@ComFreek poor <insert package by @DavidCarlisle>, will never be used even though it is by definition bug free!
@VinayPandey beginner level questions for LaTeX? I'd say yes but no. You can ask a few simple questions, but keep in mind that chat isn't really an asynchronous thing, so questions are generally better suited for the main site. And chat shouldn't be abused for loads of such questions. Maybe you should first read an introduction to LaTeX (if you didn't already). Some folks frequenting this chat wrote one up at www.learnlatex.org (it is still subject to some changes, but it is already usable).
@VinayPandey only really oneliners but you are free to ask beginner questions about Tex at tex.stackexchange.com If you mean this, the first version wasn't really answerable but I see you have edited it since, I'll look later:
I want to remove the page break forcefully inserted by \tableofcontents and so far I have not had much success browsing through forums/StackExchange.
In the sample image I have posted, I want the contents of page 2 to appear in the centre right after State of Uttar Pradesh and Others (given on p...
@DavidCarlisle can't thank you enough for your patience. I have edited the question. I had earlier cropped the image to take up less space. Essentially, there is plenty of space on page 1 to show the table of contents but it is forcing it to go on page 2.
@VinayPandey Note I would have known that if you had posted a usable example, but if you post code that does not run then only you know the output. as I commented under the question it page breaks as you are forcing sections to do \newpage
@Maïeul latex really does nothing there it's just falling through the primitive tex \language feature. Probably best if you make a real example and post as a question where there is more space to try code examples
@VinayPandey no worries, but tex (far more than other programming languages) is highly context sensitive. If you show a fragment of C or Java then some functions may not be known but at least a user can parse the fragment, but in tex packages can change the syntax on the fly, so if you just show a fragment it's more or less impossible to say anything, so we almost always ask for complete test files
@VinayPandey \tableofcontents (in article class, without knowing the class it is not defined at all, see above comment:-) is \section*{\tableofcontentsname}\input{\jobname.toc}
You just need to add the text before the class adds the page break to the same hook
\AtEndDocument{bar}
\documentclass{exam}
\begin{document}
foo
\end{document}
@UlrikeFischer yes that's what I thought, OK so if you want it to come after the \clearpage you'll need an explicit label or rule or something. That's probably OK, I think...
@VinayPandey yes but then you asked what you should use, that depends on what you want, do you want normal sections to start a new page?
@Maïeul does reledpar end up doing \sbox0{\setlanguage{zzzz} stuff in this language} \unhbox0 if so you are falling victum to a premature optimisation in tex the program, language nodes are not properly inserted in an hbox as tex "knows" there will be no linebreaking/hyphenation.
@VinayPandey there is certainly a way. But basically it means that you want to use two types of section commands: one with page break and one without. So you need two definitions.
@Maïeul you should really better make a small example. It is much easier to investigate if one see the code.
@VinayPandey \contentsname should just have text for example if you add \usepackage[italian]{babel} it will be redefined to be Indice so you will lose all your formatting. That is exactly why they were introduced so language packages could translate all these text-only macros and they will work with whatever formatting is defined by the classes or packages used. Your class should instead define \tableofcontents taking the version from article.cls and changing it appropriately
@Maïeul compare your original version log with \showoutput the first footnote after the text has \penalty 10000 and a \rule which is the \strut added for spacing, but the footnoteA version just has the \rule with no penalty but a string of characters needs to be followed by white space or a penalty (or similar) to be considered as a "word" for hyphenation so adjoining the \strut immediately after the text prevents hyphenation of the last word.
`\begin{tabular}{ll} \foreach \name/\uid in {a/P, gla/2, it/9P, ri/2, i/2, a/3P}{\textbf{\name} & \uid \\} \end{tabular}` Can someone tell the error here?I have mangled the original data
An easy way to write axis labels in Tikz is:
\foreach \x/\xtext in {-1,-0.5,0.5,1}
\draw[very thin,gray] (\x cm,1pt) -- (\x cm,-1pt) node[anchor=north] {$\xtext$};
Is it possible to have something similar but where \x and \xtext do not get the values from the same list as follows ?
\foreach \...
@UlrikeFischer Hmm... my main system at the uni will upgrade this weekend (finally!), but this can bite me. Is there some simple workaround for the time being?
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz better declare a substituation. And perhaps open an issue in latex2e, then we can discuss if it should be in ot1cmss.fd by default.
@Rmano this is not how the code works. It doesn't try out a list (first bx, then sb, then ...), it falls back to the default. I mean assume that bx doesn't exist either, should it then try b again? or some heavier series first?
@UlrikeFischer yes but why is it b I thought we arranged it was bx if you were using cm, but perhaps I mis-rememberd and that's just done with substitutions as you did here? (I know I could check but...)
