{typography} is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
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Golden ratio typography in TeX
Chris Pearson makes a number of claims in his article Secret Symphony: The Ultimate Guide to Readable Web Typography, which I find fascinating, and I would like to know: are the formulas he proposes ...
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Is there a way to avoid short lines?
Is there a universal setting to tell TeX that the last line of a paragraph can not have just one word? For instance, instead of this:
This is a sample paragraph and there is one word
here.
you ...
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Table layout: cells with short and long text
I've been fiddling with a table layout where some cells contain very little text while others may need multiple lines, and I can't seem to get it readable and nice-looking.
MWE:
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Conjugation - How to typeset it?
Can you help me?
I do not know what to type in order to show the conjugation.
I mean that the matrix B has complex entries and C is the transpose matrix of B, then B* is C with a line above.
How ...
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More than one width of a glyph in LaTeX or LuaLatex
I don't know where I can ask about it.
I have font with 2 or 3 versions of letter 'a'.
How I can put this information to LuaLaTeX, LaTeX etc.?
When the paragraph are breaking/making LaTeX made ...
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Writing a Play in LaTeX [duplicate]
How would you properly format a play? All I can think of is having a two-column document, bit I have no idea how to format lines or scenes correctly. I can try to find a picture of what I am looking ...
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Prevent words such as 'the' from appearing at the end of the line
I write my document in Latex for Mac and I don't know how to prevent Latex from putting 'the' and similar short words at the end of the line. I already tried impnattypo and encxvlna packages, but none ...
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Command to write MIMO configurations
I want to write something like MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) configuration 2 x 2, 2 x 4, etc. and be consistent all over the document. For now I have defined a command to do that as I put ...
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Prevent new sections to start on the lower part of page [duplicate]
Is it possible to redefine the section-command so that it automatically starts on a new page if say less than a quarter of the current page remains?
Below is a minimal working example. In this case ...
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Quoting shell commands
My question is, how would you typographically approach quoting of shell commands? My current solution does not satisfy me completely.
Current look:
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Copyright disclaimer as a footnote at bottom of first page
I am writing a scientific paper and I am having difficulty adding a "copyright" footer on the first page. I am currently having a paper which looks like this (from howtotex.com):
(Link to ...
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Typesetting of volume integral
This question has been bugging me for a long time: How do I properly typeset volume integrals? I would like to use the convention often used in Physics: d^3x=dV and \int dx f(x) instead of \int f(x) ...
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Robert Sedgewick - Algorithms Fourth Edition Style in LaTeX
Recently, I've read "Algorithms" (in Java) - Fourth Edition by Robert Sedgewick. Aside the useful and interesting contents of the book, I was also captivated by book's style. Later on, I read some ...
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Correct way to typeset a bold and dotted math symbol?
OK, I've seen related questions which indicate that you only bold the main symbol and not subscripts, and a few other almost related questions. But what about when you are using a bold math symbol ...
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Proper way to typset minimum value of variable in formula?
To typeset a value with a subscript I use this:
$U_{\text{res}}$
Which results in:
Now I'd like to write "the minimum value of Ures", how would I correctly typeset that?
The first thing I tried ...
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Strange ampersand shape in italics
I'm trying to use the & symbol in the bib file. The following is my code:
booktitle = {Design, Automation {\&} Test in Europe Conference {\&} Exhibition},
The output is :
Is this ...
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Acronym at sentence start: capital or not?
The recommended way of typesetting acronyms is using small caps, e.g.:
This technique is called Remote Procedure Calling or {\scshape rpc}.
However, if the acronym occurs at the beginning of the ...
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Professional slashbox alternative
Suppose I have the following table which lists conversion rules, where rows denote the input and columns denote the output type (so, for example, the conversion int8_t -> int16_t would use b, while ...
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How to make the math font slightly thicker?
I'd like to use TeX Gyre Schola as my text font and the default LaTeX font for the math mode. (Side question: is the default font Latin Modern in math mode or another font?)
MWE:
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Are the TeX Gyre fonts designed to match each other?
I'm currently testing out some fonts and found out that some fonts are designed to match each other (good serif+sans-serif+typewriter combinations).
Are the TeX Gyre fonts, which provide at leats one ...
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Typesetting <Esc> key [duplicate]
I am trying to typeset the ESC key. I tried
\frame{Esc} and $\boxed{\mathrm{Esc}}$ and I get
They don't look beautiful. How else can I typeset the Esc key?
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Good typesetting practice for long equations
I have the following (quite horrible) equation in my thesis:
\begin{align*}
\frac{\partial^2}{\partial t_1^2} f(t_0,t_1) =
( \delta+2t_0+2t_1)^{\alpha( w-t_0+t_1 )-1} \cdot \bigl(
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biblatex translation with wrong ligature
I'm playing around with biblatex at the moment. It works nice, but there is a problem with a translation of "Ed." (edition) to "Aufl." (Auflage). The translation is correct but it has a wrong ligature ...
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(Why) did the Gyre project fork the URW fonts rather than just extending them?
As I understand it:
During the 1980s, the URW++ foundry created clones of the PostScript Core Font Set and gave those clones the following names:
╔════════════════════════╤══════════════════════╗
║ ...
