I know how to set word wrap and left, center and right alignment for a long text, but I am not able to make word-wrap with aligning justified according to the padding or form width. Is any chance to do it using a pure Lua script (Lua 5.3)?. Not use Love2D, Latex, or any Lua modules.
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I have a unicode string that could contain characters from a right to left language such as Arabic or Hebrew, but could also contain text from left to right languages. I need to be able to know at which end is the start and in which direction to step when stepping through the string from beginning to end depending on which language is in the string. Is there a standard way of dealing with this?
TMemo appears to handle this in the way I want. I paste some hebrew text into a TMemo and the direction that the caret moves is the reverse of the arrow keys I use. I can even have a mixture of english and hebrew text in the same memo and the direction the caret moves will depend on whether it's within an english or hebrew section of text. I'd like to replicate this behaviour. I attempted to look into the Delphi code including FMX.Memo and FMX.Text, but couldn't find the code responsible. I have a feeling that the code for handling this may be hidden in a dll. I could write code myself that contains a list of all possible right to left unicode characters to test if a character is RTL or LTR, but I'd like to make use of code that already exists if possible. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I do know about the unicode RLM mark, which is an invisible character used to mark a section of RTL text, but I don't think this is being used by TMemo. The hebrew text I'm pasting into the TMemo doesn't contain this or any other invisible character.
In MathJax, I am able to adjust the font size using the answer here (i.e. shown below). Is there a way to adjust the font size of the normal text too without dollar signs around it too? For example, when I type the following: Let $f(x)=x^2$.
The text size around the word "Let" would be small and $f(x)=x^2$ would be much larger. I want to scale the text of the words as well, and I am not sure how to do so.
chtml: {scale: 1.5},
svg: {scale: 1.5},
In regular Latex, you could do Let $f(x)=x^2$.
However remember that, as the name suggests, MathJax doesn't aim to make all of Latex available to the web but focuses on the math part of Latex (and also AsciiMath and MathML of course). A key thing to remember here is that MathJax actually uses the math delimiters to find where there are content to typeset and when you do Let $f(x)=x^2$, MathJax doesn't do anything about the Let since it is outside the math delimiters.
Nonetheless, there are ways to use regular text in Latex math mode too. For example by means of \text{} so in your case, you could accomplish what you want with $\text{Let } f(x)=x^2$
Now, simply setting the text size of the surrounding content will make all of the Latex bigger:
<p style="font-size: 1.5em;">$\text{Let } f(x)=x^2$</p>
<p style="font-size: 2.5em;">$\text{Let } f(x)=x^2$</p>
<p style="font-size: 5em;">$\text{Let } f(x)=x^2$</p>
If you want a bigger horizontal space between the math and the Let, you can add a horizontal spacer:
<p>$\text{Let}\hspace{2mm} f(x)=x^2$</p>
I have prepared a sandbox which you can play around with, also try to uncomment the scale part of the configuration to see this factor in play (however, I usually use font height and not scale to control size): Sandbox
Some things to remember:
Example uses MathJax 3, there might be small differences in comparison to version 2.
Example uses the HTML output processor (as in your example), if you load a different MathJax script, you might be outputting svgs instead and then some options won't have impact, so always check these things thoroughly when something doesn't work.
$...$ is not a standard pair of delimiters so it has to be explicitly configured, otherwise MathJax won't recognize it as inline Latex math.
MathJax automatically does one round of initial typesetting, if you want to update content dynamically, you have to explicitly instruct MathJax to typeset again.
Good luck!
So I am using the flashcard software Anki which uses LaTex for its math equation formatting
So when I write an equation with a fraction in the same line as standard text, it automatically allignts the lowest point of the equation, in the case the denomitor of the fraction, with the bottom the normal text. How can I get the equation and text to be horizontally aligned.
Some text before an equation: [$]\frac{x^2}{y}[/$]
What I did was to make the equation itself a bit smaller to better match the text around it.
To add it for all equations go to: Tools > Manage Note Types > Options > Header
Or you could place it inline: [$]\tiny[/$]
An excellent writeup on sizing text this way can be found at tex.stackexchange
And you may be able to get better results by changing the font itself.
As the LaTeX snippets are finally rendered as images, this is a CSS issue. The equations become centered when you add the following rule to your card CSS:
img[src*="latex"] {
vertical-align: middle;
}
This CSS rule matches all images whose file name contains the string latex and centers them in their respective line of text. It thus matches all anki-generated latex images.
