In fact I couldn't make any of the examples work probably due to some version mismatch on my side. I'm on MikTeX and updated to the last versions available. But maybe I'm missing something on the L3 front.
Well Bayern lost the game yesterday, but at least I got the confirmation this morning that my journal paper got accepted. Very good timing for my PhD viva next Friday.
@PauloCereda "Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights." Arg!
The tengwarscript package provides only the metric files for the fonts, but not the fonts themselves which must be downloaded from the sites shown in the documentation.
You can, for instance, download the "Annatar" fonts from http://home.student.uu.se/j/jowi4905/fonts/annatar.html and unpack the...
Yesterday we had a mass in the afternoon in a farm which has a chapel for Saint Rita. I saw a cute goose and tried to play with it, but the goose chased me. :P
@MartinScharrer Congrats for the accepted paper, Martin! :)
We are happy to provide resources for communities that want to supplement their site with a blog and show active interest from community members that are willing to contribute.
I disagree with your suggestion that there be a separate place that communities discuss this. These discussions need t...
@StefanKottwitz It's quite complicated with 16px. :) Maybe if sharpened, the pixels around the text will explode and make it even more difficult to read. :)
I'm preparing a paper using bibtex for the citations. The initial commands for my bib file are:
\Sort{
Mode{on}
Collation{mixed}
SortTypeOrder{pattern,key,name}
NameOrder{ascending}
Key{{author,editor},\year{year,note}}
KeyOrder{descending,nulls first}
Pattern{author+editor: "doro...
@PauloCereda I meant manually sharping, which should not be too hard with 16x16 pt, if zoomed - replacing some light blue pixels either by white or blue.
Today I heard a case of keming: the TV announcer was talking about the local pollings and said that people of "Cornacchio" is voting. The town's name is "Comacchio". It's a very nice place, by the way, with a very peculiar "triple bridge".
@StefanKottwitz Booster or some other announcement related one?
@PauloCereda, @egreg: I had the idea to make a adjustenv or accumenv environment which allows to accumulated environments using a key=value interface: \begin{adjustenv}{enva,envb=arg,envc=[t]{5cm}} ... would then be equivalent to \begin{envc}[t]{5cm}\begin{envb}{arg}\begin{enva} ..
That's similar to adjustbox but without boxing, so more efficient and does not force restricted horizontal mode.
I want to make a rectungular 26x26 where in the first row exist the letters
A,B,...,Z
the second row B,C,...,Z,A,
the third C,D,...,Z,A,B etc.
One way (but not efficient) is the following
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[step=.5cm,gray,thick]
(-6,-6) grid (6,6);
\draw (-5.75,5.75) node{A} (-5.25,5....
@MartinScharrer There's no problem in using \xxx and \endxxx, except for \begin{lrbox}, which has been discussed on the site. At least if you don't want to cook a special version of it that doesn't the \endgroup trick at the beginning.
@egreg Ah cool! In Portuguese is "O livro dos códigos". I was amazed by the fact that LaTeX has support for Linear B, one of the languages explained in the book. :)
@PauloCereda "Do you know what \frontmatter and \mainmatter do in the book class?" If the candidate for certification answers correctly, the next question is "Would you use fncychap?" If the answer is no, the certification is granted.
@GonzaloMedina Oh, not at all. I really had no time for answering: I switched on the computer just to know where the earthquake had been and happened to see Peter's question.
I do have a short problem with Tikz
\usepackage{pgf,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
...
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill[pattern=north east lines] (0,0) -- (0,1) -- (1,1) -- (1,0) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}
I simply want to fill differently shaped areas with north east lines. Which is done as is it'...
@percusse as you say, the part asking for a way to define colors using hexadecimal notation is on-topic; the other part I think is borderline...
@egreg I've read that some historical places were seriously damaged and some people died... terrible! I live in a high-activity seismic zone, so I understand what the affected people must be feeling.
@GonzaloMedina Not very extensive damages, actually. But a big loss for those small towns. Six people died. Yesterday we had also a bomb in Brindisi that killed a 16 year old girl and wounded six. :-((( It was placed, for no apparent reason, in front of a high school.
Of course there's never a reason for placing a bomb.
@MartinScharrer The \provideenvironment question should be interesting because \providecommanddoes exist. Perhaps Frank Mittelbach will give an instructive answer.
