TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Paulo Cereda

1:05 AM

So far, the best part of the opening ceremony is Gisele Bündchen. :)

Aaron Hall

:)

Paulo Cereda

1:22 AM

Could they please bring Gisele back? :)

Aaron Hall

2:00 AM

How long until the US?

Joseph Wright

8:13 AM

@macmadness86 Nothing to do with me ;-)

macmadness86

local typesetter/Gutenberger does not support fontspec as I though. Cloud typesetter does: This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99992 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex 2016.4.1) 6 AUG 2016 08:14
entering extended mode
restricted \write18 enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
**root.tex
(./root.tex
LaTeX2e <2015/01/01>
Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class

Joseph Wright

@macmadness86 Oh, that

@macmadness86 I actually was after a run with and without fontspec: I'm trying to understand how they've set up 'local' compilation

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}

Hello world

\end{document}

@macmadness86 ^^^ Would do it

Joseph Wright

8:35 AM

@PauloCereda Did you watch the Olympics opening?

I've gone for the 2 minute highlight version :-)

macmadness86

This is e-TeX, Version 3.1415926 (vvtex) (preloaded format=latex 2016.4.21) 6 AUG 2016 10:35
entering extended mode
**&latex local.tex
(local.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/02/01>
Babel <3.9q> and hyphenation patterns for 81 language(s) loaded.
(/vvtpackfile/tex/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/vvtpackfile/tex/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82

Joseph Wright

@macmadness86 Cool: thanks

Johannes_B

9:01 AM

latex-community.org/forum/…

Johannes_B

9:32 AM

0

Q: Math equations non italic

I am using \begin{equation} to write equation but it is in italic. How do i disable it ? The other threads all not for \begin{equation}. everything inside it is green \begin{equation} \label{eq:oa} Overlap Area = \frac{Area (Detection \cap Ground Truth)}{Area (Detection \cup Ground Truth )} \end...

equations

tex.stackexchange.com/questions/323586/non-italic-in-math-mode

Henri Menke

Hello everyone!

Johannes_B

@HenriMenke Hi

Paulo Cereda

9:50 AM

@JosephWright To be honest, I didn't. :)

@HenriMenke Quack!

Henri Menke

@Johannes_B Any ideas on how to improve my post here? texwelt.de/wissen/fragen/17975

Johannes_B

10:07 AM

@HenriMenke I have typeset one minimal example with ConTeXt so far. I can't give any valuable input, sorry :-)

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright As long as Gisele was in the highlights, it was a good abridged version. :)

nima

10:28 AM

Hi, I read in the extdash manual something about halfspace. I want to know whether there is such a space before and after \textemdash command in latex?

Henri Menke

10:43 AM

@nima There is not space added around \textemdash by default.

nima

@he

@HenriMenke sorry, so there is a emdash at the end of a line hence the following warning: Overfull \hbox (0.51694pt too wide) in paragraph. What would do? I thought if there'd be a thin space before and after that by removing that I could resolve the warning.

Henri Menke

11:20 AM

@nima Change a word in the lines, then TeX will reevaluate all the breakpoints. Or \usepackage{microtype}.

nima

I already use microtype

Henri Menke

@nima Then just reword the sentence slightly.

@nima Or if you can't for some very strange reason, add \looseness=1 before the paragraph.

@nima You might also be interested in this answer.

nima

@HenriMenke let me ask you, on your final compilation do you have these kinds of warnings which you neglect trating them? This \looseness=1 only applies to this paragraph?

Henri Menke

@nima I don't understand the first question. If I neglect overfull box warnings? They are obviously a sign of a poorly formatted output and should be eradicated for superior typesetting quality.

nima

yeah

Henri Menke

11:26 AM

@nima \looseness only applies to the paragraph immediately following the statement.

nima

ok, thank you Henri

Henri Menke

@PauloCereda All the starred messages including an image are images of ducks! What are you doing to this chatroom? ;-)

wilx

Let's say I am coding a tikzpicture. I want to have some knobs to tune it, so I add something like \def\chainshift{7em}. Is it possible to make the scope of the \chainshift macro only local to the tikzpicuture?

