Per request, here is the image of mwe.pdf:    See below for my problem, discussion of problem, and copy of mwe.tex.    This is a difficult query to present because it necessarily involves inserting an aymptote box into a picture environment.  Unfortunately, this is not an asymptote problem, so it must be presented in a LaTeX forum.    As discussed below, I (necessarily) use the picture environment to vertically align a minipage of free-form text with an asymptote diagram.  Apparently(?), the picture environment moderately disrupts the horizontal positioning of the asymptote diagram with glue.  How do I prevent the disruption of the asymptote diagram's horizontal positioning?  Discussion  A minimum working example of the problem is presented below. asyboxa, which draws the 4 quadrants of a circle, is hard-coded to create a 4cm by 4cm diagram. boxa presents a 6cm wide minipage, with its text aligned to the bottom of boxa.  The preamble sets the unitlength of 1cm, which controls how coordinates are interpreted in the picture environment. The first framed picture environment combines the minipage with the asymptote diagram while the second framed picture environment only presents the asymptote diagram.  In both frames, the manually drawn square indicates where the asymptote diagram is intended to be placed.  This can be confirmed by comparing the \put commands within each picture environment.  As the generated PDF will show, both picture environments are vertically positioning the asymptote diagrams as intended, but are also (apparently) inserting unwanted glue that is disturbing the horizontal positioning.  Compile procedure:   Save the file as (for example) mwe.tex Execute: pdflatex mwe.tex Execute: asy mwe-*.asy Execute: pdflatex mwe.tex   This should create mwe.pdf.  The mwe.tex file is shown below.  \documentclass[fleqn,letterpaper,10pt]{article} \pagestyle{plain} \usepackage{asymptote} \newsavebox{\boxa} \newsavebox{\asyboxa} \setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}  \begin{document}%  \begin{lrbox}{\asyboxa}% \begin{asy} size(4cm,4cm); draw((-2,0) -- (2,0)); draw((0,-2) -- (0,2)); draw(circle((0,0), 2)); \end{asy} \end{lrbox}%  \begin{lrbox}{\boxa}% \begin{minipage}[b]{6cm}% Minipage has 6cm width. \\% Text alignment uses [b] option. \\% Therefore last line of minipage \\% is at bottom of boxa. \end{minipage}% \end{lrbox}%  \frame{% \begin{picture}(11.5,4.5)     \linethickness{.5mm}%      \put(0,0.2){\usebox\boxa}%     \put(7.0,0.2){\usebox\asyboxa}%         \put(7.0,0.2){\line(1,0){4.0}}%                 \put(7.0,4.2){\line(1,0){4.0}}%         \put(7.0,0.2){\line(0,1){4.0}}%         \put(11.0,0.2){\line(0,1){4.0}}% \end{picture}% }%  \vspace*{36pt}%  \frame{% \begin{picture}(5.5,4.5)     \linethickness{.5mm}%      \put(1.0,0.2){\usebox\asyboxa}%         \put(1.0,0.2){\line(1,0){4.0}}%                 \put(1.0,4.2){\line(1,0){4.0}}%         \put(1.0,0.2){\line(0,1){4.0}}%         \put(5.0,0.2){\line(0,1){4.0}}% \end{picture}% }%  \end{document}   Addendum  Two additions to the query.   I added the asymptote tag, since other asymptote users may have {struggled with -- solved} the problem. I experimented by defining the picture environment wide enough to extend the right side margin, defining a (very wide) savebox to contain the asymptote box flush left, and having the picture environment \put the savebox instead of the asymptote box -- No Joy.
Why is there a white space on the left side?  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{asymptote} \begin{document} \noindent \begin{asy} size(10cm,10cm); draw((0,0)--(100,100)); draw((0,100)--(100,0)); dot((50,50)); \end{asy} \end{document}
I've heard that you need to get a Mac if you want to develop iPhone apps. Is this true?   Is it possible to develop iPhone apps using Linux? If yes, what do I need and where do I download the necessary tools? How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine I have used so many things like url removal request and deleted the pages etc., but still the errors are shown in my webmaster tools.  How can I remove the urls completely from Google? I'm curious whether I can find the overlap $\langle q | p \rangle$ knowing only the following:   $|q\rangle$ is an eigenvector of an operator $Q$ with eigenvalue $q$. $|p\rangle$ is an eigenvector of an operator $P$ with eigenvalue $p$. $Q$ and $P$ are Hermitian. $[Q,P] = i \hbar$.   I'm asking because books and references I've looked in tend to assume that $Q$ is a differential operator when viewed in the $P$-basis, then show that it satisfies the commutation relation. (I haven't read one yet that proves that the form given for $Q$ is the only possible one.) I've heard, though, that we can work purely from the hypothesis of the commutation relation and prove the properties of $Q$ and $P$ from it. What's the best way make an "augmented" coefficient matrix? When studying systems of linear equations, it's nice to remind people that the last column of the coefficient matrix holds the constants.  This is often done in books by putting a vertical line between the last column and the next to last column.  What is a good way to do this in LaTex? Question on groups of order $pq$ Let $G$ be a group of order $pq$, $p&gt;q$  and $p$, $q$ are primes. Then prove that  If $q\mid p-1$ then there exists a non abelian group of order $pq$. Any two non-abelian groups of order $pq$ are isomorphic.   I have proved that if $q\not\mid p-1$ then $G$ is cylic . But how to prove this one I have no idea. Any kind of hint is very much welcome. This problem is in Herstein book, page 75. For a given inner product space $V$, I would like to prove the inequality $$\|\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{y}\|^2 + \|\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{y}\|^2 = 2(\|\mathbf{x}\|^2 + \|\mathbf{y}\|^2).$$  We see that $$\|\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{y}\|^2 + \|\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{y}\|^2 = \langle\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{y},\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{y}\rangle + \langle\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{y},\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{y}\rangle,$$  which by linearity $$=\langle\mathbf{x},\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{y}\rangle + \langle\mathbf{y},\mathbf{x}+\mathbf{y}\rangle + \langle\mathbf{x},\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{y}\rangle - \langle\mathbf{y},\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{y}\rangle.