@topskip I remember a pub where the menu was written by a chalk on a blackboard. They offered no more than 5 meals for every day, but the service and the meals were perfect. On the other hand, many restarurants with perfectly looking menu have awful prices and awful meals ;)
@andrewstacey beamer code updated: I plan to do the next release once I'm sure TL2013 is frozen (there are a few changes, and I don't want a potentially-dodgy version going on the DVD)
So, I have the impression that my equations (using kpfonts) are too tight vertically, is that a) common and b) is there a good fix ? Never had this sort of issue before
@ach IMHO looks fine. However, you're free to fine-tune the vertical spacing by adding for instance \\[0.3ex] between the two lines (yes, 0.3ex should be just right)
@ach It's possible to globally increase the amount of space between two lines, by setting \jot to a value larger than the default 3pt. But I wouldn't recommend this.
@Rico actually I think all the mixed case logos are silly, it was sort of a reasonable joke the first time for TeX but LaTeX BiBTeX WhAtEvErTeX just gets tiresome.
@DavidCarlisle agreed! I think it mostly is a problem of identification. Everyone is trying to link its programm, or whatever, to LaTeX. Therefore you create some sort of TeX like logo. This question popped in my mind after thinking about how to design the logo for the new german communiy blog.
Personally I don't think this question should be closed. A general answer about the issue should be possible and useful for other people with the same problem:
I want to include a PDF in LaTeX with:
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{image.pdf}
\end{figure}
The image.pdf contains graphical elements like boxes or lines and text in these boxes.
My problem is: the boxes and lines are included in the final document but the text does not ...
@MartinScharrer I don't think so. Then you need more information. How was the file generated? Which tool was used? And the comment of the OP indicates that the issue was in front of the computer ;-)
@MartinScharrer Could it be a viewer issue? I know the PDF viewer in TeXworks has had a similar problem. (The specific situation I'm aware of is EPS-files from Matlab, converted to PDF by epstopdf.)
In a comment to my answer to Drawing a rectangle along the border of a circle, Peter Grill said that he read that the minimal class should not be used for a Minimal Working Example. I wonder why, and which class should I use instead?
BTW: Is it preferable to use article or scrartcl, i.e. the sta...
Is there something like a "gibberish font"? That is, a font which behaves like a normal font metric-wise, but displays something unreadable instead of characters. I like the little boxes shown in the TeXbook on page 65, for instance, but that's macro-based. Do we have a question for this?
@JosephWright as a fellow chemist, how do you write excited state products of the form (CH3*) or F* in LaTeX? I have been using mhchem for chem typesetting in general and it works fine, but * are interpreted as radicals. When I tried math-superscripted stars, the kerning was really poor (e.g. A* the star looks very far away). Do you know of a clever way / is there a better chemistry package ?
Is there a question about why not using [htbp] by default for all figures/tables? I only found the general float positioning thread, which applies as well, but I'm looking for an answer specifically about avoiding this behaviour.
@ach it's part of both TeX Live and MiKTeX. It can fully replace mhchem. You need to be a bit careful: the syntax is very similar to the one from mhchem but differs in details...
reading the manual now, looks massively more powerful than I need, contemplating if I need it or not ... on the one hand, more consistent typesetting, on the other, do I really need it hmmmm. On the other hand I do like well designed packages :)
@cgnieder thanks for the tip, looks really good. I probably won't use it as I don't really need anything else. Still, looks nice to use, if I actually needed eg Newman projections I am sure I'd love it !
@MartinScharrer OK so I give up searching there are related ones like this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6456/… but that isn't the same (and I don't like the answers which all give misusing ! as an example:-)
<Reed> It is important to note that the primary reason the Roman Empire
fail is that they had no concept of zero... thus they could not
test the success or failure of their C programs.
@PauloCereda It's conventional to omit the brackets for trig functions, and I don't think you have used the correct \mathop spacing for the operators. Also I don't recognise the symbol used on the right, is it in the standard AMS font set?
I need a macro that processes a variable number of arguments, based on precomputed count value, and (in this case) outputs them as a comma separated list...
This is what I've come up with, pastebin.com/ygtwQruR? . Is this a reasonable approach, or is there a more standard 2e way to do this?
