# All Questions

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### I need help on forcing a pagebreak in AMSTex

I am using AMSTeX and trying to put the tables and figures at the end of the manuscript so that they occur on separate pages. I have tried \pagebreak, \newpage, \displaybreak before each of the ...
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### Should one always use exsclae when using lmodern?

At the moment I only use summation signs with symbols which have a normal high and also no summation signs in subscripts. Due to this post is it correct that I should always use the exscale package ...
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### need to put a figure above another figure in beamer

In beamer I created a slide like using code \begin{frame}\frametitle{Mass of Two tagged Jet } \includegraphics[width=12cm,height=8cm]{Massesjj.pdf} \end{frame} Now, I need to put another ...
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### eps images in latex beamer class

I have some troubles with putting eps images into my beamer presentation. I use this code: \begin{frame}\frametitle{Výsledky a diskuse} \framesubtitle{Vygenerovaná data} \begin{figure}[!ht] ...
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### Hide Click Number in Beamer with Mac

I want to hide the length of my beamer presentation. I have already hidden the navigation bar and created a new footline that does not show the frame number (code below). However, whenever I use a Mac ...
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### Why do we use the LaTeX logo when referring to LaTeX in text?

It seems standard practice, when typesetting with Latex, to put the LaTeX logo in the text whenever we are referring to Latex itself (usually through the \LaTeX command). Why do we do this? It's ...
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### Improving the visual appearance of a truncated cone in TikZ

I have drawn a truncated cone in TikZ and am generally happy with the result. Here is the output and an MWE: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} ...
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### TikZ digram is not rendered properly

I have a digram, which I want to include in my latex document.Below is the tikZ code: \documentclass[letterpaper, 10 pt, conference]{ieeeconf} \begin{figure}[H] \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[auto, ...
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My institution requires a summary of a report to be on page iii, then the table of contents start on page v (there is other front matter inserted by the publications dept on pages i, ii and iv). I ...
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### footnotes indentation issue

I have checked the whole forum for finding solution to this problem. Problem: I have added some footnotes to my LaTeX template. All footnotes work fine except this one. This is how it appears Here ...
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### Shift Verbatim environment to the left using \hspace

I pasted some code into a document in a Verbatim environment from fancyvrb. Because it is within two nested enumerate environments, the code is indented quite far over. As a result, one long line of ...
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### eepic package fails compiling

I have som problems with eepic package. When I use the eepic package almost everything works fine, except circles. The circles were shown half (circle lines and filled circles). When I add the eepic ...
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### How to overlay a call-out box on text?

I wish to achieve following. There may be many variant of this.
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### Biblatex: omit author

In the traditional "humanities" writing style it may happen to refer to an author and want to cite his/her works without the author name, perhaps because you are discussing him/her works and adding ...
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### How to typeset Hess' Cycle in tikz-cd?

I want something like this: A B ΔH \ / (-397*2) \ / C Where the arrow points from A to C, and from B to C. How can I do ...
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### Line with a \hbox is overflowing right margin, why?

Let's say I have a hbox inside a paragraph like this: Do you like me? \hfill\hbox{\quad$\bigcirc$ Yes\quad$\bigcirc$ No}. If the text of the question is longer than this "Do you like me?", the line ...
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### How to put 2 sets of 3 figures on 2 columns?

I would like to put figures on 2 columns, 1st column; figure 1 with subfigures a, b and c, 2nd column: figure 2 with subfigures a, b and c. (a) fig. a | (a) fig. a | ...
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### Text decoration below path

This should be very a very simple question. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{decorations.text} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} ...
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### separation of reference and footnote numbers by a comma

I'm using revtex4-1 as documentclass and would like to place a footnote after a citation, \cite{...}\footnote{} However, the consecutive superscript numbers in the resulting pdf are not separated ...
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### Using the long form of a section title in the TOC

I would like to use a full section title for: the section title itself (of course) the table of contents the running heads But, I would like a short name to be used with \nameref{}, because ...
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### How to know available font size?

I would like to use "Helvetica" font, thus, for example I defined a normal shape with medium series of helvetica by this way : \fontsize{<size>}{<lineskip>}\usefont{OT1}{phv}{m}{n} But ...
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### In Beamer, [shrink] reduces textwidth

I have a slide in Beamer that has a lot of text, so I'd like to use shrink to make it all fit. On other Beamer presentations it works perfectly, but in this one shrink also reduces the textwidth, so ...
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### Command \excludeonly for sections

I understand that there is an \excludeonly{xyz} command where xyz is a LaTeX file name (explained here). This excludes the specified file(s) from compilation. My question is if there is equivalent ...
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### context to run side by side with LaTeX in Windows 8 64bit

