{math-mode} is about typesetting mathematical content, e.g. tweaking the appearance of spacing and symbols in a formula, or producing specific mathematical constructs. For questions about "wrapper" environments like equation or align, consider the tag {equations}.
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Why \( and \) were not defined as robust commands in the first place?
I am aware of the difference between using \(...\) and $...$ (in moving arguments, for example), and yes, I've read the answers to this question: Are \( and \) preferable to $?). I also know the ...
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\( \) don't work with TOC?
If i write this line of code
\subsection{Ranger \( n \) boules distinguables dans \( M \) boîtes}
I obtain an error over the second \)
(./Probabilité.toc
./Probabilité.toc:8: LaTeX Error: Bad ...
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\star vs. \ast in formulas. Which one to use?
When you read a formula aloud you say "r and r-star are related by this formula".
If you write this formula down you normally write an r with a six-handed star, which would actually be an asterisk and ...
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Unicode degree symbol ° in math formulas: \textdegree invalid in math mode
I'd like to be able to simply input a degree symbol as ° in my source code. German keyboards have a key for this, and it makes the source so much more readable. I'm using pdflatex from TeXLive 2012, ...
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Typesetting coordinates
I'm trying to typeset coordinates like:
(0 0 0) or (0, 0, 0)
I'm not sure if LaTeX offers a package which can make the notation a bit more professional than just manually inserting spaces between ...
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How can I position equation numbers always to the left side?
Equations and amsmath environments put equation numbers to the right side by default, the output of
\begin{multline}
some equation
\end{multline}
is:
equation (number)
How can I change it this ...
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How do I insert a backslash inside a mathematical statement?
I'm trying to write a set subtraction operation in an AMS formatted template. In the end, what I want should look like A\B. But I'm doing this in math-mode $A\B$ and this gives me errors. I've also ...
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Can I make siunitx commands use serif fonts like the rest of the math in beamer?
In a beamer presentation I can use \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif} to typeset the math in a serif font while the rest of the presentation is in a sans-serif font. But the \SI command from siunitx ...
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Which packages/practices are relevant for writing Structured Derivations? (similar to Dijkstra's calculational style of proofs)
Does anyone know of any packages that support this style of writing proofs?
The only things that I've found are: tex-ewd, a bunch of plain TeX macros on CTAN written specifically with Dijkstra in ...
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Making mathmode obey spaces
I know this is kind of blasphemic thing to ask, but is there a way to make mathmode obey spaces? Preferably in Plain with XeTeX.
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is it possible to change the depth of subscripts?
I have the following formula:
$ F_{\!\bm{H}} F_{\overline{\!\!\bm{H}\!}} $
In this case both subscripts end at different depths (but start at the same height). I'd like them to end at the same ...
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LaTex Error Help- Math Related
I'm trying to make an equation array
\begin{eqnarray*}
f^{(a)} (0) &=& \frac{a!}{2 \pi i} \oint_{ |z| = \frac{\varepsilon}{r}} \frac{f(z)}{(z)^{a+1}} dz &=&
&=& ...
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\overline outside of math mode
If I want to draw an overline over some text, not an equation, how can I do it? \overline seems to only work in math mode, and when used outside of math mode, it automatically says "Missing $ ...
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(Nonfatal but Symptomatic) Conflict of amsmath and mathstyle Packages
This was brought to my attention by our colleague, Lover of Structure, but since it affects my scalerel package (which began using the mathstyle package to detect the current math style, as of version ...
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Make every element of an array displaystyle?
Is there a way to make every element of an array be \displaystyle? I don't want to do something like \everymath={\displaystyle} (or whatever it should be) because I want this for a particular array ...
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Aligned, hanging indents in non-monospaced code
I want to typeset a piece of code containing line breaks. New lines should indent to a specified point in the previous line. Here is a monospaced example to illustrate what I mean. Notice how ...
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How can I draw a dot under a symbol in math mode?
I'm trying to find the equivalent to \d (or \textsubdot) for the math mode.
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How I can typeset this equation with LaTeX?
I would like to typeset the enclosed equation but placing the last a_{i, j} in the same column as the above a_{i, j}+1 and a_{i, j}-1, and the b_i in the same column as the above b_i's and not as it ...
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typesetting modulus operator, as in remainder
Is there a standard way to typeset the modulus operator (as in arithmetic remainder)? The percent sign (%) is often used by programming languages and mathematicians tend to use mod, but because of the ...
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Is there a command for inverse secant (arcsec)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Define additional math operators to be typeset in roman
\arccos, \arcsin, and \arctan seem to work, but not \arcsec, \arccot, \arccsc. I'm using the following math ...
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How to put a big bracket under different parts of a equation so that I could write e.g. a text specific to that part in the equation?
How to put a big bracket under different parts of a equation so that I could write e.g. a text specific to that part in the equation?
For example :
f = x^3 + 2
|___| |__|
| |
...
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Stealth arrow in math?
Is there an easy way to produce stealth style arrows in normal math mode? By "stealth" I'm thinking of TikZ stealth arrowhead. Something like \rightarrowstealth?
The question originates from a limit ...
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Length parameter for vertical skip space in a math environment?
I learned here that I can use \\[<len>] to explicitly set the vertical skip space between lines, e.g., <len> set to 3ex. I'd like to set <len> to, say, 2-times the normal length in ...
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Standard math environment for equally-spaced columns of expressions?
