@TorbjørnT. I tried pythontex 12000.org/my_notes/python_in_latex/index.htm but all these solutions are not really workable. The best way I found is to either using a real programming language that supports HERE-DOCUMENT such as perl or Ruby or Python and use this for the logic code and use it to emit raw Latex. Second option is to use Latex and program the logic in Latex....
but Latex programming is really not as good or powerful as these other languages.
For example, I am not stuggling to make \foreach work inside a table. While in Python, I would simply generate the whole table with its content as pure latex and be done with it. Then use the latex file generated as is. i.e. I can generate everything from the script. I have the data, and build the table itself directly in the script and at the end write to a file. This is what I have been doing.
I have prepared my PhD thesis in the LaTeX template of Cambridge University, available here. (I'm using an older version 1.1, which can be accessed here.)
Now, I am experiencing two major problems with this template, when I compile everything in the twoside format (by so defining it in the docu...
@TorbjørnT. I was just making exactly that comment on the question!
@TorbjørnT. I'm also very suspicious of two-sided printing here: in the UK theses are normally required to be one-sided, at least for final submission (mine was)
@JosephWright Thanks, but I'm not in UK. Just using the CU format because my univ. doesn't have a template, and this is a common one adopted, which goes well, in
@TheDarkSide Subject-area dependent. In areas where long theses are common, two volume binding is well-known. I was at a meeting recently with some people with experience in geology, and apparently 400 pages is normal.
@TheDarkSide I'm a chemist so 150-250 pages is more the typical range
Both Joseph and @TorbjørnT., if the inner margin is smaller, won't there be problems in binding? You want a bigger margin on the side where it is supposed to be bound?
@TorbjørnT. Okay! So, my rough imagination is that, if I'm shrinking what I've decided to print on a page to lets say 98%, the rest 2% can make up for the binding deficits, while still not compromising on the 12pt convention by any visible amount?
@ChristianHupfer Lol, what? You probably mean the abstract dark side, or did you run into me on some other SE site (Physics, Academia)?
@TheDarkSide why shrink for binding? it is more normal to just reduce \textwidth a bit. the geometry package allows specification of binding offsets so does the arithmetic for you to adjust the text width and margins appropriately.
@DavidCarlisle Sir, I don't think I got it fully. For example, in the relevant class file here, there are commands for adjusting the margins in here, but I didn't want to tinker with them even a bit, because I'm not sure about my TeX skills. Could you guide please?
Hmm, thinking about it for a minute, if I tweak the evensidemargin marginally, so that the text blocks are not affected, it might do the job.
But I'm not sure how to keep the text blocks unaffected, I think just adjusting the margin on one side won't do that.
Clearly, my aim here of tinkering is solely to ensure it gets bound properly, and binding doesn't eat into the margins in an ugly manner. Nothing else.
@TheDarkSide that class looks like it's a rather random collection of commands collected from various ages, Do you have to use it? In particular it loads geometry but then doesn't use it it sets the page size using explicit setlength commands but anyway since geometry is loaded you can overload the settings in the preamble, see texdoc geometry for documentation, normally you use options to \usepackage but as the package is already loaded you can use \geometry see bindingoffset key.
@DavidCarlisle - Sir, based on the example here (a different answer to a related issue), I should add the specifications to the geometry package usepackage command. But if the setlengths are getting defined afterwards, will just saying \usepackage[a4paper, bindingoffset=0.4in, vmarginratio=1:1]{geometry} work? I don't think it should, but I don't know.
Wait, did you mean overloading these class file settings, by specifying these in the preamble of the tex fiel being compiled? @DavidCarlisle
@DavidCarlisle - So, that means I can add \usepackage[a4paper, bindingoffset=0.4in, vmarginratio=1:1]{geometry}, in the preamble of my tex file being compiled and it won't make a mess of my document in terms of the content I've squeezed in on each page. (That's my sole reason for persisting with this, I'm close to submitting, too late to tweak too much) :)
@TheDarkSide Out of interest and completely unrelated to the matter at hand. How did you come to use this template? What did you google for and why? Why did you choose this specific template? I am very interested to hear something about it.
@TheDarkSide What do you promise yourself from a template? What is your definition of a template? What would make a good template? And finally, how do you (try to) judge the quality of a template?
There is a template site around latextemplates.com/cat/theses Looking at the descriptions of those three provided templates, which one would you choose? And i am not suggesting to use any of those ;-) I am just interested.
@TheDarkSide OK don't change now:-) If you are that close to submitting I wouldn't mess with anything just add \addtolength\oddsidemargin{1cm} \addtolength\evensidemargin{-1cm} or whatever length ypu need to add 1cm (here) to the binding edge
@Johannes_B originally I suggested a bit of inline test for the latex version that defined \locbox on new latex or loaded etex.sty but he didn't like the look of that and asked for a package, so I wrote elocalloc
What are the features of Lyx, Bacoma, Papeerea or SharedLatex (besides the option to insert symbols) that you can not do well with LibreOfficeWrite/MS Word ?
