{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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Formatting labels of chapters and sections
I'm just starting with this amazing world of LaTeX.
I'm wondering how to set the format of a document
(with some stuff centered and sections with no relative numbering)
I'm trying with the titlesec ...
5
votes
1answer
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Remove 'Chapter' text from chapter headings and have chapter number on the same line as chapter title [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Chapter formatting
Apologies if this is something simple, but I seem to be searching in the wrong place for an answer. I have a document of type report. It is currently ...
7
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1answer
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Translating custom \section format to titlesec
I have some custom \section formatting with a horizontal rule, and I'm trying to DRY out my code by using titlesec to define default formatting options. But I can't exactly reproduce what happens when ...
5
votes
1answer
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Alternative to \text inside an align environment
Is there a way to write texts without resorting to using the \text macro every time I write something in the align enviroment?
I am trying to write a proof and pretty much 90% requires me to write ...
5
votes
1answer
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Scaled ticks with ymin and ymax
For a publication I am preparing multiple plots with PGFPlots and would like to have them all look alike, i.e. having the same axis and identical ticks. For this I intended to use ymin and ymax, but ...
4
votes
1answer
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Caption for a listing
I have captions on each of my listings. Each caption is prefaced with "Listing # [text]" where # is the number of the listing. Each caption is centered over my listing. How can I modify the options of ...
3
votes
2answers
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Formatting the Listing
The listing I have in my paper is Java Code. When it is displayed through TeX I lose some of the formatting that I did inside my .java files. For example, all of my comments in my code were lined up, ...
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vote
2answers
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Change Page Ordering
In one of my documents, the first few (lets say 2) pages include code output and settings and configurations, in terms of communicating with R for example (for plotting etc...), I would like these ...
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votes
1answer
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ClassicThesis TOC headlines
Why the headlines in the TOC are in \normalfont and not in \spacedlowsmallcaps as the rest of the document? How can I make it \spacedlowsmallcaps?
\documentclass[%
headinclude,%
...
4
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1answer
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show acronym in bold
I'm using the acronym package. The first time I use the acronym the full name will be written. What I would like is to have the acronym in bold while the full name is NOT in bold is that possible?
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1answer
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Format title output bold and larger
I use the code
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra,amssymb,latexsym, amscd,amsthm}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage[mathscr]{eucal}
\usepackage[utf8]{vietnam}
...
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vote
1answer
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Add label to textual data
This question is extremely basic and I know how to solve it basically but it is a workaround and I was wondering whether there is a much better way to do it - here is the problem:
I'd like to give ...
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1answer
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Cursive text after _
I would like to write H2O with a small 2 below the H.
H_2 O (water)
However, all text after _2 becomes cursive. It appear that something obvious is wrong but, I cant find what it is.
Anyone how ...
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votes
1answer
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How do I modify the section tag? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to add a dot after the section number?
Each of my section tags looks like the following:
What I want is punctuation after each section number. I am not sure where ...
2
votes
1answer
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Java Code in a paper
I am writing a paper and would like to include some of my "real-world" Java code. What is the best way to accomplish this? I would like to see two templates:
My explanation to the right of my Java ...
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votes
1answer
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Simple way to place an array of symbols above a letter?
I would like to typset something similar to the symbol used for the "generalized spherical harmonics". This involves placing an array of dots above a letter. The array will have two columns, and the ...
5
votes
1answer
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Document class article, maketitle with logo
I want to modify the title section of the article class to look like something in the attached figure. Basically what I want is a kind of logo with flushed text (title, author, affiliation).
I tried ...
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2answers
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Add a rule underneath “Figure 1”
I want to add a line beneath the figure caption such as
Figure 1
Figure caption text here....
I managed to include a newline, change the color and look of the caption via caption package:
...
5
votes
1answer
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What is wrong with the following latex code? [closed]
I have written this code to formulate the algorithm for merging two arrays, but I get an error.
\begin{algorithm}[t]
\caption{Serial Merge}
\label{alg:insert}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\Require Two ...
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votes
1answer
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TikZ - Placing several numbers in one cell of a Sudoku grid
I've put at the end of this post one code coming from this page which is a pretty easy way to display Sudoku grid.
I would like to have help so as to add the possibility to indicate several entries ...
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3answers
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How can I make a set of latex flashcards that I can print to write my answers on one side?
I want to adapt the code from the answer to latex flashcard problem so that the right hand side has a question and the left has the answer rather than on the bottom of the page.
This is so that I ...
7
votes
1answer
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How to best set chapter title color in the memoir class's Hansen style?
I am tinkering with the Hansen chapter style for the memoir class, as reviewed and listed in texblog. The Hansen style is unfortunately not discussed in the memoir class documentation.
I changed it ...
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0answers
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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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1answer
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Page numbers and address formatting in letters in LaTeX
I've recently turned away from the letter document class for writing my covering letters as I'd like a little more creative freedom with the formatting, and as my own little exercise in formatting ...
0
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1answer
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change page which is created for `\part`
Is there a way to change the style of the heading etc. for \part?
I want to change the layout to leave out "Part 1." and instead just print out the part's name.
Actually I could change the question ...
