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Best practice regarding graphics size
Whenever I make graphs from R to be included in Latex, I find myself scuttling back and forth between R to specify the size of the output and Latex to play with the \includegraphics[scale=??].
It ...
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Adaptively sized delimiters that don't go beyond the size of \bigl and \bigr
I would like adaptively sized delimiters, but only up to \bigl/\bigr-size. That is, there is variation only between ordinary/normal size and one size higher.
\documentclass{article}
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Get current font size as length
I understand from THIS question that the current font size can be determined.
But how can I convert this to a length value?
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\newlength{\mytextsize}
%This ...
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Fitting TikZ picture in beamer: Difference between using \resizebox and \adjustbox?
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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Beamer: how to show a logo in the vertical bar only if there is enough space left?
I would like to insert an additional (other than the top-left one) logo in a beamer presentation using Palo Alto theme, so that it appears in the navigation bar ONLY if there is enough space left.
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divides, not divides and cardinalities
In group theory it happens very often that you want to say: "The order of $H$ divides / does not divide the order of $G$." But the length of | is then always the same:
$ |H| | |G| $ produces |H|||G|
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Image from \includegraphics showing in wrong image size
When I use the following to embed an image:
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics{my_image}
\caption{blaaa}
\label{fig:blaaa}
\end{figure}
whereas my_image is a JPG file, the ...
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LaTeX block conditional including
I am researching possibility of building an automatic brief datasheet template in LaTeX, taking data straight out of a database. The database connection part is possible and can be done with such ...
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How change math font size in power?
How can I change the font for power such a way that the power symbol is rendered much smaller than the number 3 in the following formula? I need to sum (necessarily with \displaystyle) was much ...
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TikZ: different x, y scales but so that shapes maintain their aspects
I have some old pstricks code which I'm re-doing with TikZ. In my current picture, the x and y scales are different:
\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=1.8,yscale=4]
However, this has the problem that ...
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Typesetting digraph with weighted edges, varying vertex size, multiple lines in vertex
I would like to draw the graph displayed in the following picture with TikZ and also do some modifications:
Firstly I want to carry the labels of the nodes to the inside as a second line.
For ...
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How to set size of pdf page in pixels and put a background image
I need to create certificates in pdf. I have an image, where the text must be put to the appropriate place. I managed to set the correct pdf page size and all margins, except the top:
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How can I fix the size of parentheses around stacked function symbols?
I apologize if this is a duplicate, I looked at a number of other questions regarding parentheses size but didn't find an answer to my problem.
I'm trying to stack two function symbols within ...
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My tikzpicture is to large for my beamer frame
I'm extremely new to LaTeX and this is my first post on this site. I have a major presentation coming in a couple weeks, and I'm in great need of your help.
I export Geogebra code for my graphs, it's ...
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What are the possible dimensions / sizes / units LaTeX understands?
I know there are different ways of expressing sizes or dimensions in LaTeX such as points (pt), inches (in) and ex.
As some commands, such as \hspace understand all of them, I would like to have a ...
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How to change the size of nodes?
How is it possible to change the size of a node, for example:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw node[fill,circle]{} (0,0);%
\end{tikzpicture}
How to make the circle smaller or larger?
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Size of TikZ ellipse node
When I set the minimum size of an ellipse in a tikzpicture environment, it expands into a circle if the inner content does not grow as large as the ellipse shape itself.
Is there any way around it?
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How to decrease 1cm arrow length in commutative diagram on the base?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xypic}
\begin{document}
$\xymatrix{
& Y\ar[ldd]_{\psi_{i}}\ar[rdd]^{\psi_{j}}\ar[d]^{h} & \\
& S \ar[ld]^{\pi_{i}} \ar[rd]_{\pi_{j}} & \\
R_{i} ...
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Manually controlled size of delimiters in macros
I am using the amsmath package and I'd like to control the size of my delimiters manually, i.e. using the
\bigl, \Bigl, ... , \Bigr, \bigr commands, instead of \left, \middle, \right.
Now I want to ...
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Background image from tikzpicture does not fit the whole page
For a poster, I would like to have an image fill the whole page. This image is supposed to be drawn within a tikz environment as my other content. However, graphicx seems to fail at rescaling when the ...
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Maximum image size [closed]
Using pandoc (with xelatex) to parse markdown content including images, sometimes I get the following error:
Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! Dimension too large.
What is the maximum size ...
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how to get the size of a \pgfdeclareimage
Basically I want to use a TikZ node to frame a pgfimage, so later on, I will add more and connect them as I see fit.
I have this:
\pgfdeclareimage[width=10em]{image1}{images/image1}
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Adjusting box height to the document bottom
I made a command that prints a gray rectangle in my document. I can use this command typing:
\notes{100}, where 100 is the vertical size of the box.
\newcommand{\notes}[1]{
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How to increase the size of a curly bracket size without \left and \right
I would like to ask how to increase the dimension of the curly bracket in the second item of the following list:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Draw $\tilde{\theta}$ from $j$
\item Calculate $\nu = \min \{ ...
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How to make a symbol adjust its size globally and locally
In the following code I have created a bullseye symbol. What I want to do is to allow its size to change dynamically both globally (document class option say 10pt, 11pt or 12pt) or locally by using ...
