{punctuation} is for questions involving the typesetting of punctuation marks. If your question relates to punctuation in particular document parts such as e.g. bibliography formatting or section formatting you should also add the appropriate tag for that topic.
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Should a negative kern be added after a degree symbol if followed by punctuation?
Not sure why I have not noticed this before, but spacing between a degree unit and punctuation seems strange as shown in red. Should a manual \kern be added (as shown in blue)?
Code:
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How to get a space (instead of a colon) as label separator in (figure and table) captions?
I am trying to get rid of the colons that come between the figure name (and table name) and the caption when they appear in the body of the document. So based on a previous question by @amir (remove ...
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Using commas in mathematical formulas
I need write some formula, but I don't know how to arrange the comma's place.
$p,\ q\in N$, blabla $0<a,\ b<1$ blabla $i,\ j=1,\ 2,\ \dots,\ n$
or
$p,\;q\in N$, blabla $0<a,\;b<1$ ...
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Putting row of dots in an equation
Is it possible create a system of equations that will look like this:
aX(x_0)+bX(x_0)+cX(x_0)=A
dX(x_1)+eX(x_1)+fX(x_1)=B
.........................
gX(x_n)+hX(x_n)+iX(x_n)=B
I tried with this:
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Decimal comma: extract one feature from babel-spanish
\usepackage[spanish]{babel} makes $12.34$ to print "12,34", not "12.34". It doesn't change dot to comma if one says for example $x.y$.
Can I use only that feature from babel package, and still use ...
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Uneven spacing around ellipsis in $[A_1;\dotsc;A_n]$
I've noticed that when a \dotsc has a semicolon on each side, there's uneven space around the ellipsis created. With
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
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How do I type a Chinese dash in XeLaTex
How do I write a Chinese dash, a two-fullwidth-character long dash?
「——」 looks ugly typset with XeLaTex and the font that I am using (The two parts are not connected and there is a gap in the ...
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biblatex - year in parentheses for references with authoryear? [duplicate]
According to guidelines, besides printing the year in parentheses in the bibliography (which is working by default), I must have the year in parentheses for the references. Also, I have to use ...
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Smart quote in TeXstudio
A useful feature of TeXworks is the smart quote. Does TeXstudio have a similar feature? (to replace "" and '' with their Unicode opening and closing counterparts)
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biblatex: move backrefpages to after the period
I've used some tips about how to toy with the format of backrefs in biblatex, and I'm seeing that the formatting is quite flexible. In the screenshot below, I've put the backref into a box. That's ...
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How do I change the order of comma and ending double-quote after the title?
An example of a BiBTeX reference of mine
@ARTICLE{58,
author = {{Craig M. Pratt and Terry Eaton and Marilyn Francis and Antonio Pacifico}},
title = {{Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Recordings: ...
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Overfull \hbox caused by em-dash
There is one problem that currently seems insolvable to me. I am typesetting a book in Russian language and I noticed that, in some cases, an overfull box appears which cannot be solved via manual ...
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XeLaTex: — sign
I use following code:
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}[]{llcl}
\hline
\rowcolor[gray]{.9}\textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Description} \\\hline
-c, --create & Do something\\\hline
\end{tabular}
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TexShop keeps converting apostrophes into curly ones
Whenever I type something such as The energy's source, TexShop changes the apostrophe into a curly one which does not print in the PDF.
How can I stop future apostrophes from being changed without ...
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biblatex - comma with space behind every unit (style=authoryear)
I'd like to have a comma behind every unit in a bibliography entry except the year and at the end of an entry. How can I achieve that?
This is what I have so far.
\usepackage[
language=auto,
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Smart parentheses?
Is there a way of smartly nesting parentheses and square brackets (in text mode), so that LaTeX detects nesting relations and typesets them accordingly? I'm thinking in something like csquotes does ...
