{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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Space after \textquotedblright
I am trying to put a text in "" using \textquotedblleft and \textquotedblright. It works perfectly fine except it does not put ANY space after \textquotedblright. In other words, BEFORE ...
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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 ...
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Indexing, subentries, and see also
I'm creating an index using makeindex and I can't get the output to look the way I want. Basically, I would like to create an entry formatted as follows:
entry1
~~~subentry1, 2
...
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Using natbib with agsm
I am using natbib and agsm for harvard style referencing. My related code is
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
Then I am using \citep{} for citations. My problem is that in text I am ...
3
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1answer
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Remove comma from moderncv's \cventry
This image shows the excerpt of a CV produced with the moderncv document class:
Notice that after the bold text there is a comma. This seems to be produced automatically. How can I stop this?
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Using \selectlanguage with csquotes
As per this question, I am using csquotes to convert quotationmarks to typographical-quotes. However, when changing language through \selectlanguage the quotationmarks no longer gets converted. (I ...
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How to get upright parentheses in the whole document?
My question is, basically, the same as the one in Upright parentheses in italic text: how do I force all parentheses in my document to be upright, without replacing them with some commands "by hand"?
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Typewriter quotation marks in texttt
I'd like to do the text
"conservative"
with the quotation marks into a \texttt. However, when I do so, the first quotation mark is removed. I'm using the LNCS documentclass, I'm not sure if this ...
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Need to remove comma after last author (only)
I'm trying to submit to a journal that has a non-standard bibliography format: citations look like this:
Gordon, R. H., C.-E. Bai, and D. D. Li. 1999. "Efficiency Losses from Tax Distortions vs. ...
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Minted+Inconsolata: Straight Quotes
I am using minted to display my source code and the Inconsolata package to set the output font. Unfortunately, this produces the following ugly result (note the direction of the quote marks:
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How do I change comma to a colon in in-text reference?
In my preamble I am using:
\bibliographystyle{authordate1}
\usepackage{natbib}
When I make a \cite reference the output is for example:
(Lovell, 1972, p.133)
What would I need to change in ...
4
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autopunctuation not working properly
What am I doing wrong? According to my understanding, these two formulae should look different (the second one should have a thin space):
\setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes]
\starttext
$(2,5)$ ...
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Ideal Setup for Swiss-Style Quotes (Quotation Marks in German-speaking Switzerland)
As far as I know Switzerland uses French quotes but without whitespace.
So instead of
« citation »
it goes like this
«citation»
(to make it more confusing, in Germany they have the alternative ...
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Titles ending with punctuation in biblatex-ieee
I've just recently started using the biblatex package (with the biblatex-ieee style), and I've run into a small problem. I've looked at the .bbx file, and it seems like it should be easy to change, ...
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How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX
I am trying to incorporate programming examples in a LaTeX document.
The document renders nicely with pdflatex; however, the single quotes get transformed into U+2019, a right-single-quotation mark. ...
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1answer
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CJK spacing suddenly no longer works
I have been using CJK script in my documents successfully for some time, but today it suddenly stopped working properly. I did update some packages through TeX Live today, and recently I reinstalled a ...
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Is it correct to use a comma in this equation?
Consider:
Then, the sequence $k_i$ given by (3.38) is increasing and converges to
\begin{equation}\label{eq:weired_equation}
k^\xi = k_1\times k_2 \times c \times d,
\end{equation}
where $c$ and $d$ ...
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Period after last author name in biblatex when terseinits = true
My reference style requires author initials without period-space but between the author list and year there should be a period, e.g.
Cho JC, Kim MW, Lee DH, Kim SJ. (1997). Response of bacterial ...
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Guillemets in LaTeX («»)
I need the characters «» in my LaTeX document. I'm writing in English though, and I don't want to use Babel. I have the following hack but I'd like a better way:
\newcommand{\q}[1]{{%
\font\larm = ...
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1answer
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Consecutive commas with ae package
How do I output two (or more) consecutive commas inside \texttt{} ?
,, displays a black square, \,\, displays nothing, \verb{,,} display three consecutive commas (what the heck!), \verb{\,\,} ...
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Biblatex prints white space plus period before PART field
When I print the bibliography with a BOOK entry using the PART field, biblatex prints white space followed by a period before the PART field is printed. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
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How to use autopair for double quotes in .tex files (so that typing " leads to ``'')?
I'm working with Aquamacs 2.3a to compile .tex documents. Typing double quotes " one time leads to ``. Then writing a word and finishing with " again, expands to ``myword''. How can I have autopair to ...
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Quotation mark problem [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Quotation with double quote and O results in Ö
I'm having a problem to write this in LaTeX: "real-world" objects. My code is this
``real$-$world" objects
But ...
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1answer
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Punctuation between authors in bibliography?
I am finalizing my doctoral dissertation in LaTeX, and before printing my university has some very specific requirements regarding the formatting of the references section. Using makebst I have been ...
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1answer
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How to improve listings display of JSON files?
I was wondering if there is a good way for JSON files to be listed with the listings package.
The only language definition I could come up with, is this:
\lstdefinelanguage{json}
{
...
