BTW, that formula is the probability to loose a certain round of Schafkopf, when you have l running trumps and w further trumps. Then one other player needs the l+1 highest trump and additional l trumps to take at least one trick.
You are all thinking too small. What you need is a Operatorzilla package that will make any operator gigantic. Otherwise you will just have to rewrite it later. I recommend the interface \usepackage[symbol list]{operatorzilla} and that it then makes every instance of those symbols gigantic. ^^
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What does the math notation $\sum$ mean?
My school's prescribed book uses the weird letter E character without explaining what it is in the first chapter when it talks about the binomial equation. I can't find it on Google either because I don't know what it means o...
It could be incorporated into 'I hate typesetting package' So far my idea for it include: Headings in Times New Roman, body text alternates between Comic Sans and ariel each paragraph, everything ragged left, titles at 18 pt, body text at 6 pt. ^^
@MartinScharrer As @Werner said, \frac issued in \displaystyle prints its arguments in \textstyle; if you really want a big \sum, then use \frac{\displaystyle\sum...}{...}.
I would use \tbinom, but that depends on many factors.
@egreg Looking into \frac, \@@over, \over and \primfrac, there's no mention of typesetting either argument in \textstyle. Where would you find that detail?
If the style is D, then the numerator is in style T and the denominator in style T' (the cramped variety of text style). And so on: the style decreases.
(That's a community promotion ad for the maths site, by the way)
I think I've finally found a query on the data explorer where TeX-SX is head and shoulders above the rest: posts using imgur. I haven't managed to run it on SO itself (timed out), but we got nearly 20% and every other site that I tried has less than 5%, including Photography! Needless to say, we beat gaming yet again.
If I may interject: do you know if there's a question (or questions) on the site about best practices for managing BibTeX references among multiple authors of a paper?
I seem to remember seeing something like that but I just looked briefly and didn't find it.
Last year I was involved in writing a large group proposal with LaTeX. This involved various sections written and rewritten by disparate subgroups, with all the merging and editing headaches you'd expect and more. In particular, handling the bibliography was a nightmare. Everyone handled refer...
I use \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} to customize the design of my sections, subsections...
In particular, i have :
\titleformat{\section}%
{\large\sffamily\bfseries}%
{My Section \arabic{section} }%
{0.5em}%
{#1}% \\ \hspace*{-1.5cm}
[{\color{blue}\titlerule[2.5pt]}]
where the {\color{blue}\...
@NN Thanks -- let's see if it turns out to be a duplicate.
@JosephWright I added a comment to the OP's "answer", suggesting "that [the OP] unaccept[s] and delete[s] [his/her] 'answer' again, and perhaps leave[s] this question without any accepted answer".
The communities of different Stack Exchange sites may differ in what they care for and how they deal with things and such discussions are what each site's meta site is for. However, some questions are relevant for the whole Stack Exchange network and that is what Meta Stack Overflow (MSO) is for....
Whenever a page contains a figure which is set to be placed at the bottom of the page, and the page also contains a footnote, the figure ends up below the footnote. I don't like this appearance; it looks odd and gives a feel that the figure belongs to the footnote instead of the main text.
How d...
At the moment, questions at the front page can be told apart as follows:
Questions with no answer (at SO: "0 answers"; red);
Questions with at least one answer, but no accepted one (at SO: "[number] answer(s)"; white on green);
Questions with an accepted answer (at SO: "[number] answer(s); yell...
@PauloCereda regarding the color issue, there is a t-shirt my friends bought me but it is inappropriate to share it here by pasting . But sums up the whole thing. If you merge the following strings www.tshirthell.com and /shirts/products/a559/a559.gif, you know what I mean :) I can't read it anyway...
Yesterday in the evenings, I foolishly tried to trigger two reputation recalcs within a short time span and received the error message
Reputation cannot be recalculated more than once per day.
So I tried another recalc in the morning of the next day, only to receive the same error message a...
@percusse Oh my! That's really evil. :) I read the first three lines, but was in doubt with the fourth line. I applied some saturation and the whole text appeared.
I'm submitting a paper to a non-ACS journal that nonetheless follows most of the ACS formatting guidelines. So I'm trying to use the achemso documentclass and setting a few options to meet the journal's idiosyncrasies.
In particular I need the citations to not be superscripted and appear in squ...
@egreg The package is meant for general use, so there I have more freedom. Hindsight, being 20:20, tells me that I should have used some very different approaches to parts of this code.
It's another reason to get LaTeX3 done: the code part and the design part really should be independent
@egreg I was going to ask you! :) It was so quick and precise. I know it might sound "strange" to color tags, but my presentation uses a blue color in elements like "Figure 1, Table 2", and I thought beamer would color that tag too. :) I'll send you my presentation when done.