@PauloCereda It sends me to the stackexchange site and asks me to create a new account. Am I supposed to create a new account or should it recognise my TeX.SX account?
what does it meant when something says that pdftex is a different engine for Tex? from TUGboat, Volume 34 (2013), No. 1 , page 49: "Today, pdfTEX (with the "-TEX extensions included) is the dominant TEX-based engine in practical use"
I thought there was only one program, TeX 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 , so what does not mean "engine"?
I mean, is pdftex different than what Knuth wrote?
why can;t I edit my message more than once? I make many typos all the time.
TeX engines
There are currently five engines (binaries) which can process TeX input, although not all are used to the same extent.
Knuth's TeX, as described in The TeXbook. This is of course the definitive TeX, but is only used as the standard engine in modern TeX distributions if you are usin...
I bet only 3 people in the world understand the above :)
@cgnieder I see thanks. But I am still little confused. Is pdfTex using a DIFFERENT implementation from what Knuth wrote? i.e. the source code is different? or is it an addition to the source code? When it says: "..and then adds a number.." ? If it a rewrite, then how does one know it did not break the original TeX program 3.14?
I write a package named umtools.sty,
since Ubuntu One can only sync folder which is in "~/",
so I put *.sty in "~/tlpkg/".
Now, how can I use it like \usepackage{umtools} instead of \usepackage{~/tlpkg/umtools},
as the way like \usepackage{} cause warning:
"You have requested package `~/tlpkg/umt...
@cgnieder interesting, what might they be ? I have more or less read the section on scrpage2 (as painful as reading scrguide is) - but I want to modify the running header itself (ie \headmark). In particular I want section + chapter for scrbook oneside (default is chapter only)
I'm working on a one-sided LaTeX document with document class scrreprt and I'm using scrpage2 to customize headers and footers of the pages. At the moment, the respective chapter name is shown in the upper right corner of each page using the following code in the preamble:
\usepackage[autoonesid...
do people think it will be strange to make a web site using Latex book, i.e. the front page will be the actual table of contents, i.e. all are links to other web pages which are sections and subsections from there and so on? You think it will look strange to have web site be table of contents?
@MarcoDaniel though the question of where the best pizza is made / where the true pizza is made remains. The Romans think they do, but so do the Neapolitans ... what does @egreg think ?
@ach You can eat good pizza everywhere in Italy. I surely prefer Naples' original pizza: I had some I still remember. Pizza must be baked in an oven with a live wood fire and eaten as soon as possible.
@ach In my opinion, the best pizza is the one you like the most. I don’t care who invented it or who thinks he created the best pizza, if I like it I like it.
@egreg yes one of the noticeable things that broke between 2.09 and 2e was some ises like that with \parbox where the extra 2e optional argument processing meant it no longer worked, it seemed like an entire community had never noticed minipage and was using \parbox\bgroup in begin code \nd \egrpup in teh end code:(
@ach yes
i was just going to say Frank's updated his template epic
When I start a section and attempt to indent the first paragraph with \indent, the command has no effect:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
% Section 0
\indent Paragraph 1. % indented
\noindent Paragraph 2.
\section{Section 1}
\indent Paragraph 1. % not indented
...
@ach Leslie handed over LaTeX2.09 to Frank and Rainer when they made NFSS-LaTeX sometime around 1989 or so, he had some general design input into 2e, and updated his book but took no part in the coding of that.
I want to include a PDF in LaTeX with:
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{image.pdf}
\end{figure}
The image.pdf contains graphical elements like boxes or lines and text in these boxes.
My problem is: the boxes and lines are included in the final document but the text does not ...
TeX engines
There are currently five engines (binaries) which can process TeX input, although not all are used to the same extent.
Knuth's TeX, as described in The TeXbook. This is of course the definitive TeX, but is only used as the standard engine in modern TeX distributions if you are usin...
When I start a section and attempt to indent the first paragraph with \indent, the command has no effect:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
% Section 0
\indent Paragraph 1. % indented
\noindent Paragraph 2.
\section{Section 1}
\indent Paragraph 1. % not indented
...