@StevenB.Segletes, I just think the person did not know any better. I've also gotten a manuscript back where the copyeditor wanted . to be added after each floating table. Luckily we had the last word. Clearly it was not a person who previously had dealt with science publications. — daleif1 min ago
@daleif ^^ I disagree. Very likely the person had been molesting scientific works for ages.
@yo' well given that this particular publisher does not publish that many books from natural science, they might be forgiven their lack of knowledge of the traditions we use.
If anybody wonders why it is so silent, i am trying to apply some fixes to Thesis.cls from the template site. Some replacements of the hard codings. Let's hope they are good and we get less questions :-)
Hi everybody! Yet another time, I was looking for @egreg: I’ve asked him if he was willing to teach me a lesson about this question, but I see he’s not here. Maybe anyone of you would be so kind as to take his place as a teacher? (If I’m not abusing your time and your wisdom, of course! :-)
@GustavoMezzetti Commands set up using \DeclareRobustCommand automatically behave inside \protected@edef, and unlike \noexpand, \protect knows about 'context' (\edef, \write, typesetting)
@JosephWright: Yes, i know that. It would be disastrous, of course, if a \noexpand got into the way at he wrong place. But what I do not understand is egreg’s remark that \noexpand should be avoided in the situation mentioned in the question I cited above, when you know that you are performing an \edef.
@GustavoMezzetti What I wanted to say is that \noexpand\textit{xyz} may save your day, but you can't do it in general, if you happen to want \edef\temp{#1}.
I've read several posts and other webpages now on using \protect in front of \cite inside \caption. They all advise using \protect in this situation, and many go as far as to say that you must use it.
Now, I've been able to use \cite inside \caption without \protect and still get no errors. For ...
@JosephWright: In was concerned with the case in which you do define a fragile command yourself using \newcommand*… But I see that this discussin is beginning to look rather pointless: I understand what you are telling, and my doubts have now gone. Thank you very much for your explanations!
I had already planned to read expl3.pdf and interface3.pdf (obviously in that order). About the latter, I am wondering whether should I read it sequentially, form the first part on, or in a different order.
@GustavoMezzetti do not read it thoroughly. Read it well enough to understand the concepts (types of variables, types of arguments). But it's more a reference manual than a learning manual!
@PauloCereda: That one I’m already reading. And I’m pleased to see that there is again a general provision for delimited argument, something that was lost in passing from plain TeX to LaTeX.
@GustavoMezzetti Yes, but delimited arguments should be used very sparingly in LaTeX. They're more a convenience for “inner” macros rather than user level ones.
@GustavoMezzetti You can't expect the user types in \na\noexpand\"ive when feeding the argument to a macro, can you?
If you expect the argument to be \textit{string} then you can add \noexpand at the beginning of the replacement text for the \edef. But again, if string contains “dangerous” macros, you have a problem.
@egreg: OK, I was wondering if there was any deeper reason. (:-) I am obliged for your explanations. Hey! It looks like posts may be edited! (:-) (Just discovered!)
@JosephWright yes not sure how we'll get signoff to take to a wider audience, I guess at some point just mail the current maintainers and show a proposal
Is it possible to define a list of units (like ml, °C, nmol, eq., etc.) and forbid latex to insert a newline before those?
I know it is possible to use a ~ between number an unit, but the above described method would be much more convenient for me.
Thanks for helping me!
I know there are a few packages related to typesetting units:
unitsdef
units, which can be seen as a "base package" used by unitsdef
SIunits
siunitx, which is the successor to SIunits
maybe others? like cjwunits and hepunits
What is the difference between them? Do they also work inside Math m...
Why must I use style work-around to set C# language in listings?
Why
\begin{lstlisting}[language=[Sharp]C]
cannot be processed by LaTeX?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\usepackage{xcolor...
I was going to post a question now, but thought to first check here with the experts. When I have space in my data, below, the \foreach fails. I assume this is by design. I was wondering if there is a work around? or if I should post this as question. I've been googling and find no answer. Here is MWE
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}% (for other things)
\usepackage{xinttools}
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
$\sin(x)=1$
},
{This is also stuff}}
\begin{document}
\foreach \x in \mydata
{
\x \\
}
\end{document}
The problem is the empty line after "this is some tex"
This works:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}% (for other things)
\usepackage{xinttools}
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
$\sin(x)=1$
},
{This is also stuff}}
\begin{document}
\foreach \x in \mydata
{
\x \\
}
\end{document}
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}% (for other things)
\usepackage{xinttools}
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
\endgraf
$\sin(x)=1$
},
{This is also stuff}}
\begin{document}
\foreach \x in \mydata
{
\x \\
}
\end{document}
@Nasser ^^^ but it's simpler not to use foreach than work around such things, but I know you have a fascination for that macro.
