Oops, my bad. I blame the tea -- I ran out of coffee. :) It wouldn't be me if I didn't make any classic mistake on every release of my translation. It seems it's now a tradition in the tl-doc list. :)
@PauloCereda VSAT over several antennas and bands, firewall cluster, redundant core switches, distribution switch stacks in each fire zone, access switches for the >1000 cabins with VOIP phones, IP TV, LAN, WiFi.
Don't :-D Locally it's gigabit, but over satellite don't ask ... in each German port we installed landlines with up to 100 Mbit/s though with WiFi (mesh) bridges to ships in ports - well, I did. Further ports in progress.
Here is the problem, I made a box using
\begin{tabular}[b]{|l|}
\hline
example \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
I have the [b] meaning bottom, but the position never changes ... In general how do I manipulate the box to where I want it to be?
Please no fancy packages to install, I am new to this stuff...
@MarcoDaniel Most Windows users will probably download the GUI version of SVN, so it's not appropriate anyway. I use the command line version, but that is not typical
@MarcoDaniel That's where you make some form of installable code bundle automatically without any testing. For us, it would be a TDS zip of whatever state LaTeX3 was in each day.
You get nightly binary builds for a lot of open source projects
Not sure it's worth it, as building LaTeX code is a lot easier than building binaries
I use TexShop which came out from the MacTex distribution. I use a Mac (of course). Now I need to write a document in LaTex and the publisher sent me a cls file. In it I found:
\RequirePackage{latin1}
Besides it looks pretty cryptic, but could not find anything else with latin1 in it.
My docu...
@MarcoDaniel nope it steps past 1 token and expands one token { and a in this case. (I'd answer the queation but mum just phoned from the motorway saying she'll be here for dinner in a bit, and mums come first even when you're old:-)
@DavidCarlisle Indeed. :) IMHO the problem resides in the GUI versions: they are really bloated and all of them try to add fancy stuff to "blend" into Windows. I'd say SlikSVN is the lesser of two evils. I have a friend who once installed all possible Tortoises (SVN, Git, CVS, HG) in Windows. Needless to say, soon the OS became unusable. :)
The ubiquitous \usepackage command is used to load packages in the preamble of a document; the command syntax is
\usepackage[<package-option-list>]{<package-list>}[<version>]
Actually, \usepackage is derived from the \RequirePackage command which, according to source2e, secti...
@MarcoDaniel Thanks, but I'm still wondering about the possible downvote motive. Because there's a related question (though hopefully not a duplicate)?
@MartinScharrer FYI According to Kopka/Daly, loading "packages" in LaTeX 2.09 was done using the optional argument of \documentstyle, e.g. \documentstyle[12pt,parskip,makeidx]{article}.
@MartinScharrer I'm still leaning towards your "educational" theory. If Frank Mittelbach doesn't come up with a more in-depth answer, I'm going to acccept your one.
This year I decided to write my term paper with LaTeX. So, after installation and some googling I made following file (I'm from Russia, so some of the words in this file are in Russian language):
\documentclass[14pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[rus...
@egreg "How do you think we can guess what packages you're using?" By answering and getting comments back, of course; repeat as needed until you discover Jane is using your favourite package. :)
I'm trying to compile a document that only works with an up-to-date distribution, so I'd like to know: how do I update my distribution?
This question is Community Wiki, so as an initial proposal, how about we have one answer per distribution, and perhaps per operating system? Please also provide...
This can be done using \afterpage similar to my more complex solution shown in How to include a picture over two pages, left part on left side, right on right (for books)?. Because the \afterpage code is processed directly after a page is written the page counter can be used directly without goin...
The following should do it. It needs at least two compiler runs to be stable. With a lot of floats it can take several compilation runs until the document is stable.
Updates:
Works now for twoside mode; now with caption support;
Added float settings and removed ! from the float position to also...
