{formatting} is for general questions about formatting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be formatted. For questions about font attributes (e.g., {bold}, {italic}, {small-caps}, {sans-serif}, {typewriter}), use the appropriate tag instead.
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specifying a longtable not to split
I am using longtable in my report as I have many tables that are longer than a page. To make it consistent, I am using longtable for all the tables. Many times because of page settings, a small table ...
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2answers
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How to remove the self-reference of the ToC in Latex book class
I want to remove the self-reference of the ToC in Latex book class as in the picture below
Can you help me?
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1answer
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Chapter heading at the right-hand side
I want a specific chapter heading as in the picture below
(Chapter heading at the right-hand side, but section heading at the left-hand side)
Can you help me?
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3answers
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How to include R output in LaTex? [duplicate]
I am not sure about how to include my r output in the best way in my latex document.
Currently I saved my R output (NOT R CODE!) into a txt file:
*---------------------------------*
* GARCH ...
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1answer
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Emphasizing some parts of string in lstlisting
I need to stress out some parts of string in lstlisting. I tried with \emph{}, but I got the verbatim result. Is there any way to that?
\begin{lstlisting}[frame=single]
Array1: 78 54 31 54 92 86 23 ...
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1answer
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How do I get the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables to have the header I specify
I used \renewcommand\contentsname{\Large{TABLE OF CONTENTS}} (similar for list of figures and list of tables) to obtain headers that were centered at the top of the page, not bold and capitalized. ...
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Dedication and Quote in my thesis [closed]
I want to dedicate my master thesis to my parents, my brother and my sister. Additionally, I want to include a famous quote.
My first question is about the grammar, since I am not native english ...
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1answer
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Smaller font for < sign
I have a table where i report times.
Some elements are very small and I would like to write $<1\mathrm{ms}$.
However, if I do so, the < 1ms will occupy even more space than a three digit number ...
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1answer
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How do I center my title (both horizontally and vertically)?
I'm trying to create a centred title, both horizontally and vertically on the page. I'm rather new to latex - so far, I've tried the code below without success:
\begin{center}
\title{Title}
...
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1answer
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A seemingly canonical preprint style in mathematics
There seems to exist a style for preprints that is common on arxiv.org. A completely (!) random example which I have picked up just now illustrates that style.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.2775.pdf
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1answer
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How do I prevent \cellcolor from over effect of \hline
I'm trying to add HTML code based color to my table, like so:
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{tabular}{ |>{\columncolor[HTML]{F2FAF8}}c| p{11cm} |}
\hline
CELL 1 & CELL 2\\ \hline
CELL ...
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Slashbox with tables: Adjusting the diagonal separator for multiple rows
I am using the slashbox package in a table as shown next. However as you can see, the diagonal line in the first cell is not the real diagonal of that cell. This is because of the existence of more ...
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1answer
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Default Table Style [duplicate]
How can I create a default table style, which remains throughout the course of my document, lets say, for example, I want grid-lines and a gray shading behind the header-row, without having to ...
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transform text from one template to another
I use laTex for formatting my papers and I use GIT for version controlling the papers i write, once i have a final cut of the paper i go hunting for suitable conferences. most of these have their own ...
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2answers
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Format a verbatim paragraph
How can I format a verbatim paragraph? I.e. break, fill and join input lines to produce globally balanced output with the lengths of each line approaching the target \textwidth as closely as possible. ...
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2answers
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Table doesn't fit to page width properly
The table produced by this code always goes out off the width of my page. I want the table to fit within the width of the page. I tried giving extra \\ in between but it made it worse only.
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1answer
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Background color for inline math with linebreaks?
What's the simplest way to achieve coloured background for the inline equation in the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Completely unimportant text
$ABC_{1234} = ABC_{1234} ...
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Use sans-serif in a verbatim environment?
What is the right way get fancyvrb’s verbatim environment (or any other variation) to use \textsf as the font?
I can do it with:
\begin{Verbatim}[commandchars=\\\{\}]
\textsf{Here’s some textsf.}
...
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2answers
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How can I avoid the gap between \cellcolor-colored cells created by \tabucline?
I'm trying to partially separate rows from one another using \tabucline. The line encompasses column 3-6. Since the line's width is neither part of the upper, nor the lower row, there is going to be ...
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1answer
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Changing the format of figure, algorithm and equation numbering [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to this question. That allowed me to format references to an equation/figure/algorithm so that they started with an 'S'. What if I want to change the format in the original ...
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5answers
241 views
How to create following block diagram structure in LaTeX
How can i create this kind of connected and cascading block diagram in Latex?
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2answers
56 views
How to wrap a long equation in Latex
I have a very big equation and using split or multiline is not helping. How do i wrap it and how do i make sure thatRHS of the eqn is always on the right side of equal to ('=') even when line is ...
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0answers
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How to get rid of italic in the table of contents? [duplicate]
I formatted the titles of section and subsections in italic, and it appears italic in the Table of Contents, I want no influence on the Table of Contents. For example
\subsection{\textit{The RGE for ...
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0answers
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Formatting of matrices
I have a document full of matrices, and many of them don't look very good, right now. Hunting for solutions, I found this post from two years ago.
I have the same problems mentioned there, and I'd ...
