User talk:Nad

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My script Sven Ubuntu post-install shows what I did, some downloaded packages need to run the README instructions, from memory

latex package.ins

creates the sty files which need to go into the appropriate /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/CONTRIBUTED/package directory

Todo (packages to download and install still):

Install R from source e.g. http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/src/base/R-2/R-2.2.0.tar.gz

Sven 21:11, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

By the way the command to create ls-R databases on linux is: texhash where /usr/bin/texhash -> mktexlsr It updates any packages in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/

I usually put a directory called CONTRIBUTED in there.

Sven

ok as starters installing the first part

apt-get -y install latex

Just to see what exactly is installed.

Standard Latex usage The general method of running latex is like this

  • latex file.tex (produces lots of files, now interested in the log file and the output file file.dvi
  • xdvi file.dvi views the file with the dvi viewer.
  • dvips file.dvi -o file.ps (or file.eps)

alternative usage pdflatex file.tex (creates a pdf file anda log file directly

With bibTeX

  • latex file (or file.tex - picks up extention automatically
  • bibtex file
  • latex file
  • latex file

Modes like auctex mode in emacs do these steps seemlessly

no specific conventions.

Sven 19:10, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Let me know when yourve got the base install done, so I can have a go at installing R and LaTeX. I will put a source install of R onto the linux box, ready for installation, probably in /tmp.

Sven 18:47, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Yo, I can definately help with standard LaTeX installations. I've done it many times on Linux, Windoze, and OS X. What I do is put all the extracted archives under a directory like CONTRIBUTED in the right global location depending on the OS. Then its just a matter of of running a cammand like mktexlsr ( mktexlsr - create ls-R databases) so latex knows of the new contributed packages. I will have a look at chess.

Installation LaTeX on OS X

  • Installation of tex-fat (Tex, and LaTeX backend)
  • Installed the i-packages recommended defaults
  • Tex-fat-README.rtf suggests dragging TeX-fat.iid over

i-packages icon to install Tex-fat.dmg

    • tex.ii2, ghostscript-8.ii2
  • Then installed Xaw3d dependency for Ghostview
    • Xaw3d.ii2, gv.ii2
  • Installation of TexShop
    • texshop.dmg
  • Installed contributed packages go in directory;
    • /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/
    • e.g. ctable, etc available from www.ctan.org
  • sudo cp -R ctable /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/
  • Now update the tree of packages;
    • sudo mktexlsr
Sven 13:53, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

It seems that about 99% of it's that simple, then there's a few hours of working out the other 1%. It's probably just that I'm unfamiliar with the env - like when I unpack chess, it complains that some files are missing (I thinks its some .mf's) but I don't know where they're supposed to go, or what needs to be compiled etc. Also I think I'd have to mod their php script to add new classes - but definately worth checking out. I'll give you root access to the new server when it's ready so you can experiment with that shit as well :-)

Nad 12:57, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

If the chemistry addition was as simple as grabbing a few contibuted packages for latex off tug then I should give you a list of other additional packages I think would be useful, for example, texshade and tex typo. Textypo does kick arse protein topology picies through membraines.

Sven 12:16, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Was I right in having to setup another Wiki account to use Pollen Wiki (same name)?

Sven 10:26, 17 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Yo, I would of thoughtthat the markup on my wiki should of recognised wikipedia bt it does not. I ported your articles from Help! and all the wikipedia links did not work until I added the wikipedia rowto the interwiki table. Will read the docie you suggested.

Sven 22:04, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Ahh, but does the sandbox get cleared every twelve hours?

Sven
  • I'll add it to the peer's job list! (by the way, peer.pl has his own email address, peer.pl@gmail.com - he doesn't pay much attention to it at the moment though)

Yes, I had my wires crossed, anyway most of the LaTeX dependencies come standard with *nix. I was just having a look at the interwiki table in mediawiki 1.5.2 and noticed that wikipedia is missing from the list. Did you add it in?

Sven 17:51, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)
  • You can do [[Wikipedia::article]] style links without changing anything if that's what you mean. I haven't ever looked a the local interwiki list, but I've added OrganicDesign to the central interwiki list, and its on my watchlist too, so I can see what's getting added to it.

Heres a possible bug, I can get the following a browser error if I envoke the <math> (without closure?) tag in an edit window.

Server side error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: rendermath() in /home/nad/public_html/wiki/includes/Parser.php on line 315

It could just be because you havent enabled it yet on xmlwiki running on windows OS's
Sven 15:59, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Yo, maybe we need an article called Sandbox (as it doesnt already exist) as a play area for people to and practise markup, like mediawikis Sandbox

Sven 15:54, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

the project to install LaTeX on a windows machine is available at http://www.miktex.org, as part of it you install ispell, ghostscript, and gsview. These are some of the components required to get mathematical typesetting going for Mediawiki <math> markup

Sven 15:18, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Had a quick look at the E page, its definately LaTeX markup. Will look some more.

Sven 09:46, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

p.s. My collegue Clinton is going to start using this wiki too!

It looks as though you can currently see the directory structure of http://www.organicdesign.co.nz, your might want to get it locked down a bit

Sven 09:33, 16 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Ok, thats interesting, why in the fourth column of history do we not see the changes to User talk:Nad?

Sven 16:34, 15 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Nad, I could of added something about the project, but was lazy about finding the relevant article :p

Sven 16:31, 15 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Solved used the <pre></pre> tags

Sven 11:35, 15 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

On my personal page I've started an article on Apache installation for OSX, and managed to get the text parsing some of the lines as monotype font, any ideas how it did it? I guess I can use xml/html markup to control it

Sven 11:33, 15 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

Do you only get a messages popup if the dialog is in your own disussion area?

Sven 09:54, 15 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

p.s. I could not get the link to go to your discussion page, that is [[User talk:Nad|own]] - Bug?

This white paper on GNU arch CVS system looks interesting too

Heres a couple of projects that look interesting if your not already heard of them

  • monotone State of the art cvs system.
  • plone web development content management system.
Sven 13:29, 14 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

nad,

starting to read your suggestions. One thought I had is that any error messages that you provide could be like they would be on a unix/linux filesystem , e.g. Traversing to an area or accessing a restricted article: Permission denied

File permissions on articles.

Can you easily do something so you can see an "rw" like unix beside articles?

Maybe yourve got a way to quickly identify this that I havent seen yet.

Sven 04 Oct 2005

Nad

I was looking at the peer.pl and wanting to look at the source by clicking edit. I cant edit it as I dont have permissions. Is there any way I can view the source of the document? I would like to see how you did the perl syntax highlighting. I assume you have an xml style for that. Ive got some R (http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz) code I want to put into my User Page. It is very C/Perl like.

Sven 5 Oct 2005

Blog #2

Yo,

wondering what is the escape to override the wiki markup, e.g. if I want to describe a bullet point in text / help docie

  • this is a bullet

You can create it in markup like this

\* this is a bullet

I get the escape backslash showing (as illustrated above)

Sven 05 Oct 2005

It seems that emphasis either with double or triple quoting can effectvely escape *some* markup,

  • this is a bullet

created by:

* this is a bullet

Sven 6 Oct 2005

Anyway I can tell if your currently online?

Sven 11:56, 5 Nov 2005 (NZDT)

test-ignore

This is a test using + as the edit, notice that new content is added at the end

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