{typography} is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.
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Solution for typesetting interviews in LaTeX?
Are there any packages for typesetting interviews in LaTeX?
Of course, I could manually format all the text but I am sure that there are typographical rules for interview sections that I would ...
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Special cases when using old-style figures
When using old-style figures, what are the special cases of using lining figures (if any), apart from maths?
For instance, are reference marks one such instance?
Some 1998 text which references~[1]
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Typesetting non-scientific material for the first time
I have used TeX and friends for many years to produce academic documents: assignments, reports, journal articles, etc. As a hobby project, I am going to try something different by typesetting a book ...
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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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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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Letterspacing titles with LuaLaTeX
I'm using LuaLaTeX to write my thesis and I've been learning about typography thanks to Robert Bringhurst's "The elements of typographic style". Problem is I can't replicate the letterspacing used in ...
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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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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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(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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Conventions for typesetting complex vectors and vectors with complex components
I was wondering if there were conventions for typesetting vectors and complex numbers.
I grew up in France and I'm used to putting an arrow on my vectors ($\vec{v}$) and a bar on my complex numbers ...
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Which combination of font-size, font-family, font-color, background-color, line-width, spacing make the most comfortable to read?
I am searching for a good combination of font-size, font-family, font-color, background-color, line-width, line-spacing, paragraph-spacing, indentation, tabulation, heading, etc.
Which combination ...
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Why setting 'predisplaypenalty' to 0 is wrong idea?
In Vertical space between section header and text is too big user egreg said that setting \predisplaypenalty=0 is wrong idea.
Why is that? Could you provide an example?
If not '0', what value could ...
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Font and typesetting of EGA by Numdam
I very much like the typesetting in Numdam's writeup of Éléments de géométrie algébrique. I find the font particularily pleasing, and the headers are nice as well. I've heard this is how it looked in ...
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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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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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subsection vs Theorem
This a typographical/style question. Inside a subsection (after just one paragraph) I have some theorems (amsmath environment). The word Theorem looks stronger (bold, starting with a capital letter) ...
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Glossaries: Make a glossary entry recognizable in printing
How do you make it visible to the reader that the printed word/term is an entry in the glossary? In my PDF on the computer, I just see it because I use the hyperref package and there's a red box ...
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Enable automatic hyphenation for Cthulhu-style's document
This question is based on the following thread:
How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?
,where doncherry has provided a nice answer with the highest rate.
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ClassicThesis text area dimensions for letter size paper
I am considering using ClassicThesis (among other options) for typing my course notes. The problem is that ClassicThesis is customized for A4 (and A5) paper sizes, while I need letter size paper (8.5 ...
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babel, frenchb and em dash
If I'm not wrong, in French the em-dashes, typeset with --- in LaTeX, are usually treated like the guillemots as far as non-breaking spaces go. An "opening" em-dash must be followed by a non-breaking ...
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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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Caption and punctuation
This is more a Writing Style question than a LaTeX-specific question so Mr. Moderator feel free to move it elsewhere or even delete it!
The question:
What is the proper way to write a caption to a ...
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Which font should be used for diagrams/graphs/flow charts?
I'm using the standard serif fonts in KOMA script for typesetting my thesis, 11pt for normal text.
What font and font size would be recommended for use in graphs, diagrams and flow charts?
The same ...
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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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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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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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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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How and when to remove the space on the left hand of the beginning of a paragraph?
I have something like that:
\section{subsection}
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\begin{figure}
...
\end{figure}
texttexttext
...
It turns out that it does not put the "texttexttext" on the very left hand side... it leaves ...
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Style: “In the table below..”
You commonly see references to "the figure below" and "the table below" in literature.
In the table above [2], one can see..
However, LaTeX provides \ref, which acts as a hyperlink.
Is it better ...
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When using the acronym package and the smaller option, how to avoid the tiny 's' in the plural acronym?
I'm using the acronym package, and using the smaller option because that is a typographic convention.
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[smaller]{acronym}
\acrodef{DLL}{Dynamically Linked ...
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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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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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table notes in English typography
I'm using the code given below:
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]\footnote{real footnote}
\begin{table}[!ht]\centering
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minionpro: v and \nu in math mode
I have noticed that with Minion Pro font v and \nu are indistinguishable.
Does anyone know a decent workaround to this?
Somewhere in the web it was suggested to use \upsilon as a substitute for v.
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Chemistry package for typesetting nuclide
Is there a LaTeX, chemistry package with a specific command for typesetting nuclide?
If not, what is the preferred method for typing this?
Here is what I have myself:
\documentclass{article}
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How to typeset definitions with several paragraphs in the KOMA classes
The KOMA classes do not use vertical inter-paragraph spacing with some good arguments (see page 50 of the scrguide).
I defined an environment for definitions with the amsthm package using their ...
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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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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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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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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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Reduce Space Between Characters in New Command
I'm not satisfied with the new command I've made. My code:
\newcommand{\ps}[2]{\mbox{P}_{#1}\left(#2\right)}
$\ps{Y}{y}$ %example
My problem is that there's too much space between the subscripted Y ...
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Slightly Alter a symbol position
I am using a symbol and it looks too low vertically. I would like to slightly shift it up. Can I do this easily? I would like to do this "permanently" since it is probably more efficient than shifting ...
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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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What kind of dash is used before a quote attribution?
In this quote example:
“Planning your video is the first step.”
-Christine Cloud, Producer
Should the name be preceded by an em dash, or a swung dash?
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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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kpfonts and Computer modern
there are typographical contraindications to use kpfonts for the text and standard Computer modern for the Math mode?
\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
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What software was used to produce “The Elements of Typographic Style”?
Does anyone know if TeX was used to produce The Elements of Typographic Style, or if not, what have they used?
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Changing the color of the typeblock by changing the color of the text
Admittedly a looooooong shot...
We're all taught that one of the prime objectives of typesetting is providing a uniform typeblock color (ie. the proportion of ink / no-ink on a page) as that is ...
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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 ...
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Formatting of coordinates?
In case I want to describe the pixels of a picture with cartesian coordinates, how would I properly typeset the coordinates?
Is p_\mathrm{x}, p_\mathrm{y} correct or rather c_x, c_y?
x and y represent ...
