Umlauts (and other special characters) sometimes do not work out of the box when applying the listing package.
Here is a code snippet for mapping umlauts to their “raw” encodings:
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{
literate={ö}{{\"o}}1
{ä}{{\"a}}1
{ü}{{\"u}}1
}
I found this snippet alongside many more for other languages in a stackoverflow post.
Setting up Sumatra PDF as PDF viewer for TeXlipse
Whenever you run the preview command, Sumatra PDF will jump to the appropriate position in the compiled PDF file and highlight it for a short moment.
If you need to install MiKTeX packages without using the MiKTeX Package Manager (mpm.exe), you may run into problems with missing font maps that are not properly registered in the index. A typical error message looks as follows:
miktex-makepk: PK font md-chr8y could not be created. !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file md-chr8y): Font md-chr8y at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
A simple solution – that worked out for me at least – is to run updmap.exe one or several times.
The spellchecker aspell allows to exclude certain TeX commands from spellchecking. This article shortly summarizes the configuration parameters that control this behavior. The following options can either be used on the command-line, as environmental variable ASPELL_CONF, or inside a (personal/global) configuration file.
The switch for creating a rule is called add-tex-command and it accepts the command name as first parameter and a string of [opOP] as second, which configures which paramters to ignore (o,p) and which ones to check (O,P).
The following switch tells aspell not to skip the first mandatory parameter, to skip second mandatory parameter, to skip first optional parameter, and not to skip second optional paramter
add-tex-command myCommand PpoO --add-tex-command="myCommand PpoO"
To remove a filter rule, use the following command:
rem-tex-command myCommand --rem-tex-command="myCommand"
Two special switches enable and disable the checking of TeX comments:
tex-check-comments dont-tex-check-comments --tex-check-comments --dont-tex-check-comments
\documentclass{article}
%\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/314/86}
\makeatletter
\def\myCommand{\@ifnextchar[{\@with}{\@without}}
\def\@with[#1]#2{Hello #1, have you met #2?}
\def\@without#1{Goodbye #1.}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\myCommand[KittyX]{the DogX}
\myCommand{my DearX}
\end{document}
Here are some lines from my ~/.aspell.conf:
add-tex-command aspellNoCheck p add-tex-command citep op add-tex-command citet op add-tex-command nomenclature opP # don't check the sort key and the abbreviation add-tex-command url p
The first command serves as marker for passages that are (for example) in German:
\newcommand{\aspellNoCheck}[1]{#1}
\begin{axis}
[
xticklabels={master, g8, lehrer, promovieren, sport, sitzenbleiben},
xtick={1,...,6},
x tick label style={rotate=90,anchor=east}
]
...
\end{axis}
The data file needs to be tab-separated. The first column is treated as x-value.
\pgfplotstableread{data.csv}\datatable
\begin{axis}
\addplot table[y = myColumn] from \datatable;
\addlegendentry{Results from myColumn};
\end{axis}
If the y-values are given in a range of, say, 0.0 to 1.0, the following command displays them as 0% to 100% on the y-axis.
\begin{axis}
[
yticklabel={\pgfmathparse{\tick*100}\pgfmathprintnumber{\pgfmathresult}\%},
]
...
\end{axis}
\begin{axis}
[
only marks
]
...
\end{axis}
SyncTex is a mechanism that allows to jump between source LaTeX file and output PDF file. Texstudio was complaining about missing SyncTex support. The reason was that SyncTex needs to be enabled via a command line switch in Options -> Configure Texstudio… -> Commands/PdfLaTeX:From
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
To
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -synctex=1 %.tex
Ipe is a very nice drawing tool which also interacts with LaTeX in a way that, e.g., you can use the math environment, use LaTeX packages, etc. In order to distinguish PDF files produced with Ipe from other PDF files, I use the file extension ipe.pdf which confuses pdflatex when used inside the includegraphics command:
includegraphics{cyk.ipe.pdf}
yields
! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .ipe.pdf.
We may tell pdflatex how to handle this unknown graphics extension with the following command:
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.ipe.pdf}{pdf}{.ipe.pdf}{}
Here is the meaning of the parameters:
Tikz offers a library for drawing finite state automata (FSA) for embedding in LaTeX. As I mostly use simple FSAs and for making the corresponding Tikz code more expressive, I created two new commands:
Finite State Automaton drawn with Tikz
The following example code defines an FSA which accepts words conforming to the regular expression b(an)+e:
documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{arrows,automata}
% newState{}{}{}{}
%
% #1: internal name,
% #2: (visible) label,
% #3: node properties (e.g. accepting, initial)
% #4: relative position (e.g. right of=/left of=/above of=/below of=)
newcommand{newState}[4]{node[state,#3](#1)[#4]{#2};}
% newTransition{}{}{}{}
% #1: source state (internal name),
% #2: target state (internal name)
% #3: guard/edge label
% #4: edge direction (loop below/above, bend right/left)
newcommand{newTransition}[4]{path[->] (#1) edge [#4] node {#3} (#2); }
begin{document}
begin{figure}
begin{tikzpicture}[
% Default arrow tip
->,>=stealth',shorten >=1pt,auto,
% Default node distance
node distance=2cm,
% Edge stroke thickness: semithick, thick, thin
semithick
]
newState{S}{$S$}{initial}{}
newState{q1}{$q_1$}{right of=S}{}
newState{q2}{$q_2$}{below of=q1}{}
newState{q3}{$q_3$}{right of=q1}{accepting}
newTransition{S}{q1}{b}{}
newTransition{q1}{q2}{a}{bend left}
newTransition{q2}{q1}{n}{bend left}
newTransition{q1}{q3}{e}{}
end{tikzpicture}
caption{Finite State Automaton, accepting the pattern emph{b(an)+e}}
end{figure}
end{document}
Another candidate for drawing graphs is GraphViz, which I indeed tested first. GraphViz has some important drawbacks: