is there anybody out there, with experiences about how to do a gantt-diagram / chart using latex.
I tryed it for a lot of hours today, lastly it worked switching outpout from pdf to dvi.
Maybe someone can tell me what to include, besides pst-gantt, and the normal pstricks stuff.
It showed more than 100 errors for 4 Tasks.. after switching to dvi there was a big 0.
i am using the whole distribution mitex .. upgradet to the newest version. stupidly i have the error log not avaible on this computer. but it was always the same error. i was using pst-gantt, outload missing packages.. hm errors will follow tomorrow morning
Reading the pst-gantt README it looks like this depends on the pstricks package. I believe that the "ps" is for postscript and the functionality is implemented by generating DVI "special" commands; which means that you can't produce output pdf directly using pdflatex. You can get to PDF output, but you must go by way of DVI. Either source->DVI->PDF or even source->DVI->PS->PDF.
I came across this question when having trouble with pst-gantt and pdflatex. As others have pointed out you need to go via DVI, which honestly sucks if you have used pdflatex all the time.
So I did some search, and found this phantastic replacement written by Martin Krumm: http://www.martin-kumm.de/tex_gantt_package.php
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I have working .Rmd files that contain latex syntax (rendering correctly). However, when I render using the bookdown package, I have experienced that the latex output is incorrect.
I went to check in the source (aka https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/markdown-syntax.html#math-expressions) and I see that the render is not correct there either!
I see similar behavior for bookdown's preview_chapter() rendering but not for Rmarkdown knit of a toy example. I see similar behavior changing web browser.
Is this something on my end? Are there updates I need to do?
It is not an issue on your end, but a server problem (the default MathJax CDN server in bookdown was down). I just changed the server, and the problem should be gone if you
devtools::install_github('rstudio/bookdown')
I can confirm that Yihui Xie's answer is helpful. I didn't have devtools installed in RStudio, so I used:
install.packages('devtools')
After this, I duly followed Yihui's recommendation and ran:
devtools::install_github('rstudio/bookdown')
After this, the problem was solved and maths were rendered correctly in the gitbook format.
Of late, I have observed that pdf generated by latex files are unreadable in certain email browsers (when previewing the attachment in Outlook) as well as the printed hard copy especially math symbols like inner products, integral etc overlap with each other making the file ugly and unreadable. Surprisingly the same file looks perfectly fine when viewed using the ShareLatex built-in pdf browser as well as the desktop version of Adobe Reader.
ShareLatex documentation suggest switching the PDF viewer from built-in to native. Upon changing to native, even the browser version had unreadable characters.
[https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Kb/Changing_PDF_viewer]
So, I would like to know if there is better way to compile the tex file in Sharelatex so that its readable across platforms and in print.
Most of the "pdf generation from tex" related issues posted on StackOverflow point out problems with viewing images. As such the pdf files I am generating don't contain any images.
Thanks in advance !
AFAIK there's not a single build-in PDF viewer (browser, e-mail client, ...) that works well. But what you could test is if \usepackage{lmodern} makes things better ...
I hope you can solve this or at least tell what to do about it because I'm clueless. The thing is that once I've saved a .wxm file and then want to open it appears on wxMaxima this error and the "app" crashes:
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
decoding error on stream
<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "socket 127.0.0.1:62607, peer: 127.0.0.1:4011"
{13F30991}
(:EXTERNAL-FORMAT :ASCII):
the octet sequence (195) cannot be decoded.
Automatically continuing.
To enable the Lisp debugger set debugger-hook to nil.
Thanks in advance.
P.S.: I run the latest Mac OS X version on my iMac.
Create a new file and write it down.
(setf sb-impl::*default-external-format* :utf-8)
(setf sb-alien::*default-c-string-external-format* :utf-8)
Save the file as .sbclrc at Home (User) folder.
I come back on this post as I have been affected by this today.
I am using Ubunutu 14.04 and the same bug appears. To me it is due to Maxima not being able to load anything else than ".mac" files, nothing to do with utf-8/ASCII (I have mv a file that is working to a wxm and vice-versa, it will not work anymore / rework)
Also I have prepared a workaround:
The idea is too have a tool that translates your .wxm files to a .mac file just before you load it (it is actually a very easy bash script)
So:
you put the wxm-to-mac.sh files into your path
then inside maxima, instead of doing
load("foo.wxm")
you simply do
system("wxm-to-mac foo.wxm")$
load("foo.mac")$
Bare in mind you shall not edit the foo.mac file because a routine might re-erase it afterward. Instead keep editing the .wxm file.
