@AlanMunn It can be, I'm not sure about the function signature. :) There is no comma, usually it goes like (functionname param1 param2 ...), e.g, (+ 12 8). :)
@StefanKottwitz Yay! :)
@MarcoDaniel: I think I finally got a proper Makefile working, thanks to @AndreyVihrov. :) Here it is:
COMMAND = pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode
all: mytarget
mytarget:
$(COMMAND) test.tex &> /dev/null; if [ $$? -eq '0' ]; then echo "Your file was compiled successfully!"; else more test.log; fi
.SILENT:
@PauloCereda Thanks for the comment! The issue of nesting tikzpictures comes up often enough that it's tempting to do a blog post about it. Maybe when the semester is in full swing and I have a little more time.
@AndrewStacey IMHO your answer is already amongst the fine gems we can find here. It's very didatic and intuitive. And the blog post is a great idea. :)
@TorbjørnT Noooo, they copied my idea! I have a presentation and one of the experiments was a group with 1000 individuals. I drew a thousand stick figures. :P
If I go to Europe, I need to visit a lot of places for you guys to sign my TeXbook.
They do things like \def\@somebox{\begin{minipage}.. \includegraphics[..]{..} .. \end{minipage}} and then \settowidth\somelength{\@somebox} and later \raisebox{...}{\@somebox}.
No wonder that all my images are read twice. They should use a box register instead.
@egreg Unfortunately, I can never remember which is which so I'm in a quantum state. I know that one is longer than the other, but I don't know which. (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1050)
I got a naive idea and I don't know if this is practical, but I would like to hearing from the people here.
When Tex compile the .tex file, add additional information after each word. For example:
This(1)is(2)an(3)Example(4).
Here (1) (2) (3) (4) is the additional information that are added. ...
@egreg I read this. The example of wht13 works. I wrote a comment ;-)
@egreg Base on the example of BeforeEnvirnoment I can create a new mdframed command to simplify the algorithm. I have the same idea for theorems which uses the new frametitle-option of the beta-package.
Lately I was searching on tex.sx from the search form at the top of the page. After a first search, I positioned the cursor somewhere halfway in my previous search terms and started to type additional keywords. Upon automatic expansion of the search form, the cursor was placed at the end of my in...
Say I want to redefine the itemize environment, or make a modified version of it. I want to know how it is currently defined. Where do I find this information? If it's some particular package command, I can just look at the .sty file for that package, but if it's something more basic, I don't kno...
@PauloCereda I tried it without the &. But it seems to work only with nonstopmode. I don't like nonstopmode ;-) . In my test file I tried the undefined command \foo to produce an error. If I have an error the log-file will be printed in the terminal. But without nonstopmode the log-file hasn't finished at this time. Do you understand my intention?
@PauloCereda BTW, my "Unanswered question color" feature request has vanished from the front page and is at a score of 8 right now. Let's see how it fares.
Info For the moment I guess I'm done. The last section will need material but during the next days I'm certainly not able to provide it -- so if anybody feels like fixing my English ... please go ahead. It might be also a good approach to collect here references to other questions addressing specific topics. Info End
@PauloCereda I have a new idea. run pdflatex. If the compilation detect the first error break compilation and type out Error during compilation. Have a look at the log-file.
Last night I did a "recalc" of my reputation and it dropped by 42... Wow, crazy, right?! :) I know this is due to answer/question deletion. Are the other reasons for this? Why does this happen in the first place? What would be the difference if I never recalc my reputation, keeping all those "lost" rep with me like My Precious... :) Should I ask a general question like this on meta?
@Werner Don't tell me! I lost 500+ rep in one occasion. No, that's independent on your own recalculation, as it's performed periodically also by the system.
@egreg Strange that it only happened, in my 7-month tenure here, that it dropped. So it just seemed strange... almost like I initiated it. Are you saying that you would have lost 500+ rep anyway?
Yesterday I was very happy because my total rep was over 40000. This morning I was stunned seeing it had dropped to 39693.
Does anybody know what happened?
@Werner I also see that I have 5 votes missing. even though everyday I hit the vote cap. So probably SE engine thought that we are pulling tricks to get more reps. I have no conclusion that I shouldn't vote you up, no worries. I will do it anyway even though the system is taking them back :)
You and @egreg has the danger continuosly since your answers are most often worth of upvote but you simply have too many answers ! :P
@percusse Thanks! I was wondering whether my "forced recalc" caused (or initiated) the drop. First I thought it "cost" something to do a recalc... But 42? Here's a question in that regard...
...so if I have an single up-voted answer (10 rep) and delete it and do a recalc, my rep will drop by 10 points. Right? If I have a single down-voted answer (-2 rep) and delete it and do a recalc, does my rep increase by 2 points?
@Werner Ah, I wish I knew. But I deleted my own answer upvoted twice yet I didn't get any rep drops. But you never know, these systems are updated daily and I don't keep up at all.
@percusse You haven't earned the "Disciplined" badge yet, so here's a tip: When a situation arises that an answer of yours gets 3 upvotes, but another answer (perhaps from @egreg) basically says the same things, but much better, delete your answer. You won't notice a sudden rep drop, but if you recalc your rep, it will drop by 30. (You'll earn a shiny badge, at least.)
@percusse Go to tex.stackexchange.com/reputation - I only learned how to do it yesterday myself. You may also have to click on the "Force recalc" button at the bottom of the run.
