| raveon_ | anyone here use scons with LaTex? |
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| IvoryZion | Is there a way to switch on math-mode for a table? |
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| Exilant | arcsinus: yes, that should be possible :) |
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| Exilant | although, hm, probably plus a constant |
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| panzi | some novels have some kind of paragraph delimeters between some paragraphs. usually one ore more * or a horizontal line |
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| panzi | is there some command for such a "big paragraph" in LaTeX or do I have to define my own command? |
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| IvoryZion | panzi: You want more vertical space between paragraphs? |
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| Exilant | and some stars, as in \begin{center}***\end{center} |
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| Exilant | (though better typeset than this) |
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| IvoryZion | \vspace*{2 em} \begin{center}***\end{center} \vspace*{2em} |
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| panzi | gah, I'm really considering using OOo for my novel. LaTeX just doesn't manage hyphenation in words with german Umlauts! |
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| panzi | not even when I use T1 fontenc |
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| bremner | panzi: ok, but considering how many latex developers are german, that is surprising. |
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| bremner | panzi: are you using babel? |
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| panzi | bremner: I use: \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} |
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| panzi | I use utf8 |
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| panzi | I won't rewrite my story using \"u and such. that makes the .tex completely unreadable! |
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| bremner | panzi: ok, that's all I know about it I'm afraid. |
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| raveon_ | you got a story to write? |
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| panzi | I semi-finished a story as a hobby. I wanted to layout it with latex |
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| raveon_ | nice |
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| raveon_ | make money out of it :) |
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| panzi | it seems to be quite a hassle |
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| panzi | I guess I have to write some kind of restructured text system that supports unicode |
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| panzi | or investigate whether there is already such a thing |
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| panzi | raveon_: no the story isnt good. my sister writes much better ones (shorter, though, but in english! we are both from austria) |
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| raveon_ | i've been to austria |
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| raveon_ | vienna and salzburg |
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| raveon_ | fun place |
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| bremner | panzi: you might investigate xetex |
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| panzi | bremner: that strips all my umlauts |
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| panzi | or how do I tell xetex to respect them? |
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| panzi | ah, adding \usepackage{xltxtra} did help. whatever that is (saw it in another xetex document) |
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| pppoe_dude | how do I show section number on every page of an article? |
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| pppoe_dude | number and title |
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| pppoe_dude | ok with headers i see |
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| |Steve| | arcsinus: I am now. |
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| raveon_ | latexmk |
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| |Nickwiz| | ho do i get \section to display alpha instead of numbers? |
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| raveon_ | redefine the counter to display in lapha |
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| |Nickwiz| | hm, ok - ill search some more with that info - googling section was a bit blury |
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| raveon_ | \def\thesection{\Roman{section}.} |
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| raveon_ | or maybe \renewcommand{\thesection{\Roman{section}.} |
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| raveon_ | umm \alph |
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| raveon_ | http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/counters.htm |
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| |Nickwiz| | ty, - got on same page by google actually :) |
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| raveon_ | how do you pass -shell-escape to latexmk? |
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| |Nickwiz| | ok, - it beacame: \renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section})} - did not get it to work with setcounter ... |
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| jtbandes | |Nickwiz|, setcounter is for changing the number |
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| |Nickwiz| | yes, ty. |
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| sobersabre | hi. |
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| sobersabre | is anybody alive ? |
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| |Steve| | yes |
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| |Steve| | some of us are even here. |
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| sobersabre | do I need to add something to the preamble to use ... oops. found the error :) |
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| b0o-yeah | geeze and now we are all awake ;) |
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| Exilant | In the figure/subfigure environment, can i somehow easily tell latex to use the whole textarea? |
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| Exilant | i have (left border)(graph a) (graph b) (graph c)(about 1 cm)(right border) |
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| |Steve| | Exilant: Put \hfil between your \subfloats. |
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| Exilant | ah, thx |
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| |Steve| | You can also add \hfil before and after if you want them more centered. |
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| andy_t_roo | hello, i'm trying to place 3 figures together - a big one next to 2 smaller ones. i have placed the two smaller ones in a sub-figure, but they refuse to go below each other -- i end up either with the 3 figures in a row, or the big one above, and two smaller ones below. |
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| andy_t_roo | (i'm using lyx/miktex on windows) |
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| |Steve| | I can't help with miktex. |
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| |Steve| | A parbox would solve your problem, I believe. |
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| marcellus | ,sample |
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| fsbot | I heard sample is Paste a sample at http://pastebin.tlhiv.org showing your problem in as little code as possible. Make sure it is a *complete* document, and if possible one that compiles! If your LaTeX aborts with errors, paste them too. |
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| Exilant | |Steve|: thanks, now my subfigures look better. Now on to fix all those underfull vbox issues :/ |
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| |Steve| | Exilant: Save that to the very end. |
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| Exilant | hm, makes sense |
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| |Steve| | My advisor and I spent about an hour fixing underfull vboxes yesterday. Then I went home and fixed a bunch of tables. |
