@StephanLehmke My Linux box is very quiet, but when I run some heavy computation, it looks like I have an aircraft turbine nearby. :) And we have serious problems with heating, since temperatures here are usually very high. :) And I don't have air conditioning. :(
@PauloCereda Well, lazy Sunday ... I got home at 3am, the corridor on my floor was quite smokey and my room was quite full of smoke, much more than the corridor. I didn't find any source of that smoke, but it seems to be still appearing from somewhere, which makes me seriously worried :(
@DavidCarlisle I'm a bit worried that it's actually coming from my room. There're places I can't check easily for sources (like behind my shower stall). It can be as well coming from inside of my small electrical radiator, if it got very dusty inside somewhere.
Well, now I'm going to be for several hours at home and awake, so I can check what's going on
I want to start using Latex for my research, as I hreard that its a powerful software especially for writting equations. could you please tell me how I start? what is the best way to learn about Latex?
Which book (free or otherwise) was the most useful to you when you started learning LaTeX?
I am frequently asked this question by friends who want to learn LaTeX, and I recommend the book which got me started, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2ε, but I feel that there might be better option...
Inspired by What is the best book to start learning LaTeX?, I thought that it might be useful to collect a list of the many brilliant introductory LaTeX books and tutorials written in languages other than English. I think that such a list could be helpful to many new users. And who would be bette...
@tohecz I downloaded The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2" from the website that you posted. Latex software if free? how I can download it? as I know my university use a version of Latex called TexMaker 'I think'
@PauloCereda well, I checked all the accessible parts of the electricity for burn stains, but nothing. Actually, now I realized that there's something that looks like burn in a corner, but the only thing that is there are the water and waste pipes
@PauloCereda yes, all lamps, fridge, microwave, and the heating seem to be ok. It can be the case that some dust got into the heating and got burnt, that's so far the only explanation I have, if I assume it comes from my place
@StephanLehmke I could read that stuff 15 years ago, but I dropped it and Joseph and Bruno changed it while I wasn't looking, so now I haven't the faintest idea what it does:-)
@tohecz Well that's the trouble, lots of people say TeX is rubbish and why isn't it changed, then when someone changes it, they say "but that's not TeX" so we are stuck with a 1970's design....
@tohecz In my PhD thesis it'd probably be a trillion times, and proud of every one :-) I set \delimitershortfall-1sp and admire seeing them grow and flourish...
@tohecz You could, or you could insert an entire separate language layer that lets you set it... either way it makes you incompatible with classic tex installations
For small-scale arrays, the usual solution is to use a \csname-based approach
\expandafter\def\csname my@array@1\endcsname{content-for-key-1}
which can then be read back just using
\csname my@array@1\endcsname
Depending on the use case, you may of course want to have the index as a LaTeX co...
@JosephWright mentions it as a "cure" for bad hash table performance when implementing arrays by "families" of control sequences, but in a first test I get something like 100fold worse performance than the worst-hashed "traditional" array implementation.
@tohecz Say whatever one more time and I'll force you to use the Equation Editor next time. But I don't mean Office 2013's Equation Editor, I mean the 1997 one! :)
@egreg Could you scroll up a little? I've been wondering how I could realistically compare its performance with traditional array implementation in TeX.
@egreg I can understand the technical difference, I just can't imagine how this could perform better than the internal hash, and my tests indeed show a disastrously worse performance.
@JosephWright 1000 was the last number I had the patience to wait for (8s for 1000 inserts and 10000 retrievals). With traditional arrays I can do 100000 stores and 1000000 retrievals in 4s.
@JosephWright Correct, but what would be the difference? I could as well say I could construct and maintain 100 arrays of traditional build with the same ressources as one prop array.
but really, I often need simple tasks on large data (or just many runs of the sub-program), and then C++ FTW :D (well, I don't know Fortran, so I can't say "Fortran FTW :D")
@tohecz the heading code to remove indentation removes it whether it is implicit in the paragraph start or via \indent (it actually removes the indent box with \lastbox so it doesn't matter how the indent got there:-)
@tohecz I had one that had been careful not to leave any blank line; paragraphs had \par at the end, \parindent had been set to zero and after \par there was a macro that did \hspace*{0.5cm} or something like that.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{Fig7}
\caption{Step ... models.}
\label{fig7} %Give a unique label
\end{center}
\end{figure}
A step response, shown in Figure 7, represents the control
@egreg well, no \caption is above in this document. You know, I'm short on time when I do this, so I don't really care about using very dirty and wrong tricks, as long as the result is exactly what I want
A quick Q: Using the IEEE style with biblatex, if I use url in an article bib entry, the default text before the URL is [Online]. Available:. How do I change this text? MWE:
I'm certain I have read that xspace can cause more problems than it solves. But I cannot find anything to that effect either on this site or the web. Are there any drawbacks or risks associated with it?
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheorem{algor}{Algorithm}
...
\begin{algor}\label{algor:Theta}\leavevmode
\begin{enumerate}
\item[\textbullet]
Input: $\gamma$ satisfying \eqref{eq:cmplx-gamma}, $c_0>0$.
\item[\textbullet]
Output: All possible palettes $\Pal(\Omega)$ of $\Sigma(\Omega)$ for $\Omega=[0,c)$ and $\gamma'c_0\leq c<c_0$.
\item Compute the set $\Theta=\{\theta_0<\theta_1<\dots<\theta_{N-1}\}$ given by \eqref{eq:Theta},
with $L\eqdef L_{\gamma'c_0}$ as defined in \eqref{eq:L}.
\item \label{algor:Theta:enum:for} Using Algorithm \ref{algor:Xi}, compute the palettes $\Pal(\Omega)$ for al…
^^ I get a pagebreak after Algorithm 5.3. and before the enumerate. Do you think that this was solved before, or should I make it a question on the site?
I just noticed that my figure captions are in italics, but the table captions are in normal text. Is this some artifact of my implementation, or is this just the default?
@rm-rf It is defined in ieee.bbx by \DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{url = [Online]\adddot\addspace Available}. Add that to the preamble after biblatex, and change [Online]\adddot\addspace Available to whatever you want.
The point is that the Czech keyboard has all French accents available through AltGr+Shift, but it's 4-5 keys for one letter, which kills me. As well, the apostrophe is badly placed.
@tohecz Just a little. By the way, speaking of 'nice' ways of starting new paragraphs, in the manuals for http://swanmodel.sourceforge.net you'll find \\[2ex] \noindent (with no empty lines in sight). Other niceties include the following to start a subsubsection or something like that: \\[2ex] \noindent \underline{Subsubsection}\\[2ex].
@tohecz My French teacher had bad times when she had to teach the inversion in interrogative sentences. For most of my classmates French was the third language: dialect as L1 and Italian as L2.
@egreg it's about the scouts. For longer time, we have problem of the fact that actually nobody of us (=leaders) really wants to "carry the responsibility" and feel it as "his place". It's all quite complicated now, and we seriously have to consider closing the group in the horizon or 1-2 years
the current problems, not-so-nice discussions and very short and straight mails just confirm that we don't feel really well about the situation
For small-scale arrays, the usual solution is to use a \csname-based approach
\expandafter\def\csname my@array@1\endcsname{content-for-key-1}
which can then be read back just using
\csname my@array@1\endcsname
Depending on the use case, you may of course want to have the index as a LaTeX co...
I'm certain I have read that xspace can cause more problems than it solves. But I cannot find anything to that effect either on this site or the web. Are there any drawbacks or risks associated with it?
