@cmhughes i vectorised my matlab code i use to the maximum 1 loop . Vectorising is only way to speed up along with profiling checks. I will soon switch to spyder python matplotlib
@Karl'sstudents xml attributes are not processed in order (and can't be duplicated) but if you want to have [rotate=90, height=2cm] you have to say whether the height refers to the original axis or the rotated one so unless you predetermine all possible keys and all possible interactions between them, saying they are processed in order seemed the only possible way (but I would say that, as that's what I did:-)
@cmhughes matlab is excellent for quick demo to students not for teaching programming practices and paradigm. things are improving now with latest releases . ofcourse we cannot compare the speed with fortran and c. optimal speed combo would be python wrapper for fortran and c
@cmhughes i feel i should go back in time to change my masters life. Now i feel better with tex and friends life. i learnt a lot and good practices not to kill the compilers.
@Karl'sstudents it's not that unusual the kv syntax is just syntax for a sequence of macro calls, and macro and function calls are usually order dependent. The syntax pervades pstricks (and other parts of latex) so I don't see that it need be highlighted on pst-plot particularly
ok. i am fine with matlab as i should not complain when i did not make the source code for it.
@DavidCarlisle thanks for the link. If i remember correctly there was a opensource project by NAG or something on Fortran source codes. Yes Matlab has very good toolboxes that attract lot of people to jump in. So its a great contribution.
@DavidCarlisle are you using Fortran and MPI ?
@DavidCarlisle NAG is popular for its Fortran libs thats how i know. i may be wrong as i am not a fortran coder.
@texenthusiast the new help system in 2012b/2013b could do math but unfortunately they chose not to use gecko (firefox) on all platforms and use IE based rendering on windows, but also they bar non-mathworks toolboxes from using it so we still have to use the original eccentric java rendering.
@texenthusiast yes that's what keeps us fed and clothed:-)
@texenthusiast you clearly haven't written documents for the matlab help system:-) you can use virtually no css, and even nost html doesn't work properly, for example <sup> works to make a superscript but if you put any element in there even <span> it gives up and puts it on the baseline. I hate to think of what it would make of mathjax's massively nested elements and gazillion lines of css:-)
I was doubtful why matlab figure cannot be exported to .tex and .eps built-in. Its the very needed feature for latex documentation. of course there are many mathcentral functions which can be improved.
@DavidCarlisle I am very ignorant in your domain :). Yes i can imagine your difficulties keeping in view of constraints.
@cmhughes In my opinion, the good practice should be making the kv implementation is invariant under ordering such that the users don't get burden to remember the ordering rule. The philosophy of using kv is to free users from remembering the order of arguments. :-)
@Karl'sstudents It's much simpler to remember that the keys are evaluated in the order entered. I don't see any way you could possibly have keys (as there are on graphics and pstricks things) that specify origin and rotation and scale and then have them be independent of order. in the initial example [rotate=90,height=2cm] it is easy to remember that that (now) means rotate then scale the result,and [height=2cm,rotate=90] means scale then rotate.....
@Speravir: We are preparing an event, showing our simulation projekt to people knowing a liitle bit about flying. It is to show that technic still today is intersting ... And worth to invest in such a thing!
... to do what you say I'd have to arbitrarily decide one of those results and document for every pair of keys which order they were applied in and the user would have to remember every single interaction, that doesn't seem simpler to me:-)
@Speravir Two hours without an resultwas definitivly too long. Now it will be a little bit faster. I'm working with TeXnicCenter and WinEdt and will test them first ...
@Kurt i tried installing portable miktex on 8 gb usb and configuring was bit difficult with ../ paths etc, its very slow while updating. i think installing on a 320 gb will be better may be. Some Q here might be helpful once you are successfull
@Kurt For TeXnicCenter existed no portable version, at least some years ago. But I found a tutorial to do this anyway, search yourself with your favorite searching site.
@Speravir We have also to prepare a travel (Umzug in Englisch?) and our web site is out of date. We will rebuild it after we have finished moving. Then we have more place to be able to move the cockpit. It seems we need at last 5m in the hight ...
@texenthusiast I had no problems with the installation of the stick, but the stick seems to be very slow. The automatic configurations works well. Even a local texmf path was reachable and usable. The local texmf contains a special font and some templates for letters (lco files) and cv. Everything works well with texworks.
Hi: off topic question. There's an equation breaking package to add in a LyX preamble. I can't seem to find it again. Does anyone know what it is? eqnbreak something. help
@Speravir Yep. My English -- I always had difficulties learning other languages.