Ulrike Fischer

@HenriMenke There is an old question about the differences between latex and context: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29979/… which could interest you. (My opinion hasn't really changed over the years. I'm keeping in touch with context as it some parts is it better than latex but it is still not much fun and has for me the feeling of a propietary software.)

Henri Menke

@UlrikeFischer Thanks for the reference! I have just started using ConTeXt and have not yet understood all the concepts behind it. Why does it feel like proprietary to you?

Johannes_B

11:34 AM

@UlrikeFischer All manuals i have seen so far as well as the presentation slides by Hans are just a pain to my eyes.

Henri Menke

@Johannes_B I totally agree. They just try to show off everything they got in one document.

Ulrike Fischer

@HenriMenke because a small team decides what and how they add (and remove and change) to context (and luatex). Ask @DavidCarlisle about the incompatible changes in luatex 0.95, the justification was always "we don't need it in context". One shouldn't forget that pragma is doing business. But this doesn't mean that one shouldn't use it: it is very powerful, but one should realize that there are more differences than simply the names of commands and the style of arguments.

Paulo Cereda

@HenriMenke Those are my companions resting in my desk. :)

Henri Menke

@UlrikeFischer Of course, the recent LuaTeX changes bring a lot of inconvenience to those who rely on the exact interface, but in this TUGBoat Hans laid out the reasoning behind these changes and I consider them for good after reading. Also I consider it an advantage that ConTeXt is used commercially. This way the development has a lot more momentum a rich feature set establishes.

Joseph Wright

@UlrikeFischer A small team decide about LaTeX too ;-)

Paulo Cereda

11:44 AM

@JosephWright And one member of team breaks it. :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda One or two ...

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright :)

In other news, did you guys see this? openstaxcollege.org

Very nice initiative. :)

Johannes_B

@UlrikeFischer How big is Pragma?

Ulrike Fischer

@HenriMenke @JosephWright: I don't mind the changes, or that a small team decides it -- that's unavoidable -- but the communication. If latex (or expl3) changes something the team puts a lot effort to keep the inpact on packages and users to a minimum and to communicate the changes. I quite regularly see on the context list someone asking why something now fails and getting the answer "we removed this as we no longer need it" or "we changed the internal code basis".

@Johannes_B No idea.

Johannes_B

@UlrikeFischer Agreed. LaTeX tries hard to keep backards compatibility, whereas it seems that LuaTeX just has own documents in mind.

Paulo Cereda

11:55 AM

ooh I could write my thesis using XeTeX, it would be daring. :) It's like Russian roulette for TeX. :)

I LOL'd. :)

Johannes_B

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Q: Checking environment in order to end it

I used to typeset verse with memoir package using some heavy \vspace trickery. The verse environment was too hard to control in terms of vertical space due to the immense amount of obscure glue. For instance, whenever I inserted a centered line (header, remark etc.) within a verse, the spacing wa...

environments conditionals verse

@HenriMenke Seems like the following should be closed as unclear: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151577/…

Henri Menke

@Johannes_B Vote cast.

Johannes_B

12:11 PM

You have to simply love github and its users: github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV/pull/61

Johannes_B

12:35 PM

Didn't we have a similar question recently? tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228791/…

David Carlisle

1:33 PM

@PauloCereda you could typeset it using xetex. To write it you need an editor, I recommend emacs.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh :)

egreg

2:19 PM

@PauloCereda Gorgeous day for a tour. I'm near Aosta.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Capturing Pokémon?

Paulo Cereda

2:34 PM

Just got this email:

> Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research is an online international journal to promote all fields of Chemical Sciences like Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Photochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Biochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Agricultural & Soil Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry, Petroleum Chemistry, Forensic Chemistry and Phytochemistry as well as all aspects of Chemical Engineering etc.

@JosephWright: Aparently TCS can relate to Chemistry. :)

David Carlisle

3:00 PM

@PauloCereda GB against Brazil at rugby, now on I see.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle REALLY?!

