# All Questions

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### LyX cannot compile correctly my title page

I am trying to make the title page for my master thesis. I found on the internet a template, in which the cover page is given by the following code \begin{titlepage} \begin{center} \textsc{\LARGE ...
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### Document class problem?

My text in thesis is as below: %\documentclass[croppedpdf,pagebackref,showinstructions,showtodo]{adsphd} ...
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### File ended while scanning use of \@topnewpage

I get this error while trying to compile the following code. I've already tried to delete .aux files. What else could it be the issue? \documentclass[conference,harvard,brazil,english]{sbatex} ...
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### pgfgantt - adjust vgrid with \gantttitlecalendar

I am using \gantttitlecalendar to generate my title block that consists of months and weeks. The default behaviour of vgrid is to take each unit as a day, or if compress calendar is true, each unit ...
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### Wrap page number in colored box in footer

I a looking for a way to achieve the following outcome for the page numnbers in my footer created using fancyhdr: My current code in a stand-alone example looks like this: ...
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### Where can I get datetime2.sty or what is CTAN?

I am trying to build a huge latex project on my system - I downloaded everything, and did not touch anything. XeLaTeX tells me that datetime2.sty is missing, and I guess I just have to download it, ...
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### Listings not showing in \lstlistoflistings

My document looks like this when at the listings page (i dont get any errors, its just empty): My document is like this: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book} \usepackage{apacite} \usepackage{natbib} ...
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### Is it possible to remove an empty white page due to inserting a too large picture?

From searching here, I have understood than when inserting a picture too large for the available space, even on an empty page, the picture will be put on the next page. However, leaving a page empty ...
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### Caption away from the figure

I have made a block diagram using the \framebox command. A large white space exists between the caption and bottom of the figure. How can I reduce it? Code: \begin{figure*}[!t] ...
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### Arrange long multiple equations with texts between them

I have aligned the equations in the following way but using multiple \qquad. I don't think it is a good practice to do so. Moreover the equations should fit within the width of the document. What I ...
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### Symbol to the right of equation

I want the contradiction symbol to the right of the equation without moving the equations to the left. I've written \begin{align*} u(2-t, 1, 3-t) & > (2,1,3) \\ 1 ...
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### Table with tikz image: vertical alignment

I'm trying to create simple table with tikz pictures and its descriptions on the left side. Unfortunately I cannot vertically center those descriptions in their cells: ...
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### PDF page labels

Is it possible to set page labels in pdfs “correctly”? Pages in my latex documents are numbered 1-x. I'd like the page labels to correspond to the actual page numbers (as mentioned here: ...
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### Using key value in enumerate to an other key value

I continue this first post. I want to use a key value in a list in the definition of an other. Here I use a better definition of \Pointilles which allows a second parameter : the vertical space ...
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### Scaling \ddots in smallmatrix

I'm trying visualize a very large matrix. To do so, I'm trying to use \vdots and \ddots in a bsmallmatrix enviroment. It works but they do not scale properly as \cdots do. Now, in the minimal ...
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### ′ symbol is not showing inside a bibliography

How do one fix "′" symbol not showing inside a biblatex bibliography? for example title={Metal extraction by N,N′-dialkyl-N, N′-diaryl-dipicolinamides from nitric acid solutions}, is shown like ...
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### Render content normally, then wrap into box of given size, letting text stick out to the right

With komascript and geometry I made a page layout such that I can render a logo at the top right of every page simply with \ohead{\hfill\usebox{\rtlogo}} except that this pushes the logo only out ...
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### PDF bookmarks for thmtools' theorems

I would like to add PDF bookmarks for some classes of theorems declared using thmtools and I couldn't find a beautiful way to do it so far. The best idea I have been able to come up with was to add ...
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### Standard for typesetting mathematical objects other than variables

Is there a standard in mathematics for typesetting the textual (not symbolic) identifiers of mathematical objects other than variables? Textual identifiers of mathematical objects other than ...
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### fancyhdr and chapter*

I'm using fancydr like this: \usepackage{titlesec} % Normal chapter titles \titleformat{\chapter}{\normalfont\LARGE\bfseries}{\thechapter.}{1em}{} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} ...
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### Enumitem \SetEnumitemKey and conflict between multiple key before and after

I try to make life easier by setting key to list with the package enumitem. But, the options before and after seem to be in conflict when used more than once. Here is some code that show four ...
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### Grabbing data from website and use it in LaTeX document

This is a follow-up question to "Line breaking and alignment in list". \documentclass[ a4paper, 12pt ]{article} \usepackage[ hmargin=2.4cm, vmargin=3cm ]{geometry} \usepackage{amssymb} ...
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### Bibliography at beginning of document

The usual practice is that the bibliography is in the last pages of a book. However, I found a book in which the bibliography is in the first pages, as shown in the following figure: Are there some ...
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### list all 3 to 5 author names in the first in-text citation using apacite

