I'm completely new here, and trying LaTeX to write my PhD dissertation (in the humanities, mind you!). I have to write in several languages, and especially French. It is therefore much easier to type the French characters directly on the keyboard. I have a mac with OS 10.8.5. I used the tip given here on the Tex stack exchange (\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}) and it worked really fine. But, now it suddenly does not work any more without me touching anything when I run it in PDF. I set the following in my configuration:   \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}               \usepackage{etoolbox} \usepackage{fontspec}  \usepackage{polyglossia}          \setdefaultlanguage[british,ordinalmonthday=true]{english}  \setotherlanguage[spelling=old,latesthyphen=true,babelshorthands=true]{german}  \setotherlanguage{french}  \setotherlanguage{italian}  \usepackage{xspace}  \usepackage[style=british,autostyle=true,strict=true,english=british,autopunct=true,parthreshold=true,german=guillemets]{csquotes} \setquotestyle{british} \SetBlockThreshold{3}
Until now, I have been compiling my LaTeX documents with pdfLaTeX. My standard document preamble includes the "usual suspects" for non-English speakers (, , ) and a bunch of other packages. Assuming I were to convert to XeLaTeX, what modifications of my preamble are advisable? I'm aware that the expansion=true option of the  package is not (yet) available for XeLaTeX, and that  is sort of a default package for OpenType fonts. What other packages (and package options) should be removed and, vice versa, incorporated when switching from pdfLaTeX to XeLaTeX?
Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32) can't enable wi-fi I'm working in a C++ unmanaged project.  I need to know how can I take a string like this "some data to encrypt" and get a byte[] array which I'm gonna use as the source for Encrypt.  In C# I do    for (int i = 0; i &lt; text.Length; i++)     buffer[i] = (byte)text[i];   What I need to know is how to do the same but using unmanaged C++.  Thanks! how does systemd determine service is stopped? For $a,b,c&gt;0$, Find $$ \lim_{n \to \infty}\left(\frac{a^{1/n}+b^{1/n}+c^{1/n}}{3}\right)^n$$  how can I find the limit of sequence above?  Provide me a hint or full solution. thanks ^^ Why say "of x's" instead of "of x"? I have often heard people say "x of his" or "x of mine". But since his and mine point out ownership, isn't using "of" here doubles that ownership? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say "x of him" or "x of them" etc.?  Example:     I was a good friend of your dad's. He told me all about you` It would seem that one way of proving this would be to show the existence of non-algebraic numbers. Is there a simpler way to show this? Prove that $\int_0^\infty \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2} = 0$ I have been asked to prove that $$\int_0^\infty \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx = 0$$  I tried proceeding as follows: \begin{align} \int_0^\infty \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx &amp;= \int_0^1 \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx + \int_1^\infty \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx \\ &amp; = \int_0^1 \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx + \int_{u=1}^0 \frac{u\,\log u}{(1+u^2)^2}\,du\quad (\text{where }u=1/x) \\ &amp;= \int_0^1 \frac{x\,\log x}{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx - \int_0^1 \frac{u\,\log u}{(1+u^2)^2}\,du \\ &amp;=^? \int_0^1 0 \,dx \\ &amp;= 0 \end{align}  But I think that I should first show that the improper integral $\int_0^1 {x\,\log x}/{(1+x^2)^2}\,dx$ is convergent.  Do I need to show it? If yes, how to do so?  (I have been taught basic methods such as comparison, limit comparison and Dirichlet test.) How to take a site offline using Drush? How do I get the coordinates of a mouse click on a canvas element? I need to cite the journal "Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics" in a paper.  I would like to draw the ā character properly (i.e., I'd prefer, if possible, to avoid using some hack, such as \bar or \overline).  Question: How do I properly write ā in LaTeX?  I didn't have luck with  (after several attempts in both in capital and lowercase) nor The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List (searching the file for "ā" and "india" revealed no hits). Get rid of the question ban on Meta; suspend actively harmful users manually What differentiates the scientific method from other methods From the controversy in , I would like to know what differentiates "the scientific method" from other method.  I'm asking for differentiation, rather than a definition, because definitions call for an all encompassing answer, which is often hard to find.  If someone asks "what is an alternative to the scientific method," I would like to be able to start by being able to reliably say whether a particular method is the scientific method or not.  Of course, being a linguistic issue, the definitions of words themselves are flexible.  For instance, it is not uncommon to hear one in science talk of "truth" in a sense which is incompatable with the mathematical meaning of "truth."  