I am all of a sudden getting the ! LaTeX Error: LaTeX2e command \usepackage in LaTeX 2.09 document. error, why would my MacTeX downgrade all of a sudden???
@kan Depends on the context. I tend to avoid classic letter formalities in email, but sometimes it can't be avoided. "Dear Sirs" is probably the standard letter form, but "Dear all" or nothing at all or "To all faculty members" or just about anything else might be acceptable, just looked at a few "all company" emails over last day and no introductory address at all is most common and one "hi all"
@JosephWright Hm, okay ... this would be easier then "@user Let's delete our comments ..." because they're not relevant anymore or their origin was a misunderstanding ...
How can I plot the following bar graph with a base value of -60 instead of 0(default)?
\documentclass[convert={density=400,outext=.png}]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline]
\centering
\begin{axis}[ybar,bar width=1,line wi...
Writing a book chapter under serious time pressure. BibTeX to the rescue with organising the references, even though it has to be written with a piece of software not popular in these parts!
@Dan not sure I agree with the reasoning there:-) but anyway it suggests a local setting of topskip for a particular construct but your fragment set it globally which is odd (to say the least:-)
@Dan but you must have irregular positions of the lines on every page (pages with capital letters in the first line will have all lines lower than pages without)
@Dan Not clear why you need it at all, or just use the macro as in the link you gave it is for a particular use in conjunction with vspace* but most documents don't use vspace* anyway.
@Dan perhaps, but it's the wrong fix, it says to try to place the baseline of the top line 0pt from the top as it can't do that it will place it as high as possible, so if it has no capitals it will go higher, if it has capitals it will go lower, if it has a bracket or accent it will go lower still.
@Dan topskip should be larger for a large print ediition (it should be more than the largest letter so that all pages get a consistent first line position.
@Dan well it's easy to stop the blank page if you know why it's there, eg what follows \chapter or some such or does latex scream about overful box in the output routine or...
I have a question that's too opinion based to be posted officially: What's the best way to include inline explanations in a multi-line derivation of a formula (where each line starts with an equals sign)?
Each line of the derivation is too long to include explanations, and trying to connect the lines with short paragraphs of text seems awkward.
@DavidCarlisle I think that \intertext would help with keeping the equals signs lined up, but there's the general stylistic question of how to present the explanations.
One possibility I thought of was to parenthesize all of them, but I thought maybe there's a better way.
@amcnabb maybe I don't understand but if you have a line of text in the middle of a multiline display it's normally obviously directly linked to the display without needing any special paraenthesis or font change
@DavidCarlisle I think I'm just not explaining myself very well. When a line starts with an equals sign, it refers to the directly preceding line, which stylistically seems awkward if the preceding line is actually text instead of the previous step in the formula.
@amcnabb people cope:-) I think adding extra punctuation just makes it more obscure, I'd just use (perhaps flushright) text that says after each step by so and so's lemma or whatever needs to be said
@DavidCarlisle Using flushright seems like a good idea.
It seems like people often do something like this: tex.stackexchange.com/a/49542/9337 (after the text, it repeats the f(x) instead of starting with an equals sign)
@amcnabb anyway latex allows you to make such decisions late use \stepexplanation{by the axiom of choice} and get your text entered then afterwards you can play with different definitions of \stepexplanation to see what looks right
@DavidCarlisle I think I'll do that. And if anyone comes up with any great suggestions in the meantime, then I'll redefine \stepexplanation accordingly. :)
@amcnabb I think it depends, if you are laying out a long multistep proof with explanation at each step I think you'd not repeat the left hand side as it is clear from context that the steps are steps and the text is explanation, however if its a one off context that may be read as two separate displays, repeating might make it clearer
How can I plot the following bar graph with a base value of -60 instead of 0(default)?
\documentclass[convert={density=400,outext=.png}]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline]
\centering
\begin{axis}[ybar,bar width=1,line wi...