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| |Steve| | Then I had to refix underfull vboxes this morning. |
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| Exilant | ok |
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| Exilant | i'm just 95 % done, so first the remaining 5 % |
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| arcsinus | Hi. |
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| arcsinus | When you do \begin{equation} <some eq.> \end{equation} .... a number enclosed with parantheses is added to the right side of te eq. |
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| arcsinus | How do you move it to the right side of the eq. ? |
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| arcsinus | Like (1) a + b = c and not a + b = c (1) ? |
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| arcsinus | s/te/the/ |
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| mickep | Do not remember, but I think it is in the ,,amsldoc,, |
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| fsbot | mickep, hmm, amsldoc is the documentation for amsmath and can be found on http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex/math/amsldoc.pdf |
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| arcsinus | mickep: Can you point me to the appropriate section please? |
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| mickep | no |
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| mickep | I am at work... |
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| arcsinus | Oh KO :p |
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| arcsinus | OK* |
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| arcsinus | It's just that I tried to look for it yesterday but didn' |
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| arcsinus | t find it |
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| marcellus | I have already told you to read that document - twice. |
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| marcellus | because you didn't read it |
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| arcsinus | marcellus: Oh Hi!I I read the theequation section |
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| arcsinus | Is that what I was supposed to read? |
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| marcellus | That wasn't a section. That was me providing you the solution. |
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| arcsinus | Oh, then there was probably a misunderstanding. I thought it was just a hint to the solution. Would you mind helping me again? I'll be so grateful! |
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| marcellus | You are supposed to read above mentioned document. It is less than 20 pages to read. |
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| arcsinus | OK, so I have to read all of the doc to find out the answer? |
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| mickep | Just read what seems interesting for you for the moment. If there is something on typesetting the square root, you can safely skip that part right now. |
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| arcsinus | Good advice. |
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| arcsinus | Thanks guys. |
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| hiwk | what is the state of the art package to handle acronyms and glossaries? I want at least to have the "Some Silly Thing (SST)" feature and a glossary list |
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| hiwk | would a nice index (like the one in the end of a book) be handeled by the same package? |
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| marcellus | maybe ,,cs glossary |
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| fsbot | [google] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossary/glossary.pdf |
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| fsbot | http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossary.html |
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| marcellus | ,cs makeidx |
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| fsbot | [google] http://www.cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/doc/examples/20-indexing-basic.pdf |
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| fsbot | http://www.cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/indexing/makeindex/lib/makeidx.sty |
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| marcellus | ,cs index |
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| fsbot | [google] http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ |
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| fsbot | http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/camel/index.dtx |
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| hiwk | marcellus: thanks, I'll check those out. Do you have any positive experience with them? |
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| arcsinus | In the amsldoc they mention LaTeX manual. What is that manual ? |
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| arcsinus | s0 |
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| arcsinus | (wrong window) |
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| marcellus | hiwk: I haven't give much thought to how I want a index or glossary should look, so no. |
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| Dennis84 | hey all |
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| Dennis84 | i want to be able to write a url in a footnote of a caption of an image |
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| marcellus | hiwk: I usually go for the most recently updated one. |
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| Dennis84 | very complicated |
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| marcellus | it is? |
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| Dennis84 | i found out, that a footnote in a caption must be protected |
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| Dennis84 | but how can i enter an url in this footnote? |
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| marcellus | \url{http://www.foo.com/} |
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| Dennis84 | marcellus: exactly this is not working :p |
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| Dennis84 | thats the normal way, but not in a caption of an image |
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| marcellus | ok, i missed "in this" |
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| marcellus | \protect |
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| Dennis84 | \caption{Aufbau des SMB Headers \protect\footnote{\url{www.google.de}}} |
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| Dennis84 | that is what i tried |
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| Dennis84 | and thats not working |
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| marcellus | ,sample |
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| fsbot | hmm, sample is Paste a sample at http://pastebin.tlhiv.org showing your problem in as little code as possible. Make sure it is a *complete* document, and if possible one that compiles! If your LaTeX aborts with errors, paste them too. |
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| Dennis84 | ok |
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| Stereo | hi everyone |
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| Dennis84 | marcellus: how can i poste a complete example wihout a image source? |
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| marcellus | the image doesn't matter |
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| Dennis84 | http://pastebin.tlhiv.org/ShcdAIFb |
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| marcellus | in what way is that complete? |
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| Dennis84 | so, thats an image definition with my current footnote and url problem |
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| Dennis84 | isn't that enough? |
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| marcellus | does that compile? |
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| mickep | Dennis84: It is easier if we can make it compile (i.e. the documentclass + relevant packages are needed) |
