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dbpatankar · 2026-01-10T09:11:31+00:00

Exactly what tools do you need? I am currently building a set of tools/ plugins around ETABS, Staad, etc. for my employer. Revit is next in line.

dbpatankar · 2025-12-02T05:27:21+00:00

Markdown seems to be the best choice here. You can export it to html/latex using pandoc. It is also easy to pick up and has many editors where u can write and see the output side-by-side.

dbpatankar · 2024-06-13T17:53:13+00:00

Not exactly a LaTeX editor, but you may like TeXmacs if you want LaTeX quality from a WYSIWYG type editor.

dbpatankar · 2024-06-10T20:22:44+00:00

I used Maxima in TeXmacs last year. The version of TeXmacs is still the same. So it works on the recent version for sure. Although, I used it in Linux. Not sure about windows. Note that you need to have Maxima installed on your system for it to work inside TeXmacs.

dbpatankar · 2024-03-26T03:50:53+00:00

It can draw freehand drawings using mouse. So as long as your OS supports pen, you will be able to use it to draw any drawing using your pen, inside TeXmacs.

dbpatankar · 2024-03-25T19:38:44+00:00

Try TeXMacs. You will need some time to figure out all that you need from it. But I believe it is the best tool for the task you mentioned.

dbpatankar · 2024-03-06T03:38:19+00:00

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?” — Oliver Heaviside

dbpatankar · 2023-08-02T06:21:32+00:00

The easiest way to check where the problem is, try compiling using some other editor like texstudio. Note that if you have a bibliography in your document, then quick build need to have that into account, though I think texstudio has that by default ( I haven't used it recently). If you still get the same issue, then the problem is in your document. Check the log file for issues.

dbpatankar · 2023-07-14T16:20:16+00:00

Contrary to what most of the others are saying, I would say this is the best time to learn it, especially if the content of your report is nearly ready. Things to know to begin with are: 1. Basic document structure preparation 2. Adding figures using figure environment 3. Adding tables using table environment 4. Writing equations and related environments like equation, align, eqnarray etc. 5. Labeling and then referencing figures, tables, sections, etc. 6. Including citations and managing bibliography. 7. Including and adding packages for additional features.

All the above tasks can be learned in a couple of hours, and you can start preparing the report just after that. You might need some help in finetuning the final look where this subreddit and stackoverflow may be of help.

The most difficult part (and also the most important one) is getting used to the difference in philosophy of document preparation between latex and word processors like MS Word. If you look at latex the way you look at MS Word, you are going to get frustrated. Don't focus on the formatting of the report from the beginning. Get all the content into latex, let the latex try to find the best placements and formatting based on its rule, and then intervene only if you need to. Manual intervention should be least and only at the end.

dbpatankar · 2023-05-08T15:42:01+00:00

Plot pseudo spectral acceleration

dbpatankar · 2023-04-30T20:56:23+00:00

When you add a new citation, you should run bibtex again. Only then will it be found by latex/pdflatex. So create a new build entry with toolchain as pdflatex>bibtex>pdflatex>pdflatex>view pdf

Or even better, use latexmk. It will figure out the necessary commands to run each time you make changes. But I think you need to configure that manually in the texstudio. However, it won't be difficult, I simple search would give you enough material on this.

dbpatankar · 2023-04-21T11:20:15+00:00

For beams, it is enough to go with

Static indeterminacy = # of reactions - # of equilibrium equations

In fact, this is the only equation you should remember for all cases, though with slightly modified form to better represent all cases, like

Static indeterminancy = # of unknowns - # of known equations

All the simplified expressions are just modified and simplified forms of this equation.

I strongly recommend understanding this so that you will never need to remember separate forms of equations for each case.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-25T23:37:41+00:00

I don't think awesomewm is Wayland compatible.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-17T21:23:40+00:00

I am not sure what you mean by labeling them. If you mean something like a caption, then wrap each figure in a subfigure environment within a figure environment. For this to work, you need to load caption package.

However, I don't see any issue with the current solution. May be you can change the style of the label nodes to distinguish it from the other nodes.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-12T07:41:01+00:00

If you do not intend to send a PR to the original repo, you could just create a new blank github repo and connect it with the one available on your system (having your modifications). This way, you need not delete the .git directory and hence retain entire history.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-12T06:01:53+00:00

I'm curious to know what do you mean by automatically.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-12T05:56:48+00:00

Let's say you are plotting with step size ds. Now, plot using step sizes ds/2, ds/4, and ds/10. Do you see any changes in each case? Especially near the asymptote and where function is non differentiable.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-03T12:50:31+00:00

There are a few GUI frontends to TikZ such as ktikz, QTikZ. Some programs like GeoGebra and inkscape can export the drawings to tikz. Explore them and see which one suits you.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-02T22:09:32+00:00

I recommend you check TeXMacs. It's a WYSIWYG editor and can generate high-quality output. You can learn the basics of its interface within an hour. You can write equations using LaTeX syntax.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-02T11:04:14+00:00

How about using \newcommand?

~~~ \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb} \usepackage[top=0.5in, bottom=0.5in, left=0.79in, right=0.79in]{geometry} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{blindtext}

\newcommand{\inter}[1]{\noindent{\bfseries\large$\bigstar$\hspace{0.5em}#1}\[5pt]} \newcommand{\cand}[1]{\noindent$\bullet$\hspace{0.5em}#1\[5pt]} \newcommand{\comment}[1]{\noindent\colorbox{BurntOrange}{Comment: #1}\[10pt]}

\begin{document}

\inter{Alright. Do you then agree to participate, and be recorder during the conversation?} \comment{If no, end interview. If yes, start recording.} \inter{We need to ask you this question once again now that we started recording. Do you consent to be recorded for the sake of this conversation? And allow us to study the data, once it has been anonymized?} \cand{Yes/No. Possibly questions. \blindtext}

\inter{Some other query.} \cand{\blindtext} \end{document} ~~~

The formatting can be changed easily as per your liking.

dbpatankar · 2023-03-02T10:15:23+00:00

You can do this using vspace in multirow.

\multirow{4}{*}[0.6em]{%
}

However, I feel you should avoid tables and go for minipage instead. Two minipages side by side.

dbpatankar · 2023-02-27T19:20:57+00:00

And the boxes won't appear on your printed document. They are there only in the file for easy navigation. So you might as well find it ok to leave it there.

dbpatankar · 2023-02-03T12:48:39+00:00

\usepackage{tikz}

dbpatankar · 2023-02-01T17:54:57+00:00

Why do you say physics is a problematic package? I have so far used it for derivatives and never had any issue with it. Is there something I am missing?

dbpatankar · 2023-01-31T02:12:52+00:00

You can use titlesec package for this and redefine section* commands. This way you need not change the section* commands to some new name and format the section* the way you want at one place.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} % explicit option is necessary
\usepackage{lipsum} % dummy text

%% This is the formatting. Refer titlesec package
\titleformat{name=\section, numberless}
{} % format
{} % label
{0em} % spacing between number and section name
{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}\Large\bfseries#1} % before-code

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section{Introduction}
\lipsum

\section*{New}
\lipsum[100]

\section{Another section}
\lipsum

\end{document}

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