LaTeX is always run from the command line: An editor simply enters the command for you when you hit the button. Most tex editors will even allow you to customize what command you send.
Given this, you don't need to write your file on the command line. Simply write and save the file as normal. T...
Welcome to TeX.SX! You cannot simply change the extension of the .tex file to .pdf: that's not how TeX works. Instead, you run a compiler on an input .tex file, which produces the output .pdf as a separate file. — Paul Gessler32 mins ago
@PaulGessler I must say, I've never seen that one before.
@wget presumably it is defined already to something you don't expect. put \show\footerRight before the \else (or before the \ifx) and tex will stop and show you the definition at that point
@Alenanno I wouldn't roll back an edit from an OP to his own question, I do leave comments sometimes saying that changing a question (especially if it invalidates existing answers) is not the thing to do.
Anyone ever see tex/latex/tools/ going missing on a MacTeX installation? A student just came by with a missing bm.sty problem. I ended up asking her to reinstall MacTeX 2014.
@Canageek ... instead of subcaption :-p I agree with you, think about header-footer. At least 3 different packages available that do the job more or less properly.
@daleif Moved by mistake to somewhere LaTeX can't find it?
Let me also add that my dissertation is due tomorrow, so I will not have time to put together a small working example today. Seems there was something missing in his studies.
@Johannes_B Well, a minimal example for a question such as that wouldn't take much. Just paring down a copy of your own document, removing a couple packages, etc., and making sure the problem still shows up.
@VicAche oh answer is more or less the same actually (same underlying tex code) tikz (and its many extension packages) has lots of stuff for that start with tikz manual (or pstricks, but tikz seems more popular on this site)
@VicAche Part IV of the current TikZ manual is the Graph Drawing documentation. But I don't understand what you'll gain from generating a graph without drawing it.
I made tkz-graph and tkz-berge to help beginners to draw some graphs. tkz-berge is used for specials graphs (named graphs in graph theory)
You can use only tikz to draw graphs.
Version with tkz-graph
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
...
@PaulGessler ah the mythical tikz manual, do you claim to have seen it?
I do want to draw the graph. Here is what my code looks like: digraph g{ S E S->E } What I want to avoid is having to provide coordinates or any other positional information for my graph.
@VicAche most of the code in the link I just gave does not set the node position by coordinates (but does have some compass direction hints on edge directions) but I have to ask latex is highly non-optimised for doing the combinatorics necessary to implement graph layout algorithms, why do it in latex?
@VicAche then use texdoc.net/pkg/tikz to open the online documentation for the current version. You'll still have to make sure this matches ShareLaTeX's installed version, you can check it by putting \pgfversion somewhere in your document temporarily and looking at the output.
I need 236 more reviews before getting the reviewer badge for First posts, that means i have done 14 reviews. The highest review count of 6714 (about 24 % of all reviews) by a user i cannot remember to have ever seen an answer. Another user is almost in the top reviewers list, coming to my attention by editing questions/answers (for which i get a brown sign in the top bar). Does that mean i am not active enough? ;-)
@ChristianHupfer Sitting in the sun my laptop gets quite warm. The sun is shining right at that cooling thing at the side. Looks dusty. Took a little vacuum cleaner with little success. Blowing air inside with my mouth, i think dust came out of the speakers or something.
@Johannes_B: The appendix question shows again that there are lot of users having no idea how to structure documents, regardless whether they are using LaTeX or ... the office program which must not be named in here (let's call it 'DROW') ;-)
@ChristianHupfer I didn't know it either before i learned it. But not by some teacher in school or university, but by a fellow TeX user explaining the \appendix business.
@Johannes_B: Nobody showed me... it used 'old' books or existing PS files to learn how to structure the doc. Perhaps I will offer a LaTeX course next year at school for pupils and teachers ;-)
@ChristianHupfer Sitting in a circle, you whisper a command in the ear of the first, to the next, to the next and in the end you get XeTeX-like confusion for everybody?
@DavidCarlisle: I’m fine, thanks for asking. I think people are over-reacting, it have been worse when Jonathan “left”, it just went unnoticed back then because it was not announced.
