{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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Making text in {braces} of an \item appear bold
Is it possible to redefine \item to have the text in braces appear bold?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item{Paper}: a white substance used for writing symbols.
...
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Should I use the achemso class or the chemstyle package for a journal submission? [closed]
Which is recommended for use with journal submission within the United States?
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How to apply formatting (sans-serif, color etc.) to multiple paragraphs?
Some LaTeX formatting commands like \textcolor{red}{...}, \sout{...} or \textsf{...} work fine when the thing inside is a single paragraph but fail to compile if you put a paragraph break in the ...
3
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1answer
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Changing formatting of URL in biblatex \footcite
I've switched from bibtex to biblatex due to having to use \footcite based on university's requirements for writing a report. It may be worth noting that I'm also very new to (La)TeX.
I'm only having ...
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2answers
241 views
Modify default memoir chapter style
I'm using memoir and using its default chapter style.
what I'm looking to do is to change the format from
chapter 1
chapter title
to something like this:
chapter 1: chapter title
I'm ...
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0answers
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Customising theorem style
I wish to customise my theorem style to something like the one shown, but I couldn,t figure a universal definition of parameters. Some suggestions?
The code:
\documentclass{article}
...
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2answers
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Glossaries in List of Figures overflow
Given a figure with a caption, in this caption a glossary term in used as in \gls{wysiwyg}
At the document beginning, after the contents, the \listoffigures command is given.
As the caption ...
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2answers
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How do I make frame environment play nice with \textbf?
I am getting a strange error message when I put textbf into a frame environment.
Minimal Example
\documentclass{article}
\listfiles
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\textbf{Lemma 1}
\end{frame}
...
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Having lots of trouble with the resume class [closed]
Hullo all.
I am using resume.cls (with a few minor alterations,just to the geometry and spacing) and wish to have my personal information appear in this order [that is, below my name]:
Street ...
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1answer
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How to use listings with multiple languages?
I've got a HTML document with JavaScript inside that I want to show in my article.
For that I would like to use my JavaScript and HTML formatting. How can I get the listings package to use two ...
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1answer
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Change the chapter font in TOC without using “tocloft” package
As using tocloft in book class produces some unexpected side-effect, I wonder how to change the chapter font (e.g. 1 Introduction) as sans serif without using any other packages?
For example, change ...
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2answers
115 views
How to set the title of a book in the References in an upright font shape
I am trying to set the book title style to plain in namedplus.bst but don't seem to be able to. Currently this is what I have
FUNCTION {format.btitle}
{ title emphasize
}
and replacing it with the ...
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1answer
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coordinate number format \ang{}
In a table, I am listing several coordinates. I want to use a number format such as this
W 95°13'14''
W 95°03'00''
...
I am using the \ang{} environment of the siunitx package.
...
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Manual Line Breaks not Counted by Log
I have been adding manual line breaks to paragraphs in my document using the \linebreak command because I have been suffering badly from overfull horizontal boxes. However when I compile my document ...
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1answer
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How do I hide “Chapter 0” in this custom style when using a numberless chapter?
Everything works perfect when I use \chapter{chaptername}, but I noticed that my table of contents and other similar non-numbered chapters have a "Chapter 0" in my header.
\titleformat{\chapter}
...
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1answer
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How can I fix the formatting of my axis using pgfplots so the axis titles aren't on top of the numbers?
How can I offset my ylabel so it doesn't smudge with the numbers?
code
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
scale=1.8,
xmin=-15,xmax=15,xlabel={Current $mA$}, ...
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2answers
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Authors with multiple footnotes
Say I have an article. Under the title goes the name of three authors. The first author belongs to two organisations. The second belongs to one of the two from the first. And the last author belongs ...
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1answer
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How to \label emails in appendix?
I would like to include ~20 emails in the appendix section of an article, so I in the article can e.g. write "...according to \ref{email1}".
If I put each email in a subsection, then I have to find a ...
6
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1answer
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How to format subsection title (without packages)?
I'd like to change the format for \subsection{} without using special packages. On report.cls we find its definition
\newcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
...
5
votes
1answer
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How to create Windows-8-styled menus?
I'm writing a technical documentation and I want to explain step-by-step how to go through various menus.
For example I used to write Open with > VLC media player.
That's how it looks in Windows ...
5
votes
2answers
172 views
How to show carries in long addition?
I am doing binary addition in LaTeX, and I cannot figure out how to show carried numbers above my work. (That is, 1 + 1 = 0 with carry 1, etc.)
Here is a minimal example of my addition without ...
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1answer
84 views
change location and size of title page logo
I have a title thesis with a logo:
but i would like to get the logo (size 990x369) a little higher and bigger than current result (if I change the size of image it goes down...), also how can I ...
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3answers
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format two tables inside a figure
I have a figure that contains two tables, I would like to give format to them.
What would be the best option?
{\footnotesize\begin{figure} [h!tb]
\centering
\begin{tabular} {l }
\hline
...
2
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1answer
116 views
Turn off Hyphenation Without Text Running Into the Margins
I am rewriting (and updating) my resume in LaTeX. I was dismayed because LaTeX automatically hyphenates words that need to go onto a new line when a line is too long. I found a way to turn off ...