Well, hello there :> I have a quick question here(I just started with LaTeX and this example isn't from me originally.) I put some images with the tabular environment into my document and now have the problem that even with the positioning command h! its not compiled in the order I put it into the code:
\begin{table}[h] \begin{tabularx}{ \linewidth}{Xp{0.3\linewidth}} \includegraphics[width=\linewidth, valign=T]{image.png} & \begin{itemize} \item some bulletpoints next to the image \end{itemize} \\
@Syralia the only reason to use table is to allow the table to move, and by using [h] you are preventing [tbp] so not at top not at bottom not on a page on its own. so most likely the table is not allowed anywhere and will go to the end of the document
@DavidCarlisle Okay, something new to me. They actually used to appear where I put them in the code but after the third table, they skip the next section header and float below it
@Syralia hallows the table to be place at that position if it fits, but if say its height is half the text height and it comes anywhere below half way down the page it will not fit so latex will move it to a later page, to avoid ugly white space, that is the whole reason for having table if you just wanted a tabular in the document flow you could use tabularx directly.
@DavidCarlisle well with the newest kernel, it is b\@empty, but somehow beamer does something different to article, and extends this to m instead of bx.
@Syralia very hard to say if you just give fragments, but [h] is always wrong at the very least use [htbp]\newpage does not stop tables you could use \clearpage but you most likely only need that at all as by using [h] you are explicitly preventing the table being on a page on its own (as you removed p)
If you really must you could use [H] then it will not move but then you make me sad and curse the person who first implemented that option. One of teh highest voted qposts in the floats tag is:
\subsubsection{a subsubsection} %here comes something in \subsection{a new section} \begin{minipage}{0.7\textwidth} \includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{image.png} \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}{0.3\textwidth} \begin{itemize} \item some item \end{itemize} \end{minipage}
@DavidCarlisle @samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz I think I found the place where it breaks. The problem is that beamer setups math fonts using \bfdefault, and this initialize the font and then substitution goes wrong. But I'm not sure if this a latex bug or if beamer should use \bfseries@sf instead:
@JosephWright but how did you got the idea to try out pdf:literal? You could not have started with pdf:a, pdf:b, ... pdf:z and go through all combinations ;-)
@HenriMenke The best I can offer is 'see how I did things in l3draw backend setup' - most of the time you can just swap the two as the CM doesn't matter
@HenriMenke See l3backend-code, first part with my comments about things that are wrong in the dvipdfmx docs :)
@UlrikeFischer It said it's like \pdfliteral, and it starts with pdf:, so I guessed ;)
@UlrikeFischer See also my comments about literal direct
@JosephWright hm, you are saying that pdf:literal is equivalent to pdf:content, but this is not true: pdf:contents adds an additional q/Q pair (I had tried pdf:content, and the box is not rotated with it),
@LaTeXereXeTaL the notion of the difference between a compiler and an interpreter and (as here a macro expansion system) are blurred these days anyway languages that are traditionally interpreted get just in time compilers and languages that were traditionally compiled get just in time compilers and it's hard to spot the difference. The main programming idiom is a macro expansion language, but for most people...
... (who are not in this chat) getting typeset output is more important than the macro processing programming language, but "compiler" is easier to say than "digital typesetting system customisable via an integrated macro processing language"
That's one reason I asked. My students use Overleaf and I've been using the term to match the button, but in the back of my mind I kind of new it was wrong. I pride myself on pedantry so I needed to know.
@DavidCarlisle oh yes we do :-) (both call it Compile and have over 6M users) -- technically, it is compilation, if you accept that PDF is the natural result of processing a bunch of TeX and related files. (You take a lot of files and you produce a single output file [and a lot of logs and other aux])
@yo' yes but that's compile in the natural language usage of organising a bundle of stuff, it isn't what would traditionally have been called a compiler in a computing context
but the thing is, the CS/IT people put special meaning to all/any natural English word that could be even closely related. This they have in common with the math people (and the physics ones, and chemistry ones, and ...)
@yo' clearly English is a dead loss and you should use a proper language where you can make up specific words digitalesSchriftsatzsystemanpassbarübereineintegrierteMakroverarbeitungssprache
@DavidCarlisle Is this the reason all these strange 16:9 or 16:10 displays became so popular? To accommodate buttons wide enough to fit your word creations?
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz no people don't use the graphical interfaces, just the character mode console, but the wider screen helps emulate a 132 character line printer
To improve "authenticity" of a mainframe simulator and for an additional nostalgic effect, I'd like to add sounds of a line printer to it. They should be similar enough to the original sounds for people to recognize familiar cadences of standard headers and/or footers of printouts.
Before I attem...
@UlrikeFischer I see your name mentioned on the MikTeX site, miktex.org/help. Do you know whom I contact if the site is not propagating my tokcycle package correctly. In particular, tokcycle.tex should be loaded into tex/generic, but instead seems not to be downloaded at all.
You just need to add the text before the class adds the page break to the same hook
\AtEndDocument{bar}
\documentclass{exam}
\begin{document}
foo
\end{document}
An easy way to write axis labels in Tikz is:
\foreach \x/\xtext in {-1,-0.5,0.5,1}
\draw[very thin,gray] (\x cm,1pt) -- (\x cm,-1pt) node[anchor=north] {$\xtext$};
Is it possible to have something similar but where \x and \xtext do not get the values from the same list as follows ?
\foreach \...
Is there any package or a method to force LaTeX to keep floating environments like table and figure closer to where they are declared?
