@FaheemMitha I think so. It seems pretty comprehensive, and I haven't seen any other packages recommended on the site.
@DavidCarlisle Because I allow users to have multiple config files with a prefix set in the preamble. So a user might have two config files AConfig.cfg and BConfig.cfg and only needs to set the prefix A or B in the preamble. But doing it this way, requires \AtBeginDocument.
@HenriMenke - oops, I'd completely forgotten about the github site!! Yikes!!!
@HenriMenke - How urgent is your request? The reason I ask is that I'm in Hong Kong at the moment, whereas most of my selnolig-related notes are still back in Switzerland. I am set to return to Zurich in 10 days, though.
I do not want to give that information if I share my documents :'(
Is there any option to hide/delete that info? I tried with Double Click on the document -> Properties -> Details -> Remove properties and personal information but with no effect
Not sure how relevant my question is to this forum but I will go ahead and ask anyway :). I use LaTeX to create pdf which, as expected, indicates "TeX" as the source. I need to upload this pdf online but want to avoid uploading original LaTeX files. I removed the metadata of the pdf using AdobePr...
@manooooh That someone can tell you used tex is a minor problem compared to other metadata that can leak: I once received a referee report for a paper I had submitted, in which the metadata contained the full pathname to the document on the reviewer's machine. And that contained the reviewer's username on the system, which made it easy to guess who it was. Fortunately, it was a very positive review, so the damage was minimal.
… Still, I told the editor about the issue, and he was appropriately alarmed.
@HaraldHanche-Olsen hi! Thank you for your answer. I share documents in Argentina (I do not know if there are people that can see in another countries). However, in this country you have to be very cautious because you can steal personal information, as happened with the case you mention
@CarLaTeX I am seeing the answer and it this pretty cool, I will try to implement it, many thanks!
Lol, I can not believe that Adobe still has the same windows as 5 years ago ... is it a good thing? :P
@manooooh unless you are using pstricks there are very few advantages to using latex, which makes dvi files that you don't want that you convert with dvips to postscript files that you don't want that you convert with ps2pdf (ghostscript) to pdf. when you can use pdflatex which makes pdf.
@DavidCarlisle I am so sorry, I cannot understand what is the conversion for. I use MikTeX, then I write the code inside TeXnicCenter, then I compile with LaTeX->PS->PDF and then I get the PDF. I only do that, I rarely have images (in .eps) or smt like that. So with this context is the best option to compile with pdftex?
@JosephWright thanks for searching so deep! Unfortunately, when I paste that code into the preamble of my document, the creation date still appears (and in fact if the "Creator" option changes the name of the creator because it does not work for me, it seems to have priority hypersetup - what I pasted up and under it and I commented but it still does not work)
@DavidCarlisle I will search, we can probably change it
@JosephWright ok, when you can, there is no hurry! Thank you again
@DavidCarlisle yes, probably! When I selected that option, I compiled using CTRL+F7 and then the program crashed, the PDF was not produced and the next window appeared:
Maybe it is because I changed the option with the code already compiled in another way (there are all the files generated before, such as pdf, txt, etc.)
Now I will try to compile using a new Proyect
--- Nope the same window appeared using LaTeX->PDF :/ :(
The log file of this new blank Proyect:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (MiKTeX 2.9.6500 64-bit) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2018.4.20) 19 JAN 2019 07:02 entering extended mode **./aaa.tex (aaa.tex LaTeX2e <2017-04-15> Babel <3.15> and hyphenation patterns for 75 language(s) loaded. ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\article.cls" Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\size10.clo" File: size10.clo 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
Can be solved by proper setting in TeXnicCenter:
Go to menu: "Build"-> "Define Output Profiles."
choose profile "LateX to PDF".
Switch to "Viewer" tab
Set-up parameters:
"Executable path" should be something like (check, where have you installed Adobe Reader):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ado...
IT WORKED!!
@DavidCarlisle (or any) I think we had this conversation before, but do you know if when babel (and it seems hyphenation too) load 75 languages the compile time slow down? Because I only use English and Spanish to generate the documents, is there any advantage in not loading 73 languages, and is it possible to do so?
@ChristianHupfer no, I think we all agree that we should not provide personal information to the Internet when we share a file unless we agree to do so
@manooooh well the file path I can see some people would worry about but I can't see why creation date is anything to worry about. If you do fine you can reset it but asking as general question about a privacy package won't get any sensible replies as there is no general reason why someone needs to hide those things,
@manooooh shrug: if the file has your real name in the plain text in the \author text, there's not a lot of point in hiding metadata about who created the file. Not all files have your real name but as I say it all depends on circumstances.
@DavidCarlisle I asked if that package is good in the way that if the package does not send the information to places outside the computer, if it works well, if it hides the greatest amount of metadata, etc.
