{typography} is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
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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 ...
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Declare acronyms and abbreviations to automatically correct spaces after periods?
If I understand correctly, (La)TeX assumes that a period after a lower-case letter ends a sentence while a period after an upper-case letter does not. Unfortunately, my documents usually contain ...
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Visually highlighting symbolic material
I have a diagram in which I need to indicate the difference between symbolic mathematics and English words (potentially to someone who doesn't know about it):
Colour works beautifully for making ...
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Using Koma-Script's scrartcl class as an American academic: suggested changes?
It was recommended to me when I first started using LaTeX (not too long ago) and asked a question about footnotes to use Koma-Script's scrartcl class because of its /deffootnote command.
Browsing ...
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Text spirals with TikZ
I just ran across this, and I'm curious about whether it can be replicated in TeX...
Ideally one would have the spiral getting tighter and tighter as one got to the centre, as in
I know TikZ has ...
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Indicating matching brackets/parentheses in TeX output
I often have cause to typeset things like this in TeX:
When reading expressions like the one above, it's very difficult to tell which brackets match each other. I'd like to be able to define ...
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What is the template for this paper? [closed]
I find those latex document really nice and would like to know if anyone knows how to obtain a similar look and feel ?
http://zll22.user.srcf.net/EtaleCohomology.pdf
...
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How to implement the Russian typographical traditions?
As is well known, TEX uses four styles in mathematics: display (D), text (T), script (S) and script-script (SS). This style defines the size of fractions and mathematical operators, the style for how ...
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The difference between $X^{\ast}$ and $X^*$? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
\star vs. \ast in formulas. Which one to use?
What is the difference between X^{\ast} and X^* ?
Both look the same in the pdf file - although when using Lyx the former ...
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Embossed and debossed text [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Letterpress effect through PSTricks or Tikz
Can one produce embossed and debossed text in LaTeX? (E.g. using Tikz.)
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Numbering the sentences in a text
I need to number the sentences in a text in a way that makes it clear that the numbers are not part of the text. The best I've been able to come up with looks pretty horrible:
I'd be grateful for ...
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Bad rendering of OrnementsADF
With the code (typeset with XeTeX)
\font\orn="Ornements ADF" at 12pt
\centerline{\orn\char70\quad\char57\quad\char102}
\centerline{\orn\char102\quad\char57\quad\char70}
...
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Torn paper: matching up the torn edges
I recently asked a question on creating a torn paper effect. JLdiaz provided an absolutely beautiful answer, which I have used (with a very minor modification) to indicate the way in which a document ...
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Why do people chose Latex for mathematical writing? [closed]
I'm trying to make the transition from Word to Latex for mathematical writing. But the more I learn about it, the less sure I am that I should make this transition.
Typographical Quality
For example ...
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Torn page effect
[See Torn paper: matching up the torn edges for more on this topic, as well as better illustrations of the final product.]
I have a document with a lot of short excerpts from another book scattered ...
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How to get upright parentheses in the whole document?
My question is, basically, the same as the one in Upright parentheses in italic text: how do I force all parentheses in my document to be upright, without replacing them with some commands "by hand"?
...
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Showcase of beautiful title page done in TeX
The book is mostly meets by the Title Page. Default TeX \maketitle are simple and minimalistic.
I'm looking for examples of Title Pages:
complex - have different formatting;
beautiful and awesome;
...
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Tag placement in split equation within alignment block
Whenever I have an equation that does not fit on a single line, I am using \begin{equation}\begin{split}...\end{split}\end{equation} as recommended in the AMS math guide. This gives me an equation ...
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Which font expansion parameters are ideal for different fonts?
Following up on this question Set font expansion so that distortion is not noticeable I think a list of fonts and their respective ideal stretch and shrink parameters is missing. This would be a great ...
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Is it correct to use a comma in this equation?
Consider:
Then, the sequence $k_i$ given by (3.38) is increasing and converges to
\begin{equation}\label{eq:weired_equation}
k^\xi = k_1\times k_2 \times c \times d,
\end{equation}
where $c$ and $d$ ...
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How do I typeset something like this (math - image below)?
I figured that that the exam class allows me to align the two parts of the lemma using the the \part command and also I could align the two lines of equation (3.11) using \begin{align*}, ...
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angled fraction like superscript
I would like to draw a fraction like symbol that looks similar to \frac{a}{b} BUT is angled so that the a is higher than the b and the slash is angled. Sort of like a % sign but not as drastic. Not ...
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create elegant display of digits and symbols
I want to create a display of the duodecimal digits of \pi for printing on a T shirt. I've made some progress with help from SE: Fonts larger than \Huge?, How to increase the size of first character ...
