@Johannes_B Ah ok. Thanks. Would be cool to have longer pingability (like the word). But well, getting contact in comments and delete them afterwards is ok as well.
@LaRiFaRi if their name doesn't pop up when you start typing @ and the first letter then the ping won't work unless you have super mod ping powers. They have to have been logged on to chat "recently"
registration information system's matrix
output process output
Admission selection allocation of course
student's details verification students ID and approval latter
I'm a long-time AUCTeX/Emacs user that switched to Vim/LaTeX-Box recently. I got everything working the way I want and grew pretty fond of Vim, but there's still one unusual thing that bothers me: Vim's syntax highlighting rules for LaTeX seem to be different and more "noisy" than those of AUCTeX...
I am writing my thesis but I am not happy with the default fonts of the template that I am using. So kindly inform me what are the common fonts used in thesis along with the latex commands for those fonts.
I find NIST math render on the web nice. Like here dlmf.nist.gov/19.30 I do not think they are use tex4ht. But one very annoying thing is this: They have this "I" little circle next to each equation on the right side of the page. Yet the page slider in the browser is also on the right. Each time I go to slide the page down more, the mouse moves over one of them, and a pop up menu comes up. very annoying. Bad design
They should put these on the LEFT side, away from the slider ! So they do not interfer with the hand motion. Basic 101 web page design. or make them clickable so they do not pop up each time the mouse just moves over them
@Nasser page down, down arrow or space buttons are easier:-)
@Nasser I suspect latexml is currently the most actively maintained latex to html convertor, as well as dlmf for which it was written they are plugging away at the arxiv converting an ever growing proportion of that catalog link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-85110-3_46#page-1
@DavidCarlisle do you if version 0.8 is the latest version? LaTeXML 0.8.0! the one I tried while ago was 0.7 something. I worry about trying it again and end up wasting days on it. I see little discussion on latexml and conversion to HTML anywhere.
@Nasser seems like 0.8 is still latest it dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/Changes, not saying you should change as you have things set up and a new convertor won't be set up, "The link you gave: "Transforming the arχiv to XML", I think they found the math conversion to mathml was a lot better for their purposes.
@Nasser Fred has a firefox addon that lets you put tex in the page and uses the latexml cloud service to get mathml, I'll see if I can find it...
@DavidCarlisle I'll try latexml V 0.8 again on few HW's I have with lots of math, and compare with tex4ht and see what I find. May be 0.8 will work better for me than 0.7 did.
This is a probably dumb, and not even really a LaTeX one, but people here should lmpw the answer. Anyway, terminology question. I have a line in bold above a LaTeX table, and some text below it. Would I be justified in referring to the former as a title and the later as a caption?
I'm about fed up with the First Posts review queue.
Oh, it was a nice enough idea in theory: give folks a chance to welcome new users to the site, without the heavy constraints that folks complained about with Low Quality review.
The problem is, the review system was designed around the idea ...
@FaheemMitha The things are some combination of "title" "caption" "legend" but which is which (and for figures if any of them should be a "key") seems to be a matter of deep confusion, I tried a google search but didn't find any page worth referencing, they all just said the terminology is confused:-) basically, no one understands English:-)
@DavidCarlisle Ok. Thanks for checking it out.l I guess I'll just declare the words below (in normal font, and more of them) as a caption vs the words above (in bold font and less of them) as a title.
This is made a little more complicated by the fact that the R function I'm using to generate the tables seems to think the captions are above the table. My impression is that below is more standard.
@FaheemMitha I think captions below figures but above tables is common, especially as tables may be multi-page and you might need to know what the numbers are about before getting to page 50.
@DavidCarlisle there is a nice latex to html editor on the web that shows the conversion on the fly ! latexml.mathweb.org/editor the math looks really nice.
it is better than what I get now with tex4ht + images for math. But I read latexml does not support all latex packages, so I am sure this will break my build if I use it, as I use so many latex packages.
"Caveats: It isn’t finished, there are gaps in the coverage, particularly in missing implementations of the many useful LaTeX packages"
but I think if they can support all of the latex packages one day, then it will be the choice for me over tex4ht.
