TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, January 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: How to automatically create a book of abstracts of a scientific conference? I'd like to prepare a book of abstracts of a scientific conference. I expect to receive about 650 articles. Suppose the articles are all the same document class and all have the following structure ... {abstract}   asked by Sisabe 19 votes answered by SLx64 11 votes Knowledge indicators I'm writing my CV with LaTeX and I would like to add knowledge indicators next to my skills. I'm looking for a package that can display a "vertical stack". Something like: German ≡ English = Chinese ... {diagrams} {resume}   asked by Dominik 19 votes answered by Paul Gessler 10 votes What is the correct way to handle approximate dates in biblatex? I need to cite something for which only an approximate date is known i.e. 'circa YYYY'. Normally, I would write this as 'cYYYY'. However, if I try putting this in the date field of my .bib entry, (I ... {biblatex}   asked by cfr 17 votes answered by karlkoeller 10 votes Folium of Descartes How to fill region on Folium of Descartes like this: Here is my codes: \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage{pstricks-add} \usepackage{pst-func} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} ... {pstricks} {pstricks-add}   asked by kalakay 15 votes answered by Bernard 13 votes Getting ligatures of Qv with Linux Libertine In old texts in Danish, the letter combination Qv was common and more or less worked like Qu in English. Now the code \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{fontspec} ... {fonts} {fontspec} {ligatures}   asked by Gaussler 15 votes answered by Ludenticus 19 votes Non-slanted (siunitx style) unit prefixes with pgfplots I've taken the example from the pgfplots manual on Preset SI prefixes and modified it slightly, changing a prefix from milli to micro. The result is that the units of the yaxis are stated as ... {pgfplots} {siunitx}   asked by anonymous 15 votes answered by Paul Gessler 14 votes Bigfoot changes hyphenchar for compound words Bigfoot changes the "hyphen" char for compound words: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{bigfoot} \listfiles \DeclareNewFootnote[para]{foo} \begin{document} \footnotefoo{\rule{9.4cm}{1mm} xx ... {hyphenation} {bigfoot}   asked by topskip 12 votes answered by David Carlisle 11 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: LaTeX Editors/IDEs What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc. ... {editors} {big-list} {ide}   asked by hayalci 427 votes answered by YuppieNetworking 213 votes Can we make a love heart with LaTeX? I understand that this post may cause some down votes because it seems a bit off-topic, but having seen the discussion on Christmas Tree with LaTeX I am still willing to try. My Girlfriend's birthday ... {tikz-pgf} {diagrams} {animations} {fun}   asked by Sibbs Gambling 115 votes answered by Thérèse 131 votes Can you answer these? Adding an environment to LyX for dividing a proof into steps My question is basically a combination of the questions Is it possible to use the enumerate/itemize environment within the proof/remark environment in a nice way? and Create new paragraph style in ... {lyx} {lists} {lyx-layouts}   asked by PhoemueX 2 votes Is there a way i can make psfrag replace every number in a plot? I want to replace every number in the axis of a plot. Can psfrag do this? If not, is there any other tool i can use to get the same effect? {plot} {gnuplot} {psfrag}   asked by ebernardes 2 votes Problem with background pictures (\AddToShipoutPicture) EDIT: adding \usepackage{grffile} did the trick!!! I'm having some troubles with the frontpage of my document. I use \AddToShipoutPicture*{\BackgroundPic} to print 2 .eps files as background on which ... {graphics} {backgrounds} {eso-pic}   asked by Alban_T 2 votes New blog post: TeXtalk: an interview with Paulo Cereda by Paulo Cereda on Jan 25 Image courtesy of David Carlisle (MS Paint skillz FTW) Welcome to TeXtalk! Our interviewee is Paulo Cereda. Paulo has collected 24k+ rep, 160+ answers, and 240+ badges on TeX.sx. He is an avid ...

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