@egreg I actually don't know offhand. It seems related to the fact that you can't have the future in in a conditional in English: If he leaves... not If he will leave.
@AlanMunn No, he hasn't. I'm not going to pursue the matter further. His last comment in chat could be taken as meaning that this was just the final straw. He's been back on the site since, so I guess from that that he does not want to discuss it further. His intention now seems to be simply to delete all of his contributions, so all I'm going to do is vote for them to be undeleted (it needs 3 such votes, or one from a moderator).
On another matter, has anyone read the blog post blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/… ? My "favourite" bit is where they say "we won’t display reputation lost to deleted questions on your profile unless you explicitly ask for it, and won’t display it at all to other people". This makes egreg's profile page even more, well, I want to say insulting. Have the SE mods explained anything to our mods?
@AndrewStacey I am sorry to see the recent chat between you and Marc and my opinion there are misunderstandings from both sides. However, I think you should grant Marc the right to delete his posts. Making a statement that you will vote to undelete them is adding fuel to the fire.
@YiannisLazarides Sorry, but no. He can disassociate himself from his posts. But he does not have the legal right to delete them, and he certainly does not have the moral right to do so. Frank was worrying recently about what happens if SE goes under and all the information disappears from the internet. It's not on the same scale, but a user deleting their answers and questions is the same activity.
The SE team actually take this quite seriously: Marc's activity has been noted by the software and it is actually getting blocked: his most recent deletions have been flagged as "Vandalism".
(Flagged by the software, that is.)
Incidentally, I deeply regret what has happened, but - sort of obviously - don't see where the misunderstanding has been from my side. So that I could avoid the same thing happening again, could you tell me what my misunderstanding was?
@AndrewStacey Part of the misunderstanding is that some people feel badly when a question is proposed to be closed as duplicate. Andrew I am also of the opinion that he has the prerogative to delete his posts and you have the right to vote to undelete them. As to the moral right I will leave that to a philosopher. However, he did contribute well and at a stage he posted his LaTeX book online for free. This is the type of user we don't want to lose.
@AndrewStacey I am also not sure that vandalism is in place here. His answers are one of many on questions and will remain visible to high rep users. I don't want them to be deleted either but for sure I wouldn't call them vandalism.
@YiannisLazarides If that is the misunderstanding, then it is not mine. I did not vote to close the question as a duplicate (I did not vote to close the question). I did not say that the question should not be on the site. I asked for contextual information. As for the right or prerogative to delete his posts, 'fraid not. All content is licensed under a CC-by-SW so once posted, the author's wish to remove it can be overridden. The fact that high-rep users can still see his posts is moot.
It's the low-rep users that are important here.
The word "vandalism" is that chosen by the SE software, not me.
I need enlightment. Should I use (a) "Another possible cause is due to a very unstable internet connection." or (b) "Another possible cause is a very unstable internet connection." ?
@YiannisLazarides I wish I did! I would like to take another look, but it doesn't appear in the list of recently deleted questions (not sure why - maybe because the asker deleted it and it had no answers).
A-ha! Just found it in the undelete votes list and have cast the final undelete vote so it can now be seen at: tex.stackexchange.com/q/46798/86
@AndrewStacey I used to have a few books of Escher's works. Got introduced to it by a Penrose book:)
@AndrewStacey Anyway I read the comments, the offensive action does not belong to you, but the fact that the question was voted to close might have been the reason. A bit of a rephrasing of the question would have been fine, maybe ... how do I draw a tesselation efficiently with TikZ? Maybe also the tone? ... and the question...is?
TeX troubles again, but I think this is a real quickie. Can any of you tell me how do I get an integral sign with $R$ beneath it instead of the circle?
I mean I am typesetting notes where I begin with Darboux's formulation of the integral and say that it coincides with Riemann's. So, provisionally for establishing the notation, I would like to use $R$ integral.
@egreg Sorry for forgetting to ping you, but I am not sure if anybody thought of this crazy $R$ integral but as I said above, may be I am the only crazy guy to have come up with the idea. : (
@KannappanSampath They are arbitrary direct sums of Q and of the Prüfer groups; we use to denote them as $\mathbb{Z}(p^\infty)$. This was the question my Higher Algebra teacher asked me to get evaluated "cum laude" at the exam. :)
@KannappanSampath Yes, they are. The fact is that Z is a noetherian ring and the divisible groups are precisely the injective Z-modules. Therefore the torsion part splits and the torsion-free part is a Q-vector space. Then one can split the torsion part into the p-components and they are easily seen to be direct sums of copies of the Prüfer groups. :)
Do you know of any other tools than GhostScript and xpdf that can convert PDF figures to EPS? All tools I know are based on one of these two. When I convert, quality gets reduced and the file size gets blown up significantly. The guidelines of the journal say that they only accept EPS figures with LaTeX (strangely they do accept PDF when not using LaTeX for submission ...)
