@barznjy I'm not saying miktex is bad, I have just never used it so can't say what it supports, and certainly egreg has never used it as he is in denial that windows exists at all.
@DavidCarlisle I will have a look. Josephs suggestion for placeins (of course) works fine in memoir as well. I just have to figure out the stuff for the memoir replacement of \@doclearpage. I'm a bit tempted to just merge it with the definitions in the new ltxoutput.dtx where the two column stuff now use \@deferlist where it use to use \@dbldeferlist. If that is the proper fix and will also work with old LaTeX, then I don't see much of a problem doing that.
@DavidCarlisle, BTW do you guys have an MWE for the float sync problem in twocolum.
@DavidCarlisle, I'll see if I can figure out what it actually is memoir is doing to \@doclearpage and why.
@daleif in general it won't work with the old latex (unless you do all the changes all over the float handling)
@daleif yes I'll dig one out
@daleif the placeins fix you won't need in the end as I've put the setting of @dbldeferlist back so if you want to test you could put \gdef\@dbldeferlist{} before \dump in latex.ltx and rebuild the 2015 format
@DavidCarlisle This basically means that I need to do something with the memoir version of \@doclearpage. It still use \@dbldeferlist, but the new format will used the fixed \@doclearpage which should not have problems with float over in twocolumn. So either way I need to figure that one out.
@DavidCarlisle I saw that. But the test in the code should not hurt anyone ;-)
Hi guys. Still me ;-) Well I'm trying to implement my title command. But this isn't working like expected. In my LaTeX: https://gist.github.com/wget/062b7148277558f6c865 My template class: https://gist.github.com/wget/e4ae615d771c9bf6f9b1
(partial template class)
seems like I forgot to implement something, as I got in my document the value of the key too... Nothing seems interpreted.
@wget you have \renewcommand{\title}[2][]{ so define \title to take two arguments the first one optional, but that definition doesn't use either #1 or #2 so neither argument is used. Since you have used the syntax \title{a=b,c=d} I guess you want to declare \title with one argument and then you need to use #1 passing it to the key evaluator \setkeys{title}{#1}
@DavidCarlisle Yep indeed using only one argument is what I want.
Well I just added \setkeys{title}{#1} inside my renewcommand environment, but how can I get the value of the keys in statements like \define@key{title}{maintitle}{\def\@maintitle{{\Huge\textbf{#1}\par}\vspace{0.4cm}}} ?
% Restrict the commands to the internals of this class file.
\def\@maintitle{}
\def\@subtitle{}
\def\@author{}
\define@key{title}{maintitle}{\def\@maintitle{{\Huge\textbf{#1}\par}\vspace{0.4cm}}}
\define@key{title}{subtitle}{\def\@subtitle{{\Large{#2}\par}}}
\define@key{title}{author}{\def\@author{{\emph{Author: #3}\par}}}
% The outer bracket is the renewcommand syntax, the inner one is a group definition avoiding \@author to leak out and be the default in later uses.
What I have in my class file ^
Ho wI intent to use it in my TeX documents
\documentclass{template}
\begin{document}
\title{maintitle=Some long title, subtitle=My subtitle, author=My author}
\end{document}
Seems like I didn't get exactly how keyval is really working.
\define@key{title}{author}{\def\@author{{\emph{Author: #3}\par}}} that must give an error surely? You can only use #1 in a key #1 is the value passed in after the =
@wget ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \KV@title@author.
Yep this is what I'm thinking to now. But I cannot understand how keyval is parsing that argument and detecting #1 correspond to 3 parameters in practise.
@wget With \title{maintitle=Some long title, subtitle=My subtitle, author=My author} and keyval processing, each key is examined for a value, so for key maintitle#1 is Some long title
@wget you are just declaring a single key and every key is a one argument macro, \define@key{title}{author}{..#1} is just sugar around \def\kv@title@author#1{...#1} and author=xxx is really \kv@title@author{xxx}
@wget I've got some github projects as well but I still prefer svn to git, mostly (although github is obviously a better project control site than googlecode)
@wget I think it's worth noting that SVN is likely to stay around for a long time (there are advantages) and Mercurial still has a lot of support, but Bazaar in particular I wouldn't fancy for the longer term
@DavidCarlisle Yes
@DavidCarlisle Or BitBucket
@DavidCarlisle I wonder if Assembla will go the same way (Morten's code is on that)
@DavidCarlisle, I'm with David on that one. I still haven't learned to use git. My work offers a subversion server so that is what I use for everything. Have suited my fine so far. No need for special features. And I like the reversion numbers. They are easy to explain to the authors I coerce into using subversion
@JosephWright Yep SVN isn't gonna die soon. This isn't the same level of distribution and the same objective: centralized version control (inability to get back in the history without connection) vs Git which is distributed.