@percusse Not yet, but it's in my TODO list. :) In fact, I'm planning to map most of ppt/pptx elements I can. :)
@percusse It's hard to tell, but I'll see what I can do. :) The real problem is that I'll probably have to guess most of the sutff. But I like a challenge. :)
I have to write an assignment in my math class. I use latex. My problem is that I
have alot of calculations and therefore my assignment "design" is messy and confusing. What can I do in order to make it look more professional?
@PauloCereda But to suppress such output the comilation uses the /dev/null output: pdflatex file.tex > /dev/null Or do I misunderstand this rule? And how can I set a code block in the chat?
@MarcoDaniel Hm let me check, it's been a long time since I've seen .SILENT:. :P
@MarcoDaniel: Sorry for the confusion, it's not the program output, but the echo of the called command line. If you have, say, the following line pdflatex hello.tex, without that .SILENT: rule, you'll get a pdflatex hello.tex line in the terminal output.
@MarcoDaniel When you run a command in the terminal, something we call "exit status" is returned from the command to the terminal. The rule is 0 when everything worked fine (in terms of the command), or other value <> 0 if something abnormal happened. This value is stored in the terminal variable $?. What I did was to check if the variable (escaped by $$, Makefile seems to have another scripting syntax) was equal zero ( -eq 0 ) then echo the message.
Now that you mentioned, I don't know how echo behaves when .SILENT: is set.
Try to run a "good" tex file and run echo $? to see its exit status.
It should return 0.
If you try a bad tex, I'm sure the return will be 1. :)
@AndrewStacey This is a reaction to this (deleted) Community Promotion ad that the same person tried to post here: meta.tex.stackexchange.com/a/2074/2693 (Sorry to those who can't see deleted answers.)
@AndrewStacey Really what we need is more actual LyX experts here (and there are some). Otherwise we tend no to know what to do with LyX questions other than to answer them with not necessarily helpful remarks about not using it. The real problem with the ad is that is kind of bad-mouths us, but not without some validity, unfortunately.
This is a typical question of `How can I avoid working` http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40159/how-to-draw-a-sankey-diagram-using-tikz Correct grammar?
@MarcoDaniel Yes, or "Can you please do this for me?"
However, I wonder whether the op is interested in a more general approach where the diagram width and "Sankeys" (I just made that up) divert based on parameter input.
@AlanMunn Oh, I have no problem with the dig at TeX-SX. I thought that was funny. It was still a bit of a wordy ad, and I don't think it's well designed. But I have no issue with LyX and I think you're right: it would be very good to have some LyX experts here to help out LyXers. But at the same time, I would hesitate at recommending LyX which is why I'm not sure that the advert would have worked here.
Or if I were to recommend LyX, it wouldn't be to wean someone off MS Word. It would be because it was the best fit for the person I was recommending it to in terms of an editor that they can use. Not everyone likes hitting Ctrl or Escape before every command!
@Werner The grammar is horrible help verb + subject + verb (I don't know whether How I can or How can I .. is correct` The first sounds a little bit weird )
@Werner If the op wants some improvements he should provide an example.
@AndrewStacey I agree that I can't recommend LyX either. You might want to add a comment to the ad thread that suggests that we would welcome LyX experts here. Although I don't think you should think of LyX as an editor...
Very often I read a question like
How can I set something in LyX?
Every time I think why do you use LyX? I know the biggest advantage is WYSIWYG. But people using LyX normally are not able to edit the code or to set special wishes.
In this relation I think we shouldn't recommend LyX instea...
@MarcoDaniel Yes, I remember that. Maybe we should have a question "Why would you recommend LyX?" so that those of us who've never used it can learn a bit about it (but that would probably be "subjective and argumentative")
@AndrewStacey This question should be: "What are the benefits and the drawbacks of LyX?" I think I will ask such a question. Do you think meta is a good place?
I found this one: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27878/pdflatex-bash-script-to-supress-all-output-except-error-messages It isn't really what I want. The output should go until the next blank line after the error/warning message.
@MarcoDaniel I don't think this is a good question to ask here. There aren't enough LyX users to provide accurate arguments on the pro side, and most of us are not in favour of it. So this will probably deteriorate into a "Why we hate LyX" fest which is not a good thing to have on the site.
I can't see deleted answers, so I suppose is that one LyX ad I saw. I thought it was too verbose, so I wrote a "cleaner" version of it. I didn't post it there because we actually asked the original author to make it less verbose. Mine was a backup.
I need to write the decimal expansion of a very long number (more than 100 digits) that I'm typesetting using the numprint package. Unfortunately, when I do this:
\numprint{1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890}
the digits extend o...
@JosephWright Sorry for the moderator workload. (I had long suspected that there was a second unregistered "David Carlisle", but today I managed to find him by searching for "Carlisle" in the "Teacher" badge page.)
