@topskip I've got my research group using LaTeX for plots (superior results and control using pgfplots compared with QtiPlot, SigmaPlot or Origin), so it's at least partly legit
Currently writing an e-mail to a student who's been sent on placement to China and is not having a great time
@egreg TeX Live. I don't have MiKTeX on my PC at work, but do have both on the Windows rig on my laptop. I can test that later on today, or perhaps @ulrikefischer might help out
@JosephWright personally I think he should just use \usepackage{local} and have different local.sty on the two ~/texmf , but that's less interesting I suppose.
@JosephWright Bleurgh. Is there a recommended way around it? Should I just put \begin{function}{fn} Expanation of function \end{function}\begin{macrocode} ...?
Incidentally, here's the context. This is for putting short explanatory comments in the .dtx so that running pdflatex package.dtx generates a PDF of the source code with nicely formatted comments saying what each function/macro does. It isn't for generating the main documentation, that's in a separate file.
An specific question is as follows:
I hope that I can define a macro that can switch to different typefaces. We assume that this macro is named \myfonts, so, if I type {\myfonts Throughout his life, Einstein published hundreds of books and articles.}, the typeface will be the default Minion P...
@MarcoDaniel: We will now have a paid version of arara, which looks for typography mistakes, optmize compilation, check for math correction, prove theorems, boil eggs, and some other goodies. For easy payments of $9.99, people can use arara Pro Version. :)
@PauloCereda -- Paulo is a Brazilian developer, programmer and somehow a insanely frustrated mathematician wannabe. He uses LaTeX for virtually everything, specially stuff related to his areas of interest: Automata Theory, Adaptive Technology and Programming Languages.
@NicolaTalbot Hmm, there was a Dandelion discussion; and a discussion about a bug in the new babel, and then, some stuff I could not make out... So yes, there was. :-)
@kan I usually don't answer first. I leave comments and duplicate(to make OP learn by himself). then i absorb all comments and prepare the solution if required, luckily we absorbed the comments well for your answer.
@Qrrbrbirlbel related to the documentation of arara -- in winedt you can define your own button. Is this possible for TeXmaker/TeXStudio too? Thanks for your help.
I think I will ask a question. It will help other users too.
@MarcoDaniel Hm, yes cou can add buttons for Latexmk or User Commands. I don't know (yet) whether they can be customized without simply changing the image in the installation folder. (I never use any buttons …)
The documentation of arara has a chapter about IDE integration. However the often used editor TeXmaker is missing.
How can I integrate the great tool arara in TeXmaker?
Is it possible to define a new button?
Are there any differences between the integration in different OS?
A small introduc...
@PauloCereda Actually I ought to give Magdalene a break. She's got some exhibitions coming up, and I've asked her to do some book cover artwork, so she's going to be busy for a while. By the time she's finished I'll have come up with a story about, hmm, penguins? hippos? hairy pink elephants?
I always said to myself writing a tex without syntax highlight and when there is an error while compiling, deleting the whole document and write a new one
say I want to input files from the directory "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples". Then I must do \input{"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples"/file1.tex}\input{"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples"/file2.tex}, etc. Is there a way to set a prefix say path to be "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples" and then just do ` \input{path/file1.tex}`?
@NicolaTalbot probably the package is full of spurious : as its author tried to get into or out of whatever arcane mode system vi users. It happens all the time.
@leo You just want to add "/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples//" to your TEXINPUTS in your texmf.cnf file (or environment, but texmf.cnf is probably easier)
what if I do \newcommand\path{"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples"}, and then \input{\path/file1.tex}? will \path expands correctly inside \input?
@leo well it's webb2c here handling the " but I couldn't remember if the " had to be round the outside. In that case you can go \def\input@path{{"C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Mis documentos/Dropbox/samples"}} and then just use \input{file1}
@leo No it always tries the standard things first then tries each of the places in input@path (this is same as graphicspath for \includegraphics it's exactllt the same \includegraphics just locally defines input@path
@MartyIX bibtex fields are essentially arbitrary strings, the standard bibtex styles are not expecting that field so wil just ignore it, if you have a bibtex style that uses it then it is up to that style what it does with it.
An specific question is as follows:
I hope that I can define a macro that can switch to different typefaces. We assume that this macro is named \myfonts, so, if I type {\myfonts Throughout his life, Einstein published hundreds of books and articles.}, the typeface will be the default Minion P...
The documentation of arara has a chapter about IDE integration. However the often used editor TeXmaker is missing.
How can I integrate the great tool arara in TeXmaker?
Is it possible to define a new button?
Are there any differences between the integration in different OS?
A small introduc...
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