@AndreyVihrov I have some shadings/gradients in the PDF. I was told that is what is causing the trouble. I also have a big bitmap embedded in the PDF. Still, the PDF is 300 kB while the EPS is between 3000-10000 kB depending on the tool (and version) I use. When converting back to PDF, the size doesn't go down any more. Also, one tool seems to convert each pixel to a polygon in the image. With the other tool, the edges of the (few) polygons that make up the colour bar become visible.
I am trying to get the original producer of the figures to give me a correct EPS output now.
Out of curiosity, is there any acceptable technical reason the journals wouldn't accept PDF figures? They didn't reply to my mail asking about whether PDF is also acceptable, and when I called them on phone, they just said "they can't help me"...
@Szabolcs I guess you can't lose much if you ask a question on the site. I would also like to see where the problem is.
@Szabolcs Like anywhere, they probably stick to a many years old production process and are afraid of new changes. I don't think there is much problem on the technical side. (But maybe someone will correct me.)
@Szabolcs acrobat can save as eps, if you have the free reader version you should be able to print to postscript (just choose any postscript printer driver and print to file) might take a bit of postscript cleanup to make eps but....
@Roelof: Agreed. :) Van Persie did nothing in that game. I read on the sports section today that Arsenal believes they will revert score. I don't think they can. :)
In Vertical space between section header and text is too big user egreg said that setting \predisplaypenalty=0 is wrong idea.
Why is that? Could you provide an example?
@AndreyVihrov I've only coded basic arithmetic, ln, exp and ^. The latter three are done by a combination of table look-up and Taylor series (after some subtle tricks that Joseph unearthed for ln).
@JosephWright Well, at the end of the day, you still need power series (once you've reduced the input to something small), no?
@BrunoLeFloch oh I'm sure it's brilliant:-) (actually as I recall it wasn't bad for sin and cos, tan I sort of gave up on around the edges of the range)
:3708696: Yeah, he didn't show much in the interland agains England either. Doubt if they'll be able to make up the difference, ACM has a very strong team.
@JosephWright sure the rules are rather different now. Frank and I had just spent some weeks going through latex removing redundant {} to save token space, so it rather put me off spending too many tokens on trig:-)
@JosephWright Yes :). So David, to answer your question: trig has ~5 digits accuracy, l3fp has ~ 8 or 9, and l3fp-new will have ~15 or 16. Both l3fp and l3fp-new are roughly 10 to 40 times slower than trig.
@egreg: There's a nice joke here about defensive lines. The position known in English as defensive midfielder is called meio-campo defensivo, or the popular volante. But volante is also the Brazilian word for steering wheel. When Dunga was the national team coach, people made fun of him telling that the bus with the Brazilian team would never be involved in an accident, because it was full of volantes. :P
@DavidCarlisle but bear in mind that I'm doing everything expandably, and parsing arbitrary expressions, with proper error checking. Not a simple register manipulation.
On the other hand, I have to admit that trig is very short.
@BrunoLeFloch the main effort that went into trig was looking in the literature for a short rational approximation with integer coefficients that fitted in mathchardef range, so I could keep the token count down, as long as it did that and gave reasonable accuracy on sensible values, I was happy
@DavidCarlisle When I went to London for the first time, the plane was going through thick clouds; suddenly there was a clearance and so the first thing I saw in England was a cricket game.
@RoelofSpijker He's a fantastic player. We have nice players, but sadly Brazil lost most of its identity. There was a friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina a few days ago; one of the worst games I saw Brazil playing. For the upcoming World Cup, I'll go with Italy. :)
@DavidCarlisle And you did well. I think Rainer is somewhat responsible for making me go to lengths writing a very robust fpu. I'm responsible for forcing expandability onto myself (took me many months to figure out how to parse expressions). Four drawbacks of expandability are (1) the lack of caching (2) the lack of widthof and other box measurements (3) no random numbers (4) no one else can read my code.
@AndreyVihrov \blockextras@english and \inline@extrasenglish: Polyglossia distinguishes between extras to be applied in "big" and "small" contexts. The former applies in otherlanguage environments or after \selectlanguage, the latter in otherlanguage* or \foreignlanguage. Just say \appto and they will be created.
No symmetry no Escher's style but ... that look like birds.
First you need to save the next code in a file names bird1.pgf. It's not exactly the code given by Inskape. I export the code with latex and pstricks then I transform the code to get something lighter.
