@barbarabeeton Thank you barbara. Indeed liked your reply sepcificaly that part you mentioned your story on transitioning from metal tools to the only available ones which formed your typeset habits. Very logical that sometimes, our needs form our habits. Thank you again. I really like your response and all other responses by you on TeX.SE
Every time I ask a question here, I get impressed. The first reason is the quality of the the answers. The second but the most important for me is the way people talk to others. They do it with respect. They do it with good logical reasoning. They do it the way the beginner and less professional user (like me) gets me interested to follow the topic. This is very different to my experience for instance in SO where I got a "leave if you don't like!" answer to many of my questions.
I deeply thank you TeX people here. I always get excited and am happy to learn from you.
'Morning all! A question about naming things... I have several components which are a basic shape (say, a capacitor) modified by things --- an arrow, a squishy line, a zig-zag...
How can I collectively name all this "thingy"? modifiers? appendages? changinators? ;-P
@enthu you're welcome (even though I'm just a small part of this). And I share your view on this, this is part of the reason why I've become so enticed with TeX.
@Rmano I think changinators should become an official scientifical term!
@enthu if you don't mind spending some time on the slower end of productivity (like a week or so) you'll get much faster with the keyboard as well. Also, the thing about the shell users is that the shell gets things done very fast. Copying a single file is maybe a tad slower (iff you have the two folders, source and destination already open in your GUI), but bulk processing files is undeniably much faster in the shell. And the shell gives you instant access to many great tools [...]
@Rmano as I say unless you can replace modifier by something relating to what it is in the actual circuit as in capacitors/something-electrical-property-indicator thickness
@Rmano that is you call it capacitors/modifier not two parallel lines/modifier because you know it stands for capacitor. I can only suggest modifier for the annotation as I don't know what it means. But perhaps it is OK anyway.
@DavidCarlisle well, depending on the base symbol the "modifiers" could mean a whole lot of different things, so, imho, "modifiers" is the best general fit for this, @Rmano.
@Skillmon I should do and I try shell some often. I have debian as dual boot on my system and as WSL on my windows. However, most of the engineering software is windows focused so i can not hugely use shell. Another problem is a bit more challenging for me, and that is what I can actually do in shell. What do I get involved myself so that I use shell more. It is something I indeed want but too much confused about the whole thing! :))
@Skillmon yes --- the problem is that otherwise, I have variability arrow, or non-linearity marker, or sensor indicator, — a different name for each modifier and I have already too many keys ;-) @DavidCarlisle --- thanks!
@Skillmon yes --- the problem is that otherwise, I have variability arrow, or non-linearity marker, or sensor indicator, — a different name for each modifier and I have already too many keys ;-) @DavidCarlisle --- thanks!
there are some terms which are very famous in a field but have usages in other fields, may be you want to be the first one to make a new usage of a term in your field! ;)
@Rmano Ah, ok. They're related to jays. The collective name for them in Icelandic is "skaði" which also means "damage or injuries" :p One of the species is called "skrækskaði" which would mean "screaming injuries". Sounds accurate to me :p
It seems I cannot use my solution with macros in my argument. Above is a MWE. Any help would be appreciated.
Not even this works:
\usepackage{xparse,xstring}
\StrSubstitute{\textbf{a}}{ }{\;}[\temp]% <-- throws "! Illegal parameter number in definition of \xs_arg_ii."
\meaning\temp
@JosephWright can you recall what this was doing, was it from the original luatexbase before we split the core off to ltluatex, l3build doc falls over it as there are no test-xxx directories and no Lua fuction allmodules?
function ltluatexdoc ()
doc()
modules={"tests-latex","tests-plain"}
allmodules ("doc")
end
Transcript written on luatexbase.log.
build.lua:30: attempt to call a nil value (global 'allmodules')
ah those test directory names are from ltluatex repo
Always the same, I give in and decide to answer a "do-it-for-me" question, and OP decides to delete it before I can post :( (well, in this case, OP didn't find the delete button and only made an edit to put delete everywhere instead of the original question, but still)
@Plergux it happens way too often when I decide to sacrifice some of my free time. Back to my original plan of watching a movie this evening! Ha SE, no answers from me today anymore!
@Skillmon The gall of some people is unbelievable. Like they just put it right there: "this is my homework, do it for me" and you're just sitting there wanting to shout at them "What do you think your teacher gave YOU homework for?!" *sigh
Hello. Is it possible to have X cm between each paragraph, so that when I click on Enter, Xcm automatically display?
I have this in my document `\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[top=2.5cm,left=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,heightrounded]{geometry} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}`
@Skillmon ah yes, this is the do-it-for me homework of this year. It started here tex.stackexchange.com/questions/592300/… and then there have been 4 or 5 questions, one user removed, etc. One of the users deleted the question (where another used posted the answer) when I commented that anyway turnitin would catch it ... ;-P
@Verónica you can set \parskip directly but probably better to use \usepackage[skip=1cm plus .2cm]{parskip} otherwise you will add space around all kinds of internal paragraphs like headings footnotes etc
@Rmano Yeah, I think that's necessary. Though some times you don't even need it. I once set my students the assignment to write a short essay from the book we were reading and one of them was basically just copy pasted sections of the book with "the author says" interspersed inbetween. Like, how little effort can you put in your work??
@Plergux That's quite a sad thing, yes. I think (@Skillmon also) that the deletion immediately after the answer is deliberate to hide the copy from automatic search system. This time has been reverted, so it will not work...
@Verónica that would be \usepackage[skip=0.6cm minus .1cm plus .2cm] or some such (rather unusual to use cm for such spaces not that it matters, but using pt or multiples of \baselineskip make it easier to compare with font size
@DavidCarlisle I added this, but marked an error and didn't separate paragraphs, then I removed minus .1cm and the error disappeared. I think I'm using \usepackage[skip=0.6cm plus .2cm]
"marked an error" not very informative:-) what error did you get? (initially just use \usepackage{\parskip} with no option (which gives .5\baselineskip plus 2pt)
@Verónica then you have done something that you have not shown to cause that error
@Verónica this runs without error with or without calc
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage[skip=0.6cm plus .2cm minus .1cm]{parskip}
\begin{document}
aa aa aa
bb bb bb
\end{document}
@Verónica complete documents are always more useful than disconnected fragments that can not be tested.
@Verónica but in this case I will let you off as the error is my fault, You have \usepackage[skip=0.6cm minus .1cm plus .2cm ]{parskip} see my comment above you need to give plus before minus (You didn't get the error I expected as you have calc loaded, but it is the same issue)
