anyone knows why sometimes in the PDF, the table of contents will have dots ..... between the names and the page numbers, and sometimes these dots are missing? I just do \tableofcontents and on some documents I noticed there are no dots and sometimes they show up :)
These are article class
Oh, I think it is just for the SUBSECTIONS that dots show up ! I just noticed.
So, because in article, SECTION is top level, it does not show dots? It must be only for one level less than the top one that dots show up.
@DavidCarlisle I see. I use \documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article} I noticed the DOTS only show on the SUBSECTION as in the above. I did not notice this first, that is why I asked. On SECTION, there is no DOTS.
@DavidCarlisle thanks. But I not good enough to fully understand this code and relate it to what I see. But I assume it means there is no DOTS for top level :)
@Nasser Some errors like that one are nasty: TeX tries to recover by inserting a brace, but often this triggers an error due to the brace that so gets removed and inserted back again because the previous error reappears.
I really really will in no way be able to write this math in direct Latex. No way. I made small change myself (not using the GUI) and for the last 30 minutes I can't figure how to fix it. This is impossible to do. In the GUI I can see the equation and make the change in a second.
@egreg It's a tricky translation: pata can be translated as paw or female duck. Then we have patinha, which is the diminutive of pata, and finally let's add a s to the end and make the plural. :P
@Nasser Bad analogy, writing in a higher level language is almost always more productive, and produces better code, and more portable, than writing machine code by hand. None of those things is true of generating latex markup from a gui. Once you are used to the markup you can enter it at typing speed (slow in my case:-) and it almost always produces better markup that is portable to any tex installation, whereas a gui is usually platform specific and almost always produces worse code.
@egreg: speaking of Uncle Scrooge, I was so shocked when I discovered that the witch was called Magica De Spell in English! And I didn't know she was from Naples. :)
@DavidCarlisle I am not arguing about quality of produced Latex code. Yes, Hand crafted Latex code will be better, specially by Latex expert. But there are other consideration. Like how long it will take a normal user to do the task at hand using a GUI vs. hand coding. Time is expensive also.
@JosephWright Nice to know. I'm absolutely loving L3 - just rewritten my "latex-to-text" class using it and it feels like the code is actually code. But I'm always wary of "schoolboy errors" since there's much about L3 that I don't yet get.
@AndrewStacey Only minor changes I'd make are 'style' in the message: I'd call it no-format with a hyphen, and just use ' for the 'quoting' [backticks are fine in typeset material, but in messages I think are silly :-)]
@AndrewStacey Hyphen as spaces are tricky in expl3 code, the backticks is my preference, but I wrote all of the message code we have, so that's how they are :-)
@JosephWright Silly question this: is there a L3 variant of the basic \message command? I often stick \message{got here} lines in my code when debugging and it somehow just spoils the look of the thing. Maybe a \debug module?
@JosephWright: about the latex3 vs expl3 thread in meta, I'm tempted to add a comment, "LaTeX3 is awesome... but will it blend?" :)
(hopefully I'm not too geeky to post an obscure link to a dark side of the internet where there's a guy with a blender blending every possible thing known to mankind)
@AndrewStacey You want the either 'low level' functions \msg_log:n and \msg_term:n or the unformatted \iow_log:n and \iow_term:n (log or term depends on how verbose you want the output to be)
@JosephWright Thanks. I like to avoid that "unclean" feeling when non-l3 stuff creeps in to my nice pure l3 code (witness my latest couple of questions).
@Nasser I don't see why it should be slower (and may be quicker) to code directly. The typical example is you can type \rightarrow a lot faster than you can find it on a menu.
@DavidCarlisle, I think you are measuring everyone by your level. Most of us are not like that. Here is an example one page of a HW I did using SWP. It took my about 45 minutes to write this on the screen. when I try to fix something by hand, I spend 30 minutes because I made one change and dropped a } in the process. If I have to write this whole page by hand, it will take me one week
Yes, the latex code output is bad. But it is latex, but PDF looks just fine. Latex is all under the cover. But the amount of time saved is amazing, for us normal users, not like experts like you and others here, this saves lots of time.
It is more than just one symbol here and there. It is the ability to see the whole equation, and equations on the screen and be able to understand and see what you have just typed. It is like working on piece of paper. Very very productive tool.
It may look like a minor difference, but I'm trying to put quotation marks between single quotes, e.g.
'"go away" he said'
but ''' results in
"'go away" he said'
which is not what I want...
