TeX, LaTeX and Friends

user19161

12:23 AM

Hey guys, I was retagging all my old questions and have finished doing so. Sorry if I undid some of your edits on my posts. I just wanted a minimum number of tags on my own questions.

user19161

I feel that having too many tags diminish their specificity. If you really feel the burning need to retag again, of course you are free to do so.

lpdbw

7:38 AM

Hi all! I have completely reformulated a question I asked yesterday tex.stackexchange.com/q/68030/16865 I belive that now the question is much clearer and also much more interesting for other people. Unfortunately, Heiko Oberdiek's answer now seems to miss the point. Is that a problem? I have adjusted my own answer to the new question and unaccepted Heiko's answer and added a note that the question has been edited. Hope that's OK.

@Paulo Cereda: By the way, have you ever ordered from squeakyducks.com? :-D I like the classic line quite a lot ;-) If I was American I would only consider the "Hatched in the USA" line, of course!

Note that it's only 5 of the daffodil ones squeakyducks.com/product_p/rd_daffodil_bd.htm and shipping will be free!

Andrew Stacey

8:27 AM

@Canageek MathML is an output format. LaTeX is an input format. My guess would be that they needed an output format rather than an input one.

@lpdbw You should add a comment to Heiko's answer explaining that you've edited the question. You should also phrase it in such a way that it's clear to a passerby that Heiko's answer was to the original form of the question - this is to stop people voting it down thinking that it is an answer to the current form of the question.

lpdbw

@AndrewStacey OK, I will do that!

I hope Heiko will take notice of the new question and be kind enough to adjust his answer.

Andrew Stacey

8:47 AM

@lpdbw That's another reason why you need to comment on his answer. If you don't do that, he won't see the change.

David Carlisle

9:02 AM

@AndrewStacey damn and we pour mathml into a machine and (eventually) some of it gets formatted by latex. I must be running my life backwards.

Andrew Stacey

@DavidCarlisle You know what I mean! For others, I mean that no-one ever writes MathML: you write something else that gets translated to MathML. MathML is an output format in the sense that PDF is an output format: you still need a program to translate it into "pixels on paper". It might be that tex is involved in that, but that's because tex can be both input and output.

N3buchadnezzar

9:25 AM

hi!

Is there any easy way to put a small number in the margins of latex? I tried \newcommand{\number}{ \begingroup \thefoo \hspace{-2em} \endgroup }
but this also moves the text after the number into the margin. (\thefoo is just a simple counter)

David Carlisle

@AndrewStacey yes but.. we used to have sgml (then xml) with tex fragments for the maths but when we (I) switched it to have mathml fragments (just entered directly in emacs) our (human) editors liked the change, if the rest of the document and authoring tools are xml aware (and the mathematics is all gobldygook anyway) then editing mathml is easier than editing tex

@N3buchadnezzar are you sure you want to redefine \number (think carefully before giving a more than two letter answer)

@N3buchadnezzar \marginpar{\small\thefoo}

N3buchadnezzar

9:42 AM

@DavidCarlisle In my actuall document I use a norwegian names for my commands, so... No problems there

David Carlisle

@N3buchadnezzar you have redefined the entire latex kernel to have different names including tex primitives? that is a project on the scale of latex3, I'm impressed!

N3buchadnezzar

Gah! Bloody Englishmen and their sneaky interpretations!

Paulo Cereda

Name of contribution: The chkfloat package
Author's name: Tomas Hejda
Package version: 0.1
Location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chkfloat/
Summary description: Warns whenever a float is placed too far from its origin.
License type: lppl

N3buchadnezzar

@DavidCarlisle Possible to get this effect on the left side of my document and not the right?

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz: Congrats! :D

David Carlisle

9:44 AM

@N3buchadnezzar what I mean is that \number is a TeX primitive and if you redefine it things will go wrong.

N3buchadnezzar

@DavidCarlisle I know, like I said. In my document I use \tall, which causes no problems.

