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Best practice for typesetting quantifiers?
When I work with quantifiers I noted that are very close to the other symbols and the result does not look good, for example
$\exists a\in\mathbb{R}\exists b\in\mathbb{R}\forall c\in\mathbb{R}\forall ...
6
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1answer
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How to remove the white space on the top of the following table?
How to remove the white space on the top of the following table?
\documentclass[preview,border=0pt,varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{longtable}
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16
votes
1answer
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What is the ConTeXt equivalent of LaTeX “\@.”
In English text, TeX follows the convention of putting extra space after a period by default, which I like. However, in the case of abbreviations it causes a problem. To suppress the extra space, ...
11
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6answers
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How should imaginary numbers be typeset?
I've never had to typeset complex numbers before and I'm finding that I'm uncertain about what best-practices are. My question is really about typesetting just i. (Hence my title referring to ...
6
votes
1answer
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Newline, indentation, parskip - when to use what in what stylistic manner?
I intend to use scrbook. In real-life literature, English and German language, the text often looks like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod ...
7
votes
1answer
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Can I assume that the \ht+\dp of a strutbox == \baselineskip?
In Context, as long as the interline space is set through the
proper interface, it is safe to assume that (tex.box.strutbox.height
+ tex.box.strutbox.depth) == tex.baselineskip.width. This relation
is ...
9
votes
1answer
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What is the best practice for typesetting set-builder notation with a large number of membership criteria?
That is, I have something akin to the following right now:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
We must have $(a^i,b^i,c^i) \in X^i(d) = \bigg\{(a,b,c)
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1
vote
1answer
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Best practices with \titlespacing?
I think my titles are too close to the text as they are set by default, but when I try to modify the distance, my document does not look nice. What are the best practices for \titlespacing options?
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14
votes
3answers
564 views
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 ...
6
votes
2answers
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What documentation visually explains the various available commands to control the vertical distance between two lines of text?
I have a title page containing several lines of text, e.g.:
Series
Title
Author
Institution
I would like to fine-tune the distances between the lines, however, I do not understand which tools ...
10
votes
2answers
894 views
Best practices for spacing regarding fractions and roots?
My problem is that I am about to write a longer mathematical text, and it will be filled with integrals. Integrals tend to be filled with pesky fractions, square roots and what not.
Personally I feel ...
7
votes
1answer
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Enumerate/itemize without margins in table cell best practice
I want to use an itemize or enumerate list inside a table cell. For this there should be no margin around the list. My question is, what is best practice to do this? I found different solutions for ...
18
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3answers
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Canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations
In a comment to When one should use spacing line \quad or \, Herbert claims that e.\,g. is the canonical way to typeset spacing in abbreviations (this is not about spacing before or after ...
23
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2answers
696 views
What is the proper use of \@ (i.e., backslash-at)?
In this answer, \@ is used after a period and before an \xspace, presumably to indicate that the preceding period (in "etc.") was not sentence-final.
In these tips, \@ is used before a period and ...
18
votes
3answers
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When should we use a blank line?
I only know that we have to make at least one blank line between two adjacent paragraphs.
My question is:
What is the proper way to make use of a blank line ?
For example:
Is it recommended to ...
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5answers
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Good practice on spacing
In various places, in passing, I've seen mention of various good practices regarding well-behaved spacing in LaTeX. For example, Dr. Who should really be written Dr.\ Who or Dr.~Who to get the right ...
