@AlanMunn No, I didn't mean that we couldn't talk anymore about math. I also didn't mean that you should shut up. I apologize if I caused that impression.
"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics." - Gauss, which gave me headaches when I had to implement one of his methods.
I just noticed that one of the references cited in the article as a source for the term "formal science" is actually a book about the history of linguistics.
@PauloCereda something like that (not exactly) happens in the Diccionario de la Real Academia (the official dictionary for Spanish). There are cases in which you look word1 up, its definition refers you to word2, and this definition sends you back to word1!
@GonzaloMedina I think almost all dictionaries are like that. They seem to work on the principle that you're likely to know at least one of the words, I think.
@GonzaloMedina Every speaker of a language must have a lexicon in their head (we assume) where they store the words/morphemes they know. How that lexicon is structured, and how the actual entries are constructed, and how children learn them without any instruction is one major area of linguistic research.
For example, both you and Paulo have two copular verbs: ser and estar. How did you learn what the difference between them is? It's certainly something that you can't easily state. (My wife and her former students are currently investigating this problem. It's really hard.)
@AlanMunn In fact, it requires some little effort to try to explain what the difference between them is, but we can use them correctly, even not being able to verbally explain thoroughly their use. (I don't know if what I just said makes any sense)
We're currently working on how children learn that the "as ... as ..." comparative (like "John is as tall as Mary" doesn't always mean "equal to" but sometimes means "greater than or equal to"
@GonzaloMedina No, that's exactly the problem. You know absolutely how to use them "correctly" (i.e. idiomatically for a native speaker) but you have absolutely no conscious knowledge of what underlies that usage. (And what conscious knowledge you may have (from school grammar, for example) is very likely to be wrong.
I think at the beginning of the learning process, children copy what they listen to, and try to construct their own phrases based on replacement rules, changing nouns and verbs. Then the possible new phrase is said and "corrected" by an adult, which alters the rule set.
We think this is related to another problem, namely that numerals sometimes have "at least" interpretations, even though most of the time they have "exactly" interpretations. For example, if I say "Do you have 2 children", you would reply, "No, I have three". But if I say "Do you have 2 dollars you can lend me", you could say "Yes" even though you have more than 2 dollars.
The closest I got to Linguistics was when I worked with natural language processing. It was very difficult for me to understand even some basic concepts.
@PauloCereda Yes, and I think this gets in the way of much good research in the area. Because language is so automatic, people underestimate the difficulty of the problem, and think that we linguists are just making things unnecessarily complicated. But it's a complicated object.
@AlanMunn I see. Not only people underestimate the difficult of the problem, but sometimes they actually ignore the foundations and concepts of research. If I say to someone I work with theoretical CS, the person will be like, "so you basically do nothing?".
Making new users feel welcome is very important, and we've discussed before steps to avoid putting them off. At the same time, we want to encourage new users to follow the correct Q&A approach here. That shows up most commonly when a users posts an 'answer' to a question which is either a new...
@HedgeMage, @GraceNote I've posted a summary of the moderation approaches on TeX.sx and my understanding of the more general SE one on our meta site. Perhaps you'd make sure I've got the general SE one about right, as I don't really use any other sites so only know how things work here.
In particular, I'd appreciate something about what users can do if there answer is deleted in terms of editing and 'resurrecting'
@PauloCereda: I've switched to Mint for my new computer. I really dislike the way KDE 4 evolved (using InnoDB MySQL databases for akonadi is the worse choice I've seen for the desktop), and I don't like Unity either
@Raphink wow, did the KDE team decide using InnoDB/MySQL for akonadi, for real? :-| I swear I tried KDE, but I can't get used to it, I always come back to Gnome, XFCE, etc.
Mint seems to be a nice approach for users who like Ubuntu but not Unity.
TBH Gnome shell (Unity/G3) is not my cup of tea, but I tend to prefer unusual desktops than the classical Windows/Mac design stuff. Now I'm looking for 3.2, which seems to have improvements I've been waiting for a long time.
And I really like Fedora, I've been using it since FC1.
@PauloCereda: yep, years ago. I used to have crontabs to retrieve distant calendars and see them in Kontact. When they switched to akonadi, I tried to find CLI utilities to manage the DB, insert vcal/ical files into it, etc. but there were none, and no documentation (apart from the Doxygen doc for the internal libraries). On top of that, you now occasionally get innodb errors when launching kontact. So I gave up.
I don't want to manage MySQL innodb bases on my desktop, really.
let alone my mom's
But I like Debian/Ubuntu as an OS, so I'm sticking to it.
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The Norway lemming has a bold pattern of black and yellow-brown, which is variable between individuals. It grows to a size of 155 mm. The tail is very short ...
I think I'm addicted to Stackexchange. All those questions I could spend hours googling and getting conflicting results....I can just ASK and people tell me! Also it is much easier to keep track of then IRC.
Also the critter for LaTeX is OBVIOUSLY the Chupacabra.
@Canageek It seems that hyperref used to allow paper size options, since now it flags them as "obsolete". I thought it was a problem with the front-end ("line 0" was what made me wrong). At least it shows you that building a minimal example often solves the problem before posting a question!
I have PDF graphic in which I would like to have fonts removed. All other properties of the file should remain (such as size, etc). The output file should be in PDF as well. The text itself should be converted to outlines.
Can I do it at the moment of including the PDF figure in pdftex document?...
I installed statweave on Windows 7. The installation is like this:
MiKTeX 2.9 is installed in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\
statweave installed in C:\
Other configurations: only changed the arguments of the Stata 11 which is in C:\stat11\stata.exe.
At the moment, I put statweave.sty in the cod...