I have installed context in Windows 8 64 bit. Already I have been running MIKTEX 2.9 successfully. Now when I try to test context in CLI I get the following error message. ...
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### Number only Appendix in Article

I am using a customized style for my article, where section is the top header, and no numbering is made for sections, subsections...etc I would like to keep it as it is, but, use an alphabetical ...
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### Combining multiple latex document on source level

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### Alignment inside the \align enviroment-horizontally and vertically

Is it possible to make both expressions for omega's aligned with one another and do the same for the coefficients a,b,r and d,c,t? I tried to align them manually by using center but it does not work. ...
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### Using glossaries without cross-referencing

I am attempting to use the glossaries package to add multiple glossaries to my thesis. Essentially I want a list of acronyms and a list of mathematical symbols. However I do not want to cross ...
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### Newline after each element in description environment

I have a quite a big amount of descriptions in my document. At the moment all of them look in the default manner. I use it to define terms with texts or with a list of keywords. Therefore, I often use ...
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### Subsection label appearing within text

I have a document in "book" format (strictly speaking, in an environment defined by the book publisher I am using, the details of which are way beyond my comprehension), and I very much want to have ...
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### Boldface for undescore in math mode

I need to insert an equation which contains the term x_y (y is subscript). The term must also be boldfaced. How do I achieve this in LaTeX?
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### Slides template in LyX generates option clash for package graphicx

The slides template in LyX is generating an error even with a very simple example (that is, a single slide with a *.pdf plot) The source, provided below, generates this error: ! LaTeX Error: ...
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### Image sizing screwed up after updating TexLive

I'm using Texpad and just updated TexLive from 2012 to 2014, without changing any code my images are displaying much larger and spilling off the page \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{logo.jpg} ...
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### Add the title 'Appendices' to the top of the page containing appendices

I want to have the word 'Appendices' at the top of the page containing appendices. I have two columns of text, and there are various appendices labelled 'A title here', 'B title here', etc. I ...
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### scrheadings: no pagemark in the list of contents

everything works fine with my pagenumbers and headers. There is one problem: How Can I exclude the first pages (list of contents, glossar ...) from the page numbers? The numbers should start at the ...
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### Hard space in figure/table caption

I have a problem with figure captions. Since I have very long words in figure and table captions (names of chemical compounds) the space between caption label, caption number and first word of caption ...
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### Offline organisation of exercises written in LaTeX

There is a very nice online service called texercises where you can collect, tag and search exercise problems written with LaTeX and then combine them easily to a custom exercise sheet. Since I often ...
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### Put image in subfig's subfloat caption

I need to put an image "tinyimage" inside the caption of a subfloat of the subfig package. Minimal not working example: \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{graphicx} ...
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### move \footnoterule to right

I would like to move a \footnoterule to right, by 3cm, to be aligned with a footgroup moved to right by 3 cm. I know that footnote rule use a \hrule To move the rule, I should put it in a \vbox, and ...
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I have used \markboth to specify specific text in certain sections of my document. Now in the middle part of the documents (the real chapters), I want to chapter name left and the section name right. ...
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### using tikz for rectangle in matrix

\begin{equation*} U^{k} = \begin{tikzpicture} \matrix [matrix of math nodes,left delimiter=(,right delimiter=)] (m) { z^{k} & 0 & \cdots & ...
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### print hour & minutes in french style

I'm using babel, datetime & siunitx but I don't see an automatic way to mark and to write time in the french style. It's possible with plain hour with datetime: SI{18}{\hour} -> 18 h. But for ...
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### How to modify apalike.bst to sort references chronologically?

I want to sort chronologically a list of references using the apalike.bst style, since this order seems more natural for showing in a CV. I tried to follow the approach outlined in ...
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### Floating and non-floating items in one document

till now my tables were like this: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{capt-of} \begin{document} \begin{table} \begin{minipage}[h!]{\linewidth} \centering ...
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### How can I add text to an inline tikz pickture

I am drawing some icons in latex with tikz picture and right below my icon, I would like to add text like "EXIT" start from position (0,0): \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex] {\draw[line width=3pt] ...
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### Glossaries and custom section headings broken

I've a document, where I use the glossaries to manage acronyms for me. Sometimes, I use a \gls{} command inside a section heading, and I have defined page headers to have the current section heading. ...
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### Right way of citing: First author and year the same, co-authors differ

We had a short discussion about distinguishing bibliography, if the first author and the year is the same, but the co-authors differ. M Now I'm facing a similiar "problem" by myself or rather do not ...
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### Why no line drawn when use dot with psmatrix?

I am trying to draw a signal flow graph with \psmatrix where each node is just a dot. However \ncline does not seem to work when mnode is set to dot \$ \psmatrix[colsep=1cm,rowsep=1cm,mnode=dot] ...