@MarcoDaniel I've updated KoMa-Script. It's very nice of Markus Kohm not informing international users about the changes in the new version. :( The English guide is exactly the same as before. :(
@GonzaloMedina Aha, I can stir up the soup with the book The Master and His Emissary by Iain Mcgilchrist. It's such a tough nut to read and often beyond my English understanding but still pays off well.
@GonzaloMedina I'm not sure that I would go so far as to say the least important, but it's certainly not all there is, because crucially you need syntax. One of the basic ideas in any intro class is the concept of structural ambiguity, which shows that you can't reduce sentence meaning to just word meaning alone.
But also you can't reduce syntactic categories to semantic categories, either.
@Gonzalo: Unfortunately, March isn't available in the data explorer, neither February (just a few days from it). From January, the AVG of questions is ~37/day.
Tuesday and Thursday were the days with more questions. :)
@AlanMunn Of course, but our hypothesis was that you can capture meaning if you know how every sentence relate to each other, even if you don't know the meaning of sentences. Don't know if that makes much sense now, but this afternoon we spent one hour talking about it.
@GonzaloMedina But where does the meaning of each individual sentence come from, if lexical meaning isn't relevant? Or put another way, what idea of the relations between sentences did you have?
In the most basic level, interaction can be simply concatenation of individual sentences; in a more higher level, concatenation of sets of sentences; a third level would be possible concatenations of sets of sets of sentences.
I guess I'm still not getting it. Did you get as far as a concrete example? For example if you have two sentences p and q, with a meaning function M, what is M(p).M(q) where . is concatenation?
@AlanMunn no, we didn't gave concrete examples; in fact, we didn't get a formulation for M(p.q), but the idea was that this value would depend not only on M(p) and M(q) but on M(x) and M(y) for every pair of sentences for which x.p.q.y can produce a "valid" response.
@Gonzalo In real language, concatenation of sentences seems to yield a number of different relations. For example: John went to the hospital. He broke his leg. The second sentence is usually interpreted as an event that is the cause of the event denoted in the first sentence. But in John ran into a tree today. He broke his leg, the second sentence is interpreted as the event that is the result of the event in the first sentence.
@GonzaloMedina Ah, the code snippets one is another app. :) I had to interrupt it for a while; I had to port texprinter to older JVM's. I'll be back to the code snippets soon. :)
@AlanMunn But notice that in the first example (although I agree that the usual interpretation is the one you mentioned), the meaning is really not clear; however, if you concatenate one or more additional sentences, the meaning will be (eventually) uniquely determined.
And we assumed that this can also be applied to every situation. The concatenation of a certain number of sentences will eventually uniquely determine the meaning of some initial concatenation,
@GonzaloMedina Yes, I agree the first example isn't so clear cut. But now I see a bit more the idea. Of course it won't work for arguments between 8yr olds: "Did so. Did not" (repeat as necessary.) :)
I never played with tikz before, so that's my first attempt. I simply love the following joke:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
\usepackage{frcursive}
\begin{document}
Find $x$.
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) -- (4,0) node[midway,below] {4 cm...
If a write a comment to an answer and then delete the answer, will the person addressed in the comment still receive it notification and will be able to read it?
I am using the Frutiger font as the sans serif font in my document. It is invoked by
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{pfr}
However this font is too bold for my taste. There is a ligher version available. I would like {\sf Test} to be rendered as
{\fontfamily{pfr}\fontseries{l}\selectfont Test}
an...
@YiannisLazarides probably nice but has the problem Frank mentioned in his literate programming answer the other day that doc may be basic but you can rely on it being there, I get ! Paragraph ended before \pgfkeys@@qset was complete. and assorted other errors because my tex is probably a bit old (texlive 2010)
@YiannisLazarides, I think really the only reason that docstrip has % everywhere is an initial idea that the file could be used without stripping as the package file, but these days, no one uses that anyway so a version which didn't require all the documentation to be in comments would make things look a lot simpler, I agree.
I've already asked about a similar situation, but this time the figures involved seem to be quite exaggerated: on my reputation page the following item appears:
-4360 Serial upvoting reversed
The other time the nullified votes were 63, this time 436, which is what a user can vote in eleven ...
