How can I represent this word/symbol in Latex??  Symbol:    I search in  but I don't find it  Thanks
Is there a font, available to -all- TeX users, that includes a glyph that can be recognized as the Unicode Replacement Character?  I realize I can use XeTeX with a  (or maybe any character not in the font), but I'm interested in using standard pdfTeX with standard LaTeX 2e and a pure ASCII input file.  The glyph typically looks like a filled black diamond with a white question mark inside it:    If no such font is available, what's the best robust strategy for getting such a glyph into a standard pdfTeX document (one whose input file has no Unicode or non-ASCII UTF-8 byte sequences in it) without using XeTeX or similar?  Inserting TikZ commands?  Raw PostScript?  Right now, for lack of a better solution, I'm using a \textbullet, simply because it's the boldest/blackest glyph I can think of, and it's available in most standard fonts.  Creating a custom font with one glyph in it is not really viable, or if it is it's a strategy of last resort, unless (perhaps) it can be done automatically and on the fly when processing the document each time.  (Reposted from the texhax mailing list: ; originally posed by Doug McKenna)
How to remove a partition on a hard disk? change caption in tufte class full-page figure I've tried to change the caption in a full-width float with tufte-book, but to no avail. I want the caption in this figure to be like more common LaTeX classes.  Here is a MWE and the result:  \documentclass[a4paper,nohyper]{tufte-book} %abstracton \usepackage{fontspec} \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={TeX}} \setmainfont[Numbers={OldStyle}]{Minion Pro} %or any other font \setsansfont{Myriad Pro} % or any other font \setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Menlo} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{wrapfig} \usepackage{sidecap} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{brazil} \usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} %\usepackage[font=sf, labelfont={sf}, margin=1cm]{caption} \newfontfamily{\A}{Al Bayan}  \begin{document}  \begin{figure*} \centering \includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{./camp-scene} \caption{Cena de Acampamento. Mir Sayyid Ali, séc. XVII. 28,4 x 20 cm. Harvard University Art Museums, 1958.75. Os tecidos preenchiam a vida tanto dos nômades quanto dos habitantes das cidades, cobrindo o chão e definindo o espaço. O papel onipresente dos tecidos é visto numa pintura de um acampamento nômade, atribuído ao pintor persa do século XVI Mir Sayyid Ali.} \label{fig:camp-scene} \end{figure*}  \end{document} Forward an invocation of a variadic function in C Work in ArcGlobe and I want to calculate the coordinates of the globe latitude and longitude, but the coordinates from the mouse click is read from the screen, not the globe, because when I clicked on the corner of the screen it shows me the coordinates 0,0. How can I make it so that coordinates read with globe and not with the screen? import arcpy import pythonaddins  class ToolClass2(object):     &quot;&quot;&quot;Implementation for coord_addin.tool (Tool)&quot;&quot;&quot;     def __init__(self):         self.enabled = True         self.shape = &quot;NONE&quot; # Can set to &quot;Line&quot;, &quot;Circle&quot; or &quot;Rectangle&quot; for interactive shape drawing and to activate the onLine/Polygon/Circle event sinks.     def onMouseDown(self, x, y, button, shift):         pythonaddins.MessageBox(&quot;Long&quot; + &quot; &quot; + str(x) + '\n'+ &quot;Lat&quot;+ &quot; &quot; + str(y), 'Coordinates', 0)         pass     def onMouseDownMap(self, x, y, button, shift):         #pythonaddins.MessageBox(&quot;Long&quot; + &quot; &quot; + str(x) + '\n'+ &quot;Lat&quot;+ &quot; &quot; + str(y), 'Coordinates', 0)         pass     def onMouseUp(self, x, y, button, shift):         pass     def onMouseUpMap(self, x, y, button, shift):         pass     def onMouseMove(self, x, y, button, shift):         pass     def onMouseMoveMap(self, x, y, button, shift):         pass     def onDblClick(self):         pass     def onKeyDown(self, keycode, shift):         pass     def onKeyUp(self, keycode, shift):         pass     def deactivate(self):         pass     def onCircle(self, circle_geometry):         pass     def onLine(self, line_geometry):         pass     def onRectangle(self, rectangle_geometry):         pass Resetting theorem counters: \section and (missing) \subsection Why are symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices so important? I know the definition of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix, but want to understand more.   Why are they so important, intuitively?  Here is what I know. What else?   For a given data, Co-variance matrix is SPD. Co-variance matrix is a important metric, see this  for intuitive explanation. The quadratic form $\frac 1 2 x^\top Ax-b^\top x +c$ is convex, if $A$ is SPD. Convexity is a nice property for a function that can make sure the local solution is global solution. For Convex problems, there are many good algorithms to solve, but not for non-covex problems. When $A$ is SPD, the optimization solution for the quadratic form $$\text{minimize}~~~ \frac 1 2 x^\top Ax-b^\top x +c$$ and the solution for linear system $$Ax=b$$ are the same. So we can run conversions between two classical problems. This is important because it enables us to use tricks discovered in one domain in the another. For example, we can use the conjugate gradient method to solve a linear system.  There are many good algorithms (fast, numerical stable) that work better for an SPD matrix, such as Cholesky decomposition.   EDIT: I am not trying ask the identities for SPD matrix, but the intuition behind the property to show the importance. For example, as mentioned by @Matthew Drury, if a matrix is SPD, Eigenvalues are all positive real numbers, but why all positive matters. @Matthew Drury had a great answer to flow and that is what I was looking for. How can I include value of sharepoint's version column in a word document? I'm trying to work out a way to display the contents of the version column from SharePoint (i.e. the value that changes every time a file is checked in) as a field (or something similar) inside of a Word document.  Ideally, I'd like to know how to configure SharePoint so I could click something like "Insert > Quick Parts > Document Property > Version", and it would include the version in the document.  