@Werner You are probably right. I really don't know how the engine computes the rep points. But I clearly remember that I deleted my upvoted question on math.se let me check. I am not active there anymore so it might be easier to find.
That's the only answer I have deleted so far (as far as I remember). Hmm, I have also deleted a question since nothing happened for a long time but I don't remember if that was ever upvoted.
@percusse It may well be that a user cast a downvote on one of your questions/answers, and then the user account was deleted (which also deletes its votes).
@CountZero Hahaha! What is also very surprising is to get angry on many things like writing with capital letter implies shouting etc. but can't complain anyway.
The whole online persona phenomenon is quite perplexing.
@CountZero ...with an arbitrary option to up-vote or down-vote, but not both. It depends on when you're landing on that particular question. Almost like your computer has a voting mood swing.
@MarcoDaniel It's true though, since the use of algorithm rather than algorithmic makes you wonder what's going on. Also, just wrapping it in an \fbox without separation doesn't work or help.
This is strictly not a TeX question but rather a kile question. So, please show me to the right forum if I am asking it in the wrong place here.
I have kile set up to display structure and specifically:
Kile Settings -> LaTeX -> Structure View -> check Show input files
Then, when I have a wor...
@MarcoDaniel I think so, since the list is already setup at that point, so there's no use modifying something like \labelsep and \labelwidth. You could patch it with etoolbox - there's a condition in algorithmicx.sty which selects \labelwidth as 0.5em if the option to algorithmic is 0, or 1.2em otherwise. Not sure its working properly...
I'm using jurabib to do the bibliography for my dissertation (I'm having to do the MHRA style and jurabib does this quite well). The problem I have is as follows: I have some books by author A and edited by person B. I also have a book that is by person B. I am using bibformat=ibidem which, i...
@egreg It's actually green, but obviously they didn't match it very well. I'm most impressed with the the fact that there appear to be 4 distinct fonts plus the mix of serif and san serif.
@MarcoDaniel Yes, if you set \tracingpatches and then do \ifpatchable{\algorithmic}{\ALG@beginalgorithmic}{}{} the .log shows:
[debug] tracing \ifpatchable on input line 17 [debug] analyzing \algorithmic [debug] ++ control sequence is defined [debug] ++ control sequence is a macro [debug] -- macro cannot be retokenized cleanly
@MarcoDaniel How about, instead of setting things the way you've done in your updated answer, to have \labelsep0pt\labelwidth0pt in the condition for #1=0. That way the updated algorithmic environment will still work if he/she uses it with numbered lines.
\algorithmic has an optional argument, so it's not patchable in that way. `\expandafter\patchcmd\csname\string\algorithmic\endcsname{...}{...}{}{}` should work.
As a result of me discovering this new review feature, I've been using that tool a whole lot more recently.
While I was reviewing some posts in the week/month date ranges, some edits were suggested as well. I noticed that each time I switched to the suggested edits tab, the date range would rese...
You can get \\foo@ using \csname\string\foo@\endcsname. The space shown behind it with \show is not part of the macro name (but could be added using a \space before \endcsname).
So you can use:
\expandafter\patchcmd\csname\string\foo@\endcsname{hook}{\label{#1}hook}{success}{failure}
Full exam...
@JosephWright: Are moderators able to merge accounts across networks? That is, if we request via the "...and make sure that both accounts are associated with each other..." text block and they don't, would it be recommended that this be done?
I'm sure some people would find it beneficial to not have things sync-ed, giving rise to this "option" in the first place.
I'm trying to include a plot of tan(x) in some student notes.
Here is my input (using ConTeXt):
\usemodule[newmat,tikz,pgfmath]
\usetikzlibrary[arrows]
\starttext
\starttikzpicture[scale=0.65]
\draw[-angle 60] (-9,0) -- (14,0) node[right] {$x$};
\draw[-angle 60] (0,-6) -- (0,6) nod...
I got a naive idea and I don't know if this is practical, but I would like to hearing from the people here.
When Tex compile the .tex file, add additional information after each word. For example:
This(1)is(2)an(3)Example(4).
Here (1) (2) (3) (4) is the additional information that are added. ...
Yesterday I was very happy because my total rep was over 40000. This morning I was stunned seeing it had dropped to 39693.
Does anybody know what happened?
This is strictly not a TeX question but rather a kile question. So, please show me to the right forum if I am asking it in the wrong place here.
I have kile set up to display structure and specifically:
Kile Settings -> LaTeX -> Structure View -> check Show input files
Then, when I have a wor...
I'm using jurabib to do the bibliography for my dissertation (I'm having to do the MHRA style and jurabib does this quite well). The problem I have is as follows: I have some books by author A and edited by person B. I also have a book that is by person B. I am using bibformat=ibidem which, i...
You can use texdef too look up the definitions as described in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/31123/5701.
You can get \\foo@ using \csname\string\foo@\endcsname. The space shown behind it with \show is not part of the macro name (but could be added using a \space before \endcsname).
So you can use:
\expandafter\patchcmd\csname\string\foo@\endcsname{hook}{\label{#1}hook}{success}{failure}
Full exam...
I'm trying to include a plot of tan(x) in some student notes.
Here is my input (using ConTeXt):
\usemodule[newmat,tikz,pgfmath]
\usetikzlibrary[arrows]
\starttext
\starttikzpicture[scale=0.65]
\draw[-angle 60] (-9,0) -- (14,0) node[right] {$x$};
\draw[-angle 60] (0,-6) -- (0,6) nod...