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How to adjust the kerning around a forward slash in text
In contrast to \texttt{typewriter} normal text is "connected". When using a forward slash, I get for y/. this:
while I would like to get something like that:
which can be accomplished by ...
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\star vs. \ast in formulas. Which one to use?
When you read a formula aloud you say "r and r-star are related by this formula".
If you write this formula down you normally write an r with a six-handed star, which would actually be an asterisk and ...
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How are amounts of money to be typeset?
Writing a letter to Americans, I have wondered how to properly typeset amounts of money. As far as I know, the $-sign is supposed to precede the number, but I am clueless of the rest.
Here are some ...
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Alignment of page numbers in table of contents
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\section{test}
\newpage
\setcounter{page}{22}
\section{introduction}
\newpage
...
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How to typeset a wide table (typography)
First MWE:
\documentclass[twoside,a4paper,12pt]{article}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{9.6mm}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{-0.4mm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{150mm}
\usepackage[
top = 3.00cm,
...
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Oldstyle numerals or lining numerals with units of measurement?
What is considered proper typography regarding which set of numerals to use with units of measurement?
A real-life example:
In the experiment, shown schematically in figure 2.2, we illuminate an ...
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Fleurons, decoratives, embellishments, etc [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Totally sweet horizontal rules in LaTeX
Can you please tell me where can I find (on the web) some examples of use of fleurons, decoratives, embellishments fonts and so ...
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document style for paper editing
Many of the LaTeX styles (e.g., article, memoir, and koma-script) seem designed to produce beautiful documents that are easy to read. Is there a document class (or options) or typographical rules that ...
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Vertical spacing before and after equation environment: empty line or not?
The vertical spacing in front of and behind the amsmath equation environment is different whether I insert a blank line or not (im using KOMA-Script with parskip=half if this is important). I'd like ...
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Are there typographical drawbacks to using .otf font files?
Recently I've been messing around with different fonts in LaTeX and tonight got set up with the fontspec package which allows you to use .otf fonts in your LaTeX documents (in my case compiling with ...
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Catchwords: Print first word from next page at bottom of current page
I would like to typeset catchwords. That is, I would like to put a “preview” of the next page’s first word at the bottom of every page.
An example taken from the Wikipedia page linked above:
The ...
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Typesetting a song inside a non-fiction book
In several places in a book, I need to quote songs. I've tried the verse environment, but it doesn't really look great:
\begin{verse}
Douce nuit! Sainte nuit!\\
Tout se tait, l'heure fuit.\\
Seuls ...
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Proper way to quote verses before a section
I'm typesetting a book which — sometimes — has quoted verses in the beginning of sections. My first idea was to use something like epigraph to quote them, but then there's some very long quotes (up to ...
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Calligraphic numbers
I want to write the power set of a set S as 2^S. But the 2 should be kind of calligraphic.
I tried cal and mathcal but they do not work with numbers.
Has anybody an idea?
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Which typewriter font fits to Linux Libertine and supports bold letters?
I'm thinking about using the Linux Libertine font (\usepackage{libertine}) in my next TeX documents. For listings with syntax highlighting I will need a typewriter font that supports boldface.
I ...
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Italics emphasis and punctuation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I include punctuation marks in \emph, or should I place those marks after the command?
When emphasizing the last part of a sentence by making it italic, is it ...
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Check Template Settings
Since I am new to LaTeX, is it possible to help me check if the required settings quoted bellow have been setted correctly in the template also quoted bellow?
The required settings:
The text ...
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Typesetting limitations of LaTeX
What are the typesetting limitations of LaTeX? In other words what are the things that desktop publishing and word processing programs do better than LaTeX? I am not really interested in things that ...
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How would you go about typesetting something like this on TeXworks? [closed]
This is one of examples the that appears in the TeXbook (pg. 411) and I tried my hands at typseting it but couldn't. I'm a newbie and was hoping someone here could help, please?
The code supposedly ...
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Width threshold for space detection
I'm writing this stuff pdf2htmlEX, for each distance between two consecutive letters, I need to check if there should be a space character or not. Especially for PDF files generated by LaTeX, which ...
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Is there a rule of thumb to set the space between columns?
I've never heard about a convention to adjust the space between columns in a writing, it seems it depends on aesthetic sense--even in scientific literature---doesn't it?
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What are some best practices for the typography of tables and figures?
I put captions above my tables and below my figures. I use the booktabs package (and no vertical lines) for my tables.
Do I show both tables and figures (graphs) for the same data? If so, in what ...
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What is the best way of arranging multiple minipages on a page?
I have been trying to use mini-pages to produce the equivalent of Office text-boxes. The idea is to have panels of different sizes on a page such as 4 equal sized or one wide followed by two long ...
