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| bio | website | mbork.pl |
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| location | Poznan, Poland | |
| age | 35 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | 9 hours ago | |
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I am a mathematician by profession and quite a long-time (since around 1995 - as of now [2012], this means almost half of my life) TeX user by hobby.
I started with plain TeX, and much later (in the early 2000s) moved to LaTeX; I still use plain TeX occasionally (and when writing LaTeX classes/packages). Quite recently I also started to use ConTeXt.
I have a blog about (among others) TeX and friends, located at http://mbork.pl/Content_AND_Presentation.
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May 8 |
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Is there any advantage in keeping track of aux bbl blg files in a git repository Cons: assume you edit the .tex, commit, but not compile. Now your snapshot has .tex and .aux "in disagreement". Pros: can't see anything. |
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May 7 |
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Making a LaTeX document appear as though it were typeset in MS Word I'd suggest using the ragged2e package instead of \raggedright. |
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May 7 |
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How to create following block diagram structure in LaTeX Also, I'd change \lineskip=0pt into \offinterlineskip and enclose everything in a group. Though correcting David is definitely outside my competence zone... |
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May 7 |
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How to create following block diagram structure in LaTeX OK, forgive me. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I'm undoing my downvote. |
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May 7 |
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How to create following block diagram structure in LaTeX Haha, now things get less simple;). I'd try deleting \strut and play with \vrule height 6pt etc. - though this is not the LaTeX way;). |
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May 7 |
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How to create following block diagram structure in LaTeX Downvoted. It seems the question is very localized, I can see no effort on the author's side, and - please tell me if I'm nitpicky, but could people asking questions here learn how to spell LaTeX? |
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May 7 |
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How to create following block diagram structure in LaTeX I thought about the picture environment, but the simplicity of this is astonishing;). |
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May 6 |
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Other editors with autocompletion shortcuts similar to those in TeXShop @AlanH: well, escape is a strange choice; it is possible, but ESC is used in Emacs as a prefix, so that you may use ESC and then x instead of M-x (that is, Alt+x). But if you bind ESC to expand-abbrev (as alexurba hints), you're fine. (Well, you have also to remember that abbrevs may use only word-constituent characters, so you'd have to change the syntax class of the backslash). Put together: I'd rather switch my habit to another keystroke, it's not that hard. But if you really want to have it your way - Emacs will let you. |
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May 6 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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May 5 |
answered | Other editors with autocompletion shortcuts similar to those in TeXShop |
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Apr 15 |
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Is fine-grained grid control possible? I would definitely look at ConTeXt (or ConTeXt + Metafun), maybe even ask this question on the ConTeXt mailing list. |
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Apr 5 |
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When should I upload my new style? And I guess it's the first time you're hearing this since almost nobody bothers to actually read the TOS... |
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Apr 5 |
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When should I upload my new style? @Aditya: first of all, they have common TOS for all their services, which is very user-unfriendly. That aside, paragraph 3.5 states (among others): "End User agrees to use Bitbucket solely as a code repository and not to upload any other content to Bitbucket (e.g., music or video)." Basically, this means that hosting open-source games on BB is violating their terms. (IANAL, but imho formally even documentation is excluded.) Github's TOS (1) are about 3 times shorter and (2) don't forbid you hosting non-code files. |
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Apr 5 |
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When should I upload my new style? @cgnieder: thanks, I didn't know that (maybe it's relatively new). I'm wondering whether they did something with their TOS... |
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Apr 5 |
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When should I upload my new style? +1 for github suggestion. Bitbucket is similar, though it has terrible TOS imho (and uses Mercurial, which seems to be just a little bit weaker than git). |
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Mar 29 |
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Resume option similar to enumitem package for paralist package Yes, but not before a few hours. |
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Mar 29 |
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Resume option similar to enumitem package for paralist package After a quick look into paralist docs - no (edit: that is, not without modifying paralist's macros). But current versions of enumitem support so-called "inline" enumerations, i.e., enumerations within a paragraph. |
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Mar 29 |
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Is it possible to `split a hbox`? Upvoted. I am pretty sure, though, that LuaTeX would enable a "cleaner" approach. |
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Mar 26 |
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What is the most bizarre thing you have seen done with TeX @Xavier: congratulations! |
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Mar 26 |
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What is the most bizarre thing you have seen done with TeX @Speravir: I'm not sure about the "spirit of the question", but for me, using TeX for making a gf regret breaking up definitely counts. |
