PAR::Packer trouble with included files
Where does pp (PAR) unpack add (-a) files?
How to make the tick thickness as the axis line? I am trying to make the thickness of the ticks equal to the axis line thickness. That is what I have so far:  \documentclass{article}   \usepackage{pgfplots}  \pgfplotsset{compat=1.5}   \begin{document}     \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}[         xlabel=Binding Energy (eV),         ylabel=Intensity (a.\,u.),         xtick pos=left,         x dir= reverse,         ytick = \empty,         every x tick/.style={color=black, thin},         tick align=outside,         xlabel near ticks,         ylabel near ticks,         xmin = 96,         xmax = 108     ]         %\addplot[mark=none] table[x=BE,y=cnts] {si2p.txt};         % This data looks similar:         \addplot[mark=none, smooth] table[x=BE,y=cnts] {             BE      cnts             95      1             98      1             99      10             99.5    5             100 6             101 2             108 2         };      \end{axis}     \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}     But if you take a closer look on the ticks on the outside, you'll see that they are somehow clipped or a least thinner. They are also black so the style seems to work for them.    Is this a bug or can I change the clipping region? And as a second question: is thin the correct value for the thickness? Ubuntu non LTS to LTS in the future What does the AE/AF lock button do that half-pressing the shutter doesn't? The Sony A6000 has an AEL button, while Nikon SLRs have an AE/AF lock button. What do these do that half-pressing the shutter to lock focus and exposure, and then recomposing, doesn't? I'm used to the latter method, and never used a camera that has a dedicated button.  I read that you have to keep both the AE/AF lock button pressed and the shutter half-pressed while recomposing. Isn't this harder than just keeping the shutter button half-pressed?  I'm aware that you can customize the AE/AF lock button to lock only focus, or only exposure, or both. This leads to two follow-up questions:   Can't you customize the half-press shutter to lock only AE or only AF? If you don't care about this level of customization, does the AE / AF lock button do anything that half-pressing the shutter doesn't? how to add object to a keyframe range? lets assume we have an iron man pointing his hand to a target and shooting few frames later as shown in the picture below:    frame 0 to 10 he will point frame 11 to 15 he will shoot, which is just a long cube with one larger face to give idea or a laser projectile   how can I add the projectile cube only on frame 11? I don't what it to exist before that  thanks Show that function $f$ has a continuous extension to $[a,b]$ iff $f$ is uniformly continuous on $(a,b)$ Let $E \subset F \subset X$ and $f:E\rightarrow Y$. We say that the function $g:F\rightarrow Y$ is an extension of $f$ if $g(x) = f(x)$ for all $x \in E$.   Let $f: (a, b) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. Show that $f$ has a continuous extension to $[a, b]$ if and only if $f$ is uniformly continuous on $(a, b)$.   $(X,d)$ is a metric space.  Hint: To prove $\Leftarrow$ start by showing that $f$ maps Cauchy sequences to Cauchy sequences. Then how should you define $g(a)$ and $g(b)$?  The $\Rightarrow$ part of the proof was quite simple, but even with the hint, the other way seems a bit difficult. Doesn't the first part of the "hint" follow from the way we defined $f$? If so, how do I prove this? Help/Hints appreciated! I constantly see "everyday" being used in cases where the writer really means "every day". For example, here's a sentence from Google's eBooks documentation: "New titles are being added to Google eBooks everyday."  There is even a supermarket chain that has a large sign saying, "Low prices, everyday!"  Could someone, for the record, state the rule on this? How to get an enum value from a string value in Java? Say I have an enum which is just public enum Blah {     A, B, C, D }  and I would like to find the enum value of a string, for example &quot;A&quot; which would be Blah.A. How would it be possible to do this? Is the  the method I need? If so, how would I use this? Problem with defining shortcuts for TikZ matrices For  I wanted to define a shortcut for creating a matrix inside a tikzpicture. As a minimal example, consider  \newcommand\mymatrix[1]{     \begin{tikzpicture}         \matrix[matrix of math nodes] {#1};     \end{tikzpicture}% }   which would then be used as  \mymatrix{     a &amp; b \\     e &amp; f \\ }   But LaTeX complains about Package pgfbasematrix Error: Single ampersand used with wrong catcode at the line with the closing brace of \amatrix{}. Why does it do that and how can I avoid it? Applications of complex numbers to solve non-complex problems Recently I asked a question regarding the diophantine equation $x^2+y^2=z^n$ for $x, y, z, n \in \mathbb{N}$, which to my surprise was answered with the help complex numbers. I find it fascinating that for a question which only concerns integers, and whose answers can only be integers, such an elegant solution comes from the seemingly unrelated complex numbers - looking only at the question and solution one would never suspect that complex numbers were lurking behind the curtain!  