I often need a display environment which would let me easily present equally-spaced expressions in the same line, with content on successive lines appearing centred at the same x-coordinate as content ...
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How can I write tilde ~ in math mode? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
How does one insert a backslash or a tilde into LaTeX?
~ makes symbols after them 'phantoms'. I want just to write '~' in math mode and \~ ...
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Using \frac within a table
Does \frac not work from within a table? I need to reproduce the formulae for various methods on this page - here. I for example use
Normalized Square Difference & \frac{\sum_{x',y'} ...
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What is the best symbol for vector/matrix transpose?
What is the best or most popular symbol for vector/matrix transpose? I have used simply ^T, for example $c^T x$. I think it is ugly, mainly because it is a little too big compared with vector ...
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Sloppy \left and \right?
The \left and \right commands often produce improvidently large delimiters. It almost always looks better to use delimiters that are just slightly too small than delimiters that are too large. With ...
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How do I know if a math font fits well with the text font
In terms of fonts, I have the following:
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage[scaled=0.92]{helvet}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{cmtt}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault}
...
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{(x+y)}^2 or (x+y)^2?
This expression is just an example, of course.
My question is: should one always specify the quantity being exponentiated by surrounding it with braces, or is it acceptable to drop those braces?
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Two letter variable names
In math mode, TeX assumes "hidden multiplication" (so that two variable names put nearby have invisible multiplication between), so that, AFAICT, expressions like $ABC$ are rendered with small ...
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Why is LaTeX used as the defacto standard for math equations?
In almost every application I've ever seen that uses math equations, it always supports LaTeX.
If LaTeX does so much more than just math equations, why is it the defacto standard for math equations? ...
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Typesetting the “define equals” symbol
I'd like to typeset two compound symbols for making definitions. The following
\newcommand{\defeq}{\mathrel{\mathop:}=}
\newcommand{\eqdef}{\mathrel{\mathop=}:}
are suggested by the CTAN symbol ...
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Bold math: Automatic choice between \mathbf and \boldsymbol for Latin and Greek symbols?
This is a follow-up to this question.
Suppose you want to denote vectors by upright bold letters; then \mathbf{u} works fine, except that if it's a Greek letter you have to use \boldsymbol{\omega} ...
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Display math deadly sin in l2tabu
As a follow-up to Why is \[ ... \] preferable to $$?, what really is wrong with the vertical spacing as stated in l2tabu introduced by using $$...$$ instead of \[...\]?
As there does not seem to be ...
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Prevent line breaking in inline math, but allow flexible spacing
How can I easily tell Latex to prevent line-breaks inside a part of an inline formula, without affecting inter-word spacing?
Writing something like $ab(c+d)$ in Latex is bad: Latex might put a line ...
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Selecting main math font in LuaTeX?
I’d to set some fairly simple maths in Minion Pro (and potentially other system fonts), using LuaTeX. I’d hoped that something like the following should work:
\documentclass{minimal}
...
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What is the best way to typeset spectral sequences?
While writing articles about algebraic topology, I have had to typeset spectral sequences. These are tools for calculating homology and cohomology. Examples appear on page 10 of this book by Hatcher.
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\bm package versus \boldsymbol
I'm typing a bold vector small x with a tilde sign above it. Now when I want to write its derivative, I'm putting a dot on top of everything. This is giving me problems and I found one solution:
...
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How to align nested cases?
Please consider the code bellow:
\begin{align*}
function =
\begin{cases}
case1 &\mbox{if } n = 0 \\
\begin{cases}
case2 &\mbox{if } n = 1 \\
...
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Custom equations' names
Do you know ho can i call a reference to an equation using \ref or \eqref and obtain (name of the equation) instead of the standard counter?
Thanks!
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Upright Lowercase $\pi$
On pg. 144 of Kopka and Daily's A Guide to LaTeX, they mention that the symbols $e$, $i$, $d$, and $\pi$ should be displayed upright in math mode (for their usual uses). This is easy to do for $e$, ...
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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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In what circumstances should one wrap numbers in dollars?
Here is an example to consider:
A $3.1415$ approximation for $\pi$ was known on 314 BC?
Or maybe
A 3.1415 approximation for $\pi$ was known on 314 BC?
And here is another:
We run 32 ...
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Color box with rounded corners around a fragment of a formula
Is there any way in TeX to highlight some part of a formula with a box having colored background and rounded corners?
At present, I need to export such formulas into an image, add those highlight ...
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Removing spaces between “words” in math mode
I'd like to set $1024 \times 768$ without any space between the three items. Is this possible? If so, how?
E.g., what I get is:
1024 x 768
and what I want is:
1024x768
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What parsers for (La)TeX mathematics exist outside of the TeX engines?
Inspired by the author's motivation for asking Is there a BNF grammar of tex language.
Are there any well done libraries that can parse some subset of TeX mathematics independently of the TeX engine? ...
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Math mode accents and spacing
I'm using accents to produce a variant of the \in operator but when I place an accent on it, as in \tilde{\in}, I get spacing that is different from \in, see the example and the image below. My ...
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how to write a limit and how to use large absolute value?
How can I denote a limit in LaTeX, such as $f(n) \rightarrow_{n \rightarrow \infty} 0$ ?
And when I have a fraction and so on and I want to use an absolute value $| \frac{x}{y}|$, how can I make the ...
