TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2013-05-02 (page 2 of 2)

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 {
  caption  .tl_set:N = \l_mdxex_caption_tl,
  label    .tl_set:N = \l_mdxex_label_tl,
  minted   .tl_set:N = \l_mdxex_minted_tl,
  language .tl_set:N = \l_mdxex_language_tl,
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egreg

@MarcoDaniel Probably.

Marco Daniel

@egreg \captionsetup allows only the formatting not the position.

nutty about natty

@DavidCarlisle So the following could possibly work? note = "[\emph{S{\=i}c erat scriptum}.]"

bloodworks

@DavidCarlisle

nutty about natty

@bloodworks ohhhhh

egreg

8:12 PM

@MarcoDaniel position=top or position=bottom; this should exchange the \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip values.

David Carlisle

@bloodworks sorry all the other accents work because of:

\DeclareTextComposite{\"}{T1}{i}{239}
\DeclareTextComposite{\"}{T1}{\i}{239}

but not \= so you have to use {\=\i} sorry

Marco Daniel

@egreg Indeed. This was my misunderstanding. I thought you mean \caption will setup the position automatic.

bloodworks

@DavidCarlisle +1

how can one keep those things in mind

i wonder

;)

David Carlisle

@bloodworks Don't keep them in mind, keep them (t1enc.def) in an emacs buffer

nutty about natty

@DavidCarlisle So now the following could possibly work? note = "[\emph{S{\=\i}c erat scriptum}.]"

bloodworks

8:14 PM

@DavidCarlisle lol

David Carlisle

@nuttyaboutnatty yep

nutty about natty

emacs...

I wonder if after starting to climb the hills of LaTeX I'll ever reach the world of vi and/or emacs... or die in ignorance b4

bloodworks

@nuttyaboutnatty possibly will not shift the bar

@nuttyaboutnatty well there is no vim "hill" only some kind of hell

nutty about natty

okidoki let's give it a try

and wheather 'tis heaven or not

(which is obviously highly subjective........)

bloodworks

@nuttyaboutnatty for devils heaven surely looks like hell for angles ;)

David Carlisle

8:20 PM

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle boooo

<3

David Carlisle

5 mins ago, by bloodworks

@nuttyaboutnatty well there is no vim "hill" only some kind of hell

nutty about natty

fascinating stuff en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle If you are able to quit vim, you are chosen. :)

bloodworks

@PauloCereda can something more be done with vim? i doubt...

nutty about natty

8:23 PM

thx David !

Paulo Cereda

@bloodworks Let me guess, you are an emacs user. Typical. :)

Pardon me while I fly my aeroplane.

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda Can you guess which editor I use?

bloodworks

@PauloCereda nope nano

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle Notepad? :)

@bloodworks Hey!!!!! This is a two-horses town.

:)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda usually, but if I need something a bit smarter I use Word.

Paulo Cereda

8:26 PM

nano brings some good memories. :) And ed too. :)

@DavidCarlisle No WordPad? :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda You're showing an alarming familiarity with windows tools, perhaps your claim to be a linux and mac user is all a front.

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle I need to know Windows, my dad keeps calling me every time to solve problems on his PC. :)

My dad uses Firefox. Spooky. :)

David Carlisle

@PauloCereda Ah I know about that (Mum in my case:-) Although one of my prouder moments a few years back when M was about 6 he sat at Mum's machine to play on some website and just looked in disgust at IE and said to his grandmother "haven't you got firefox?!"

Canageek

Does anyone know if siunitx will keep unit-value pairs from splitting over a line? I can't remember.

Also, what is the proper non-breaking sperater for a unit-value pair? ~?

David Carlisle

@Canageek dunno: stick one in a thin minipage and see what happens:-)

Paulo Cereda

8:37 PM

@DavidCarlisle Oh my! :) M is awesome, just like his dad. :)

Canageek

@DavidCarlisle Someone needs to make a "stick this at the end of a line" package for testing

Paulo Cereda

Despite of course being an emacs devotee.

Torbjørn T.

@Canageek It does, but there is actually an option for turning that off: allow-number-unit-breaks=true.

vrleboss

@percusse: It took me a while, but I fixed it... The solution was given to me by that post:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/101750/non-pdf-special-ignored-texlive-pstricks-osx-mac

This:
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\else
\usepackage{pstricks}
\fi

Takes care of my issue, but I don't really understand why. Do you know?

bloodworks

@Canageek in any case for units or dimensions always use siunitx later on you will learn why

Canageek

8:43 PM

@bloodworks I do, this isn't my document (I'm editing someone else's document, and wanted to make sure siunitx was the right solution for the problem)

Answer: yes, yes it does keep unit-value pairs from splitting across lines.

bloodworks

@Canageek i know nothing better

joseph has made great efforts to comply to international scientific standards

Canageek

@bloodworks Right, I just wanted to make sure that it would actually stop unit-value pairs splitting across lines.

Which it does

(I use it in all my documents)

egreg

9:09 PM

Another use case of \xpatchparametertext from regexpatch. :)

Canageek

9:37 PM

I wish someone would write a script to autofind the fastest CTAN mirror from your location. It used to be easy to tell that the Waterloo mirror would be the fastest (since I within spitting distance of UW) but now that I'm on the west coast I'm not sure.

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Oh. :)

egreg

@PauloCereda \xpatchparametertext{\@cline}{-}{\cA-}{}{} for getting an active - as delimiter for \cline commands (the "Slovak" question). :)

Paulo Cereda

9:53 PM

@egreg I'll upvote it soon. :)

David Carlisle

10:25 PM

@PauloCereda nooooooo

Paulo Cereda

@DavidCarlisle I'll upvote your answers too. :)