@DavidCarlisle So, you don't have a better answer for tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80453/…??? Otherwise I am about to modify my preamble to work without the currfile package.
@egreg currfile is a Martin Scharrer package, but since I am executing AtBeginDocument I thought I should get that value. I can't easily use that answer due to the required changes to the command (based on the file name). In wihch case I might as well use a \def to get to the file name.
@egreg Don't recall being offered. But when I made a minor change to my profile a few weeks ago I got switched to a nice shiny back one, but then after another minor change I ended up with this one. Now I make a change to my profile and don't get a new one. Sad. :-(
@egreg Yeah I can see how that makes sense also -- just wasn't what I wanted.
No easy way to do a \noexpand, or \expandafter or \WaitUntilBeginDocument? Ideally a \ReadMyMindAndExpandWhenIWant would be ideal. :-)
@PeterGrill not sure I understand the question but since (unlike jobname) currfilename is just a macro, can't you define it to be anything you like before dumping the format. (of course if you didn't use tikz all the time you wouldn't need to dump the preamble into a format given the speed of modern machines)
@DavidCarlisle The thing is I would prefer that the currfile pacakge do its work, but until I want it to.. I am thinking of reverting to using jobname and handing the special case where I change the \jobname to produce a different version of the file via something like the proposed solution. Reason being that the special case is only built via an automated process, and the other cases are the cases I need when creating the file. Thanks for looking tough.
@egreg Yep just found. Am seeing if that works for me -- have a feeling that it will only work on the 2nd run, but yes please do add that as an answer.
Anybody knows how to run biber and xelatex in Windows XP without using some third party program (the same way you can run it from the terminal in OS X)?
@egreg was just looking at getmainfile, but I haven't really worked out what the package is doing, I suppose I should look at the documented source rather than just the .sty :-)
@egreg I guess I have been hanging around @DavidCarlisle too long -- I don't read the documentation carefully enough... Actually Gonzalo caught me the other day not even reading the question I was trying to answer...
@DavidCarlisle Choool, when I accept the answer that'l be 3 ahead of you, no way you can catch up now!! :-)
Anyway to use a specific version of a package? I don't want a later version, but a very specific version. I need to use 2011/04/07 of standalone and so far have a copy in my local tree but would be better if I could just specify that only that version (and not a later, nor earlier) is to be used.
As the following example shows, there is a horizontal space added in the Soutput environment. This leads to a non-left-aligned output (see the output of rnorm(). I found that this space already exists in "standard R output" (in interactive mode), the question is if it can be avoided somehow?
\do...
@DavidCarlisle Hey, you are tying to confuse me with more expandafters than needed? There is an easier way to check for package being later or not. So, that was a test, right?
But that only provides a check to make sure I got the right one. But can I request that only a particular version be used.
@PeterGrill well there are other things you could do, but for that particular case (usig \@ifclasslater but changing < to = in the test 15 \expandafter are what you want
@PeterGrill No kpathsea has no access to the file contents only the file name so you can't request a particular version, only load whichever version is first on the path and then complain if it isn't the one you want
@DavidCarlisle Ok. I was pretty sure I had a simpler version of that, but will try to locate it. But still, I can use the test to make sure I got the right version, but how do I ask for the one version. Oh, and I need the pacakge, not the class.
@DavidCarlisle Ok, so I do have to keep the older version in my tree then. That's what I have been doing... Thanks for the clarrification... I will try to dig up that simpler check I had..
Is there a way to enforce that a certain version, or a later version, of a package is loaded when building the document? I've found that compiling a document on another platform, where the package versions differ, can cause problems that may or may not be hard to pinpoint. Thus, I would like to b...
which is essentially the same but it trades less expandafter for conceptually more complicated as it has to parse the version date out of teh string itself rather than just using ifclasslater but changing < to = to make ifclassequal. (don't think of 15 as lots of expandafter it's just 2^4 - 1
@PeterGrill well that;s what the code is doing taking ifpackagelater and changing < tp = to make an if package equals test
@PeterGrill well the point is really that you need a logarithmic scale, 15 expandafter just expands one more level than 7 which expands one more level than 3 which expands once more level than 1 expandafter
@DavidCarlisle Great, not only do I have to worry about \expandafter, but apparently also there is something that causes premature expansion. Is that perhaps \expandbefore?
