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underline omitting the descenders
I'm very well aware that it is considered best practice not to use underlining other than on typewriters and in handwriting. But sometimes it is needed nonetheless.
In my opinion the typographically ...
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Long underscore in LaTeX
In LaTeX, how would I make a long underscore?
For example,
Name _______ Signature _______
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Strikethrough text
I am writing an article in LaTeX 2e. Part of the article describes the Sieve of Eratosthenes, and I want to show examples of how multiples of a prime are removed from the sieve by showing them in a ...
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How to change color of edge of characters? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Outlined characters
There are many ways how to change whole character color. I want edge color to be different from body color of character. How to do it?
It is ...
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Fancy start-of-chapter marks
I'd like to include some fancy start-of-chapter marks in my poster. I especially like these marks (see pictures below) in a Power Point template. I wonder if there is a convenient way to produce ...
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What's a good typewriter template?
I'm searching for a template which makes a document look like it's written with a real typewriter. Ideally, this means it's not only in mono-spaced font, but the hyphenation is adjusted accordingly. ...
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How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?
I know there exists the \phantom command, but does it work on large blocks of text (containing several paragraphs or even several pages)?
What I want is to have some commands, call them \hide and ...
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Crossing out sentences
I had to cross out a sentence and I did it the following way, which is kinda sloppy.
$ ...
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Why does underlined text not get wrapped once it hits the end of a line ?
Sometimes I want to underline some text, and it extends past the end of a line. Why does \underline{} not automatically wrap my text for me ?
Also, how can I underline text so that it will still ...
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How can I have colored and underlined links with hyperref?
I would like the internal hyperlinks generated by hyperref to be colored and underlined.
Reading some of the package documentation, I know that these \hypersetup keys exist:
colorlinks: when ...
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Recreating a logo (text around a circle)
My objective is to figure out how to put text around the circumference of a circle as shown below.
I have read Calligraphic logo in tikz which answer part of my question but not completely as ...
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How can I underline a single word with LaTeX?
Given a simple paragraph, how do I underline a word in that paragraph?
(Note: I post this here because it wasn't really obvious using google or this site and my TexNicCenter is somehow missing this ...
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Having all links underlined with dotted line
so I'm trying to figure out how to have all links underlined with a dotted line. The furthest I got with this and this is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,soul,lipsum}
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Put a slash through a word
I would like to write a word with a slash through it, using LaTeX (in text, not in math mode). That is, I want a line from the lower-left corner of the word through the upper-right. Is there a nice ...
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How to fine tune rotation of text along circular path?
After searching the web and finally coming from here (recreating a logo), I couldn't find an answer to what I am looking for. I want to rotate a text inside a circle and have a full control/fine ...
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Underline at the same level
I want to underline alpha's and beta's, but at the same level. I mean, I don't want
but . Maybe there is already a command that make it but I couldn't find it. The second image was obtained with the ...
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'Wordart' in (La)TeX
Would it be feasible to try to reproduce something like the image below in TeX? I just wanted to ask the advice of some experts before I invested too much time trying.
I've already messed around with ...
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Triple underlining
I am quoting passages from ms. letters and need to underline a few words with three lines. Does a command exist for doing so? I've consulted Melchior Franz's soul package documentation from 2003 and ...
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Closer underline
I am currently using \underline{...} to underline text.
However, I want the underline to be closer to the letters (as of now, there's too much whitespace between the letters and the line). Is there ...
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Underlined links with hyperref possible?
How can I have underlined links with hyperref?
That means how to configure hyperref not to change the color of the printout but use underlined active links which are completely transparent in print.
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Visualize index entries in the text?
When I ad an index entry using \index with all the options available for the "format" and "see", and cross-reference, I'd like to see at the place where I make the index entry how this specific entry ...
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Is there is a package so you can add text with visual effects like “WordArt” from “Word”
I am elaborating a business card style for LaTeX but I found out that even if I have the style and margin for the cards I can not make it look "pretty" like other text editors without overusing ...
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Strikeout - when which package ? ( ulem vs soul vs …)
When to use which package for strikeout?
I see answers :
\usepackage{ulem}
\sout{Hello World}
or
\usepackage{soul}
\st{Hello world}
or
\usepackage{cancel}
\cancel{Hello world}
In what ...
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Red squiggly imitation
Is there an elegant way to draw red squigglies under text, to emulate what a [source] code editor does when it detects errors (either spelling mistakes, syntactical errors or semantic errors)?
Here ...
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Underline and center headings
For a paper I have to make my LaTeX document guideline conforming. Many of you will already guess now that this means dirty work by violating virtually all possible typography standards.
My biggest ...
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How to create text with shadows?
