paulo Cereda

10:30 AM

@HarishKumar Cool!

David Carlisle

@HarishKumar ... and the other 30 percent complete their thesis and go on to be awarded a degree?

Harish Kumar

And one of my B.Tech. student typed his assignment in LaTeX and submitted to me. He used exsheets and I was speechless and felt honoured.

@DavidCarlisle It was 100 percent some 4 years ago. :). Yes they do get degree :(

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar Did he use arara? He better had or else. :)

Harish Kumar

With a bad looking thesis and horrible looking equations. Mathematicians will commit suicide if they see those thesis.

@PauloCereda He used emacs and arara. :P

Paulo Cereda

@HarishKumar o.O

Harish Kumar

10:36 AM

One bad thing is.... some of them use lot of google and there comes both good and bad. Next plan is to go for a cleaning and good practices.

May be bad day for SA. South Africa 158-8 (36.2)

egreg

@DavidCarlisle I have the strange suspect that England is not going so well at the Cricket World Cup.

Harish Kumar

What the... South Africa 161-9 (37.2)

David Carlisle

23 mins ago, by David Carlisle

@HarishKumar what is that game? We are only interested in football around here.

Harish Kumar

@egreg I think they started packing secretly ;)

And gone... South Africa 177-10 (40.2)

percusse

11:24 AM

@yo' haven't decided yet. Currently I'm trying not to get frozen in Tromsø. It's a great place. If i survive dogsledding it's gonna be even better.

David Carlisle

12:35 PM

I nearly answered "Yes: in the upcoming 2015 release, to make @egreg happy"

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Q: Changing ( and ) to \left( and \right)

Are there any plans to have the LaTeX automatically read all ( and ) to automatically become \left( and \right)? If so, then when can we expect the update?

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