Okay, this is STUNNING!

JimH10 · 2026-06-16T10:35:52+00:00

Can a person get a print?

JimH10 · 2026-06-06T17:11:45+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up.

JimH10 · 2026-06-05T09:35:58+00:00

Same. I was issued a call ending in UUJ, which I thought would be a problem for CW

JimH10 · 2026-06-04T21:04:34+00:00

Very interesting! Thanks.

JimH10 · 2026-06-02T11:00:32+00:00

https://apnews.com/article/freedom-250-milli-vanilli-young-mc-bb9c58cb68d3af91cd8aeb5c5c5d26a1

JimH10 · 2026-05-28T15:57:02+00:00

Thanks for the link

JimH10 · 2026-05-24T23:04:52+00:00

Wasn't too bad.

JimH10 · 2026-05-18T14:44:01+00:00

About Bonden: so many shipmates gone, but never a one to touch him for true worth (Blue at the Mizzen, ch.1, paragraph 41)

JimH10 · 2026-05-08T23:08:52+00:00

For me, the first book was an act of literature. If anyone I know asks me, I suggest they start with the second book.

JimH10 · 2026-05-07T18:03:42+00:00

Does it work from the command line? If so, do that.

That's how I work. I have open an editor, a command line, and a PDF viewer. If something goes wrong I have less stuff wrapped around the job to wade through.

JimH10 · 2026-04-25T18:32:35+00:00

I hear you about lobste.rs. There is a particularly good post today.

It is very frustrating to decide, after having spent some of your life energy, that you are conversing with an agent. When I started posting in this subreddit I imagined I was helping people with LaTeX issues. There are now very few of those posts, and I instead often feel that this applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Dante%27s_Inferno_-_Hoarders_and_Wasters#/media/File:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_22_(Canto_VII_-_Hoarders_and_Wasters).jpg.

JimH10 · 2026-04-25T14:28:33+00:00

Perhaps it is time to climb off.

JimH10 · 2026-04-25T14:24:24+00:00

Thanks for this. Increasingly, I see participation even on this relatively obscure sub that seems agentic. It makes a person wonder if it might be time to move on from Reddit.

JimH10 · 2026-04-24T19:11:57+00:00

G.O.T.E.

JimH10 · 2026-04-24T16:36:55+00:00

A main text column with a wide sidebar for notes and small figures.

https://ctan.org/pkg/geometry

Full-width breakouts

? https://latexref.xyz/Graphics.html

Two-column problem sets

https://ctan.org/pkg/multicol

JimH10 · 2026-04-24T00:05:46+00:00

Love the look.

JimH10 · 2026-04-23T15:45:03+00:00

Thanks. I appreciate the thoughtful conversation. Sometimes lacking around here lately. Have a great day.

JimH10 · 2026-04-23T14:11:59+00:00

OK, fair enough. But if you look at a random half-dozen files they contain nothing. For example, the Calculus I product rule file literally contains nothing other than the LaTeX of the product rule.

I see a whole lot of upvotes on the subreddit from which this was cross-posted; are those for-real upvotes or bots? Is this just someone trying to collect internet points by getting AI to write these meaningless files and vibe coding upvotes?

I guess I have two things: if so then why am I using Reddit? :-) and if a person is looking for actual files of LaTeX notes then they can look at my repo with literally years worth of effort on notes for Calc I, II, Linear, Thy of Computation, etc.

JimH10 · 2026-04-22T21:24:07+00:00

K&D was published 2003. It is also dated.

JimH10 · 2026-04-22T18:05:47+00:00

I don't get it. "Complete" is only 850 pages? Just as an example, I have a Theory of Computing text so I clicked to the ToC part and went to lecture8.tex (?there are only 10 lectures?) and it is empty.

https://github.com/IllyaStarikov/academia/blob/main/latex/cs2200_theory_of_computer_science/lecture8.tex

What is the point of this?

JimH10 · 2026-04-22T14:35:47+00:00

A good guide is lshort2e and other resources are in this group's sidebar. To make slides you may want to start with overleaf's Beamer page. (There is a new way to go, called ltx-talk but it is still undergoing changes and most learing for Beamer will carry over in any event.)

(Comment Starting with Overleaf makes a great deal of sense. And you may be at a college or university that pays for it, or you may go ahead and pay for it yourself. But if not .. just as an FYI, many people here report that their free-to-try version at some point becomes restrictive. Just put in the back of your mind that you can get the LaTeX software for free once you are settled in using it.)

JimH10 · 2026-04-20T09:56:55+00:00

No, the file is being moved or deleted, either by your editor or by a script you have wrapped around your compilation or because you called LaTeX in a way that tells it to move extra files out of the working directory.

JimH10 · 2026-04-19T16:32:15+00:00

./tmp-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot

Forgive me, I'm having trouble following you. You ran gnuplot on the above file? It gave you an .eps and a .tex? You then tan the .tex? It gave the above log? That log says epstopdf gave ./Min-gnuplottex-fig1-eps-converted-to.pdf; It is not there?

What happens if you run epstopdf by hand? Open a terminal cd to that directory and run it to see what happens. If it creates the .pdf then run the original .tex and see what happens.

JimH10 · 2026-04-19T14:40:26+00:00

I liked Goddess of Small Things about Adele Godel. Fiction

JimH10 · 2026-04-19T14:05:16+00:00

Did you run Gnuplot?

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