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How can I detect if an environment is right after a sectioning command?
I'd like to build an environment that would detect if it is right after a sectioning command (\section, \subsection or \subsubsection) and smart enough to detect if a float-type environment (say ...
6
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3answers
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How to adjust a counter depending on whether or not we are inside a section or subsection
I want to create an exercise environment that can be used in either section, subsection, etc. As an illustration, consider the following:
when in section 1, the third example should be titled as ...
2
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System: XeLaTeX, Circumstance: Automation, PROBLEM: error message “missing \item”
I am currently generating PDF's with variable contents from a template I made. Data is fetched from a database and used to create reports. This has been working greatly until recently I needed to ...
2
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Strange chapter influence on quotation environment
The code below give a strange result when I comment out the \begingroup end \endgroup: the quotation environment has different vertical space to the text before ("Some text").
What is it that chapter ...
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Problem setting lengths in an environment (spilling outside of the environment)
I am having with spacing between paragraphs in my document, and I think I have been able to trace back to a custom environment I have defined.
\makeatletter
\def\remarkname{Remark}
...
6
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1answer
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Custom environment move to end of chapter
I have written a custom example environment for formatting mathematical worked examples. These are currently included in the sections they are related to, however are sometimes looking a bit ...
7
votes
2answers
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How to put environment text inside node?
Consider a simple environment in the documentclass as
\newenvironment{abstract}{
\node (tbl) {
};
}
The content of
\begin{abstract}
Content
\end{abstract}
will goes ...
7
votes
2answers
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Defining a custom environment with per-section numbering
I have an enumerate environment that I want to refer to later in my document using \ref and \label, but enumerate doesn't get numbered by section (the way, say, figure would). How can I add section ...
1
vote
1answer
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How to create a new counter for an a new environment that is in sync with subsections
I want to create an example environment with a counter which will be in sync with my subsections. So I'll have:
subsection 3.2
lemma 3.2
example 3.2
example 3.3
lemma 3.3
subsection ...
2
votes
1answer
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Renew section command to wrap whole section in an environment
I am trying to write a beamer template for pandoc. For that I need to convert
\section{Text 1}
Some text.
to
\begin{frame}[fragile]{Text 1}
Some text.
\end{frame}
Is there a way to do this ...
2
votes
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Package with an environment-based sectioning mechanism?
Is there any package for LaTeX that performs sectioning using environments, where doing something like
\begin{section}[Section Title]
\begin{section}[Subsection Title]
...
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votes
5answers
565 views
How to put a star (or other symbol) in sections that are “special” (difficult, optional, etc)?
I'm currently writing a book, and I'd like some of the sections to be clearly marked as "difficult" or "optional". Not only sections, but also exercises (I'm using the exercise package) and theorems ...
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6answers
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Is it possible to automatically enumerate sentences in LaTeX?
1.0.1 Is it possible to automatically enumerate sentences in LaTeX?
2.0.1 I want to thoroughly work through and criticize a longer text. 2.0.2 To facilitate quoting, I would like to typeset the text ...
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3answers
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Is it a bad idea to use \begin{section} … \end{section} in LaTeX?
In several discussions about relatives merits of LaTeX v. xml, a xml supporter complained that in LaTeX sections, subsections etc are not properly closed, so it is hard to tell where a section ends. ...