@KhaledHosny yes of course, I more or less dropped off latex maintenance for 10 years and then came back but no one noticed (much:-) I spent some very frustrating hours trying to make \string and friends work on non-bmp characters. I must say I understand now your comments on the difficulty of following the web code. (I'd read tex.web before but never actually tried to change any web code until last few days)
@DavidCarlisle: I never understood much of anything when it comes to the WEB code, and it shows; wherever I touch it I end introducing more bugs than I fix. It was really frustrating and I’m really glad I do not have to worry about it anymore.
@KhaledHosny :-) well good luck in whatever projects you take up instead. Hopefully out of some combination of xetex/luatex/sile/something the tex world will finally get something that works well with rtl languages and font shaping etc. One day....
@DavidCarlisle: As for \string bug, my “understanding” is that print_char() there puts the UTF-16 surrogate pairs in the input stream at a very late stage so they end up interpreted literally, and you can just insert them as Unicode scalar values (UTF-32) because XeTeX internally uses UTF-16 and the string pool array is a UTF-16 array. I have no idea how to fix it, though.
@KhaledHosny yes exactly but when I tried modifying it not to do that I got a single token instead of two but it just had the lower 16 bits of the utf32, and when I tried to fix that, I got segfaults and gave up:-) I might try again later
@DavidCarlisle: I once considered moving XeTeX internally to use UTF-32 and stop all the surrogate pairs mangling here and there, but I couldn’t get myself to do it and had no idea how bad that would be on memory usage.
@DavidCarlisle: Hooking HarfBuzz into LuaTeX is relatively easy, getting that integrated into TL build can be tricky, but getting Hans to accept it (even as an option) is near impossible (which is less important if you don’t use ConTeXt).
But there are more trickier questions, like having directionality model that actually works and integrating Unicode BiDi algorithm on top of it (it is 2015, one should not be marking right-to-left and left-to-right text manually!).
@DavidCarlisle The British and Americans have tried to implement this. With significant partial success. Which is why I'm typing this in English, though I am neither British or American.
In terms of profiling, is it better to first check whether a boolean is true and then define something based on what the result is, or first define something and then check whether the boolean is true? The environment is pretty basic so two checks for the boolean seems a bit weird (looking at the sidenotes package here?)
biblatex-apa gives me this:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \mkbibdateapalongextra
{labelyear}{labelmonth}{labelday}\iffieldu...
I'm using the default (english) language, and have done the:
\DeclareLanguageMapping{norsk}{norsk-apa}
\DeclareLanguageMappi...
I am trying to typeset a document in British English, using XeLaTeX, Polyglossia and BibLaTeX, with APA-style references.
Unfortunately, I get the following error:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \mkbibdateapalongextra
Below is a minimal working example:
\begin{filecontents}{mwe.bib...
My font blatantly refuses to use ligatures... I'm at the point where I'm considering using tftopl, change the pl file and setting ligatures manually, and pltotf back to squeeze them out. :-/
@egreg The ligatures are in the font table, but they don't show up in the compiled document.
Anyway, the small question is the following. My font has all types of glyphs in the font table. Ranging from the square root sign (excluding an extensible overline for the argument of the square root of course), integral signs, but also ligatures, alternates, swashes, etc.
LaTeX has a few automated solutions which (in my opinion) are *more complete* but also more error prone if you want to have everything "just right" (as I mentioned earlier). Does all of this fall under the same term, that is, am I right to ask for a generalized method to do this manually, or am I asking for several diffe…
@1010011010 those two have "legacy" unicode code points are you sure it isn't just showing that unicode block rather than ligature glyphs in the font (which typically have no code point) (But I know nothing about opentype internals, know rather more about tfm)
@DavidCarlisle It's fine. My question will cover tfm as well so there's something for everybody. And of course I can stay as true to the goal we set to use every single of your answers that I could find. (I'm still not going to implement the power tower in my document.)
I have a font with a font table containing ligatures, but also math radicals, operators and e.g. an integral sign. (It's a different font from the one I'm showcasing in this question, which doesn't contain the integral sign.)
In my case some character combinations don't trigger the glyph replace...
I like to type a letter in latex with From and To one after another and then followed by sub and then body of letter. unable to set the From and To in the page. Suggest me how to put it shall i use mini box.
Help! I spent the afternoon printing almost 2,000 pages of material (12 copies of about 150 pages plus a bit more). I did not notice until somebody just looked through some and pointed it out to me, but most of the 't's are missing from the print. Not all of them. Just most of them. It always seems to be the serif, upright, lowercase 't' which is missing. And it seems entirely random.
