It seems common at our university to have the thesis in two parts, Thesis and Included Papers. Thesis has its own bibliography and the included papers have one bibliography for each paper.
Is there an easy way to get each bibliography to use the same bst file?
In bibunits documentation it says "To process your document, three runs of LATEX and two runs of BibTEX are required." Does that means the new compile sequence will be pdflatex(X3), bibtex(X2), pdflatex(X2), makeindex, pdflatex?
@ChristianHupfer -- nope, it's an "eastern bluebird". the same species as sung about in "the bluebird of happiness". (that's why the picture is so funny.)
@phell -- wow! it looks like its ancestors got caught in the kind of "black rain" that fell after the bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. (a tragedy i wish had never happened and hope will never be repeated.)
@phell -- yes, although since it's from australia, it's almost certainly just one of the unique endemic species. the poor thing looks like it doesn't have a separate head. very different from north american frogs and toads.
@barbarabeeton Frog trivia: the ribbit sound of frogs in virtually all movies is the very same stock sound from a particular species found somewhere in the US. And this species is the only that makes that sound! So all other variations are never really heard!
@PauloCereda -- that's true. a few years ago we participated in a "frog watching" project, to determine how local frog populations were faring. (not too well, sadly.) since it's pretty hard to spot a frog for identification before it spots you and stops croaking, the identification method used was the calls. those are very distinct, and from a count (or estimate) of number of calls in half a minute, a pretty good estimate can be gained of how many frogs are in the area.
as for animal sounds in movies, eagles are usually represented with a piercing shriek. it's phony. eagle cries are much softer, and the cries of the young ones i've heard is a pitiable whimper (feed me! please!). i've been told that the cry heard in movies is from a red-tailed hawk.
@phell -- that does make sense! thanks for scouting it out.
@JosephWright true although we already differ from what's in the manual (and I'm not sure he cares too much about expansion control anyway I think he'd say they made luatex so as not to have to worry about such arcane details )
@JosephWright althernatively we could just say that maintaining exact expansion steps isn't an aim, and make no change, but for the creation date, seeing as it's a constant it is probably safe
@ChristianHupfer Perhaps you can suggest a better approach to programming that section command. The \UnitLabel is more complex, actually; it includes a \texorpdfstring command for hyperref, and there are similar constructions for \Week and \Class (this is for a syllabus) that have optional arguments for a \marginpar date line.
@ChristianHupfer So it seemed simplest to define the label separately and then use that in the actual sectioning and toc commands. But then there are are multiple nested commands that have to be expanded correctly.
@AndrewCashner Well, it's difficult to say from a short description, there are more ways, for sure, but from my experience with ToC related things the best way is to optimize for the special request. You could send me mail with some code and perhaps a sketch/screen shot what you have in mind.
@AndrewCashner: The xparse macros should be regarded as providers for wrappers that simplify document configuration by using opt. argument etc. but they shouldn't be written directly to ToC etc., unless robustness is really requested, say, if the command \foo should be called when the ToC is generated, doing some action.
@ChristianHupfer Thanks, I don't know much about TOC yet. I just sent you an e-mail with a sample document; no worries if you don't have time.
@yo' Hello! I'm doing fine, reaching the end of the semester and planning for a summer term. (Thus I figured it was time to update my LaTeX syllabus class.) How are you?
@AndrewCashner editing yes, now no, I'll be in half an hour after I hang my clothes :) Working on tilings, not really, I shifted a bit, and also I'm teaching lots, so I have only little time for research
@AndrewCashner I've got a stage piano, but it's of similar quality to Clavinova considering action and sound. We've got some good Clavinova in my church. I think they have a very good quality:price ratio
@yo' For my office I got a simple MIDI controller; I use it with the free GrandOrgue organ/harpsichord simulator for class. But I can't decide what will be best for a home piano.
@yo' With stage piano you need amplifier and speakers, no?
Regarding: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/298859/centralized-master-bib-file-with-bibunits I read that you can put * instead of space in path. I can't add this as a comment becuse I am too low on reputation.
@AndrewCashner just had my 10-months-old nephew on a visit today. We had to do some quick fixes to avoid disasters. (And also, I'm buying plug protectors)
I finally figured out the absolute and relative paths. :) http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307005/how-do-i-enter-full-path-and-path-extension-using-the-import-package/307534#307534
@DavidCarlisle I appear to be having this problem tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50694/… but resulting from the file input loading when using the ltxtable package
Right now I have the file as simple as ghostbin.com/paste/a8sbw and I'm just trying to use it with \LTXtable{\columnwidth}{vartable.tex} but I get ! Misplaced \noalign. \hline ->\noalign
Because good design is 99% invisible.
So because they don't see it, they don't notice how hard it actually is.
