I wonder what most LaTeX users would get on True Colours? I'm guessing Green-Gold like myself: Green: Likes problem solving, Gold: Likes rules, organization, order.
@GonzaloMedina Of course. How could it behave differently? That's TeX's way to tokenize input and ConTeXt can't change it.
Well, they might make the backslash active and scan until finding a defined macro; but then, how could they have \ab and \abc? (Non existent commands, of course, but they show the problem)
@Audrey It was just a new day, a new week, and a new month. So all the scores in the little popup read "0". I'm new here so I was surprised at first ;-)
Great news! The maintainers of LuaTeX have decided to use the forward slash / as the escape character, because on most keyboards this is easier to type than the backslash `\`. So we can type our LuaTeX documents faster.
I don't know if most people can type the \ easier than / - on the american/english keyboards for sure, but most people I assume have non-english keyboards
I am currently playing with some patches to the libertine package and I get that error. But my TeX knowledge is so limited, that I now check the diffs manually (because the document was OK before these patches)
@all Herbert Voss asked me to write a short dtk article about my pullquote solution. Hence I'd like to invite constructive criticism of the code. I'd like to avoid publishing any obvious blunders or avoidable inefficiencies or imprecisions.
Proposed Answer
I'd like to state that my DBP system DocScape can do what you describe, with a very similar algorithm. It's a basic property of text frames in DocScape. I should note that DocScape has an 'informed' page model where an explicit "page grid" is kept for every page including allocat...
@StephanLehmke Will you add a few more explanatory notes on the answer? This could help with comments etc. I will provide feedback in a couple of days.
@egreg I leaned Unix on an international keyboard. Then I was so used to having the control key at my left pinky (left of the "A"), so I chose my Operation System by the ability to map the control key to the caps lock key on a German keyboard
@YiannisLazarides Ok, I'll try to give more explanations. But the part about the informed page model is really unrelated. I'm thinking about deleting the shameless DocScape plug as it is really redundant now. It was meant as a placeholder until I could present some real code for the problem at hand ;-)
@YiannisLazarides I'd be interested to see how this approach might turn out.
@PatrickGundlach I learned to use computers on one that hadn't a "control" key! :) The Macintosh didn't until the Macintosh SE came out. But the keyboard was "American", so it had braces and everything one needs for TeX. For accented characters there were easy to remember dead keys. By the way, the first dead key I saw was on a German typewriter of the 50's: the Umlaut key didn't advance the carriage.
@FrankMittelbach I don't see much of a problem here, but I'm afraid "my" has to be replaced by "QuinScape's" whenever I'm talking about DocScape; I'm only the author ;-)
@YiannisLazarides I have a couple of thought in that direction. Basically the first step is to rid yourself of preformatted vertical material without needing to stored everything fully unprocessed. once you have that then the rest is largely like Stephan outlined (and implemented)
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Currently the dialogue of TeXtalk is formatted by <strong> for the speaker and <p> to separate lines. Here is an example from the interview with Yiannis Lazarides:
This format may be confusing when a speaker is listed with multiple paragraphs in that it is not obvious who says what...
@StephanLehmke You can lose rep for downvotes (not very frequent on this site) or for "unupvotes" and "unaccept": somebody that voted or accepted one of your answer change their mind. This will be indicated by a red mark on your reputation page. Or you can lose 4310 rep because of a faulty algorithm run by SE. :( Not really 4310, of course; but I once suffered a -500 or so.
I love your new feature for providing apposite help on troublesome things like notifications to users of Meta Stack Overflow.
Is he just an experiment, or is he a permanent new feature? That would be so awesome!
@PatrickGundlach Uh Oh. I don't think this is possible with the basic TeX engine. It accesses one file at a time. In addition, \include expects to include one file only. I'd write a small preprocessor script to write a file containing the individual \include statements and then call TeX, where the file is loaded with \input.
@StephanLehmke There might have been a package called "includemany" that redefines \include{} to run a shell / ls command to prepare a set of include statements.
It's really a great idea. :)
The TeXtalk series was heavily influenced by the TUG Interview Corner, so I tried to mimic their layout. Besides, I've never been an interviewer before. :)
The dl element is XHTML valid and, as Yiannis mentioned in his answer, it's more semantic and accessible. I ch...
`\def\getlist#1{\begingroup\everyeof{\noexpand}\xdef\mylist{\input|"(cd #1;ls *.tex)" }\endgroup` Needs -shell-escape and pdftex; with LuaTeX one can get the list in other ways, of course.
\getlist{tests} will produce a space separated list of the .tex files in the tests subdirectory
@JosephWright or another moderator: There are two "non-answers" (which I flagged) by user backprop, but now I noticed that backprop also has created two different accounts which should be merged.
Have a look at the endfloat package, especially at sections 3.4 and 7 of its manual.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nolists,nomarkers,tablesfirst]{endfloat}
\renewcommand{\efloatseparator}{\vspace{\floatsep}}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}
\centering
\ru...
@PatrickGundlach Unfortunately XeTeX doesn't have the \input| trick. :( But you can exploit the trick I suggested here: tex.stackexchange.com/a/41893/4427
It requires a temporary file, but it's better than nothing
@PauloCereda First I thought of just suggesting it to you in chat, then I realized a full post would be better since it allows for a better description
@NN Thanks. But, please, avoid upvoting answers by the same user in a short interval of time, as this can trigger the infamous (faulty) algorithm for "serial voting".
