TeX, LaTeX and Friends

12:50 AM

Try `\tikzset{
text field/.style={text height=1.5ex,align=center,rounded corners},
title field/.style={text height=3.14ex,text depth=0em,anchor=south,text
width=5cm,align=center,font=\footnotesize\sffamily},
pics/fillable elective subject/.style={code={%
\node[text field] (-TF)
{\hspace*{-0.5em}\TextField[align=1,name=#1-day,width=1em,charsize=7pt,maxlen=2,bordercolor={1 1 1}]~~/\hspace*{-0.15em}\TextField[align=1,name=#1-month,width=1em,charsize=7pt,maxlen=2,bordercolor={1 1 1}]~~/\hspace*{-0em}\TextField[align=1,name=#1-year,width=2em,charsize=7pt,maxlen=4,bordercolor={1 1 1}]{}~};

manooooh

1:01 AM

@marmot that worked, thank you!! However, do you remember that we have another pics? For example fillable subject or nonfillable subject; now their title is shifted too (because text height and text depth are used in that pics) but I do not want that

Maybe creating a new style for this elective subjects will fix this issue

(Remember that this requirement is part of the question, but I accepted your answer because I have made a mistake in the final result)

marmot

You only need two different styles, `fillable title field` and `nonfillable title field` that you apply in either case, something like `\tikzset{
text field/.style={text height=1.5ex,align=center,rounded corners},
fillable title field/.style={text height=3.14ex,text depth=0em,anchor=south,text
width=5cm,align=center,font=\footnotesize\sffamily},
nonfillable title field/.style={text height=2ex,text depth=0.4em,anchor=south,text
width=5cm,align=center,font=\footnotesize\sffamily},
pics/fillable elective subject/.style={code={%

manooooh

@marmot thanks a lot!

marmot

1:16 AM

@manooooh You're welcome! At a given point when I have a fuller picture I plan to clean up the last answer such that the user only has to use commands like \AddMatrix and \AddInlay and TikZ does the rest. I believe that this may have wider applications because a problem with TikZ is that one does not have commands like \vfill and \hfill that one can use outside. However, with the tricks used in the answer one can effectively get something close to those.

manooooh

1:42 AM

@marmot so you want to automate things even more, huh? I am already satisfied, but you can improve the answer whenever you want

marmot

@manooooh Yes, I have several such plans but not the skills so no real progress. (Also the communication with the real developers of TikZ is stuck, and I have too much real work, so things do not move. In principle I want to add more support for 3d drawing, too, and was starting to collect the libraries necessary to compile the examples in the pgfmanual but I cannot handle all these sourceforge thingies so nothing happened... :-(

JouleV

4:30 AM

Hmm, it seems that SE is currently offline

JouleV

4:40 AM

(4:40 am UTC) At last it's back...

@KJO @AlanMunn Of course. But it seems that KJO has read the tour page (thus 1/1) but he is not awarded!

KJO

5:02 AM

@JouleV I skimmed that page Aug. last year so it was registered but its fair to say I'm uninformed as far as tex goes :-)

David Carlisle

7:55 AM

@UlrikeFischer I assume Segmentation fault (core dumped) is not good?

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle you mean my question yesterday? No but sometime around midnight I realized that the difference between article and scrartcl is the default font size, and that it is not so good to try to use a 10pt font in some lua code that hasn't been loaded yet ...

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer yes, just catching up. (it would be good if it didn't segfault though:-)

Ulrike Fischer

@DavidCarlisle the documentation warns you that you can mess up everything if you get the nodes wrong ;-(. @JosephWright there is meeting today?

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer that's the problem with reading documentation. Now you blame yourself. if you didn't read such things you'd naturally blame a segfault on a system bug.

manooooh

Hello everyone!

Ulrike Fischer

8:06 AM

@DavidCarlisle ;-). I didn't really realized that I had a segfault. I didn't get any error message like with the localleftbox error, it simply quit.

