@cfr: yesterday night there was a program on television named The world as seen from above and they showed Wales. It is a magical, wonderful place! I learned about why the eldest son of the queen is named the Prince of Wales and why there's a red dragon in the flag, amongst other things! But they didn't show Cardiff... :(
Hi, I'm running into a very typical problem that I don't know how to solve. I have a table which I want to follow with text. If I insert \clearpage that removes the gap, but I don't want a page break either
In short: Is there an alternative to \clearpage that forces everything to get typeset, but that doesn't trigger a page break?
@Sebastiano Hi! Are you sure you don't change the meaning if you replace the previously displayed two backslashes by four ones? Besides what's the gain from editing a three year old closed question and bumping it to the front page? tex.stackexchange.com/posts/184596/revisions
@JoeCorneli (with my Graphic Editor hat on) If the journal editor wants it to be floating, let it float. There's nothing more annoying than figures and tables that aren't properly mentioned in the text so they can't be moved around the document easily.
@Sebastiano I tried to tell you earlier as well, there is little point in doing very minor edits like your last one (tex.stackexchange.com/posts/31045/revisions) on old questions. Don't edit just for the sake of editing. Having >2000 points gives you the power to edit, but try to be a bit more careful with how you use that power.
@Sebastiano Sorry to bother you again. First congratulations to being able to edit post without others having to approve your edits! But something like this really necessary: tex.stackexchange.com/posts/31045/revisions It even slightly changes the question, as the last phrase is now part of the note.
@Sebastiano the edit to this one is also not right tex.stackexchange.com/questions/333382/… you have changed the display of the error message from the error message as printed by TeX to something in one line, which means that you can't read it without scrolling the text box and it no longer matches the actual tex error.
@Sebastiano Please, read the following Meta question: it gives some hints about when and how editing. You're not compelled to follow the hints, of course.
Update: Sort of ironically, this question has been left unedited for a while, even when there seemed to be some consensus in the answers below of the kinds of edits that are acceptable and those that are not. So I'll do my best to update it with what seems to have been the consensus in the end. A...
isn't there a package on CTAN making it easy to store stuff in the aux and reuse it on the next run? Could be used to make homemade backreferences for stuff
@DavidCarlisle you still have to define the macros that are written to the aux and write macros to retrieve the data. I thought there was already a package for this. perhaps zref could just be used since this is all automated stuff
@daleif normally I don't write macros to retrieve, I just write a def so if you use \def\foo#1#2{\immediate\write\@auxout{\gdef\string#1{#2}}} then if you go \foo\zzz{hello} the next run \zzz will be defined to be hello from the start.
Hey guys, I've been in this room a long time ago, I'm unsure if any of you remember me but I have a favor to ask of you. A pretty big one.
I'm going to prepare a workshop on LaTeX but I'm not formally certified to teach the course. Could one of you, who is certified in LaTeX, please draft a letter which says I'm competent to deliver this workshop.
@PauloCereda Anyone who's attended a workshop and confident enough to deliver a tutorial is a competent bloke, I'd say. I just need anyone to say that I'm able to do it, and then I'll be able to do it. It's more of a letter of reccomendation.
I was wondering if there are any ways to get certified in TeX/LaTeX?
This would be useful, e.g. for providing a way of quantifying the expertise someone has with TeX, LaTeX or other TeX flavors.
@PauloCereda Yeah, I'll prolly copy paste online tutorials word for word in my slides. Honestly, there are better resources out there than anything I can write up.
I've cleared it with my department. All they need is a letter of recommendation from any experienced tex/latex user. And they'll let me issue certificates to students who attend my workshop.
@TorbjørnT. @samcarter @egreg @DavidCarlisle Thank you so much for your comments and your indications. Tell me what I must do exactly. I ask with a lot of courtesy to write to me in a very simple English. With such honesty many times I do not understand. How should I change old post and what criterion?
@Sebastiano every time you edit a post it brings that question on to the home page of the site, which for a years old question that is already closed makes no sense.
@JosephWright There is a bug in xelatex which leads to faulty italic correction when opentype text fonts are used in math. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132835/…. The problem is that with the new format "faulty" fonts are used by default with beamer:
I'm following in Catania a Foundations of Modern Physics refresher course and are already in a tailspin. I wish I will write notes in LaTeX and I was curious to see how the images were created.
@samcarter What should I change? :-( I changed to a year ago
@Sebastiano The only thing I appreciate is, that today we got a reaction from you, not like for the dozen or so comments in the past, which tried to tell you the same things.
@samcarter The problem that I do so many things and then I forget now what I am told.
@samcarter i.sstatic.net/iQYtp.png I understood that I should not change old questions, change the meaning of the question and if there is a real need to change it. But for the curious badge what am I to do? I not even know how it got to 2/5.
Now I have to go, the next, Best regards to everybody
@Johannes_B Would you like at some time to take another look on latex.org occasionally? For 10 days, I'm in a pretty rough yard with just satellite Internet.
@PauloCereda Huh. The buried under Snowden bit is new to me. I always thought it must be linked to the Pendragon standard. (Which is still Arthur/Merlin.) But I don't know where I have this idea from.
@PauloCereda There are also the UK TUG workshop materials and my derived/extended version of same. (Only the first part of mine are published so far. The rest are to follow.)
@UlrikeFischer I was looking at adding a \language\no@hyphenation setting for \verb (as discussed in fontspec github and here) and just came across this in verbatim:-) It's only been wrong for 17 years, not since the start, so that's OK, we can fix it before anyone notices.
I was wondering if there are any ways to get certified in TeX/LaTeX?
This would be useful, e.g. for providing a way of quantifying the expertise someone has with TeX, LaTeX or other TeX flavors.
