@N3buchadnezzar but the main list in the middle column is set as a single table row even if it wraps over multiple lines so you probably want to attach the line to the total rather than the table row don't you? (I'm not sure what the meaning of the table is:-)
@N3buchadnezzar You could use the same mechanism as the individual entries (\parbox{something}{\the\total\par\vskip something \hrule} to put a rule a fixes distance under the table, or perhaps they would look better bottm aligned anyway (change the middle column from p to b)
In How could the macro xii.tex be simplified into a better readable form I do not undeerstand at all this sentence: “TeXifying the code after adding \traceall at the beginning, it gives may useful (perhaps), but is quite stumbling blocks to mine, is something like” Do you have any clue what the OP actually intended to say?
Adding \traceall gives maybe [= perhaps] useful informations, but it is [still] quite stumbling to [me]. It is something like … (and the following four lines is one of the "blocks" he talks about).
Although, all the answers given (except for @DavidCarlisle’s maybe ;)) are good and are more or less duplicated answers. But the question now asks for answers that explain \tracingall and its output.
Could anyone please tell me how do I draw a rectangle with a black border around it? I want that for all my rectangles in the following tikzpicture:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style = {shape = rectangle,
rounded corners,
...
@PeterGrill Reason a) is not that important. Of course, it may might help others. But “others” won’t find this answer, even when they do not use the [PSTricks] tag.
@PeterGrill Not really, I tried that (using the internal search engine which doesn’t say much).
In addition to that: There is no single line of explanation. “Garbage’s students” combines PSTricks answers are full of good PSTricks drawing. But without any explanation I do not even know how to use it to draw something on my own.
@Qrrbrbirlbel Yeah, I really hate the internal search, but it at least it is not as basd as it was a few weeks ago when "user:me is:question" showed I had less than 10 answers.. Perhaps SE should buy a copy of the Google search engine...
Yeah, I avoid them to as I know nothing about PSTricks, not even how to compile it. An explanation would certainly be helpful.
As I do not want to set up my editor to command-chains I do not use regularly I’ve opted for
% arara: latex
% arara: dvips
% arara: ps2pdf
(Of course, arara has its own short-cut.)
@PeterGrill There was a meta question about something very similar. If I remember correctly you have left about seven or so comments on the discussed question on the main site.
@Qrrbrbirlbel Yeah I think that was on the main site when the OP was down voting them.. Am getting old, it is hard to remember things.... Of course that might be the wine as well. :-)
@PeterGrill Hehe. Although I could understand Op’s intention (having produced maybe more than one drawing in TikZ, having setup helpful styles and reading all two-thousands pages of the PGF manual), it comes a bit harsh for someone who seeks for help. He just might need to ask another question …
@Qrrbrbirlbel :-) Nah, I don't think it is harsh. People need to start thinking of this site as a resource, as opposed ot just getting your immediate problem solved. And I know how frustrating it can be.. Been working on an issue all day and keep getting closer and closer to the solution, but not there yet.
@PeterGrill Yes. No argue here. TeX.sx is very resourceful. Thank God I found it. Not for my initial question(s) which answers I do not even use anymore, though.
I remember seeing a \def somewhere in TikZ code and wondered “Interesting, I can define constants in TikZ.”
@Qrrbrbirlbel Sorry -- hope that isn't because of the way I ask them. I try to make them generic enough to possibly be helpful to others, but is difficult sometimes. I have to post a followup on the file path thing as the question I have posted so far tell me it is an x-y type of problem. Just gotta make the MWE...
There is no way I could have helped you with any of your two questions.
If you have any suggestions on how to make the less painful let me know.
@Qrrbrbirlbel Wow!! I would not have guessed that from your writing.
Well I guess I could claim the same thing, but probably not a fair comparison since I moved to Canada when I was very young.
Hey, you know much about glue? I am adding a \hskip2.0ex between a bunch of tables and expected them to flow on to the next line if they did not fit horizontally, but that is not the case.
I think, sometimes it would be better to first compile the MWE and then read the question and check side-by-side as your questions are far more complex than most questions. Conditions + math-mode + text + footnotes + and some TikZ around it. ;)
@PeterGrill Oh, well. I use XeLaTeX, fontspec and (if needed) unicode-math nowadays. Libertine is not great for math, though. But there is not much math in my documents and if there is I can correct the problems by hand or with a few simple macros.
@Qrrbrbirlbel The speed of XeLaTeX not bother you -- am sating away from it for now, until i need to go multilingual I guess..
@Qrrbrbirlbel Well that is because I can hack enough usually to get most things to work -- except when expansion issues come up -- them I am totally lost.
Adding all the nice OTF features, and I left there. Plus, the “Libertine Font War” didn’t help much.
@PeterGrill Yeah, I’m not a big fan of CM. But that’s not really Knuth’s fault. ;) It isn’t made for display and better printers. (Too light for my taste.)
@Qrrbrbirlbel Will have to remember to ping when I am looking into new fonts. I don't mind even paying for them but they MUST work in math... I guess I should use whatever egreg uses as I am sure he has it figured out.