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Big Parenthesis in an Equation
I have an equation contained inside \[...\], which automatically makes a \sum with sub- and superscripts turn big--so that the summation sign looks awkward inside parenthesis. Any idea how to make ...
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How to declare variable sizes in tikz to let LaTeX decide how to fill the page
LaTeX sometimes does some tricks to fill lines to the end, to fill pages up to the bottom and to prevent pages only containing a single line of text. When I create some tikzpictures there are ...
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Multiple different meta for marker color and marker size
How do I set the color of a marker with one meta column in a table AND its size with another meta column?
So in this minimal working example, how can I set the marker size with 'w1' and the color ...
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Set picture size to size of a given box
I would like to use the picture mode in latex, but need to set the size of the drawing region to the size of some other box. I would normally do
\begin{picture}(max_hor, max_ver)(ll_hor, ll_ver)
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How to increase the size of first character in a chapter (Drop-Caps)
I would like to know how I can increase the size of the first alphabet of first paragraph of a chapter using (Xe/La/?)tex. Please look at the image shown below.
What is such an effect called? How ...
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Creating stackoverflow like tags
I'm trying to create stackoverflow like tags. Currently I'm using an \fbox{text} to create the tags, which works, but not all boxes have the same height (it seems that letters like 'p' make a box take ...
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Fitting tables into beamer
I have some tables in my presentations that are rather big. I found out how to use \resizebox to fit them into my page. Unfortunately this only works for tables that are wide. For long tables, my ...
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In exponents, parenthesis too small, \big too big
When something big (a fraction, a sum, an integral...) appears within a pair of parenthesis, one can typically use \left(...\right) to get delimiters large enough to surround the contents. The ...
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How to set equal size of cells in tabular environment when \multicolumn extend the size of above cell?
The code example is shown as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
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label in subcaption and customize cell size of an array
Using the following code
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\DeclareCaptionSubType*[arabic]{table}
\captionsetup[subtable]{labelformat=simple,labelsep=space}
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Smaller membership symbol
To mean that x is an element of X, we can write x \in X. However, in the standard packages, the membership symbol that results is too big; it draws too much attention to itself. This is especially ...
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How to type a tall / symbol?
Say I want
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[cl(V, q) =\left (\sum_{r=0}^{\infty} \bigotimes^r V\right)/\{v\otimes v = -q(v,v)\}\]
\end{document}
How to make the "/" symbol longer to ...
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Automatic scaling of kiviat diagrams
\documentclass[twoside,a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage[upright]{fourier}
\usepackage{tkz-kiviat,numprint,fullpage}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
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Change part of table column size
I would like to know if there is a way, that I can resize part of a column, while keeping the rest the same size. Such that I would get this:
Column
___|
___|
___|
_______|
_______|
_______|
I ...
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How to increase the size around text in \psframebox
when using \psframebox the size between text and corners of the box is really small.
Is there a way to increase that?
My minimal example:
\documentclass[dvips]{article}
\usepackage{pst-all}
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Using \Mathsmaller in math display mode makes the character appear to the right of the symbol itstead of below it
I am trying to use \prod in math display mode but it appears large (larger than I want it to be) but when I use \mathsmaller from the relsize package the letter appears on right side of it instead of ...
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How to vertically align title when reducing the header size in Beamer Palo Alto theme?
I tried for some time to adjust the height of the header in Beamer Palo Alto theme. I now managed to do so, but now I have the problem that the title in the header is not properly aligned anymore. ...
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Custom TikZ node with svg path not clipped
I would like to make a custom node shape with a small picture (on north east) using the svg directive of TikZ, because the picture comes from a svg path.
As you can see with this simple code, the ...
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How to make math symbols bigger?
Is there a way to make math symbols bigger?
Reason: I've used \sfrac{q}{m}, and those symbols appear far to small, so I would like to make them a bit bigger.
edit: I just thought that \sfrac{q}{m} ...
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How to create small PDF files for the Internet
I feel that PDF documents when intended to be uploaded to the Internet should be of a minimal final size in bytes. Many strategies exist to create a small document:
Pay attention to the size of the ...
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Enlarge the integral sign proportional to its content
In LaTeX you have a command like \left(\right) to enlarge the brackets proportional to the content between the brackets.
for instance \left(a\right) will produce smaller brackets than ...
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How do I make one minipage the same size as another?
I'm writing a LaTeX document into which I want to put two boxes, in a row next to each other, which will contain varying length content.
I want each box to be the same height, and that height needs ...
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How to control the vertical height of boxes
I would like to create boxes where I can control the height of the boxes. Right now I have used the command.
\colorbox{calcclr}\makebox[\textwidth-2\fboxsep][l]{#1}}}
This gives me a box that ...
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Any way to center text within a \parbox?
Probably I'm missing something, but I'm really struggling to find an answer to this simple question:
How to center text within a \parbox?
Side note: I don't want to switch to any other environment ...
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Package pdftex.def error PDF mode expected
Took me 6 hours today and still doesn't work,
the error is :
Package pdftex.def error PDF mode expected mf-texlive/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def
Example document:
\documentclass{article}
...