% Redefine the title commmand
% makeatletter and makeatother are unneeded in class files.
%\makeatletter
% Restrict the commands to the internals of this class file.
\def\@maintitle{}
\def\@subtitle{}
\def\@author{}
\define@key{title}{maintitle}{%
\def\@maintitle{%
\HRule%
\vspace{0.4cm}
% We always need to define \par in scope for a font size change, otherwise, if the title is ever longer than a line, it will wrap to the next line with huge characters on a normal baseline.
Seems like this is working properly now. Comments are welcome!
Do you know how I can detect if a command is being used. What I typically want to have is that if \simpletitle is set, adapt my title command to be a simple title and not a titling page. `\ifx \simpleTitle \undefined\else % do stuff here\fi` seems to don't work, the same applies for the LaTeX command \ifdefined . Any idea?
I don't want to use yet another additional package to make such a (simple) condition.
@wget If \simpletitle works similarly to \title, so \simpletitle{Foo} does \def\@simpletitle{Foo}, you can initialize \@simpletitle with something like \let\@simpletitle\relax and then \ifx\@simpletitle\relax will return true if and only if \simpletitle has not been used.
@egreg Please note that simpletitle is my own command I want to declare not the one from a titling package or whatever. And that command will be used rom the user side of my class. So restricting its access with @ isn't really the best solution I think.
@egrep that command will act like a boolean. If the command is present i.e. the user specified \simpletitle, then my \title command will adapt itself automatically and won't act like a titling page, but as a standard title.
@JosephWright seeing just the shortened URL, I thought it was going to be a link to RMS' recent Wired article... but this will be a good read. Bookmarked for later.
@daleif In my use case \myMacro should be equal to \myMacro{}
It's only when that macro is present, I want my condition to be executed.
@daleif like I said, I may (and will) be using just a ridiculous subset of etoolbox and I don't think loading yet another package would be great. Especially as my compilation is taking already a huge time, and don't want to add delay to it. But if your package is REALLY efficient why not ;-)
@wget Then it might be an idea to have a look at why it is taking so long. As I mentioned above. etoolbox wastly simplified the class I was writing and made the UI much more robust. For instance for a colophon a user can now remove an entry by saying, say \mobile{}, then no mobile is listed. \mobile{ } give the same.
@wget well presumably it is defined when you don't expect it to be or not defined when you do. But I can't guess what you expect and questions should have a complete example that demonstrates the problem, and be on site
@daleif I already know why this is so long: a bunch of images (internship report), using xetex and translation packages to be able to write in FRench and English depending on the section.
@JosephWright Otherwise, are there any way to write that (I assume) tricky condition in plain TeX? I can't realize TeX couldn't do that easily. In my class file:
\newcommand{\myMacro}[1]{\def\@simpletitle{}}
\ifx\@simpletitle\undefined
Undefined
\else
Defined
\fi
It's one of the uncountable ways to check whether an argument is empty. Almost all of them suffer of some drawback: in the case at hand, the argument mustn't be \\.
What does \ifx do? It compares the two tokens following it, without expanding them. The test return success if both tokens are equa...
@wget so \mymacro will define \@simpletitle but your test is in the class file so will always try to typeset Undefined and generate an error. What did you hope it would do?
@wget when switch them off while you mess with the rest. Or perhaps make lower quality versions og the same size, that does not take so long to load. There are many ways to optimize.
@DavidCarlisle Hmm, when I test with a copy of TL14 where I applied the 2ebuild changes to and rebuild the formats, I still get fig 2 on page 1 and fig 1 on page 2. Regardless of
@daleif hmm the dbldefer list just lets memoir load without error where it sets up the placeins stuff but you should get, in a real tl2014 page 1: fig 0.2 at top, zzzz text, page 2: fig 0.1 centred. with 2015 you should get (I get) page1: zzz text, page 2: fig 0.1 at top, fig 0.2 below that
@DavidCarlisle This one I can compile. The trick of adding \gdef\@dbldeferlist{} before \dump in latex.ltx does not seem to be working. If I directly test for it before \documentclass it says it is not defined.
I also get errors when I run fmtutil-sys --all, but they are about luatex and xetex so that should not matter, as I'm testing with pdflatex
@DavidCarlisle it is absolutely not clear to me why memoir need its own copy of \@doclearpage. I'll look at that this weekend. But it does seem to compile. Will check some of my projects.