@PeterGrill While I got you and I am too late for bed now anyway (I was just about to shutdown when I saw your chat notification): Have you contributed to launchpad.net/tex-sx?
@PeterGrill A randomly chosen PDF of his homepage, it looks like Palatino for the running text. The document properties give me TeX Gyre Pagella, isn’t that the Palatino TeXivalent?
@Qrrbrbirlbel Hey, you must be in similar time zone as I think it is around midnight here so I too should be going to bed.. Not sure I know enough to be able to package something properly...
@Qrrbrbirlbel I wouldn't know... Let me know look...
@PeterGrill Just stumbled over “I gamberetti alla pescheria sono uguali. O no? Un’orata e una cernia sono diversi, eppure sono pesci: se astraiamo alcune loro qualità sono uguali.” It sure seems easy to read. ;)
@Qrrbrbirlbel Yeah that just means "The shrimp at the fish are the same. Or not? Bream and grouper are different, yet they are fish: if we abstract some of their quality are equal."
How can I create a Caesar's encryption disk with LaTeX?
I guess, the ultimate solution would take a arbitrary list of letters and calculate the spaces and angles for each letter automatically. So if I pass 4 letters to it, each space should have 90 degrees.
@PeterGrill Hm, I thought you were somehow involved as you had pointed me to the tikzmark package one day. Anyway, I probably do not know much about packages myself but I was thinking of collecting some nice TikZ styles and macros. Some things get asked repeatedly and I got to thinking. And things, like for example the Caesar’s Disk ,could get expanded to a nice little library (like the one-macro-ish paper-folding library).
@PeterGrill Yes, it was fun. If you read the "Improvement" section of my answer, I had much more ideas, but if you notice the time-stamps on my answer, ehm. It was much too late. ;)
@PeterGrill Isn’t it obvious? |- means: first go down or up and stop when you are at the height of the target, then go left or right towards your target.
@Qrrbrbirlbel Yeah, of course makes sense now, but when I go to use it for some reason it does not. Similar to expansion issues (well not as bad actually), I read the detailed answers and they mostly make sense, but when it comes to actual usage that is a totally different thing...
Hey, did you not read my earlier message: Go to bed now!! :-)
I don't want to be blamed for your procrastination...
@PeterGrill Yeah, expansion. I remember trying to .aux a Need-to-know-widest-element-of-a-list-of-elements-before-typesetting-the-list problem (i.e. saving the greatest width and re-using it upon second compilation) but got in expansion troubles when using \csname (needed for more than one list per document) in \auxout. Maybe there is a package for that, or maybe I should have used a combination of \noexpand and \edef ...
@Qrrbrbirlbel I actually have an idea to eliminate all my expansion issues by writing out what i need to a file, and reading it back it. Seems that is what I need most of the time.
@lockstep: Regarding the <br>s in tex.stackexchange.com/questions/105991/…. Are they supposed to be there? I thought I took them out when I edited it initially...
@MarcoDaniel it's so you can use \vcenter for the default [c] vertical positioning, it would have been better had it been raised "by hand" but it is what it is. (There are lots of hidden math modes (there were even more in 2.09) which is why `\everymath is a tricky thing to use.
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Whatever}
for i in data:\\
~~doMagic(i)
\end{algorithm}
how can I make TeX not ignore those spaces at the start of the line?
Possibly without using anything exceedingly fancy
(Is there a question on the site for this? Please tell me there is and that I suck at searching)
Unfortunately here my usual approach (doing this in LyX and studying the LyX translation) is failing, because LyX used a lyxcode environment for code and obviously that won't work in "vanilla" TeX.
@Jubobs I don't want to disturb your nice answer with a stupid comment but TikZ loads xcolor by default. It's among the top reasons why option clashes occur in TikZ questions. So it might be a better idea to remove that. By the way it looks really great,
I want to write comments in Visual Studio (2012) that contain LaTeX syntax.
There is some plug-in to add to Visual Studio that will enable me to write comment in LaTeX and then see it as LaTeX (e.g. pop up window when I'm pressing some key shortcut or moving over the comment with the mouse)?
I ...
@PauloCereda That looks related, but not what I was looking for. It might help the friend who got me into looking at the problem in the first place though :) Thanks!
@PauloCereda If you have a spare six months i could tell you all the ways of failing to get math to display in visual studio help in the (mutually incompatible) versions of the help system in vs2008, 2010,, 2012, any of those with IE9 installed, any of those with IE9 and windows update of september 2012, or any of those with IE10.....
I have just made a clean install on a Mac I'm using at the moment. Everything seems good except when I compile, I have the error
Missing number, treated as zero. s
The error tells me that this occurs on line xxx, where xxx is everywhere I have \section{}
@MarcoDaniel You need to make a revolution to remove the artikelen when something like my red pencil or a black duck is required :) I need to type a matrix in Matlab to get the proper thingy in place
@N3buchadnezzar well that's the point it avoids deciding by hand it just puts each of the entries into a 2em parbox and puts the row of parboxes into a column of fixed with 12em or something, I forget, then tex's normal paragraph line breaker does the rest.