@Nasser if you use images for maths the result isn't readable so it doesn't matter how many packages the converter supports (but you know that's my view:-)
@DavidCarlisle yes, I know. I switched back to images due to current problems with mathml/tex4ht on some math, and due to \SI not working in math mode with tex4ht when using mathml+mathjax. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/161907/… when these get sorted out, will switch back to mathml/matjax route
@DavidCarlisle @JosephWright fyi, tried latexml with sinuitx package, it does not support it either. Here is the result. The on-line editor is latexml.mathweb.org/editor
opps! Problems
Installing [0430/2841, time/total: 09:02/50:37]: chktex [223k]
Installing [0431/2841, time/total: 09:03/50:40]: chktex.i386-linux [48k]
Installing [0432/2841, time/total: 09:03/50:40]: chletter [150k]
./tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.i386-linux: (stdin): File is corrupt
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
untar: untarring /usr/local/texlive/2014/temp/chletter.doc.tar failed (in /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist)
untarring /usr/local/texlive/2014/temp/chletter.doc.tar failed, stopping install.
This in on linux mint 17, fresh installation. something is wrong in that texlive 2014 tar file?
These are the steps in case someone wants to try it
gunzip install-tl-unx.tar.gz
tar -xvf install-tl-unx.tar
cd to the new folder created and type
sudo ./install-tl
Hi, I have a paper for the conference, They asked me that the pdf file should be saved with embeded fonts. I don't know how to do that. could anyone tell me how I save a pdf file with embeded fonts? thanks
@egreg I think you are right. I am running it again (from the start) and now I do not see the error. it is still installing as we speak. keeping fingers crossed.
@egreg Thanks! :) I have a sequence W. I need to remove the first element of this sequence, so I wrote this: q \leftarrow \pi_1 (W), W \leftarrow W \setminus \{ q \}. Bad?
I think it will be fun time now, trying to debug all the problems trying to build my tree with tex4ht and texlive 2014 :)
Here is first one. oh boy...
(/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmoduleshapes.cod
e.tex)
(/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmoduleplot.code.
tex)
(/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pgf/compatibility/pgfcomp-version
-0-65.sty
! Undefined control sequence.
\pgfsys@svg@newline ->\Hnewline
l.190 \pgfusepathqfill}
@egreg No the English press have explained it all to us, no need to panic we can still get through to the next stage, apparently losing to Italy didn't count as Italy can play quite well or something, anyway that didn't count.
@Mathematician: Yes, the spacing looks fine to you in the separate environments and that's good. In a similar light, the discussion in What is the Necessity of $…$ Around Numbers? would probably seem superfluous to you... and that's fine as well. It's just that a majority of LaTeX users have conformed to not using eqnarray for reasons already mentioned. Just like I enjoy cream in my coffee doesn't mean that everyone has to follow what I do, so be happy with your choice and accept that (most) others have a different opinion. — Werner1 min ago
A little question about LaTeX3. After reading this question tex.stackexchange.com/q/185346/21930 I remembered something I thought some time ago. What is the “correct way” of writing the signature in those cases? \test:w #1 \q_stop has clearly one argument :w but shouldn't \test:w #1 / #2 / #3 \q_stop be \test:www? I haven't seen any command in latex3 with more than one w in the signature, but I don't know, I doubt...
@Manuel I'm reading texdoc expl3 to see what it says; perhaps it inadvertently sheds some light on this
@Manuel
> The ⟨arg-spec⟩ consists of a (possibly empty) list of letters, each denoting one argu- ment of the function. The letter, including its case, conveys information about the type of argument required.
@leo Of course, in Greece they call it “Greek coffee”, but it's exactly the same. I had it in Wien, accompanying a big slice of Sachertorte at the Hotel Sacher. Yummy!
@SeanAllred Great :P The question came to my mind after seen for first time :wN and :nw and something like that. Which means that w is just one of the arguments. Then I thought, if there are more w arguments, then indicate that.
@Manuel well partly because :w is needed at the lowest level but at higher levels you shouldn't be doing that:-)
@SeanAllred probably you shouldn't use delimited argumenst at all (and it would be more in the spirit of the question just to parse three numbers ending after the third
@DavidCarlisle Sorry, I still don't know how to control what message I'm answering to :S
@JosephWright Okey, that's the point of my question. I thought it would be correct to say :www but since I haven't seen any command with more than one :w I thought that may be, as you say, the :w meant “up to and including anything”. However, I still think it's more clear (and does not harm) to use :www in that case.
@JosephWright Yeah, I understand that. But since some of you “are LaTeX3” I wanted to see your opinion. :w can map to more than one argument… but is :www right? Is it even better in this case? Would you, from the LaTeX3 “authority” recommend using :w or :www in this case?
