0
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Image caption and cross referenceing in Beamer poster
In my beamer poster, I like to give caption for images and cross reference that in writing like my thesis ("Figure 2.1: Text" like this). But when I use the following code, I found ("Figure: Text" ...
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Combining PDF's and their TOC
I have three .tex files that get compiled fine using polyglassia & xelatex packages. When I combine these three tex files in one tex file, it exceeds the memory due to a lot of special fonts used ...
0
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0answers
8 views
Stackoverflow survey [migrated]
I am a PhD student at McGill University working on analyzing Collaborative Question Answering sites. I prepared a survey for users of stackexchange sites. I need your feedback for my research. I ...
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How to get non-numbered sections to show in ToC
I'm writing a book and I want the sections within the main text to carry no numeration, while I want the section number to appear in the ToC. To suppress internal numeration, I write \section*{Title}, ...
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1answer
15 views
Continuing Page Numbering (Roman to Arabic)
I'm here with weird stuff again.
How can i continue numbering while changing numbering style to Arabic from Roman? For example let's assume I have total of 7 pages and I want to number the first 3 of ...
3
votes
1answer
27 views
C preprocessor commands in listings package
I am using the listings package, which is mostly formatting things nicely. However, it fails to syntax highlight indented preprocessor commands correctly.
For example,
\documentclass{article}
...
0
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1answer
22 views
Comma delimiter in pmatrix environment (for row vectors)
Is there a way to have a pmatrix environment from amsmath use non-whitespace delimiters such as a comma? I am mainly asking, because I would like to make a row vector this way. I take it, there are ...
1
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1answer
26 views
Aligning margin note with line spacing different from main text
I have a main text column with margin a line separation of 1.05 (\setstretch{1.05}), and margin texts generated with a tighter line separation with the following macro:
...
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1answer
16 views
Need help with enumerated list with display math
I have an enumerated list from a Proposition and would like to put this into display math style (so the subscripts on the union and intersection symbols are below not beside those symbols) and keep ...
2
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1answer
20 views
How do I color just labels for specific components in the tikz circuits library?
I follow a convention in which I make voltages blue and currents red.
Making the current direction red is pretty simple. I just add "color=red" to the options for the specific current direction. But ...
1
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1answer
31 views
enumerate environment and graphics
If I have an item in an enumerate environment, which only contains a figure (or table etc), the bullet point of the enumerations alignment goes weird. For example:
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item
...
2
votes
1answer
21 views
How I change the text width in the “Frontmatter” part?
I am using Elsevier document class (elsart) but I changed the page margins and also text width, but the text in "frontmatter" part remained unchanged. How can I change the margin or text width in that ...
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1answer
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acronym with inputenc changes between latin10 and utf8
[edited] the problems are in a little different setting.
The actual error from the real world is:
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
:
l.34 ...tă din 2 ...
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1answer
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Missing “References” heading
The word "References" does not appear before the references which I entered in my paper. The packages I am using are:
\documentclass[final,times,1p,leqno,11pt]{elsarticle}
...
3
votes
1answer
19 views
Numbering new environment with chapter/section
If I have a new environment defined (with, say, trivfloat), is it possible to get that section to number with chapter/section? I use \numberwithin for equations, figures, and tables.
For example, my ...
3
votes
1answer
21 views
How do I achieve consistent font sizing in a tikz circuit?
When creating a circuit using the tikz circuits library, the objects may have a variety of different constructions. There may be labels containing fractions and there may be ordinary paths with ...
3
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0answers
29 views
Spaces between rows and cols in a table - Better ways than mine?
I started using Latex recently and I put together 4 ways of changing the space in a table. Two general ways defining the general space between cols and rows as well as two ways of adding space between ...
4
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1answer
21 views
suppress pagebreaks in titletoc's titlecontents* blocks
How do I suppress pagebreaks in the toc "paragraphs" produced by titlesec's \titlecontents* command without stopping linebreaks between subsections?
The follwoing suppresses linebreaks within ...
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1answer
39 views
Error using \toprule \midrule from Booktabs package [closed]
I am trying to use the package booktabs to make my tables look nicer. However,
Latex gives me an error whenever I use \toprule \midrule or \bottomrule. Here is a simple
example I created:
...
2
votes
0answers
31 views
Is there a way to automatically change kerning between commas/full stops and footnote marks?
Following up on my question on the kerning of footnote marks after punctuation marks, I'd like to know if there is a way to achieve the kerning of footnote marks over a comma or full stop ...
2
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0answers
29 views
pdfpages, addtolist and list of tables
These may be separate questions, but the following MWE:
\usepackage{pdfpages}
...
\addcontentsline{lot}{subsection}{\ref{tab:UserRoles} \textbf{User Roles}}
\includepdf[pages={-}, ...
6
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2answers
49 views
Spacing between figures and texts
I'm having some issues dealing with figures. It happens that when I have a page with some text and then it comes a figure, with H property, who doesn't fits into the same page as the text, the text ...
1
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1answer
30 views
Help with command \author for more than 2 authors
I need to insert two authors name in a paper. However, the names appear separated by a comma and not with the word AND between them.
I am using the command \author for each author and also the other ...
2
votes
1answer
28 views
A macro that passes each word of its argument to another macro as an argument (again)
I know that this is a duplicate to A macro that passes each word of its argument to another macro as an argument?, that's why I kept the title, but I didn't manage to get the right result when the ...
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1answer
46 views
Using TikZ inside a figure caption
I have a PNG plot with a couple of black patches in it, and I'd like to refer to it in the \caption of of the figure. According to the TikZ manual, I'd have to
\tikz \fill[black] (1ex,1ex) circle ...