The goal is to make it easier for someone to correlate a printed version of a document with the version history of SharePoint.  I have been able to add editable text columns to the Document content-type and have them show up as document property quick parts.  I've also been able to add a calculated column which gets the version as a text string... however this calculated column isn't showing up in Word as a document property.  (Perhaps I'm missing a setting on the calculated column) Adjective for someone who exaggerates emotions to get sympathy What's the word for someone who tries to get sympathy from others by exaggerating their emotions or constantly reminding them of something tragic that happened to them?  I'm looking for an adjective - no disorders or health related definitions please. To get the character sequences of a particular keyboard shortcut we use showkey -a or verbatim insert (Ctrl+V). What is the opposite of it? How can I get the keyboard shortcut in human readable format from character sequences? I used some keybindings for example ^[^? ^X^U ^[[3;5~ ^[[1;2D ^[[1;2C ^[[1;5C ^[[1;5D ^[[1;6C ^[[1;6D ....  Now I do not remember which key/key-combination they used to represent. How can I find that out? Update 1 I am looking for something which will output Ctrl+R or Ctrl+Delete etc, I mean in human readable format. Any reference to a table which has possible character sequences and their human readable formats will also do. The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead Mean absolute error OR root mean squared error? Why use Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) instead of Mean Absolute Error (MAE)??    Hi  I've been investigating the error generated in a calculation - I initially calculated the error as a Root Mean Normalised Squared Error.  Looking a little closer, I see the effects of squaring the error gives more weight to larger errors than smaller ones, skewing the error estimate towards the odd outlier. This is quite obvious in retrospect.   So my question - in what instance would the Root Mean Squared Error be a more appropriate measure of error than the Mean Absolute Error? The latter seems more appropriate to me or am I missing something?  To illustrate this I have attached an example below:                    The scatter plot shows two variables with a good correlation,  the two histograms to the right chart the error between Y(observed ) and Y(predicted) using normalised RMSE (top) and MAE (bottom).     There are no significant outliers in this data and MAE gives a lower error than RMSE. Is there any rational, other than MAE being preferable, for using one measure of error over the other? A diagram which is not the torus At page 17 of Munkres' Elements of Algebraic topology it says, referring to fig. 3.6, that "the diagram does not determine [the torus]. It does more than paste opposite edges together":   Is it so? I tried to glue them together, but end up with a normal torus. Can the Dispel Magic spell be Readied to counter an opponent's spell? When playing as a spellcaster, is it valid the use of the Ready action to prepare Dispel Magic to counter a spell cast by an opponent? In the same vein, when declaring said action, do I have to specify which spell slot I will use when Readying the Dispel Magic spell? If that is the case, does this tactic nullify an opponent's spell? I get the impression that this is basically turning Dispel Magic into a spell with a casting time of &quot;1 reaction&quot;. Is my reading of the rules accurate? Where can I find the application executables in the filesystem? What is the best practice for multiple button placement and emphasis? Usually, we only have 2 buttons at the bottom of a form or a page that requires an action: Submit &amp; Cancel.  This one is quite easy to style. However, what if we are dealing with multiple buttons at the bottom of a page? For example:   ← Back | Send Email | Booking Paid | Check-in Guest   I'm thinking of making "Back" just a link (not a button) and making "Send Email" / "Booking Paid" secondary buttons (light gray). Then I'd make "Check-in Guest" as the primary button (green).  I still feel that there's a better way of doing it or dealing with multiple buttons / actions. What do you think? How to add coloured line before caption? Proof by Induction: Prove that $2^n > n^2$, for all natural numbers greater than or equal to $5$ Redirect the output using `sudo` I have a small question regarding using sudo with output redirect &gt;. To enable IP forwrding, someone can use the command:  echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward   Executing this command will give permission denied as it requires root privileges. However, executing the same command with sudo gives also permission denied error! It seems that output redirect &gt; does not inherit the permissions of the preceding command echo. Is this right?  As a workaround I do:  echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward   Is this the best way to do it? Am I missing something?  Please, note that this is an example and it applies to all commands that use output redirect. I understand that division by zero isn't allowed, but we merely just multiplied $f(x) = 1$ by $\frac{x-1}{x-1}$ to get $f(x) = \frac{x-1}{x-1}$ and $a\cdot 1 = 1\cdot a = a$ so they're the same function but with different domain how is this possible?  Or in other words why don't we simplify $f(x) = \frac{x-1}{x-1}$ to $f(x) = 1$ before plotting the points. Is it just defined this way or is there a particular reason ?  Note: my book says the domain of $f(x) = 1$ is $\mathbb{R}$ and the domain of  $f(x) = \frac{x-1}{x-1}$ is $\mathbb{R}$ except $1$. There was a great SF story I read some time ago (probably 25+ years ago) where there was a well known treasure trove, guarded by a killer robot that would ask all comers a series of difficult questions from all areas (math, physics, literature, history, etc.)  But everyone eventually failed and died... until the last person managed to make it past the robot:     By just answering gibberish to the robot.  Unfortunately, after collecting a ton of treasure, the robot casually asked him why he wanted it, he answered in a sensible way (something like "because it's valuable"), and the robot killed him, because he failed the final test.   Any ideas who wrote this?  What it was titled?