Joseph Wright

@UlrikeFischer There should be, but I might be busy: things look a bit tricky at work

David Carlisle

@UlrikeFischer I'm not sure windows kernel really traps those errors with the name "segmentation fault" but it probably put a memory exception error message into the system log in some inaccessible place:-)

JouleV

@manooooh Hello!

manooooh

In one of @CarLaTeX answers I can see that to emphasize she used _ command, and it works. However, I could find at least two more ways to emphasize something: 1) Ctrl+I (suggested to the pop-up when passing the cursor through I button) and it produces *emphasized text*; 2) <em>...</em> (suggested to the pop-up when passing the cursor through I button)

So my question is, why so many different ways? Are they all equivalent, or is there one that is "preferred" over another?

David Carlisle

@manooooh yes (I always use _)

@manooooh because people designing markdown tried to make several similar wiki like syntaxes "just work"

JouleV

8:13 AM

@manooooh _ is like \textit{} in LaTeX, while the rest are like \emph{} in LaTeX. They are similar, not the same.

manooooh

@DavidCarlisle ok, for some reason in particular?

@JouleV what are the differences?

Yes I know that there is a topic about \textit{} vs. \emph{}

Ulrike Fischer

8:27 AM

@JosephWright Ah. Well give notice when you know.

CarLaTeX

Shouldn't this post:tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8170/… be on the main site?

Joseph Wright

@CarLaTeX That one is tricky; it's not a technical question per se

manooooh

@CarLaTeX I had thought the same thing, but I did not want to say anything

CarLaTeX

@JosephWright It's a bit borderline

Joseph Wright

@CarLaTeX Exactly: I guess it 'goes with' the other meta questiosn about bug reporting

manooooh

8:40 AM

@CarLaTeX uhh it is in the limit. I like the limits :D

Paulo Cereda

4

I miss Jake, our resident owl :(

David Carlisle

@manooooh no:-)

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh a no

manooooh

@marmot just to let you know, in your answer I can't increase the node distance; try to change \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=3.14cm] to e.g. \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=5cm]

Paulo Cereda

8:56 AM

@manooooh because node distance is never needed (you could even remove it). There is a couple of helper macros that contain the calculated (and needed) distances.

manooooh

@PauloCereda thank you! In previous questions, changing that number would put the nodes further apart. Do you know what the macros are? I tried to change the values of \pgfmathsetmacro{\mywidth}{0} and \def\mymatdist{150pt} but the nodes are in the same position :(

Paulo Cereda

@manooooh sorry, cannot help you now. :( Must dash, I have a lot of things to do today.

manooooh

Ok, I will consider your suggestion to look at the macros to see if I find something

@marmot @PauloCereda I think I found it: the command is fit dist/.initial=20pt

alfred

9:55 AM

@UlrikeFischer It was actually some local copy, moved the .tex to another folder and it worked

mickep

@PauloCereda I cannot stop looking at that owl!

alfred

10:10 AM

\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\kant[1-3]
\end{document}

JouleV

1:32 PM

I see that the Low Quality Posts has a red dot but there are nothing to review. What does that mean?

samcarter

@JouleV That's more or less normal. The numbers of open reviews denoted by the circles seem to be heavily cached. So all the reviews might have already been done some time ago

@JouleV How do you do the dark mode? With user scripts?

JouleV

@samcarter I use this answer

210

A: Why is there no dark theme on SO?

If you prefer browsing Stack Overflow with a dark theme (I do!), you can tell your browser to do so using Stylus - an extension available for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. Stylus lets you apply any theme you want to any site. For browsing Stack Overflow I really like this dark theme. To use: In...

Though it is not perfect but it is outstanding.

samcarter

@JouleV Thanks a lot for the link! Seems like an interesting project!

samcarter

2:02 PM

@JouleV About the review indicator, see

4

Q: Why is the review-needed indicator red for an empty queue on ELL?

I just noticed that the Close Votes review-needed indicator is red for me on ELL: When I click on it, however, it shows that the queue has been cleared: I've read the explanation about how the review-needed indicators work, but I didn't see anything that could explain what's happening: How...

JouleV

@samcarter Thanks a lot!

