I'm trying to get an auto generated list of symbols in my latex project. Here is the macro that I have so far...
\newcommand{\addsymbol}[3]{%
\symboldisplay{#1}{#2}\\%
\setelem{#3}{#1}
}
\newcommand{\symboldisplay}[2]{%
$#1$ \parbox{5in}{\dotfill #2}%
}
\def\setelem#1{\expandafter\def\csname myarray(#1)\endcsname}
\def\dispsymbol#1{\csname myarray(#1)\endcsname}
I then include my list of symbols like so
\begin{listofsymbols}
\input{symbols}
\end{listofsymbols}
where the symbols.tex file is
\addsymbol{n}{Number of sample points}{num_points}
\addsymbol{f_s}{Sampling frequency}{samp_frequency}
I can then get my symbol by label like so: \dispsymbol{num_points} -- this displays n in this case.
This works all find and dandy... when I am calling \dispsymbol in the same chapter (the List of Symbols chapter) as the \addsymbol def. When I try to get the label for the symbol in another chapter nothing seems to work.
Could anyone help me, or suggest a package that will do what I am looking for?
The thing is that
\begin{listofsymbols}
\end{listofsymbols}
is the scope and any macro is lost after this group. You should define the global macros.
Replace the following
\def\setelem#1{\expandafter\def\csname myarray(#1)\endcsname}
with
\def\setelem#1{\expandafter\gdef\csname myarray(#1)\endcsname}
To automatically generate a list of symbols you can use the nomencl package, or for more complex documents that requires also glossaries or lists of acronyms, the glossaries package.
Check the examples in the documentation ;)
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I have the following reference identified in file A:
.. _my-label:
and I reference it in file B :
this is a reference to file A :ref:`my-label`
This generates a cross-reference as expected when outputting HTML. However, when outputting LaTeX, it does not and I have the classical warning:
LaTeX Warning: Hyper reference `my-label:my-label' on page XX undefined on input line YY.
Is there a LaTeX trick like double compilation or something similar that I am not doing correctly?
I encountered the same issue. HTML compiled without errors for me, but LaTeX compilation did throw the hyperref errors you described. It seems to me that, for some obscure reason, Sphinx does not create the labels that hyperref tries to reference.
I came up with the following solution: since I do not know how to include the missing labels, I will just make it so that LaTeX does not look for them anymore. In detail, I am doing this by overwriting the \hyperref command.
I included the following code in my conf.py file:
latex_elements = {
'preamble': r'''
\renewcommand{\hyperref}[2][]{#2}
'''
}
This includes the \renewcommand{... in the preamble of the LaTeX document created by Sphinx. It will overwrite the \hyperref command so that it won't try to insert a link, but just print the link text.
Obviously, with this solution, the reference that caused the errors will not appear as hyperlinks in your PDF document, but at least it is compiling without errors.
Note
What I described worked perfectly fine for my use case, however, it is described in the Hyperref manual that the \hyperref command can be invoked in two different ways (\hyperref{URL}{category}{name}{text} and \hyperref[label]{text}). I am only overwriting the second one, as that seems to be the one that Sphinx is using for cross references. However, not accounting for the first one when overwriting the command might lead to issues in some cases.
I need help importing a library to Xamarin. I included the library and inserted it into a new folder named BarcodeScanner, and the name of the library is libBarcodeScanner.a.
gcc_flags "-L${ProjectDir} -lBarcodeScanner -force_load ${ProjectDir}/libBarcodeScanner.a”
But it shows an error:
Error: Could not parse additional mtouch arguments: No matching quote found.
What should i do ?
Do i need to create a binding project to use a library like BarcodeScanner ?
Error: Could not parse additional mtouch arguments: No matching quote found.
That does not look like a Xamarin.iOS (mtouch) error message. Those start with a MT prefix followed by 4 numbers, e.g. MT2001. Could it be Xamarin Studio giving you this error ?
What should i do ?
Review the flags: are they identical to what's pasted above ?
No matching quote found. makes is sound there's an extra quote in there. Maybe one of the " is wrong (e.g. a autocorrection giving you a smart quote) ?
Or maybe your project directory (replaced from ${ProjectDir} contains a quote character ?
Also can you edit your question to add which version of Xamarin Studio you're using ?
Do i need to create a binding project to use a library like BarcodeScanner ?
