Confer with my question [Defining a new environment extending a verbatim environment](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114643/defining-a-new-environment-extending-a-verbatim-environment) for more information.
How do I enter links in chat? It seems I used a wrong syntax..
I understand that "|" is now equal to an "\", and "[" is an opening "{" and "]" is a closing brace "}"..
From [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/def](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/def)
@HåkonHægland You want to define a macro \myvr@xverbatim whose only argument is delimited by the string\end{myverbB} where all the characters have category code 12.
@HåkonHægland The parameter text is #1\end{myverbB} where the tokens after #1 have category code 11 or 12 (the backslash and the braces have 12, the letters 11).
@HåkonHægland Because that part is inside the replacement text of the macro \x, so when the macro is stored it will become #1; otherwise it would be illegal, because \x has no argument.
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@MarcoDaniel With Adobe Reader 11.0.03 it has no problem
@Brent.Longborough It's simply stupid: if accents are needed they should be kept. Actually, when I took French (several years ago) I was taught to remove accents from all capital text. But probably my teacher was far behind too.
@MarcoDaniel Here's the output of qpdf --check mdtest.pdf
qpdf --check mdtest.pdf
checking mdtest.pdf
PDF Version: 1.5
File is not encrypted
File is not linearized
No syntax or stream encoding errors found; the file may still contain
errors that qpdf cannot detect
marco@imac:~/Desktop/test$qpdf --check test.pdf
WARNING: test.pdf: file is damaged
WARNING: test.pdf: can't find startxref
WARNING: test.pdf: Attempting to reconstruct cross-reference table
test.pdf: unable to find trailer dictionary while recovering damaged file
Here the complete way:
marco@imac:~/Desktop/test$pdflatex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <3.9e> and hyphenation patterns for 77 languages loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./test.aux)
[1{/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
@Brent.Longborough Tell it to the Spaniards, particularly those who live in Galicia. As you probably know, Spain uses CST, like France, but it's way west of Central Europe.
@PauloCereda While Psmith is preening his feathers, his boss should be answering the questions.
@ach Yes, provided that 0° Longitude went through teh Midlands. Of course, I'd prefer Welsh Mean Time, with the meridian going through Abersychan. Hmm, except for the rush of tourists.
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That's tomorrow, I won't be able to make it. Can I post questions here?
(I mean for the interview, I knew I could post questions here :)
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Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 223/10 & 32/1 * v Sussex 401/10
- Glamorgan 231/10 & 74/3 * v Essex 345/10
- Northamptonshire 355/10 v Leicestershire 128/4 *
- Nottinghamshire 274/10 & 78/2 * v Surrey 207/10
- Somerset 204/7 & 152/10 * v Middlesex 347/10
- Warwickshire 128/10 & 5/2 * v Yorkshire 407/10
- England 206/8 * v New Zealand
- Rest of Sri Lanka v Sri Lanka A 161/4 *
- Scotland v Pakistan 117/5 *
- Kent 66/5 * v Worcestershire
This might well be the strangest TeX behaviour I've ever seen and that's saying a lot. The following really is a MWE as far as the header is concerned:
\documentclass{memoir}
\settocdepth{subsection}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
\begin{do...
David Carlisle's Christmas 'card' at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xii.
In fact, here it is: run this through plain TeX:
\let~\catcode~`76~`A13~`F1~`j00~`P2jdefA71F~`7113jdefPALLF
PA''FwPA;;FPAZZFLaLPA//71F71iPAHHFLPAzzFenPASSFthP;A$$FevP
A@@FfPARR717273F737271P;ADDFRgniPAWW71FPATTFvePA**FstRsamP
AGG...
@DominicMichaelis It does for me. You might have to rerun pdflatex though. The bug will reoccur exactly once after you comment out calc. This didn't make narrowing down which lines were causing it any easier I must say ;)
! Package tikz Error: Sorry, the system call 'pdflatex -halt-on-error -interact ion=batchmode -jobname "nix-figure0" "\def\tikzexternalrealjob{nix}\input{nix}" ' did NOT result in a usable output file 'nix-figure0' (expected one of .pdf:.j pg:.jpeg:.png:). Please verify that you have enabled system calls. For pdflatex , this is 'pdflatex -shell-escape'. Sometimes it is also named 'write 18' or so mething like that. Or maybe the command simply failed? Error messages can be fo und in 'nix-figure0.log'. If you continue now, I'll try to typeset the picture.