If needed, I can supply info on how to edit the card CSS or on how to make Anki and Latex work together.
Hi I'm using LateX. I have a block of text that I'd like to have a small box like space highlighting the are (just like a \begin{equation} but for text).
Is there such a thing in LateX?
I'm not 100% sure what you're asking I'm afraid, but if you just want to indent text with a margin on each side of the page to make it stand out, you can use...
\begin{quotation}
Quotation is good for long blocks of text that you want highlighted
\end{quotation}
\begin{quote}
Quote is suited to a single block of quoted text.
\end{quote}
If you actually want to have a physical black box around the text, you might want to consider wrapping it in a tabular / table, or you might want to delve into minipages and/or par box environments...
Is \makebox what you're looking for?
To create boxes of text that behave differently from the rest of the text, we can use
\makebox[width][pos]{text}
The width sets the width the of the box. The pos sets the positioning of the text - either r (right justified text), l (left justified), or s (stretched to fill the box). If the pos parameter is left out, as in \makebox[1in]{centerme}, the text is centered. The text is placed in the box. If you want to draw a box around the text, use \framebox just as you would use \makebox.
\mbox{text} and \fbox{text} are quick versions of \makebox and \framebox, which create a box to fit the size of the text.
There are some more examples at http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php?title=LaTeX:Layout#Boxes
What was the original historical use of the vertical tab character (\v in the C language, ASCII 11)?
Did it ever have a key on a keyboard? How did someone generate it?
Is there any language or system still in use today where the vertical tab character does something interesting and useful?
Vertical tab was used to speed up printer vertical movement. Some printers used special tab belts with various tab spots. This helped align content on forms. VT to header space, fill in header, VT to body area, fill in lines, VT to form footer. Generally it was coded in the program as a character constant. From the keyboard, it would be CTRL-K.
I don't believe anyone would have a reason to use it any more. Most forms are generated in a printer control language like postscript.
#Talvi Wilson noted it used in python '\v'.
print("hello\vworld")
Output:
hello
world
The above output appears to result in the default vertical size being one line. I have tested with perl "\013" and the same output occurs. This could be used to do line feed without a carriage return on devices with convert linefeed to carriage-return + linefeed.
Microsoft Word uses VT as a line separator in order to distinguish it from the normal new line function, which is used as a paragraph separator.
In the medical industry, VT is used as the start of frame character in the MLLP/LLP/HLLP protocols that are used to frame HL-7 data, which has been a standard for medical exchange since the late 80s and is still in wide use.
It was used during the typewriter era to move down a page to the next vertical stop, typically spaced 6 lines apart (much the same way horizontal tabs move along a line by 8 characters).
In modern day settings, the vt is of very little, if any, significance.
The ASCII vertical tab (\x0B)is still used in some databases and file formats as a new line WITHIN a field. For example:
In the .mer file format to allow new lines within a data field,
FileMaker databases can use vertical tabs as a linefeed (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/59096).
I have found that the VT char is used in pptx text boxes at the end of each line shown in the box in oder to adjust the text to the size of the box.
It seems to be automatically generated by powerpoint (not introduced by the user) in order to move the text to the next line and fix the complete text block to the text box. In the example below, in the position of §:
"This is a text §
inside a text box"
A vertical tab was the opposite of a line feed i.e. it went upwards by one line. It had nothing to do with tab positions. If you want to prove this, try it on an RS232 terminal.
similar to R0byn's experience, i was experimenting with a Powerpoint slide presentation and dumped out the main body of text on the slide, finding that all the places where one would typically find carriage return (ASCII 13/0x0d/^M) or line feed/new line (ASCII 10/0x0a/^J) characters, it uses vertical tab (ASCII 11/0x0b/^K) instead, presumably for the exact reason that dan04 described above for Word: to serve as a "newline" while staying within the same paragraph. good question though as i totally thought this character would be as useless as a teletype terminal today.
I believe it's still being used, not sure exactly. There might be even a key combination of it.
As English is written Left to Right, Arabic Right to Left, there are languages in world that are also written top to bottom. In that case a vertical tab might be useful same as the horizontal tab is used for English text.
I tried searching, but couldn't find anything useful yet.