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2answers
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paragraphs not automatically indenting
with the following code my paragraphs aren't automatically indenting... I'm confused as to why because I've done a decent bit of LaTeXing before with very similar packages and with the same article ...
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votes
3answers
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Changing the header row style of a table to discriminate it from other records
I wanted to change the header of table to discriminate it from other records. It can be changing bounding box or font or what ever it is usual.
\begin{table}
\centering
...
7
votes
1answer
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titlesec: why is contents a section?
I've been playing around with the titlesec package combined with the scrartcl class. I find the headings titles of scrartcl a bit ugly, but I do like the fact that I can scale font sizes to 8pt.
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5
votes
2answers
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Good format for homeworks in LyX
I am using LyX to type in my homework solutions, but I don't like my format.
The homework itself is in the format of questions 1,2,... and each question has sub-questions: 1.1,1.2,... etc
In the ...
2
votes
1answer
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Prevent newline in title of beamer presentation
How can I prevent the new line indicated in the picture below?
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[svgnames,9pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
...
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vote
1answer
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Divide an algorithm on two pages
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}[H]
\caption{My algo}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\STATE instruction 1
\STATE instruction 2
......................Many ...
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vote
1answer
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How to align middle-align text in a parbox?
I am trying to add a frame around a text which would be centered and vertically aligned to the middle of the box but I can only center the text.
What should I do to align the text to the middle of ...
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vote
1answer
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customizing moderncv \section title style
I would like to customize \section style in order to have
the following title (forget the horizontal line) :
I imagine that I need to modify the following definition:
...
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2answers
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Section and Subsection Heading Style [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Formatting section titles
How can I change the format of section, subsection and ... to something like below?
2.1 | Greenhouse Effect
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votes
1answer
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Can the acronym package be told to use a certain style?
I'm using the acronym package and I'm trying to add generic styling. Specifically, I want the first mention of the acronym to expand the long form in italics.
What I've done so far is to say:
...
0
votes
1answer
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How to remove bold in ToC, ideally without a package
I am writing my thesis, using a document class unique to my university - based on the article class. I have to remove ALL bold formatting in the Table of Contents, and for some reason I get an error ...
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1answer
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Remove underline from Table of Contents
I'm trying to create a Table of Contents but I am having some trouble getting it to look how I want.
At the moment I have the section headings underlined in the document and because of this when the ...
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1answer
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Command for an underlined text and boxed text
How can I create two commands for a question with an underlined text in it or box with text in it in a sentence.
This is a sample:
Using the commands for underline and box I can now write it this ...
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2answers
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Fanciest way to include Mathematica code in LaTeX
I am trying to include a Mathematica code in LaTeX. To obtain the Mathematica code I just exported notebook as PDF. I didn't like the way it was included in my TEX code so I just thought of adding a ...
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votes
2answers
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Make \translate'd string uppercase
I'd like to typeset German weekday names in uppercase using the translator package but I can't get it working:
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{translator}
...
6
votes
1answer
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Compare numbers with comma as decimal points
I want to check whether a number \a (read from a file) is smaller than zero using ifthenelse:
\ifthenelse{\a<5}{smaller}{not smaller}
This works fine when a is in the format -1. In the file ...
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vote
1answer
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How to produce annotated text, where an original text is contrasted with my comments?
Assume someone sends me a (plain text or LaTeX source) text document. I'm in the position to comment on the text and suggest improvements. I'd like to produce a LaTeX document featuring the original ...
3
votes
1answer
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Number of lines in double spacing (compared to Word)
I am a newbie to LaTeX. I noticed that my document is almost a page longer in Word compared to LaTeX. (~7.25 in latex, ~8.25 in Word). This seems to be because my Word document has 23 lines per page, ...
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votes
1answer
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Chapter page formatting
I'm using MiKTeX and when I use \chapter command, it starts a new page. I was wondering how to not start a new page.
My next concern is how can I align the text \chapter{*} where * is the text.
...
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0answers
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citation just included in round brackets when site number included [closed]
I formatted my document in a specific way. The citiation should always look like that
(Author, Year[, page number])
and then the appendant reference should be listed like that
Author (Year). ...
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votes
1answer
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Editing .bst file to modify printing of publisher and address information
I'm lost in some bst hell. Basically I'm trying to get Springer's spbasic.bst file to work. I'm almost there, but there are few annoying issues.
First, instead of getting Address: Publisher, I get ...
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Auto Formatting .tex file like Eclipse Format source code
Is there a way to format the Latex source to make it more readable as you would on Eclipse by right clicking the source and clicking on 'Format Source' ?
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0answers
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Pgfplotstable converting zeros to — in a knitr inline table
how do I change each 0.0 to -- without having to reference each as string type or making the whole table string type? The actual table is quite long and it would take too long to do it manually. For ...
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1answer
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How can I make a custom theorem for a definition?
Looking at the wikibooks article on theorems has me wondering... I'd like to do something, if possible, similar to the default "proof" theorem style, whereby I can add a custom name to each theorem as ...
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Is this a good format for a thesis? [closed]
First of all, English is not my native idiom, so apologies in advance.
INTRODUCTION
Maybe this is not the proper place, but i want some professional opinions on my proyect.
And of course if it help ...
