TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, April 30, 2015

Top new questions this week: Is it possible in Latex to convert all numbers between imperial and metric? I am currently writing a document that I would like to deploy to both European and American audiences. The problem is, as usual, the choice between imperial vs metric units. The text is not ... {units}   asked by Mark Anderson 23 votes answered by Andrew 15 votes How did LaTeX come about? I know the story of TeX, but how did LaTeX come about, and come to be the only (as far as I know) system built on top of TeX? {latex-project} {tex-history}   asked by Dave 19 votes answered by Fran 16 votes Fill in between polar curves I am trying to fill in space between a pair of spiral curves in tikz. I have tried using the fillbetween library but it just shades in the whole spiral. Does anyone have a hint they could offer? ... {tikz-pgf} {fillbetween} {polarplot}   asked by user3303069 14 votes answered by fpast 6 votes Why do I get a warning about computer modern even though I'm using lmodern? I would like to use KOMA script with a fontsize of 13pt (see very much related question here: Koma Script and real 13pt). Consider the following document: ... {fonts} {koma-script}   asked by shark.dp 12 votes answered by egreg 12 votes How to define a wrapper to a command that takes an optional argument? What is the proper way to define a wrapper to a command which takes an optional argument (such as \chapter)? I mean a wrapper, not a clone, such that we can inject code into the wrapper without ... {macros} {best-practices}   asked by nicolai.rostov 12 votes answered by egreg 8 votes Nonstandard analysis: Typesetting `^*` depending on context In nonstandard analysis, the nonstandard extension operator * is used frequently. Typesetting it is not straightforward, though, because the placement of * depends on the symbol to follow. E.g., the ... {math-mode} {spacing}   asked by Daniel Roy 10 votes answered by Manuel 4 votes Treating the contents of a TeX-style group ({\blah ...}) as macro arguments I am trying to make adjustments to a large document that uses TeX-style macros, like this: {\defun SomeFunctionName arg1 arg2} The \defun macro is defined as \newcommand{\defun}{\tt}. Can I ... {macros} {tex-core}   asked by Clément 10 votes answered by David Carlisle 18 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Superscript outside math mode What is the easiest way to superscript text outside of math mode? For example, let's say I want to write the $n^{th}$ element, but without the math mode's automatic italicization of the th. And what ... {superscripts}   asked by jamaicanworm 113 votes answered by Werner 154 votes 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 18 votes answered by Fran 19 votes Can you answer these? Is it possible to define even and odd page content separately? Basically, the project I'm working on is a bilingual book, containing both text and music, with one language on even pages and the other language on odd pages. Since some of the music will span ... {page-numbering}   asked by TCF 2 votes natbib with superscript option does not handle optional parameter well I am using natbib for citation like so: \usepackage[super, comma, numbers, square, sort]{natbib} With normal citations, e.g. \cite{some-ref} this works as expected. But when i try to pass an ... {citing} {natbib} {superscripts}   asked by Anon 2 votes How do I avoid going past the end of my animation in a beamer presentation I would like to animate some overlays using animatevalue, but I don't know of a way to stop the animation at the last overlay. Is there a way to make this independent of OS and pdf reader? If not, ... {beamer} {animate}   asked by Alejandro 2 votes

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