TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, November 27, 2014

Top new questions this week: Could someone further elucidate expansion, catcodes, and scantokens...? In response to my question "With TikZ is it possible to pass the node content through a preprocessor?", @MarkWibrow suggested a solution using \scantokens. {\catcode`\_=13 ... {expansion} {e-tex} {scantokens}   asked by A.Ellett 16 votes answered by David Carlisle 17 votes Using LaTeX to solve math problems in LaTeX more efficiently than with only paper I have been always solving math problems in LaTeX without pen and paper, since a few years ago. Some have (many) lines of words, some (many) lines of equations, and some of both. When I saw that I ... {math-mode} {workflow}   asked by Tim 13 votes answered by Matthew Leingang 10 votes Kleinberg-Tardos style of book writing I recently read a book Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos, which is written in a very unique style. This book doesn't have any typical LaTeX environments such as theorem, lemma, and ... {environments} {package-writing}   asked by user19906 13 votes answered by egreg 19 votes Does spaces in $xy=1$ have differences between $x y = 1$? Which way is more correct? I don't see any differences, but maybe I something missed? {math-mode} {spacing}   asked by yarpoplar 12 votes answered by Werner 17 votes How can I create a rectangle symbol? I need to represent symmetries of a a rectangle as a set, and in my text book they do so by using the following notation S(SYMBOL-THAT-LOOKS-LIKE-A-RECTANGLE) I searched everywhere, tried ... {symbols}   asked by JustDanyul 10 votes answered by David Carlisle 12 votes Where to find a comprehensive overview of the features of the ConTeXt cite command? I need to use the \cite command in ConTeXt very often for in-text citations in APA format, in a wide range of forms, e.g.: (Author, YYYY) Author (YYYY) (Author, YYYY, p. n) Author (YYYY, p. n) ... {bibtex} {context} {apa-style} {context-mkiv}   asked by Village 10 votes answered by DG' 12 votes Expansion of verbatim material I am passing a file name in the command line which contains underscores and would like to print the name of the file in the resulting PDF. So, need some expansion magic so that the output is: The ... {verbatim} {expansion}   asked by Peter Grill 9 votes answered by David Carlisle 11 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Adding tabs or creating my own command I have a problem adding tabs and I can't use a tabular environments (like tabular or tabbing) because I can't mix it with enumerate environments. Is there a way to add a simgle tab like in any text ... {spacing} {horizontal-alignment}   asked by Agustin 15 votes answered by Fran 17 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? Reasons to prefer tikz or pstricks over any GUI driven graphics tool If I need a figure for a document I usually use TikZ or PSTricks. Sometimes I would like to promote it to other people who usually use only GUI programs for such kind of stuff. But then I restrain ... {tikz-pgf} {pstricks}   asked by student 4 votes About the actual meaning of \pgfplotsunitxlength macro from the pgfplots package From the pgfplots manual (sec. 8.4): \pgfplotsunitxlength,\pgfplotsunitylength,\pgfplotsunitzlength,... Macros which expand to the vector length ||xi|| of the respective unit vector xi... {pgfplots}   asked by Luigi 4 votes What are your favorite lesser-known LyX tips and tricks? Things that you have learnt from experience which might help others. {lyx}   asked by perminger 5 votes

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