Can anyone give some more examples where a problem which seems to deal entirely with real numbers can be solved using complex numbers behind the scenes? One other example which springs to mind for me is solving a homogeneous second order differential equation whose coefficients form a quadratic with complex roots, which in some cases gives real solutions for real coefficients but requires complex arithmetic to calculate.  (If anyone is interested, the original question I asked can be found here: )  EDIT:  I just wanted to thank everyone for all the great answers! I'm working my way through all of them, although some are beyond me for now! How to explain in layman’s terms the significance of the difference of qubits of the D-Wave and IBM QX? So, @AndrewO mentioned recently that he has had 'encounters' with people wondering why D-Wave has a lot more qubits than IBM. Of course, this comparison is faulty, since the IBM and D-Wave's machine may both exploit quantum effects to a certain degree, IBM's machine matches the thing the TCS people call a 'Quantum computer' a bit more than D-Waves's alleged quantum annealer.   How do you explain to a novice why IBM is still reaching important milesstones, even though the D-Wave has a lot more 'qubits'. I understand that an easy answer is, 'well, you're comparing apples and pears', but that is merely relying on your possible authority and simply doesn't explain anything!   How can you explain that those devices are different, how can you dispell the myth that the number of qubits is not the only metric to judge quantum devices? (preferably to a layman, but assuming basic (undergrad?) physics knowledge is ok, if needed) I put some alias commands in my .bashrc file, so that they might be loaded everytime I open a new Terminal window. Yet this doesn't happen. I have to select run script: in the Terminal&gt;Preferences&gt;&quot;MyDefaultTheme&quot;&gt;Shell prefpane and add: source .bashrc &amp;&amp; clear for it to work... This seems odd since many tutorials only say you just have to add to the .bashrc file and all is good. Note that I don't run in bash when using the terminal, I like the other (default) one (don't know what it is) better, because it show me where I am all the time eg: &gt;&gt;d54c6b47b:~ romeo$  in stead of: &gt;&gt;bash$  In bash all is loaded as should be. So my question is, why didn't my .bashrc file load automatically and did I have to add the option to call it everytime? Also some tutorial told me to do something like: $alias la=’ls -la’ &gt;&gt; ~/.bashrc  which should write the alias to my .bashrc, this doesn't work either... Note that I'm a UNIX novice, so be gentle. Prove that the equation $x^4+(2k^2)x^2+2k^4$ is not a perfect square querying Recently account viewed Why does ltablex skip a number in captions? The below example presents two tables with an tabularx environment (taken from package ltablex) and a caption. After each tabularx-table, the table counter skips one, as if both the caption and the tabularx environment increase it, while the latter shouldn't.  \documentclass{report} \usepackage{ltablex} \begin{document}  \begin{table} \caption{Caption 1.} % "Table 1" \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|} empty table \end{tabularx} \end{table}  \begin{table} \caption{Caption 2.} % "Table 3" \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|} empty table \end{tabularx} \end{table}  \end{document}   My reputation doesn't allow me to upload a picture, but the captions are Table 1 and Table 3 respectively. I came across the :    Which states:     $\pi$ Pi      Pi is an infinite, nonrepeating $($sic$)$ decimal - meaning that   every possible number combination exists somewhere in pi.  Converted   into ASCII text, somewhere in that infinite string of digits is the   name of every person you will ever love, the date, time and manner    of your death, and the answers to all the great questions of    the universe.   Is this true? Does it make any sense ? How can I assign the output of a command to a shell variable? Is there an overall view of your cities? I watched this movie when I was a kid and never discovered it again.  It’s about a boy whose father left him after his divorce from the mother, the kid enters a world somehow where he has a big sword he needs to keep searching for precious stones to fill it with. it has certain holes that look like each stone shape! I also remember the kid going to eat with his mythical (dragon-like friend), and he gets stuck in the restaurant because the crazy restaurant lady won’t let him leave without finishing huge amounts of food!  The kid also gets bullied so I’m guessing the the swords journey is to teach the kid how to deal with all of this... How can I launch screensaver with a keyboard shortcut? Can I install any iOS version I wish by picking and choosing which firmware to restore? I'm trying to downgrade my iPhone from the current iOS to an older one, as per .  But every time I try, I always receive this error:     The iPhone could not be restored. This device isn't eligible for the requested build.     I have tried many times with and without DFU mode. Any ideas regarding this?