If you use \documentclass{article} it loads letterpaper by default which is 11 inches long. If you use a4paper the it is 11.75 inches long giving you more length.
@FaheemMitha yes the class options only control the size of the text block. Then teh printer driver (or pdftex \paperheight register) controls the size of the paper
@FaheemMitha Yes, the class could have, say, paper=a4 as a class option. But there are also inconsistencies with the way some key=value class/packages options are processed compared with standard options. (Although I don't think you need worry about that in this instance.)
@percusse So I decided to order Tascam DR-05. The Zoom H4n was just over my price limit, and H1 didn't look nice, neither did the buttons on the side somehow. The DR-05 looks more like a device to use with professional device :)
The only thing, I find it ridiculous that I order it from amazon.de to France, and it's 10 euros cheaper than from amazon.fr. I just hope it'll come in time, I've got only 3 weeks before I leave for good.
I get the following error message when I try to compile the code below.
package calc Error :'\gdef' invalid at this point \title
What am I doing wrong?
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
% permet de faire une table ...
Can I have a small request please? Can you check please whether the executables htlatex and t4ht are shell scripts on your system, and post their contents here?
I wrote C++ code to create data for a diagram. What's a recommended way to share that code with someone who requested it in a comment on tex.sx? The code is not meant to be publicly available.
@tohecz That's weird. /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-linux/t4ht is a binary file for me. It doesn't make sense for t4ht to symlink to ht.sh given that ht.sh calls t4ht.
@tohecz I don't understand how our TL2013 distributions are different. I don't have that symlink so t4ht actually calls the real binary not the ht shell. Try removing /usr/bin/t4ht.
@egreg ok. That's pretty bad, since it makes relying on htlatex even more difficult than it is now :( I mean, I can solve it for myself, but if I want to build something over it and propose it to others, then I don't know how wide-spread the problem is.
@tohecz Sorry, had to answer the phone. That link isn't created by the TeX Live distro that I installed from DVD so something else put it there. Perhaps reorder the PATH environment so that it checks the TL bin path before /usr/bin.
Incidentally, the ht script ought to check for errors:
@NicolaTalbot well, while checking for errors, it relunches itself, creating an infinite cycle, which is eventually killed by invalid fork invocation (i.e. by running out of resources).
@egreg yes, it should. But I'll wait for @Paulo, I suppose he has F20 so he can check whether this bug of htlatex not being able to compile any document is preserved. Then I'll report it.
@Christoph You could create a private repos on a hosting site e.g. Bitbucket, and then give that user permission to access it. Or you could just email it to him, encrypted. :-)
@Faheem fortunately, that user created a package that includes his email address. Even with externally hosted code, how would I pass login credentials to him without making them public here on stack exchange? I'd need some other way of contacting him.
@egreg Apparently, there's something wrong with the Perl PNG module, so I could not bootstrap the GUI installer, but the text-based one works flawlessly.
@PauloCereda It's the worst thing I've ever seen. Now the screen shows only the date and time, and nothing happens if I click. There is no power off button at the corner.
@DavidCarlisle I'm wondering who thought Lua not having native UTF-8 support was a good plan: trying to find meaningful info on slnunicode is impossible, and I think it's actually broken :-(
what about ratpoison? One of my students uses it, he seems to be productive. I can't look at him working though, because his hands move over the keyboard so quickly that the image is blurred
@PauloCereda Now when I give my csv2latex script UTF8 input, it throws an error: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError). I've googled around and it seems that this is something that has changed with Ruby. But the solutions on the web don't seem to solve the problem for me.
@Johannes_B Despite I said in meta that I'm quite ok with that one, every time someone mentions it and I open it, I hover my mouse over the close button.
Nice comment I got:
"sets" are not also known as a list of lists of lists, and there's no need for your variable name to SHOUT. — DSM21 mins ago
@PauloCereda And as far as I can tell this is something to do with the newer version of Ruby. So the issue didn't arise before Mavericks. (Although I can't say for sure; I'd need to check with an older system.)
@egreg Usually, things should not stop with Presto messages (Presto only deals with metadata, which might give you just some diffs instead of the whole packages, thus increasing the install speed). But sometimes yum is crazy. :(
@NicolaTalbot A friend's mother in law (who is French), upon seeing a bunch of stuffed seals (this is Canada after all) exclaimed (in English) "Oh, I want a little phoque".
@JosephWright The \ifx\expandafter$\the\everyeof$\expandafter\noexpand\fi bit makes it work if \everyeof is {} or {\noexpand} (No idea what happens if it is anything else:-)
@PauloCereda Can I reverse the direction of call stack in Python? I always get the bottom displayed, which is some python's inner crap. I need the top of course, to see at which line the problem occured.
@DavidCarlisle I'm having fun with the \Uchar business: I seem to need more than eight ^, and ran into the XeTeX bug that Bruno asked about. I got:
The `$' that I just saw supposedly matches a previous `$$'.charsubdef
So I shall assume that you typed `$$' both times.New character substitution:
display =
Missing $$ insertedYou should have said `\read<number> to \cs'.
longI'm going to look for the \cs now.
outerXeTeXmathcodenum
globalUmathcodenum
defXeTeXmathcode
gdefUmathcode
edefXeTeXcharclass
xdefXeTeXdelcodenum
prefixUdelcodenum
You can't use a prefix with `XeTeXdelcode
:-)
Oh, and then some more of the messages when I had bigger numbers :-)
I get the following error message when I try to compile the code below.
package calc Error :'\gdef' invalid at this point \title
What am I doing wrong?
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
% permet de faire une table ...
