{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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Enumeration with several items per line, several lines and nicely formatted
Based on Alan's answer here, I would like to be able to create nicely formatted "inline" enumerated lists.
The issue I have is that the space between items on a line is always fixed, which does not ...
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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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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.
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How do I get this centred when my letter is just one ...
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How to change chapter font style in the middle of the Table of the Contents?
What I do have, is grouped frontmatter entries (chapter-like) in ToC, and the rest of the chapters have larger vertical space.
What I want is to change the
font style of the grouped part to, say, ...
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putting the title in the header for an article
For various reasons, I need to put my name and title in the header of a LaTeX document. The reason is I have a page limit and need the extra space which is taken up by \maketitle. Does anyone know ...
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In Lyx, how to change the “Part” section to “Chapter”?
I am using the default Lyx document "article".
My sections range from "Part" to "Subsubsection". When I compile my pdf, I would like to replace "Part 1 Title1", "Part 2 Title2", etc by "Chapter 1 ...
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\normalfont in new theorem-like environment
How can I get universal in my new environment normalfont instead of italic (default)?
I thought it was something simple like
\newtheorem{exercise}{ \normalfont}[chapter] `
but doesn't work. I could ...
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makeindex page entries are all underlined
Set up an index for a book and everything works well, except the page numbers listed for the words in the Index are all underlined---EXCEPT when I add bold face, then they look fine. Any ideas what ...
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Where should I setup the markup of header/footer? In \fancyxxx or in redefinition of \xxxmark?
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\chaptername\ \thechapter.\ #1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\small\sf\color{black}\rightmark}
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Difference between \mathrm, \operatorname and \text? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the difference between \mathrm and \operatorname?
I am a beginner of latex, and am always having a hard time differentiate these commands since they seem always ...
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Formatting a custom column in pgfplotstable
Following up on my question on PGF custom columns I've successfully created a column but now I'm struggling to format it to fixed, two digit precision.
This seems a little hair trigger in terms of ...
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Homework template
I've been using this homework template I found online that is pretty light. I am very new to using LaTeX, and although I find writing basic mathematical expressions easy, some of the cooler more ...
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Grouped two column table of contents in Beamer
I am working on a beamer presentation with a quite large table of contents. Therefore I split the table into two columns with the following code:
\begin{frame}{Overview}
\begin{multicols}{2}
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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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How to fix “Invalid format of field 'X'”
When I'm compiling my tex-files, I'm getting this error:
pdflatex> Package biblatex Warning: BibTeX reported the following issues
pdflatex> (biblatex) with 'xyz':
pdflatex> ...
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formatting abstract
How do i format the abstract title? Also, i thought this was built into latex, but in LEd it says it doesn't recognize it, so i add \usepackage{abstract}. Is this suppose to be like this.
Sorry new ...
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Emphasize first line of paragraph in LaTeX [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Changing the style of the first typeset line of a paragraph
Trying to find out how to emphasize the line of text automatically. The issue here is that I have no idea ...
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Stretch space characters horizontally
I'm using XeTeX to mimic another document, but I only have a similar font which I stretch using the extend and letterspace options.
My main problem is though, that my font's spaces (U+0020) are only ...
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Have a space after \texttrademark oder any kind of characters [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Spaces behind \textgreater not working as expected
I am faced with the following problem. I write a document in which I refer to a registered brand and thus looks like ...
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Non superscript citations for figures
Is it possible to reference figures like so
taken from \emph{ref. \cite{reference}}
with non superscript numbers, while leaving the rest of the references in the bulk of the document untouched? ...
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After notitlepage my abstract lost formatting
I've added notitlepage option to not get my page counter reset ( according to suggestion : http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44955/7128 )
but my abstract lost formatting !
Now it has line spacing and ...
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How to typeset variables and other code?
The variance of the signal sig3 is 43.2.
How should I typeset the above in LaTeX?
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Position of Exponent Relative to Base
I'm having a problem in that the position of an exponent, relative to the base, is too low. For example, with capital letters or mathbb the top of the exponent is almost in line with the top of the ...
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What is the best way to setup this statblock as a macro?
I'd like to get a macro setup for this statblock format. Basically, I will be converting an XML document containing the data for the instances within the document.
This is a sample of the format I am ...
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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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Adding right aligned text in a paragraph [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bump right-aligned text to next line if no room
How to add a some text in a paragraph which comes last line of the paragraph as right aligned.
When the last line is ...
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how to use makebox in latex
I try to use \makebox around the word, however, all text in the same line, why? Here is my code, would someon help me?
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