I (Hardy) remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he (Ramanujan) replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
@cfr TeX.SE in general :) For instance, I came across the LuaTeX-specific editors question, found emacs, then posted a link to auctex-lua. Took me a good three minutes or so to realize that I had done this a year prior.
@SeanAllred You could always ask some questions just to make sure you have some new ones to answer. (Though I guess you might need to check what you've asked before...)
I suppose on that basis, the PhD dude just speeds up the cycle somewhat... ;)
LaTeX sometimes does some tricks to fill lines to the end, to fill pages up to the bottom and to prevent pages only containing a single line of text. When I create some tikzpictures there are sometimes sizes which could be variable to aid LaTeX in filling up pages. For example some variable width...
Hi I would like to know which TeX distribution is more convenient for use; Miktex or Texlive? Could you also tell me the official site for downloading each? Thanks
Hello everyone, I'm trying to use the feynmf package with TeXnicCenter and MikTeX but can't get it to work. A friend of mine told me I have to define a new profile LaTeX => DVIPS => PS2PDF, then run it, then execute mpost diagramname and then compile again, however I keep getting an error message that it couldn't find "diagramname". I got the same message when I just tried compiling directly LaTeX => PDF. Can anyone help me?
I was looking for a special Q/A to link to in an answer. I used google, first match sounded good. Was a dupe. Maybe the original is the one i am looking for? Nope. But there is a link by caramdir, maybe thats the one. Nope, but there is an answer by doncherry containing a link. Et voila:
Regular LaTeX
Finding the font name
This is actually the hardest part. When you load a regular font package like helvet (which sets the default sans serif font to a Helvetica clone) it issues commands to set up the font using an internal name, which is hidden to regular users. These names tradi...
@JosephWright I looked up the location of the guy. I won't say it out loud (or rather write it down) but i was shocked. So far, all people of that piece of land have been friendly and patient.
@JosephWright I was almost tempted to respond but I suppose it's pointless. Maybe this set of tools is not the right choice for that user, at least not without taking the time to learn to use them.
@avghighschoolstudent It makes as much sense as scaling text on each line to achieve justified line breaks rather than stretching white space or using linebreaking. That is it hardly ever is the right thing to do (other than fractional scaling as done by microtype)
hm, how do I get this nice preview of a question like the ones from Joseph and Johannes?
@AndrewCashner Thanks for the comment. I was looking into some related questions regarding the vertical alignment of toc entries... looks problematic :)
@Harald if the requirement was to rotate the heading there would be no restrictions but to typeset the letters vertically as shown you need to split up the title letter by letter and that isn't really well specified if you have $\sqrt{b^2-4ac}$ in a title
@Johannes_B "lose hope"= you had hope, but now it has gone away and you can't find it any more. "loose hope" = you are letting your hope free of its restrains to roam throughout the world (actually "loose" isn't really a verb)
@Johannes_B for the second meaning, you could say "release" or "set free". (Perhaps that would be a more desirable outcome for you in this case)
@Johannes_B I understand -- I just came back from a conference in Spain and I can't even imagine how many terrible mistakes I made in my paper and in discussion.
@Johannes_B My field is musicology, so the science is never okay, even though the Germans call it Musikwissenschaft.
@Johannes_B My paper actually included the sentence, "Esta no es ciencia" (This is not science). In Spain they do actually like to be more "objective" than we do in the US, so I thought it good to just come out and say that.
@Harald I think Homer was in control of a ship or a submarine and then said this sentence in many different languages. I guess he messed something up ;-)
@PauloCereda Seriously, it all started when I tried to run l3build from a Makefile. Under Windows. In Cygwin32. Now I can't even remember why it was I wanted to go to Cygwin64. #SillyMe
@PauloCereda My Peregrine falcon is eagerly awaiting...
@Brent.Longborough Indeed, it came from a great reference in compiler courses (PUC-RIO). :) I agree it would be great if Lua had more options out-of-the-box. I implemented some basic YAML parser for dandelion from scratch; quite painful.