David Carlisle

@N3buchadnezzar the defininition of \newcommand uses \number so if you redefine \number you can not use \newcommand and a host of other latex commands

@N3buchadnezzar really honestly, believe me, you want to answer "no" to the earlier question.

@N3buchadnezzar \reversemarginpar

N3buchadnezzar

\reversemarginpar did not work as expected

David Carlisle

@N3buchadnezzar if your numbers are at beginning of paragraphs then simpler is to use \noindent\llap{\thefoo\hspace{something}} although it ought to be a redefinition of \section or \paragraph or something of course really

N3buchadnezzar

@DavidCarlisle Yeah, memoir in combination with a hanging style I guess.

But this is for mathematics hand ins, there are no sections nor paragraphs.

David Carlisle

9:57 AM

@N3buchadnezzar \section and \paragraph in latex mean "numbered logical unit" and that is (I assume) some kind of numbered logical unit or enumerated list or...

Andrew Stacey

@N3buchadnezzar I recognise that course code!

N3buchadnezzar

@AndrewStacey ;) Trying to set up a good system for doing the coursework.

David Carlisle

10:28 AM

grr why can't people use google

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle "Google is evil!" - a post on Google+

David Carlisle

10:46 AM

@PauloCereda well use bing then because microsoft is pure as the driven snow

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle LOL how about the duck engine? :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda yep that works too duckduckgo.com/?q=hmisc+center+tabular

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle ooh! :D

Raphink

11:43 AM

hello

Paulo Cereda

Hi @Raphink! How are you? :)

Raphink

fine thanks

you?

Paulo Cereda

Fine. :)

We miss you. :)

Raphink

haha

I'm still a bit active on tex.sx

answered a few questions lately (and asked, too)

@paul

@PauloCereda you who are an expert in naming software projects

I need to name a piece of code :-)

Paulo Cereda

@Raphink ooh I have some wacky project names. :D

@Raphink tell us moar! :D

Raphink

11:50 AM

haha

ok

there's a program called facter which provides facts (key/value pairs)

this program takes plugins to provide additional facts

I wrote a generic plugin based on augeas to easily provide new facts by adding to a conffile rather than writing code

that's the piece of software I need to name

the plugin which generates new facts on the fly

Paulo Cereda

ooh cool :)

How about some [fictional] inspector/detective name? :)

Raphink

could be

so far, I thought of mythomaniac ;-)

Paulo Cereda

holmes, closeau, poirot. :)

Raphink

or simple augeasfacter, but that's very simplistic

Paulo Cereda

ooh let's find one!

how about artemis? Hunting for facts. :)

David Carlisle

11:55 AM

Raphink

thank you @DavidCarlisle

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle yes, yes, YES!!!!! :D

David Carlisle

@Raphink @PauloCereda has a thing about ducks at present...

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle No I don't. :P /ducks

oopsie

Raphink

@PauloCereda you're suffering of anatidaephobia?

Paulo Cereda

11:59 AM

@Raphink LOL

Jake

12:54 PM

Can be closed as TL, according to OP's last comment:

tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68213/…

Ah, it's already deleted

Paulo Cereda

1:23 PM

@JosephWright: can we interview you for the next TeXtalk? :)

Patrick Gundlach

1:33 PM

@PauloCereda yes, please!

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda you just want to interview a duck.

Paulo Cereda

@PatrickGundlach :)

@DavidCarlisle Duck, where?!

:)

Joseph Wright

@PauloCereda Sigh, I guess if there is no-one else

Paulo Cereda

@JosephWright We can always interview @DavidCarlisle. :)

tohecz

1:51 PM

Thanks @Paulo . Now my name is finally carved into the CTAN marble floor :)

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz We should have a party. :)

tohecz

@PauloCereda Sure!

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz :)

tohecz

damn, I travel to Paris in 3 weeks and I still don't know where will I be accomodated there. Is that a reason to be nervous?