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Custom quote formatting [closed]
I have a .cls in which I have quite a bit of formatting... I'm trying to make a way of making my own "quote" formatting. I need to format my quotes centered, with a limited width for each line, and ...
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votes
2answers
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How to build two lines aligned maps
I would like to write a map between two objects, with a map below which specify where any single object is sent. To be more precise. I want to write $A \rightarrow B$, and right below it $\alpha ...
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2answers
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How can I use line numbers with leading zeros?
I use the listings package for source-code and have read all documentation. However, it appears that leading zeros for line numbers are not implemented as standard option yet. How can I redefine the ...
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votes
1answer
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Different styles for the same document
Suppose I am writing a paper, which I plan to submit to a journal/conference, but also put on a preprint server like the arXiv. Each publisher has its own style files required for typesetting the ...
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1answer
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printglossary makes abbreviations ending with periods
I use the glossaries package for my glossary and some acronyms:
\usepackage{datatool}
\usepackage[ngerman]{translator}
\usepackage[nonumberlist,acronym,toc,section]{glossaries}
\makeglossaries
...
...
3
votes
1answer
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New line after subsubsection with llncs class
I get a new line after each chapter, section, and subsection, but not after anything lower than subsection, e.g. subsubsection or paragraph.
MWE:
\documentclass[runningheads]{llncs}
...
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2answers
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How to get a picture with text to the right of it
what I want is to have a quote like this:
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of ...
2
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1answer
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Can \bibitem and BibTeX give the same output?
I am adding a slide to a beamer presentation containing some references and, since I only have three references, I was thinking about not creating an external .bib file this time.
However I realized ...
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2answers
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Beamer: remove the title highlight
I use the PaloAlto theme and the title of the title slide appears highlighted.
Is it possible to remove the highlight and modify the title font?
2
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0answers
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How to include a tex file with own formatting options
I have two tex files, tex1 and tex2. I want to include tex1 into tex2. I know \include and \input but those won't allow to include tex files with own formatting. tex1 has a header for example but tex2 ...
3
votes
2answers
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Bibliography with biblatex: how to achieve bold labels using the authoryear-style?
I am currently writing my thesis with LaTeX using biblatex for citations and bibliography. I try to match a formal request regarding the first part of the bibliographic entries which have to look like ...
5
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1answer
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thmtools - issue with head number style
I'm using thmtools to define a custom example environment. I'm styling the head as italic, but the number is not being styled correctly: it appears in normal mode instead of italic (the dot after the ...
3
votes
1answer
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Display short title and long title (both) in a caption?
The syntax for a caption is
\caption[listoffigures/tables text]{Text actually displayed under picture/table}
But what I would like to have is something like this: If I use the above command, the ...
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1answer
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Change chapter heading format [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Chapter formatting
Could someone help me with this problem with my document?
Instead of generating the following:
% % % %
Chapter 2
Title
% % % %
I would like the ...
3
votes
1answer
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How to create a table format of 81 columns which can fit into one page?
I want to create a table of 81 columns in landscaped mode, tiny font is ok. I changed the \documentclass to landscape, however the font was still too big to fit in. Any suggestion or idea would be ...
2
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0answers
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Appendices formatting/ Text displayed by reference
I want to obtain toc and text formatting as shown in MWE.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{polish}
...
3
votes
1answer
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Set same height for all cells in longtable
I have created longtable with some text and I want set same height for all cells.
It looks like:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
...
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Underscore character (_) that's part of a word [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Escape character in LaTeX
Underscore in words
I want to write a name like LKU_IF which contains an underline. When I write it in Latex it doesn't show the result ...
3
votes
1answer
87 views
Poorly formatted newlistof with memoir
I am having trouble adding a newlistof to a memoir file. My example follows the memoir answer example very closely, but I get an ugly "List of Comments" -- spacing across the page and returns are ...
2
votes
1answer
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Removing the italicized parts from an APA bibliography
This journal guidelines requires that
References should follow the APA style, but without any use of italic
type
In the apa6 package some parts of the references are italicized. I'm ...
2
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1answer
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How can I temporarily change title of contents of subsection formatting using titletoc
I have a common document type (grant application) which expects listed aims, usually enumerated as Aim 1, Aim 2, etc. In the MWE below, an article class works fine to format the subsection headings ...
3
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1answer
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Why doesn't the \closing center in my letter?
If I pdflatex the below Latex, then "Kind regards," and "Sandra" doesn't get centred.
If the letter is two pages long, then it does.
Question
How do I get this centred when my letter is just one ...
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1answer
201 views
Formatting page number (fancyhdr?)
Could anyone please show me how to get this page number formatting:
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How should I add visual indications of excerpted sections? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Putting a bar in the margin
How to make continuous (but breakable) vertical rule along left side of paragraph?
I'm planning on including large excerpts of publications ...
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3answers
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Conflict between microtype, LuaLaTeX, and otf fonts when typesetting material in small-caps
I'm using the microtype package (microtype beta 2.5 build 08) to modify my document and I'd like to retain its functionality across all font shapes with the exception of small-caps (\scshape). How do ...
3
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0answers
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Is there an easy way to comment out a whole block? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Multi-line (block) comments in LaTeX
Is it possible to comment out a whole block in LaTeX source?
For example, like in Java:
// This is an in-line comment.
/*
This
...
