I'm trying to run bibtex from a different directory than my .bib file. According to the description in 'man bibtex', I should be able to set the envirorment variable BIBINPUTS to include the location of my .bib file. This is not working for me. What am I doing wrong?
$ # Mac OS X 10.7.4
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@andrew in my opinion there was nothing rude about suggesting to you that you waste your time +others ifyou just google on a complex program rather than spending some time on learning the basics. Because if you don't you are bound to end up with some fairly problematical results and this will cost you hours
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I am trying to input Harvard style bibliography in my master thesis but I cant do it,in the Pdf file,I see the references but either they do not have the names at all, but they have the title of the book the publisher and the year or they are not placed in the appropriate position or either the u...
@AndrewStacey much to my dismay (as I was getting close) I felt compelled to give you a vote for that tikz foreach question this morning (I looked at it yesterday and gave up:-)
Both projects want to replace BibTeX in a way but with different goals. Searching for both search terms at the same time is a rather frustrating experience. Is there any mutual recognition at all? Can both be used together? Does the roadmap for Biber development aim to include the functionality N...
@PauloCereda He has got an account here, but said to me he finds the 'turnover' too fast (by the time you've thought about a question, it's been answered)
Dear reviewers, could you take a look in the interview draft? I could not add the code format, trying to fit every piece of question/answer/comment into the right place was challenging. :P Don't worry with the formatting, I'll run my interview fixer later. :)
> This raises another concern and that is: what is the future of ConTeXt
> is Hans "get hit by the bus"? (Of course, we even do not want to think
> about it...)
The answer to this question is quite obvious if you have read Douglas
Adams' books: the bus will think about the impact of its actions on the
universe for a moment. Then, deeply immersed in gut-wrenching shame,
it will travel back in time half a minute and push its own breaks for
an emergency stop.
@PatrickGundlach: your "Installation chant" comment in the ConTeXt wiki humour page made my day! :) I wanna print and frame it over my development machine. :) Mr. Gundla. LOL
@JosephWright Next question: what's the easiest way to draw someone's attention to a question/answer? Is it to leave a @message on an answer of theirs?
I want to put some text in the outer margin (by which I mean on the left side of the page of even pages and on the right side of odd pages) of the page. My naive approach of using \inoutermargin{Text} fails when I use it with columns. Then the text is printed in the outer margin of the first colu...
@cjorssen Do you have any light to shed on the circumstances relating to this answer: tex.stackexchange.com/a/67227/86 (thinking about Henry's follow-up question)?
I would like to change the color of bullets in the PaloAlto Theme.
I tried :
\setbeamercolor{itemize item}{bg=my_color,fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{enumerate item}{bg=my_color,fg=black}
but then I still have a blue item... (my_color is almost orange)
I have a drop down list that displays values from a table to the end user. I would like to have these values be sorted alphabetically.
According to proper MVC design, at what layer should I place my sorting logic: the model, the view, or the controller?
@Canageek my original comment (which I deleted before sending) was that at least the font choice made it noteworthy and gained international attention, which is more than can be said for most chemistry talks:-)
@Canageek No one ever checks the title page, etc. A friend of mine asked me to check his thesis recently. Typo on the cover page :-) (Luckily still writing, so it could be corrected)
@JosephWright This was a page buried deep inside it, a second title. Also, the whole document was in this font, I just picked this page since I can't talk about stuff we haven't published yet.
@JosephWright I worked with the Starosta research group out that way last summer
@JosephWright Monitoring the radiation arriving in BC from Japan. My group was part of the TRIUMF collaberation though, and my prof wanted me to see 'how science is done'.
@DavidCarlisle No, though I tried. I wanted to ask him about the lifetimes of his species, but I couldn't catch up to him. He put up a TeX document on screen, but oddly just through up a paper instead of an actual presentation.
@JosephWright Did you use TeX during it? I'd only heard of it till I went to BC and worked with physics and math people
@JosephWright Well, here is our latest paper; I might be a coauthour on the next one in that series since I made one of the compounds that will go into it for Ying-Li dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja304211v
@Canageek No, but more because there was no 'local expert'. Someone else in our group thought about it, but in the end it did not happen. So my thesis is in Word, which was not much fun. That's 10 years ago now, and LaTeX was not so accessible then.
@Canageek I did quite a bit of chemistry-related work when I started with LaTeX, which is how I got into TeX programming
@JosephWright I know someone that did their thesis in word. It crashed at least once an hour and she had to relink her table of contents and figures 3+ times since they kept giving REFRENCE NOT FOUND
@Canageek I've never got on with OpenOffice, I guess because it's so much about copying Office that if you have access to both it makes sense to stick to 'the real thing'
@JosephWright I don't think I have ever used a wysywig system to produce anything except once I gave a seminar at the EU and they insisted on powerpoint which was a pretty scary experience. I have word but it's a read-only system as far as I can tell.
@JosephWright I suppose these days you just put the chemical formulae into tikz, it works out all the reactions and draws necessary diagrams and all you have to do is publish?
@Canageek Certainly the beamer approach is very different: at least in part it depends on how you structure your slides. A similar story with posters.
@DavidCarlisle Well, there is ChemFig, but I still find it very awkward compared with ChemDraw, and the output is not great. For example, I suspect @Canageek would struggle to draw anything from the paper he linked to with ChemFig.