Paulo Cereda

@tohecz Oh I have no experience. :(

Stephan Lehmke

2:08 PM

Just answered a question migrated from SO. If I keep answering only those and collect about 200 of them, I can get the "unsung hero" badge!

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tohecz

@StephanLehmke that is THE PLAN ;)

Paulo Cereda

@StephanLehmke epic plan! :)

Stephan Lehmke

@tohecz I assume your host will care for that. Maybe you can get a place in student's accomodation? I once got one when I was in Toulouse as a visiting researcher, and it was a memorable experience ;-)

tohecz

@StephanLehmke I go there for PhD. I have government scholarship, but I have not been given any confirmation letter yet. The deputy attache of French Embassy has just written me that he now forwards my case to Campus France and they will "organize me an accommodation". My only option now is to wait and hope...

Stephan Lehmke

@tohecz If all else fails, Paris has a really large system of underground tunnels (metro, catacombs) ;-)

tohecz

2:17 PM

@StephanLehmke Lol, no it's not that bad. My "plan B" is that my supervisor offered me to stay at his place until we arrange the accommodation.

Stephan Lehmke

Subway (film)

Subway is a 1985 French Comedy drama film directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert. The film is part of the Cinema du look movement. Plot Having stolen some compromising documents from a powerful and successful entrepeneur/gangster at a party, a man known as Fred (Lambert) escapes from the police and takes refuge in the underground world of the Paris Métro. There he integrates with the dwellers and befriends several colourful characters, some of which are living under the subway to avoid police arrest like him. While the gangster's henchmen look for hi...

tohecz

@StephanLehmke Your plan is destroyed:

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Q: Border on top of paragraph

I am trying to put a line over a paragraph in LaTeX. I tried this code: \noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}} \noindent\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\textbf{Text}}} But there is a small space between the line and the paragraph as shown in this imag...

He accepted the answer :D

Stephan Lehmke

Catacombs of Paris

The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are an underground ossuary in Paris, France. Located south of the former city gate (the "Barrière d'Enfer" at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau), the ossuary holds the remains of about 6 million people and fills a renovated section of caverns and tunnels that are the remains of Paris's stone mines. Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1874. Following an incident of vandalism, they were closed to th...

@tohecz Accepted without upvoting, which seems to be normal at SO proper and is the very precondition for the BADGE WHICH WILL NEVER BE AWARDED AT TeX.SE.

tohecz

Or this one (not Parisian, it's Hungarian, but it's about a guy who lived in the metro system):

Kontroll

Kontroll is a Hungarian comedy-thriller released to theatres in 2003. Shown internationally, mainly in art house theatres, the film is a darkly comic thriller set in a Hungarian Metro system. "Kontroll" in Hungarian refers to the act of ticket inspectors checking to ensure a rider has paid their fare. The story revolves around the ticket inspectors, riders, and a possible killer. The film was written and directed by Nimród Antal and starred Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, and Csaba Pindroch. The film was entered in a number of film festivals in Europe and North America. It won the Gold ...

@StephanLehmke but well, having the badge on an SX site means something is wrong, doesn't it?

Stephan Lehmke

@tohecz Darn, I also need to keep the TeX.SE folk from seeing the answer. FAIL.

Paulo Cereda

2:22 PM

Take a picture of the Eiffel tower. :)

percusse

Apparently I cite just as I vote. Is there any update on editors which can read biblatex syntax and offer auto-complete lists? I can switch to Linux just for this detail if something is available. hell, I'll buy a mac too and write two blog comments daily about how awesome it is, my kingdom for a horse!

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Stephan Lehmke

@PauloCereda Isn't it strange that my Wikipedia link got a picture of the Arc de Triomphe which doesn't feature anywhere in the Wikipedia article itself ;-)

David Carlisle

@percusse emacs can obviously do this, it'll just need a bit of lisp....

Paulo Cereda

@StephanLehmke LOL true! :)

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