TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, October 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: How do I gracefully retire a package? I maintain a LaTeX package which is obsolete. All its useful commands are provided by other packages, possibly with different syntax, but still the point is there is no reason for anyone to use my ... {best-practices} {package-writing} {obsolete}   asked by David Z 25 votes answered by Frank Mittelbach 12 votes Why are the latex, pdflatex and pdftex binaries identical? I apologize if this question is somewhat off-topic but I think that this is the best place to find an answer. This is sort of an oddity that's confused me for years. When I run latex -v I get: ... {pdftex} {tex-core}   asked by mmdanziger 16 votes answered by David Carlisle 24 votes Bash lstlistings treats "$#" as a comment Background: In Bash, $# represents the number of arguments, and # starts a comment. Consider the following Bash script: # This is a comment while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do echo $1 shift done Note ... {listings} {parsing}   asked by WChargin 15 votes answered by Jubobs 9 votes Why using character ^^ff before every chapter in the TeXBook source When viewing the source code of the TeXBook, I find that there is a character ^^ff before every chapter in it. I am wondering why using this ^^ff character which seems useless? The following ... {tex-core} {characters} {web}   asked by Z.H. 14 votes answered by m0nhawk 8 votes Comparison of LaTeX example typesetting packages? I am writing a (longer) text on LaTeX usage, and I want to typeset some LaTeX source code together with its results – and I'm not sure how to achieve it. I am aware of this question, however, it only ... {verbatim} {examples}   asked by mbork 13 votes answered by cgnieder 3 votes Ligatures and hyphenations: the effect of empty brace groups {} For the following example, \hsize =2in shelf{}ful shelf{}ful shelf{}ful rot{}ten rot{}ten shelf{}ful shelf{}ful shelf{}ful shelf{}ful shelf{}ful rot{}ten rot{}ten shelf{}ful shelf{}ful \bye The ... {tex-core} {hyphenation} {ligatures}   asked by Z.H. 13 votes answered by David Carlisle 16 votes sideways for equation (a big matrix) I hope to use sideways for my big matrix, like this and this. It looks straight forward. But it's not working for me. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{rotating} ... {rotating}   asked by Chen Stats Yu 11 votes answered by David Carlisle 16 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible with author-year citations I have a basic tex file and a bibliography which is exported from Mendeley However, when I want to cite in the author-year style, I get the error: Package natbib Error: Bibliography not compatible ... {bibtex} {errors} {natbib}   asked by grrrbytes 61 votes answered by Josh Porter 38 votes Mavericks upgrade screwed up my pdflatex (command not found) so everything was working fine ... until i upgraded to os x mavericks (version 10.9.2) a couple days ago. using emacs version 24.3 (9.0) auctex version 11.87.3 after upgrade, tried to compile and ... {pdftex} {emacs} {auctex} {osx}   asked by MichaelWBratton 16 votes answered by Sean Allred 19 votes Can you answer these? TikZ ER-Diagram double edge looks ugly Drawing an ER-Diagram in TikZ and using double edges results in ugly connections of those edges into the nodes. What can be done to connect those edges nicely to other nodes? \documentclass{scrartcl} ... {tikz-pgf}   asked by Rafael Wörner 2 votes Fonts Compatible with Laser Cutting Pretty straightforward question: My friends and I have access to a laser cutter and we are making a word clock. Thus I was wondering if anyone knew of a LaTeX font compatible with laser cutting such ... {tikz-pgf} {fonts}   asked by MrBrightside 5 votes Illustration of Lagrange multipliers I want to draw with pgfplots and/or tikz an illustration of Lagrange multipliers. For reminder, Lagrange multipliers are used to optimize thing like this: min_x f(x) such that g(x)=0 Basically, I ... {tikz-pgf} {pgfplots}   asked by davcha 3 votes

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