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Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends
If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX & friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find ...
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Why should the minimal class be avoided?
In a comment to my answer to Drawing a rectangle along the border of a circle, Peter Grill said that he read that the minimal class should not be used for a Minimal Working Example. I wonder why, and ...
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How to define a list with custom symbols?
I'd like to define a list like the following:
The nearest I found while googling was this:
\begin{itemize}
\item[-] foo
\item[*] bar
\end{itemize}
But how can I now use a cross or a check ...
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Resources for designing a table of contents
What various packages, example code, or examples of existing documents with available source code are available to assist one in:
Changing the style and formating of a table of contents?
Building a ...
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Make an Example and shaded box like in the book
I want to make Examples in the book as in the following book
http://www.analogmachine.org/Books/Chapter1.pdf
See Page 2...
Also shaded box as in the page 3... Pictures can be seen below.
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define a new Example environment
how can i define a new Example environment like the image shown in the following?
this environment should have the following attributes:
endmarks must be positioned at the last line, whether it ...
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Good environment for writing math examples
I am writing a mathematical report. where i need to include some examples, e.g., solving odes. is there a package which provide a good environment for writing examples?
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How can i pull an example out of a dtx file?
The central question is how can i convert a part of a dtx file to straight LaTeX.
In learning more about a package, I want to play with an example from a dtx? The output shows up in the pdf. The ...
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Example environment?
I was wondering if there is any formal environment for specifying 'examples' through out the text. If not, which environments do you recommend?
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Section based linguistic example numbering with brackets
I would like to have examples in my document look like this:
Section 2
(2.1) This is an example.
This is a reference to example (2.1).
That is:
the section number appears both next ...
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Recommendations for an academic abstract template
Can you point me to some examples of stand-alone abstract layouts? (I mean abstract in the 'academic' context here). I am submitting an abstract to a conference which does not provide a template. They ...