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| marcellus | is that a complete document? |
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| Dennis84 | ok |
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| Dennis84 | i know what you mean |
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| Stereo | I'd like to put information from a sql in a document, and am hesitating between sqltex, latexdb and ratexdb. Has anyone used either? |
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| marcellus | never heard of either |
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| Stereo | funny, it seems to be a german speciality |
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| Isajha | how can i use the \ref commands across multiple books |
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| Isajha | i'd like to have something See "volume 1: blah", p. 66 |
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| Isajha | i know that this is possible somehow (there was a guide in some FAQ but i can not find it anymore><) |
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| Isajha | i mean this is not something like bibtex, i have a label defined in one book and i want to reference it from another books |
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| Stereo | Isajha: and you're writing those books at separate times, of course |
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| Isajha | ? |
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| Isajha | i think i've found it it's the package xr |
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| Stereo | ah, didn't know that one |
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| Isajha | http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=extref |
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| Isajha | this time i won't loose the bookmark>< |
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| Isajha | and ofc it does not work as expected>< |
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| veleno | hello. i'm on mac osx (using MacTex, latest available distribution). i'm having troubles with includegraphics : http://codepad.org/45X5GbHK this works fine with TexShop but it fails with TextMate, which reports: "File `solutions/average' not found." the file is called solutions/average.pdf ..any idea ? |
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| veleno | and thiese are the packages imported: http://codepad.org/cWO1hIuP |
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| mickep | veleno: do you run latex or pdflatex? |
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| veleno | mickep: in both programs (texshop and textmate) i run pdflatex |
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| mickep | I dont even know what TextMate is. What if you run in the terminal: pdflatex file. Does it work? |
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| veleno | mickep: yes |
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| mickep | Then it is not a TeX problem but a problem with TextMate :) |
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| veleno | mickep: you're right |
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| mickep | I never heard of TextMate, but if you're lucky someone inhere uses it and can help. I guess you have more luck in contacting the authors/google for this, though. |
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| mickep | veleno: what if you include the .pdf in average.pdf? |
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| veleno | mickep: pdflatex still succeds (and so does texshop, the default tex editor installed by MacTex Live 2009). inside textmate, i get "Latex Error: txmt://open?url=file:%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Fveleno%2Fworkspace%2Funine-distalg%2Fpracticals%2F01-lua%2F.%2F01-lua.tex&line=494 LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in solutions/average.pdf (no BoundingBox)." |
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| mickep | are you sure you run pdflatex in TextMate? |
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| mickep | Also, that error looks strange |
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| veleno | mickep: the full log seems to report pdflatex to me: http://codepad.org/NPhqOK5q |
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| veleno | (1st line) |
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| mickep | looks like so, especially since it includes other pdf files without error. Is this pdf file "different" in some sense? |
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| veleno | mickep: solutions/average.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4 |
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| veleno | made by a gnuplot script which had a "set term pdf" parameter..nothing more special than that. (as the other included pdf file, btw) |
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| andy_t_roo1 | can someone help me with a minor layout problem -- i have 3 pics, one large and 2 small, i would like the large to be next to the two small -- like []: |
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| andy_t_roo1 | i have placed them in a floating figure, with the 2 small ones in a subfigure, but it always comes out as [].. |
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| marcellus | ,sample |
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| fsbot | From memory, sample is Paste a sample at http://pastebin.tlhiv.org showing your problem in as little code as possible. Make sure it is a *complete* document, and if possible one that compiles! If your LaTeX aborts with errors, paste them too. |
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| Stere0 | veleno: there's a textmate chan here on freenode |
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| veleno | Stere0: ah..i'll go ask there ! |
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| Stere0 | it's full of nice folks :) |
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| Lusule | hi guys, I wonder fi I could get some help - I'm having trouble with figures. I'm using \begin{figure} but texworks doesn't seem to recognise it - I can't seem to find if there's some package I'm meant to be using I don't know about to make the command work, anyone able to help? |
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| mickep | Lusule: no package is usually needed for figure (what documentclass are you using). However, you need graphicx package to include graphics. |
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| Lusule | mickep i included graphicx, i'm using scrlttr2 doc class |
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| mickep | Lusule: so, what error do you get? |
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| mickep | maybe the scrlttr2 does not have a figure environment. |
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| Lusule | Environment figure undefined |
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| mickep | Ok, then that is probably the case. |
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| Lusule | hmm how would be the best way to insert a graphic in a letter then? |
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| mickep | I guess you can define a new floating (graphics) via the graphicx package. |
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| mickep | (I guess that the thinking is that it is not so common with figures in a letter, at least not figures that you refer to. However, I do not agree fully...) |
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| marcellus | too many classes anyway |
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| Lusule | well what i'm writing is more of a report sandwiched in between the two ends of a letter i guess >< |
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| mickep | Lusule: Then I suggest that you switch to scrreprt or something similar. |
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| Lusule | but then i can't put in the addresses and signing off and stuff |
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| Lusule | yaaay figured it out with captions and all :) |
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| elbryan | is possible to write a textbox in latex? |
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