I'd like to get "page x of y" in a footer on each page, and the way I've found is to use:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\cfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
This works but has introduced a solid line at the top of each page and some headers. How do I get...
@Werner From what we know, it seems I won't have to. The public pronouncements indicate that moderators continue until (a) they resign or (b) they are removed by the 'powers that be'
@lockstep I'd seen that the flag list had grown while I was in the car
@Werner If there is a need, I see no issue in standing again
@lockstep I've added an answer to the "newgeometry" question: Javier's titleps seems to work also with \newgeometry. It's quite an achievement and I feel that this package should be advertised.
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@JosephWright Yes, I saw that. I then had to have a looooonnnnngggggg lie down. Please, please, please let me know well in advance if they threaten us with this so that I can be sure to be on holiday that week. Preferably without any internet access whatsoever.
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Citing a range of papers (using numeric keys)?
I am using the package bibentry and the \cite command to include numerical references to a bibliography. If one cites multiple consecutive references, the series is displayed as a comma separated list (e.g., [1, 2, 3, 4...
@JosephWright Yes. It seemingly voids @barabarabeeton's option to answer while still regurgitating @Mico's highly voted one. But that's the OP's choice... Since this is community-driven, votes will reign supreme.
@JosephWright BTW, I cast my first "very low quality" flag today. Martin's comment convinced me that the respective "answer" probably doesn't make any sense.
@lockstep I ask because of this discussion where the consensus seemed to be that this isn't particularly useful for us (although obviously not harmful).
@AlanMunn My attitude is that if I have invested some time to ponder if I should affirm, ignore, or invalidate a flag, and the answer is "Affirm!", ignoring it isn't too helpful.
@JosephWright But it's good to know that you see only one flag (but backed up with additional weight).
@lockstep What we get now is a list ordered by number of flags, but where the same item flagged multiple times only counts once in the 'top row' number. So at the moment I see four flagged items, with the top one having four individual flags attached. Works well.
@AlanMunn BTW, I regurlarly flag because I spot users with two or even three accounts, and suggest to merge them. I have never seen another "suggested merger" flag, though.
@JosephWright I guess the top one is the "very low quality" answer we spoke of.
Actually, more importantly, what does "Unregistered" mean in terms of an account... I thought one necessarily is "registered" when you have an account.
@Werner No, if you just post without logging in then you are 'unregistered'. The system will track you with a session cookie, but once it expires you loose the link
@Werner He'd answered some stuff before, then came back recently and answered again. As the cookie expired and he'd not registered, the two accounts were separate despite using the same e-mail. So I've merged them, linking the old log in and answer data to the newer session ID
@egreg Do you think tex.stackexchange.com/q/6470/2707 (which is about checking that delimiters are properly matched) could be done well by making all delimiter character "math-active", and keeping a stack of open delimiters?
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What does the math notation $\sum$ mean?
My school's prescribed book uses the weird letter E character without explaining what it is in the first chapter when it talks about the binomial equation. I can't find it on Google either because I don't know what it means o...
Last year I was involved in writing a large group proposal with LaTeX. This involved various sections written and rewritten by disparate subgroups, with all the merging and editing headaches you'd expect and more. In particular, handling the bibliography was a nightmare. Everyone handled refer...
I use \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} to customize the design of my sections, subsections...
In particular, i have :
\titleformat{\section}%
{\large\sffamily\bfseries}%
{My Section \arabic{section} }%
{0.5em}%
{#1}% \\ \hspace*{-1.5cm}
[{\color{blue}\titlerule[2.5pt]}]
where the {\color{blue}\...
I'm submitting a paper to a non-ACS journal that nonetheless follows most of the ACS formatting guidelines. So I'm trying to use the achemso documentclass and setting a few options to meet the journal's idiosyncrasies.
In particular I need the citations to not be superscripted and appear in squ...
Very often I read a question like
How can I set something in LyX?
Every time I think why do you use LyX? I know the biggest advantage is WYSIWYG. But people using LyX normally are not able to edit the code or to set special wishes.
In this relation I think we shouldn't recommend LyX instea...
I need to write the decimal expansion of a very long number (more than 100 digits) that I'm typesetting using the numprint package. Unfortunately, when I do this:
\numprint{1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890}
the digits extend o...
I'd like to get "page x of y" in a footer on each page, and the way I've found is to use:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\cfoot{Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}
This works but has introduced a solid line at the top of each page and some headers. How do I get...
Possible Duplicate:
Citing a range of papers (using numeric keys)?
I am using the package bibentry and the \cite command to include numerical references to a bibliography. If one cites multiple consecutive references, the series is displayed as a comma separated list (e.g., [1, 2, 3, 4...