Accordingly, I would like to stick to the following ideals in wording whenever possible:   Prefer mathematically accurate terminology.  Ideally the word "proof" should be used in the form found in proof theory, and "true" and "false" should be used in the form of Boolean algebra.   No method should claim a hypothesis which predicts the state of the future is "true" unless they claim soothsaying abilities (most scientific theories include a random variable to avoid needing to claim soothsaying abilities... this is legitimate)  Words which imply direction should be clarified carefully.  "Good" and "bad" are notoriously difficult, but phrases such as "advancing society" can also be very tricky as well. The physical world and the world of information theory should be treated differently.  In particular, the concept of "testing a hypothesis" will likely need to be broken down into testing and observing the physical world, taking measurements (which should have errors associated with them), and only then is the hypothesis compared against the results of the measurements. Mathematically extending arguments into infinity (such as claiming some specific cellular level learning process qualifies as the scientific method) are valid, but may rapidly make it harder to distinguish non-scientific methods from scientific ones.  Such claims should be made carefully, but they are not inherently invalid.   If these ideals are too strict, you may bend them, but you should qualify such choices with an explanation of why my recommended wording choices are too strict.  Their goal is to put different methodologies on the levelest playing fields that I can manage in this medium.  Being stack exchange, bonus points for references to existing theories, though you may need to paraphrase their results to fit with the ideals I'm recommending for these answers.  Answers may be tested two ways:   Positive: If we think something is the scientific method, does it meet the requirements set forth? Negative: If we think something is not the scientific method, does the answer explain why it is not? I'm fairly certain this has happened to all of us at some point: You go into a room to get something, but once you're there, you can't remember what you intended to get. It seems like a specific, common phenomenon like this must have a name, but I can't think of it. Does anyone know a name (either formal or slang) for this?  I don't want a general term like forgetfulness or absent-mindedness, which could apply to all sorts of forgetting, or a term for not being able to remember a certain word. I'm looking for a word or phrase that describes this one specific situation of forgetting what you need to get as soon as you go to get it. We're in the process of deploying a private openstack instance but don't have the Swift object storage service available yet. Can juju bootstrap launch a utility instance without swift? I see that the openstack configuration control-bucket is a container id. Pointer to class data member "::*" addSMA not drawn on graph when called from function How to fade one material into the other? Hello blender community.  Could someone please let me know how to fix this issue? I have one material for the whole face and a different one for the lips.  there's a noticeable edge that I want to get rid of. I just want it to have an ease fade instead of a sharp edge.   what's the best way to go about this?  Thank you in advance!    Finished Update  I wanted to give an update on how it was fixed with @hexbob6 and @Lemon 's help.    I needed two textures. One is the actual colored version and the 2nd is the black and white masked version. Hexbob6 described very well on the process here:   A: The node process on how to do it.    The B/W masked texture is going to be connected to the Fac of the mixed shader along with its UV coordinates. Make sure the image is on clip instead of repeat. the 1st shader is going to be the black part of the B/W masked texture. An important thing to note is if you have a texture already for the object, be sure to connect the other UV coordinates! the 2nd shader will be the white part of the B/W masked texture.   B: This section is the UV layout called "mainUV" where all the color goes.  C: This section is the B/W masked texture to focus on the lips.  D: Just the render view  E: Best way to texture something is to be able to see it in 3D view and texture paint.  F: Just showing that there are two textures to keep track of. One is the main UV and the 2nd is to focus on the lip.   That was it. Once again thanks to those who replied and helped me figure this problem. In the process I learned other things that I didn't know about blender even though I've been using it for years. Does the closedness of a subgroup $H$ of $G$ imply that for $h\in H, g\in G \setminus H : hg \not \in H$? Does the closedness of a subgroup $H$ of $G$ imply that for $h\in H, g\in G \setminus H: hg \not \in H$?  I'm new to abstract algebra and this would appear to be a useful result. However, by definition, a subgroup is nearly closed, and I don't think this directly implies that for any element $g$ from $G$ not in $H$, the composition $gh \not \in H$.  Is this in fact a true statement? Why Cooper or Dr. Brand can't send message? What is the proper behavior when someone abuses the close-vote superpowers?