But i never used the memoir class before so i dont even know if i have the package (i have the full MiKTeX 2.9 distribution last updated last week so I think i have it)
@MarcoDaniel How do I get the updated tcolorbox package when ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox says current version is 2..22 (which you used in your example), while TeX Live Utility insists on the package verison 2.02 being up-to-date on my system? I've tried to reinstall the package, but it doesn't help...
@Holene The new version is only available with TeX Live 2013 pretest. You can install the new version in your local texmf-tree. For this download tcolorbox.tds.zip (use this link) and the needed structure for a local installation is provided.
@DominicMichaelis Lots of ways, TV Raman's thesis for example was an audio book generated entirely automatically from latex source with lots of interesting cues for mathematics eg reading matrices left to right using stereo sound channels changing intonation for superscripts etc
@MarcoDaniel I still have problems with compiling your example. This is the error: latex/tcolorbox/tcolorbox.sty:757: I can't find file tcbhooks.code.tex'. [\tcb@temp]`
@Holene updates from Ctan to texlive 2012 are not automatic, they have to review the data check the files fit into the TL structure, check licences etc. and there is no one to do it right so better not do it at all tlmgr just reports that you need to wait. It's still a lot easier than compiling tex from source off a the unix tex tape
@MarcoDaniel I believe so. I've copied the tcolorbox-folders in the bottom of the doc and tex tree in tcolorbox.tds to theis appropriate /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/-folders and rerun texhash.
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The current score is egreg 245 vs. 215 David. So far, egreg is winning.
!!/cricket
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 223/10 & 80/2 * v Sussex 401/10
- Glamorgan 231/10 & 106/3 * v Essex 345/10
- Northamptonshire 355/10 v Leicestershire 171/5 *
- Nottinghamshire 274/10 & 104/4 * v Surrey 207/10
- Somerset 234/7 & 152/10 * v Middlesex 347/10
- Warwickshire 128/10 & 40/3 * v Yorkshire 407/10
- England 232/10 * v New Zealand
- Rest of Sri Lanka v Sri Lanka A 325/5 *
- Scotland v Pakistan 231/7 *
- Kent 97/8 * v Worcestershire
Will the side effect occur (as said in the following comment)?
That will not work out of many reasons: First, it is not us, the TeX Live team, but the CTAN team that decides. But more importantly, all are volunteer, and if we force them to a specific format probably many people will just stop uploading to CTAN, which has the contrary effect. We want to make it easy for developer to upload and share on CTAN. — norbert9 hours ago
How can I format a verbatim paragraph? I.e. break, fill and join input lines to produce globally balanced output with the lengths of each line approaching the target \textwidth as closely as possible.
Using the listings package I can break lines, but I cannot join short lines.. That is, the fol...
This is the same user as from tex.stackexchange.com/questions/114702/… , who has been rather uncommunicative, it's hard to say if they want others to do the work for them or if they have trouble communicating
@ClaudioFiandrino: Thanks, Claudio. :) I really agree with Patrick's comment here (upvoting it doesn't do too much good), but I think we might be very cautious when issuing downvotes in the wild. Let's see if the question can still be saved somehow. :)
@dıʞsdoʇ: I think we could make Psmith active in the main site as well, so he could decide the fate of those questions. :)
!!/eightball Should we close that question, Psmith?
@PauloCereda Psmith, the TeX bot: The great 8-ball says: absolutely not.
@MarcoDaniel Compiled! But when I try to import a .m I get the following error: Package keyval Error: style undefined. [\lstmcodeinput{main.m}]. I don't get it...
It works, thanks. However, could someone explain me the meaning of these optional arguments [1][] when defining \lstnewenvironment? I went through the documentation for listing, but still couldnt figure it out. — MichalB59 secs ago
@MarcoDaniel I think I'm getting confused. I have tour entire example you posted after saying "it works for me:" a couple of lines above, and now I also copied the last definition you just printed, and i'm back to the Style undefined error...
@MarcoDaniel Yeah, tried the same. It now works with the a.m file defined, but I'm still getting TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]...
@MarcoDaniel Is it somehow trying to do anything with the contents of the file? I get this warning: ./test.tex: LaTeX Warning: Overwriting file ./a.m'.` when compiling with the a.m file.
@MarcoDaniel Ideally, of course, I should probably program my entire matlab file structure again, but I'm almost there with the data. And have just two weeks 'till deadline...
@MarcoDaniel Okey. I guess that limits it then. Thank you very much for taking the time. I have learned a lot =)
I need your help again. I now know how to add images with captions but still need help how to tweak the captions.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=100mm]{01.jpg}
\caption*{\textbf{Bild 2.1:} Curtiss XP-23 mit einem Turbo-Superlader, 1923. Arbeitsergebnis von Sanford Moss,...
