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formatting and display of complex text that is not supposed to be mathematical

I have been messing around with these two sections for awhile now and I cannot seem to get them to compile correctly. Both are complex in terms of the symbols used and the fact that I believe Latex ...
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Mirror effect in documents

The following example (links to pdf) in the TeX Showcase has no provided source. The book Fearless Symmetry by Ash and Gross seems to use a similar style. Where can I find hints for typesetting ...
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Floating point formatting in TeX

After long I was exposed to TeX and to a problem that seems to be so simple in traditional languages but surprisingly hard to solve in TeX. We have system out of our scope of control that provides us ...
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“Pretty-printing” numbers with significant figures

I like to use LaTeX to display data in figures and tables. I've used arrayjobx.sty and fp.sty to extremely good effect to handle data that comes out of, e.g., Excel or other Windoze-world data ...