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fail to add Chinese punctuation after CJKnumber in chatper title in xeLaTeX
I'm writing my thesis in Chinese with xeLaTeX and I've to format the chapter name and section name.
The following command works ok:
\usepackage[CJKnumber][xeCJK]
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1answer
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How to prevent \xspace from adding a full space after a period?
I have a little macro that I use for doing adding an e.g. in my writing:
\newcommand{\eg}{\emph{e.g.}\xspace}
The problem I have is that LaTeX is treating the g. as the end of a sentence and is ...
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1answer
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Using \@-ified punctuation while using \frenchspacing
After reading this very informative TeX.SE thread about spacing and punctuation, I was left wondering about an issue that didn't seem to be addressed: using \frenchspacing together with the modified ...
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1answer
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Override quotation style [duplicate]
Is it possible to override the default quotation marks of ``notation''?
As a czech user, I have to use \uv{} to have czech styled quotations, which doesn't write so well.
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What is the difference between the hyphen-like characters #45 and #127 from the T1 encoding?
What is the difference between the symbols with decimal indices #45 and #127 from the T1 encoding? Character #45 seems to be the ordinary hyphen, but what about #127? The en-dash and em-dash are at ...
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\parencite in footnote: where to put the full stop?
I am not entirely sure, if this question fits the agenda of this site. I you feel that it does not, please accept my apologies.
Just a brief question:
If I have a footnote with a quote, then ...
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Punctuation in superscripting with Natbib in Xetex
I'm trying to use the achemso package for my bibliography and citations. I'm also trying to using Xetex to use the Minion Pro fonts. When I just typeset with LaTeX and do everything in Computer Modern ...
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Ignoring Punctuation during Comparison
I am trying to compare two strings and ignore punctuation during the comparison. I thought that catcode redefinition would be a good way to proceed. But, obviously, the use of \catcode has a great ...
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How to insert a dot in the section headings? [duplicate]
I am using this macro:
\newcommand{\ssection}[1]{\section[1]{\centering #1}}
\ssection{BACKGROUND}
Result, is centered but there are couple of spaces between 1 and B:
1 BACKGROUND
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How to change quotation symbols and define them in language (in Context)? [closed]
To get guillemets (», angle quotes) at quotations in my Swedish text I have used the following code with Context mkII:
\setupdelimitedtext[quotation:1][left=»\nobreak,right=\nobreak»]
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How to force LaTeX not to break the line after a hyphen “-”?
With ~ we can enforce that no line break occures between two words.
But this does not seem to work with special characters. I want LaTeX to enforce not to break the line after the - in (re-)creation.
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1answer
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How to quote correctly with csquotes?
I am unsure how to quote correctly using csquotes and \textquote and \blockquote. In the documentation I found this general advise: \blockquote[cite][punct]{text}tpunct but am unsure how to really use ...
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biblatex: why no comma after abbreviated shorttitle?
Sorry, this is only a minor question, but I just realised for the first time that when you cite a bibliographic item which has no shortitle, then -- using style=verbose -- you usually get (apart from ...
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No italics in algorithm2e if-clause
Why does algorithm2e typeset the variables anychange and done in italics, and how can I turn this off? How can I remove the semicolon after done in the until-clause?
$\textsf{anychange} \gets ...
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How to get language dependent quotation marks in citations with biblatex? [duplicate]
I cite german and french articles. In my bibliography the titles are given in quotation marks. Now, I would like to have the quotation marks dependent on the language of the article.
I thought ...
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Ellipsis without brackets — fine tuning
Very much related to this question and its answer, I would like to ask the following:
If I want to indicate omissions in a quotation not by using Text [...] more text. but instead by using Text ... ...
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Dedicated symbol for […] in quotations?
I would like to use [...] in quotations to indicate a part which was not included. Just entering [...] does not render it perfectly in my opinion. Is there a special way of inputing said symbol? ...
