TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Canageek

12:30 AM

How hard it is to make the \section headers smaller?

Alan Munn

@Canageek \usepackage[small]{titlesec}

Canageek

12:50 AM

@AlanMunn Damn, you were right about citations. Lazyness never pays off.

Alan Munn

@Canageek I do this stuff for a living. (I'm a professor, as are many of us here, you'll find.)

Canageek

@AlanMunn Ahhhhh. I'm a science major taking a history course for fun.

Alan Munn

@Canageek But the rules are the same in science. And I'm not really in the humanities.

Canageek

@AlanMunn We use ACS style predominantly, and only cite books once in a new moon in chemistry- I can't remember doing it in a long time, and can only think of one paper citing a book off the top of my head.

@AlanMunn Any idea what Bibliography string 'cbyeditor' undefined(biblatex) at entry 'Burroughs' on input line 83. Means?

Alan Munn

@Canageek Sure, that's not surprising, but the fact that you don't cite book chapters doesn't remove the rule for them. :-)

@Canageek Yes, it's because you're loading biblatex-chicago as an option to loading biblatex, I bet. In my example that I made in answering your question, I used \usepackage{biblatex-chicago}, not \usepackage[chicago-notes]{biblatex}. You should use my method.

Canageek

1:02 AM

\usepackage[notes,natbib,isbn=false,backend=biber,url=false]{biblatex-chicago} is how I am loading it.

Alan Munn

@Canageek So I bet wrong. :-). Then I'm not sure.

Canageek

@AlanMunn I already checked that as it is the first thing to pop up on google. Also: I copied it straight from your example to make sure it worked.

Alan Munn

@Canageek Good. (I just thought you might have still had the other version, which someone else had suggested at that time.)

Canageek

@AlanMunn Time to make a MWE

Alan Munn

@Canageek What does the bibentry for Burroughs look like? Is it your edited book?

Canageek

1:08 AM

@AlanMunn Yeah: @incollection{Burroughs,
author = {Burroughs, Peter},
editor = {Chandler, David and Beckett, Ian},
title = {The Oxford history of the British Army},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
year = {1996},
address = {Oxford, New York},
isbn = {0192853333}
}

@AlanMunn Found the problem: Doesn't work with the 'canadian' option set in bable.

Alan Munn

@Canageek Good work. It's a bug in the lbx file, I would think. So I guess you'll have to live with using American for the moment.

Canageek

@AlanMunn british doesn't work either.

Alan Munn

@Canageek Right. Because the cbyeditor is defined in cms-american.lbx; there is no ukenglish or canadian version. (And there probably shouldn't be, since all of the terms should be the same.)

You can solve the problem (and use UKenglish or canadian) by adding this line to your preamble:
\DeclareLanguageMapping{UKenglish}{cms-american}
or
\DeclareLanguageMapping{canadian}{cms-american}

Canageek

@AlanMunn So given that I'm a linguistic anglophile, how much is using American English settings going to set my teeth on edge?

@AlanMunn That works. So am I using American settings now or ?

Alan Munn

As I think I mentioned before, it mainly affects the style of the spelled out in words date, but in Canada we use the American style anyway for that. (Not the numeric date, which we use the British order). Other than that, it will be differences only in the hyphenation of certain words. See this question: tex.stackexchange.com/q/12775/2693

@Canageek Well you're using whatever is canadian (which I think is american date + british hyphenation, and all of the bib strings defined in cms-american. But it's unlikely there are any differences there, unless there are any words spelled with 'or' that should be 'our'.

Canageek

1:25 AM

@AlanMunn Thanks for your help. Is there somewhere I can report that bug to?

Alan Munn

1:36 AM

It's not really a bug, I see. It's documented on p. 95 of the documentation. (Which also shows that the fix I gave you isn't quite right. You would need to modify the .lbx file itself as well so that it contains the line \InheritBibliographyExtras{british} instead of \InheritBibliographyExtras{american}. You can do this by making a copy of the file, editing it and putting it in your local texmf folder. It should go in tex/latex/biblatex/lbx.

Martin Tapankov

8:36 AM

@JosephWright: Got a quick question about siunitx: I try \si{\m\per\s} and it renders it as ms^{-1}, while \si{\kg\per\m^3} works as expected. Am I doing something wrong, and if not, how can I override it to get m/s?

Joseph Wright

@MartinTapankov Standard settings use power for \per as well as everything else. You want \sisetup{per-mode = symbol}

Martin Tapankov

@JosephWright: Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Martin Scharrer

9:27 AM

Does the Necromancer badge make you automatically a TeX wizard? ;-)

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