@PauloCereda for me, it was @StefanKottwitz asking me whether I'm safe here in the chat. Soon after, my Parisian friends started posting on FCB the "I'm safe" messages.
@RomainPicot They are indeed. In the middle of the year, a famous country singer was involved in a severe car crash and died. One of the medical examiners filmed the autopsy and sent the video to a couple of friends via WhatsApp. The video spread like wind and the whole country had access to this shocking scenes, not to mention the unnecessary exposition.
@DavidCarlisle Have you please got any idea on my (off-topic) English question above? I know you're English so I can't rely on you, but I happily will :-)
@Johannes_B I see… But it seems it tries to look like one, defining \cleardoublepage like KOMA does, defining \addsec and \addchap, preventing fancyhdr, loading scrbase and scrhack… Using scrbook in the first place would probably be a lot easier
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@PauloCereda Are you using Fedora 23? I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition Cinnamon!
@Jasper To be honest, I am enjoying the newest version. I had Rawhide in one of my laptops and had the opportunity of testing new features. :) But it is a culture shock indeed. Some friends mentioned KDE5 is very polished too.
@clemens The clearpage hack was there from the beginning, addchap and addsec emulate KOMA (undocumented though) because the functionality is needed by many, so i built it in. Using scrlayer-scrpage for the pagestyles because geometry is loaded in the class and fancyhdr doesn't cope that much with margin changes. ...
Since fancyhdr will be the package a user tries to use to change pagestyles, a more meaningful message is printed. scrbase for the freaking language strings (might as well have been translator since the class loads siunitx. scrhack because ... i can't remember. All in all, since this is going on since JUNE this was a huge waste of time.
@clemens i was thinking about just using scrbook in june, but back then, fancyhdr was used which leads to a warning, which is confusing for a newcommer. Back then, i didn't know i would completely change that thing.
@clemens Deleting, just deleting, would be better imho. @percusse said the wikibook is a reference book. We have texdoc latex2e. I thought more of the wikibook to be a guide for starters (and a reference), but we have texdoc lshort.
@user87834 it's the fontsize definition file. Why in the world would you modify it? It is probably deep in your LaTeX distribution. If you really want to modify it, you have to save a local copy. However, I doubt that this is what you really want.
@yo' Yes. You can define fontsize=11.3pt and KOMA is ok with it, but it will calculate the relative sizes for \largeet al. on the fly each time. Generating an own clo and optimizing it is recommended. But nly for experienced users.
@user87834 Because you use a template of one specific university to write your thesis (or whatever) at another place --- that does not sound like a good idea.
@user87834 I want you to save time. Using this class you will get into trouble you can't solve yourself. With that class, it will take you much longer to find a solution, even when asking a question on TeX.SX. The class is old and does strange stuff. I recommend to use memoir or a report class. Depending on what you university wants, a book class might be better.
@user87834 clo stands for class option file, but I've used latex for 30 years and never felt the need to write one, are you sure you need to write one?
@Johannes_B sorry don't mind making a couple of comments but I'm not being tricked into maintaining a thesis class. My thesis was done on a typewriter:-)
@user87834 Honestly, there should be any problem. Standard LaTeX can do all you need. Any template makes restrictions and hence it is harder to change to your needs.
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 5 February 2015, version: 4.43a.
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@yo' It hanged right after loading the format and before reading the tex, and once more after the aux was written at the very end. Opening a new terminal needs about 5 seconds, the sys-upgrade in april made me loose the ability to mv/cp/rm any files with spaces. I should really make a fresh install.
@yo' faster than 15 minutes per page:-) probably tex was looking at Donauschifffahrtsversicherungspolicenvertrag and trying to work out why there are no spaces in the sentence.
@yo' Sometimes when switching to another window, the screen is grey and gets build to show the actual contents from top to bottom in about three seconds. There is something eating up ressources.
@DavidCarlisle looking at the index from source2e.pdf and trying to follow a link ... i land on the title page. Makes it a bit hard to search for some commands.
@Johannes_B We edit it (anyway, if we manage to clean the wikibook, it is not a bad idea to edit the answer and mention it), then people can retract their votes. In my opinion, this fits into the downvote -> improve -> upvote policy of SE :)
@yo' Whenever i think now, let's take a look at the thing and improve it i get lost. I don't know where to start, i don't really think the order in which things are present is nice ... and then a template question gets it.