@JosephWright I am getting better at it, but whomever designed the UI needs a good smack upside the head. Also, I don't trust it chemically, so I use Chemsketch for atomic weights and such
@Canageek For 'talk' slides, I favour the 'no text at all' approach, as they are supposed to support what you say. No sure yet about lecturers: will report back. I'm old enough (just) to have had lecturers with real slides as an undergraduate :-)
@StefanKottwitz Nothing 'special', although it does work with my achemso class
@StefanKottwitz The problem often is people say 'equation', which to me would be something like mhchem, but they mean 'scheme', which is what @Canageek and I are talking about, and which need specialist editors to write. There are a few, but integrating into Lyx would be I think too much to ask.
@Canageek New-ish competitor to ChemDraw, etc. Available cross-platform, and cheap (compared with ChemDraw). At the moment, they've not got the 'round-trip' editing right, but do have NMR prediction for about $40. I'm tempted to buy a copy for that alone.
@JosephWright I still have ChemDraw from my uni (though only Standard), and ACD Student. No prediction, but I've never really wanted that --At least not for proton NMR
Sorry, had to get an NMR experiment setup, and the shimming on it was way out of wack, so it took forever.
@Canageek :-) Our depth gauge has a dodgy bottom. The first thing I always check when asked 'why won't my sample shim' is 'did you check no-one moved the depth gauge' :-)
@JosephWright I'm the only sponsor ;-) I removed all ads and the donate link, when I started to host it. I like the site to be adversisement free and pure LaTeX. I can afford it, with my job I can cover it.
@AndrewStacey Not entirely sure actually ... "Spillet er slutt" perhaps, for "game over". For "high score" one could use "rekord" or something like "høyeste poengsum". As for "score", "stilling", e.g. "stillingen er 2-3".
@StefanKottwitz In Windows 7 one can type it in the search field in the start menu. Quite handy actually, just hit the Windows key, type texdoc lshort or whatever and hit enter.
I have heard rumors that you can compile documents online, and more specifically that Google has a free online compiler, but I have never been able to find any. Is there a way to compile documents online, so that I can write and compile documents even if I don't have a TeX distribution installed ...
Suppose I have 2 articles that I want to cite in text. Suppose the authors of the first articles are named A, B, C, and D, published in year 2000. Suppose the second one is by A, C, E, and G, published in 2003. In the text that would be A et al. (2000) and A et al. (2003). Is it possible to combine them into A et al. (2000, 2003) even if they are 2 different sets of authors?
@JosephWright Yes good point. The situation is that the first author is all I really want to refer to. They were articles spearheaded by her with just different sets of research assistants that made authorships.
@JG In my area, we'd say 'and coworkers', but then we don't use author-year referencing so it's one by hand. (The lead author in chemistry is given last in most cases, so 'et al.' is not what is wanted anyway.)
@JosephWright Please excuse me if I am using the wrong terminology. Normally I hyperreference (or is it hyperlink?). And I use natbib and bibxtex. When I do \citet or \citep the reference appears in the text and if I click on it in the .pdf, it takes me to the bibliographic information in the reference section.
@JG The idea in that question was to turn off the check that 'X et al.' should only be used if all of the authors are the same, which seems similar to what you want (just check the first author)
@Canageek Well yes. Personally I favour alphabetical, as it's 'mechanical', but as that's not what others expect it's not so easy to do. Handily, my surname will almost certainly place me last in such a scheme :-)
For example, that papre I linked before has the primary authour (The prof last), but then the first authour listed is the grad student that did the work, followed by the other two in the order they helped.
Alright, screw this, I'll just mix all the fractions together tommorw, I don't have enough compound to worry about purity, I'm going to have to do it again anyway
@Canageek The scheme I'm most familiar with is 'first author did lab work, last author is boss, near the front probably did some lab work or writing, near the end probably co-supervisor'
@JosephWright Yeah. A freind and I once spent ages going over a paper trying to figure out who was the primary authour (There were 10 or so) as they all had symbols by their name, and were all from diffrent insitutions. Then we realized it was alphabetica, picked our prof, because why not, and cited it that way
@JosephWright Well yes, I think the good selection of the original literature will inevitably come up. I just mean to cover the articles that you have absolute zero interest in citing because they are on the same topic but really not that related.
@tohecz Oh sure. I didn't mean it like that. I meant more like recent papers by big shots in the discpline. Sometimes people might expect their papers cited, but sometimes the paper is so not related. Or papers that are just not well done.
@tohecz I've no idea how it works in your area, but in mine having two supervisors normally involves meetings in which the two argue while the student sits and wonders what to do. That sort-of requires everyone can get into one room easily.
@JosephWright no no no, that's completely wrong. My Czech supervisor is a wise lady, she's led me for 3 years already and she knows that as far as I work, I don't need much from her. So she'll be completely happy with my French supervisor giving me instructions.
@TorbjørnT. Interesting that there were no terms that "sprang to mind". The best I could find on the web were that the English terms were used (Google translate is funny: start writing "Game over" and it starts with "spillet" until you finish, whereupon it swaps to "Game over" as the translation).
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checkcites: Enrico Gregorio (egreg) and Paulo Cereda
csv2latex: Alan Munn
ctanupload: Martin Scharrer
dosepsbin: Heiko Oberdiek
(la)texdef: Martin Scharrer
latexmk: John Collins
mkjobtexmf: Heiko Oberdiek
pdfcrop: Heiko Oberdiek
pedigree-perl: Boris Veytsman
sty2dtx: Mart...
I would like to change the color of bullets in the PaloAlto Theme.
I tried :
\setbeamercolor{itemize item}{bg=my_color,fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{enumerate item}{bg=my_color,fg=black}
but then I still have a blue item... (my_color is almost orange)
I have a drop down list that displays values from a table to the end user. I would like to have these values be sorted alphabetically.
According to proper MVC design, at what layer should I place my sorting logic: the model, the view, or the controller?
