@PauloCereda Should we just make a full one episode with customizable stick figures ? \xkcdstickman{neck angle}{right knee angle}{left arm}{...}{...} that would be really handy actually :)
I have a problem with my multilingual APA reference. I use LuaTeX, BibLaTeX and biber. I use the BibLaTeX option babel=other to activate language switching. Switching gets done by adding an hyphenation entry at every reference in the BibLaTeX file.
Now here is the problem: Some strings get trans...
I tried: a custom ngermancorr.lbx file that inherits from ngerman(that itself inherits from german) and then hyphenation={ngermancorr} in the .bib file.
But the warning was:
No hyphenation patterns for 'ngermancorr'
But it does work with a custom ngerman.lbx. Does ngermancorr need to be referenced somewhere else?
@Qrrbrbirlbel you can only define hyphenation patterns in initex when the format is made, individual \hyphenation commands for specifc words can be added at any time do you need to define a new language (as opposed to adding some extra localised texts to an existing one?)
@Qrrbrbirlbel sorry I don't know biblatex (and it's too late to think about it tonight) but that error message means you have switched the primitive \language to a value that has no hyphenation set up.
It is not my problem anyway (at least not now). I just thought there must be a better approach to add some missing phrases other then cloning the original definitions.
@DavidCarlisle I am one hour eastward of you, no worries!
As for fractions and matrices, I prefer using LaTeX macros instead of snippets. The most useful macros I use are the [p][s][frac|mat]: fraction or matrices, with parenthesis if there is the “p”, small if there is the “s” (small means suitable for in-line math)
If you install it you will break your current documents (but I think it's worth it ;-)
Note that you need to download also pq-alice.jpg and pq-duck.pdf for the documentation :)
Thanks to @speravir, there is now some instructions for use under Windows. I'd be eternally grateful if some Windows users could test whether it works, as I can't test on Windows at all.
At the moment we have the situation that it works for @speravir and doesn't for @HarishKumar and @percusse, and I have no clue either way :-(
@AndrewStacey Thank you but I fear that it's been taken too seriously over the network and I don't feel comfortable about it anymore. Some guy in my department know that I did it and now I received 2 mails from strangers already for weird criticism. I thought it was just a gag now I'm blamed for badge and rep point hunting.
@percusse Now that's just wrong. You should say who they are and we'll put some "easter eggs" in CTAN packages which do strange things to their documents.
@AndrewStacey bah nevermind the nerds. I'm playing around with your tapering but I couldn't find a way to make it not like a fancy pen it gets weird if you put decoration on it.
@egreg @AndrewStacey I've previously signed for the Elsevier boycott and now a close friend (who is an assoc editor ) wants me to review a paper in an Elsevier journal. I want to keep my promise but I don't know if I am taking it too seriously. I'm asking because I'm not Don Quixote and I want to make sure that he would understand my point. So is it still a valid excuse or both parties came to an agreement in the light of the recent steps from Elsevier?
@percusse If it's a close friend then I would explain that I wouldn't be happy doing it but that if they really can't find anyone else I would be prepared to.
@egreg I really understand your point but also others' too. Right now it's not only the monetary problems but also an elitist view has taken over in the journals. So I'm kind of sensitive to that and I want them to be nonimmune to the advances in the world. It's not 1927 where science and math is completely honest and free from personal benefits.
even then it wasn't but romantically you get my point.
@PauloCereda Yes the new template is very professional but the interactive elements make it harder to navigate. Especially those autohide stuff at the top and bottom.
@leo according to the documentation you can nest tabularx (although it is exceedingly cruel to TeX to do so) so it must be an undocumented feature. I will pass you on to my co-author @egreg.
@egreg I tried that and it still failed (oh maybe I'd trashed my aux file)... yeh it works... do you want to be a co author you can point out that features are in fact documented not undocumented.
@Brent.Longborough It that the competition whose winner considering points was a Czech project, but it got dis-qualified because it used "too non-standard" algorithms?
Normally, these things have to be good and open, and reach a professional consensus among the candidates; where security's involved, if it's not open, it probably doesn't work
@DavidCarlisle Sufficiently fluent in Chinese to understand explain xii.tex ? :)
@DavidCarlisle Not liking the look of the weather, but yes - I'm planning on seeing if the crush through the University Parks is particularly bad this evening.
@egreg I see you've edited a lot of your expl3 posts today. Reminds me of a question I was wondering about. In l3candidates, we have \seq_mapthread_function:NNN for mapping to two sequences at the same time. Would something like \sq_map_zip:NNN or simialr make sense for this?
@AndrewStacey I don't think so. The catchword is a completely different problem than a widow word on a line. It's an ancient typographical practice of anticipating the first word or fragment thereof on the next verso page.
The comment is directed to J.C. Solomon, not doncherry.
@AndrewStacey yes I understood it the same as @egreg (although the example given is spectacularly unclear) doing a catchword in TeX might be a interesting exercise...
