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What's the correct use of \author when multiple authors?

Working on a project, the article we are writing is written by me and someone else. How should I fill the \author? What about \author{LASTNAME1, FIRSTNAME1 \& LASTNAME2, FIRSTNAME2}? It doesn't ...
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underline omitting the descenders

I'm very well aware that it is considered best practice not to use underlining other than on typewriters and in handwriting. But sometimes it is needed nonetheless. In my opinion the typographically ...
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Strategies for corrections in book typeset with TeX

I have typeset a long book using TeX and now it is time to re-print it. This is an opportunity to incorporate corrections to the errata discovered in the initial printing. Unfortunately TeX may ...
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Can a table include a horizontal dashed line?

In a normal table, you can use the \hline command to draw a horizontal line. I am trying to make this line a dashed horizontal line. I have found the package dashrule via this answer, but this only ...
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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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fancy chapter title page

How can I have a chapter title page like the following? Note that, I'm using book document class
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Math inside tables and formatting

I'm trying to make a little summary of mathematic analysis, useful for my university, in LaTeX. I'm stuck in the problem of creating nice table, with alternate colouring containing equations with ...
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Why are these commands considered as bad practice?

I was reading LaTeX: Do not use these commands, but the author didn't explain why they are bad. Could anyone help me understand. \\ (except inside a special environment like tabular, array, or ...
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How to Format C Program Code Block Nicely

I am using the following settings to format my code blocks: % xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Code Snippet STARTS xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \lstset{ language=C, % choose the language of ...
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Theorem formatting

\theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{example}{Example} Then: \begin{example} Some text \end{example} Output is: Example 1. Some text What is the way to automatically obtain without indent: ...
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Page count in LaTeX vs Word

My term paper has fairly strict formatting guidelines - double-spaced & 12pt font. I am currently on page 7 (when previewed in LaTeX). However, when I copy and paste into MS Word, I've hit the ...
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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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How to make the optional title of a theorem bold with amsthm?

I use the code mentioned in Title of the theorem: \begin{theorem}[The title] Some statement \end{theorem} However with amsthm the optional title -- above: "The title" -- is neither bold nor italic, ...
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What measure can we use by LaTeX to control the print budget

I found there are so much excellent answer to questions about how to product high quality typesetting output. But I wonder how to save ink with LaTeX. What we need to think about to manage cost. page ...
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Add second enumeration item on the same line?

I'm writing a document that has a large number of lists containing short enumeration items, and I'd like to be able to [manually] put multiple items on one line. Thus, for example, I'd like to say ...
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How do I fill a shape with text, like a circle?

How do I confine text within a shape such as a circle or triangle? I don't want text along the perimeter, I would like it to break appropriately at all the inner edges.
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Formatting a \paragraph to look like a \section

I'm writing a document that contains a rather deep tree of nested lists, and was wondering if how I would go about reformatting the \paragraph macro to format the text contained within it as a ...
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Custom quotation style which depends on length of quotation

I am writing my PhD-thesis and I need to meet certain formatting requirements in regard to quotations. I know there is the quote environment. But in this conditions it doesn't match my universities ...
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Using section sign (§) for cross-references to sections

In some papers and books you see that author uses §1.3 instead of section 1.3. How § sign can be added before section (or part, chapter, ...) number automatically? Please mention any useful tip about ...
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Why are \listof{}{} and \listoffigures styled differently?

I'm writing my thesis and I have certain code-snippets to show. I'm using the the listings package embedded in a custom float environment to display them. To list them in an index at the beginning of ...
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Specific section format

I'd like to use titlesec to typeset a section header that would look like this: --------- Name of Section ------------ (the ---- would be a rule, and the entire section header would be centered) ...
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Two code blocks working syncronously

I need two code blocks in my beamer frame. One will be the code and other will be the output for each line of code. I want to uncover each code line and corresponding output line. So, first it will ...
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Why couldn't (La)TeX's layout model be as simple as CSS's layout model?

I feel CSS's layout model is simpler than (La)TeX's layout model. At the time Knuth developed TeX, the idea leading to CSS model is a "difficult" things? Or the CSS layout model is not appropriate to ...
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Highlight equations by temporary changing the formatting of their number

I am writing a long paper having 100+ equations, and want to highlight a few key equations. Since the journal won't let me use boxes around equations, I am trying to have their label being typeset ...
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Independent left and right columns

I'm trying to write something with two columns that spans multiple pages. I want to put one thing in the left side and one in the right side. Is there ``proper'' way of doing this, or should I just ...
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Code readability

I'm getting my head around LaTeX, and I find really awesome the fact that the documents are completely editable with a plain text editor, while getting a really neat and professional output. I'm ...
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How can I align some text with a logo?

