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Old-ish IT Geezer, young at heart, memoir fanboy


Sep
18
comment Subscripts for primed variables
Only just saw Will Robertson's answer (subdepth). Probably the better way to go.
Sep
18
answered Subscripts for primed variables
Sep
18
comment How can the dimensions of a box be retrieved with LaTeX
Yiannis, I don't fully understand the comment. If you have a TeX "thinh", the three lengths are always (I think) known. The lengths \myhh etc can be used as standard TeX lengths, I believe. What more do you want to do with them?
Sep
18
answered to path + relative coordinates in TikZ?
Sep
16
answered How can the dimensions of a box be retrieved with LaTeX
Sep
12
comment 'Dummy' LaTeX environment
+1. Use the comment package, Luke...
Sep
12
answered Latex tag for making a comment appear or disappear in pdf?
Sep
12
comment Autosizing two-column layouts
@TH: Yes. I decided consciously to make separate answers, to reduce the clutter in any single answer. This is in part a consequence of progressive discovery of the OP's requirements and my understanding of them.
Sep
12
comment Autosizing two-column layouts
I've just spotted that \sidefloat places the figure on the outside, or `\sidefloat* places it on the inside, rather than left or right. Is this OK?
Sep
12
answered Autosizing two-column layouts
Sep
11
comment Autosizing two-column layouts
yes, I agree there are no (or at least very few) shortcuts. But I think that it would be possible to do a semantically clean wrapper based on "my" method (ie sizing the box first). I don't have spare time to do that now, but I'll think about it a bit more and hope to repost something in a few days. Clearly there will be cases where the text and the figure have unfavourable relative sizes, but I think my approach works in a generic way and avoids hand-tuning except in the most recalcitrant cases.
Sep
11
comment Autosizing two-column layouts
I fully agree that this is semantically cleaner, but OP said "hundreds of figures"; I don't know whether he's prepared to do the individual number-of-lines tuning for each one...
Sep
10
revised Autosizing two-column layouts
Added a comment on pleasingness
Sep
10
revised Autosizing two-column layouts
Added parbox to improve centering
Sep
10
answered Autosizing two-column layouts
Sep
10
answered Autosizing two-column layouts
Aug
31
revised Text in corner of tikz rectangle
Remove a bad line
Aug
30
revised Why is this let expression not working in TikZ (calculating a midpoint)?
Pruned redundant line
Aug
30
comment Text in corner of tikz rectangle
@Neil: hope you used the simpler one... @Caramdir: I kmew there was a use for tabular in the multiline case. Was I right?
Aug
30
revised Text in corner of tikz rectangle
Revised and expanded answer