@MasterOfMDFramed can I get a "tight" frame, such as \begin{mdframed}\includegraphics[width=3cm]{...}\end{mdframed} without getting a border with width \hsize?
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 223/10 & 153/5 * v Sussex 401/10
- Glamorgan 231/10 & 229/5 * v Essex 345/10
- Northamptonshire 355/10 & 14/1 * v Leicestershire 234/10
- Nottinghamshire 274/10 & 191/10 v Surrey 38/3 & 207/10 *
- Somerset 265/10 & 152/10 v Middlesex 11 & 347/10 *
- Warwickshire 128/10 & 140/10 * v Yorkshire 407/10
- England 232/10 v New Zealand 105/3 *
- Rest of Sri Lanka 135/8 * v Sri Lanka A 325/5
@dıʞsdoʇ yes CSS is reasonable at that level, but you'll be glad of tex syntax when it comes to specifying leaders where this seems to be what google recommends (from a search earlier today:(
@DavidCarlisle the leaders part of CSS are ugly, I think they are non-existent except for the stupid workaround (overflow: hidden). I don't propagate that :)
I guess 99% of the beginner's formatting change requirements could be handled by simple CSS rules. For everything else we need to go back to classic (La)TeX
@dıʞsdoʇ es not so much leaders themselves, they will probably add yet another custom property for that it is the whole :first-child kind of nonsense with special case selectors that work for simple examples but no overall plan as everything has to be consistent with existing behaviour, so each new function has to have a bizare enough syntax that it hasn't been used yet
@dıʞsdoʇ we must have some public documents about the LDB somewhere.. (latex (property) database that allows properties like bold to propergate in a distinctly css like way (although it may well be older than CSS I'd have to check)
@egreg and @Werner In this question, tex.stackexchange.com/q/114797 I think it is enough to have a normal ellipsis vertically centered (personally, I think that filling up the column with dots is redundant). Perhaps you could add to your nice answers another option showing just a centered regular \vdots? Of course, this is just a suggestion :-)
Psmith, the TeX bot, in fixed font mode: Let's take a look at the last cricket results:
- Derbyshire 223/10 & 189/7 * v Sussex 401/10
- Glamorgan 231/10 & 303/6 * v Essex 345/10
- Northamptonshire 355/10 & 94/5 * v Leicestershire 234/10
- Nottinghamshire 274/10 & 191/10 v Surrey 73/3 & 207/10 *
- Somerset 265/10 & 152/10 v Middlesex 55/1 & 347/10 *
- Warwickshire 128/10 & 140/10 * v Yorkshire 407/10
- England 232/10 v New Zealand 153/4 *
- Rest of Sri Lanka 186/9 * v Sri Lanka A 325/5
@DavidCarlisle I should work on my unicode name to make it more difficult to use @... :)
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\hyphenchar\font=`\*
\hsize = 1in
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet
mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the
charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like
mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of
mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of
drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was
But that is taken directly from the question I've linked to in your question
I need a specific divis / hyphen character or more than one randomly show
This code not working.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[htt]{hyphenat}
\newsavebox\leftarrowbox
\sbox\leftarrowbox{$\leftarrow$}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\BreakableSlash}{%
\leavevmode...
@Pankracy the hyphen character has to be a character not a box construct and has to be from the same font as the text that limits you if using classic tex but if using xetex or luatex you can specify any unicode character your font has.
@Pankracy If you had told us before that you use XeTeX/LuaTeX we could have given you this answer earlier.
I am pretty sure you can use a different font in LuaTeX for the hyphen char, but you need to set it manually by traversing the node list in a pre_linebreak callback.
@Werner Ah, I know it sounded odd. Sadly, Marc had some issues with his computer, and we could only resume the interview a couple of days later. The day counter probably gets number of days between the first and last bookmarks.
@Pankracy If you really want any answers, you should ask good questions (on the main site). Sorry to say, but I give up now, it seems worthless. Good luck!
I want to make the front page shown in the attached PDF.
Someone! help me?
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Interview scheduled to Saturday, May 18th, around 08:00PM UTC. Everybody is invited!
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I need your help again. I now know how to add images with captions but still need help how to tweak the captions.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=100mm]{01.jpg}
\caption*{\textbf{Bild 2.1:} Curtiss XP-23 mit einem Turbo-Superlader, 1923. Arbeitsergebnis von Sanford Moss,...
I need a specific divis / hyphen character or more than one randomly show
This code not working.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[htt]{hyphenat}
\newsavebox\leftarrowbox
\sbox\leftarrowbox{$\leftarrow$}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\BreakableSlash}{%
\leavevmode...