@PeterGrill it's the pre-scan looking for \omit (\multicoluimn) would expand the macro and take the not-math branch but then when \omit is not found tex backs up and inserts the $ from the array preamble but it doesn't undo the expansions it did so the start of any alignment cell will always test as not math mode (array, amsmath align, etc)
@DavidCarlisle Hope it is ok to quote you in the answer. Otherwise later when I come to this answer and see that, I'll get delusional and think that at one point I understood expansion... :
I'm struggling with getting \ifmmode to work correctly when used inside an array environment which is inside a displaymath environment. Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\signal}[1]{%
\ifmmode
1#1
\else
2$#1$
\fi
}
\begin{document}
\begin{displaymath}...
Well, I lost all respect for Obama after the AIG fiasco regarding the bonuses, especially give that: 1. He is a lawyer, 2. He could easily have blamed the previous administration. For an lawyer to to try to claim that AIG should not pay the bonuses (especially since there was a 3x penalty if it was not paid by the deadline) was ridiculous.
Look at next code, when I want to draw a grid from right to left or top to bottom, vertical or horizontal lines are not drawn, even with xstep=-1 or ystep=-1 (as it's suggested in Jake's answer in Grid missing horizontal lines).
What am I missing? I'm using TikZ's CVS version.
\documentclass[bo...
@PeterGrill Just read through the interview. Interesting read. Brought back happy memories of the Bay Area. Also figured I'd sort out the confusion on your "dumb question" about coordinates.
@PeterGrill Oh, and on the papyrus: nice start. Main comments: 1) it should be a TikZ node. 2) different bits should scale differently.
@AndrewStacey Oooh, could you adapt Hobby so that it can be used PGFPlots, i.e. with the TikZ plot handlers? That would answer the feature request that has been opened.
@Jake But did you see the graph above? The problem is that the Hobby algorithm works on 2D data and fits a curve through them. It knows nothing of the Arrow of Time so doesn't know that lines aren't meant to go backwards.
@AndrewStacey But neither does the smooth function, that's something the user has to look out for. I'm not fond of smoothing data anyway, but if someone wants to, they should be able to do it prettily.
@AndrewStacey You need C to choose whether the image isn't 0, A and B for deciding if the number should be positive or negative; and all digits from 0 to 9 to ensure that the whole line is covered.
@AndrewStacey Yeah, I think you'd need a much more elaborate approach to avoid that. Example for the smooth function travelling back in time: \addplot +[smooth] coordinates {((0,0) (0.01,1) (1,0)};
@AndrewStacey either way leads to greater world unification and harmony (given the power of the combined system, if your train is not yet in) you could write a lua interpreter in pgfl3 and then implement context mk iv in latex3
@DavidCarlisle I have bigger plans for lua than mere world unification. I plan to get lua, iPad, Raspberry Pi, and beamer all working in unison.
@Jake I guess that if you're smoothing a plot then the x-coordinates of the controls should always be at 0, 1/3, 2/3, 1 (suitably scaled and translated). So the algorithm (whatever it is) should only compute the y values of the control points.
(Oh, and the toaster)
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(which was an addendum to my reply to @DavidCarlisle, not @Jake, but I'm too lazy to look up the transcript number to make it a proper reply)
@StefanKottwitz Slightly related: there's a python script called scour which does this for SVG. I run SVGs from Inkscape through it as they're usually quite bloated.
Once I converted the OpenNet logo to TikZ, which was pretty easy: took the AI file, renamed to PDF, converted PDF to SVG and then to TikZ using the known tools. But bloated result.
Is it possible to place nodes along a hobby curve such that the orientation is tangential to the curve. I should add what I mean with tangential: The curved hobby path should represent a curvy street and then I would add an image of a car at a given position on the path such that the car points t...
@PauloCereda Don't know. Hadn't tried it with the command line before. Just restored the "safe" version and, no, the command line wasn't giving trouble before.
This is a real life & death issue that requires a mathematical solution. I'm not 100% sure which is the best stack exchange network to post this in after reading the FAQ - so I thought I'd start here.
Background: I work for an Ambulance service in Australia. We have a dispatch system that wi...
@AndrewStacey Good explanation on the "embarrasing" question. But, I have seen other cases where at least it appeared to be that incorrect syntax was nor reported by tikz -- next time I will try to post 'em in case they have similar explanations. Re: papyrus question, well this is the first time I looked at the pgfpoint type macros, so left the points as they were given by the OP. I think the only way to go about it is to trace the drawing so that you know what parts draw what time and scale them
@AndrewStacey Were you teaching at Stanford? Where about's in San Jose did you wife teach?