%%Creator: inkscape 0.48.2
%%Pleas...
I have a very large references.bib. Throughout my document, I have used \cite{} to cite many of them. Now I would like to know if I missed any - that is, if there is a references in the bib file that has not been called using \cite{}. Is this possible?
@PauloCereda I don't think it's possible to issue two \bibliography commands (which would write two \bibdata lines), but this can contain more than one .bib file.
@rumtscho It depends on what kind of loop you need. An easy to use macro is provided by the pgffor package: \foreach \x in {1,2,3} {\x} will output "123".
@rumtscho One way to start is to play around with a simple case that you get working yourself and then post a question about how it could be adapted to your specific situation. (People probably won't appreciate a question without any preliminary work on your part.)
@AlanMunn I know. But the cases I find around are not simple, and I don't know how to build my own simple one. I am currently trying to google some kind of documentation or tutorial, but not finding anything useful.
The part about pgffor was already helpful, I got the package, but still don't know how to use it.
Actually, I found something which seems to be the official documentation for its use, but it is a .tex file and I can't compile it.
@rumtscho The pgffor documentation is part of the TikZ/pgf documentation. So you shouldn't need to install anything assuming you're using MikTeX or TeXLive.
@AndrewStacey: I don't suppose you recall the question where you provided a solution to the case to draw a path parallel to another path but offset slightly? I think that might help with tex.stackexchange.com/a/47020/4301.
@JosephWright There are significant improvements. The optional argument of section (or other levels) can be used with a key-value syntax: \section[tocentry={Something},head={Something else}]{The section title}
Honestly, I can imagine Till Tantau spinning in his ... lecture hall. How is that meant to help? It looks pretty, but if you have that much data (and I'm presuming there's a lot there) then pictures aren't going to say anything. You need to do a full statistical analysis. (There was a blog post on the main SE blog a while back by a maths undergraduate that sadly showed the same failing: lots of pictures purporting to "show" something but no actual analysis.)
@AndrewStacey That was the inspiration for the real images (which seem to be less complicated). I can't really say, as I thought the new tool was bust: we don't get any hits at all!
Does anyone have advice for a hyperref colour that doesn't look terrible when printed out? I like the visual clue that you can click something, but then when I print it in B&W it looks fuzzy.
If you want a nice diagram to look at, here's one that's about as meaningful as the ones above. (Incidentally, I agree that data visualisation can tell you where to look and as such is very useful, but I worry that the SE people will use it to figure out what they are looking at for which one needs proper tools).
@JosephWright How many upvotes will I lose this time? I vote for David's answers, who votes for Frank, who votes for Werner, who votes for Paulo^H^H^H^H^H [oh, no, this is impossible :)] me. A blatant voting ring. :)
@egreg You have too much reputation to punish that way: Now you must stare at an interesting TeX problem without being allowed to work on it for 5 min. :D
Is it possible to have a page, with only a single captioned figure on it, rotated 90 degrees? The figure has a wide aspect ratio, and fits better rotated. I want the caption rotated as well. But I'm interested only if there's a simple way, otherwise I'll find another solution (without rotating it).
@Szabolcs I tried using vector figures in LaTeX once, discovered I had to do a multistep procedure to convert them from svg to pdf, and that the text wouldn't resize along with the figure and gave up and used png from then on.
@Szabolcs I dislike using PDF for images; It is a page-display file-format, not an image file format. SVG also works on the web and in every other program, whereas PDFs need external programs and are rather iffy to edit in vector graphics programs.
Using PDF for vector graphics is like putting an image file inside a word document before emailing it to someone. It works, but there are far, far better ways to do it.
No, I have very, very little. I like the idea of vector graphics, but the tools just aren't as good; I can do things much faster in say Paint.net then I can in inkscape.
Huh, I have \usepackage[margin= 2 cm]{geometry} set, but the distance from the top of the page to the top of my text is closer to 2.5 cm then 2.
Stupid Adobe reprints
Ok, now just the bottom of the page is causing a problem; probably due to the page numbering...
How do I get the distance from the bottom of the last paragraph to the bottom of the page to be 2 cm?
Errr, anyone? This is kinda important as I was given really specific instructions (2 cm margins on all sides) and that it must fit on one page; an extra 0.5 cm should be enough to fit everything. How do I get the bottom margin to work?
In Vertical space between section header and text is too big user egreg said that setting \predisplaypenalty=0 is wrong idea.
Why is that? Could you provide an example?
I have a very large references.bib. Throughout my document, I have used \cite{} to cite many of them. Now I would like to know if I missed any - that is, if there is a references in the bib file that has not been called using \cite{}. Is this possible?