@DavidCarlisle obviously. If there are personal information that we want share we can fill that values with the information. But there are a lot of unnecesary information
@ChristianHupfer so much as to discover the address of my home in a PDF made with LaTeX? :P
@CarLaTeX Well, yes and no... there was a lot of laissez-faire in the past concerncing data protection. We have to secure grades, assessments of students etc. We're thinking of enforcing encryption of mails written by teachers
@manooooh This is a serious topic -- no need ridiculing it...
@manooooh some people take a default privacy position, and hide real names and use weird avatars etc, there is nothing wrong with that, but personally I take a more open position and only escalate the secrecy if there is confidential information that I need to hide. I use my real name and real picture here, if you google my name you can fairly easily find my user name on various accounts, my home address, phone number and lots of other details.
@ChristianHupfer Maybe it's worse for us, because we have the personal data of the customers which could be used for (unwanted) marketing (not my office, fortunately, we only do statistical reports)
@CarLaTeX Of course, companies have more troubles, they could be fined for violations -- we're a public school, run by the local government, there's no money to obtain from us ;-)
@DavidCarlisle and it seems to me very well that it can be known about you. In fact it seems that you have never won enemies (serious enemies, not the users here). What happens is that we are not the 20th century, but now computer attacks can happen more quickly and more accurately; there is also every crazy person in the world ... I have always suffered for those people who live in countries at war, who go to look for them and kill them for no reason.
It is very terrible that, I think that providing metadata someday that could happen
@DavidCarlisle: I've checked whether my address, phone number is public: Nope... But I found other people having the same name like me ... and some of them are public ;-)
@ChristianHupfer yes of course, you are intertwined for life ... or until you separate, which will cause a separation of housing. Haha, you made me checkmate!
@CarLaTeX Ah. I thought because voters are lied to on the huge amount of money they would spend per week for the EU ... as Boris Johnson etc. claimed...
@DavidCarlisle It could work if you would have my local pizza delivery service here ... while waiting for the pizza you can grow tomatoes, wheat for the flour in the dough, yeast, make cheese and all the other ingredients as well ;-)
@CarLaTeX No, I don't think so... it's a 'sandbox' (sorry @DavidCarlisle) that shows what will happen when populists in other countries try to play weird games.
@ChristianHupfer I'm not so optimistic, the UK has the Commonwealth, I don't think they suffer too much for Brexit in the long run, EU nations alone are isolated it would be very different for us
@CarLaTeX: Well, I am not sure about the Commonwealth -- it doesn't seem to be a strong bond really to me, but Britons may have a different, more profound view on this.
@CarLaTeX Well, I don't want to sound hard, but apart from Canada, Australia and Singapore (is that a member of the Commonwealth at all?) ... which member countries are economically strong?
@DavidCarlisle You've just listed another advantage of the UK compared to the rest of the EU: the simple language which everybody (more or less) speaks
@CarLaTeX: Ok, India is a stronger member of the CW regarding economy, but I think @DavidCarlisle is right about his statement regarding the trading with non-EU/US countries
Hello!! I am looking at a Latex Code and there is the following command: "\definecolor{shadecolor}{gray}{0.75}"
Is it possible to make that for the colour brown instead of gray? I tried to use the command "\definecolor{shadecolor}{brown}{0.75}" but I get then the error "Undefined color model <brown>".
@MaryStar gray there is not the colour it is the color model, giving meaning to 0.75, so replace {gray} by something like {rgb} for red green blue than you can change 0.75 to {.7,.3,.1}` or whatever mix you want
@UlrikeFischer @JosephWright now I have to see if I want to persuade l3build to remake mirrors.ctan.org/install/macros/xetex/latex/bidi.tds.zip or whether to do as I did for oberdiek and simply use the existing directory structure there to drive a shell script that copies everything in place. I suspect I'll do the latter:-0
@ChristianHupfer -- here's a book by a person who really did that himself (built a pizza oven, grew the wheat and tomatoes and basil ... he couldn't grow olives in iowa) and wrote about it: solmentes.com/davidesslemont2/books/pizza.html he did have a misfortune in the process; his first oven caught fire and burned down, but he just started over.
$ git push
Counting objects: 11, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.64 KiB | 336.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 11 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (4/4), completed with 2 local objects.
To github.com:bidi-tex/bidi.git
4dc38b1..8f4a9ee master -> master
@UlrikeFischer I have checked in l3build that unpacks and the tests pass doesn't make the right tds structure yet, I may look later or may just build directly, need to stop for a bit (the l3build uses shell-escape and a mv command which isn't great but I don't want to change Vafa's structure too much)
@barbarabeeton Lucky thing that pineapples are hard to grow in Iowa, otherwise the first name of the author makes me fear that he would put them on the pizza
@egreg You mean you see none in your queue (maybe they are all finished now?) or that you don't see the reviews I linked to?
@samcarter -- oh, no. the author is quite traditional concerning pizza! even though he is british, and used to be the artistic director of gregynog press in wales. i don't think he'd even consider putting pepperoni on a pizza he made, much less pineapple. (he's quite serious about food, and a few years ago won a chili cookoff, and wrote about that too, after which that book won several prizes.)
