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### Zero fill numbers with precision and also properly align headers in pgfplots table

In my code below, I wanted to: Fill numbers with certain precision. For example, say the number read in is 12.2, and I set my precision to 4, I wanted to display 12.2000 in the table row? Although ...
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### How to draw timing wheel

i need to draw this timing wheel image in tikz. Can anyone help me? I just tried to start drawing a normal circular array image, but this isn't the result that i want. EDIT: This is my attempt: ...
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### How to add footer in Lyx when using IEEE Transactions class?

How do I add a footer in Lyx file when using IEEE Transactions class?
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### New subsubsection without any space after the title

This is part of my code: \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{subsubsection}{411} \subsubsection{Root calculation.} The easiest way to.. It has to look the same as : ...
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### What are the steps in designing a font?

How do fonts get created? What if a person wants to design a new font, what steps are involved and how the final result get integrated into \TeX?
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### Acronyms package - sort acronyms alphabetical order ShareLatex [duplicate]

I'm using: \begin{acronym} \acro{URL}{Uniform Resource Locator} \end{acronym} with package \usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym} But my acronyms are not alphabetical sorted , and I want it. How can ...
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I have created an environment to be used in creating examples in my text. The class is one specified by the publisher Wiley, basically a book. The environment currently takes the name of the example ...
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### Disable the last line at the end of algorithm

If I use the algorithm package as such \begin{algorithm}[h!] ...insert algorithm here... \end{algorithm} I find a line at the end of my algorithm. Without going into detail, I want a algorithm ...
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### Insert command in path after each node with certain style

I would like to make a mindmap and connect each leaf with an outside node. How can I do this? In the following example I'd like to connect each Example code: \tikzset{ top concept/.style = ...
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### How to draw a path to form a regular pentagon?

I already have a code that draws a regular hexagon the following way \begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style={draw,shape=circle,fill=blue}] \path (0,0) node (p0) {} (-1.5,-1) node (p1) {} (-1.5,-2.5) ...
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### Override optional parameters of \newtcblisting from tcolorbox

This question follows the one I asked here. I would like to override the following custom listings command from the tcolorbox package and be able to have the following features implemented using ...
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### Add Whitespace Around Plot Marks

I have a simple graph in PGFPlots, where the marks of two different plots slightly overlap: Around 50 and 100 the graph gets a bit too busy, so I would like to add some whitespace around the marks, ...
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### Drawing dashed circles around words

I am looking for a code creating the following scheme. As I have never worked with drawing packages in LaTeX, any help is appreciated. It would be great if someone could help me by writing a code ...
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### How do I apply “nodes near coords” to a single bar?

I want to change the position of a single node in a ybar plot. I know I am able to change the position of the nodes for a whole plot (by adding nodes near coords in the \addplot [...]), but in this ...
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### tikz based font package - no need for font installation

As I understand, if one wants to add a font package to latex for example bbm one also needs to install the fonts in the computer separately. so I thought of the option to create latex fonts using tikz ...
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### How to change font size of headdings without impacting TOC

I am a relatively new to LaTex and I am using a template provided by my university to write my thesis. The current headings for my chapters are in very large font and when I adjust them using the ...
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### Relative text size in TikZ

I'm trying to design an academic poster for a conference. I have a very specific layout that I'd like to implement. Unfortunately, as this layout is bespoke, no templates will allow me to achieve this ...
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### item wrap of descripsion list in tcolorbox

This problem is related to this one Since long enumerate list is not acceptable in table, we have to live with list. Ulrike Fischer provide a frame work to attack this problem. But I encountered new ...
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### How to optimize this ad hoc code? [on hold]

I just released a book with a deadline. My first job with LaTEX, very messy. I wondered if there is anybody out there, who would be so kind and take a look at the code and see, what optimizations can ...
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### TEX graphics question [on hold]

In some game i found .tex files, what has graphics and .header file inside. How to open that .tex file and edit that files? And if someone know and can explain to me how to open .par file.
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### Error using tikzexternalize when placing an image on the verso page

I am preparing a thesis in the same manner as detailed in this question. Namely, I am looking to write a thesis with the text appearing on the right (odd) page, and images appearing on the left ...
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### Drawing complicated 3D designs within TikZ

I've checked the community and analyzed, already, the related questions(here, here, here, here an so on) about this case. All of the aforementioned cases are from the group of the 3D designs, have ...
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### Get rid of the number on some of the edges

How can I get rid of the circled marked 0 in red on the edge? Code: \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{forest} \tikzset{el style/.style={midway, font=\scriptsize, inner sep=+1pt, ...
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### Why does transparent not work well in XeLaTeX and how can I fix it?