@MartinScharrer no one was supposed to use that it was a joke :-(
@lockstep since they are \let equal to each other there clearly isn't much difference, but there is the issue of the different naming schemes for document level and package level commands, and making \usepackage an error helped ease people from the 2.09 to 2e syntax. Also (hard to remember now) ther may have been a point when usepackage and Require Package were not identical. The package loading scheme was one of the main inovations of 2e and we went through a lot of prototypes:-)
This year I decided to write my term paper with LaTeX. So, after installation and some googling I made following file (I'm from Russia, so some of the words in this file are in Russian language):
\documentclass[14pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[rus...
@percusse I didn't do closed paths. For that, you need to modify the method of solving the linear system to get the angles. For an open path, it's a "tridiagonal" matrix and there's a very simple algorithm for solving such (thanks Wikipedia!). For a closed path, this needs modifying slightly. Doable, but not on the first pass.
@AndrewStacey Indeed I was also thinking about the Thomas algorithm. Actually I might have implemented for some time ago. But I was thinking more about the closing of the curve. So it's more of a path closing question. Suppose the line width is nonnegligible and you want to obtain a nice line join. Even without any mock curvature, just plain TikZ, I don't know how to close the path without explicitly approaching the last point arbitrarily close...
I try to create a letter of application, using the class scrlttr2 from Koma-Script. It should look similar to a CV, created with moderncv's casual theme. One of the last steps is now to adjust the fonts in both documents.
I would like to use Adobe Garamond Pro, which I have placed in ~/.fonts/. I...
@percusse No. The -- cycle adds a line to the start point and then closes the path, but \pgfpathclose acts on a lower level and simply closes the path. Exactly what happens depends a little on the renderer. For example, circles are closed paths but there's no short line at the end of them.
@percusse Yes, it's a bit of a chase through @land. It's perhaps easier to see with the SVG renderer. The close path token simply emits a Z into the path: \def\pgfsys@closepath{\pgf@sys@addtosvgpath{Z}}
@AndrewStacey But then you can use your code to fake a cycle with an open path resulting with \pgfcolsepath no? Are the resulting angles too different than the cycled ones?
@percusse Ah, but then the SVG specification says "Close the current subpath by drawing a straight line from the current point to current subpath's initial point." so you're right, though that means that every path ends like that. Presumably if the line segment is of zero length then renderers behave in a special way to make it "look right".
In an attempt to chop down the file, I started deleting the parts of the file, which still keeps the bug in question. Apparently, the parser seems to be fond of 102nd line and says something is faulty with it! @AlanMunn
@percusse No, the angles would be wrong. Each "node" (or "knot" in Hobby's notation) affects all of the others (though in decreasing amounts) so closing the path introduces a new node which changes all the other angles a bit.
@KannappanSampath Try running pdflatex from the command line with the option -file-line-error, which should show you precisely the file where TeX is reading input from.
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... The error message is this.
@KannappanSampath It was really a bad joke (or even a really bad joke): I thought that the spurious 's' had come from the typical new user's attempts to save a file in vim (the actual command being :w).
@Alan Is it common that the figure jumps to a place it is not supposed to or is it happening because of some error in the way my .sty file is organised?
@AlanMunn Hehe! I have to admit, I feel really nervous answering non-TikZ questions. I'm always bracing myself for the real experts pointing out that I should have used \noexpand\futurelet\expandafter\first@of@tw@ instead, because that makes the line robust to tokens (or something along those lines).
@Jake When I posted that there are many possible solutions, and then saw all of you had posted I thought for sure there was at least one. What's funny is @PeterGrill had answered what is now the duplicate of this question as well.
@KannappanSampath If you specify all of the places for the figure [htbp] then it shouldn't go to the top of the first page. If you want to be sure, you could put \global\@topnum\z@ at the beginning of your \header macro. (BTW, you shouldn't use the two letter font changing commands: see tex.stackexchange.com/q/15361/2693.)
Also, since your package depends on the amsmath packages, you should probably load them using \RequirePackage in your style file, then you won't have to remember to load them (and you don't have to worry about loading order.)
@KannappanSampath There are two types of font changing commands: switches (which do not take an argument, and just turn "on" the feature) and macros, which take an argument and change the font properties of the argument. So the switches are \bfseries, \itshape, \scshape, \sffamily, etc. and the macros are \textbf{}, \texit{}, \textsf{} etc.
