gmane.comp.tex.texhax

\verbdef + \xspace in one

Andre Majorel — 2012-05-26T09:18:50

Hello all. Instead of

  \verbdef{\lcallwithasillysuffix}|LC_ALL|
  \newcommand{\lcall}{\lcallwithasillysuffix\xspace}
  \begin{document}
  \lcall
  \end{document}

I would like to be able to do

  \foo{lcall}{LC_ALL}
  \begin{document}
  \lcall
  \end{document}

This doesn't work :

\documentclass{paper}
\usepackage{verbdef}
\usepackage{datetime}
\usepackage{xspace}
%\verbdef{\lcallsillysuffix}{LC_ALL}
%\newcommand{\lcall}{\lcallsillysuffix\xspace}
\newcommand{\lit}[2]{
  \expandafter\verbdef{\csname #1sillysuffix \endcsname}{#2}
  \expandafter\newcommand{\csname #1 \endcsname}[0]
    {\csname #1sillysuffix \endcsname\xspace}
}
\lit{lcall}{LC_ALL}
\begin{document}
\xxivtime \ \lcall \xxivtime
\end{document}

(The call to \lit triggers a bunch of errors starting with
"! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.").

Anyone can see what my mistake is ? Thanks in advance.

Reference in a Appendix

Darío — 2012-05-23T17:41:11

Hi list, i need reference some equations and tables in the appendix,
the way they need is, for example:
"equation" (A.1)
"table" (A.1)
because i get
"equation" (4.1)
"table" (4.1)
i don't use command \appendix, only \section{Apéndice}, and the
equations and tables its labels are
\label{ec:ondas}
\numberwithin{equation}{section}

\label{tab:tension}
\numberwithin{table}{section}

Thanks all!

beamer vs \tag{\ref}

Victor Ivrii — 2012-05-21T12:13:33

The example below does not work in {beamer} but works in {article} (if
removed \begin{frame} and \end{frame} and load hyperref and ams math.

Also it works in beamer if

\tag*{$(\ref*{eq-1})^*$}\label{eq-1-*}

is replaced by
\tag*{$(1)^*$}\label{eq-1-*}

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{equation}
1+1=2
\label{eq-1}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
1+2=3
\tag*{$(\ref*{eq-1})^*$}\label{eq-1-*}
%\tag*{$(1)^*$}\label{eq-1-*}
\end{equation}

\end{frame}
\end{document}


Victor

Reset numbers of table

Darío — 2012-05-20T20:33:01

Hi list, i have a problem with a number of reference of a table, i
insert this table in a Apenddix (manually, without \appendix command)
but the number of reference in the first table is 4.0.1 and the nexts
is 4.2 y 4.3, i need wich the first table is 4.1 i use
My appendix is simply
\section{Apéndice} %not use \appendix
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\caption{\small{Longitudes de onda para los primeros cinco modos normales.}}
\begin{tabular}{| c | c | c |}
\hline
 Modo & $\overline{\lambda_n} [m]$ & ${1/\overline{\lambda_n}}[m^{-1}]$\\
\hline
1& 2,140 &0,467\\
\hline
2& 1,070&0,935\\
\hline
3& 0,713&1,401\\
\hline
4& 0,535 &1.869\\
\hline
5& 0,428 &2,33\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{longitud_onda}
\numberwithin{table}{section} % SEE, NOT IS subsection and behaves as subsection
\end{center}
\end{table}

Thanks

Numbering Author-Year Bibliography

阮铮 — 2012-05-20T11:55:57

Hi texhax group,


I am using latex to write my undergraduate thesis and the bibliography format requirement of our school really annoyed me. I hope someone in this group could help me out.


I set up a wee example here for suggestions.
There are two files. One is the main content and another is bibliography database file.


main.tex file:


\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
In this example, I will cite two articles.
They are \citep{schneider1990} and \citep{yu1995}
\bibliography{tex}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\end{document}



tex.bib file:


< at >article{schneider1990,
author = "Schneider T.D.and Stephens R.M.",
title = "{Sequence Logos: A New Way to 
 Display Consensus Sequences}",
journal = "Nucleic Acids Res.",
volume = 18,
pages = "6097--6100",
year = 1990
}
< at >article{yu1995,
author = "Yu W. and Schuster W.",
title = "Evidence for a site-specific 
 cytidine deamination reaction involved 
 in C to U RNA editing of plant 
 mitochondria.",

Insert numbers of figures on environment Beamer

Darío — 2012-05-18T10:47:53

Hi list, i am doing a presentation using Beamer, and the problem i
have it when i put the numbers of figures, i uses:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[spanish,activeacute]{babel} % acentos comunes
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %si se usa Windows cambiar utf8 por latin1
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{upgreek}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[intlimits]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage{captdef}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usetheme{Goettingen}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

