{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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1answer
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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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Dashes: - vs. – vs. —
This may or may not be a real TeX/LaTeX question but rather a general question on punctuation:
How are the different dashes - "-", -- "–" and --- "—" supposed to be used?
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1answer
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Babel + Hebrew + aeguill incompatiblility
(Question split off from here.)
If you try to use the aeguill package (which adds some guillemets to the ae fonts) with Babel and Hebrew:
\documentclass{standalone}
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biblatex, authoryear-icomp: brackets around the year in footnotes
I use biblatex with the cite-style authoryear for footnotes, which results in
Chang et al. 2005, p. 1116.
Faculty guidelines require
Chang et al. (2005), p. 1116.
though.
Which files need ...
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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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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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4answers
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Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (¡) or question mark (¿)?
When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode.
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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Block quote with big quotation marks
How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box ...
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3answers
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What is best method to insert an ellipsis in a (Xe)TeX document?
What is best method to insert an ellipsis in a (Xe)TeX document?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
a...b a ... b %or
a\ldots b a \ldots b ...
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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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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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1answer
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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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4answers
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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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1answer
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biblatex-apa: sentence case not working
Biblatex-Apa should automatically print titles in the reference list in sentence case, but for some reason it doesn't work (note the lowercase A after the colon):
\documentclass{article}
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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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2answers
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Replace “quotes” with „quotes“?
I live in a funny part of the world where we're required to quote text like this: „quotes“ (note the difference between the opening and closing quote).
Is there an easy way to set up a LaTeX document ...
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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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2answers
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Backward opening quote in Mac
I am using Mac OS X, Standard US English Keyboard. I have written a full document using TeXShop. I have several double quote and single quote for single word or two words (not a quotation of many ...
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Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen
Contrary to English, in German there are quite a few words containing a hyphen, e.g. "Arbeiter-Unfallversicherung" (workers' accident insurance). By default, (La)TeX will only break such words after ...
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4answers
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How to prevent linebreaks after hyphen if word starts with hyphen?
(Remark: Maybe this is a typically German problem, I'm not sure in which other languages that might be relevant)
Sometimes there are words which start with a hyphen, as they are connected with a word ...
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How to get straight quotation marks?
How do I get straight quotation marks, i.e., " and ' in TeX? (No, \verb changes the font and this is unacceptable.)
[Edit] I forgot to mention that I’m using XeLaTeX, and fontspec is a necessity. ...
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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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Chinese punctuation problem
I am trying to move a Chinese punctuation mark to the head of a character. I am using the following macro, which works fine. But if I redefine the \CJKpunctsymbol, it will be a messy. Can any one help ...
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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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How to make apostrophes appear normally when copy-pasting from a MS Word document?
I have a report written in MS Word which I would like to turn into a LaTeX document. I copy-pasted the content of the document in my LaTeX editor (TeXShop, LaTeX, pdfTeX) and everything comes out fine ...
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1answer
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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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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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1answer
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Aligning numbers by decimal points in table columns
Let me begin by stating that I did google the answers (and I'll reference to them soon). Yet each of the resources I found discussed one particular method, I'm interested in a comparison of the ...
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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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biblatex-mla bibliography: one redundant dot in second entry by same author (@collection)
when quoting two collections by the same author, biblatex-mla puts an extra dot before the title in the references entry, as may be seen here:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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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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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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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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 ...
