@someonr the log file should give you a hint where it is if you put \loggingoutput in your preamble the box contents will be shown in full so you'll be ale to tell which box it is
@PauloCereda SAS (symbol abuse syndrome): it's a typical syndrome of the young mathematician that can be cured by exposing the patient to well written papers and books (not Bourbaki's, of course) where symbols are properly used. If not cured in time it can become symbolitis which causes impossibility to be understood when delivering lectures; for papers and books there's usually some editor that can remedy the cyphered prose.
@egreg Agreed. :) Sometimes, we are tempted to use more symbols instead of trying to explain the same idea with plain text. Instead of making our ideas clear, we hide them inside a sea of symbols.
Initial version of tikzmark package uploaded to launchpad. I thought of having the tikzmark package itself just with the basics but also providing a tikzmarkextras with some of the more useful/popular/remarkable answers/uses in it. So ... any suggestions for what those should be?
@JosephWright (and @DavidCarlisle might have a useful opinion). Should tex.stackexchange.com/q/78887/86 be closed rather as a "duplicate" than "too localised"? (Technically, all I'm really asking is "Should someone add the link more prominently in the question?" than actually bothering to change the close reason.)
@DavidCarlisle Because the early voters didn't realise that it was a FFFAQ (and one we'd seen before). Without knowing that it does look a bit "too localised".
Friends, I noticed something "interesting" today. The question
How to include a long underscore before the `\question` command?
was originally posted in our meta site. Andrew wrote a comment in the question, and I upvoted his comment (I also voted the question for closing/migration).
Now the q...
@tohecz That's why Halmos introduced a new word. The "if" here is an abuse of language, since usually "if" is used in conditional statement. A definition is not a statement in the same sense that we use in a theorem: "If a function is continuous on the real line and assumes positive and negative values, then it assumes the value 0".
I completely disagree that "typographic communities are typically separate [from Graphic Design]", "Typography is quite distinct from "Graphic Design" (raxacoricofallapatorius, in a comment on another answer).
I've no idea where you get this idea from -- typography is absolutely fundamental to g...
@PauloCereda I did like the containing sentence: "It would arguably be correct to say that some forms of typesetting (e.g. LaTex [sic and sick]) do not cross over much with graphic design."
@PauloCereda but let's face it, someone who is not able to spell such name correctly clearly doesn't care about typography and hence his opinion on the topic is moreorless invalid.
I'm getting an idea of how @DavidCarlisle feels. I just answered a question without testing the code. Sort of scary, sort of exciting. A bit like jumping out of an aeroplane without looking to see if it was in the air or not.
Hi. I remember seeing a question about including a bibliography entry in the body of the document, for example, to include a list of publications in of a given author. Does someone has an idea of which question I am talking about?
Hi @Alenanno, I started writing a response to your pie chart question, and figured I went to the trouble and so might as well share it, dl.dropbox.com/u/3385251/pies_tex.html
@Alenanno I hope you didn't take my comment the wrong way. It's an interesting question, but do you see why this might be considered off-topic for this site? Maybe you could edit it to make the link to TeX clearer?
@Jake I wasn't offended or anything... I thought that it didn't reach my hoped response from the community so I deleted it... I might try to fix it later :) If I find a way.
@AndrewStacey I'm planning to get an iPad by Christmas. I've seen that Apple released a "mini" version; to be honest, I still would prefer the "big" iPad instead. Do you think the current iPad size is ok to be used, say, while travelling in the bus or train, or perhaps the smaller one might have an advantage?
@PauloCereda I haven't tried anything in between an iPad and a smartphone, but when using the smartphone then I felt that I wouldn't like to have anything smaller than an iPad in place of my iPad. Namely, the way that I use my iPad (as a slimline laptop) would be really constrained by a smaller screen since the touch interface would be that much more unreliable. (ctd)
As it is, I find that I can type a TeX document on it, write 20,000 lines of lua code to make a klein bottle (okay, it wasn't all to make that bottle), and not get annoyed.
Also, I think that I'd find it hard to write (as in use a stylus) on anything smaller: there's always a loss of screen real estate as your arm covers up a fair bit of the screen when you write and so the smaller the screen, the more awkward it becomes.
On the other hand, an iPad is about as big and heavy as it could be for reading. Even as it is, it's awkward to hold in one hand and read (as opposed to, say, a paperback book). In that regard it is more like a hardback book: you figure out someway to hold it where you are resting it a bit more (could be holding it from hand-to-elbow if that makes any sense).
So while I expect that there are occasions where the smaller size of the mini makes it easier than the fullsized version, the rest of the time you're going to wish you'd gotten the fullsized one. So I recommend that.
@AndrewStacey: Thank you very much for the insight. :) The smaller iPad looks cool in the keynote video, but I don't believe a small device would work for me. Thanks for opening my mind. :)
Well I love apple products but love orange as a fruit.