@Johannes_B I wrote my course conclusion work in \LaTeX, the references used the environment "thebibliography" on page references appears the heading "References", but the summary does not appear the page references.
@Johannes_B Well, the statement “The \begingroup and \endgroup commands are equivalent to opening brace and closing brace.” is quite wrong to begin with.
===LaTeX groups===
Sometimes a certain state shall be kept local, ''i.e.'' limiting its
scope. This can be done by enclosing the part to be changed locally in curly
braces. In certain occasions, using braces won't be possible. LaTeX provides
{{LaTeX/LaTeX|code=\bgroup}} and {{LaTeX/LaTeX|code=\egroup}} to begin and
end a group respectively.
{{LaTeX/Usage|code=
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
normal text {\itshape walzing \bfseries Wombat} more normal text
normal text \bgroup\itshape walzing \bfseries Wombat\egroup{} more normal text
Does anyone have any experience with the following error?
Can't call method "get_field" on an undefined value at /tmp/par-636672656573/cache-c198dfb38941e814f5331b149bc84facd9e9c2e6/inc/lib/Biber.pm line 2247.
I've tried deleting the cache which is pretty much the only thing I know how to do.
@Johannes_B -- looking through these answers, i see quite a few links that are dead. i've updated a couple of them, and as soon as the in-process issue of tugboat is out the door, i will attempt to find all the remaining dead links and update what i can. (i may choose to leave dead links for items that i think are dreadful, but many of these are actually good.)
@Johannes_B -- the last message i received from you was on thursday, and i answered it, with a (partial) draft of what i want to say about the latex wikibook. if you sent something later, either it didn't get to me, or i accidentally failed to accept it from spam bucket. but i've checked that, and don't see anything. so if you did send something later, please send it again.
Or any idea how to troubleshoot such a Biber error? It is not general - I can run Biber on other documents. But it is giving me no indication of what or where something is wrong - except in the perl module, which seems unlikely as it works in other cases.
@cfr Googling for biber get_field error leads to two bug reports at SourceForge mentioning the error, but SF doesn't seem to work at the moment, so I can't read what's in them.
Meanwhile in Math.SE: "I'm confused how you are getting a -16x in there, how is it that after the isolation you can get a -16x? (x-8)^2 could only come out to be x^2+64 with my understanding.” The user's profile says “I'm a college student majoring in C#” :(
@TorbjørnT. Thanks. It doesn't help, of course. But thanks for looking. I searched on the error and got 0 hits. Twice. So you have made significant progress as far as I'm concerned. It is in a document which uses refsection and Biber seems to think it is in section 5, but I'm not sure how it numbers sections. If it numbers them in order, that seems really, really unlikely as that would be early in the document and that's not changed in weeks.
@cfr While waiting for SF to get back online, I can show you the part that Google displays: imgur.com/DFarCr4 And as I'm still clutching at straws, you've tried deleting all temporary files? (Silly question, I know.)
@TorbjørnT. I actually tried switching to a different computer, transferring the source there and compiling but still got the same error when I got to Biber. Thanks for the image. I switched to Google and can get those hits, too. Using my usual search engine I got github.com/plk/biber/commit/… but I've no idea if that has any relevance yet or not. (I think I was searching on too much of the error before to get anything useful.)
@TorbjørnT. Not sure yet. I'm about to start testing. (I've been eating and catching buses for a bit so I had to stop troubleshooting.)
I suspect it is an error in my code or in my database. Question of finding it given that Biber is giving such an unhelpful error.
I take that back. Not clear at all...
This is the perl line giving the error:
my $bee = $be->get_field('entrytype');
@TorbjørnT. If I move \end{document} early enough, Biber works. But it fails when I add back stuff which definitely did work and which I've not changed.
@TorbjørnT. The error appears to result from citing an entry using a key from its ids field. If I switch the key and the alias from the ids field in the bib entry, I avoid the error. But, of course, the whole point of using the ids field in the first place is so that you can use the keys in citations, so this smells like a bug. (Also, it worked fine until sometime very recently.)
@TorbjørnT. I think some recent changed has broken it. I'll see if I can come up with an MWE to post as a question and see if people agree. (Don't want to report a bug if it is my stupidity. Probably can't if sourceforge is down anyway.)
On an JS event, I add a class moved to an element.
How can I remove this class after 1 second?
I use Meteor.