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\lq\thinspace\lq\lq go away\rq\rq, he said\rq
`\thinspace``go away'', he said'
`{}``go away'', he said'
\end{document}
@Nasser No it's just the same argument as the rest of the document most people wouls rather type in Word than see latex source like \section{..} but for anyone prepared to get over the hurdle of working with the markup, it usually ends up being more efficient to do that. It isn't just me, 'm sure that it is a very small minority that use wysiwyg tools for latex, compared with those who use wysiwyg for everything (word processor users) and those who edit the latex markup directly.
can someone please give me a hint what this error means:
Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\protect
l.649 Figure \ref{fig:getbits.eps}
shows detailed walkthough of the initGetB...
?
it is coming from everywhere I use \ref, like this line
Figure \ref{fig:getbits.eps} shows detailed walkthough
and here is the label code
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{getbits.png}
\label{fig:getbits.eps}
\vspace{0.7 in}
\caption{walk though initGetBits MMX code used in GetBits.S}
\end{figure}
pdfTeX warning
(ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page.1}) has been already u
sed, duplicate ignored
<to be read again>
\relax
l.19 \listoffigures
[1] (./master_dvdmax_document.lof) [2]
Chapter 1.
[3] [4] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lm/t1lmtt.fd) [5] [6]
Chapter 2.
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...tring :autoref\endcsname {\@captype
}2.1
l.234 Figure \ref{fig:arch1}
shows the architecture of DVDMax on Linux and S...
What's up with this message: You have already reviewed this item. It needs more reviews from other users to be completed. Surely my approval should not need more approval?
@Jake \addplot[no markers, red,x=-10:40] table [col sep=space, y={create col/linear regression={y=2}}] {source7.dat}; does not work unfortunately since my datapoints are only from 0 to 40
@AndrewStacey Hey. I'm still pissed that my iPad/iPhone doesn't have a Canadian localization. So my spelling correction either 'fixes' all the "centre"s and "honour"s to "center" and "honor" (if I choose American) or it changes all my "localize"s to "localise" (if I choose British). So I can appreciate an Australian babel.
I use the acro package heavily in my thesis, but I noticed that one section has a page break right after the section header. This appears to be a result of the first paragraph beginning with \Ac{} from the acro package. I know I could find some manual way to stop it (e.g., \clearpage right before...
@PauloCereda A quick regex question: (this is in TextWrangler): if I have a string foo: 1234 shouldn't the regex .*([0-9]+) put 1234 in the capture? It seems to be only putting the 1. What am I doing wrong?
@AlanMunn Ah ok. :) Just beware, . is evil since it's greedy, it means "any char" including digits. It gets everything and leaves only one char for your group. :)
@JosephWright Can you look at this one? As I comment, the addition of .generate_choice:V seems useful; a list of the possible choices can be stored in a variable for other uses.
Related: keyreader: How to save choice key value to a macro.
I’m using l3keys2e, but I suspect this might not be the ideal way to go about what I’m trying to do.
I’m building a private package with various tweaks to font setups:
\bool_if:nTF { \xetex_if_engine_p: || \luatex_if_engine_p: }
...
@egreg One of the things I'm not 100% about in the keys module is the choices stuff. The set up/generate procedure looks a bit odd, and I wonder if .choices:nn is better (again, could have a variant). I think I mentioned this on the LaTeX-L list ages ago!
@Rico No worries. I made up a new one. This one works
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}
\pgfplotstableset{
create on use/my x data/.style={
create col/set list={0,1,...,500}
},
create on use/my y data/.style={
create col/expr={sin(\thisrow{my x data})}
}
}
\pgfplotstablenew[columns={my x data,my y data}]{501}\mytable
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[no marks,blue,ultra thick] table [col sep=space,trim cells=true,x=my x data,y=my y data,restrict x to domain=0:180] {\mytable};
@Rico The domain doesn't do anything for \addplot table (especially not if you call it twice), you'll just have to replace that with percusse's restrict x to domain=0:180
\addplot[only marks,restrict x to domain=15:180] table [trim cells=true,y=1] {source8.dat};
I have some gnuplot code as follows:
gnuplot> h=1
gnuplot> a=2
gnuplot> set print "additional numbers.txt"
gnuplot> print h,a
gnuplot> set print
Now I want to add more data to this file without overwritng the previous entry. I can do it in C, but I want to keep everything in 1 script that I ca...
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It may look like a minor difference, but I'm trying to put quotation marks between single quotes, e.g.
'"go away" he said'
but ''' results in
"'go away" he said'
which is not what I want...
I have some gnuplot code as follows:
gnuplot> h=1
gnuplot> a=2
gnuplot> set print "additional numbers.txt"
gnuplot> print h,a
gnuplot> set print
Now I want to add more data to this file without overwritng the previous entry. I can do it in C, but I want to keep everything in 1 script that I ca...