@DavidCarlisle Interesting. That does not quite give the same results for memoir. New format + latexrelease 2014/05/01 gives fig2 on first page bottom of col 1. TL14 unchanged (latexrelease removed from sources) gives fig2 on page 1 top of col 1. I'm guessing it is the \mem@doclearpage that is at play.
@AlanMunn what do you mean by "all" in this context, with unicode-math \mathsf{abc + 123 = xyz} all the letters are sans, the symbols are not except they didn't have serifs to start with.
@AlanMunn I made an answer about that on site the other day (saying don't do it) with a classic tex \mathxxx it's fairly easy to default to any as you just have to put \everymath{\fam=6} or some such but unicode-math's version it has to step through token by token changing X to U+1d5a0 and similarly for every other letter/digit, so hiding the macro form is harder/more fragile
\boldmath selects the bold math version which would have bold versions of most or some of the math fonts set up in the "usual" math groups. However latin modern math has no bold font so this doesn't do anything useful here.
Normally \boldmath just affects alphabetic characters and selects the bo...
@DavidCarlisle I don't actually want to do it myself, but there's a person using beamer who is having trouble and I'm trying to figure out what would a useful solution for him.
I'm typesetting beamer with XeLaTeX. In equations, variable characters collide with their superscripts.
Also, the parenthesised variable looks somewhat off-set – too far to the right.
It looks good when compiled with pdflatex (or just without xltxtra, but that's not an option for other reasons).
...
I have exported a graphic to eps format from Matlab/mupad after replacing axis latin labels with greek symbols within mupad itself. After calling the eps doc in LaTeX, and using dvi, I see that the exporter has replaced greek with
latin in the graphic. I have verified this replacement by opening ...
@aeroNotAuto Which i can confirm, running in full screen mode. If the link links to the same frame, what output should change? I think they can see nothing happening, because nothing is supposed to happen.
@Johannes_B well right, i assume they're clicking the link on a slide that is not the last slide, so it doesn't link to the same frame? are you thinking the different pdf readers interpret the link destination differently?
@aeroNotAuto Pdf readers are known to be strange. I am also running an early dev version of zathura which is somehow always in what the hack do i care-random mode.
@Johannes_B also, i just tried evince in full screen mode on this windows machine (works fine) and presentation mode - i can reproduce the problem in presentation mode
@Johannes_B in presentation mode, and only presentation mode so far, i can click the section/subsection headers and they the slides don't change. this is with evince on both machines (windows/linux)
@AlanMunn What type of dictionary? The sample file sample-langdict.tex produces a French<->English dictionary. There are some examples of different glossary styles on my gallery.
@NicolaTalbot Yes, I saw that. But I think for what I want I can do it with datatool. glossaries is really more for dealing with things within a text, whereas what I have in mind is a standalone dictionary.
@AlanMunn How are you sorting the entries? If it's a big dictionary it'll be slow using TeX to sort. I think with a standalone dictionary it's probably simplest to sort it yourself.
@NicolaTalbot Yes, that's what will be done. Put everything in a spreadsheet and then use datatool to format the entries. (That's how the sample was produced.)
@AlanMunn I wrote up some stuff about it in this answer.
@AlanMunn There's not really a limit as such (unless you exceed TeX's buffer size, which is unlikely to happen with modern TeX distributions) but the contents of the register holding the data are pulled apart and put back together again every time a new entry is added, which really slows things down with the more data you have.
@NicolaTalbot I see. Ok. This is something I'm helping someone else with who doesn't actually use LaTeX, and I'm trying to figure out a bit of a turnkey solution.
In the style of Who are the package maintainers here? and other big-list questions, I was wondering who here (package maintainer or no) has a GitHub, Bitbucket, CTAN author page, Launchpad, or other place where they keep a portfolio of their code (some of which is bound to be TeX in this communit...
@yo' i'm trying to figure out what the value of a variable is but it's a few files deep (beamerbasenavigation.sty) and \message{} doesn't print anything to the log when i compile the presentation...will any of these wrappers?
@yo' ohmygosh, this produces a ton of output. is there not a simple way for me to print one line to the log? just the variable value from the line of code i'm looking at?