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2answers
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package for parallel columns randomly omits pages (paracol) [closed]
I've been using paracol for a few days now. I think it is a nice package for parallel columns. There is one problem, however, which strikes me. Sometimes (only sometimes) the pdf that results from my ...
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2answers
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Enumerate with different first line?
I want to do an enumeration, but the first line should be bolded, see e.g. this picture:
What is blue I want to have in bold. In addition, I don't know how to generate a new line for the other text ...
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1answer
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Change display style in xlop multiplication
When I use xlop for multiplication for example like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xlop}
\begin{document}
\opmul{0.436}{0.35}
\end{document}
I get the following output:
However I ...
4
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1answer
47 views
Write lowercase in Section (IEEEtran class)
I want to write lower case in a section, I've tried using \MakeLowercase but its not working. Here is what I tried:
\section{Experiment I: T\MakeLowercase{he effect of changing the distance}}
I'm ...
3
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2answers
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Formatting equations and text in amsmath [duplicate]
I'm working on a document on how to solve some basic integral problems. However, I'm having difficulty getting \begin{equation}\end{equation} to do what I need it to do. I would like all of my ...
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0answers
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Cutting the size between caption and image [duplicate]
Basically is the title of the question possible if i am using a standard figure is it possible to cut the size between the figure and its caption?
5
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1answer
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Adding a “take away” box to a beamer slide
In Powerpoint presentations (especially with slides produced by consultants), it's common to add a box at the bottom of a slide that indicates the main point.
What would be some LaTeX code for adding ...
4
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1answer
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Algorithm2e - Permanent fix for no italics if-clause
I am using algorithm2e to create pseudocode for my document. However, it has it so that the conditions in if clauses are italicised.
This solution suggests putting an \upshape in each if condition. ...
5
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1answer
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Making advanced tables [duplicate]
I am trying to generate tables like the one above I found in a textbook in LaTeX.
In particular I am trying to find a way to make that $\$ slash symbol in the left upper corner. It would also be ...
5
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1answer
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Is it possible to use the listings package incrementally in beamer?
Given a frame that has code rendered in a \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} environment, is it possible to use beamer's incremental frame building feature to highlight code snippets?
Here is an ...
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1answer
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Customizing a biblatex style - can I start with lockstep's post?
I want to customize a biblatex style based on authoryear (and thus based on standard as well). So when I read this, does it mean I have to work with the cumulated paste of both .bbx-files or can I ...
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2answers
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Too wide figure caption
I included a figure using the figure environment with a rather long caption. The width of the caption is the same as the page width, which doesn't look so nice. Is there any way to reduce the width of ...
9
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1answer
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siunitx and engineering 'E' notation
Is it possible to use the siunitx package to typeset numbers with the "E" notation so that the output might look like
1E3
instead of
1 x 10^3
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Chapters titles and sections are not added to the contents page for any sections on page 21 or later [closed]
I am currently writing a report in Latex from a template I was given. However formatting such as adding chapter headings to the contents or referencing figures does not work beyond page 20. This is ...
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Format long numbers with a thousand separator?
In most language, long numbers are split into groups of three digits, to increase readability.
In Dutch (my native language), 1000000 is usually written as 1 000 000. In English, this would be ...
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1answer
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Customize 'appendix' heading
My appendices are rather small and I want them to come one after another (like \section) without the blank page before \chapter{} (due to openright option). Another problem is that chapter headings ...
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3answers
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Know the width of the widest section label in memoir
I'm using memoir class to write my master's thesis, and my university asks to align all section labels to the left. I say section, but I really mean all levels, as chapters, sections, subsecs and so ...
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1answer
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Proper way to format text when not using a lot of math
I'm confused about text formatting, I see almost everywhere the \text command, which I believe is part of the amsmath package?
If I'm doing mostly writing with just a bit of math here and there, is ...
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2answers
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Format time span for CV
I would like to add the month to the time span of moderncv. I order not to occupy much more space and still having a beautiful solution, I would like to do the following:
Year - Year
Month - Month
...
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0answers
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radical of polynomial A rad A [closed]
Do we have something like \rad for the radical of a polynomial in LaTeX? I am writing in the equation mode within the theorem environment and everything is in italics. If I use \text{rad}, then I get ...
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0answers
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How to define a custom formatting “style”? [closed]
Within the tablenotes of threeparttable I'd like to manually include a source like so:
Source: Rumors of Oz, 2013 (unpublished / forthcoming).
so that "Source" is either in \textit{Source} or ...
3
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1answer
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How can very long algorithms be automatically split over multiple pages?
I have a very long algorithm than spans several pages. I can not get Latex to make it span across several pages. I know that several questions similar to this one have already been asked, but I ...
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Misplaced label mixing list environments
I am hacking the dramatist package. My aim is to get speech-prefixes to align with speeches for the verse environment, as they do for the prose environment. I've got it working except for a problem ...
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How can I create a table that spans across the width of two vertical (and opposite) A4 pages?
I have a large (wide) table to typeset. I usually use the code below for my tables which enables me to specify the width of each column in the table.
However, it is up to me to make sure that the sum ...
3
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1answer
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How can I set single line spacing for \enumerate amd \section?
I want to set \enumerate and \section to use single line spacing and small font like the table of content in this document. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Aligning the long equations
I have read all of the different solutions for fitting long formulas in a page, yet I am still not satisfied with the output I get. The formulas are right aligned which does not look good.
Would you ...
