@Kurt I would say that a comment to the first answer is the cleanest way if you don't want to edit the answer. This way you allow the answerer to edit it himself.
I work at Stack Exchange in the ol' community development department, and I would like to say both "hello" to the GIS community and inform you that we think GIS has shown a lot of potential for awesome, exponential growth. We want to focus some of our energy on the site.
One suggestion I have fo...
we should have mathjax and gmailtex for MathJaX and GmailTeX and such. Five people would add these tags to their favourites and vote to close such tagged questions immediately.
@percusse How do you make pictures to put in the questions? I've got a decent answer from the answers posted, but I don't know any easy way to get the image out, certainly not as fast as you did.
@tohecz Oops. That went wrong. I meant the serial voters club. :) of course the other meaning would be terrible. It's just a weird gag between me and Paulo.
@tohecz there is a question that noone knows, even lockstep didn't edited and @PauloCereda and me didn't voted and egreg didn't answered.... You have to find and upvote it. Here take this ergonomic mouse with you, it will show you the way.
It's hard to phrase this, so forgive me, please. The example would be: I want to refer to a certain number of variables. At the moment I have 56 variables, so every time I talk about them, I have a regular text in the body of my paragraphs that say 'fifty-six'.
Suppose I am changing the number of variables later. There should be a way to automatize this.
@Costi I would better use it after \begin{document}, but the position does not matter. You just (obviously) cannot put it between \caption and its \label, \section and its \label etc.
This is a wild one: can anyone write a code that converts a number into the corresponding word? e.g.:
4 -> 'four'
31 -> 'thirty-one'
and so on. Obviously, it is not enough to build an array in which you can store the numbers and the word associated with it and then just print instead of ...
@Costi That's standard: \macro something always swallows the space. You can avoid it manually by \macro{} something or \macro\ something. If you want \macro to put the space in itself you need the xspace package.
@tohecz Yes. That's why I ended up with a different solution when I recently needed something similar to this.
@Costi Add them back in one by one to build up to the preamble in your real document.
As already mentioned, the only real solution is to define a new shape, with correct border anchors. So, here it is: rectangle with rounded corners. The radius of the corner is controllable by /pgf/rectangle corner radius.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
...
@boothby81 Take a look at the rounded rectangles question: there's an answer that at first sight looks good. Try it out and let me know if it works for you (so I can assess whether or not to award it the bounty).
@AndrewStacey I have problems with displaying the site. You referenced a question and I thought "Does Andrea have the same problems?". I know it was out of the contents. Sorry.
@MarcoDaniel You mean the main site, then? Sorry, that's the bit that wasn't clear to me. It looks fine to me. Sounds like the CSS file isn't getting applied.
@AndrewStacey I know that LuaTeX is not a re-implementation. That makes it even worse in some sense: It uses the good tex-3.141592 core and still it has problems.
@tohecz I'd say as big (if not bigger) issue are the fact that people expect browser content to reflow (issues with breaks, etc.) and the amount of stuff needed to run an arbitrary LaTeX document (packages plus fonts)
@PatrickGundlach The real problem with doing it in JS is that it separates authorship of the code from rendering of the content. With TeX, we're in the mindset of knowing exactly what the output will look like. That's not possible with a browser-based implementation.
@JosephWright traffic is not the problem IMHO. If you allowed large cache for it, the traffic would be close to zero with your second document using Latin Modern
@tohecz Depends on the situation: on a slow connection downloading fonts/packages would be much worse than getting the PDF. But the reflow part is what really worries me, as @AndrewStacey says.
@JosephWright There're too many worrying things for it to run smooth and correct. There's an un-measureable gap between MathJaX and such implementation
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\newcommand\xvarcnt{56}
\newcommand{\varcnt}{\numberstringnum{\xvarcnt}}
\newcommand{\Varcnt}{\Numberstringnum{\xvarcnt}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction}
The present work is intended to offer an outline of the
\varcnt\ variables.
\end{document}
e-TeX protected macros are 'better behaved' than LaTeX2e robust ones as they are protected by the engine itself. That's why we've decided all non-expandable macros have to be protected for LaTeX3
@tohecz I think the one based around \edef\foo{\iffalse}\fi is much trickier :-)
@tohecz It's a way to 'string together' things that would otherwise not work. @BrunoLeFloch is a big fan: several LaTeX3 internals use it for performance reasons.
@JosephWright nice. Still, I found I'm not able to easily configure tlmgr so I don't have package updates. Even a documentclass I build needs to files I had to manually download from CTAN... :-/
@Herbert Ah, I see. :) As Joseph said, our interviews usually take a different route than the ones done by David Walden; so I'd say our interview would complement TUG's interview. :) Anyway, it's always an honour and a privilege to have you here with us in the main site, and now in the main chatroom. :)
@MarcoDaniel "kudos also for its tremendously readable manual. I wish many others could be so good — biblatex manual authors are you listening!??" ROFL
@tohecz Ehehe. A detail : biblatex has no manual but a reference document, so we should only criticize the absence of a manual not the quality. It's a tremendous task to write a reference manual like that.
