@DavidCarlisle @egreg @PauloCereda @AlanMunn @Anybody @Everybody @Nobody Does anybody have any idea how I can grey out a column in a booktabs table? How can I stop \arrayrulecolor{<colour>} altering the vertical alignment? Or is my question just not answerable?
I am trying to construct a table in which some columns are displayed normally and others are greyed out. I am using booktabs rules throughout the document and need this table to be formatted consistently with the others.
I can easily grey out the content of the relevant columns. However, I'm ha...
@DavidCarlisle ^^ No. I don't want the space to be grey. I just want the rules and contents of some columns to be grey. The contents are easy. The rules ... I can do it if I split the table into one-column-per-table. But this is fraught. Plus, my real case uses tabularx.
@egreg Do you have an alternative suggestion? I want to represent: person A is constructing this table and starts by focusing solely on column k and ignoring all the others. I thought that greying out the other columns was an intuitive way to show this, but I don't have to use this if I can think of a better idea. (Or I can pinch a better idea somebody else thinks of ;).)
@egreg Thanks. Can I do that without making it into an image? I had wondered about this, but thought I could only do that if I made it into an external image.
@egreg I guess I could render 3 of them: text without rules; clipped black and clipped grey rules.
booktabs doing something a bit odd somewhere (although anything involving tex and colour in tables has to be odd in parts:-) probably fixable but not tonight
@cfr of course you don't have to use cmidrule, \hhline lets you change colours easily, but you'd have to adjust the vertical spacing a bit to match booktabs
@DavidCarlisle I don't need a fix tonight ;). I have too much else to do to the document anyway. So if you might be willing to see if it is fixable not tonight, that would be wonderful. But I obviously understand if not.
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so this is a table with a single header but two columns... How can I center the two columns under the header? As you can see from the example the two columns are shifted towards the left...
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@JosephWright Is it standard that one can't get text accents in \SI?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\DeclareSIUnit \czechcrown {Kč}
\begin{document}
This is \SI{1000}{\czechcrown}.
This is 1000\,Kč.
\end{document}
I'm writing the documentation for a package. The documentation gives an example use case. The use case sources are included with the package so users can build the example theirselves. The example uses the package I'm trying to distribute. Is that good practice?
What I'm worried about, is, for example, that I can't build my own example right now because my package isn't on CTAN and can't be installed.
@DanielSank Well it depends on what you are doing, but for my packages you don't need a whole document to see the effect (in the main), just a 'snippet'. For the one case where I do have a whole file (achemso) it's because it's a class not a package.
@JosephWright So the thinking there is that if my package isn't yet in Miktex or Texlive and someone wants to use it, they have to install it manually anyway?
@JosephWright I see. In my case, I'm providing a macro that allows modular composition of documents. It's hard to illustrate without a multi-file document.
@JosephWright Yeah ok. Can you point me to an example of an install script? Do folks use bash for this?
@JosephWright it's kind of amazing to me that there aren't macros already available to include a document fragment and make all the section/subsection/etc levels adjust relative to where that fragment is included.
coseoul sort of tries to do this, but doesn't go far enough.
@DanielSank LaTeX's as much a description of a document structure as a typesetting language: the semantics of \section, \subsection, etc. only make sense on a document-wide basis
coseoul fixes that by providing relative headings, but it doesn't provide a way to import a fragment with the levels e.g. adjusted down by one relative to where the fragment is imported.
I cannot think of a single case where absolute headings are better than relative.
@JosephWright I write an article about the Fourier transform of white noise. It has the format of an article. It doesn't say "appendix" anywhere.
Now I want to include it as an appendix in my dissertation. Attaching the pdf pages would not satisfy my institution's formatting rules.
Why are you arguing against this obviously useful use case? It's a bit weird and honestly seems like you're fishing for reasons to shoot this use case down.
@DanielSank I'm intrigued they specify anything for appendices: those could (in the past) have been say raw instrument output or whatever where one gets no option on appearance
@DanielSank It sounded initially as if you were talking about reusing text in the 'main body' of a document: there I'd be concerned that direct reuse of any substantial part would mean that the necessary editing hadn't happened
@JosephWright Well, I keep my TeX files very small on purpose, precisely so that they can be reused as needed. I do realize that actually publishing the smaller bits e.g. on arXiv is another, possibly better solution.
@JosephWright groovy. Energy focused as in energy storage?
@DanielSank I've written more-or-less the same introduction many times, but I can't reuse the text verbatim as that would be self-plagarism (and copyright is transferred to the relevant publishers on acceptance)
@DanielSank Depends of course on our subject area: I've got grant proposals and the like to do as well, but they aren't done in LaTeX and have to fit into whatever structure the funder demands
@DanielSank can't remember:-) but the requirement comes up from time to time and I've seen packages either here or comp.text.tex or in bug reports or somewhere (hard to remember them all:-)
When working with large tex documents I often find myself using search/replace to restructure them (eg. make sections out of chapters or subsubsections out of subsections)
Is there any way to define my chapters/sections relatively?
So that instead of
\chapter{one}
\section{two}
\section{three}...
I found myself changing text between sections and parts and between a document with chapters and another only with sections.
This means converting chapters and sections to sections and subsections and vice versa. Is there a way to avoid this? I thought about having relative sectioning, where you...
@DavidCarlisle That is not enough. I explain why in this post.
@DavidCarlisle @cfr In the post linked in my previous comment, I give a detailed explanation (with examples!) of why the usual modularity solutions do not work. It would be very nice if someone would please read that post and perhaps comment on whether there are existing solutions that solve the problems explained therein.
In short, suppose I write an article on subject X with sections A and B.
Now I want to write an article on subjects X and Y. I'd like to include the content of my first article as a section in the new article. How to do this?
@DanielSank there are two rather different cases, one on which the original article was written with no knowledge of the requirement using standard markup, but must be included unedited into another, in that case some kind of relatively fragile preamble skipping is needed, but if the documents are being written specifically for this use, just using separate files that are \input is a lot more robust
I am trying to construct a table in which some columns are displayed normally and others are greyed out. I am using booktabs rules throughout the document and need this table to be formatted consistently with the others.
I can easily grey out the content of the relevant columns. However, I'm ha...
