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Combining Textstyle and Displaystyle
In my mathematics writing, I often use both superscripts and subscripts on the probability operator. The subscripts are generally lengthy, and I would like for them to appear underneath the operator, ...
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math shorthand macro: avoid extra space from empty superscript
I find myself writing $\{0,1\}^x$ a whole lot, so I want to define a shorthand macro:
\def\zo#1{\{0,1\}^{#1}}
However, sometimes I need $\{0,1\}$ with no superscript. If I write \zo{} I get a tiny ...
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2answers
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Leftidx problem: upper indices have different height
When using the leftidx package to create the same upper index on both sides of \Bbbk[G], the indices have different height and look ugly. Minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{leftidx}
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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 ...
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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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Superscripts and bold math
I'm writing the transpose of a matrix that is denoted by a bold capital letter. This looks fine when the matrix is denoted by B, but when the matrix is denoted by A, the transpose superscript is too ...
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1answer
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relative hspace in newcommand
I'm trying to create a symbol of a gray triangle with a black border. I managed to do so using:
\newcommand{\factor}{{\color{gray} \blacktriangledown}\hspace{-1.6ex}\triangledown}
However, the two ...
5
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1answer
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Spacing after footnote superscript
I'm writing my thesis for my Computer Science degree. I have a lot of footnotes and my advisor has told me to remove the spacing generated by the superscript of the footnote.
This footnotes are ...
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Why doesn't math \fontdimen's work with XeTeX?
Why doesn't the \fontdimen-command change anything with XeTeX?
\input pgffor
\def\chfndims#1{\foreach\dim in{13,...,19}{\fontdimen\dim#1=20pt}}
\font\mymathfn="XITS Math:script=math" at 10pt ...