I'm using cfr-lm so it is Latin Modern. I'm also using microtype. The PDF was generated using pdflatex. It was printed from Adobe Reader 11 on a Windows machine to a networked photocopier. The material was sent as one document of 86 pages and one of 60 pages. How can I figure out what is causing it so that I can correct it?
@DavidCarlisle I don't have access to the Windows machine now but I think it is missing in the print only. The 't's are definitely there in reader 9 on Linux.
The only fonts not embedded (because included PDFs use them) printed fine. Only the Latin Modern 't's are affected and those are all embedded subsets.
@DavidCarlisle It's OK. Thanks. I am pretty sure I can change the map file appropriately if necessary. I am wondering if microtype is involved but I can't think how or why.
@DavidCarlisle Actually, the ligatures there are are fine - find, different etc. Also, the same word will occasionally be fine even though mostly the 't' is missing. E.g. Kant is occasionally 'Kant' even though mostly he's 'Kan'. (Aristotle has fared even worse.)
@DavidCarlisle I guess for now I'll just go the PDF -> PS -> PDF route, which destroys the fonts and replaces them with whatever. I hoped that if it was printed from the computer this wouldn't be necessary. But I guess there is just a more subtle problem this way. Damn.
@1010011010: I should post two completely non-opinion-based questions: What are the most useless questions here ... What are the most annoying questions here on TeX.SX?
What is the best Textstudio configuration. The reason I am asking this question is related to the inconsistent behavior I have been encountering. The document that I used to edit and compile cannot be compiled any more.
@ChristianHupfer I could answer the TeX/pdfTeX but I'd have to write a book which would exceed the limit on posts. It is, as I indicated to @1010011010, a bad question (for this site) which it was entirely reasonable to ask. There should be some sort of badge available for asking such questions so that the OP can be compensated for inadvertently opening Pandora's Box when all they meant to do was get 'affluent fluidity' and 'officially finishing differentiation' to display correctly.
@StefanKottwitz What happened to him? Nothing bad, I hope?
@cfr I have one question so that I know what I'm up to a little better: texdoc fontinst as well as the font installation guide both start with the assumption afm files are available. I'm working with otf font files and I'm not sure how clean the conversion from that format to afm will be. In fact, I feel like it's a bad idea to make the conversion at all. What's your take on this? Or should I inquire with the type foundry to supply the correct file types?
@1010011010 That is doable. It doesn't really matter whether it is .otf or not, actually. Well, there are ways of using otftotfm, probably. fontinst offers a more general solution if you don't mind using virtual fonts. One reason to like this option is that I think it is probably the best way to go if you are interested in doing other things later. Moreover, if you might want to combine characters from different fonts into one TeX 'font', then you have to use virtual fonts.
@1010011010 otftotfm is converting the fonts to type1 fro TeX/pdfTeX anyway. I wouldn't worry about converting to afm. I've done it for truetype and opentype. The only problem is that, in some cases, you have to drop some kerning pairs if there's not room. But that is quite unusual - I've only had to do that a very few times.
@StefanKottwitz OK. Good. The way you said it I worried that I'd missed some kind of bad news and he was in hospital or something.
@DavidCarlisle Well, the bug is not in my system either! I suspect that the crappy printer driver or the crappy memory can't cope with more than so many fonts, and that it objects to the number microtype produces. But I'm not sure. I know that the basis on which the university selected their current copier contract was the following: cheapest. It seems to have escaped them that this was likely to turn out to be rather expensive.
@DavidCarlisle Hmm... I have bad memories of Spain, so I'm not sure that's an improvement.
LaTeX is always run from the command line: An editor simply enters the command for you when you hit the button. Most tex editors will even allow you to customize what command you send.
Given this, you don't need to write your file on the command line. Simply write and save the file as normal. T...
I am trying to typeset a document in British English, using XeLaTeX, Polyglossia and BibLaTeX, with APA-style references.
Unfortunately, I get the following error:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \mkbibdateapalongextra
Below is a minimal working example:
\begin{filecontents}{mwe.bib...
I like to type a letter in latex with From and To one after another and then followed by sub and then body of letter. unable to set the From and To in the page. Suggest me how to put it shall i use mini box.
What is the best Textstudio configuration. The reason I am asking this question is related to the inconsistent behavior I have been encountering. The document that I used to edit and compile cannot be compiled any more.