@texenthusiast Seems so, is part of portable MiKTeX and works well. I do not like it very much, because there is no project management and I need this.
@texenthusiast Last time I used Texmaker in its claimed portable mode, it was not really true: texmaker 3.5 miktex portable 2.9 and epstopdf Absolute paths were saved. @Kurt This would be something for testing, if there are changes or if the path is newly saved or whatever.
@texenthusiast I also remember that TeXStudio is portable. Wasn't TeXMaker the first programm and later there was a second version, TeXStudio. Do you know why?
@Speravir No, no, your English seems very good to me ... (Stell Dein Licht nicht unter den Schefel)
@Speravir Yes something like that I had in mind. For me it is important that an editor has a good project management. How is this with TeXStudio and TeXMaker?
I've been looking at a recent question. I thought that most of the answers focused on the TeX side of things, when the easy way would be to scan the PDF document with grep and a bash script. I can do the unix command line part of things, however, to properly answer the question I need to know wha...
@Speravir It did some work on portable version with miktex portable. there used to be USBTex from exomatik.net (not online now) which has all portable distro. even now its available at portableapps
@texenthusiast I never used one of them. When I started with LaTeX I used TeXtelmechtel, a nice play on words in German, as editor an emtex was the tex distribution. That was based on MS-DOS ... This editor had already something like a project management and since that time I do not want to miss it ...
@MatthewLeingang I can't see or copy the glphys there. Once I have the glyphs I can just copy and past them into the bash script and search the raw PDF for it, right? They are just another letter, like 'A' or '4', right?
@Canageek I have the cd of TeXLive here. For me the problem with TeXLive is, that on a windows computer I have to install cygwin or an perl interpreter to be able to use the pearl scripts in it. Without cygwin there are some things not working. And when installing cygwin I can perhaps better use a linux system? I had used my last unix system jears ago and forgot a lot of using it ...
@MatthewLeingang I'm going to write a bash script based around grep to scan the PDF for the occurrence of each glyph and give a little printout saying which ligatures are in use.
@Kurt Well that isn't any different with MikTeX, except possibly that it doesn't include perl or bash scripts, or that it includes one of those. I use it on Windows
@Speravir Yes I have. Thats the reason I never tried the portable version. But a student has some problems with it. He has to use the portable version for writing his thesis in a company were he has no admin rights ...
Now the font does not work and so on ... Most of this problems are solved after rebuilding the lokal texmf tree and moving some files into other directorys.
@Kurt texlive on windows does not need any perl installation. i used it for example epstopdf.pl works well. I think you don't need any cygwin and perl installation. BTW Ubuntu is as easy as windows, nothing difficult.
@Kurt Be prepared for path problems: Either everything has to be compiled from the command prompt of taskbar entry or the TeX editor must be started from within miktex-portable.cmd.
@Canageek But then special tools like bibexport are not working. I do not understand why a perl interpreter is integrated in TeXLive on Windows in a way that one can use all functionality of TeXLive. So you read "do this" and -- big surprise -- it does not work. So you have two different TeXLive versions and that is in my opinion not so good ...
@texenthusiast Really? I was not able to run bibexport without using cygwin. I installed TeXLive from cd on Windows 7 with usual options. Can you run it? How do you call it?
@Speravir Thanks, I will have a look. I will try both ways. Installation only with MiKTeX installer and afterwars packages and your trick with a second installation in another directory (that should be possible) and afterward using mpm (that will be the reason for path problems, I suppose)
@Kurt No, the mpm thing is only, that you need not to download everything a second time from a remote source for the installation. You will not need this later.
@Kurt i think as long as you have the .exe executables for perl scripts it works. i think there is no .exe for bibexport. So it is not working. perltex is working
@Kurt The path problem is: The “normal” MiKTeX adds it self to the system path, but on an external computer in a company there is no MiKTeX or perhaps an outdated version. The portable does manage, that it is in first place of the path you get with echo %path% from the taskbar prompt. So if you start the TeX editor outside of this context, it does not see the portable TeX, but only if you invoke from within the start batch.
@speravir: I successfully installed xindy in two computers. But in my third computer I get this error. All PCs use windows 7 and same (latest) miktex. Do you have any idea?
@Speravir: I did the same in all 3 PCs. But third PC gives this. Other two work. Which file gives this is a puzzle to me. Why it doesn't happen in others? May be it is a windows issue in this PC where I have windows 7 home premium and others have ultimate!
