TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Faheem Mitha

4:37 AM

@barbarabeeton "fanfold greenbar" would be printed paper output, it take it. Quite a while back, presumably.

I bet debugging with punch cards was fun too.

@Skillmon I did qualify it with "not completely" below.

bp2017

4:52 AM

@marmot, can I ask for your advice on how to change the size of the mark in the following answer?: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/497444/141768

I tried `mark size` (when `tikz` package is loaded) but it doesn't seem to work. I want it to scale with the text.

Faheem Mitha

5:09 AM

@marmot I'm all for not making errors.

As long as it doesn't involve satanic rituals and selling one's soul.

marmot

You can use `\setbox\aMark\hbox{\begin{pgfpicture}\pgftransformscale{2}
\pgfuseplotmark{*}\end{pgfpicture}} `, i.e. use `\pgftransformscale`, but I do not now what transform with the text means. Do you want to make it large if the text is \large?

If you want it to scale with the text, try

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepgflibrary{plothandlers,plotmarks}
\begin{document}
\newcommand\mymark{\pgfmathsetmacro{\myscale}{1em/10pt}%
\begin{pgfpicture}\pgftransformscale{\myscale}
\pgfuseplotmark{*}\end{pgfpicture}}
\noindent\mymark\ Hello

{\Large\noindent\mymark\ Hello}

{\Huge\noindent\mymark\ Hello}
\end{document}

@FaheemMitha I was just kidding. ;-)

@bp2017 ^^^

@bp2017 There is also \pgfsetplotmarksize{<dimension>}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepgflibrary{plothandlers,plotmarks}
\begin{document}
\newcommand\mymark{\begin{pgfpicture}\pgfsetplotmarksize{0.6ex}
\pgfuseplotmark{*}\end{pgfpicture}}
\noindent\mymark\ Hello

{\Large\noindent\mymark\ Hello}

{\Huge\noindent\mymark\ Hello}
\end{document}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepgflibrary{plothandlers,plotmarks}
\begin{document}
\newcommand\mymark[1]{\begin{pgfpicture}\pgfsetplotmarksize{0.6ex}
\pgfuseplotmark{#1}\end{pgfpicture}}
\noindent\mymark{*} Hello

{\Large\noindent\mymark{*} Hello}

{\Huge\noindent\mymark{*} Hello}

\noindent\mymark{o} Hello

{\Large\noindent\mymark{o} Hello}

{\Huge\noindent\mymark{o} Hello}
\end{document}

bp2017

5:56 AM

@marmot, thank you very much. (These would serve as bullets for my custom list.)

Faheem Mitha

6:20 AM

So, I'm having a weird problem here. I was trying to debug the problem I was seeing yesterday. So I copied the relevant files to a different directory in order to isolate the problem. But once I copied the files over I could no longer reproduce the problem.

I then tried reproducing in a clone of my repository, and that didn't reproduce either.

So I'm not sure what is going on. Perhaps there is a stray file which is causing problems, but I'm not sure what it could be.

Is there an easy way of finding out what files a TeX file is looking at during compilation, short of running an strace or similar?

When I rm the aux file, it goes away for one run, but reappears on the second run.

Skillmon

6:35 AM

@FaheemMitha Yes, I saw that after posting my comment, and was too lazy to then remove it :)

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