OMG

HOLD ON

@DavidCarlisle: ^^ :)

egreg

3:40 PM

@PauloCereda No, sorry 😀 I arrived there through France, of course.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg ooh :)

Johannes_B

Does anybody see an answer for the following question?

2

Q: LaTeX document class for conference talk notes?

I want to typeset some notes I'm taking at talks within a conference. These are not lecture notes, and are taken online without being filled in later with information from textbooks or interaction other talk attendees. (Although I guess it's not a completely dissimilar kind of document class than...

document-classes

Paulo Cereda

4:00 PM

5

Guys, can I post this image in the "expert question" meta question?

Ulrike Fischer

@PauloCereda Shouldn't coffee have two "e"?

Paulo Cereda

@UlrikeFischer oh :)

@Ulrike: fixed. :)

Johannes_B

@PauloCereda I would say yes :-)

Joseph Wright

5:10 PM

@PauloCereda One of my PhD students is, apparently

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright ooh :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Ah, correction: he's going to go Pokemon hunting this evening

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Cool! :)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Indeed: I assume the King's Lynn area will be mined heavily for Pikachus

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright Won't you join the fun? :)

Joseph Wright

5:15 PM

@PauloCereda Erm, no

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright C'mon, man. :)

Alan Munn

6:02 PM

@PauloCereda I don't understand the "targeted for the community" part. And tagging is to a large degree irrelevant (experience users can retag if needed.)

@PauloCereda And the answer to "Is it clear?" is always "Yes, I know exactly what I mean." :)

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn I meant if the question was not target to a particular user. But you know, language barriers. :)

@AlanMunn :)

Alan Munn

@PauloCereda Do we ever get such questions?

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn The bloke in the meta was trying to write one. :)

Alan Munn

@PauloCereda Actually I think he was just trying to get any expert to look at his question.

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn I have no idea, actually. :)

I am still in love with Gisele Bündchen. <3

Alan Munn

6:14 PM

@PauloCereda Although she doesn't know about underfull \hboxes she does know about underfull footballs.

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn you are mean :)

@AlanMunn This entire remark is pure gold. <3

Alan Munn

@PauloCereda :) So does this mean I get a medal?

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn Yes, with the gold from Jules Rimet. :)

Alan Munn

@PauloCereda Surely that's the wrong kind of football.

Paulo Cereda

@AlanMunn There's that girl ~~aspiration~~ ~~belief~~ ~~confidence~~ ~~desire~~ ~~expectation~~ ~~faith~~ ~~goal~~ ~~optmism~~ ~~promise~~ ~~prospect~~ ~~Hans~~ Hope Solo.

Alan Munn

6:21 PM

yesterday, by 0celo7

what a weird place

Paulo Cereda

Jul 25 at 14:58, by Paulo Cereda

@Johannes: I went to the Gaming chatroom to see about a flagged message, and said a couple of random duck-related sentences. After I left, someone wrote, That guy is weird. :)

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Joseph Wright

6:46 PM

@PauloCereda Quack quack quack?

Paulo Cereda

7:36 PM

@JosephWright Something along these lines, yes. :)

R. Schumacher

7:56 PM

@PauloCereda Offer up some mathematics about gaming and they will really call you weird. By the way the duck is very happy in his new home. He holds high ground and provided constant visual supervision of the grandkids when they are in my office. Thanks again.

Ulrike Fischer

@PauloCereda The classical duck sketch in german is youtube.com/watch?v=0jOtOIOX3RI. It contains the well known phrases "Wenn Sie die Ente hereinlassen, lasse ich das Wasser heraus." and "Die Ente bleibt draußen!" People are putting rubber ducks on Loriots grave because of them. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herren_im_Bad.

egreg

8:10 PM

@PauloCereda The final count said 762 km. :) But the greatest part was motorway. :( Three big mountain passes: Moncenisio (2083 m), Iseran (2770 m) and Piccolo San Bernardo (2188 m). But I started from near Genoa, just 220 km to Turin. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_de_l%27Iseran It's the highest paved pass in the Alps.