@Speravir Yes I recognized that it is important with portable MiKTeX to start from the icon in the task line even starting the editor there, settings or a console windows.
I want to add a label to a node, but "inside" the node. Something like this:
The manual seems to indicate it might be possible, although no actual key is named.
The ... anchor point for the label node ... is determined in such a
way that the label node will “face away” from the border o...
@Kurt I think perltex is windows binary for perltex.pl perlscript. bibexport is a bash shell script, they may not communicate , i have checked it. if there is bibexport windows binary then it might be possible. Do you have bibexport in miktex ?
@texenthusiast yes, and that is the problem. You here often (on TeX.SE too) do this in TeX Live, but it runs only on Linux or you need a cygwin. For me I would think to install cygwin or another program running sh-scripts with the TeXLive version for Windows. It is better to have one TeX Live with one behavior and not two versions with different behavior. That irritates new users.
(I don't know what other side effect this may have (probably none), if you could live with using a new key, say ranchor (real anchor), it would probably better.)
@MatthewLeingang It would probably does nothing if not used inside a label's []. Globally used it could mess up the tikz@label@post key (adding a lot of anchor= calls)).
@MatthewLeingang And it may add itself to itself, so one would should only use it once.
@MatthewLeingang You could also re-write the original code (adding an option/\if).
@texenthusiast Well, I'm teaching LaTeX and some students have laptops with linux. Some with Windows. Some have TeXLive, some MiKTeX. For MiKTeX I can say "Do this", for TeX LIve not, because it depends on the OS. And the students are not aware that there is such a difference. Perhaps it is not clear enouph in the documentation, but this can be solved by including a bash compiler to windows-TeXLive.
I would do that, but -- you are right -- this is my opinion. Students are not amused about this different behavior.
@Speravir Xindy has the same problem. I think there was a windows version (a xindy.exe) on a persian website (I'm sure I have it in a backup). But it seems to have vanished. So for a normal user of MiKTeX Xindy is not usable.
@Kurt Diversity of opinion is the driving force of opensource tools. Especially cross platform opensource tools have little compromise to make when compared to platform specific tools. I cannot complain on both distro as i have not contributed any single piece of code nor done any testing nor paid for it. I love both, remain open and unbiased.
@Speravir Yes I saw this, but on my old computer, a laptop I have the windows xindy.exe installed and it runs properly. Why this has vanished? I hope it will return ...
@texenthusiast Perhaps I'm here too German: if a programm is called TeXLive on two OS I think it behaves in the same way (for example Editor X for Windows and Linux/Mac behaves the same way, I think it was TeXStudio). TeXLive does not. That is astonishing. How should a normal user know that? Which normal user reads the manual ...
I must be too tired, and have a feeling that this is too embarrassing to post as a question. Why does the first \immediate\write18 not remove the file (This requires that there exist a ~/.Trash, and of course a unixie OS). These files are timestamped based on the day with a trailing YYYY-MM-DD appended to the file name. I want to delete any older files before creating the one for today
\begin{filecontents*}{foo-2013-04-02.txt}
some text, which is not relevant....
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}
\newcommand*{\Today}{2013-04-04}% Good enough for MWE
\newcommand*{\CreateTodaysFile}[2]{%
% #1 = path Example: ../../files/
% #2 = filename Example: foo.txt
%
% First eliminate any older files
\StrBefore{#2}{.}[\FileName]% Extract base name (no file extension)
\immediate\write18{mv #1/\FileName-*.txt ~/.Trash/.}%
\immediate\write18{touch #1/\FileName-\Today.txt}% Now create todays file
@PeterGrill according to texbook writing to any non open stream just echos to the terminal and you can't open streams >15 anyway. So Karl when he wanted to add teh system command feature thought probably no one was using 18 so borrowed that for magic status
Hi everybody. I have an EXTREMELY basic question. It's on LaTeX distribution. Apparently, I have to manually download every single package I need. Therefore, I do not have the full LaTeX package. I already followed links to download the whole thing, but they did not work -- I don't recall the websites now, it has been too long ago and I lost hopes. Also, I am placing my packages in a random folder that I created manually. I use Mac OS X and it's in my Application folder.
@Costi Why don't you install texlive-full from the CTAN? (I might think that waiting for the TeXLive -'13 might be advantageous.) The best is: just kill everything and install the full TeXLive. (As one of the regulars would put it, the memory usage is less of a worry given the hassle it takes to get things working, if you haven't a package.)
Hi @KannappanSampath, Do you first of all mean I should wait for an update?
