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marmot

12:01 AM

@manooooh This is the current output:

^^^ this is your screen shot that I tried to get.

manooooh

@marmot yes yes, I see the similarities :D. But I am compiling the source code of your answer and I am not getting the shapes vertically centered o.O. What am I doing wrong?

No warnings, no errors, compiled twice

marmot

@manooooh In the current version the centers of the non-electives are all on the same height because I thought, judging from your output, that this is what you want. And you are not doing anything wrong. In the pic you are showing the centers of the upper matrices are all at the same height.

manooooh

@marmot oh, but I want the shapes vertically centered. How can I get the current output?

I saw your inline comments in your source code but I do not see anything related to center the shapes

marmot

what do you mean by "current output"? The first picture I posted? If so, just add entries to the second matrix.
\matrix[manoooh] (mat1) at (1*\mymatdist,0) {
\pic (D) {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (E) {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (F) {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (G) {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (D') {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (E') {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (F') {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\
\pic (G') {nonfillable subject={Subject}}; \\

manooooh

@marmot oh, where do you say that we have to add these new entries, namely D', E', ..?

I do not understand how your code work

marmot

12:13 AM

@manooooh The code centers the upper matrices, i.e. makes sure that their centers are all at the same y value, makes sure that the bottoms of all inlays coincide and avoids to waste space (which is why you need to run twice).

manooooh

@marmot I added the D', E' missing:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[showframe,margin=0in,footskip=0.25in,paperwidth=54cm,paperheight=20cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,backgrounds,fit,calc}
\tikzset{text field/.style={text height=1.5ex,align=center,rounded corners},
title field/.style={text height=2ex,text depth=0.3em,anchor=south,text
width=4.5cm,align=center,font=\footnotesize\sffamily},
pics/fillable subject/.style={code={%

This is what I get with ^^^^^^:

marmot

@manooooh Your own screen shot, i.stack.imgur.com/TQOF7.png, has the same empty space, which is why I thought you want it.

manooooh

@marmot oh, sorry! I did not want it! The subjects of Level 1 and Level 3 has to be centered between the title "Level X" and the light blue shape

I will update the image

i.e. if they are not light blue shapes then the subjects have to be centered between Level X and the bottom of the orange shape. However, if they are light blue shapes then the subjects have to be centered between Level X and the lightblue shapes

marmot

@manooooh To be very honest, this seems a bit like a new/different question to me. I will try to implement it later.

manooooh

@marmot yes, my bad

barbara beeton

3:30 AM

@marmot -- No, i was actually commenting on the apparently "lengthened" critters hiding behind the larger text panel. Of course, an alternative interpretation is that they are stacked up like a totem pole, but just hidden behind the panel. (And of course I was just being silly.)

marmot

@barbarabeeton Do you know what gravitational lensing is? The true explanation is that behind the boxes there are small black holes.

Gravitational lens

A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels towards the observer. This effect is known as gravitational lensing, and the amount of bending is one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. (Classical physics also predicts the bending of light, but only half that predicted by general relativity.) Although Einstein made unpublished calculations on the subject in 1912, Orest Khvolson (1924) and Frantisek Link (1936...

barbara beeton

@marmot -- Aha! It's clear that something hidden is causing the distortion, but it's not clear what. Thank you for the explanation. I agree that gravitational lensing would not be practical on a basketball court. I'm not sure that anyone has yet mastered control of black holes. (I certainly never learned to control the one that I suspected lived on my desk at AMS, and now it has moved home with me.)

marmot

4:04 AM

@barbarabeeton I am sure that someone has: people in financial industry, who are very efficient in making my money disappear. ;-)

JouleV

4:19 AM

@manooooh So I have to subtract 3 from my previous number :]

marmot

@JouleV Two years younger -3 is one year older? ;-)

JouleV

4:39 AM

@marmot I am using this: myAge = (manoooohAge - 2) - 3 :))

marmot

@JouleV OK. ;-)

CarLaTeX

6:45 AM

6

manooooh

6:57 AM

@JouleV oh nice!!

@JouleV did you notice about the video of 3Blue1Brown about an awesome fact on how to compute the digits of pi?

@CarLaTeX :):):) where do you want to put the comma? hahaha

CarLaTeX

@manooooh Under the 5

manooooh

@CarLaTeX that would be fair for the entire number

Nice!

JouleV

7:17 AM

@manooooh Yeah, I received a notification about the video, but I haven't had time to watch it :|

4

I'm currently busy with @Sebastiano's nice question

manooooh

@JouleV is that the font of TeX.SE site!?!

JouleV

Drawing many icons in an extremely small size is soo difficult.

manooooh

7:45 AM

I want to write "[Month] de [Year]" in a document

But keeping the english babel, not adding spanish parameter

How can we do that? Of course I have \usepackage[spanish,english]{babel} and then \usepackage{datetime} \newdateformat{monthyeardate}{\monthname[\THEMONTH] de \THEYEAR} (from tex.stackexchange.com/a/212264/152550) and then \AtBeginDocument{\selectlanguage{spanish}} (from tex.stackexchange.com/a/431397/152550), but I am forcing to load spanish of babel, and I do not want that

Maybe can we redefine month's label such that each month is translated into spanish?

Using a lot of if statements, but I do not know how to do that. Thanks!

David Carlisle

8:38 AM

@manooooh if you just want the month why all the AtBeginDocument settings? that is changing the settings for the whole document? you should be able to switch to spanish just while outputting the date or if you really don't want that just do \ifcase\month\or Jan\or Feb\or ...\fi substituting whatever words you need instead of jan and feb

manooooh

@DavidCarlisle I want to write the month and year automatically in spanish without loading spanish. So you propose the \ifcase structure, I was thinking about that, but I want each month to be translated into spanish like "January->Enero" and so on

David Carlisle

@manooooh yes that's what I meant, just define \newcommand\spanishmonth{\ifcase\month\or Enero\or whatever-feb-is\or march-in-spanish.... \fi}

@manooooh but why don't you want to load babel spanish if you have spanish terms in the document?