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This question led to a new package: tikzscale When I try to scale a plot with: width=\textwidth there is some horizontal space between the start/end of the plot and the start/end of the ...
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### How to define a point between two points for a given length ratio?

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### Diagonal strikeout starting too low and ending too high

I want to strikeout an equation with diagonal line but I've not managed to get the diagonal line to draw as I want. The closest I've gotten is via the first example in Frédéric's answer of \cancel ...
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### What if I use a \def name starting with “if”

Following this answer to Is it possible to use some sort of internationalization in LaTeX? I'm setting up my own dictionaries. When compiling the files I get this error: ! Use of \if doesn't match ...
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### Creating uniformly sized boxes around text

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