No, but it's the preferred ways to link static libraries. Using a binding project removed the need to add Additional mtouch arguments inside every projects and every build configuration (e.g. Debug, Release...) of your applications.
I will answer my own question, maybe it will help someone. I declared in my MainController that i needed:
using MonoTouch.CoreVideo;
using MonoTouch.CoreMedia;
using MonoTouch.CoreGraphics;
using MonoTouch.CoreFoundation;
And after that i referenced only the static library with:
-gcc_flags "-L${ProjectDir} -lBarcodeScanner -force_load ${ProjectDir}/libBarcodeScanner.a"
#poupou's "maybe" was spot on, but I'll be pedantic and explain exactly.
Look closely at this line I just quoted from your original question. I've marked it down using code (four spaces prefix per line), and broke it into two lines. Nothing else has been changed. Hopefully the error should be obvious now:
- gcc_flags "-L${ProjectDir} -lBarcodeScanner
-force_load ${ProjectDir}/libBarcodeScanner.a”
Essentially, you used different types of double quotes. The first double-quote character above is Unicode 0x0022, which is the regular Quotation Mark. The second double-quote character above is Unicode 0x8221, or Right Double Quotation Mark. It might be that you had copied & pasted all or part of the line above from a web page, rather than typing it in.
For command-line processing, mixing your styles of double quotes simply won't work. You'll need to use balanced regular quotation marks, as you wrote in your own answer just now (but might not have specifically noticed?) FWIW, the right- and left- variants of the quotation mark are usually used for word processing, web pages, etc. where the style aesthetic matters.
Since you didn't use code-markup when quoting that line originally (while I noticed you did, in your recently posted answer) it looks like Stack Overflow "helpfully" tried to render the quotes as similar in style, fooling us into looking elsewhere for the problem, when it was right in front of us.
Anyway, next time you get an error about mismatched quotes, I suggest you carefully check their type. If they look the least bit different, they may not be the right kind of quotes.
I'm writing a manual of sorts in LaTeX for some software. I'm constrained to use the article class. I must include docs of individual c++ classes in the manual. I'm looking at doxygen for this, but I've never used doxygen (if there's a better way, let me know).
I can get doxygen to produce a nice LaTeX (--> pdf) file of my entire project. But what I'd like to do is somehow extract the LaTeX source for each class and drop it into my LaTeX manual source at the appropriate place.
I've tried putting all the preamble stuff from refman.tex (generated by doxygen) in my preamble, and then later in the document using \input to include the tex file of an individual class. After cleaning up a few conflicts, I get to one that I don't know how to get past. The doxygen-generated doxygen.sty file makes reference to \chaptermark, but I believe that this is a macro defined in the book class.
So 1.) Am I going about this all the wrong way? 2.)Is it possible to force Doxygen to produce code in the article class? 3.) Anything else?
-garyp
You can make doxygen produce a document that uses the article document class by setting COMPACT_LATEX to YES in your doxygen config file.
So, I'm self-taught in the art of LaTeX, which means there are some really simple things that I just haven't ever figured out. One thing that I've always wanted to know was how to add to a sort of global preamble where I can add custom declarations and the like that will automatically be included when I render a document. Any thoughts?
You can create your own package to load with \usepackage. In it you can declare functions that you use commonly. If it is in the directory with your source it can be included directly, otherwise if you want to use it for all your documents, put in in your latex distibution folder and run texhash so that the compiler can find it.
Directions can be found in the LaTeX Wikibook or other places I'm sure. I also was a self taught LaTeXer and the Wikibook taught me most of what I needed, along with the short-math-guide and a few package manuals (especially for TikZ/PGF and Beamer).
So far the hyperref package in LaTeX has automatically linked all the items in my report correctly. But there is one that did not get linked properly, possibly because I manually added it to the table of contents like this:
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
How do I fix this?
You have to use the \phantomsection macro just before or after the \addtocontentsline. This instructs hyperref to add an anchor at that point. Also, take into account that you have to run LaTeX several times to make this anchor to be in the exact place.
If you're using a standard LaTeX document class, such as report, you can use the tocbibind package, and then you won't need the \addcontentsline command and the hyperlinks should work correctly. From the documentation:
The tocbibind package enables the titles of the Table of Contents, the List of Figure, the List of Tables, the Bibliography and the Index all to be added to the Table of Contents.
I'd also suggest looking at the memoir class, which also solves this problem. It's intended to be a replacement for the standard report and book classes, and provides lots of options and commands for customisation.