@AndrewStacey My pleasure. I'll let you know if something else pops up but I think I've covered most of the pathological cases that I can think of and no glitches yet.
To avoid the problem of having to decide whether to use \newcommand or \renewcommand, LaTeX has the option of \providecommand.
Is there something corresponding to this for environments? I'd like to be able to type \provideenvironment (or similar) rather than first using \newenvironment and then ...
LaTeX2e provides a \providecommand but there is no \provideenvironment which defines an environment only if it (or a macro with the same name) was not defined before. Is there a specific reason why it is missing?
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...
@PeterGrill I don't think the question can be 100% answered because there is no functionality like that. If you could store tikzpicture like you can store nodes, it might be easier to re-use it, re-use it modified some way, make it a part of another tikzpicture etc. But this is a discussion about TikZ future development I think
@tohecz There is also the \pgfuseimage command but you should have compiled the original picture or somehow externalised it beforehand. I think it needs a partial externalization feature.
@tohecz One of my favourite scientific quotes: "These days, anyone saying something can't be done is liable to be interrupted by some fool doing it." Don't remember who said it (I want to say Rutherford but I'm not sure - someone of that standing and generation, certainly). The bit I like best is that it is the person doing the thing that is considered the fool, not the person saying it can't be done.
@percusse How does the documentation look now? If that were the documentation on CTAN, what would you think?
@AndrewStacey I think the explanations are great! However the commands are usually off the page margin. So I needed to go to the code to read it fully. Is there any chance to make the command fonts smaller?
Let me know if you want to go for a more general documentation. I don't how I can help but anyway if you have something in mind and the task is too big, I might do some of the bulk work.
I read a lot of way such as
‎\usetikzlibrary{external}‎
‎\tikzexternalize‎
‎\tikzset{external/system call={latex \tikzexternalcheckshellescape‎
-‎halt-on-error‎ -‎interaction=batchmode‎ -‎jobname‎ ‎"\image"‎ "‎\texsource";‎
‎dvips‎ -‎o‎ "‎\image".eps‎ "‎\image".dvi}}‎
but I don't know why I ...
@percusse In these cases, there's an obvious line break: after the \draw[postaction= ...]. That seems to bring the examples within the text width. (I still don't really know how to do examples in documentation).
@AlanMunn depends what you understand about documentation. It is documented as part of interface3.pdf and normally pdflatex l3keys.dtx should get you standalone documentation (but only if you scroll past the errors I just noticed @Joseph :-)
@tohecz I meant the implication, by the way. This is definitely a case where I'd strongly recommend just using a \newcommand and going the simpler route.
So I'm the fool for providing a way to do something that I don't think should be done.
@percusse I think that the LaTeX3 nature might disbar it. I picked up somewhere that they like to keep the TikZ code as pure TeX as possible.
@AndrewStacey Ah true. I remember that too. I'll try to speed up with the pgfmath implementation. Maybe that would be eligible. Now that I have your neat documentation it's surely gonna be faster.
In the code for a table below, there is an error indicated by the red marker in the line starting with "Not protest" after compilation, although the output seems pretty much okay. Can you pinpoint the mistake please?
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{showframe}% http://ctan.org/pkg/showframe
...
@AndrewStacey I see this point and agree. That's why I think that the right way is to "ask package maintainer if he would consider embedding this feature into the package"
@percusse I couldn't have done it if I hadn't written the maths part as well. There were several times that I got myself too deep in the coding that I couldn't see exactly what it was I was doing! As I was only dipping in and out of Hobby's paper, I wasn't really following the maths. So I had to get that straight before I could go on.
@PauloCereda probably ... if somebody wants to main that for us, be my guest. Right now we don't get a lot of stuff not done ... so no need to add to this :-(
@FrankMittelbach Well somehow the interface3.pdf document is hidden from all :) It doesn't seem to be referenced in expl3.pdf, and other than texdoc it's not clear how to access it if you don't know of its existence. Having each of the subparts of expl3 that are documented there accessible via `texdoc1 would be a great help.
@PauloCereda Not warranted, IMHO. The statement could be interpreted as "Fix this for me" but I think it more likely someone not used to English trying to be polite but not quite getting it right so I think the correct reading should be "Could anyone help me find the mistake, please?".
(So I've voted up the question, thereby cancelling the downvote)
@FrankMittelbach Also, the fact that l3keys.sty exists and line 181 of expl3.sty says \RequirePackage{l3keys} says otherwise. ;) But I know what you mean.