This question led to a new package:
shadowtext
I used the following code:
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-3d,pst-text}
\usepackage{soul}
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Connecting nodes in every page
I would like to create a document where section titles are tikz nodes, and i would like to connect the nodes in every page with a path starting from the top righth corner of the page in every page. Is ...
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Is it possible to have hyphenations in \underlined{text}?
In a document I was writing, I had some really long captions and I wanted to emphasize the important parts in them. I tried to use \underline{} but no hyphenation was used at both the caption and at ...
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How do I write \underline text but with a dotted line
Like
Hello World
...........
or
Hello World
-----------
And not so
Hello World // \underline{Hello World}
___________ //
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Url with fragments in bold
I need to write document containing a lot of URLs but some fragments of these URLs have to be in bold. How can I accomplished this? For urls I use \nolinkurl but I can't use \bf in it.
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Title running off the page!
I haven't had this problem before so I'm not quite sure what's happening, but my title is running off to the right side of the page. This is my code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{assymb}
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\uline within a pgfmath expression produces an error
Why does using \uline within a pgfmath expression result in an error?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\pgfmathparse{width("\uline{blabla}")}
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Apply formatting to outermost parentheses
I have some text information where I need to apply a text format to all the outer most parentheses such as making them larger and/or bold.
In a sense I want to process text like
...
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How to illustrate a drawing with text and two decorations
How can I create a drawing like this:
The stuff in red are only explications (with "middle" I meant middle of the drawing representing the spiral) and should not be drawn. Tikz would be best, since ...
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Editing bst file to underline title
I could not find an option in makebst that would make the titles of articles be underlined, however, using emphasize in an otherwise correct bst I was able to underline it. Unfortunately this makes ...
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Paragraph header
I want to include an indented, underlined, upper- and lowercase paragraph heading ending with a period in my document instead of using \subsubsection. Anyone who knows how I can define the command for ...
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How move each line in text
In steganography is an interesting way of conveying information.
Each line is either raised by a few points or not raised at all.
How will cause it to subsequent lines of text have been raised about ...
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Good Style of Creating a Signature all within LaTeX
I have a small task that involves trying to get a signature using LaTeX fonts. I want to be able to make the signature look as handwritten as possible (pen/marker) using the LaTeX fonts.
Also like to ...
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How to make number triangles
I wish to do in LaTeX what I did in mathjax here in a very lousy way:
$$A$$
$$B \qquad B$$
$$R \qquad R \qquad R $$
$$A\qquad A \qquad A \qquad A $$
$$C\qquad C\qquad C\qquad C\qquad C$$
$$A\qquad A ...
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A thicker wave underline
I have found \uwave in the ulem package, and its definition in ulem.sty:
% Now define various special underlines. All the definitions go like
% \def \command {\bgroup \markoverwith{something} \ULon}
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Underlining an equation in an align block
I'm trying to set up a system of equations and want to underline the last equation, but can't figure it out. Here's what I have:
\begin{alignat*}{4}
&F_n &- mg &- F_a\sin 32^\circ &= ...
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Tikz: Text along top and bottom of arrow path
How can I add text to both the top and bottom of a path? My commutative diagram below is 90% complete. I would, however, like text={${gKer({\varphi}){\mapsto}{\varphi(G)}}$} following the path below ...
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Writing clean long underscores [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Long underscore in LaTeX
I'm writing a document in which I encourage the reader to "fill in the blanks" in order to be actively engaged with the proof.
Is there any way ...
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Formatting Equation Numbers
I need the numbers of equations and brackets around to be in bold.
Doing like this
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\pretocmd{\theequation}{\bf}{}{}
only the number is produced in bold, how to bold brackets?
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how to align equations with some text
I want to align the equations with text. Though the equations are aligned as I want it to be but still the text is not aligned.
\begin{align}
\mathscr{F}^\prime(x_0)^{-1}&\in L(Y,X) \quad ...
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Custom switches (such as for underlining)
Some packages (ntheorem for example) take only text switches as arguments that can be used in the form {\switch text}, for example \bfseries. If I now want to have a suitable command for underlining, ...
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Adding vertical lines to each side of a paragraph
How can I add vertical lines to each side of a paragraph?
To illustrate, what I need is:
some paragraphs...
|My paragraph begins|
|here and goes like |
|this... ~~~~~~~~~~~|
|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
...
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Border on top of paragraph
I am trying to put a line over a paragraph in LaTeX.
I tried this code:
\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}}
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How to put a blank space having dimensions equal to some text [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?
A friend of mine is preparing some teaching materials. In the version for the lecturer there ...
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Can I draw a small arrow from a word to a space-gap on the same line?
I want to illustrate that the const in the following line can also be moved one word to the right. Maybe I can underline the const and draw a slim arced arrow pointing to the next gap?
const int * ...
