I'm using revtex 4.1. I need a figure that spans two columns, i.e. the figure* environment. I have such a figure at the beginning of the document, it shows fine. If I copy the same code towards the end of the document, the figure (or its caption) don't show up at all in the output.
I see no errors on the console.
Does this sound familiar to anyone, and can you point me in the right direction (before I finish making that minimal example)?
damn it, I'll just put it earlier than where it belongs!
pdflatex generates a lot of files that are of no use to me but are important to pdflatex (.aux, .fls, .log, .nav, .toc etc). How can I hide these files, e.g by putting them in some other, global directory? I don't want to see them when using LaTeX normally.
latexmk has the -auxdir option, but it...
@Dennis well you could split your document into files even now:-) otherwise (usually) you can put \newif\ifthingy \thingyfalse in your preamble then surround sections by \ifthingy ... \fi and they will be included or not depending on whethet you use \thingytrue or \thingyfalse in the preamble
@DavidCarlisle amsmath provides displayskips for long alignments, but right now i am not able to find the command. Do you know it from the top of your head?
@egreg Very noisy, but I managed to sleep a couple of hours. :) I'm still running on energy drinks, but my brain entered some sort of monotask mode. :)
I think that this can be re-opened tex.stackexchange.com/q/163627/3954 The OP needs to change the position of the title; the alleged "duplicate" changes the title itself.
I initially misread the question, and voted for closing it :(
Hello to everyone! Can someone say whether there was a question on how to replace AUCTeX's "LaTeX" command with latex->dvips->ps2pdf chain? (I did not manage to find it by googling)
What is the proper way of solving this problem with respect to AUCTeX's design - I mean, how to do that in a way that it will still recognize the errors, display log on demand, make "View" command default on successful compilation, etc. Or, what is a way to define my own command with the same fun...
If I have something like \draw [red] plot [smooth,tension=1,->] coordinates {(0,0) (1,0.25) (2,-0.25) (3,0.5)}; Is there any way I can insert arrows between two or more of the points?
@DavidCarlisle Haha thanks for the input, yea I figured that conditionals would be a decent strategy. Question for you, if I could pick your brain once more. Would having, say, 20 sections conditionally compiling slow down my compilation (as opposed to either \include-ing or just compiling the whole document)? How does \include-ing files effect compilation time? I just ask because I'm writing my first document in LaTeX that actually is getting long enough to sputter a bit when compiling.
So I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to just worry about the section I'm working on, ideally without disabling things like BibTeX key processing (I make enough errors there that I want to be yelled at by my compiler ASAP when it sees a problem)
@Dennis when I wrote my first latex document 15 minutes per page was common so I haven't much sympathy with your timing problems:-) Basically the time taken to skip over a conditional section is negligable
@DavidCarlisle Very nice consideration. Not a huge issue for this document, but easily could be in future documents. I just have to start utilizing the power of \include.
@Dennis include preserves the page number and labels from sections so as long as you have run it once when skipped the aux file for that section is still used. so if you skip the first two sections and include section 3 it will start on page 50 (say) and you can \ref things in the earlier sections, equations will not start at 1 etc. If you use \iffalse to omit a section, it's as if it isn't there and page numbers and equations start at 1
@PauloCereda it's hard to understand why you would use a \multirow there instead of three cells like in the second column. Add \strut at the beginning and end of the \parbox contents.
What is a good choice of environment if I want to have the steps of a proof numbered with text explanations between these steps, and with the whole environment indented?
(the numbering is self-contained, it doesn't need to be continuous with previous theorems or anything)
@PauloCereda You should hide a \quack macro in a package you upload to CTAN as an easter-egg. When LaTeX expands the macro it should produce a giant ASCII art duck. Just sayin'....
@StefanKottwitz That's one of my favorite jokes in class: asking students what number comes after the list 640, 231, 100, 91. The other one is 5, 10, 20, 30, 36: what number follows?