@KannappanSampath It depends a lot on what you are doing. If you turn on a switch within a group (roughly a set of braces or an environment) the switch is local to that group. So for example \textbf{foo} is pretty much the same as {\bfseries foo}.
I see. I don't know where I'd start learning this kind of details. I have been using internet as the only source and of course, you good guys, who I turn to for help evey now and then.
OK. But then I should use: \newtheoremstyle{myplain} {10pt}{10pt}{\itshape}{}{\scshape}{.}{.5em}{} instead of \newtheoremstyle{myplain} {10pt}{10pt}{\it}{}{\sc}{.}{.5em}{}--Right?
@KannappanSampath Well the LaTeX Companion (now in its 3rd edition) is probably what many of us learned from (apart from those of us here who actually wrote the thing). (And I do mean here in this chat room. :)
@KannappanSampath but feel free to start with the free books "a not so short introduction to latex" used to be good (been a while since I looked at it though)
@DavidCarlisle There's a bunch of developments that didn't make it in, particularly XeLaTeX, IIRC, but yes, TikZ too, siunitx, beamer, biblatex. But nonetheless it's still a fantastically useful book, even now.
@percusse Agreed! But, then a real time advice I have received is to write down only the equations on a piece of paper. And, I prefer naming things like (HOM1) , (R1) and so on.
@KannappanSampath That's more common in algebra, where referencing to equations is rarer; in analysis they tend to number equations, because they often refer to them.
@percusse And, I have a good enough memory--so I hold all those conclusions I feel that would come up again stored in my brain, so, (8) would tell me k+l | l-2
@egreg I see. I have never had to read a paper in Hardcore analysis (not that I have read enough papers in Algebra) and it shows.
@AlanMunn I did know that; but if the question is petty, may be it is not worth a post on the main site. But, I never know, these days, math.SE questions are often duplicates.
@N3buchadnezzar If you make the circle look like a sphere then the line becomes a plane which are both still possible to handle via a few tools such as tikz-3dplot or pgfplotsbut handling the intersection curve is (I think) not possible with TikZ but PSTricks might do that.
@percusse Yeah, you don't need the library here. The library makes the ellipse node shape available, but here you only use the ellipse path command, which is always available.
Thanks! Andrew really amazed me with his solution so I decided to pick it up from where I left again using only `\pgfmath` stuff. You guys owe me a Sunday :P
@egreg: I asked Karl Berry if I could volunteer myself to translate "The TeX Live Guide" to Brazilian Portuguese and he said to me that I should definitely do it. I saw the other translations and the Italian one seems the most appealing to me with the "Note all’edizione italiana". I don't think I deserve a nice note like that, but a humble footnote in the first page. :)
@PauloCereda The only thing that was different for me in the installation of TL 2009, TL 2010 and TL 2011 was the way to handle ConTeXt during installation: from typing two commands to typing one to typing none. Maybe in TL 2012 I will type only minus one. :-)
@AlanMunn Sorry, was in a hurry, and had to go and for once, a tikz solution didn't even occur to me..
@AlanMunn I think only a part of it is a duplicate. The other question did not cover having any leading text, although that is not that much of an addition.
Here is the problem, I made a box using
\begin{tabular}[b]{|l|}
\hline
example \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
I have the [b] meaning bottom, but the position never changes ... In general how do I manipulate the box to where I want it to be?
Please no fancy packages to install, I am new to this stuff...
I use TexShop which came out from the MacTex distribution. I use a Mac (of course). Now I need to write a document in LaTex and the publisher sent me a cls file. In it I found:
\RequirePackage{latin1}
Besides it looks pretty cryptic, but could not find anything else with latin1 in it.
My docu...
The ubiquitous \usepackage command is used to load packages in the preamble of a document; the command syntax is
\usepackage[<package-option-list>]{<package-list>}[<version>]
Actually, \usepackage is derived from the \RequirePackage command which, according to source2e, secti...
