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Applying condition around \intertext and \shortintertext leaves excess vertical space
When I try to make either \intertext or \shortintertext conditional I get excess vertical spacing prior to the conditional text as per the MWE below. Note the excess vertical spacing prior to "Albert ...
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Adding vertical spacing between chapter and its first section in table of contents
I'm using the style files given by my university for my thesis but they are quite old (eethesis document class). In my PDF output, the vertical space before and after the major headings in the table ...
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\xspace in combination with ifmmode
Sometimes I want a special font for the word "true", use it in mathmode as well as outside, and have a correct space afterwords if I am not in mathmode. Using
\newcommand{\tru}{\ifmmode ...
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Custom ToC — Put vspace only below chapters that have sections in them
I’m using the titletoc package in the book class. Currently, my chapter entries are configured like this (I left out the unimportant parameters for simplicity):
\titlecontents{chapter}[0pc]
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Proper way to detect empty/blank text
I am attempting to ignore a command if it is passed with empty/blank text. My use case is not as complicated as one Expand away empty macros within ifthenelse where @egreg provides what seems like a ...
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How to check if a section title (or any heading) is the first line of a new page?
I would like to be able to use an \if command to check if a \section appears on the first line of a new page. If a section heading is the first line of a new page, I would like to then adjust some of ...
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Are there any packages that I should not be using with ifthen package
I am new to TeX and I started adding package files to prepare my document without worrying about conflicts. I am asking this subjective question because I am not sure if I can post entire document ...