I have a bibliography and 3 appendix sections in LyX. Using hyperref, I've created bookmarks but Bibliography acts as "Heading 1" with the title of each appendix as subsections. HOw do I change the appendices to be there own Headings in the bookmarks. The TOC shows it appropriately.
Another r...
I've been a relatively long-time user of TeXnicCenter, and whenever I recompiled a tex file to PDF and viewed the output in that program, I would get an updated version of the PDF that was already open.
I started using Kile and realized that whenever I tried doing the same thing, Kile would ope...
A place to note down how this would work.
Date/time
First Sunday of each month
Cycle of three time slots:
0900-1100 GMT
1400-1600 GMT
2100-2300 GMT
Approach
The moderator-adjustable banner would be set ~48 h before to state that a 'unanswered question session' was scheduled on chat.
At ...
@GonzaloMedina Welcome to the party, Gonzalo! We bring up questions that have no answers and discuss what we could do with them - a quick answer, convert a comment to an answer, upvote an existing question, close, etc. :-)
This concerns the "lineno" package. The \linelabel directive works within the ordinary linenumbers environment. How to create a line number label within a internallinenumbers environment to be able to reference a line number? I need this to be able to refer to a line in the pseudocode in a figure...
I have a landscape page in a twosided portrait report. It works fine and the pdf looks ok. The issue pops up at the List of Tables where the landscape page appears to be at page 72 which is correct, but the link jumps to 73.
Any way to solve this issue?
Thanks,
@PaŭloEbermann Hi, it's kind of a duplicate. I answered his other question (he's interested in Stata nor R) and he said in a comment he would try it and get back to me, but hasn't yet. That one could do with at least an upvote to get it off the list.
@egreg As I understand, it remarks that \linelabel refers to the line number given by the linenumbers environment instead of the internallinenumbers environment, and asks how to get a label which allows referring to this second line number.
Is there an AucTeX extension which supports the TikZ syntax and that one of the tkz-collection as well?
In particular I want thinks like:
syntax highlighting
proper indentation
that TeX-insert-macro knows the TikZ (tkz)-commands and options (perhaps it would be better to have a new emacs macro...
The bibleref package has a feature that does that for Bible books (which are sorted by Bible order usually). There's two suggested ways.
The native way inserts numbers before the entry, so the index looks like:
\indexentry{01\relax @\BRbooktitlestyle {\BRbookof Gen\`ese}!001:026@\BRchapterstyle...
I'm using MiKTeX and TexMaker 2.2.2. Using the latabstat command in Stata I create small tex files of some tables.
They look like:
\begin{table}[htbp]\centering
\begin{tabular}
(table content)
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
When I compile my main document
\begin{document}
\input{tablefromstata}
...
(I did have one thought: on that "AucTeX for TikZ", I've been deliberately not voting on that one - though it's top of the list of unanswereds in my "tags" - since it sounds like it would be a nice thing for AucTeX users to have so having the question, with all those upvotes, is a way of advertising the need.)
As part of our LaTeX3 work, we provide a consistent interface to TeX programming through the expl3 package. We've recently been discussing the TeX primitive \lastbox, which is used to inspect or unpack whatever just came before in the typesetting.
From a scan over various packages that use \last...
Another migrating to biblatex type question.
In my thesis I have used something called the footbib package. What this lets me do is create citations in the text, in some regular way, only the reference list appears as a footnote under a line covering the length of the page.
It is implemented u...
I have a 1 inch top margin in all the pages that I have in my DVI file. When
I convert this to PDF however the top margin reduces! I am not sure why this is happening. Could someone tell me how to ensure a top margin of at least 1 inch in the PDF?
@JosephWright An answer could at least try to explain this one strange usage of lastbox in plain.tex. Maybe the question could be changed in this direction.
I'm running 64 bit ultimate Windows 7.
I've had MiKTeX, TeXworks and Texmaker installed for a while and then I got to installing a .sty package for actually typing sometime and I noticed that there was .sty packages loaded in a Mathematica file. Mathematica is a separate application which must u...
I have an eps file: "model.eps" here:
http://petitlien.fr/my_test_file
The content preview is here:
http://apercu.petitlien.fr/my_test_file
I wish to make label replacements in the eps file using the psfrag commands as follows:
\psfrag{A}{$m$}
\psfrag{B}{$k$}
\psfrag{Y}{inner boundary}
Thi...
(Stupid question: I don't have enough rep to cast a vote to close a certain question. This procedure is totally different from flagging it and choose 'close', isn't it?)
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23008/problems-with-winedt @JosephWright commented on this, but no answer was given, although the issue seems to have been resolved one way or another. Too localized?
@PauloCereda If you have the right to vote, you see a "close" link below the question, which gives you a similar dialog as the one visible with flag => "does not belong here".
(Also, if you have the right to close-vote, this part of the flagging dialog automatically changes to close-vote instead.)
I have some tables with wider column content, I have 8 columns. The whole table is not displayed in LaTeX, when I reduce the font size also there is no result. I have about 7 tables in single .tex document. If I use the rotating package all the tables are not displayed.
Is there any other method...
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25910/accents-in-citations No followup for month and a half, and answered with the all-too-common "Use biblatex" mantra.
There are some online TeX editors which allow to type TeX source, compile it and see the output. I am looking for something different, I am wondering if there exists some sites which let type TeX source and see the output at the same time. It is quite similar to the editor of StackExchange: when ...
I would really love to have a software or tool which provided real time compilation of my LaTeX document (to be able to see the final pdf or dvi document as I type the latex code), especially for when I am drawing pictures using tikZ. So far, I know of two things, but none of them work for me. Th...
I am new to latex.
I have to prepare a one-page document (so float is not important).
I want to have 3 pdf graphs at the top of the page with 2 graphs centered on the first line and 1 graph centered below it. I want the two lines of graphs to be as close together as possible, so that I can have ...