@Nasser We just used it when rearranging furniture since it had built in desks and chairs and made it very easy to enter real world measurements, move things around and snap them to walls and things
@Nasser many basic linux tool needed little-to-none improvement over the years, for instance. And remember that many LaTeX packages are much more trivial than most of these tools.
@yo' The point is though that it's not the same as saying 'this is generally a good idea': there's a question of how much of xparse one would carry through to a new format
@yo' Things like \frame{...} that can be \begin{frame}{frametitle}...\end{frame} or \begin{frame}\frametitle{frametitle}...\end{frame} are just confusing.
@yo', @egreg (@DavidCarlisle) My point is that I'm mindful of the fact xparse is in a sense an experiment: yes for LaTeX2e we have 'lots of stuff' but I don't necessarily think all of it should carry through to a new format
For example, I wonder if expandable commands with optional arguments are really useful: they look 'clever' but the work to set them up is quite involved and they are most of the time not the best user interface
@yo' beamer is very tricky: I have no tests, lots of undocumented code, Till was clearly learning to write TeX when he wrote beamer (so a lot of it is odd), ...
@egreg I've also got a use at present in siunitx (for dealing with units that end up in bookmarks): I'm not saying I'm entirely opposed, I'm saying it is worth checking before carrying such stuff forward
You can use this implementation of \solvedegtan in every place TeX is expecting a decimal number, even in something like
\setlength{\textheight}{\solvedegtan{60}\textwidth}
Here's the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand{\solvedegta...
@1010011010 \linewidth is set by \@(array)parboxrestore (which is used in float bozes) to the current \hsize so it should only really be different from textwidth or columnwidth in lists and parbox like things (tabular p columns, minipages etc)
To get an empty space "as a page" in latex document after a paragraph or text so, use below command lines
\noindent
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I tried googling this elsewhere but I'm new to LaTeX and extremely confused about certain things. Basically I downloaded MikteX and I'm using the latest version of Lyx with it. Now all I basically know how to do is make pretty looking mathematics and add contents pages/titles/references/etc.
I'm...
@egreg I consider downvoting to -1 so that we can delete it immediatelly. OTOH, it makes sense to let the answerer learn that this is a bad practice (for the sake of the answerer, not of the answer), so it makes sense to wait with it :)
@yo' Oh, I had also flagged it as “Low Quality”, but more general it is not an answer. Though, I didn't downvote, because the poster just signed up today.
@yo' I'm a little more concerned, that someone actually upvoted this. @PauloCereda? ;)
@HenriMenke -- is it possible that someone upvoted simply to return the vote count to 0? (when i looked at this, i was puzzled that the count showed 0, so i checked and saw the up and down.)
@daleif: regarding your post in the TL list, I had this very same issue when installing TL2015 last year. The culprit was one of the Brazilian mirrors. When I changed to UK, everything went smoothly. I installed TL2016 today and everything went fine. :)
@PauloCereda Indeed: Warwick is one of the fastest mirrors to update :-) (Since the demise of the CTAN node at Cambridge, I've used Warwick as my main source)
i've just been trying to search for a previous piece of information here, and after getting nowhere, observed that the user id for the "speaker" that is being searched is not the same as identified if i check that user's id by mousing over his/her avatar here in the chat. has this been reported somewhere (where?), and if not, where should i report it?
@barbarabeeton I don't know. I was recently searching for a message of mine, and noticed that my user ID matched another name, checked again and saw that my chat ID has a much larger number. So i assumed the above statement, which was confirmed. But i never needed a chat id so far.
@barbarabeeton @DavidCarlisle @egreg @ChristianHupfer Who does understand that question? Even knowing the german crosspost, i was a bit lost in the neighborhood.
Hi @ChristianHupfer! May I ask you a question about `xcntperchap`? Is there a possibility to access the numerical value of `\ObtainTrackedValue`? Today I tried to do something like the following example, but when I tried to use it as the endpoint of a foreach-loop, I get an `Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted` error. \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{tikz}
@Johannes_B he wants to say which newtheorem package he is using then (I think) wants to define a non-italic theoremstyle and use it in some places but not others (details depend on the details)
@Johannes_B -- well, i have started to read the "help" file, and will follow that with the "faq". maybe there will be something useful there (not found so far). will report.