@DavidCarlisle Unboxing the first line on the next page, going back to the first word (or word fragment) in it and reinserting it at the bottom. But only at transitions from recto to verso page. Yikes!
@egreg something like that yes... It would be easier if Frank had got his reconsider paragraphs into tex3 but it seems like he almost got that with luatex callbacks so perhaps....
I would like to typeset catchwords. That is, I would like to put a “preview” of the next page’s first word at the bottom of every page.
An example taken from the Wikipedia page linked above:
The next page begins with the word (actually word fragment in this particular case) “dos”, and so that w...
Except, if the #1 argument is blank (not supplied), I don't want it to include two spaces between \citetitle{#2} and \autocite{wiki:#2}. like it's doing in this example
Is there a way to do this without just using a system where I supply a space in the #1 argument in the first place?
@DavidCarlisle I haven't tried it, and I don't know what could happen at the end of the page, but I believe a rather robust solution could be implemented in LuaTeX
@Gnintendo actually you probably only want one of them \unskip removes the previous space and \ignorespaces ignores the following one. so if #1 is that \citetitle{#2} #1 \autocite{wiki:#2} is the same as \citetitle{#2}\autocite{wiki:#2}
Not really it works at a lower level \ignorespaces ignores space tokens so they do nothing. You can't ignore the space that has already gone it will already have inserted an inter-word skip into the current horizontal list being typeset. \unskip acts at the level of lists not tokens and removes the previous node from the current list if it is a glue node (and you are not on the main vertical list)
I would like to typeset catchwords. That is, I would like to put a “preview” of the next page’s first word at the bottom of every page.
An example taken from the Wikipedia page linked above:
The next page begins with the word (actually word fragment in this particular case) “dos”, and so that w...
@JosephWright on a more serious note how long have I got to talk at UKtug. I thought I might try this beamer thingy and I got directed to some template with your name on telling me how to structure a 20 minute talk, but I'm not sure if that is right or whetehr you still want the full 5 hour version?
@Gnintendo {\small{}\MyTitle{} by \... if you use a size change command you (almost) always want to include the trailing blank line or \par in the scope of the command as otherwise as you have it the font size reverts to normal at the } before the paragraph ends so you get small text on a normalsize baseline (which isn't quite as bad as large text on a normal baseline but still...)
well in that case (and usually) remove the \\ before the \small and replace by \par so the graphics gets set then just remove the { before \small and remove the offending } before the \end{center} the scope of \small ends at the end of the environment anyway but will then include the \par in the \end{center} code so you will get an appropriate line spacing.
@ℝaphink yes, but you can go without it if you only "call the person", just write "@" and the beginning of their name, and then use <tab> to navigate the suggestions
(it doesn't work with your name tho because of the BB R)
Is there a keyboard shortcut for replying to messages, much like the up arrow is a shortcut for editing your previous message?
(Is this an appropriate use of the support tag? I wasn't sure if it belonged in discussion.)
@mythealias think you must have a different list (just looked at page 65 of texdoc symbols) but I mean in general since \mathscr is for making a script fomt I'm not sure what a non-italic version of it means?
@ℝaphink I'm not a bot, I'm a normal oops Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero at paulo.chatroom.watcher.main(ExceptionTest.java:12347)
@PauloCereda: In this series, there's a scientist (from the future) who invented a robot that looks exactly like him. The robot also invented robots that look like them, so there's tons of clones, and there's no way to tell them appart.
@mythealias I doubt there is one, script fonts are usually slanted by nature. You may find a more or less upright font that suits the requirement but you wouldn't expect an upright version of that just as you wouldn't expect an upright version of times italic
@PauloCereda: In order to know if the one you meet is the original or a clone, you have to challenge him being a robot. Usually, he will say he's not a robot, then actually aknowledge he is one and crash.
Math mode provides different functions to use in formulas like \sin, \cos, \tan or \log.
According to Wikipedia, the alternative form of the binary logarithm log2(n) is either written ld(n) (common practice) or lb(n) (ISO standard).
LaTeX provides a function \log and \lg, but no \ld or \lb. Is ...
@Gnintendo: I'd choose libertine for the kind of book you're making, but that's my personal taste maybe. In fact my choices would be something like EBGaramond > LinuxLibertine > LatinModern. Might be some intermediaries, but CM would be out of question for me for this kind of book.
I would like to typeset catchwords. That is, I would like to put a “preview” of the next page’s first word at the bottom of every page.
An example taken from the Wikipedia page linked above:
The next page begins with the word (actually word fragment in this particular case) “dos”, and so that w...
Is there a keyboard shortcut for replying to messages, much like the up arrow is a shortcut for editing your previous message?
(Is this an appropriate use of the support tag? I wasn't sure if it belonged in discussion.)
Math mode provides different functions to use in formulas like \sin, \cos, \tan or \log.
According to Wikipedia, the alternative form of the binary logarithm log2(n) is either written ld(n) (common practice) or lb(n) (ISO standard).
LaTeX provides a function \log and \lg, but no \ld or \lb. Is ...