0
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0answers
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\textbeta and \textmu defined in the beamer class
I really like using UTF-8 greek letters in my latex code source and I use utf8x to convert them into \textalpha commands and then I define the \textalpha commands in a separate file where I write ...
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0answers
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How can I open a .woff file on Mac osx?
This may be a stupid question but how can I open / see a woff file ? I understand that it's just about fonts packed in woff format but how can I decompress it ?
2
votes
1answer
39 views
Vertical Spacing After Paragraph Heading
I can't manage to control vertical spacing after (and before) paragraph which I've customized.
\paragraph{Çatışma}
Birden fazla düşman birimin karşılıklı yok etme ....
And here is what i used to ...
3
votes
1answer
43 views
Does Lua(La)TeX use external lua or built in? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
LuaJIT and LuaTeX
There is a JIT for Lua called LuaJIT that has many speed improvements over standard Lua(in some cases up to 60 times). I'm curious if this could be ...
1
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2answers
44 views
“Table des Matières” instead of “Table of Contents”
Currently, I write a report in LaTeX.
Everything goes well except a small problem that bothers me really. The report is written in English except for a summary in French that has to be written in ...
7
votes
2answers
91 views
How to properly typeset footnotes/superscripts after punctuation marks?
I find the spacing of footnote marks after punctuation marks quite unsatisfactory, especially with sans serif fonts and compared to the spacing after letters. Example follows:
I came up with a ...
0
votes
0answers
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How can I get an eps file from pgfplots?
I read a lot of way such as
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
\tikzset{external/system call={latex \tikzexternalcheckshellescape
-halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode -jobname ...
1
vote
1answer
29 views
Using beamerdefs.sty insert background wallpaper on title
I have one .tex file which uses a beamerdefs.sty file. I now want to have a background picture (only) on the title page, but the problem is, the begin document section starts later and if I try to ...
3
votes
2answers
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pgfplots, plot options ignored when using “restrict expr to domain”
this is my first post here. I want to use pgfplots (wonderful piece of software/code) to display some data (A,B,C) from a experiment. Ib some diagrams I want to plot x=A and y=B but only for some ...
1
vote
3answers
53 views
Use of \scshape or \textsc with fontspec/xelatex
I've already tried Use of \scshape or \textsc in beamer \institute fix with \rmfamily in the MWE below, but it doesn't work - I've seen A problem with \textsc as well, but I don't think I should load ...
3
votes
1answer
29 views
Problem with options in \DeclareSiUnit
I also wanted to know How to use siunitx to write 100 MBps?, so \sisetup{per-mode=symbol,per-symbol = p} solved my question and I decided to use it as option in ...
1
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0answers
28 views
Highlight certain texts in listings or minted
I want to highlight certain parts of a program output listing which represent user input. For example I want to use \textbf in this way:
$ \textbf{dmesg | tail}
...
[ 6854.215650] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] ...
10
votes
2answers
333 views
Hiring someone to help me with LaTeX for my PhD thesis
I do not know whether this is an appropriate question, but I was carrying it around for quite some weeks and now it just has to come out.
I am working on my PhD thesis. My thesis will include a long ...
2
votes
2answers
37 views
Figure caption and reference formatting
I'd like to format my captions of figures. The main source of the problem is in my native language, Hungarian I need to reverse the figure number and the word 'figure'.
My current code:
...
2
votes
2answers
58 views
Aligning tikz node at bottom of page (not paper; including margin)
I already know about \par\vspace*{\fill} to align a piece of text at the bottom of page (image below, left); but how do I do this with tikz?
Only thing close I can find is aligning to current ...
1
vote
0answers
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How to setup this layout
I am trying to replicate this page layout using context, but I am struggling.
I have read the context manual and tried changing parameters to see what happens, but I was unable to sort out the logic.
...
0
votes
0answers
13 views
master mode in Texmaker
I am writing a project with texmaker, and i've separated it into several files, to keep it organized.
But I run into the following problem -
I have to define every startup that the main document is ...
1
vote
1answer
45 views
Seemingly random left margin after page break
My document seems to be switching left margins at random and I do not know what is causing this. I am running MacTex and compiling it like this
latex thesis.tex
bibtex A
bibtex B
latex thesis.tex
...
4
votes
2answers
78 views
Left-justify text in LaTeX
How do I left-justify my whole report? I have tried
\begin{flushleft}\end{flushleft}
But the problem is that it removes the alignment of my pictures. So is there a way to align only the text ...
3
votes
1answer
22 views
On a problem related to UML class diagram using pgf-umlcd
I use the pgf-umlcd package written by Xu Yuan (see http://code.google.com/p/pgf-umlcd/)
in order to write UML class diagrams. It is easy to use - however there is a bug which I don't know how to fix.
...
0
votes
0answers
42 views
Is it possible to create an animated GIF from LaTeX? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Converting beamer slides to animated images
I wrote a LaTeX beamer presentation with an animated Tkiz figure. Creating PDF files work perfectly, but I would like to ...
1
vote
2answers
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titlesec messin' up my hyperref'd table of contents
Please consider the following multipage MWE, which contains page number restarting; made to compile with pdflatex test.tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
...
0
votes
0answers
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error message while typesetting
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 40--41
and
LaTeX Warning: Citation `r6' on page 2 undefined on input line 34
gettin these two types of error messages while trying to ...
1
vote
2answers
99 views
How to bold just one word in a line
If I have a line of text, how do I make just the first word bold?
I tried this:
\bf{NTn} = Number of lines
but it made the entire line bold.
3
votes
0answers
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Formatting floats differently based on placement
I'm interested in changing how floats are formatted depending on whether they are placed at the top, bottom, or middle of a page, or on a float page. One package I am aware of that does something like ...