@PauloCereda but in India smartPhone users are increasing day by day(A huge market) but I am not finding any reason why Apple is ignoring India.There is not a single Apple store over here.
@PauloCereda I understand. But that won't change the price. Either you buy e.g. in US and you pay the taxes, or Amazon sells in Brazil and the price will be higher by the taxes.
@tohecz Yes. :) The problem is that the Brazilian government has a few extra taxes applied to goods. Sometimes, we have to pay 50% - 200% (!) more for some products.
Proposed Q&A site for anyone lacking social skills wanting to find out how to react in a particular situation; about social conventions, customs, social interactions, social situations and behaviours.
Currently in commitment.
"How can I behave when someone shows me a document written in Word?"
@PauloCereda I don't think that will help. Someone I was helping on a mailing list couldn't compile a simple tikz document when the array package was loaded. I'm a bit unclear on whether he was reporting the issue correctly, and he was using TL 2010, so I thought maybe there was maybe some incompatibility. But I don't think array interacts with much. He seems content not to use it, so I think I won't pursue the issue further. Thanks, though. BTW I will get back to your e-mail. :)
@AlanMunn Ah I hope the issue will be sorted out. :) I have TL2007 (or 2009) which came with The LaTeX Companion, but I think it's too old. :P (Don't worry with the e-mail, I think we both are busy :P )
@PauloCereda yes, but they use vim though so I don't speak to them
@AlanMunn LOL
@NicolaTalbot Indeed. :) @Alan is right, I'm now a happy Mac user, altough I have Fedora in two machines (including one of my devs), one with Windows and one with Slackware. :)
@ガベージコレクタ My math prof University would actually draw a semi circle around the max values, color it in, and then draw a thick tick mark at the peak to point it out. It was never as blatant as your images, but we all understood what he was getting at. He was actually very good at explaining things, just hope some of the females in the class were not too uncomfortable.
@AlanMunn Trying now... Just hope this does not get on the \tikzmark abuse list thought...
@AlanMunn Works great with TL2010, TL2011, TL2012. Did the OP know that multiple runs were required? Of course the lines drawn are in black, which I would never do. :-)
@PeterGrill That's what I thought. It seemed really unlikely that it wouldn't run and the error that the person was reporting contained a line of code not actually in the document! But he seems to be content with the solution so I'm not inclined to press him more. Thanks for testing.
@PauloCereda Mountain Lion + Magic Mouse + Magic Trackpad? Sounds like something from a children's story! Ooh, that's got me thinking. Once upon a time...
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\resizebox{8truecm}{!}
{\includegraphics{NCSscheme.eps}}
\caption{Scheme of a generic event based control strategy. The dashed arrows indicate the possibility of event-triggered data transmission.}
\label{NCSscheme}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
@tohecz From what I can remember, the PracTeX Journal has an "Ask Nelly" section that derived it's name from the habit of asking the person in the next office how to do something. (Although I might have misremembered that.) The same old code gets propagated.
@tohecz In addition to my publishing company, I'm also the production editor for the Challenges in Machine Learning series (published by Microtome). And occasionally I teach LaTeX. And I also sometimes do some machine learning research. I used to do some research in food poisoning, which made a great meal-time topic ;-) And I write as well.
@tohecz Just checked with the Oxford style: non-breaking word space should be used "if possible, after the indefinite article 'a' and personal pronoun 'I'."
This is a LuaLaTeX solution. It is a function that gets called just before TeX breaks the text into lines. It inserts ties ~ (only the penalty of 10000, the glue is already there) after the single letter word. Words will still hyphenate (see example below) - as far as I can see (after the w).
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@PauloCereda They're great. Have you seen youtube.com/watch?v=R6IfpZUqERk The cellist is amazing! I never thought it was possible to dance while playing the cello!
@egreg Usually we suffer from the nonexpansion inside \foreach but now I see that it's expanded properly. Is it special to \csname...\endcsname that it is fully expanded?
@egreg But if you remember many other questions, we had to make sure that the variable is expanded properly. Grouping was also a problem as in \i becoming iota etc. That part I think I understood.
How can I reduce the overall size of trees drawn by tikz-qtree? I've got a huge parse tree that doesn't even try to fit on one page. I'd like to either resize the full tree or tweak the placing algorithm to make the tree more dense.
You see, if you say \foreach\i in{a,b,c}{\def\macro{\i}} (apart from being silly), the code will perform \def\macro{\i} because there's no chance for \i to expand.
Friends, I noticed something "interesting" today. The question
How to include a long underscore before the `\question` command?
was originally posted in our meta site. Andrew wrote a comment in the question, and I upvoted his comment (I also voted the question for closing/migration).
Now the q...
How can I reduce the overall size of trees drawn by tikz-qtree? I've got a huge parse tree that doesn't even try to fit on one page. I'd like to either resize the full tree or tweak the placing algorithm to make the tree more dense.
