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No room for a new \dimen
I have this error message:
! No room for a new \dimen . \ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for
a new #3}
\fi
which I can not find a cure for.
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Dimensioning of a technical drawing in TikZ
Is there is an easy way to mark dimensions in a technical drawing with TikZ?
Is there a library or something?
Edit
I am using xelatex.
Update
I chose Martin's answer because it serves me well for ...
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votes
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What are the possible dimensions / sizes / units LaTeX understands?
I know there are different ways of expressing sizes or dimensions in LaTeX such as points (pt), inches (in) and ex.
As some commands, such as \hspace understand all of them, I would like to have a ...
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How does PDF or PDF Viewer define a rounding rule for stroke thickness?
I defined a sequence of line segments of different thickness each as follows.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multido}
\parindent=0sp
\begin{document}
...
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Get a includegraphic to stick in the same place for several beamer slides
I am working with a presentation where I want a sequence of slides with a figure that changes slightly for each slide.
I want the figure to to stay in the same place for many slides and I want to ...
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Is there a command to convert cm to bp?
I want to convert a length in cm (centimeter) to bp (big point).
Is there a command to convert cm to bp?
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What does different \fontdimen<num> mean
I know that \fontdimen<num> returns some dimensions associated with the current font. What are they?
8
votes
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Determine height and depth of letters relative to the font size
I would like to scale graphical elements (like images, tikz and tikz-timing diagrams) relative to the font size, so that they have the same height as an normal uppercase letter (i.e. X or M; I noticed ...
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What are the differences between \newdimen, \newskip and \newlength?
What are the differences between \newdimen, \newskip, and\newlength?
When should I use each of them? Please give me a non-trivial example for each case.
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What is the right way to set a dimension parameter?
In the TeXbook Knuth set parameters for dimensions mostly as follows:
\parskip=3pt
Other package authors define such parameters without using the equal sign
\parskip30pt
Many later authors use ...
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votes
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Dimension too large while plotting with pgfplots
I have the following pgfplots code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[domain=-8:2]
\foreach \i in {-10,-9.8,...,10} {\addplot+[smooth] {-x/\i+\i};}%
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
I need several ...
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\colorbox{color}{text} without increasing the height and width of the cell in a table
When using \colorbox{color}{text} to put background color for the text in a table, the text with background color seems to take more space and makes the respective cell higher and wider. Is there a ...
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What is the plain TeX equivalent of \settowidth?
The \settowidth command, which sets a width equal to the width of some text, is described at Get width of a given text as length and How to set the width of the label of a description to the width of ...
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votes
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How to rotate a picture in 3 dimensions?
I have a picture like this:
I want to use this picture rotated like this (inline with the text as well as separately):
Is there a way to achieve this?
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votes
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including tif/eps/pdf fails due to bounding box/dimensions
when inserting an image into my *.tex-file, I get the error
Dimension too large
the command was (reduced to the important lines)
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\includegraphics{graphics/3-1-23}
\end{figure}
...
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votes
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Force stringification of a length
I'm trying to include a background image of the correct size based on the two variables \IApaperheight and \IApaperwidth.
To do this, I'm converting the lengths to a rounded text value and ...
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How to set the width of the label of a description to the width of a string of text in ConTeXt?
I am using \startdesc{} to create a label and description environment, e.g.:
\startdesc{(label)}
This is some text in a sentence.
\stopdesc
\startdesc{(another label)}
This is some more text ...
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Output a document containing a single vertical-infinite page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automate Fixed Width Page, length > some minimum length, but only as long as needed
Is there a way to output a document containing a SINGLE page (that contains the ...
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How should I express my length calculation to minimize rounding errors?
I have an input file as follows.
% Test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\psset
{
linewidth=0.01
}
\newcommand\All{0.1}
\newcommand\Left{-\All}
\newcommand\Right{\All}
...