% for example
\begin{frame}

\begin{center}
\frametitle{Campana de resonancia}
{\includegraphics[width=50mm,height=20mm]{/media/datos/Laboratorio2/ultrasonido/espectro_sonoro}}
\captionof{figure}{\small{Espectro sonoro}}
\label{espectro}
\end{center}

\end{frame}

when i compile does not appear for example "Figure n: Espectro sonoro"
This is my first use in this environment, but in
\documentclass{article} and th

Problem with number within

Michael Barr — 2012-05-11T19:06:44

If you compile the following sample
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{one}
  \subsubsection{A subsubsection}
\section{two}
  \subsubsection{A subsubsection}
\end{document}

you will see that the first subsubsection is correctly named 1.0.1, but 
the second is called 2.0.2 instead of the expected 2.0.1.  Now I don't 
know why one would want a subsubsection with no subsection, but one of the 
contributors to the online journal whose class files I maintain did and is 
now complaining about this bug.  It clearly comes from the line
\newcounter {subsubsection}[subsection]

Michael Barr

TUG 2012: July 16-18, 2012 -- Boston, MA USA

TUG office — 2012-05-10T01:38:10

Dear TeX enthusiast,

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The 33rd Annual Meeting of the TeX Users Group and
concurrent introductory LaTeX workshop on July 16.

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The deadline for presentation proposals has been extended to
May 21, 2012. More talks are welcome.

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We hope to see you in Boston this summer!

Sincerely,

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Thomas Schneider — 2012-05-08T17:25:30

Bcc: 
Subject: Re: [texhax] creating pdf where you can copy and paste
Reply-To: 
In-Reply-To: <39CC7012-613E-47CF-A9E7-64D36C3A522A< at >frycomm.com>


I get copy/pastable PDFs in Acrobat 8.3.1 (professional) and Adobe
Reader 9.5.1 by the latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf route.  I just checked. 
I downloaded the latest Adobe Reader 10.1.3 (Mac OS X) and it worked
for cut/paste too.  I've never seen a problem with cut/paste.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)

creating pdf where you can copy and paste

Michael P. Soulier — 2012-05-08T14:40:40

Hi,

I'm creating pdfs with latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf. The resulting pdf is does not
lend itself to copy and paste in adobe reader, so I am getting complaints
downstream. Is it possible to produce pdfs where copy and paste are possible?

I notice that FoxitReader manages copy and paste, but most of my consumers are
using Adobe.

Thanks,
Mike

Reversing letter color

neville holmes — 2012-05-08T12:05:25

I want to reverse occasional letters or words, reversion
in the sense of the letter or word being white on a black
(or dark gray) background.

If you could provide me with a macro to do this, that
would be wonderful.


Neville Holmes, P.O. Box 2412, Bakery Hill 3354, Victoria

Colour selection in beamer

Sam Albers — 2012-05-07T00:33:20

Hello TeXhax!

I am having a little beamer problem that I can't seem to figure out.
The below example should illustrate my problem. I want to change the
text colour of the selected section/subsection to black instead of
white as the white is difficult to see. This example should run. Has
anyone ever attempted to change those colours before?

Thanks so much in advance!

Sam

%% Code

\documentclass{beamer}[14pt]
\usepackage{beamerthemesplit}


%% I want to use this pre-defined colour
\definecolor{customgreen}{cmyk}{0.95,0.15,0.62,0.58}
\mode<presentation>


\usetheme{Goettingen}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
  \usecolortheme[named=customgreen]{structure}
  \useinnertheme{circles}
  \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
  \setbeamertemplate{blocks}[rounded][shadow=false]
\setbeamersize{sidebar width right=1.9cm}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\begin{document}
\section{Heading}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Test}
\end{f

Looking for an older version of biblatex-chicago

Cheeser — 2012-05-06T18:20:32

Hello All,

I inadvisedly upgraded a working system and now need to downgrade, but
I can't find older versions of some of the packages I need.
Specifically, I need version 0.9 of biblatex-chicago. Does anyone know
either have it or know where I can get it?

Thanks very much,

Sarah

indexing

2012-05-04T21:39:07



Hi 

  

I am trying to create an index for an article. I have read Leslie Lamport's MakeIndex article and have the following questions: 

  

1) the article says "Next, run the MakeIndex program by typing the following Unix command: makeindex myfile . idx . How do I perform this task under a Windows operating system? 

