{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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votes
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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 ...
2
votes
2answers
412 views
Is there an alternative way to double quote in Latex?
I am editing my Latex code using MS Word. Before you get any ideas (I know it's weird) please refer How to run Latex from Word?
Having found myself in this unusual predicament, I also have to use ...
6
votes
1answer
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«» resemble too much \ll \gg
I am typesetting a translation of some ancient poetry book from another language (namely Finnish). In the text there are several quotes which uses the Guillemets (« and »).
Since I am using a UTF-8 ...
4
votes
1answer
119 views
XeTeX/mathspec punctuation issue
In a previous question, a solution was given for changing the font of punctuation marks in a math environment when using mathspec. Unfortunately, this solution gives the punctuation marks in italics ...
3
votes
2answers
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ending statements in algorithm2e environment
I am using the package algorithm2e. Is there a way to end with period instead of semicolon, or end with simply newline? I don't like the semicolons on the sentences. If I just try putting a period it ...
3
votes
1answer
226 views
How remove dot after section number in ToC with babel's spanish?
I'm using the book document class and the babel package with the spanish option, I have a ToC like this:
CHAPTER NAME
1.1. SECTION NAME
1.1.1. Subsection name
1.1.1.1. ...
7
votes
1answer
397 views
Punctuation marks in math mode in xetex/mathspec
I am using XeTeX and have the following short document:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm}
\usepackage[MnSymbol]{mathspec}
\usepackage[no-sscript]{xltxtra}
...
7
votes
4answers
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How can I display two single quotes in LaTeX?
I need to display two single quotes without anything between them (I'm preparing computer science lecture slides and I want to display '\''), but of course LaTeX wants to translate '' to closing ...
5
votes
1answer
253 views
Removing dot after section letter
Right now this I'm getting this for my first subsubsection:
G.1.1.
I would like for this to be
G1.1.
Does anybody know if it is possible to remove the first dot and put G and 1 together ...
2
votes
1answer
149 views
Getting email address as endnote in LyX revtex document
I'm having trouble getting the author email address to appear as an endnote -- marked with a letter -- in a LyX revtex document. Instead, it's showing up as a footnote.
Here's a .lyx document and an ...
15
votes
1answer
388 views
How to break long URLs using common hyphenation but adding a line feed indicator?
I saw several questions like this one that request a solution for breaking apart URLs.
I wonder if it is possible to hyphenate the words in a URL as it happens in normal text (i.e., breaking apart ...
17
votes
5answers
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Allow line break, but without inserting a dash
I have a sentence that contains a number of long dataset names. I would like to allow LaTeX to break these names at certain positions that I would like to specify somehow just like I can use \- to ...
22
votes
4answers
752 views
Coloring combining characters without changing color of a base character
Problem
I am trying to find out is there a good way to paint combining characters without changing the color of the base character they are combined with. My actual problem case is to make some ...
17
votes
2answers
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Entire document typed in monospace font
I want to put an entire document into monospace font for various reasons. This is nominally fairly easy; you can say \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\ttdefault}. However, there at least two problems ...
36
votes
5answers
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Upright parentheses in italic text
This question led to a new package:
embrac
Bringhurst, in Elements of Typographic Style, recommends to use upright parentheses in italic text (i.e., write 'a (simple) example' as opposed to 'a ...
22
votes
2answers
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Which dot character to use in which context?
Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode. These are the ones that are ambiguous to me:
interpunct, middle dot (·) · · U+00B7 "midpoint (in typography)"
...
3
votes
1answer
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Removing the quotations marks from the bibliography using harvard style (agsm)
I'm pretty new to using LaTeX but have so far found it fairly intuitive and am currently using it to write my dissertation. I am using the harvard and natbib packages to cite and create my ...
6
votes
2answers
118 views
Why the point is missing after the number in this enumerate list?
I've always used latex for writing papers and documents but I'm not really expert of templates and styles.
Currently I'm working on a document and I'm using a template that was provided by a ...
16
votes
3answers
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biblatex: How to remove the parentheses around the year in authoryear style?
The standard authoryear style in biblatex puts parentheses around the year in the bibliography and no parentheses around in text citation years:
Smith 2011 shows ... (citation)
Smith, Joe ...
3
votes
1answer
354 views
Block quote with big quotations - white on black
There is are some very nice answers to the question of how to put large quotation marks around a block of text at Block quote with big quotation marks. Using the first answer (which uses tikz) but ...
9
votes
2answers
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Straight quotes?
How do I get a straight quote instead of curly quotes? I’m not inside verb or listing or any other special environments, and I’m not using XeLaTeX or anything—just normal LaTeX. I don’t want to change ...
8
votes
1answer
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Colon instead of “p.” in Biblatex authoryear-comp
I'm using the authoryear-comp style with biblatex. But when using citing commands, instead of p/pp. I would rather have a colon. I have tried these:
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{: #1}
...
7
votes
1answer
606 views
Handling quotes inside quotes in a bibliographic field
I have an entry in my bib file of the form
@conference{abc,
author = "Some name",
title = ""This is inside quote" and outside quote content",
.
.
.
}
when I check this entry through jabref, I get ...
5
votes
3answers
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French internationalisation, override babel default spacing
I'm writing my thesis paper in French. In the document I use the name of the ISO27001:2005 norm name, and by babel conventions this is rewritten as ISO27001 :2005 with a extra space before the ...
4
votes
1answer
333 views
Colon after appendix number
How do I get a ":" to show up after Appendix in my ToC.
Right now I have
APPENDIX A. Classification experiments
but I want:
APPENDIX A: Classification experiments
In the preamble I am ...
5
votes
1answer
732 views
Citation style in biblatex: (1) get rid of first names; (2) remove comma before year
I'm trying to use biblatex and biber so as to have access to @online, etc.