I'm trying to draw a simple diagram in TikZ. I used a code example from the documentation (code below). As you can see on the graphic:
there is a problem with arrows that are not touching the destination nodes. The propblem is especially visible on loop arrows. Even if I draw the simplest diag...
@percusse normally for that kind of thing I just run \tracingall on the two versions and then compare the log files with diff, but running tikz code with tracingall isn't a lot of fun:-)
@percusse It's only long if someone uses \newcommand on it the default definition is \def\baselinestretch{1} which isn't long or that exciting. But it is used as a multiplier most times latex sets the baseline, eg the second argument of \fontsize gets multiplied:
@N3buchadnezzar well not really it is the TeX inner paragraph loop that inserts the break but if there is no glue on the line then there is no feasible break point so you get an overfull box. If you have word spaces beween teh boxes that stretches but if you put a fixed (or no) space between there is no flexible glue so unless you are lucky and the kine ends exactly at a boundary there is no break.
(In your case actually you would be lucky as the width is set to an exact multiple of the width of the parboxes)
@percusse I always suspected as much. Stick to picture mode, that's what I say.
@percusse arguably it is user error although tikz probably should protect itself a bit better (I gave up seeing exactly where it goes wrong there are a lot of diffs as it triggers a lot of latex font loading activity) setting baselinestretch without using \selectfont leaves a "pending change" like setting \fontsize or fontseries without setting \selectfont if you do \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}\selectfont the arrows ping back
@DavidCarlisle Yes, I just found out that. But I can't find which dimension is getting affected from that Because the arrow declaration is \pgfdeclarearrow{start name}{finish name}{the arrow skip code}{arrow drawing code} kind of structure. So we have this declaration which are kind of locally set and have no relation (seemingly) to that number. By the way it doesn't matter if you set it to zero or ten. Just the declaration of the definition is enough
most of the log diffs (but I got less that 10% into the file before I gave up:-) are due to \pgfmath@selectfont which calls \selectfont\selectfont does some quick \ifx tests and if it thinks that nothing has changed it does nothing, but if it detects anything (including baselinestretch) is changed it invokes the latex NFSS font machinery to set up the font. as these settings are local they happen again and again in every local group where selectfont is called. My analysis fades out here
@DavidCarlisle Ah maybe it makes the real difference when \nullfont is invoked? Because that's the standard declaration to remove every non-TikZ typesetting inside TikZ pictures.
@DavidCarlisle It's not yet 6 am in California. I don't think he's an early bird like @PauloCereda. I guess I've time to see the football match before he's on line. Find some cricket and enjoy it. :-)
Can I “smuggle” a length out of a group similar to \pgfmath@smuggle macros? It does work there with using a macro but I want to preserve the length as it is.
The vim module for ConTeXt uses the VIM editor to do the syntax highlighting of files. As such it supports all syntax highlighting for all filetypes supported by VIM (which is a lot). For example, to highlight diff files, you may use:
\usemodule[vim]
\definevimtyping[DIFFtyping][syntax=diff]
\...
@DavidCarlisle: how about writing an emacs module for ConTeXt? :)
@DavidCarlisle :-) I think what you meant as %!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I swear I tried \raggedright, but probably dropped it when the \hspace* solution was producing a single line no matter how many tables -- before I discovered \allowbreak
Using the sample code on this site, http://hgesser.com/software/latexdb/workshop.html, I would like to
query my MySQL database and typeset using Xelatex
This is because all of my documents are set up using UTF8 and \usepackage{fontspec}. I have checked out the documentation and I cannot see...
Could anyone please tell me how do I draw a rectangle with a black border around it? I want that for all my rectangles in the following tikzpicture:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style = {shape = rectangle,
rounded corners,
...
How can I create a Caesar's encryption disk with LaTeX?
I guess, the ultimate solution would take a arbitrary list of letters and calculate the spaces and angles for each letter automatically. So if I pass 4 letters to it, each space should have 90 degrees.
I want to write comments in Visual Studio (2012) that contain LaTeX syntax.
There is some plug-in to add to Visual Studio that will enable me to write comment in LaTeX and then see it as LaTeX (e.g. pop up window when I'm pressing some key shortcut or moving over the comment with the mouse)?
I ...
I have just made a clean install on a Mac I'm using at the moment. Everything seems good except when I compile, I have the error
Missing number, treated as zero. s
The error tells me that this occurs on line xxx, where xxx is everywhere I have \section{}
\raggedright%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
I'm trying to draw a simple diagram in TikZ. I used a code example from the documentation (code below). As you can see on the graphic:
there is a problem with arrows that are not touching the destination nodes. The propblem is especially visible on loop arrows. Even if I draw the simplest diag...
The vim module for ConTeXt uses the VIM editor to do the syntax highlighting of files. As such it supports all syntax highlighting for all filetypes supported by VIM (which is a lot). For example, to highlight diff files, you may use:
\usemodule[vim]
\definevimtyping[DIFFtyping][syntax=diff]
\...
Using the sample code on this site, http://hgesser.com/software/latexdb/workshop.html, I would like to
query my MySQL database and typeset using Xelatex
This is because all of my documents are set up using UTF8 and \usepackage{fontspec}. I have checked out the documentation and I cannot see...
