I have big problem, I hope someone can give me a hint. I have a pdf file, included as an image using \includegraphics[]{image} then I run pdflatex. When I look at the report.pdf and go to the page where this image is, I find the quality of the image is much worst than it is in the image.pdf file. I am not able to find why. The image.pdf file, was created by visio drawing program. When I open image.pdf it says at the top "you are viewing this document PDF/A mode" But the image is very clear..
... there. It only shows bad in the report.pdf, after \includegraphics{image} any idea why this would happen?
dealing with images in latex is a really a nightmare for me
I found the problem ! I had an image.png in the same folder, which was bad quality. It seems the order was to load .png before .pdf, so it was loading .png not .pdf image. When I deleted the .png and recbuild it, now it looks good, since now it loaded the .pdf version of the image
In recent weeks I've encountered contradictory natbib options throwing errors in the sample file from oxford's complex nets, author year sorted numerical references when the published journal uses purely numerical references (complex nets and springer LNCS), broken options (titlepage from PNAS)
@JosephWright possibly... but not supporting "eprint" or "collection" in bst is not that kind of problem, in the j complex networks they have numerical and author year citations. but then in the class file, after switching to the numerical case they called \bibpunct with an "a" in the middle, which confused poor natbib which was loaded with sort&compress. Changing it to "n" makes it compile without error. Though to get actual numerical order I had to patch their bst with the aps-revtex file...
Also, I noticed a lot of overprinting of URLs. Just because there is a URL or DOI tag does not mean it should be printed in the bibliography. hyperref linking would be nice but I don't want to junk up my reference list with all these random URLs. So I just deleted format.url from my bst...
@tohecz submitting to arxiv is obviously not following a particular style, so you can choose a bst that you like, copy the bbl and everything's ok. my problem is with citing arxiv articles (fairly common in physics)
@mmdanziger ah ok, I missed that. Well, arXiv is either @misc or @unpublished, never @article
I would go with deleting all URL fields in the .bib file, and putting NOTE = {preprint, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/0000.0000v0}{0000.0000}} for arXiv preprints
@tohecz I can see that: I've no experience of citing arXiv, so I've really no idea what's 'normal'. (In chemistry, submission to such a site would prevent publication in a 'real' journal.)
@JosephWright in physics, though, it's extremely common. it offers an easy way to parallelize your work. you could be waiting 6 months or more for an article to be published and you may have other work that needs to cite the queued article. are you really supposed to wait until one is published before you submit the next?
@JosephWright yeah, not the case in math/CS, fortunately. We seem to be on the progressive end of "open access science". However, I don't blame anyone of course
@tohecz Shorter, assuming you get accepted without too many changes. Most of our publishers will make the 'raw' submission available quite quickly after acceptance (normally a PDF version of the Word original)
@JosephWright ah ok. That significantly differs from math. The only sumbissions (pre-)publlished within 6 months are basically conference proceedings. For articles, it varies between half a year and two years.
@JosephWright "private communication" "in press" are really crippling though. They're completely unverifiable and thus cannot play a significant role in the support of the article.
@mmdanziger Depends. You can usually submit a draft to the reviewers if it's really required, but in my area it's unlikely you'd have two papers which were so inter-dependent and try to submit the second before the first was accepted.
@mmdanziger I'm a lab-based scientist, so my interest in the 'theory-only' papers is limited. They tend to be more at the physical side of chemistry, so they may well have a different approach (some go to physics journals)
@JosephWright well, example: Article sent 2013-12-01, review recieved 2014-02-20 (pretty fast, needed to say) claiming "major revision needed". I've got 4 months for that, but it'll likely take me less, so v2 will have been sent probably by 2014-04-30, second round review is often quick, so 2nd review recieved 2014-06-15, then I'm off for 1 month, so final version sent 2014-07-30, and published as e-first 2014-08-20.
@JosephWright yeah, pre-acceptance is what I mean. Because during that time, the result is finished, but not published, so without my personal webpage and arXiv, nobody would see it for a long time
However, you do have journals, when you recieve the acceptance notification, but the article is not even pre-published or announced for more 2 years. This annoys one my friend, since he can't really write "accepted" in his thesis List of works
@mmdanziger well, our research group sent there one article, and it's first one, as well as the last one :)
@JosephWright yep, but that's stupid in maths. We probably simply need much more to communicate then other people do. So things like conferences with no extended abstracts are pretty common, since it allows you to present the results and to publish them in a journal later.