@AndrewStacey Agreed. I thought of not mentioning the downvote at first and leave the question score as it was, but it really gives me shivers to see a negative number floating around the page, specially on TeX. The downvote was probably justified, but I wouldn't classify that question as bad enough to be < 0. :)
@AlanMunn well now we can get philosphical :-) Given that expl3 is meant to run on top of 2e we do in fact misuse some interfaces of 2e here, but then the LaTeX2e sources are also all in individual files for ease of maintenance and they too aren't "packages" either.
@FrankMittelbach Yes, I understand. Here's what I did: "I wonder how to implement a key value interface in LaTeX3" -> texdoc expl3, found reference (but no documentation) to l3keys so then did texdoc l3keys and got nothing. Minimally it would be helpful to have some reference to the interface3.pdf document within the expl3 document. But also some aliases for texdoc would also help.
@AlanMunn but you are right, perhaps there is not documentation approach improvement in order, question is what exactly. Most of the dtx files for expl3 do not make sense standalone, so this may not be the right approach. but interface3 or sourc3 isn't in TeXdoc, so perhaps something better needed (something to log @Joseph)
@AndrewStacey I see that too but doesn't look like the curvature is optimized. Considering that the alpha beta and curl is set to 1 by default I would expect a softer turn in the bottom part. Maybe it's just not the way it works.
I should compare it with the metapost version though.
@FrankMittelbach @JosephWright If the interface3 document is the best thing there is for the subparts, it would be sufficient just provide the TeXLive people a bunch of aliases for the master texdoc.cnf.
@percusse Quite possibly. @JLDiaz's code went from the metapost book rather than Hobby's paper so maybe by looking at that I'll be able to see if there was any difference between the paper and the implementation.
@percusse Or something like that. A difference in the initial angles could have a knock-on effect like what we see there. Next step is to see what the python version produces and then (if that agrees with MP) to compare the data stage by stage.
I had the idea while working on adjustbox. You can use it in a similar way using the env key, but the content will always be boxed, which is not always wanted.
@egreg: could you please take a look at the last code I added to my answer in the question about em-dash and hyphenation: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/56657/…? I've almost neves used a catcode change so I don't know how sensible my suggestion is.
@GonzaloMedina It works, but I'd favor a "shorthand" way. There's a question by lockstep about how enabling the German shorthands in English; the accepted answer was by Herbert, IIRC.
@GonzaloMedina Regarding the Turkish question: if you pass the [fragile] option to the frame, it works with \shorthandoff in the figure environment. But look also at my comment.
@AlanMunn I didn't even think to look into IPA symbols. :)
@egreg w.r.t the hookD question, if you used XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, how do you get an arbitrary unicode symbol to count as a math symbol. Then using mathspec you could just use a font that contains it. (Lots do.)
@AlanMunn It doesn't make any difference: just define \hookD to use \mbox; with \mathchoice if it's to be used in (sub|super)scripts: \newunicodechar is your friend. :) I'll add an example.
@GonzaloMedina :-) by the way thanks for fixing the image in that other question, did I really not upload it and/or upload the wrong one? Javascript rots my brain I fear
@DavidCarlisle no problem at all ;-) the image was the same that you had initially posted. I don't know if you uploaded an old version or if you didn't re-upload it.
I'm preparing a paper using bibtex for the citations. The initial commands for my bib file are:
\Sort{
Mode{on}
Collation{mixed}
SortTypeOrder{pattern,key,name}
NameOrder{ascending}
Key{{author,editor},\year{year,note}}
KeyOrder{descending,nulls first}
Pattern{author+editor: "doro...
I want to make a rectungular 26x26 where in the first row exist the letters
A,B,...,Z
the second row B,C,...,Z,A,
the third C,D,...,Z,A,B etc.
One way (but not efficient) is the following
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[step=.5cm,gray,thick]
(-6,-6) grid (6,6);
\draw (-5.75,5.75) node{A} (-5.25,5....
I do have a short problem with Tikz
\usepackage{pgf,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
...
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill[pattern=north east lines] (0,0) -- (0,1) -- (1,1) -- (1,0) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}
I simply want to fill differently shaped areas with north east lines. Which is done as is it'...
LaTeX2e provides a \providecommand but there is no \provideenvironment which defines an environment only if it (or a macro with the same name) was not defined before. Is there a specific reason why it is missing?
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...