I am trying to right-align some text with a logo, i.e. I would like to place some text to the left of a logo, and centre this text vertically with respect to the logo. I’ve attached a pdf to be more ...
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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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TikZ draw-Putting old calendar style date in left margin

I'm working on the formatting of a text book. The following picture shows the first thing I would like to do. There are two things to achieve : I would like to "draw" the date using TikZ so as to ...
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vim type Display for C Code in Latex

Target Display: My Latex Code: % xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Code Snippet STARTS xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \lstset{ language=C, % choose the language of the code stepnumber=1, ...
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Formatting LaTeX-dump from Mathematica equations for A4-paper without manual adjusting?

I asked this question here in Mathematica.SE but they encouraged to ask also on this site. How can make this writing process easier from Mathematica to LaTeX? Please, note that I have a lot of ...
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Remove formatting

I currently use latex newcommand to store (and format) "variables", like so: \newcommand{\someVariable}{\emph{value}} I do this for key words that I want to be formatted a certain way every time ...
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Problems using `\left\{` in array environment

I am trying to define a matrix in segments by enclosing the entries of the matrix in boxes, and also using the open and closed braces to label those segments. So far I have developed the following ...
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Typesetting email with internet-style quoting using LaTeX?

I'm wandering if there exists a package, that would take so-called Internet-Style Quoted plain text of an email, and format it accordingly for a PDF output. Internet-style quoting is discussed on the ...
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Is there a workaround against loss of precision in pgfplots axis?

I am generating a bunch of plots automatically using pgfplots. For some datasets the span of data in one axis (y) is relatively small (relative to the absolute value) and therefore pgfplots when ...
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Options and suggestions for hyperref font?

Background I am interested in finding and implementing a more aesthetically pleasing style for the hyperlinks in my document. I have read through the documentation, but I find both the colored text ...
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Footnotes layout in multicols environment

I am using the package multicol to typeset a one-column (spanning the entire text width) heading and a two-column main text block. In order to do so, I begin the multicols environment along with the ...
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Define an “escape underscore” environment

I am writing a text document in LaTeX where I need a lot a words with underscores: foo_bar_1, more_bar_2_long_expression_3. I know about the underscore package, but for some reason the [strings] ...
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Cross reference formatting options

I have got a quick question; I am writing a document with lots of sections and figures. Cross referencing works fine. So far so good. However, I would prefer when I reference something to have the ...
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Rule before one new section

I use rule so as to separate the differents sections. I would like to automate this so as to use the following syntax : \section*{One day} \noindent\lipsum[1] \section*{Another day} ...
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Two column trouble - positioning of figures and text

I have following trouble in LaTeX and I need some help. I am preparing a document which has this TeX code: \documentclass [12pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} ...
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How to change appearance of a particular line when using \lstincludelisting?

I'm using the listings package and include code into my document through \lstincludelistings. The problem is that I want to set some code lines to bold to indicate changes from previous code segments. ...
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How do I re-use the book's text for different document formats?

Any ideas how I could re-use the book's text that I have written (it's in chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex, etc.) in various document formats (a4, letter, mobile device format, etc). The problem I am facing ...
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Difference between \paragraph and \subparagraph in scrreprt?

I'm using scrreprt for writing and (at least for me without any typographic education) I don't see any difference between a section typed as \paragraph or \subparagraph. My questions: Is there a ...
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Setting font family for the whole document

This looks like the basic question but it seems like the hardest thing to me. I need to set the whole document's font style as follows : Font Family: Times New Roman or GoudyOlSt BT Font ...
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babel and \contentsname, how to add extra customization?

This is what I'm trying to do: \renewcommand{\contentsname}{ \vspace{-8mm} {\Huge Table of Contents}\vspace{-3mm} \rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm} \\[-4mm] } Using babel, I can get this code to work: ...
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Switch positions of startyear and endyear in moderntimeline

How can I switch in package moderntimeline the positions of startyear and endyear without breaking the layout? Would be nice to have the startyear below and the endyear on top. I'd like to simply ...
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Format nomencl in table style

For my thesis I wwant to format the nomencl in the same style as the rest. Simply put this means I want the nomencl to appear as follows: Symbol Quantity Unit t Time s rest ...
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Siunitx: alignment, parentheses and font size

I'm trying to align numbers (that are bolded, between parentheses, etc.) by decimal points in table columns while using the auto-round option of the siunitx package. The following code doesn't work: ...
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Custom .bst style and reformatting \cite entries

I have created a custom .bst file with makebst. I managed to reformat the thebibliography-environment entries look by editing the .bst file by hand. This wasn't a hard task. But, now I would like to ...