@DavidCarlisle but I do not want to add anything in there. I want to have literal text as is. copy paste it from somewhere., i.e. I do not want to edit it each time and add \endgraf ?
@DavidCarlisle I do not have fascination for that macro, it is the only tool I know now to make a loop in Latex, that is all.
@Nasser well don't use foreach, tex macros are either lon or not long (\newcommand` or \newcommand* in latex definition terms, non-long onses do not allow paragraph ends)
\documentclass[]{article}
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
\endgraf
$\sin(x)=1$
}
{This is also stuff}}
\begin{document}
\long\def\x#1{#1\par\x}
\long\def\endx#1#2{}
\expandafter\x\mydata\endx
\end{document}
@DavidCarlisle thanks, but this really does not work for me. I have some raw text, that I want to process. I do not want to edit it, and add \endgraf every where there is empty lines. I was hoping I can just throw it in \def\mydata{} as is, then make a loop to build tables from it. I think this whole thing does not work in Latex. I need to look at different approach to do this.
@Nasser look at the one there is no endgraf, I just iterate over the list exactly as you asked? ooh I left th eendgraf in:-) replace that by a blank line:-)
\documentclass[]{article}
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
$\sin(x)=1$
}
{This is also stuff}}
\begin{document}
\long\def\x#1{#1\par\x}
\long\def\endx#1#2{}
\expandafter\x\mydata\endx
\end{document}
When I also added this: pdflatex hangs
\foreach \x in \mydata
{
\x \\
}
@DavidCarlisle reason I want the loop, is that I want to do other things and add other logic in the loop, in addition to what I showed. This was just simple example. Is it possible to use your trick, but still use a loop? thanks. I tried this and it hangs:
\documentclass[]{article}
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
$\sin(x)=1$
}
{This is also stuff}}
\begin{document}
\long\def\x#1{#1\par\x}
\long\def\endx#1#2{}
\expandafter\x\mydata\endx
\foreach \x in \mydata
{
\x \\
}
\end{document}
@DavidCarlisle ok, I need to use \foreach actually as I said, this is just small example. I want to be able to add things in between the iterations and such. i..e I want the loop to be explicit to allow me to more easily control and inject latex code in between.
@Nasser you said you were not fascinated by \foreach why do you keep taking working documents and adding it to stop them working?
@Nasser no \foreach is just a simple macro basically defined like the \x I showed, but without the \long there is no possibility that you can do more with \foreach than with \x they are the same thing basically, just minor syntax differences and \x allows paragraphs as you requested.
@DavidCarlisle let me show an example in Python, may be this will help illustrate what I mean. This builds a table from raw data. I'll show the code, then show the output. Here is the code:
data=["\section{some section}
this is somedata",
data = [
[r"""http://robotics.stackexchange.com/""",r"""Stack exchange Robotics forum/"""],
[r"""http://math.stackexchange.com/""",r"""Math Stack Exchange"""],
[r"""http://mathoverflow.net/""",r"""Mathoverflow"""]
]
print '\\begin{tabular}{cc}\\hline'
for item in data:
for idx,entry in enumerate(item):
print '\\href{'+entry+'}{\\nolinkurl{'+entry+'}}'
if idx<len(item)-1 :
print '&'
print '\\\\\hline'
For me, the above is much simpler to do, than having to make macros in Latex or type the table by hand. In the code I showed, I can more easily modify it and change the table or anything else I want. I was hoping to do the same all in Latex if possible
@Nasser sorry you are not making sense;-) a loop is the same thing as a recursive macro, it's as if you took an english paragraph and insisted on using German words in it as you found them more familiar. But if you'd rather have a recursive macro with for in its name, latex provides one:
\documentclass[]{article}
\makeatletter
\def\mydata{
{This is some text
$\sin(x)=1$
}
{This is also stuff}}
\def\myfor{\@tfor\myitem:=}
\begin{document}
\expandafter\myfor\mydata\do{
\myitem\par}
\end{document}
I have prepared my PhD thesis in the LaTeX template of Cambridge University, available here. (I'm using an older version 1.1, which can be accessed here.)
Now, I am experiencing two major problems with this template, when I compile everything in the twoside format (by so defining it in the docu...
What are the features of Lyx, Bacoma, Papeerea or SharedLatex (besides the option to insert symbols) that you can not do well with LibreOfficeWrite/MS Word ?
Is it possible to define a list of units (like ml, °C, nmol, eq., etc.) and forbid latex to insert a newline before those?
I know it is possible to use a ~ between number an unit, but the above described method would be much more convenient for me.
Thanks for helping me!
I know there are a few packages related to typesetting units:
unitsdef
units, which can be seen as a "base package" used by unitsdef
SIunits
siunitx, which is the successor to SIunits
maybe others? like cjwunits and hepunits
What is the difference between them? Do they also work inside Math m...
Why must I use style work-around to set C# language in listings?
Why
\begin{lstlisting}[language=[Sharp]C]
cannot be processed by LaTeX?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\usepackage{xcolor...