@PauloCereda Oh, and a “Stazione di servizio” on the motorway offered a “Cereda Sandwich”.

Joseph Wright

@egreg Eeek

Alan Munn

@egreg Roast duck, I presume?

egreg

@AlanMunn I didn't investigate

@AlanMunn @JosephWright The menu said “multicereals”

Joseph Wright

8:52 PM

> The women's epee final is currently under way - it will be gold for either Italy or HUngary.

@egreg ^^^

(From the BBC live feed)

Right, the unanswered ...

I'll be about for about an hour

egreg

@JosephWright :(

OT: solved with update

1

Q: Error using 'register' package

I've run into the following error with the register package that I believe to actually be an issue with the .sty itself but have limited enough experience debugging that I'd like to throw this out there. The \regfield command takes arguments specifing the width, offset, and reset value of the fi...

registers

Not reproducible: unclear

1

Q: ! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined

I'm new to Latex espacially Beamer, I am working on my Thesis presentation in French and these letters always give me a hard time since yesterday when I compile that error in the title occurs, I replaced utf8 by utf8x, still no changes, I added this \usepackage{newunicodechar} \DeclareUnicodeC...

beamer unicode input-encodings

Too broad

1

Q: I am trying to draw a DNA sequence with a point mutaion

I am trying to draw the following: met thr glu tyr lys leu val val val gly ala gly gly ORF ATG ACG GAA TAT AAG CTG GTG GTG GTG GGC GCC GGC GGT TAC TGC CTT ATA TTC GAC CAC CAC CAC CCG CGG CCG CCA * ...

graphics

No example, unclear

1

Q: Enforce lower caps on hyperrefs

I adapted this command from a post on this forum and have been using it to list the section name (through labels). \newcommand*{\fullref}[1]{\hyperref[{#1}]{ \nameref*{#1}}} Is there a way to force the printed hyper references to be lower-case? I tried something like \MakeLowercase{\fullref{s...

hyperref

One vote here, please (I'm rep capped, don't worry)

2

Q: Elzevier Caps Regular (font)

I have found a new and wonderful font. According to the website, "Elzevier Caps Regular is part of TeX Live". This is my Tex-verion: root@basip:~# tex --version TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) kpathsea version 6.1.0 Copyright 2012 D.E. Knuth. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this so...

fonts

Joseph Wright

9:26 PM

@egreg Already done

cfr

9:58 PM

Unclear code fragment:

0

Q: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. Error on \maketitle

I'm getting the error, and it is because of the following definition of "\maketitle", but I cannot figure out which part is incorrect. \def\maketitle{\par \begingroup \def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}} \def\@makefnmark{\hbox to 0pt{$^{\@thefnmark}$\hss}} \if@twocolumn \twoc...

errors

Unclear?

3

Q: Where to put tfm and gf files

I am working on custom logo with MetaFont. I build logo.tfm and logo.600gf files but TeX or DviView ignore these. They try to build the font on the fly failing. What can I Do?

fonts texmf

Can @DavidCarlisle or somebody answer this properly?

2

Q: Alignment of TikZ Pics in TabularX

What is the easiest way to get that last square aligned the same was as the first two? Do I need to create a \newcolumntype that somehow centers the content both vertically and horizontally? If so, how do I do that? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{tabularx} \newcolumntype...

tikz-pgf vertical-alignment tabularx

Or is the suggestion I gave the best option?

egreg

OT: not reproducible

1

Q: Why are letters dissapearing when document is sent to the printer. MTPRO2

Whenever I send pdf-documents typeset with MTPRO2 (it only happens for MTPRO2) to be printed, certain combination of letters will disappear from the print, so far, I have only found that this happens to double fs. For instance, if the word differential was contained in a document sent to the prin...

fonts printing mtpro

cfr

Unclear:

1

Q: Odd behavior of tikz in beamer style

I want to create my own beamer style for my presentations, and I follow this link to do so. I change the title page template as following \defbeamertemplate*{title page}{texsx}[1][] { \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture] \node(title)[anchor=north, below = 0.1\textheight of...

