TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, January 28, 2016

Top new questions this week: Can LaTeX be used to create flexible ebook typesize and pagesize, like html? I've overheard mention of LaTeX being used for the production of eBooks. I'm thinking that it's in reference to producing small pages of a fixed size, say 7", fixed type size, say 8pt, for reading ... {ebook} {tex4ebook}   asked by user12711 16 votes answered by michal.h21 13 votes Preparing a special exam sheet for every student I am wondering if there is a way to read the data from an excel file and then somehow using a forloop outside a tabular, get a special exam sheet for each student. Until now, we have been using a ... {loops} {excel}   asked by ThePortakal 14 votes answered by michal.h21 12 votes Turn tikz drawing into a macro I have created my own method of drawing a randomly generated closed loop. Here is my code: \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{pgf} \pgfmathsetseed{\number\pdfrandomseed} \begin{document} ... {tikz-pgf} {macros}   asked by Anthony Mottaz 14 votes answered by Torbjørn T. 14 votes Is there a reason for \usepackage with options in a separate line? I understand that these two commands do the same thing: \usepackage[letterpaper, landscape, margin=2in]{geometry} and \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{legalpaper, landscape, margin=2in} Is there ... {geometry} {syntax} {package-options}   asked by A Feldman 14 votes Symbol for m by n matrix I have been using m \times n to denote the size of a matrix. But lately I've decided that it has too much space and doesn't look quite right (to me). Presumably the largish spaces are present because ... {math-mode} {math-operators}   asked by bubba 13 votes answered by David Carlisle 18 votes Is there a triangular protractor shape built-in to TikZ? I know you can draw a protractor with TikZ. The problem is that my students use the triangular shaped one like this. So in order to make it a little bit more familiar to them, I am wondering if there ... {tikz-pgf}   asked by Arne 12 votes answered by Alenanno 32 votes Why does \setdefaultlanguage modify my fontfamily? Please see this example code \documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage[spelling=new]{german} \renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} \begin{document} test \end{document} ... {fonts} {xetex} {polyglossia}   asked by buhtz 10 votes answered by jfbu 9 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Windows API error 5: "Access is denied" when trying to compile TikZ picture I installed PGF but are unable to compile the following document: \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage{pgf,tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (0,0) --(1,2); \end{tikzpicture} ... {tikz-pgf} {errors} {miktex} {windows}   asked by siyu 22 votes answered by sevenkul 23 votes Nice scientific pictures show off Task Show off your best scientific illustration ! The main purpose of this question is to share beautiful scientific pictures, preferably with an educational aspect. Content Your post must ... {diagrams} {3d} {technical-drawing} {fun} {big-list}   asked by Thomas 354 votes answered by Charles Staats 231 votes Can you answer these? Syntax Issues with lstdefinelanguage I have some issues defining a new language for the lstlisting package. The source code shall look like this in the end: And my latex definition looks like this atm: \documentclass[]{article} ... {listings} {packages}   asked by Dennis Höhl 3 votes Set draft depending on operating system I'm working on two different operating systems - MacOS and Windows. While the main part of my work is done on OSX, I sometimes switch to windows for several reasons. Problem is: Windows and OSX ... {conditionals} {ifplatform}   asked by Rico 3 votes Conversion of HTML5 to LaTex Is anyone familiar with a tool for converting HTML to LaTex markup? I don't mean fetching and attempting to render CSS stuff, just converting the content of elements like paragraphs, headers, and ... {html} {latex2html}   asked by MFave 2 votes

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