Why are all computer languages pretend to be speaking in the house of lords when it comes to defining their internal object names? I've looked at the dictionary more than I've ever used before in the last two months.
I've never before tried to create a structured PDF where the viewer has an outline of the document in the sidepane. Is hyperref the only way to do this? I don't need clickable links within the document.
@percusse example of such fancy schmancy object name?
Guys, I have a question: I have a .tex document in which I compose a certain event proceedings. Is there a way to write a .txt along with the PDF generation with some important info? Say, I include the individual papers with \includepdf, so I'd like to be able to get the current page at that point, so I can find out the page range of a paper in the text file.
@percusse An immutable object and an overflowing float enter in a bar...
@AndrewCashner Here is a sentence from Python Sphinx documentation
Sequence types also support comparisons. In particular, tuples and lists are compared lexicographically by comparing corresponding elements. This means that to compare equal, every element must compare equal and the two sequences must be of the same type and have the same length. (For full details see Comparisons in the language reference.)
@percusse Sometimes when people start writing too many big words, they start to misuse the small ones. So you get these elaborate constructions in passive voice and "lexicographic" comparisons (I assume that means they compare character by character) but you also have non-English like "compare equal".
@percusse I've usually seen "immutable" in theological contexts referring to the unchangeability of God. Also I think the Harry Potter books use the magic word "MUTABOR" (be changed). (Haven't read them though)
@PauloCereda don't worry. So you get bottomless PDF files :) well, you basically just make a wrapper around \includepdf that does what @David says (well, the first part is done only once, the second for every info you write)
For example, in this new manual, @percusse is in charge of those flip animations, so there's a TikZ picture in each page, in the corner. When you print the manual and flip the pages, you get a lovely arara flying. :)
It's a dumb question by I'll ask again: if I just want the PDF output to have an outline sidebar, but I don't need internal hyperlinks, is hyperref the only way to go? Is there anything less invasive?
@tohecz @percusse Thanks. Will hyperref also make the viewer's page numbers the same as those printed in the document? (I stayed away from this package before because it looked like it would introduce needless complication.)
@AndrewCashner heiko has a bookmark package but I think it loads hyperref you could write them by hand (it's not that hard) the hard part is normalising the tex input for the titles to be a safe pdf string
And I know electrical engineers they are anything but a community. Nobody gives a damn about what to use for i or j. Nobody writes diff. eq. anymore anyway
Hmm, I did a basic test doc for hyperref, and I can see the outline sidebar with acroread (though I feel dirty every time I run it on Debian), but I don't see it with evince.
Oh never mind, I had to select the "Index" view under the side pane.
@AndrewCashner hyperref has to modify the \ref structure (not least so it can safe section names not just numbers) for making bookmarks, but that means the aux file is different if you add (or remove) hyperref (similar to adding or removing babel)
@DavidCarlisle Okay, worked on the first run, didn't work after I ran biber. I compile with pdflatex --output-directory=tmp . The main doc pulls in chapters with \include, so there is also a chapters directory in the tmp folder. I'm guessing that's part of the problem.
@DavidCarlisle On the second run, pdflatex finds an undefined control sequence at the first section heading (which is \part). This is after deleting all .aux files and now compiling with out redirecting the output. I'd appreciate any ideas you might have.
! Undefined control sequence. \find@pdflink ...ode \protected@edef \Hy@testname {#2}\ifx \Hy@testname \@em... l.12 ...c as an Expression of Humanity}{1}{part.1}
@DavidCarlisle Never mind. I'm guessing this is from using \includeonly. In any case I have more important things to worry about right now. Sorry to bother you.
@DavidCarlisle I see you are busy with squiggle fonts anyway :)
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\usepackage{pgfplots,tikz}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelSeparator{fullstop}{.\quad}
\captionsetup[figure]{labelsep=fullstop}
\pgfplotsset{width=120mm}
\usepackage{subcation}
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