@egreg Could very well be a queuing problem. If you don't have any in your queue this could mean that the haunting of undeath first posts is over now (it started around midnight here, so I assume haunting is a likely explanation :) Thanks for checking your queue!
@barbarabeeton Oh, I stand corrected. There indeed seems to be at least one British David who knows what should and should not be on a pizza!
@DavidCarlisle ;-) Should I look? (I checked bidi. Is it really so difficult to use l3build directly? It seems to have only three standard ctan folders and only one input/source folder).
@DavidCarlisle But I get not error either from the example. So it is quite unclear what the problem is ...
@UlrikeFischer the package certainly uses a colour that is only defined in the documentation, but I'm not sure how to make it use it (and I have nver used tkz-* so I don't really know what they do at all). The package has \tikzset{node style/.append style = { fill = fondpaille}} but that fondpaille doesn't seem defined but I couldn't work out how to make it try to use that fill
@UlrikeFischer bidi I will look again this evening it's probably buildable with l3build, I got as far as it building something but I haven't checked yet whether all the files ended up in the tds zip.
@DavidCarlisle I'm not sure if this are good options: one founder is British, the other had a British grandmother -- I'm worried that they will serve pineapple pizza during the flight...
@AlanMunn not really pizza, but sounds better than pineapple :)
I backported the current TeX Live 2018 packages in Debian unstable, but it's now talking about TeX Live 2019.
pdflatex --version
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.3.1/dev
Copyright 2018 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
Compiled with libpng 1.6.28; using libpng 1.6.28
Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
These correspond to Debian version number 2018.20181214-1
@FaheemMitha what do you get from pdflatex '\show\expanded' ?
@FaheemMitha it's released to debian unstable:-) texlive pretest of 2019 hasn't even started yet (unless I missed it) so it's an early build but what can go wrong....
I assume the author of that article is Joseph Wright. At least that "(c) 2019 Joseph Wright" suggests it. Though that's a non-standard way of denoting authorship.
@UlrikeFischer Yes, the TikZlings help a lot. ;-) (And they were careful enough to invite some lady from Milano, so there is absolutely no danger that anyone could even think of putting pineapple on a pizza.)
@Werner last time I was on course for a nice palindrome someone accepted at 1 minute to midnight and there was no time to correct:( Then I had a couple of undeserved downvotes so no palindromes for me for a while
@marmot the pages I have edited are all error free and totally reliable.
@DavidCarlisle Not at all, I would have been proud if she was Milanese
@marmot Of course!
@DavidCarlisle Yesterday the camorra (mafia from Naple) put a bomb at Sorbillo's, a very famous pizzeria in Naple. Today a comedian on TV has said: "Next time camorra will do a more serious attack: put pineapple on pizza".
@UlrikeFischer the package version number was hidden in one extra fike I hadn't updated, i don't know how Petra finds these things:-) (well I guess she greps for the old version string)
@UlrikeFischer I don't think l3build could easily build the tkz packages they are distributed in a slightly strange way with a directory structure on ctan, not a flat ctan directpry.
@egreg @DavidCarlisle @JosephWright Do you know if it is possible to localize a \macro in some environment. Assume I am in a scope or a path of a tikzpicture and want to make \def\radius{3} known inside the whole tikzpicture but not globally, i.e. not outside the tikzpicture. Is this possible in TeX alone? Or specifically in tikz? (Of course I will be happy to ask an official question if you feel that's more appropriate.)
@DavidCarlisle Yes. I can compute things, say, inside a path. The computation relies on quantities defined in the path, e.g. \path let \p1=($(A)-(B)$), \n1={atan2(\y1,\x2)} in \pgfextra{\xdef\myangle{\n1}};
I would like to replace \xdef by \DefineInsideCurrentTikzPicture.
@marmot if you have a handle on the named things you can stack the definitions at the start of the environment, globally set them inside and then restore them at the end
@DavidCarlisle Yes, thanks, that's sort of what I had. But this requires me to distinguish tons of cases, whether or not the beast was defined outside and to do that separately for every new macro I am going to introduce. It would be IMHO much nicer if I could just smuggle things one level up, i.e. outside the local group but not outside the local environment, say.
@egreg That is true, that's why I was also asking about the option to have it confined to the tikzpicture. (And would there be an option to just smuggle it out of one group?)
@DavidCarlisle Which is?
@DavidCarlisle Something with smuggle and an @ in it?
@DavidCarlisle OK, I have never really seen a real life application of that. I could ask a question on the main site like "What does \tikz@after@path@smuggle do?"
@DavidCarlisle That sounds much easier than the smuggling thing.
@DavidCarlisle I guess I will ask an official question because I cannot really make this work and others may find this useful, too. Is now a good time?
Can be solved by proper setting in TeXnicCenter:
Go to menu: "Build"-> "Define Output Profiles."
choose profile "LateX to PDF".
Switch to "Viewer" tab
Set-up parameters:
"Executable path" should be something like (check, where have you installed Adobe Reader):
C:\Program Files (x86)\Ado...
