@DavidCarlisle All these solutions will make huge pages that I will need to crop to content later, right? (I know I said page size doesn't matter for as long as content fits, I just want to make sure. The standalone document class crops to content nicely but I can't have proper multiple pages with it. But I was originally planning separate documents for each bit anyway.)
@Kasper yes I know but not the version from Peter Jipsen's site (I'm on the mathjax steering committee:-)
@Szabolcs nope if you \shipout a box it should just be the size of the box (I think, it's been a while) in anycase you could force \pdfpagexxx to be the size of the box before shipping out.
@Kasper well the input parser is basically the same but morphed into a mathjax "input jax" so that it can be used with any of the mathjax back ends (native mathml. html+css, svg) rather than directly targetting a native mathml browser.
@DavidCarlisle Actually I get the same page size for each page with this method. Could you please give some guidance with forcing the page size to be the box size ... ?
@DavidCarlisle At least the Plain TeX output routine says \vbox to\vsize and then adds the headline and footline. So if \vsize is \maxdimen adding header and footer will make a larger box than \maxdimen. I think it's the same in LaTeX
@DavidCarlisle I was trying to use the asciimathml together with mathjax, as I kind of like some it is features, and I thought about taking notes with this language. But not having a display mode is real bad downside.
I wonder how long it would take to learn enough LaTeX to be able to do these non-standard things with a reasonable success rate ... I'm a bit ashamed that it's the only thing that I've used for a long time without understanding much of it. But I'm pretty sure that most people who use it are in the same situation.
\documentclass{article}
\hoffset-1in
\voffset-1in
\begin{document}
\setbox0\vbox{\hsize5cm
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a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a}
\pdfpageheight\dimexpr\ht0+\dp0\relax
\pdfpagewidth\wd0
\shipout\box0
\setbox0\vbox{\hsize10cm
b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b
b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b}
\pdfpageheight\dimexpr\ht0+\dp0\relax
\pdfpagewidth\wd0
\shipout\box0
\stop
:12035383 or rather the default reference point is 1in in from the top left corner, hence setting voffset and hoffset to -1in in my code above to put it at the corner of the page
@Kasper well that depends on what browser you are using, what fonts you have installed and the phase of the moon, you have to let go a bit of control on the web, this isn't TeX:-)
@PauloCereda although it's not a real Test match it's England XI against Australia A (which is sort of reserve team match although actually it's just same people as in the full test match, a warmup while the England team get over jet lag etc)
Unless @David plans to get M another Lego Mindstorms set, so he'll start to downvote me. :)
@DavidCarlisle:
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oxford:~ paulo$
@NicolaTalbot: I have a question about probability. What I don't understand is what the correlation between each person whose a probability of getting cholera is .15 and the other people in a population. The complete question is as follows. There is a research in one flooded region, that the probability of a man attached by cholera is .15. If the total citizen in that region is 640 persons, what is the number of person estimated attached by cholera?
I want to thank my friends for making this achievement possible. And also my friends that spend my credit card for making this achievement necessary. :)
@PauloCereda I realise I forgot to fill in its beak. I was going to put one of those party tooters in its mouth, but it just looked like it was sticking its tongue out.
@Marienplatz Probability isn't really my strong point (differentiation, algebra and geometry are more my thing) but I think you need to find the expected value.
Out of topic discussion. When was you introduced to the concept of Componendo et Dividendo? Junior School, High School, University, or have not known it yet?
@NicolaTalbot I've been reading your pdf on how to write a thesis. It's actually the best text I've found so far. Thank you very much for pointing me to it
@egreg: oh, well... I guess it will take time (probably a lot of time). Currently I'm quite busy and my major contribution to the site is the review. They require less time than good answers so they can be performed on the fly while simulation are running...
I'm trying to define my own type area on A5 paper using the memoir commands, according to the following construction after Tschichold, where the text width is given by Høgholm's curve fitting of Bringhurst's copyfitting table:
If we ignore for the moment that the header should probably be cons...
I've seen many programmers here at tex.se, and I'd like to know how they view TeX/LaTeX as a programming language in relation to other languages, and whether it would boost my progress as a beginner using other (non-typesetting related) languages, that is of course in an abstract or semantic sense.
@Marienplatz I assume you've seen the question in meta devoted entirely to you. Are you willing to divulge your gender, or shall I change it in the answer every time you change names?
@AlanMunn Sorry, was on the phone. Interesting read. So even though the second argument of \divide is a length, it has to be an integer. Which probably means that if anybody ever uses a \baselineskip that's not an integer in points, things will go horribly wrong with the memoir type area calculation.
@ForkrulAssail Sounds interesting. Personalizing the AC would be especially great because then you'd no longer have to carry around a coat in the Californian summer because freezing your ass off is considered a status symbol or something.
@Paulo. Congrats Paulo. I was happy to cast the vote from 19992 to 20002. But could not comment as my mobile was not logging me into chat. I was travelling back from a lecture and a lab session on LaTeX. When is the party? ;-)
BTW, why from mobile we can't log in to chat while for main site we can?
I'm trying to define my own type area on A5 paper using the memoir commands, according to the following construction after Tschichold, where the text width is given by Høgholm's curve fitting of Bringhurst's copyfitting table:
If we ignore for the moment that the header should probably be cons...