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new quote-based environment end spacing [closed]
In order to insert quotations, the document uses a quote-based \newenvironmentx
\newenvironmentx{QUOTE}[1][1=.]{%
\begin{quote}%
\tiny\noindent%
\gdef\parQ{#1}``%
}{\parQ''%
\normalsize%
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1answer
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Texmaker Illegal unit of measure
I've got problems with my Texmaker on Windows 7... I changed some text in the document and configured the colors for my listings.
Suddenly Latex throws an error by the optional parameter of the ...
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KOMA-Script scrbook: How to remove period after part
I'm using scrbook to typeset a document and I'm using \part for formatting the parts of it.
The default output renders \part{Mytitle} into
Part I.
Mytitle
Now I'd like to get rid of the ...
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How to force csquotes to show the quotations marks in block quotes?
How can I force the csquotes package to always show quotations marks in my block quotes, regardless of the language etc...?
Tried this, but no cigar:
\usepackage{csquotes}[english=british] % ...
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Is there a way to specify the last connecting punctuation/word of the authors list in apacite?
How can I make apacite use a different connecting punctuation/word between the last 2 authors (in both the article body and bibliography)?
Instead of "Johnson, J. B., & Smith, J. (2013). Title of ...
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Why does Context line-break my quotation and leave the quotation sign on it's own row?
Using Context to set a book I have the following problem: Context linebreaks some quotations in a way that makes the quotation sign (in my case a guillemet [sic!]) appear on its own row. How can i ...
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Is it always best practice to not include text punctuation in inline math mode?
It has been pointed out on this site, e.g. here by egreg, that text punctuation doesn't belong to the formula in inline math. I've been following this practice for a long time, so I write for all ...
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Hanging punctuation in XeLaTeX [duplicate]
Is it possible to have hanging punctuation in XeLaTeX, and if yes, how?
I appreciate that there is no margin kerning available for XeLaTeX, but I want to see if hanging punctuation looks better than ...
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Automatically prevent line-break at hyphen of specific words (e.g. “dual-self”)
Usually questions about hyphenation and line-breaks are concerned about how to allow hyphenation when a word already contains a hyphen. That's not what I'm after:
I would like to prevent the word ...
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Display real apostrophe in parts of a document
The question How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX is my question too, but the answer points to a package upquote that affects the entire document. I need to display an apostrophe ...
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1answer
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TeXStudio : Disable auto-completion of parentheses
I cannot stand the auto-completion of TeXStudio (formerly TexMakerX) regarding parentheses, braces, etc. I agree auto-completion is useful sometimes, but here it does just not work as I would like. ...
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Math Spacing in the presence of a trailing/non-trailing comma
I thought I knew how to use a \hphantom{} but don't know of an easy way to handle this case due to the comma. I want to get the text aligned for the X row. I added the appropriate \hphantom{{}+1} ...
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1answer
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Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom
I wanted to adapt Block quote with big quotation marks to languages like my natural language German, but also some other mainly Germanic and Slavic languages (c.f. Wikipedia: Non-English usage of ...
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2answers
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Abbreviations: taking into account spacing AND punctuation [duplicate]
So I'm trying to come up with some good, general definitions for latin abbreviations in my TeX template...
What I did up to now is this:
\usepackage{xspace}
\newcommand{\etc}{etc.\xspace}
..which ...
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2answers
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To Imply a Dash and not Minus Sign in Math Mode
If I am in Math mode, and I want to name a variable, say max-color, here max and color are treated as two different variables and two spaces are placed around the minus sign. Now, what I really meant ...
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Enclosing issue number in parentheses
In my bibliography, the volume number and issue number is currently printed as "volume.issue"
I want to change that to "volume(issue)", e.g., "35(5)".
Would this be something to do with ...
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How to convert dots to commas in mathmode?
For my study of physics I have to do various lab reports. Normally I just process all my data using python, gnuplot or Mathematica and copy it from there to my TeX document. Unfortunately all these ...