  

2) When I include the \ printindex command in my . tex file I get an error message saying "unrecognized command". What command do I include to print the index in the document? 

  

3) Are there beginner courses in Latex somewhere near where I live in Albuquerque, NM? 

  

Thank you, in advance for your time and consideration. 

  

Randy Ott

Auto capitilise first letter of acronym

Viktor Ahlqvist — 2012-04-28T16:27:49

Hello TeXhax

I'm trying to write a macro that auto capitalise the first letter in
an acronym if the acronym is the first word in a sentence. So far I
have come up with the following macro.

\sfcode`\.=1001\sfcode`\?=1001\sfcode`\!=1001\sfcode`\:=1001
\newcommand{\acr}[1]{\ifnum\spacefactor=1001
\MakeUppercase{\protect\StrLeft{#1}{1}}\textsc{\StrGobbleLeft{#1}{1}}\else
\textsc{#1}\fi}
It uses \StrLeft and \StrGobbleLeft from the xstring package to make
the first letter uppercase and the rest small caps.

MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}
\sfcode`\.=1001\sfcode`\?=1001\sfcode`\!=1001\sfcode`\:=1001
\newcommand{\acr}[1]{\ifnum\spacefactor=1001
\MakeUppercase{\protect\StrLeft{#1}{1}}\textsc{\StrGobbleLeft{#1}{1}}\else
\textsc{#1}\fi}
\begin{document}
Hello. \acr{gps} is a \acr{gnss}. \acr{glonass} is another \acr{gnss}
\end{document}

The MWE works as expected, the output is "Hello. Gps is a gnss.
Glonass is another gnss" (with some small caps)

I have two problems however, that I can't find a s

About reference in figure, table and equation

Darío — 2012-04-30T03:34:17

Hi all, I need referencing figure, table and equation in type a
document type article.
But I want to that appears not only number equation or figure or
table, also number of the part of the article, ie if a part is a
introduction is 1.1, i want enumerate the equation 1.1.1
It's posible?

Thanks all

reversing the order of \halign column

Vafa Khalighi — 2012-04-28T04:49:50

How can you reverse the order of \halign so that

\halign{# & # \cr
1&2\cr}


Will mean


\halign{# & # \cr
2&1\cr}


I need to produce a multipage material with \halign.

about -output-directory option of TeX

Vafa Khalighi — 2012-04-25T08:04:37

pdflatex -output-directory=test test.tex

places output files (including pdf/dvi) in the test directory. How can one
places pdf in the current directory but all other output files in the test
directory?

Swapping the meaning of _ and \_

Suresh Govindachar — 2012-04-23T22:49:35

Hello,

The context for this question is plain TeX:

Goal:  In my source .tex file and in my own macros, I would like to use _ as
an ordinary character and use \_ for subscripts in math mode.

What I tried:  Following some ideas in David Solomon's The Advanced TeXbook,
I toyed with the idea of starting and ending all my files with the following
blocks of code:

     \chardef\catcount=\catcode`_% store current meaning of _
     \ifnum\catcode`\_=\catcode`A\else%
     \catcode`_=11%
     \fi%

     \catcode`_=\catcount % reset meaning of _

However, the preceding is _not_ a complete solution, for the following
reasons:

1) Using un-escaped _ results in a raised dot -- why doesn't it result in
just the _?

2) Getting a _ with escaped _ is a tad bit more complicated than it used to
be because now TeX needs to know when the control sequence \_ ends.

3) What more needs to be done so that the un-escaped _ results in _?

4) Couldn't figure out how to get subscripts in math mode.

5) I understand that whenever I in

Is redefining primitives a good idea?

Vafa Khalighi — 2012-04-23T02:48:16

As an example amsmath.sty redefines \eqno and \leqno. Would not it be
better to define new macros rather than redefining existing primitives? and
how one can (if a package already redefines some primitives), restore the
original definition of the primitive? so that a primitive is really a
primitive? as in ams math package, \eqno and \lqno become primitives not
macros?

Write18

Vafa Khalighi — 2012-04-23T02:36:22

Hi

I have implemented a  preprocessor that say convert a filename.tex to
filename.ltx (it puts LTR words, small sentences inside \LRE macro). I want
to automate the process via \write18 so that when a user has filename.tex
and runs pdflatex on filename.tex, then automatically via write18:


   - preprocessor is called and converts filename.tex to filename.ltx
   - pdflatex is run on filename.ltx (pdflatex filename.ltx)
   - deletes filename.ltx when PDF output is produced


What I find impossible is the second one. I can not have a second run of
pdflatex inside the first pdflatex run. Is there any solution to this
problem?