@percusse Ok, whatever. (with no mean to harm you) I tried to make a biblatex style that would come out the same as my makebst-made bibtex style, I opened the only supporting material I found on ctan, and I gave up.
@percusse I think it's wrong that with BibTeX you have to write a code of some postfix language, so I'm glad that an alternative is being developed, but so far I failed in using it.
@HarishKumar Sadly, I still don't have a plan on how to check for updates on files from arara, so my answer would be that arara can't help with the compilation process, although the automation part is easy.
@HarishKumar I'm not sure, I need to think of an epic solution. :)
@tohecz No problem, I have the same problem occasionally about IEEE but one should see that this is a big deal. Not just, here biblatex use it. I've thought also that it would be easy but if you think about the number of exceptions, it wouldn't be any easier with a manual. So I think the perception is adding on top of the disappointment.
@PauloCereda: You will do, ofcourse. BTW, I could not figure out how I can update arara. (I am very lazy to download and copy things to their respective folders) Is there a shortcut or easy way? If not, is there any plan to do it?
@HarishKumar For the next version, hopefully a simple tlmgr update arara will suffice. :) For now, download arara.jar and replace the old file by the new one. :)
@percusse Honestly, I must claim that with BibTeX, I tried to do some large configurations. Then ended up finding makebst. But in the end, I had to change the automade bst file, because I wanted some really fine-tuning
@percusse (The fine-tuning was e.g. make all citation in [Sur00] style, but have [www1] for web links and especially [wiki1] for Wikipaedia references)
@JosephWright Unbelievably, you can write 10 manuals for the same thing, and they are 1) completely different in concept and 2) completely different in readability and being easy-to-use
@JosephWright My own bad experience made me laugh about that sentence, as I said, it is no offense towards its authors, because biblatex is quite a large project and moreover still in progress
@JosephWright I'm really sorry to have my humble tool associated to some misconception of manuals/quickstarts/tutorials. biblatex is the most complete manual I ever seen in my TeX life, and I can find everything in there. :)
@tohecz Yes, I did something very similar to IEEE style. reading the ieeetran.bst and replicating with biblatex. Maybe I should say it like this. bibtex offers 10 choices but biblatex has 1200. so you have to know the crucial ones to get a feeling which is important which is not in the short term. Hence the difficulty. It's a ridiculously rich tool so using it is equally difficult. I don't think you can get a TikZ manual out of biblatex.
@percusse still, you have makebst that does like 80% of your work even if you need some fine-tuning. And then, if you understand the code at least a bit, you're able to do this fine-tuning by yourself.
@PauloCereda I think the manual of biblatex is written for high level (or middle level) users. In some parts the normal user can't understand the whole functionality.
@MarcoDaniel The aim, I think, was that 'users' would read only the \usepackage{biblatex} part, and that most of the material is for experienced LaTeX programmers to create new styles
@tohecz You really made my skin creep with your advice of turning a PDF into a bitmap just to make it monochrome. Please delete that comment, I already feel a big black hole opening to suck in all the document quality in the universe!
How did you come across that? (If anyone was wondering: it's a story from Norway. A sealed package was given to a Norwegian town by its first mayor in 1927. The package is dated 1912, and on it is written "can be opened 2012". It'll be opened in about 17 minutes.)
@AndrewStacey Joseph Wright mentioned this a while ago.
Ben using \lstinline today from the listings package... and every time I use it, it seems to change the colour of all text following it in texmaker to light brown... which is very annoying when trying to separate what is what in the text.
Anyone know why? and a fix?
This is how I'm using it...
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I had an idea this morning and would like to share and to know if someone has already developed it somewhere!
A Mozilla group is currently building a JavaScript Application able to transform any PDF code into HTML5, so you don't need any plugin to external PDF reader (Adobe, Evince, Xpdf,...). I...
@JosephWright With the example of \seq_remove_all:Nn you picked one of the most complicated ones :). \seq_get_right:NN is probably simpler @tohecz.
Hi guys, anyone knows MikTeX a little bit? (Mostly, does it install stuff under both Program Files and Users, or did the user emailing me make a mess of his install?)
This is a wild one: can anyone write a code that converts a number into the corresponding word? e.g.:
4 -> 'four'
31 -> 'thirty-one'
and so on. Obviously, it is not enough to build an array in which you can store the numbers and the word associated with it and then just print instead of ...
As already mentioned, the only real solution is to define a new shape, with correct border anchors. So, here it is: rectangle with rounded corners. The radius of the corner is controllable by /pgf/rectangle corner radius.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
...