@samcarter I am a bit unhappy about the [...] argument of \ObtainTrackedValue -- I need to improve the backgrounds there. So far it's necessary the absolute number of a subsection etc.
@Johannes_B -- if that question were on this site, i would answer with this "often referenced question": [Non italic text in theorems, definitions, examples](http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38260). (requires amsthm.)
@samcarter: Is this what you want to achieve (the 3rd. slide shows 2 of 2, the first one is 0 of 2, because subsection has the value of zero then -- I used the v0.2 of xcntperchap
I have 4 single documents here, each of which use sections as highest level of structure
Now I want to combine them into one scrartcl. I input them into my new document with the 'import' package, which works fine so far.
The issue I have now, is, I want to have each of the original documents as...
@ChristianHupfer Inserting the numbers works fine, the counting is correct and everything. But in the next step, I wanted to add a foreach loop which goes from 1 to the total number of subsections (of the current section). With v0.2 and the new\ObtainTrackedValueExp this loop works fine inside a frame but unfortunately not within the headline template (inserting the numbers as text works in both - strange). I will do a bit of digging this evening...
@JosephWright @PauloCereda Hey none of this Fortran hating, ya hear? Some of us have written thousands of lines of the stuff. You guys have no respect. :D :D :D
@PauloCereda that sounds like a terrible plan. there are too many such people so you would vote too much and get reverted. Instead vote for people over 300K
@JosephWright -- we're actually using svn here to manage our production, so i'm not unacquainted. we use it "under" emacs, as well as from the command line of a linux system. but not having found an entry point, getting access to detail is a bit difficult. (let's continue this in mail.)
@DavidCarlisle well, should there be shellesc.tex? I mean, TikZ works this way, for instance... Then, shellesc.sty would be just two lines: \ProvidesPackage{...} \input{shellesc}
@JosephWright definitely not doing options, but the overhead of plain setup is small for expl3, for shellesc which is one ifx and two def it's getting marginal...
@JosephWright The recent biblatex changes have caused a stir in the linguistics world, since one of our widely used packages makes _ active (a bad, but very useful idea for us). Usually there's a way around the issue, but now it's basically unsolvable I think.
@JosephWright Maybe it's diagnosed wrong (I'm reporting second hand, and haven't had a real look into the issue.) Something to do with the new naming scheme I think. I'll send you a MWE though. But honestly I think we should all get over this use of _. :)
The excavator has been awarded to... many users just some time ago. What a... bug? Certainly it is, too many unavailable posts :D
Also looks like it's everywhere. SO's got a similar problem a couple of minutes before.
Moreover, I can has THREE X marshals!!!
The excavator has been awarded to... many users just some time ago. What a... bug? Certainly it is, too many unavailable posts :D
Seems to affect Marshal and Excavator.
Also looks like it's everywhere. SO's got a similar problem a couple of minutes before.
Moreover, I can has THREE X mar...
You can use this implementation of \solvedegtan in every place TeX is expecting a decimal number, even in something like
\setlength{\textheight}{\solvedegtan{60}\textwidth}
Here's the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand{\solvedegta...
To get an empty space "as a page" in latex document after a paragraph or text so, use below command lines
\noindent
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\ \
\noindent
I have 4 single documents here, each of which use sections as highest level of structure
Now I want to combine them into one scrartcl. I input them into my new document with the 'import' package, which works fine so far.
The issue I have now, is, I want to have each of the original documents as...
The excavator has been awarded to... many users just some time ago. What a... bug? Certainly it is, too many unavailable posts :D
Also looks like it's everywhere. SO's got a similar problem a couple of minutes before.
Moreover, I can has THREE X marshals!!!
I need to exactly this curve by La-Tex:
Sorry I'm beginner.