Why should I use \DeclareTextFontCommand vs. just newcommand?
In the answer to my previous question, @egreg said:
With \DeclareTextFontCommand you get a robust command that will remain
untouched when found in a moving argument such as a section title or a
caption.
but I still don't un...
@AndreyVihrov That's exactly where the paradox kicks in. By going to the Web, I give my reader the choice of fonts, flow width, scaling, in short everything that PDFs don't do. And, at the same time, I give up any claim to beauty -- after all, the reader might want to read Paradise Lost in Comic Sans. But it's his failure, not mine.
@egreg Oh, yes, absolutely, my only quarrel is that PDF is frequently horrible to read except on paper (and I even include my own, beautiful, crafted-with-OCD PDFs in that).
And, of course, a proper web page will be a tenth of the size and download time
By proper I mean just HTML, no Ecmascript, no Flash, no Java...
@BrentLongborough difficulties in printing (and to a lesser extent, viewing) highly mathe,atical documents are main reason we still produce all our documentation in both pdf and html, evn though that doubles our work...
@DavidCarlisle Yes, that's valid. I certainly wouldn't condemn anyone to do everything twice, so perhaps my original railing was a bit extreme. But I confess that my spectacles are tinted by Bringhurst, rather than Gödel.
Now, anyone got a quick tip for LuaTeX?: How to get from a single character given as a LaTeX parameter (#1) to a glyph id?
@DavidCarlisle Thanks for the feedback. The MWE I posted is a hack and would need major rehashing for a production version. I agree with both of you about the advantages of doc/docstrip. The tcolorbox package has some reliability issues, but the intention was to canvass opinions:) Thanks.
I'm looking for a way to dynamically use Rich-Text-Format code in a latex document.
The background is this: I want to paste formatted programming-source from visual studio into my latex code because the ability of VS to format code is way above any latex package, as it can colour self defined cl...
@YiannisLazarides I once thought about how to lift the odd requirements of docstrip and doc from documentation. At first it seems that something simple like "grab everything inside a macrocode, then copy it to a .sty file" would suffice. But there are at least two questions: (a) How to implement a real installation procedure (with directories); (b) How to quickly produce the package files without typesetting documentation? And this should be implemented in TeX alone to ensure maximum portability.
@YiannisLazarides Two obvious issues for me with the 'do not use DocStrip' idea are that the code order is fixed (you can't unpack out-of-order) and that unpacking complex items (for example the LaTeX kernel) look challenging. Neither is insurmountable, but they are both complex areas.
@AndreyVihrov The installation procedure can be modelled after doctrip's or better if Lua is present to use lua via the package. Advantage with lua, it can create the directories whereas DocStrip can't. The basic routines will not to be at the TeX level (the verbatim writes) so one can fall back to a simpler design.
@JosephWright Unpacking out of order as you rightly say is complex. That was partly my interest in stacks the other day, but it is possible with a bit of thought. With this method a lot can also be simplified, as you only marked input files (rather than dtx's and unpacking them).
@AndreyVihrov Sorry I messed the typing, I meant the basic routines such as the verbatim writes will have to be at TeX level.
@AndreyVihrov That is, Lamport took care in the book, to always fully brace arguments, without exception, whereas the code goes to some care to ensure that you don't have to do that, and single tokens almost always don't need to be braced
@DavidCarlisle It's not that I believe it… I just tried to follow the convention as much as possible, but found this particular case rather odd with the braces.
@AndreyVihrov At the top level document/pramble I think a simple rule that braces everything makes sense, but once you start using expandafter I would not as it means you have to use even more expandafters, and even without expandafter if this is embedded in another macro I wouldn't (as those two braces take up two whole tokens and I still weep over the waste:-)
@PauloCereda Wow? how would you do \futurelet?, Dr Spok or Dr Who?
@AndreyVihrov On the newcommand I guess it depends on what you need to do. If you need to check if the command has been previously defined a quick hack is \newcommand{\macro}{} and then gdef etc...