@egreg Ahh! Never thought about using sequences! And if history has taught me anything, clearer is almost always better than faster. Computers will get faster, but people may not get smarter. ;)
@PauloCereda The search for clearer leads to a solution that makes sense, and the clear solution is straightforward in its own right and thus faster. Now, the problem comes in with lazy solutions. Not thinking about your problem yields these, and these are the bottlenecks of software.
(I'm kind-of hand-waving nester for loops and such; those should be a red flag by default.)
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@DavidCarlisle One thing that occurred to me: If HTML5 validity is specified by describing the "parsing algorithm", what about decidability? Has this been established?
@DavidCarlisle Er, in that case there would trivially exist a grammar representation (say, EBNF). Why don't they write that down instead of a bunch of rules made of bullet lists?
@DavidCarlisle Is there a paper on this with a proof somewhere?
@StephanLehmke mostly because they are more concerned with the invalid than valid startes. The parser algorithm gives a defined parse tree for every input string.
@StephanLehmke you are kidding, that isn't the way the whatwg works:-)
@DavidCarlisle With finite you mean "finite but longer than the longest admissible HTML file"? How would one check for proper tag nesting otherwise?
Also I get validation errors of the form "a column established by this <col> element has no cell starting in it". Do you really think this is the kind of thing checked by a finite state machine?
@StephanLehmke finite lookahead for tokenization If you start a tag <aa you only need to read one character at a tine to decide wher e the the tag name ends
@StephanLehmke well need to be careful in what you mean by valid, the html spec has a parser that is effectively a finite state machine with some states invalid, it also has several other prose descriptions of author conformance that authors should or should not do, yes well as I say tokenization (which is in fact most of it:-) has finite states you need some stacks for tag nesting of course and also for random element re-arrangements inflicted on tables and math:-)
@StephanLehmke yes mainly thinking of the character by character parsing to determine that tags (I think that is really finite state) although since it ow written in english and interleaved with other stuff hard to be sure:-)
@DavidCarlisle By valid I mean "I feed this HTML in and it says whether it's valid or not" (as for instance the W3C checker does). This is either decidable or not.
@DavidCarlisle Isn't this a sufficiently interesting property that someone would write a masters on it?
@StephanLehmke not so clear as it isn't formally specified what a validator needs to or can check, the authoring requirements are written in English and the v.nu parser approximates that in Java
@StephanLehmke with reference to the stacks you can't put arbitrary data on the stack just the stack of open elements (and a similar one for forms and stuff: the spec says:
Implementations must act as if they used the following state machine to tokenise HTML. The state machine must start in the data state. Most states consume a single character, which may have various side-effects, and either switches the state machine to a new state to reconsume the same character, or switches it to a new state to consume the next character, or stays in the same state to consume the next character. Some states have more complicated behavior and can consume several characters before switching to another state. In some cases, the tokenizer state is also changed by the tree cons…
@StephanLehmke so basically a finite state machine builds a stream of open and close tags with attributes and text data and passes that to the tree construction stage that builds the tree and does need to maintain stacks of open elements, but the tokenization and tree building stages (and the rendering of that tree) are all interleaved so it's complicated (and document.write('<p>') means the whole lot is re-entrant and can start a nested parsing context at more or less any point...
@StephanLehmke so the quiz is, what tree results from
@egreg Ah, I didn't know they were equivalent :) They certainly look the same :) Certainly much easier than typing \prime over and again.
Out of curiosity, why do you suppose the control sequence exists? Is it just actively replaced by mathmode to typeset the right math character? (230 in this case, by the way)
A superscript is begun and a prime is added. Then the macro adds as many primes as apostrophes it finds; if a ^ follows, it is gobbled and the explicit superscript is added to the already open one; finally \egroup finishes off.
! Package babel Error: Unknown option `spanish'. Either you misspelled it
(babel) or the language definition file spanish.ldf was not foun
d.
See the babel package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
yesterday it worked
@egreg given a positive rational number $r$, chances are that $\sqrt[k]{r}$ is irrational, right?
registration information system's matrix
output process output
Admission selection allocation of course
student's details verification students ID and approval latter
I am writing my thesis but I am not happy with the default fonts of the template that I am using. So kindly inform me what are the common fonts used in thesis along with the latex commands for those fonts.
I'm about fed up with the First Posts review queue.
Oh, it was a nice enough idea in theory: give folks a chance to welcome new users to the site, without the heavy constraints that folks complained about with Low Quality review.
The problem is, the review system was designed around the idea ...