$$  I've been trying to figure out how to go about this proof using linearity in the second argument of an inner product, but my textbook does not say that linearity necessarily holds in the second component. If it does, how would I go about the rest of this proof? If not, should I be potentially using some aspect of conjugate symmetry to prove this statement? Maximum and minimum distance of two points Consider six distinct points in a plane. Let $m$ and $M$ denote respectively the minimum and the maximum distance between any pair of points.  Show that $M/m \geqslant \sqrt{3}$. How to show zero before decimal point in bc? echo "scale=3;1/8" | bc   shows .125 on the screen. How to show 0.125 if the output result is less than one? I'm running badblocks to check for bad segments on an external drive, and it's been about an hour and it has not yet finished. Now, I need to go and consider cancelling. Is this somehow risky? Should I avoid this?   Clearly, I will need to start again from scratch; I just want to know if this is somehow risky to abort midway. Recommend a statistics fundamentals book To give you some background, I have a grasp on the basics of statistics and probability theory and even remember touching Bayes theorem at the university data mining course. But being a few years away from the university made my math got extremely rusty (so much for last-minute pre-exam cramming). While I remember various random basic concepts, there are a lot of gaps in my understanding of them.  What would be a good material (a book, a site, or otherwise equally accessible medium) to revise the fundamentals and go beyond basics? I'd like a book that can be actually read as a book (most statistics books are really dry and are close to being reference material, rather than a book). Use of "though" versus "however" Consider the sentence      E-books are on the rise, but they haven't suppressed paper books though.    This usage seems to be quite common, but when I learned English  I was taught to use "however" where I now read "though". My questions on this use of "though" are:     Is this a new trend? Is it restricted to American English? Is "though"  considered more colloquial than "however" ?    And on a syntactic level: Do you put a comma before "though"? Java in Eclipse: Where do I put files on the filesystem that I want to load using getResource? (e.g. images for an ImageIcon) I know the file needs to be where the getClass().getResource(filename) can find it, but I don't know where that is.  I'm interested both in where to put the files on the filesystem itself, and how to go about using Eclipse's functionality to set up the resources. Question: Can anyone shed some light on this formula? I can't find any information on it.  It has three corollaries that I also need to understand: With slapd.conf you could globally disable anonymous binding and require authentication with the following static directives:  disallow bind_anon require authc   How can I achieve the same global settings, but using the new cn=config live configuration method? Do we need a global test before post hoc tests? Clone a hard disk content to another hard disk I subjected my hard disk (C drive) to a disk scan and found that there was 12 KB of bad sectors. I now consider that disk to be unreliable, and am looking forward to transferring all my data to another file.  The problem is, I want to clone the complete drive (including the apps, OSes, files and everything, verbatim) to another drive. I know there would be some crazy software activation issues, like Windows Not Genuine problem and so on. But I wonder whether is there a tool powerful enough to do the cloning and at the same time maintain the  OS and apps? Prove $(a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2)\ge (ac+bd)^2$ for all $a,b,c,d\in\mathbb{R}$. Prove $(a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2)\ge (ac+bd)^2$ for all $a,b,c,d\in\mathbb{R}$.  So $(a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2) = a^2c^2+a^2d^2+b^2c^2+b^2d^2$  and $(ac+bd)^2 = a^2c^2+2acbd+b^2d^2$  So the problem is reduced to proving that $a^2d^2+b^2c^2\ge2acbd$ but I am not sure how to show that How to render an animation as video in Blender? Yesterday I was working on a simple animation, an animated logo.   Here is an image of the progress:    I already have the animation working and everything is okay with the project, but I can't figure out how I can render the animation and turn it into an AVI format video.  How do I render an animation in Blender? It's easy to set inline CSS values with javascript. If I want to change the width and I have html like this:  &lt;div style="width: 10px"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   All I need to do is:  document.getElementById('id').style.width = value;   It will change the inline stylesheet values. Normally this isn't a problem, because the inline style overrides the stylesheet. Example:  &lt;style&gt;    #tId {       width: 50%;    } &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;div id="tId"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   Using this Javascript:  document.getElementById('tId').style.width = "30%";   I get the following:  &lt;style&gt;    #tId {       width: 50%;    } &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;div id="tId" style="width: 30%";&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   This is a problem, because not only do I not want to change inline values, If I look for the width before I set it, when I have:  &lt;div id="tId"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   The value returned is Null, so if I have Javascript that needs to know the width of something to do some logic (I increase the width by 1%, not to a specific value), getting back Null when I expect the string "50%" doesn't really work.  So my question: I have values in a CSS style that are not located inline, how can I get these values? How can I modify the style instead of the inline values, given an id? How do I rename all folders and files to lowercase on Linux?