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Avoiding widows by increasing the page size
Two related questions:
I think atm I feel that the best and easiest way to avoid widows and orphans is to let the affected pages differ a little in size. Almost no one would recognise it and -- even ...
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Double-bar notation for second-order tensors
I want to use the double-bar notation for second-order tensors, which is common in continuum mechanics (e.g. for the strain and stress tensors).
I've searched the Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List but ...
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smarter hyphenation for narrow columns?
I know how to turn off hyphenation via \nohyphens{.....} (from hyphenat). But what I'd really like would be to hyphenate smartly. What I mean by this should hopefully be made clear by the following ...
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{(x+y)}^2 or (x+y)^2?
This expression is just an example, of course.
My question is: should one always specify the quantity being exponentiated by surrounding it with braces, or is it acceptable to drop those braces?
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Bembo, Bembo Book or Garamond Premier Pro? And how to exploit all their features with LuaLaTex?
I am allowed to use one of these fonts (or the three of them if I want) to edit a document.
Here is the list of the Bembo fonts I have :
Bembo-Bold.otf Bembo-ExtraBoldOsF.otf
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Hyphenating words with archaic spellings
I often work with texts from the 17- to 1800s that (in addition to now obsolete words) contain familiar words in slightly different spelling. The language of these texts, and of the ones I'm writing, ...
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What typographic rules are there for indenting paragraphs?
I wonder what typographic rules there are for indenting. Does it require a certain amount of lines to be justified or should it be applied per default.
In my opinion, the text colour is not very ...
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Producing centered asterisk to indicate new section
In a text (or a passage of a text) that is not subdivided by headings -- say, an essay --, a common tool to indicate the start of a new section is a simple asterisk (or other symbol), usually ...
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Where to place images and tables for a good layout?
I use KOMA Script which always places images in the top of the page. I don't think that this always looks nicely, but if I change the place of my images it doesn't seem much better. Unfortunately I ...
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Is there any Word/Writer - LaTeX demonstration document available?
I often hear how better the LaTeX is but the comparisons I have found, did not persuade me. Is there something like "showcase document" containing different kind of formatting, formulas etc. available ...
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Looking for guides on setting text with regards to good typography
I'm about to dive into LaTeX in preparation for writing a (technical) Master's Thesis. Since I'm kind of disappointed with the disregard to typography that is sometimes shown in such works I want to ...
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What is the right way to typeset “define”? [duplicate]
One often uses x:=t which reads "x is defined to be t". What is the right way to typeset this in LaTeX?
Is it simply \(x := t\)?
I tried to google it around but couldn't find anything (probably ...
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How to typeset statistical distributions
What is the consensus way to typeset statistical distributions? For the normal distribution I have seen all of:
$X\sim N(\mu,\,\sigma^{2})$
$X\sim\mathrm{N}(\mu,\,\sigma^{2})$
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How to (automatically) determine a visually appealing line spread?
I'm writing a "larger" document with a lot of mathematics. Occasionally, I use a notation like
p \xrightarrow{\mathcal A^X} q
which produces tall lines. LaTeX increases the line spread for those ...
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Which font is the good combination for Microsoft Sans? [closed]
In my website in description i am using Microsoft Sans font, but i want suitable font for the header. please suggest me the right font?
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Consistent cover design regardless of inner pages
This is a series of books, the margins, page sizes are all identical. Depends on the content, the design of inner pages are slightly different, i.e. different type sizes, leading, etc.
The question ...
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Size of calligraphic number
I asked in this question Calligraphic numbers how to write a calligraphic number and got an answer.
Now I need a notation for k-subsets and use the answer as follows:
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Highlighting chunks of text spiral
I use the code provided in this question to draw a text spiral and now I want to highlight each chunk separated with a comma in a different color. Is there a way to achieve that?
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Fine-tuning dimensions/whitespace parameters
I often find I need to adjust whitespace lengths in my own code. Just as an illustration, I'm in the middle of trying to insert an appropriate amount of space before the 'v's in this, to make them ...
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Style used for Knuth's “The Art of Computer Programming” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Typesetting algorithms in LaTeX like Knuth
Does anyone know if there is a style that mimics Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming? Baring that, would anyone know how ...
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Text spirals with mathematics in
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/88762/17049 provides a beautiful solution for getting spirals like this:
I've been trying to use this with some mixed text/math content (for a book cover), but I find ...
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How to separate Roman numerals for a range of numbers?
Arabic numerals are separated using en-dash:
pages 101--123, 2--3 and so on
What is typographically correct way to separate Roman numerals?
For example:
with en-dash
in the XIX--XX centuries
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Creating new characters from existing ones
In a nutshell. Is there a relatively easy way of building characters out of parts of existing ones?
Rationale. (La)TeX linguists’ need for a wide palette of characters—for example, ⟨ɳ⟩ (U+0273), ⟨ɲ⟩ ...
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How should a salary negotiation letter look like? [closed]
Does anyone know if there exists a template for salary negotiation?
Or perhaps how one should look like?
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Where should I use \textsc? [closed]
When should I use macro \textsc ? What is common practice in document like diploma thesis? Should I use it for names of persons, names of described entities of particular interest or in some other ...