I use \usepackage{apacite} in the preamble (sublime 2 editor) and \bibliographystyle{apacite}. I did not have to manually install the apacite package. For in-text citations of 3 to 5 authors, I need ...
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### Not the same scale for the fading and for the actual TikZ picture

In a TikZ picture, I want a white shaded rectangle to overlap perfectly a black rectangle. Here is a MWE of what I have done so far. (In the MWE, the shading is much more simple than the one I want to ...
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### How to merge multiple compound adjectives with common right part [on hold]

What is the correct way to write two compound adjectives with common right part? For example, I have two adjectives: "time-optimal" and "energy-optimal". (I use hyphens by the way, but still I am not ...
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### unbold title and no line break for a subsection

How can we unbold the title of a subsection and suppress the line break, like it was done in the following image? The answers in the duplicate deal with how to do that for all the subsection. I want ...
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### Adding space between columns in a table

I notice that the space between each column of a table in LaTeX is not quite wide (at least for me). Is there any way to set this? I found the \hspace, but I don't get how to use this in the table. ...
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### How to create this coordinate system?

I'm currently working on a term paper / lecture notes for my electrical engineering professor and wanted to include the following coordinate system / graph / figure in my paper. (The image should be ...
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### TexStudio - internal embedded pdf viewer shows different figure than external pdf viewer of the output pdf

I use TexStudio (2.9.4) on a Mac OSX (10.10.3) with TexLive. The problem here is that when I insert figures, that are saved as pdf files, and compile with PDFLaTex, the output figures deviate from the ...
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### Supply rails in circuitikz

I am trying to draw the circuit below, however I am having difficulty in drawing the connections to the supply rails. I've abused the sground node since it is the same as the typical symbol for power ...
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### Formatting a thesis summary chapter

I'm trying to format my thesis summary title, but the result is not very appealing. here's the code: \chapter*{\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering A very long thesis title about some very important stuff ...
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### Error in reading csv file

I want to read this from .csv file but getting error Items, FactorLoadings Social Needs (Cronbach's a = 0.695) Smartphone allows me to stay connected with those I care about,0.758 I use ...
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### Alternatives to asterisk and star for superscripts

While writing a paper, I find myself exhausted with superscript symbols to denote similar types of variables. I have used x, x^\ast (i.e. x*), x^\star and x'. I can't use symbols which sit right on ...
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### Nested mdframed environments and footnotes

Suppose that you have two mdframed environments, one nested inside the other, and a footnote in the first mdframed environment but not in the second. See the MWE example below. ...
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### Dashed edges from parent to normal edge in child in trees

I am creating a tree in which the edges from a child to its children are dashed. I got this using child[dashed]. Now all the edges of these children are dashed. I want to override this. So unable to ...
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### Problem with title page when justified in Tufte-Book

I am using Tufte Book template and defined a new paper size (10x7 inches) in .def file. Its working fine. When I use justified option in preamble ...
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### Color text in a table

Is there a way to color text in an entire table without using environment tabu? For example, change the color of text in every cell to red.
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### How to write multiple lines of text in a box created using \framebox in LaTex [duplicate]

I want to draw block diagram of a system. I used \framebox command to create blocks. But when I write long text inside the box it comes out of the boundaries of block. How can I write text in multiple ...
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### Declaring array of integers

Is it possible to declare in TeX array of integer numbers ? What I am trying to do is to declare new tabular environment for very long tables spanning accross multiple columns and (or) pages. My ...
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### Redefining footnote reference

Need to add a reference to the following customized footnote definition: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{ colorlinks=true, citecolor={black}, ...
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### Program package confliction

I want to write pseudo-codes in my survey using program package. Since I'm writing in other languages rather than English, I have to alter the names of those environments, like theorem and proof, etc ...
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### Dotted and bent xy matrix arrow has non-dotted turns

I have this diagram I'm doing with xypic, and I want to make bent arrows going from the top to the bottom of the diagram. So I re-learn the syntax for bending around entries. THen I decide I want ...
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### Page not in correct size or format

Total newbie here: please bear with me. I’m running TeXShop on a Mac, trying to render a single-page musical score that uses the “bagpipe” macro-package. The file starts with %&bagpipe \input ...
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### Creating Bold Column Headers using xtable (knitr)

what is the easiest way to bold all column headers using the output of calling xtable, ideally under the print.xtable command. I am using knitr.
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### Beamer: Show all previous \tableofcontents items and gray out future items. Also: Remove subsections from ToC and then fix distances between items

I want to present a ToC in Beamer which shows the previous items and grays out future items. I cannot quite get it to work however. Here is a MWA: \documentclass{beamer} \usetheme{Luebeck} ...
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### When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?

Occasionally, I see other people's documents starting with two lines like that: % !TEX TS-program = xelatex % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode It's clear to me that the first line declares the engine ...