@PatrickGundlach: I'm trying to follow your comment in this question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63005/… But I didn't understand why it would return the number of bytes. I'm trying to find any clue in the Lua book, but no luck so far. :(
Sorry if this is a newbie question, but I really got curious.
@PauloCereda Not sure if it is possible to understand :) string.* always operate on bytes (because it handles only ascii + 8th bit). Now unicode.*.* are a direct replacement for string.* (you can say string=unicode.utf8 for example ) and all string.* functions are utf8 aware. But there has to be a function that operates on bytes only, since otherwise you are unable to deal with byte data stored in strings. And this is the function *.find() which, well, returns the offset in bytes.
I am not saying that this is intuitive or not, but one just have to keep this in mind when dealing with multi byte input
This is not written in the manual. It is to be deduced from the slunicode library's source code. And there has been a lot of discussion on the LuaTEX mailing list about that: tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2010-March/001242.html - I believe this is the only correct way to handle this.
Below is a MWE of a table that keeps outputting errors although it does display but not correctly.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{An Tabl\'a Shiompal}
\begin{tabular}{rrrr}
\addlinespace
\toprule
A & B & C & ...
I've been reading a very interesting PhD thesis, and I would thus like to reference it in my work.
Unfortunately this bibtex segment didn't work with \cite{}, instead giving [?]:
@phdthesis{michael_power_1991,
title = {The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing},
url = {http:...
I'm working on my moderncv and I want to send a section to the next page. I tried with the following sentence but it doesn't work:
\newline
\section{Title}
\cvline{info}{info2)}{}
\cvline{info}{}
How can I achieve that?
thanks for any help!
Does anyone know any good reference materials (something like a glossary) for looking up individual TeX/LaTeX commands as one comes across them? For example, I am trying to figure out what \vtop does.
@egreg Indeed. Americans aren't much for anarchy. When I was packing my office up to move to our new building I discovered all the documentation I collected just to convince the thesis office at the U. Maryland to allow me to use italics instead of underlining in my dissertation.
@AlanMunn: A long time ago, my dad asked me what the "S" letter in the Word formatting toolbar meant ('sublinhado'). I answered, "It means 'socorro!' Don't use." :) Thankfully my dad never used underlining. UPPERCASE, on the other hand... :(
@egreg Well they did, but their style guide apparently didn't. And since the old ladies who worked there had been there since before the typewriter was invented it seemed, they weren't up to changes.
@N3buchadnezzar I think making a fixed x coordinate like \def\radd{0.3}and using a cotangent for D would fix everything. (note the through library and circle through command of TikZ)
@egreg or that brilliant piece of English literature known as afterpage.dtx
% \begin{macro}{\addboxcontents} % Given a vbox |#1|, add to the current vertical list such that the end % result is equivalent to the list that \TeX\ would have built had the % contents of |#1| (apart from any initial glue) been added individually % to the current list.
% So essentially, the problem is that of unboxing |#1|, but replacing % the glue at the top of |#1| with (something equivalent to) the % |\baselineskip| or |\lineskip| glue that \TeX\ would normally have % placed before the first box in |#1|. Also |\prevdepth| must be set at
@JosephWright I guess I'll buy it, sooner or later. By the way, is there a rule for knowing which adjectives can't take the comparative or superlative suffixes?
@egreg Not that I know of. I saw someone mentioned yesterday numbers of syllabus, and thought of 'boring'. In English, you can't have 'boringer', so the German langweiliger always makes me smile
@JosephWright While CS takes a lot from the study of langages (The idea of a kernel for example, and a minimum number of phrases), I'm not sure how you could do it the other way around, since they never were able to create a linguistic kernel, by my understanding
I am new to LaTeX. My questions are not such difficult but for obvious reasons I do need some help.
I found the following template very useful:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ThesisStyle/CUEDThesisPSnPDF.tgz
It was supposed to work correctly, however it doesn't load (or it...
@AlanMunn It isn't far from British English either; I use the OED for all my writing and no one complains. I was going to make a joke about how most Canadian English speakers tend to be somewhat more proficient in it then American English speakers; Something about us not having destroyed our public education system in the last 30 years.
@Canageek Trust me, it's very far from British English in most respects. Spelling conventions are not linguistic. Canadians may have more passive knowledge of BrEng than Americans, but that's a different matter.
@Psachnodaimonia The amount of vertical spacing that's inserted when two lines are too near to each other, for example when the line above is deeper than usual or the line below is too high.
@Canageek Well for one, colonization brings particular regional dialects to a country which then are less connected the home prestige form. To cite one major example, standard BrEng is predominantly 'r'-less after vowels, but standard Am. and Can. English requires 'r'. The relative isolation of the colonies allows new standards to arise. The same dialects may also preserve words that change in the home dialect. An example of this is Am/Can 'gotten' as the participle of 'got' (Br = 'got').
@AlanMunn Interesting; I've not noticed much when talking to British people I know, but often do with Americans, though that is probably the fact Canadian suburban accent isn't hugely far removed from some of the British ones, but is terribly far removed from most US accents.
I mean, have you ever talked to someone from Kentucky? I phoned a police station there once to stop a suicide and would have laughed if A) I hadn't been talking to a cop and B) I wasn't blind out of my mind with panic
@Canageek This is wishful thinking, unfortunately. I'm not saying there's not regional variation in American English that makes it different from Canadian English, there is. But if you compared "standard" American/Canadian/British English with each other, you'd definitely put Canadian and American together. (Just go to Britain and see how many people think you're an American.)
@Canageek I have a grad student from Kentucky. We seem to understand each other just fine. :)
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Below is a MWE of a table that keeps outputting errors although it does display but not correctly.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{An Tabl\'a Shiompal}
\begin{tabular}{rrrr}
\addlinespace
\toprule
A & B & C & ...
I've been reading a very interesting PhD thesis, and I would thus like to reference it in my work.
Unfortunately this bibtex segment didn't work with \cite{}, instead giving [?]:
@phdthesis{michael_power_1991,
title = {The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing},
url = {http:...
I'm working on my moderncv and I want to send a section to the next page. I tried with the following sentence but it doesn't work:
\newline
\section{Title}
\cvline{info}{info2)}{}
\cvline{info}{}
How can I achieve that?
thanks for any help!
I am new to LaTeX. My questions are not such difficult but for obvious reasons I do need some help.
I found the following template very useful:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ThesisStyle/CUEDThesisPSnPDF.tgz
It was supposed to work correctly, however it doesn't load (or it...
Disclaimer
This is not for the faint-hearted.
If you are not interested in using LaTeX, stop reading now, as this uses the media15 or movie9 packages to embed U3D in a pdfLaTeX generated PDF. This answer assumes basic familiarity with LaTeX. I have tested this with pdfLaTeX and it should work f...