I'm looking for a semi transparent black background on certain table rows in a pdf document. I have tried to apply http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/62528/23302 and it works if I use pdflatex. But I ...
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### Got citation undefined when using pdflatex

When using pdflatex to compile my tex file I got all citations replaced with question marks. However when compile with WinEdit I got all citations right. I checked the differences between the two aux ...
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### Figure on an even page and caption on the following page

I would like to place a figure on an even page, then the caption on the following page. The reason for that is that the figure + caption is too big to fit in one page, but I want the reader to be ...
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### Tikzexternalize with PGF3 system call

I'm trying to include tikz figures in my document. Because the tikz figures are rather large I'm using tikzexternalize to compile the figures using lualatex, otherwise I'm running into memory issues. ...
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### rsc bibliography style only printing initials

I am using \bibliographystyle{rsc} and when I have a lot of authors on a reference, it only prints the initials. I want it to print the surnames as it does usually. Any help appreciated, Thank you. ...
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### Creating this large image in TikZ

I need to create the following image in TikZ, but I'm not sure how I should do the underbraces and overbraces. The cardinality of the sets on top is listed as |S_{0,0}|, |S_{0,1}|, \dots, ...
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### Beamer: Why does title of block become unreasonably large for roboto font

The MWE below produces a Beamer block with a too large title area. Commenting out either of the second or third line fixes the problem. How can I fix it if I want to keep both lines? ...
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### Single occurrences of special refererence style (using the automatic numbering) to a list item (without changing the style of the other occurrences)?

I have a list: \begin{enumerate}[label={[\Roman*]},ref={[\Roman*]}] \item\label{item1} The first item. \end{enumerate} What I want to achieve is this: In the most instances, I want to refer to ...
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### How to insert a mindmap with TiKZ in a A4paper

I need to create a mindmap by LaTex. After rading the manual, I made the mindmap below as changing an example. \documentclass[article, 12pt, oneside]{memoir} \usepackage[a2paper]{geometry} ...
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### How can I trim margins, hopefully keeping the textwidth the same?

I started writing a rather large document with the default A4 paper size, two-sided, memoir format. I fear that the page size might need to become smaller than this, and my question is on how to ...
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### Memoir package: remove header or footer to get more space

How can I remove either the header or the footer of the page using memoir? When I say "remove", read "take no space on the page"; I want to make the block taller by using that space. (non)Working ...
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### APA style in German, but with commas (except for in the text)

I'm looking for some help. I'm writing my master's thesis in German using the APA style (apacite package). So since the document is in German it automatically deletes the commas in the reference list ...
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### Error exporting from org-mode to beamer

When trying to export from org to beamer I get this msg: Processing LaTeX file ./ppt.tex... org-latex-compile: PDF file ./ppt.pdf wasn't produced: [undefined control sequence] I don't know ...
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I am writing a thesis work in scrbook class (though it appears this applies to similar non-KOMA classes as well). The default behavior for running head is: Verso pages: Chapter Title Recto ...
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### mhchem wrong subscript

Using mhchem version 4 (ubuntu 15.10), the simple \ce{CH2O} inserted in a report document results in CH[t]2O with "[t]2" being in subscript. Am I missing something obvious (cant' see nothing related ...
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### Tabular at bottom of beamer slide (above footline)

I would like to put content at the bottom of some slide, possibly containing environment such as tabular, in a manner similar to footnotes but without footnote marks. My current attempt is the ...
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### Automatic referencing of figure subpanels in Latex

I'm trying to have figure legends to multi-panelled figures and reference to the individual subpanels from the text. When I rearrange the panels I don't want to go through all the text and change the ...
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### File elocalloc.sty' not found

I am trying to compile an example of the Huffmann which I found but I am getting the error: ! LaTeX Error: File elocalloc.sty' not found. Type X to quit or to proceed, or enter new name. ...
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### Drawing lines to the correct circle

I have the following code \def\aes{in*0.75}%% \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.34mm] \coordinate (A) at (0,0); \coordinate (B) at ($(A)+(30:4\aes)$); \coordinate (C) at ($(B)+(-90:2.5\aes)$); ...
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### Apply a macro to every word

In order to improve the \sameword feature of reledmac, I would like to find a way to automatically apply a command to every word. For example, in plain TeX, \def\foo#1{#1 (#1)} foo bar foo bar foo ...
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### Ugly artifacts when using Helvetica (tgheros), Beamer, and pdflatex

First, please note that this question pertains to pdflatex, not xelatex or lualatex. I cannot use any solution involving packages such as fontspec. I'm trying to use Helvetica or a similar font in ...
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### Code for generating assignments with questions, sub questions and sub-subquestions

I wish to generate a question paper for an assignment, to be given to the students. Apart from the usual notes about the assignment, I wish to have question numbering, along with sub-questions and ...
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### How to get rounded edges for caption boxes using caption/captionsetup

I use the following in my preamble to ensure a gray background for my captions underneath figures and tables: \usepackage{caption} \definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.9} ...
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### LuaLatex additional packages, preferred destination of installed packages

I have the following Situation: I have installed the full texlive package, which includes pgfplots v1.8. But I want to compile some tex files using pgfplots v1.12. So I have extracted pgfplots v1.12 ...
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### spacing in the List of Figure

I am trying to adjust spacing between figure titles in the list of figures/tables on MixTex 2.9 and I could not see an answer to this issue in the previous posts. Could you please help me on how to ...