@AlanMunn They won't terminate the production I think. After all, only two brands can sell "Swiss army knives" -- why destroy one of them? It can be useful later
@AlanMunn People saying that finite brains cannot generate infinitely many sentences should read some Borges. Or decide that the natural numbers don't exist.
@AlexMardikian don't you want your R to have relation spacing (like <) \mathrel{\mathcal{R}} (\not is designed to do the right things for relatiions (only)
@egreg I envy you ;-). But how much that costs there in Italy? Website says the price is some 9000+ dollars I think. In Indian rupees it will be around 5 lacs, for which we get a car :-). But It is cool.
@HarishKumar I was reading your answer to the cases question; \phantom is not necessary, \hspace{2cm} is sufficient; but some vertical space between the two parts is definitely needed.
@egreg Last year I wanted to purchase a BIG bike (in India) for around 1 00 000 Rs. My wife objected because the bike had around 500cc engine and she was afraid that I will go fast :-)
My wife was afraid of riding that scooter at first. Now she too drives. :-) That is the constraint. I have a small car and already one scooter and now this wego. They remain idle most of the time as I am the only regular user.
The other scooter has 60cc and it cries at 40km/h.
Time to go home. Today half day working and 5 days holiday. Yay. We have a festival called Makara Sankramana tomorrow.
@StephanLehmke Yep, but it was removed a while back. I think we use off-topic with a custom reason (e.g. 'off-topic because of typo in code') for lack of better options.
I've heard a rumour, that people on TeX.SE are nicer and more inclinded not to down vote,
where as people on Programmers.SE are the opposite.
The first is true, where as the second is not.
Here are some statistics:
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@FaheemMitha technically nothing, \usepackage is same as \input apart from a few things that are different, but it is like asking the difference between using \section{} and using {\large\textbf{}} one may be defined in terms of the other but that doesn't mean that they are conceptually the same thing.
Every time I make a build Windows asks me for administrator rights to run MikTex package manager. If I give the rights it builds normally, if not I get "Emergency stop" error. It only happens when using the documentclass memoir (without any settings or with them).
@JosephWright after I convinced mt Dad to switch from MikTeX to TeXlive 3 years ago, he never ever complained anymore about having a technical problem with the distro itself
@JosephWright I know. I posted it here and not as a comment to the answer because somehow it was a joke mixed with my personal experience. and it wasn't meant really seriously.
The common sum must be $15$, because the sum of numbers from $1$ to $9$ is $45$. How can we write $15$ as sum of three distinct numbers between $1$ and $9$ (included)?
\begin{gather}
1+5+9 \\
1+6+8 \\
2+4+9 \\
2+5+8 \\
2+6+7 \\
3+5+7 \\
3+4+8 \\
4+5+6
\end{gather}
We have just eight ways and we...
@tohecz There are two answers: one uses an ad hoc method just for showing that the center must contain 5, the other one shows also how to fill the magic square, with an even easier argument. Guess which one gets more votes. :(
Every time I make a build Windows asks me for administrator rights to run MikTex package manager. If I give the rights it builds normally, if not I get "Emergency stop" error. It only happens when using the documentclass memoir (without any settings or with them).
@tohecz Also, the guy with the accepted answer has more rep (on math.SE). So @egreg feels what we all have to suffer when answering a question which was also answered by him ;-)
@DavidCarlisle Ok. I assume unlike just inputting a file you can do \usepackage multiple times for the same package and have it loaded once? And that is taken care of by the internal machinery?
@JosephWright @JosephWright My first approach was to try [scale=0.2] but this did not work even after passing transform shape option to every node. Then, I also tried scalebox and resizebox ...
@ppr No, it's not necessary. The difference is that with the package, the file is written out every time; with the standard environment, the file is not rewritten if present.
@ppr Oh, with the package you're allowed to have filecontents anywhere in your document. The standard environment must instead go before \begin{document} (preferably before \documentclass).
@FaheemMitha Not a general LaTeX thing: the keyval package does space stripping, for example, while for expl3 we have a more powerful version of the same thing.
@FaheemMitha You can ask her, but I'm sure she knows
@FaheemMitha Not generally: we have some discussions yet to have on how to handle for example \author{ stuff }: are those spaces significant or should they be dropped (doable)
This is a modified version of my answer to an earlier question: How can I divide my book into different project without repeating myself?
As others have mentioned place all your style definitions and list of packages in a separate file MyPackages.sty and include them with \usepackage{MyPackages...
This question is based on Peter Grill's answer to "Table including
rows of a master
table"..
The function \PrintDTLTable takes an optional list of rowIDs
(first row of the data file) as its first argument, and makes a
table containing only those rows. The rowIDs are also used as
labels.
BibTeX ...
@FaheemMitha anyone who wants to put spaces between words (and that basically is what TeX is always trying to do)
@FaheemMitha @JosephWright pointed out (here I think) the other day that the etoolbox comma separated list handler allows white space after a comma but not before. Which appears to be a documented feature rather than a bug.
@PeterGrill The idea is just to build a table from references in the text, I don't know if this would require going through datatool, but perhaps not. In any cases, any pointers would be appreciated.
My solution would be to alter the \ref macro to create a list of references and write them to a file, and a table row would be conditional on the row being in the list of references. This would do the job, but there probably is a simpler way to work with the existing .aux files somehow.
@PeterGrill I thought of something like that. \ref writes to aux anyway, right? But the difficulty would be to distinguish between ref for other things. Maybe one could use a custom command.