@PauloCereda The blog software seems quite new too so it may need some adjustment. Maybe we should ask the SX staff for help. Other blogs might benefit from proper definition lists too.
@NN Agreed. We have restricted access to the blog "bowels". Even the logo and the CSS are out of our domains. I'd love to post some TeX snippets, but the pre element is simply awful. :(
I am not a fraud, I have no acquaintances here whatsoever. I love reading questions and answers here and upvoting what I feel is cool. Sometimes I'm in awe of some answers and questions posted here. So I do see into users' profile and open their top questions and answers, and if I like them I upv...
@PauloCereda Seeing that there are more than one thing we want to change with the blog software I wonder whether it would make sense to write a meta post about every issue or if it's better to directly speak to the devs.
After I had boot my computer this morning there suddenly flooded water from the top of the screen, after which some fishes dropped into it. Now I can barely see what I am doing because the water distorts the view. Sometimes the fish follow the cursor so I need to move it away or wait for the fish...
@PauloCereda One of the proposed remedies: Install GNU. The Gnu will eat the fish and drink the water. Warning: Gnu poop a lot, you may find your screen filled with something else after a while.
@StefanKottwitz backprops "non-answer" wasn't a comment on Jake's answer, but a follow-up comment on Jake's comment on backprop's other "non-answer" (which I think can be deleted now).
I just awarded the first bounty on my newspaper question. Now I'd like to set the next one, to encourage others to answer. But there is no button for this???
This question might well be off topic, so feel free to close. But I hope some people reading here possess the relevant meta-knowledge.
I'm thinking (from a professional point of view) about fully automatic generation of newspapers from data.
More precisely, the system under consideration would ...
Why not. I'm not familiar with the distinctions. For the last one I chose "not detailed enough" or something. I wrote some custom text which is lost now :-(
It went something like this: "There are several answers possible to this question which might give valuable insights. I wish to encourage as many people as possible to answer. Every relevant answer will get a bounty. later, I will also accept the most helpful one."
@JosephWright Still no problem. If I have to answer questions here for weeks to earn the rep to give out for this, it will still be win-win for me. :-)
@PeterGrill I know you like to encourage MWEs as much as possible, but I don't think the coloured cell question really required one. The question is completely clear without one. I worry that when MWEs aren't really needed, comments asking for them can easily be perceived as annoying or even unfriendly.
@StephanLehmke @JosephWright Do we really want to advertise such rep trading? That's the kind of thing that I suspect the powers that be wouldn't really like.
@AlanMunn I had added the request for the MWE if the linked question did not solve the problem, and since he was a new user so that he knows for future. But will remove the comment (plus the one you linked is a better question)
@YiannisLazarides I'm set on attracting further answers. Somebody who wants to earn the rep (I'm not talking about the >10k heros here :-) might do some google research, instaead of sitting down writing a complicated macro for another question. I only have to make clear I'm in earnest about this.
Here it is: 'If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount. If there's no answer meeting that criteria, the bounty is not awarded to anyone.'
@Speldosa Settings -> Compiler Settings -> Default Compiler. The only "problem" is that ScribTeX is currently loaded with TeX Live 2009. However, you can upload newer versions of packages as separate files. Not optimal, but it's portability is great.
I don't know if this has something to do with me transfering the text from TeXLive on OS X to a txt file, then to a windows PC and to Google Docs and then into ScibTeX :)
I so need a laptop and an internet connection :P
Would somebody mind compiling this file locally and upload the PDF? Internet credz to whoever feels up to it :)
Finally! I've been checking the website all day waiting for it to click on from 32,990 to 33,000. Not a momentous number, I know, but after sending in the electricity reading for the last quarter then I felt that I needed to see a large number that meant something positive.
@Speldosa Could quite well be both. The first quarter of the year is - unsurprisingly - the most expensive electrically speaking and 9000NKr wouldn't be unreasonably excessive.
I could try it will a different font. (I've not read all the back story of why you want this document compiled so I don't know if the font is important.)
I've got a 'living' document that I re-visit every couple of months which I originally developed using MikTex and WinEdt on Windows. I'm quite comfortable with this, and quite like the functionality in MikTex to download needed packages on the fly as the document is being rendered.
I'm looking t...
I did some changes to the code used in the answer to Pretty table of contents to allow for entries for another sectional units (sections and subsections). Could you please have a look at the obtained ToC layout and make suggestions?
Clearly I've missed something with an homage to a paper clip today. If anyone else finds themselves strangely missing paper clips, the cure is simple: install this program: vigor.sourceforge.net
@someonr The usual definition of \othersectionlevelsformat is #3\autodot\enskip, but #1 is the name of the sectional level. So adding \DOT#1 and testing if it's defined we can override the \autodot feature for the levels we want.
I'll use: \renewcommand{\othersectionlevelsformat}[3]{#3% \ifstrequal{#1}{section}{.}{\autodot}\enskip} for consitance consistency. So time to sleep for me ;)
@someonr not really, luatex gives access and program-ability of aspects of tex's internal state via lua, but (I think) the main programming language for the top level interface is still mainly intended to be TeX macro programming, for which expansion control is perhaps the most important concept.
@YiannisLazarides I'm afraid giving a more detailed description of the pullquote algorithm will have to wait until tonight (that is, monday night). I restructured the answer a little, reducing and moving the plug to the end. But today (that is, later today :) I have to work.