@PeterGrill I'm certainly not claiming that TikZ/PGF are good at reporting syntactical errors. Just that in that case there was an explanation.
@PeterGrill Yes, I was a post-doc. My wife's school was just outside San Jose - don't remember the exact district but it was just off the 280 somewhere along Stevens Creek Boulevard (I know that's not all that helpful!).
@AndrewStacey Yep. But I was pretty sure before reading your explanation that tikz was wrong. So perhaps I am also wrong in the other cases -- I do find it difficult to believe that there could be parsing problems, and yet the package works so well.
@AndrewStacey Oh, it wasn't DeAnza College was it? What did she teach?
@AndrewStacey Yeah I saw that before but I try to use simple syntax as much as possible, even if it means more typing...
@DavidCarlisle: You really need to stop coming up with simple solutions (ex changing margins for a page with tables). Otherwise people are going to start thinking that TeX is easy to use, and we don't want that do we!!
I am writing lecture notes in Euclidean/Noneuclidean geometry, see here.
The lecture 10 is about geometric constructions, where I use some java applets for constructin.
So far I made a hlink from pdf-file to html-file, which contains the links to all constructions.
But I would like to keep every...
@PauloCereda I suspect he wants to use the pdf-pretending-to-be-a-zip-file features to make the whole lot bepackaged as a single pdf including the java applets no idea if that's possible
@PauloCereda I think these days you can attach any files inside the pdf but unless you attach an entire jvm as well can't see how it could run from inside acrobat
@DavidCarlisle My thoughts exactly. :) Running arbitrary code from PDF files is extremely dangerous, not to mention that the applet has to run in a web container + jvm.
@DavidCarlisle I didn't see the match, of course. But I could see the final goal: a corner kick with everybody in the box. Maybe they deserved to win, but I'd have been happier if they didn't. ;-)
I wanted to do something similar like here:
Improving typewriter animation
But using the animate package. I managed to get a very poor solution:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvi...
@percusse Nah @Werner asked a \lastbox question in a comment to my answer and egreg has a good deconstruct-box loop answer somewhere but I can't find it:-)
@percusse I didn't get Paul's comment to tex.stackexchange.com/a/81792/11232. When we define a top color the angle is set to zero. But after that we are setting it again at 45. It should be OK IMO. Or I am wrong? What is your opinion on it?
@tohecz I too have it ( a notification facility) .But I won't be always online ;_9
He has a point though but luckily TikZ solves it automatically for us. So he is right about the complication but TikZ has an internal mechanism to solve it.
@HarishKumar Usually the shading does not care if you rotate the picture or not you just see it through. But here, Till Tantau left a special option for us to rotate the shading and it's only valid for the horizontal/vertical shading. But I am not comfortable right now since I have to read again the relevant part.
I use excel2latex to generate tables from Excel. The issue is that excel2latex generates really horribly formatted code with extra spaces, misaligned, etc. Does anyone have another solution to creating tables from excel? Alternatively from R? It seems that typing the actual table out could be p...
@Alex: You must not download directly github.com/cmhughes/latexindent.plx ! Go on it, then click on “indent.plx” and then download by clicking on the “Raw” button! Your error message comes from the HTML file you actually downloaded. — Speravir23 mins ago
I wanted to do something similar like here:
Improving typewriter animation
But using the animate package. I managed to get a very poor solution:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvi...
Look at next code, when I want to draw a grid from right to left or top to bottom, vertical or horizontal lines are not drawn, even with xstep=-1 or ystep=-1 (as it's suggested in Jake's answer in Grid missing horizontal lines).
What am I missing? I'm using TikZ's CVS version.
\documentclass[bo...
This is a real life & death issue that requires a mathematical solution. I'm not 100% sure which is the best stack exchange network to post this in after reading the FAQ - so I thought I'd start here.
Background: I work for an Ambulance service in Australia. We have a dispatch system that wi...
I wanted to do something similar like here:
Improving typewriter animation
But using the animate package. I managed to get a very poor solution:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvi...
I use excel2latex to generate tables from Excel. The issue is that excel2latex generates really horribly formatted code with extra spaces, misaligned, etc. Does anyone have another solution to creating tables from excel? Alternatively from R? It seems that typing the actual table out could be p...