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End quotes and punctuation when using biblatex
This seems like a rudimentary question but I haven't been able to find a clear answer. The cultural context in question is American English.
When putting citations in footnotes in biblatex (I'm using ...
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What is the symbol to join two personal names? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dashes: - vs. – vs. —
I don't know if here is the best place to ask, but my question involves three symbols, so here we go:
What symbol should I use to connect two ...
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How do you end with a single quote followed by a double quote?
I have a paragraph as follows:
``This is a quote. `Here is a quote within a quote.'''
But the formatting works out to be a double quote (") followed by a single quote (') instead of the other way ...
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2answers
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Horizontal line of custom length like an —
Is there a way to get a custom-length horizontal line that appears like a "longer em-dash", if you will?
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votes
1answer
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Matching punctuation size to small caps
Normal apostrophes are too big for small caps and this is making my running headers look weird.
I'm getting around this by shrinking each apostrophe to \footnotesize and lowering it by -0.55ex.
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Biblatex Bibliography: Suppress “In:” (articles only) and avoid additional punctuation [closed]
Supressing the "In:" in articles in biblatex bibliographies
“Dupe”, some of you might want to say now, and indeed, I want to solve the same problem as @Kit did 1,5 years ago.
However, with biblatex ...
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Punctuation in bibliography with multiple languages
In a document written in a given language (in my case French but it may not matter so much) I have a bibliography mixing entries in different languages (in this case French, English and German). I ...
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Babel and the decimal separator
I'm using Babel for writing a document in spanish. However, it uses a comma instead of a period as a decimal marker (i.e. 3,14 instead of 3.14).
Is there any way to reverse the behaviour? I prefer ...
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Preventing line break between a word and comma (ConTeXt) [closed]
In the following example
\definefont[Shehkl][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 15pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf
\definestartstop[Arab][commands=\setups{Arabic}]
\def\Arab{\doArab}
...
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biblatex: parentheses around the volume number of an article
What do I have to write in the preamble to bring the bibliography to make parentheses around the volume number of an article? I'm using the authoryear style.
Here is an example:
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No space after closing double quote
As the title says, there's no spacing after my closing quotes, I have boiled my huge preamble down to the following,
% Manual: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf
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\ldots produces a square
Using XeLaTex and OpenType font Goudy Bookletter 1911, the command \ldots{} produces ❏ (without shadow).
My question is: why XeLaTeX does not find automatically a substitute ?
I guess that ...
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\dots versus \ldots - is there a difference?
Is there a difference between \dots and \ldots, the ellipsis?
If yes: Which? When to use \dots and when to use \ldots?
If no: Why are there both at all?
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votes
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Fix for CJK punctuation kerning in xetex?
When using xelatex with xeCJK to typeset a document in English with Japanese quotations, I get rather unsightly kerning with Japanese punctuation. In general, punctuation is shifted to the left, so ...
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1answer
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en-dash with half-sized space on either the left or the right
I am looking to produce directional variants of the en-dash. A "left en-dash" should have half of ordinary inter-word spacing on its right and allow line-breaks only on its left; a "right en-dash" ...
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Italics emphasis and punctuation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I include punctuation marks in \emph, or should I place those marks after the command?
When emphasizing the last part of a sentence by making it italic, is it ...
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How to reduce the spacing between punctuation and the superscript citation
I'm using biblatex with the autocite=superscript option, so I can use \autocite to switch the interpunction and a superscript citation when the \autocite command is placed before an period or comma. ...
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1answer
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Appendix changes sections and figures numbering
I don't know how to face a strange behavior caused by the appendix package.
I'm using KOMA-Script book class and many other packages (see here: http://pastie.org/1728702)
When I add an appendix (not ...
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Comma as decimal marker with siunitx (Spanish usage)
I'm using siunitx to input some big numbers and units in my document.
Is there a way to make the output of \num{3.14} be "3,13" instead of "3.13"? In Spanish, we use the first one.
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biblatex: remove commas between last and first names in bibliography
I am new to biblatex, and I need to create a bibliography with the authors' names with last names followed by pure initials. Using the style=numeric, firstinits and terseinits options along with:
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Removing comma after last name in the last-first biblatex macro [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Biblatex: remove commas between last and first names in bibliography
Is there an easy work-around with the last-first biblatex macro so that the comma after the last ...
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Problem with libertine font for pretty big quotes
The following code, that I used with success, does not work with the last TeX LIve distribution. I don't know why.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
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adaptive \ldots with no (“…”) spacing
Due to the typographic traditions I'm used to, I prefer my \ldots to have no spacing in between, ideally exactly the same amount as in text. In math mode I would like to write things like \(1, 2, ...
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2answers
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hyphens in index entries
If I write:
\index{axioms!Zermelo–Fraenkel}
LaTeX generates
axioms, 184
ZermeloFraenkel, 203, 208
How do I stop the hyphen from disappearing?
EDIT: MWE...
\documentclass{article}
...
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Error message and newline
In the following, why is the exclamation mark (!) repeated in the error message?
\def\error#1#2{%
\begingroup
\errhelp{#2}%
\errmessage{^^J! package Error: #1^^J}%
\endgroup
}
\error{Stop ...
