27,081 reputation
146101
bio website randomdeterminism.wordpress.c…
location
age
visits member for 2 years, 9 months
seen yesterday
stats profile views 1,087

Apr
30
comment Problems with multiple \starthanging \stophanging in ConTeXT
See article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/82188
Apr
28
comment Proper way to typset minimum value of variable in formula?
Why not just use \min
Apr
24
comment Are there any editors or packages with auto-correct for LaTeX commands?
In vim, you can use :imap or IMAP(..) (the latter is part of vim-latex-suite) to do auto-correct on the fly (but you'll have to build the database of auto-correction yourself.
Apr
24
comment Starting a line where the previous line finishes
Using \obeyspaces will be better than a full scale shift to verbatim environment.
Apr
24
comment Arbitrary Paper Size in ConTeXt?
See wiki.contextgarden.net/PaperSetup
Apr
23
comment ConTeXt: Cannot typeset four consecutive hyphens
@Hans-PeterE.Kristiansen: See Fonts out of MkIV for details about font features.
Apr
23
comment LaTeX XY positioning
Enclose the macro definition in \makeatletter and \makeatother. See What do \makeatletter and \makeatother do for details
Apr
23
comment Visual comparison between LaTeX and Word output (hyphenation, typesetting, ligatures etc)
@KevinC: I haven't used it myself, but I have read that Word 2007 supports opentype math fonts. So you should be able to use any opentype math font with Word (the trouble is that right now, there are only three or four opentype math fonts, and Cambria is the most comprehensive of them all).
Apr
23
comment How can I make footnote text color match body text color?
I believe that introducing an official (i.e., something in base) comprehensive class (and, of course, updating all introductory guides to ask users to use such a class) will go a long with in getting rid of the misconception that LaTeX is hard to use.
Apr
23
comment How can I make footnote text color match body text color?
I wish one did not have to hack into the original definition of core commands for simple changes like changing color or style. I completely understand why this is the case (limited CPU resources when LaTeX started), but wish backward compatibility did not have such a huge price.
Apr
23
comment Visual comparison between LaTeX and Word output (hyphenation, typesetting, ligatures etc)
Doesn't Word support any opentype math font? I am not sure which text font you are using, but instead of Cambria you can use xits (matches with times), asana (matches with palatino), or LM-math (matches with CM/LM).
Apr
23
comment How do I get italic texts figures in ConTeXt?
Does the font you are using have italic oldsttyle glyphs?
Apr
23
comment What does \s! do?
@Esteis: deleted my old answer
Apr
22
comment What does \s! do?
@Esteis: Done...(you should use a bigger user name so that I don't have add these dots to meet the requirement of the minimum comment length)
Apr
22
comment Making Source Code Copyable with listings
For large code snippets, copy pasting is always a pain. Another option is to also attach the file in the PDF (I use a setup that does this automatically with vim module in ConTeXt; something similar should be possible in LaTeX with the hyperref package).
Apr
21
comment What does \s! do?
these should be used if you are interested in a multi-lingual interface as well.
Apr
21
comment Strange interaction between fontspec, lua and pgfplots
Always use local variables in Lua code, so local file = .... and do not pollute the global namespace with macro names. In ConTeXt, the standard practice is to use thirddats = thirddata or {} and then function thirddata.readtxt, etc.
Apr
21
comment What does \s! do?
See wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Scratch_Variables
Apr
21
comment Adjusting letterspacing in ConTeXt
Please create minimal example.
Apr
21
comment Adjusting letterspacing in ConTeXt
MWE from typo-krn.mkiv: (i) {\setcharacterkerning[extrakerning]\input davis\relax}. You can change the distance between letters using \definecharacterkerning [extrakerning] [\c!factor=.125]; (ii) \setuphead[section][style=\sca,textstyle={\kerncharacters[.5]}] \section{Section}