Hope it helps someone
Looks like the file has been saved with some non-ASCII characters (e.g. UTF-8) in it, but it is not read as UTF-8; that seems to be a bug in wxMaxima. Can you please post the offending .wxm file?
I was having the same problem, since none here could give a straight and correct answer (at least is not marked with the green icon) i tried to look somewhere else. I couldn't find an answer that solve my problem, but then i thought that i had used WxMaxima on Mac before and it worked pretty nice. The last time i installed wxmaxima on mac and it worked was in september 2012, i went to the http://sourceforge.net website and searched for the maxima file that was available on that date and i found http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/5.18.1-MacOS/, i installed it and its working pretty fine (about the problem, it is weird, even if i create a new maxima file typed "a" and saved it, i could no longer open it, so i'm guessing that it has nothing to do with ascii or non-ascii characters) I have no idea why this error happens on the recent version of Maxima/WxMaxima, but it makes no sense that we have to install a previous version for it to work.
Anyway, it's working for me, and i hope it works for you too. Glad i helped :)
I had the same problem.
In my case, the name of the directory where the ".wxm" file is located, contained Korean letter. I changed the directory name with an English one.
Then the problem has been solved.
I hope this works for you, too.
I chose YAML over XML as a format to store our input and output data. It works well, but now I'm discovering one of YAML's main weaknesses: editor/viewer support.
I need help to simplify the viewing of potentially large YAML files by coworkers. Here are some of the programs they might use:
browsers (firefox, chrome, IE)
vim
nedit
emacs
eclipse
komodo
slickedit
I'm most interested in using browsers to view the YAML because that would cover everyone, but solutions for any of those other editors would also be helpful. The less customization required by the user, the better!
Anyone know of browser plugins or have any other tips for viewing YAML?
Thanks in advance!
In vim you should look at Folding. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding The default method of indent based folding should be sufficient for YAML.
:set foldmethod=indent
zo opens/expands/unfolds
zc collapses/closes/folds
For eclipse you can use
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/yaml-editor/
which supports folding (but must be enabled in preferences) or you just use the quick outline Ctrl + Shift + o and type identifer as shown in example - here *city was used to show up only those parts of document. Pressing Enter will jump to the coresponding part.
PS: I am the maintainer of the plugin
As of now the workflow is something like, I import an SVN or a CVS repository and then compile a document locally on my machine to get either a ps or a pdf file. But I was wondering if there is a Web front-end to do all the stuff, like for instance, an editor using which you can edit the file online and then download just the pdf file by compiling it?
Any suggestions?
http://www.scribtex.com/pages/index
http://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/
latex-lab will build on top of the google apps editor base...
scribtex is hosted only it looks like.
Another to add to the list is TeXonWeb.
If you mean online LaTeX compilers, then there are two I know of - at baywifi.com (to PDF) and at ScienceSoft (to several formats). Haven't seen any full editors, though.
There is a CMS based on Latex out there at www.osreviews.net.
The best site I found to produce PDF from LaTeX online is PC Shows.
Verbosus offers an Online LaTeX Editor that supports PDF preview, HTTPS, syntax highlighting, code completion, templates, etc. (Additionally it offers an editor for Octave/Matlab)
This is less of a web-based interface than a simple drag-and-drop cgi script that converts latex syntax to a graphic... www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html
latex-online is a simple open source web service that compiles latex sources/public git repos and returns pdf's. It has both a simplistic web front-end and a command-line tool for interacting with the service - you might find it interesting.
One rather new possibility is https://texlive.net/
You can either interactively edit your documents or you can pass your document via the url to it. E.g. a simple hello world document can be constructed as
https://texlive.net/run?%5Cdocumentclass%7Barticle%7D%0A%5Cusepackage%7Bamsmath%7D%0A%5Cbegin%7Bdocument%7D%0AHello%20world!%0A%5Cend%7Bdocument%7D