@DavidCarlisle I'm going to throw my hands up at this point. :-)
:13161377: If you use a custom \ref then you could make things more efficient, but don't think that two things can have the same label, so it would just take longer to run if altered the generic \ref.
@FaheemMitha It would be easier to test if \label had been used but it can't be that hard (and I wouldn't have thought datatool would help much) I might have a look later (need to drive home, eat etc first:-)
@FaheemMitha No I meant it would be easier to have a table that just included rows where the first cell matched a \label used in the document (rather than \ref)
Anyone able to help with getting the Arxiv to process a paper that uses natbib? It keeps saying the citations are undefined, so apparently just including the .bbl doesn't work. I'm having trouble figuring out what has to be done. Mostly I just needed natbib so I could use the doi package and have hyperlinks for doi numbers in my references.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Ireland Women 92/10 v Pakistan Women 93/3 *
- Prime Minister's XI v England XI
- Habib Bank Limited v Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited
- National Bank of Pakistan v Pakistan Television
- United Bank Limited v State Bank of Pakistan
- Melbourne Renegades v Sydney Thunder
Our cricket expert David might explain these results later on.
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last basketball results:
- Timberwolves recall rookie Muhammad from D-League
- Carmelo Anthony, DeMarcus Cousins named Players of the Week
- Thunder hold Durant out of practice to rest sore wrist
- San Antonio surviving the grind to rise back to No. 1
- Ten Before Tip: NBA news from Sunday
- NBA: Foul should have been called in Pelicans-Mavs
- NBA issues statement on missed call
- Leaky roof causes two delays in Rockets-Wizards game
@PauloCereda I too had a leaky roof during a game. We were playing at Misericordia in Venice, probably the only basketball court in the world having 17th century frescoes on the walls. It had snowed in the days before and the snow had accumulated under the roof, so there was a leak in a corner of the court.
@JosephWright that's mentioned in the comments already but actually it would be fairly common to use regex for the tokenization, you could use tex arithmetics or grouping to handle brace matching
@DavidCarlisle, @JosephWright: Personally, I think minted has a good approach: it relies on a tool that does the job. Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. I think what is really desirable and room for improvement it's the UTF-8 support.
@DavidCarlisle yeah, but the point is: when you want to syntax highlight a parameter macro in a different way than whatever other text? And do you really need arbitrary nesting, or is let's say 4 levels enough?
well, I realize now that the answer is negative: Highlighting a macro definition in a different way than the surrounding stuff would be just impossible :(
@PauloCereda speaking of Germany: Buying something on amazon.de and paying shipping to France is cheaper than buying it on amazon.fr with free shipping :)
@tohecz sure but as I say If i were doing this I'd probably just use regex to tokenize and generate tex groups for {} then tex can worry about brace matching
@PauloCereda I don't order it now since I leave to the Netherlands for 2 weeks next Monday. I'm just going to write an e-mail to the hosting institution asking what address should I use to get it shipped there ;)
but first, I need to finish something I promised to do, only then I can ask ;)
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for automating document compilation
I stumbled upon AutoLaTeX today and it seems to be very similar to LaTeXMk indeed. Can you point out some differences, and give a recommendation which tool to use?
A lot of people write makefiles that say something like
paper.pdf: paper.tex
pdflatex paper
bibtex paper
pdflatex paper
pdflatex paper
To handle re-running TeX to get new/changed references and so forth. Is there a better way to do this?
For completeness, I will mention autolatex (project page). I have not used it. It's implemented with a combination of perl scripts and makefiles.
With autolatex you can execute on the command line:
$ autolatex -f mydoc.tex
This generates the makefiles in the current directory and makes the ...
Latexmk is one possibility, although I've never used it myself.
NEITHER of which actually say anything about the tool in question other then how to use it; There is no compare/contrast which is what the first question was asking for.
In fact, the first top answer of the list question even says they have never used it!
So now I can't ask about the differences between the two, as we have a dead question for it, but I can't get the information due to the list not having it in any way, shape or form.
@Canageek Well, the list should be improved, not the closed question re-opened. I think that this is worth opening a discussion in meta. We've discussed those big-list questions before, and usually a goot template was invented, and then all answers edited into this template.
I'm facing a strange problem with the search function.
It seems that it finds threads till December 20th but not over that date.
For example, today I've answered this question: looking for Latex editor with good structure tree layout view that can handle verbatim, which contains the word "texma...
Isn’t it possible anymore to vote as “too-localized” or am I overlooking something ?
I've heard a rumour, that people on TeX.SE are nicer and more inclinded not to down vote,
where as people on Programmers.SE are the opposite.
The first is true, where as the second is not.
Here are some statistics:
╔═══════════╦════════╦═════════╦══════════╦══════════╦═══════╦════════╦════════╗...
Every time I make a build Windows asks me for administrator rights to run MikTex package manager. If I give the rights it builds normally, if not I get "Emergency stop" error. It only happens when using the documentclass memoir (without any settings or with them).
This is a modified version of my answer to an earlier question: How can I divide my book into different project without repeating myself?
As others have mentioned place all your style definitions and list of packages in a separate file MyPackages.sty and include them with \usepackage{MyPackages...
This question is based on Peter Grill's answer to "Table including
rows of a master
table"..
The function \PrintDTLTable takes an optional list of rowIDs
(first row of the data file) as its first argument, and makes a
table containing only those rows. The rowIDs are also used as
labels.
BibTeX ...
Latexmk is one possibility, although I've never used it myself.
I'm facing a strange problem with the search function.
It seems that it finds threads till December 20th but not over that date.
For example, today I've answered this question: looking for Latex editor with good structure tree layout view that can handle verbatim, which contains the word "texma...