@tohecz From what I pick up, while the move to open access has support (with some issues), there is no sense that this also means moving from the current model of requiring peer review before making papers public. There is talk on archiving 'raw' results, but even there probably with embargoes until publication.
@JosephWright well, there is a difference in math between citing arXiv or a real paper: You shouldn't rely on theorems in arXiv versions of papers; well you can (I do that), but the other paper needs to be accepted so that yours is. Still, you can start the peer-review process and cite arXiv at that moment.
It's difficult for me to envision a system that would actually be better than a peer-review + arxiv type publishing model. You need both for QA and access, respectively--though $2000 publisher fees and ridiculous paywalls are a bit much when the most exclusive part of the labor is being outsourced to starving scientists anyway and the rest is increasingly automated.
@mmdanziger jounrals published by the universities, being credited for their quality? Or anything in between, for instance there're jounrals which are issued by Cambridge UP, but all editorial work is done by a scientific institute. And here in France, the institute puts it into the annual reports and it is recognized as a contribution to science.
@PauloCereda but presumably only if \author{Paulo R. M. Cereda} ;)
@PauloCereda if only you'd made more silly duck comments we might have made it to this BBC list of useful internet sites: bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26343700
@PauloCereda I'm not a native speaker, but I think 'gehen' means by foot usually. And modal verbs don't use 'zu'. And the motion verb can be implied, so I think you could actually say 'Ich möchte nach Deutschland'; if you wanted a verb 'Ich möchte nach Deutschland fahren' would probably be better.
any one here uses Lyx by any chance? I have the most simple question on it. But not able to find an answer. I'll ask any way: In math mode, I wanted to write sin(x), it turns out, one has to use the menu to select "sin" function ! typing "sin" as is, produces a text sin, not the math sin, even though I am in math mode. In SW, when one in math mode, typing "sin" produces the math "sin" ofcourse. I am not going to use Lyx if I have to use the menu to type "sin"
@DavidCarlisle I am getting close to that point :) But on the Lyx issue. I am sitting here shaking my head is dis believe. honst. If one has to use the menu to enter a "cos" or a "sin" or a "tan" each time, this will be most ridiculous. So I am hoping it is a configuration thingy. In SW, I just type, right away, and it is all math (when in math mode). I hardly ever use the menu except for special operators
@DavidCarlisle sorry, not following you. in SW, when in math mode, everything typed is assumed to be math. In Lyx, even when in math mode, I have to use the menu to enter a "sin". If I just type "sin" using the keyboard, it comes out as the text "sin" (i.e. no \ before it). I can show you the latex output if you like. I do not know anything about Lyx. Just started using it today
I mean, what is the point of having "math" mode, if one can't just type "sin" and have come out as \sin ?
@TorbjørnT. yes, this worked ! But again, this makes no sense to me (coming from SW). I am allready in math mode! So when I type "sin" it should be the "\sin" and not the plain text "sin". If I have to type "\sin" when in math mode, then what is the point of a GUI? I can type "\sin" in emacs or vi just as well? The point is, one does not have to know Latex to use it.
And if one has to use the menu just to enter a "sin" this makes it very annoying. I type many sin/cos/tan all day (I am an engineering student) and do not want to use the menu each time and scroll down looking for the "sin"
@Nasser It's a choice the developers have made I guess. Theoretically you could have three variables s, i and n, and their product will be sin. By using the backslash you can distinguish between operators and normal text.
@TorbjørnT. Ok, it is a design choice. But wrong choice IMNSHO. How many times one uses s*i*n as variables? any way. I think in this case, SW is still the much easier GUI to use for generating Latex compared to Lyx from what I have seen so far. Well... got to go to class now. Thanks each one for the feedback
@Nasser I don't know the exact reasons, so I cannot speak for the developers. You could always add a feature request at lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome for automatic detection of common operators.
Consider the following MWE.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textpos}
\newcommand{\insertname}{%
\begin{textblock}{2}(5,-0.5)
\bfseries{\jobname.tex}
\end{textblock}
}
\begin{document}
\insertname
Some text.
\end{document}
This places the name of the LaTeX file at the top of the out...