@YiannisLazarides Might be tricky getting everyone at the same time. Also, exactly which members you are after might be complex! For example, I know that Robin Fairbairns does read the site, but he does not have an account.
Anyone else seeing what I assume is a new '1 question with new activity' bar on the main site?
@AlanMunn Yes, I'm familiar with the Facebook equivalent (not that I use that very much, but some people at work threatened to sign me up without my permission so action was needed!)
@JosephWright Back to the interview. It doesn't really have to be at the same time, one can have it over a few hours, people popping in and out and answering and chatting. I think from a time point of view maybe Bruno would be a problem although he has trained himself not to sleep:)
@PauloCereda Er, no. The people on Facebook who actually understand enough maths to benefit from MathJaX are what I believe is known as "The 0.01 percent"
@egreg: I just read your latest edit on the meta question on your reputation. The lack of response from the SE team is highly irritating and slightly offensive. My suggestion in the comments of up-voting all of your answers was semi-facetious - I'd happily do it, perhaps trigger the script again, but then that would just cause another Big Red Line on your reputation which you might not be too pleased about. Plan B is to use Bounties. If I remember right, one can put a message on a bounty ...
... I thought something like "Bounty to be awarded to egreg as partial recompense for SE's failure to fix his reputation graph."
@Werner Agree. I think Joseph should post it as a fresh answer with a comment explaining that it was actually left as an edit to another answer, and CW it. (I think having a mod do it makes it look better than a user.)
@JosephWright: Would using \section{The {\bfseries Section} Title} also be an option in your most recent answer, since \bfseries has no overlay awareness (I think)?
@Werner This entire thing is a pain. I know about the issue, but to fix it I have to either require e-TeX or break a lot of other stuff. Sometimes I'm not Till Tantau's biggest fan :-)
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\robustify\textbf
\begin{document}
\section{The \textbf{Section} Title}
\begin{frame}{Testing frame}
This is a test.
The \textbf<2->{Section} Title
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Hmm, OK. What I tried was to click the {} first, then paste the code. But this only recognized the first line as code, so I used <pre> instead, as shown in the tooltip of {}.
The difficulty with Caramdir's approach is that it is too regular so it would be hard, for example, to display the layout of the board in an actual game. Stefan's is better at that, but doesn't have the grid. However, a grid is very regular so Caramdir's approach can be adapted to that.
So her...
@GonzaloMedina Large country indeed. :) I love that Simpsons episode when they come to Brazil. In a scene, they kidnap Homer in Rio de Janeiro, in the next scene they are in the middle of Amazônia. :P
How come egreg gets the bashing from the voting fraud thingy while the other hi-rep people on other sites, like the one on SO, can't-remember-his-name or anyone else doesn't get it? Is our community that small such that the algorithm always sees the same people upvoting egreg ? I don't know if I've lost upvotes since I don't keep track of them.
I never played with tikz before, so that's my first attempt. I simply love the following joke:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
\usepackage{frcursive}
\begin{document}
Find $x$.
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) -- (4,0) node[midway,below] {4 cm...
I am using the Frutiger font as the sans serif font in my document. It is invoked by
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{pfr}
However this font is too bold for my taste. There is a ligher version available. I would like {\sf Test} to be rendered as
{\fontfamily{pfr}\fontseries{l}\selectfont Test}
an...
Is it possible to create PDFs optimized for "fast web view" using pdfLaTeX? (I don't have Acrobat available.)
I've already asked about a similar situation, but this time the figures involved seem to be quite exaggerated: on my reputation page the following item appears:
-4360 Serial upvoting reversed
The other time the nullified votes were 63, this time 436, which is what a user can vote in eleven ...
Why should I use \DeclareTextFontCommand vs. just newcommand?
In the answer to my previous question, @egreg said:
With \DeclareTextFontCommand you get a robust command that will remain
untouched when found in a moving argument such as a section title or a
caption.
but I still don't un...
The difficulty with Caramdir's approach is that it is too regular so it would be hard, for example, to display the layout of the board in an actual game. Stefan's is better at that, but doesn't have the grid. However, a grid is very regular so Caramdir's approach can be adapted to that.
So her...