But I'm quite overwhelmed.
In-text citations used to just show the last names. Now they are including first names or ...
8
votes
1answer
381 views
Removing full stop after first name initial in biblatex, for all authors
I am using biblatex to format my references and I want to format them according to
<LastName> <FirstNameInitial>, <LastName> <FirstNameInitial>
and so on. In order to remove ...
8
votes
1answer
882 views
Modify the last-name first-name separator in biblatex's authortitle
Using the example below, how could I modify the separator between last name and the initial? Currently this is a comma e.g. Fox, P. and it should be just a space: Fox P.
And a similar problem: How ...
17
votes
1answer
290 views
Three quotation levels for csquotes
The recommended way of solving nested quotations in Norwegian is to use «» for the outer level and then alternating between ‘’ and “”. (Source)
Is it a large undertaking to do this with csquotes?
11
votes
2answers
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What is a good way to typeset dot-separated acronyms?
I am trying to find a good appearance for typesetting "C.A.T.A.P.U.L.T.". When I type it as is, it appears to me that P.U.L. are bunched up together while the other letters are well apart. Perhaps ...
5
votes
1answer
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Can I create one command for quoting?
I would like to get this result:
I currently use this piece to get the result:
\glqq{\textit{Analysis II}}\grqq{}
Can I create a single command like the following to get the desired result?
...
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votes
2answers
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Automatically adding space before punctuation in old-style English texts
I'm typesetting an English text in an 18th century style (based on a 1725 edition of Alexander Pope's "Dunciad"). Is there a LaTeX package I can use to automatically add the correct space before (and ...
5
votes
1answer
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Automatically capitalize macro output if used after a period [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Detect beginning of a sentence in a macro for capitalization
Is it possible to write a macro that is able to determine if it is used at the beginning of a sentence? For ...
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votes
2answers
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Changing citation delimiters
The default citation delimiter is ,. For instance,
\cite{John96, Doe78, White05}
generates something like [8, 2, 4], where the citation numbers (8, 2, and 4) are separated by a comma (,).
This is ...
5
votes
1answer
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Change leftmark in fancyhdr
Can anyone tell me how, in the minimal example pasted below, I can achieve that the dot after Appendix in the header disappears? I understand that it is there because I simply made the number of the ...
5
votes
1answer
958 views
How to write quotation marks in math environment?
How to use quotation marks in math mode? I need to get \lim with the quation marks above.
7
votes
1answer
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Acronyms without double dots using glossaries
I want to typeset my acronyms with abbreviating dots with, for
instance, P.C.A. standing for principal component analysis and use
macros for them.
This question
provides a trick to avoid double dots ...
7
votes
1answer
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How do I get guillemets in a listing?
I'm wondering if it's possible to use guillemets («») in a lstlisting block?
I have seen some solutions for including it in the document, but none with the listings package.
6
votes
3answers
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lualatex and line breaks after em-dashes
I’ve just installed TeX Live 2012. As mentioned elsewhere on this site, the release history explains that “the parameter \XeTeXdashbreakstate is set to 1 by default, for both xetex and xelatex. This ...
16
votes
1answer
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Putting quotation marks in TeX document
Have to put double quotes mark for a sentence. I am using Xetex.
For the input string ``The work'', the output is also ``The work'' whereas it should be “The work”. Below is the list of packages and ...
10
votes
2answers
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Vertically aligning hyphens and en dash in a compound word
I was wondering if there is a way to make the hyphen and en dash in a compound word appear at the same "height." For instance the style guide I'm following suggests using en dash to reduce the ...
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votes
3answers
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Comma-separated list environment
This question is somewhat of a follow up to an answer to a previous question (http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/11587/13522).
I would like to create a list environment (similar to itemize and enumerate) ...
14
votes
3answers
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en dash and em dash spacing
I've noticed that en dashes and em dashes run into certain numbers and letters, and I don't believe it's standard to use spaces with these. For example, if a 'b' comes before the dash or a '6' comes ...
3
votes
4answers
322 views
Disabling interword spacing for periods following capital letters
By default, LaTex inserts a longer, intersentence space after a period. The exception is if the period follows a capital letter, in which case an interword space is assumed. This thread describes ...
4
votes
1answer
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Ellipses & Correct Space Factor
I’m trying to use the Unicode ellipsis character (U+2026 ‘…’) in my source files. To this end, I’m looking for an ellipsis macro which I can use with newunicodechar.
The trouble is, I’ve noticed, ...
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votes
1answer
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Why do ``` and ''' produce outputs with different spaces?
Why do
```
and
'''
produce outputs with different spaces?
\documentclass{article}
\parindent=0pt
\begin{document}
Input:
\begin{verbatim}
```\\
'''
\end{verbatim}
Output:
```\\
'''
...
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votes
2answers
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How to add LaTeX style quotation marks to the Hunspell spell checker?
Quotation marks in LaTeX have to be added with `` and '', but this results in the word being marked as misspelled in Texmaker, which uses Hunspell files (.dic and .aff). I tried adding `` and '' to ...
2
votes
1answer
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zero-width Quine corners
I would like to create symbol pairs that
can be used like quotation marks (spacing-wise)
look like Quine corners (roughly: \ulcorner ... \urcorner) or Japanese quotation marks (roughly: \ulcorner ...
5
votes
1answer
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Special punctuation marks
Is there an easy way to render special punctuation marks present in some fonts, such as double question mark, double exclamation mark, or interrobang?
Also, is there a font (preferably open-source) ...
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votes
3answers
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German-style quotation marks too close to italics letters and mathpazo font package
When I type an text in italic with the Palladio font the German quotation marks are (far) too close to the letters. The problem does not occur with English quotation marks.
Is there any solution or ...