Well, to answer your question. The behaviour is reasonable, because it is consistent. I use, besides \log, the functions \det, \tr, \tg, \inv, \abs, etc. If you made the "most-used" ones "backslash-less", then you don't know which ones have backslash and which don't. As well, some of us generate ...
@FaheemMitha ahem my answer does that, doesn't it? (Or is there a bug in the answer? It's possible, I didn't test it)
The docs for everyshi say "An example application for this package would be a package for adding text to the bottom of each page. Such a package does exist: prelim2e[2]." "
@PauloCereda If you set things up right you can omit the \in R (eg by saying up front that all indexed variables r_i are in R ) then you can have just \sum_{r_i \ne r_j} ... or whatever the operation is
@egreg Actually, you have a strong point. :) Sometimes I repeat information because I fear things to be unclear, but I'm also afraid of saying the very same thing over and over. :)
@PauloCereda I say it because one often sees "Let $A=\{x_1,\dots,x_n\}$ be a finite set and let $x_i\in A$” where “Let $A$ be a finite set and let $x\in A$” would suffice.
@FaheemMitha \pagestyle{fancy} should go before setting \fancyhf{} and so on.
@FaheemMitha Of course there will be no header in the first page if \maketitle is issued. For that you need to issue \thispagestyle{fancy} after \maketitle
@PauloCereda If you so define it. There's no law about the meaning of that symbol.
@FaheemMitha classes always do that, report uses \thispagestyle for \maketitle and \chapter for example, and for teh blank page thrown by \cleardoublepage and....
@FaheemMitha well, it's a solution for the case where you want it really on all pages and you don't care about anything else in the headers and footers
@FaheemMitha well it works in general but may not do what you want. The intention here is that the first page (and in particular a one page letter) doesn't get a page number hence a different style on the first page. If you don't mind all pages having teh same style it's fine, otherwise you have to modify each style to add whatever you want
@FaheemMitha well it's much safer using a hook that is in latex for the purpose, but because it is part of the documented api, things access it eg chapters doing \thispagestyle[plain} everyshipout just hacks text in at a much lower level so it is invisible to the rest of the system, good for watermarks that you want to underly the text but here you would have to take care that wherever you put the text didn't over-print normal text
@DavidCarlisle The fancyhf just clears stuff, so I have to add page numbers back in manually? Is that command really necessary, or is the issue that the preexisting headers can mess things up?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Matabeleland Tuskers 89/4 & 279/10 * v Mountaineers 435/10
- Southern Rocks 196/10 & 361/10 v Mashonaland Eagles 57/1 & 336/10 *
- Business Management School 115/8 v Royal Institute of Colombo 117/3 *
- Sri Lanka A v England Lions 302/5 *
- Canada Under-19s 169/10 v Papua New Guinea Under-19s 158/10 *
- Namibia Under-19s 173/10 * v Scotland Under-19s 178/10
- Bangladesh 279/7 v India 280/4 *
- Australia Under-19s 150/10 * v South Africa Under-19s 230/9
@FaheemMitha don't manually number anything in latex:-) you can add the page number to the foot using fancydr commands, but if you want nothing on first page you either need two page styles defined or (perhaps simpler if this is the only difference) use something like \ifnum\value{page}=1 \else\thepage\fi in the footer defined by fancyhdr
Question: I have an algorithm environment which is referenced from an \item. Should I put the whole block inside itemize or leave it outside? I'm doing the latter.
@JosephWright: I'm using the Spam sketch in my paper. :P
I would like to organize a beer evening in Berlin (DE). Two questions: 1) The Berliners among you: Are you interested? 2) How should I advertise it? Meta or main site?
@StefanKottwitz Hey I said that. :) But since you are German, I wub you. <3
@Dror awwww <3
!!/answer Distance from São Paulo, Brazil, to Berlin, Germany.
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5523 nmi (nautical miles)
aircraft (550 mph) | 11 hours 35 minutes
sound | 8 hours 20 minutes
light in fiber | 48 ms (milliseconds)
light in vacuum | 34 ms (milliseconds)
(assuming constant-speed great-circle path)
0.26 ~~ 1 / 4
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Consider the following MWE.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textpos}
\newcommand{\insertname}{%
\begin{textblock}{2}(5,-0.5)
\bfseries{\jobname.tex}
\end{textblock}
}
\begin{document}
\insertname
Some text.
\end{document}
This places the name of the LaTeX file at the top of the out...