tikz-pgf beamer positioning

egreg

One vote here, please

1

Q: Problems typing in russian

I'm trying to make a LaTeX file in Russian. I wrote the following: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[english,russian]{babel} \usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \begin{document} Тест \end{document} But i got error Im had tried install some packages but it's does ...

languages

This is due to updating unicode-math over an older TeX distribution with an outdated XeTeX: OT

1

Q: I am running this code but it gives error that i can't understand

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes} \setmathfont{TeX Gyre Termes Math} \begin{document} Linear equation $\sqrt{x+y}=2$ \end{document} When i run this code it with xelatex it gives the follwing error "(Font) OMX/cm...

xetex tex-gyre-math

David Carlisle

10:18 PM

@cfr It's probably easiest here, OP seems happy anyway

cfr

Off-topic:

2

Q: SOLVED - Knitr/pandoc bibliography problem

I would try to convert the way I write my scientific articles from Sweave/LaTeX to knitr/pandoc. I've been able to reproduce almost everithing with the exceptions of the references. I googled a lot and I read the official and unofficial guide to the pandoc references but I've not yet found the ri...

bibliographies knitr pandoc

@DavidCarlisle You mean in the sense that they didn't complain?

egreg

One vote here for my crystal ball

1

Q: Extra space before the first row of an array

Why is there so much space before my array's first row? How can I fix it (as I don't believe that this is its default behaviour)? \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{parskip} \setlength{\parindent}{0cm} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[english,greek]{babel} \usepackage[fleqn]{amsma...

arrays

Kurt

What to do with this question (see comments, op no longer interested in an answer!):

0

Q: How I can use wingdings characters on PDFLaTeX document (and not on Luatex or Xelatex)?

I want put some wingdings symbol in line of my document. But, I found some answer of this question concern only LuaTeX et XeLaTeX and don't work on PdfLaTeX engine. I use this simple code for some test: % ---------------------------------------------------- \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,openany...

pdftex

cfr

Unclear:

0

Q: Indenting suddenly stops after first subsection

I am writing my dissertation using TeXworks and I wanted every new paragraph to begin with an indent. This works fine for the first written subsection but then the indenting suddenly stops for the rest of the chapters/subsections (i.e the indenting appears for 3 pages and stops for the remaining ...

indentation

@Kurt The question is perfectly valid. Whether the OP cares about it or not is irrelevant, isn't it? It could be answered as it stands. (Of course, people may be less motivated to answer it if the OP no longer cares, but that doesn't make questions and answers invalid.)

Kurt

10:35 PM

@cfr I was not sure, therefore I asked here. Thanks!

cfr

@Kurt Is Wingdings different from Wingding? I actually have the latter installed for use with pdfTeX. If anybody ever shows any interest in the question, I could post the method I used, I expect.

@Kurt Actually, I have Wingdings. Just the directory/packages is wingding. I have 1, 2 and 3, it seems in truetype format with matching TFMs etc.

@Kurt Others may disagree with me ;).

Alan Munn

@Kurt It's not a great question, but it also seems like there's probably an answer that would be useful to others.

Kurt

@cfr No, I think the font wingdings or wingding are the same. I heard both variants for the same font from my students ...

Alan Munn

@cfr Where did it come from?

Kurt

@cfr The correct name of the windows font is wingdings, I just checked it ...

@AlanMunn Well, my idea was to close it because the zip file seems to contain all what is needed, but the op was not able to install it. Because there were no reactions from others I think it is not very interesting to other users ...

Alan Munn

10:56 PM

@Kurt Right, but if the zip file is all that is needed, perhaps adding an answer on how to install it would be sufficient.

Kurt

@AlanMunn Well, I'm using windows here with MiKTeX, I do not use TeX Live. Therefore I do not know the needed commands/changings :-(

cfr

11:52 PM

@AlanMunn The font? Or the directory? The font is either from Mac or a version of Word I had, I guess. (I think.) The directory I probably named according to the Berry schema etc., if applicable, or invented something, if I couldn't find anything. Why?

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