On occasion, starting paragraphs with excess spaces in R Markdown/RStudio changes the text color from the color I expect to grey. This behavior isn't consistent, and it doesn't affect the output in any appreciable way. Does anyone know what's happening?
On my machine the second **Response** is grey, and all others are blue.
---
title: "Untitled"
author: "Unnamed"
date: "6/1/2018"
output: pdf_document
---
**Response**
**Response**
**Response**
**Response**
As far as I can tell, everything about the conditions in the two examples is the same.
If you process your document you will see something like this:
The empty line plus before the second "Response" together with the indentation makes markdown interpret this as code. In RStudio code sections are shown with a grey font. In the PDF output, a fixed width font is used and the ** are treated literally instead of interpreted as commands for bold.
Since there is no empty line between the third and the forth "Response", these are treated as one paragraph, making the indentation irrelevant.
Solution: Do not indent text but only code.
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I have an AsciiDoc page which has a number of images. I am converting this into html via antora.
On my AsciiDoc page, some of the images have a caption and some do not.
For the images with a caption, the first one is named "Figure 1. Some interesting caption", then the second one is named "Figure 2. Some fascinating caption" and so on. In fact, the "Figure 1", "Figure 2" text is added automatically by Antora. In AsciiDoc itself, the markup is as follows:
.Some interesting caption;
image::images/image1.png
.Some fascinating caption;
image::images/image2.png
However, now I have a third image which has no caption to display. I would like this image to simply read "Figure 3". However, I do not know how to do this. The only thing I could come up with is to put some character after the "." symbol just above it (I chose a semi-colon), as follows:
.;
image::images/image3.png
This produces "Figure 3;" once converted into html.
It's better than nothing, but I would like to be able to use, for example, a whitespace character, instead of the semi-colon, so that I could simply produce text that reads "Figure 3 " (with an invisible whitespace character that nobody can see). Unfortunately, if I try to do that, the whitespace is ignored and I just see the '.' character in the generated html.
You can use an attribute for the non-breaking space: {nbsp}
For example:
.Some interesting caption;
image::images/image1.png[]
.Some fascinating caption;
image::images/image2.png[]
.{nbsp}
image::images/image3.png[]
Note that I added square brackets to each image macro invocation, because those lines are just text with them. And, there doesn't need to be a blank line between the caption and its associated image.
I regularly have to produce word documents that are pretty standard. The content changes regarding certain parameters, but it's always a mix of pre-written stuff. So I decided to write some ruby code to do this more easily and it works pretty well on creating the txt file with the final text I need.
The problem is that I need this text converted to .docx and with specific formatting. So, I'm trying to find a way to indicate in the text file which text should be bold, italic, have different indentation, or be a footnote, to make it easy to interpret (like html does). For example:
<b>this text should be bold</b>
\t indentation works with the tabs
<i>hopefully this could be italic</i>
<f>and I wish this could be a footnote of the previous phrase</f>
However, I haven't been able to do this.
Does anybody know how this can be achieved? I've read about macros and pandoc, but haven't had any luck achieving this. Seems too complicated for macros. Maybe what I'm trying is not the best way. Perhaps with LaTeX or creating html and then converting to word? Can html create footnotes? (that seems to be the most complicated)
I have no idea, I just learned Ruby with a video tutorial, so my knowledge is very limited.
Thanks everybody!
EDIT: Arjun's answer solved almost the whole issue, but the gem he pointed out doesn't include a funcionality for footnotes, which unfortunately constitute a big part of my documents. So if anybody knows a gem that does, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Ahh Ruby got gems for that ;)
https://github.com/trade-informatics/caracal
This would help you to write docs from Ruby code itself.
From the Readme
docx.p 'this text should be bold' do
style 'custom_style' # sets the paragraph style. generally used at the exclusion of other attributes.
align :left # sets the alignment. accepts :left, :center, :right, and :both.
color '333333' # sets the font color.
size 32 # sets the font size. units in 1/2 points.
bold true # sets whether or not to render the text with a bold weight.
italic false # sets whether or not render the text in italic style.
underline false # sets whether or not to underline the text.
bgcolor 'cccccc' # sets the background color.
vertical_align 'superscript' # sets the vertical alignment.
end
There is also this gem, https://github.com/nickfrandsen/htmltoword, which converts plain html to doc files. I haven't tried it though.
A student in another class coloured their code in their word document, I asked my teacher if he knew how and he suggested he coloured it all by hand... I'm very sure he didn't colour hundreds of lines of code by hand.
I've also seen many websites that colour the code snippets to help with readability - including StackOverflow!
Here's a print screen of the code contained in the word document.
as you can see they're not print-screens as not only can I highlight the text, word has underlined what it thinks are errors in spelling / grammar.
When you copy-paste into a Word document, it (by default) retains the formatting of the text copied into it. IDEs (e.g., Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc.) usually perform syntax highlighting (i.e., color different elements of the code differently in order to highlight their purpose) for you. If you copy and paste from the IDE you've used to create the code, it will probably retain this formatting.
If I have the axis label $x_\textrm{ABC}$, the ABC is way too big. I tried $x_\textrm{\scriptsize ABC}$ and $x_\textrm{\tiny ABC}$, but that prevents the LaTeX code from being interpretted (I end up seeing the raw code instead of the formatted math). How does one shrink the subscript text size when the subscript is a name that needs to be spelled in text mode?
I posted this to usenet yesterday, but no response so far.
I also tried to modify the text in Acrobat Pro, but I can't actually highlight the individual series of characters (it's the y-axis label).
Finally, I tried to modify it in inkscape, but same problem.
A respondent at the usenet link provided the answer: To use \mathrm instead of \textrm. It looks way better.
I print a text using ZPL but they are printed incorrectly. It has gaps in the middle. They are printed correctly to the real printer via the ZebraDesigner. But they are wrong when printing via ZPL:
^FT246,70^A0R,16,16
^FB900,2,,
^FDMaisstaerke, Austernuce, Cashewnuss,Pilz, Mais, Lattich, Pack Choi,Sojasprossen^FS
It is printed as 'Maisstaerke, Austernuce, Cashewnuss,Pilz, Mais, Lattich, Pack Choi, Sojasprossen'
(there is a big gap after 'Mais,').
http://screencast.com/t/sTiaxC3cMg
http://screencast.com/t/0QkypnsPyF89
Please help.
Thanks
I'm unable to reproduce the issue, but the field block width seems rather large; you didn't specify any label dimensions in the original post. If you use the following code--a combination from the original post and your comments:
^XA
^PW560
^LL560
^LS0
^FO246,70^GB28,300,,^FS
^FT246,70^A0R,16,16 ^FB300,2,, ^FDMaisstaerke, Austernuce, Cashewnuss,Pilz, Mais, Lattich, Pack Choi,Sojasprossen^FS
^PQ1,0,1,Y
^XZ
I can reproduce what is possibly the issue--the field block automatic word wrapping--by reducing the field block width to 300 dots.
I also drew a box around the block for visualization. You can test in on the Labelary Viewer.
Finally, if you're somehow composing the data make sure there are no special (non printable, such as tab, non-UTF-8 or accented) characters in it, and if so, you will have to pre-escape them.