Also, @KannappanSampath: if I go on www.ctan.org and type texlive-full, I cannot find anything. I am sorry I am so clumsy. That is why I am asking for help!
@Costi Which editor is that? I think MacTeX includes TeXShop and TeXworks (@PauloCereda can probably confirm), but if it is some other editor it shouldn't be necessary.
@PauloCereda what's wrong with ubuntu? i don't follow the different versions so much these days, we just use fedora here mostly, but at one point it was aiming to be debian for the masses wasn't it?
@JosephWright Personally, the lack of a real root account annoys the living hell out of me. I'm used to distros where you have to have two separated accounts; sudo su is definitely wrong IMHO. I usually set up my sudo config to restrict its use to certain groups or even commands. I don't like the idea of using sudoà volonté. :) >>>
And I'm not sure about the locations of some configuration files; Ubuntu seems to hide them in order to "make it safer" for the average user - want to set up your network interface? Use the visual tool, etc. It's definitely not my cup of tea. :)
% No errors occur when I disable \psset{fillcolor=white} below
% even though I don't declare a global \psset{fillcolor=<other color>}
% after loading pstricks.sty
\AtBeginDocument{%
%\psset{fillcolor=white}% hv 0.33
\let\pst@endcolor=\relax%
% \let\pst@color=\relax%
% LaTeX used `\color@endgroup' instead. RN 2004-05-06
}
@MarcoDaniel The author even explains that he doesn't know what he's doing: “Eigentlich habe ich ja keine Ahnung von LATEX Code und dem Programmieren damit.”
@Karl'sstudents no idea. You want to remove \pssset and the following {} group from \begindocumenthook I guess etoolbox has a patch command for that but as you see it only requires a single def to do such patches so I have never really looked at that package.
\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
% the grid produced by showgrid=bottom DOES NOT get affected by \psset{yunit}
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=bottom](3,3)
\psset{yunit=0.5}
\end{pspicture}
% the grid produced by showgrid=top gets affected by \psset{yunit}
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=top](3,3)
\psset{yunit=0.5}
\end{pspicture}
% it is a feature by design?
\end{document}
I'm attempting to write a CV using the moderncv document class with the following preamble:
\documentclass[10pt,letter]{moderncv}
% CV Theme Settings
\moderncvtheme[black]{classic}
% Font and Typography Settings
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}...
@percusse Have you taken a look at the changes in the intersections library between the 2.10 and the CVS version? The definitions of \tikz@intersect@def changes from \lets to \defs which seems to be the problem (changing it back and the example works again).
perhaps this is not the best place to ask this, but as a quick question, what is the policy when a question is answered in the comments by one of "the big guys"?
I'm asking this because just a few minutes I saw a question (this one: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/106941/…) and I knew the answer. I was about to write it down when I read the comments and found egreg had already answered it.
...so... I felt pretty bad about writing the answer, you know, "stealing it"
Browsing TeX.SE, I have noticed that very frequently people provide answers to a question in the question's comments.
See for example
BibTeX error "inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX"
Is there any package for LaTeX dealing with a database?
How to correctly set up ...
@PauloCereda Boa tarde Paulo, yes I did see that post a few days ago, but I was wondering more of a situation like the one just happened: the answer was in the comments, I was about to write an answer and 10 seconds later I see egreg had already posted a proper answer.
so I'm thinking it's useless to have 2 similar answers...
@MarioS.E. Boa tarde, Mario! :) Sometimes, questions that are solved by comments are leaning towards being closed as too localized (a typo, some minor mistake). If you can convert your comment to a proper answer, that is, with a good textual representation, we actually encourage you to do that. :) Of course, sometimes two users post the same answer almost simultaneously; one of the authors kindly deletes the answer to keep the thread clean. :)
I want to add a label to a node, but "inside" the node. Something like this:
The manual seems to indicate it might be possible, although no actual key is named.
The ... anchor point for the label node ... is determined in such a
way that the label node will “face away” from the border o...
emacs
use
\AtBeginDocument{\psset{fillstyle=solid,linecolor=red}}
I'm attempting to write a CV using the moderncv document class with the following preamble:
\documentclass[10pt,letter]{moderncv}
% CV Theme Settings
\moderncvtheme[black]{classic}
% Font and Typography Settings
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}...
Browsing TeX.SE, I have noticed that very frequently people provide answers to a question in the question's comments.
See for example
BibTeX error "inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX"
Is there any package for LaTeX dealing with a database?
How to correctly set up ...