StrongBad

2:57 PM

On the plate for today: converting my manuscript from LaTeX to Word for a pissy journal. I don't really like any of the answers at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4145/… I am going to try dvi2tty and then maybe latex2rtf.

Alan Munn

@StrongBad latex2rtf isn't too bad, but you'll need a good amount of post-conversion editing. Also pandoc can do a lot too. It depends on how complex the document is and how many extra packages you use.

StrongBad

@AlanMunn I used biblatex which is not compatible with latex2rtf. Maybe tex4ht ... dvi2tty produces something, but it has lots of spaces.

Alan Munn

@StrongBad I think pandoc can deal with biblatex.

Paulo Cereda

3:14 PM

@mickep ooh

David Carlisle

@StrongBad been a long thread on that on xetex list in recent days

Paulo Cereda

@StrongBad oh no

StrongBad

@DavidCarlisle is there an archive website?

David Carlisle

@StrongBad tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2019-March/thread.html

StrongBad

@PauloCereda I still find it easier to produce and work with latex and then lose a day at the end. It is not so bad in the overall scope of what it takes to get a publication. Converting tables is the worst since they always look so ugly.

Paulo Cereda

3:25 PM

@StrongBad :)

Paulo Cereda

3:37 PM

The Eclipse Platform upstream is in the process of dropping all support for 32bit arches.

The current state is that upstream are no longer building for 32bit arches upstream for 4.10 (release 2018-12) onwards. I expect them to start actively removing 32bit specific code in future releases.

@TeXnician ^^ :)

For Fedora, that is. :)

mickep

6:34 PM

@PauloCereda Would you be able to solve today's exam? :)

Paulo Cereda

@mickep there's a circle on top of some letters!

mickep

@PauloCereda Ohh, how beautiful!

Paulo Cereda

@mickep ooh

AndiW

7:27 PM

@marmot still fiddeling around with an easy way to get a function to control the amplitude of a decoration in a kind of "visual" way - do you know an easy way to use decorations to alter a curves color lets say every .1th or .05th of it's length? I know you can set ticks but... any easy way to use "\x" from our discussed decoration?

marmot

8:03 PM

@AndiW Varying colors in Ti*k*Z have been implemented in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14283/stroke-with-variable-thickness and https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/471222/121799. In the second post you only need to replace `\y` in `\pgfmathsetmacro{\y}{100*(\x/\pgfdecoratedpathlength)}
\pgfsetstrokecolor{\endcolor!\y!\startcolor}` by `\pgfmathsetmacro{\y}{100*f(\x/\pgfdecoratedpathlength)}` with some appropriate function `f`.

Of course, using decorations.markings to add some spots will be much more straightforward.

AndiW

@marmot yep, I can add ticks every <segment length unit> - but this will not be a fraction of the whole length... I'll have a look at your links... thx

@marmot btw: is \pgfsetstrokecolor the command to change the color after it's call or should be used something else?

marmot

@AndiW What do you mean by "something else"? \pgfsetstrokecolor sets the color in a pgf path.

@AndiW If you use dimensionless numbers, these are interpreted as fractions of the path length, see the second example on p. 636 of the pgfmanual.

AndiW

@marmot ok, thx, this is going to push me into the right direction... ;-) Learning by doing... lol

@marmot I appreciate that... ;-)

marmot

@AndiW Correction: I should have said "first example on p. 637", the explanation is on p. 636.

AndiW

@marmot +1... have a nice evening...

marmot

8:13 PM

@AndiW Thanks! (It is 1:14 pm here... ;-)

AndiW

@marmot uh, oh, oups... so....... sunny afternoon...

marmot

@AndiW Thanks. It is indeed sunny (outside of our burrow)... ;-)

Sebastiano

11:36 PM

@Kurt Thank you so much. You took a weight off my back. Unfortunately, there is always someone who votes against me for everything I do. I don't add anything else. A peaceful good night.

Kurt

@Sebastiano I upvoted your question. Just be not angry, it is not worth that. And do not stop asking, then that downvoter would have won ...

That templates seems to make some problems, right?

Usually it should not be needed to redefine the numbering of your used \part to be alpha, it should stay so from changing it the first time for appendix A.

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