@PaulGessler oh, so that puts me back to square one. i've been using \message{}, and it works fine in my beamer document, but the variable i'm looking at is in beamerbasenavigation.sty
@aeroNotAuto you still haven't told us what you actually want to see... but I'm guessing you need something like A frame of subsection 2.1\show\insertsubsectionhead
@DavidCarlisle i guess i should use different wording, i'm trying to display the value of an argument on a line in beamerbasenavigation.sty, and get it to print to the log when i compile my beamer mwe. i tried \show\##2, \the##2, and \showthe##2 to no avail
@PaulGessler i'm not sure how to test at the spot i'd like to see it's value, for that i'd need a way to pause execution and step into the function right?
@DavidCarlisle interesting, okay. that's good to know, thank you
@PaulGessler what i'm trying to see i guess is what gets executed when the infolines section header is clicked, so i can redefine it and see if that changes behavior
@aeroNotAuto "clicked"?? nothing in tex tracing or \show is going to tell you about interactive behaviour of the pdf file, you are tracing the generation of the pdf, not viewing of it???
@DavidCarlisle i was able to redefine \hyperlinkpresentationstart{}, for example, and that seems to work as expected
@DavidCarlisle but i tried redefining things like \hyperlinksectionstartnext{} and it didn't seem to change the behavior when the section name in the header gets clicked. i guess these are kind of shots in the dark.
@PaulGessler maybe i'm in over my head, or going about this the wrong way...i did get what you just showed to work, but i'd have to guess which hyperlink is being defined in the section header. i was trying to do the reverse i guess: i see that beamerouterthemeinfolines.sty uses \insertsectionhead for the section header, so i assume that defines the hyperlink, and i was trying to step down into the macros that way?
Can someone give me an idea (if it is at all possible) about how the document structure will be in the LaTeX3 format. Will it still start with a \documentclass and use \begin{document} ... \end{document}, will we still load a list (hopefully shorter) of packages in the preamble, etc.? And will t...
@aeroNotAuto yep, looking at \show\insertsectionhead is how I got down to \show\hyperlink. This is at the limit of my knowledge, someone else probably has a better idea.
@JosephWright you should know this stuff off the top of your head! ;-)
@JosephWright oh i see, not just that line. and it looked like @PaulGessler made a joke before, but your response of 'gotcha' was an unexpected response lol
When editing another user's post, I noticed that raw https links to locations on the SE Network are not prettified in the previewer in the same way http links are.
When actually submitting the change and viewing the live post, the links (both https and http) are prettified as expected. So the pr...
I'm trying to draw graphs and especially quivers, for instance the quiver made of one vertice and one loop upon it. A simple way please ?
(PS. not sure about the tag)
In I want to start using LaTeX on Mac OS X. Where do I start?, the OP asked about a recommendation for a set of tools to use LaTeX on a Mac. But that was 4 years ago, and the landscape may have changed.
I'm hoping to install LaTeX on a Mac as well. I have a few idiosyncracies:
I will be worki...
@JosephWright part of it is a dupe of the linked question, another part is a dupe of the IDE question, and another part is... I don't know. In short, I'm not sure what to do with it, lol
After Johannes_b pointed me in the right direction, it turned out that using \captionsetup[subtable]{position=auto} fixes the spacing in all four cases.
Long answer
After some experimentation, it seemed to me that the \caption of the outer table environment somehow affected the \caption used in...
@PaulGessler Ad "TUG talk": it seems that half of your posts are about TikZ. Maybe you have got some nice "TikZ dirty clean tricks" that would be worth sharing? :)
@yo' I'm not sure what's worth sharing, that's the problem. I would present about my git graph project, but I've had no time to work on it recently and I don't know if I could complete it in time. :-(
@PaulGessler I'll need to do the abstract as well, but before, I gotta finish a math paper, prepare a talk on it and do loads and loads of other stuff :D
@DavidCarlisle well, one thing I like about GitHub: the sources are mirrored in your own computer. The wikis and issues are not, which could be painful, but still, this is nice.
Is it possible to test whether a token list register is empty without expanding it?
I'm trying to draw graphs and especially quivers, for instance the quiver made of one vertice and one loop upon it. A simple way please ?
(PS. not sure about the tag)
In I want to start using LaTeX on Mac OS X. Where do I start?, the OP asked about a recommendation for a set of tools to use LaTeX on a Mac. But that was 4 years ago, and the landscape may have changed.
I'm hoping to install LaTeX on a Mac as well. I have a few idiosyncracies:
I will be worki...
After Johannes_b pointed me in the right direction, it turned out that using \captionsetup[subtable]{position=auto} fixes the spacing in all four cases.
Long answer
After some experimentation, it seemed to me that the \caption of the outer table environment somehow affected the \caption used in...
