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Removing page number from title frame without changing the Warsaw theme

I applied the idea of Removing page number from title frame without changing the theme in my beamer presentation slides. I am using Warsaw theme. However, modifications made by me in the latex code ...
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Subsubsection displaced!

For some reason my subsubsections appear outside my page! How do I fix this problem?
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What exactly is latex3/xor?

The LaTeX3 source contains a folder xor which contains, among other things, xo-grid, which is supposed to provide LaTeX3 with grid support. To quote Joseph Wright, Getting to grips with xor is one ...
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Lack of space when using multicols package

I used the following code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{multicol} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate} \item 1 \begin{multicols}{2} \begin{enumerate} \itemsep=1in \item 2 ...
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What does this \begin{document} error mean?

Code \documentclass{article} \usepackage{caption}; \usepackage{longtable}; \usepackage{booktabs} \begin{document} Discussion. \begin{longtable}[c]{@{}ll@{}} \caption{People and their roles in ...
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Inconsequent text citations

I want maximum one citation name in my text. Therefore I used the option 'maxcitenames=1' in the biblatex package. This works for all my references except for two: 'verdonck2009' and 'verdonck2011'. I ...
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Side-by-side images in LaTeX

I need to put 2 figures side by side in LaTeX where the first figure needs to be given a caption and the second must not be given a caption. I have tried the following: \usepackage{floatrow} ...
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Use truetype Comic Sans font in XeTeX

I want to test truetype comic sans fonts in xetex, the following codes are modified from source of free-math-font-survey: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} ...
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Adding blank line (between) and indenting first line of all paragraphs

I would like to have a blank line between all the paragraphs in addition to the indent on the first line of the paragraph (instead of just the indent). As of now I am using the following to add just ...
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remove asterik in Friggeri template

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Is there a 'good' way to make 'local' changes outside of a group in expl3?

I have the following function: \cs_new_protected:Nn \termmenu_prompt:NN { \__termmenu_write_out:N #1 \group_begin: \ior_get_str:NN \c_term_ior \choice \tl_gset_eq:NN #2 \choice \group_end: ...
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Getting rid of blank pages

I have a file with two appendices, each of which contains only a figure, and a blank page is being inserted before each appendix page. I have tried looking for an answer, but it seems like everything ...
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Cross-referencing custom labeled examples

I'm having trouble with linguex cross-referencing examples with an optional argument as in: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{linguex} \title{Title} \begin{document} \maketitle ...
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spell checking and TeXworks

When I use TeXworks there is no automatic spell checking. If I go Edit -> Spelling, the only option I have is none How can I enable spell checking? Thanks for your help
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When is it appropriate to use scan marks?

From the documentation: Scan marks are control sequences set equal to \scan_stop:, hence will never expand in an expansion context and will be (largely) invisible if they are encountered in a ...
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How to draw randomly spaced square wave

I am new to tikz and am not familiar with nomenclature so please excuse my raw expression here. I need to say a non-periodic square wave. I saw this post How to draw a square wave? which talks about ...
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Cell padding and scientific notation doesn't work in both tables

I have made the following two: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{pdflscape} \usepackage{longtable, caption, cellspace, booktabs} \setlength\cellspacetoplimit{4pt} ...
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Comma as letter and semicolon as operator in math formulas

Inside document source2e.pdf there are the following two lines \DeclareMathSymbol{,}{\mathpunct}{letters}{"3B} \DeclareMathSymbol{;}{\mathpunct}{operators}{"3B} which treats these two punctuation ...
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How to add Spell Check to Texworks

I am using Texworks and noticed that after downloading the program, I don't have the ability to use spell check. Any help?
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Remove header from the page after TOC and LOF

I am using Koma-script book document class, twosides, and I also use the package \fancyhdr to modify my pages. The problem is that header appears both in the next page after TOC and after LOF, so I ...
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How to get rid of the “chapter” word with \leftmark?

I'm using fancyhdr to make customs headings and I would like to know if there is a way to get rid of the "chapter" when I use \leftmark in my header ? The document is in oneside report. Thanks !
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Plotting using \pgfmathdeclarefunction and the factorial operator in TikZ

I am trying to draw a diagram that has a negative-binomial distribution in it. I am trying to do this in Tikz. Here is a minimal working version of that code: \documentclass[landscape]{article} ...
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Horizontal line next to section heading

I have found good methods for adding a line over or under a section heading. A horizontal line that fills the whole width. Is it possible to add such a line extending the rest of the width placed ...
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TeX Live font policy [on hold]

I would like to request inclusion of these fonts to TeX Live (only *.mf files are needed): CTAN: tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic/scyrillic I negotiated this with the author and he agreed to ...
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I'm trying to generate a table of abbreviations from a subset of bibliography entries with short titles. My idea is to use \printbiblist{shorttitle} with a filter so that only references with a ...
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example: pgfplots groupplot with two x-axes

I want to share my result, having two different x axes in groupplot. One axis is the energy, the other is the corresponding wavelength. Up to now, this is my working solution, but maybe someone can ...
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tikz picture inside beamer frame

I was trying to put this code from tikz official page into a beamer's frame and got this error: /home/.../file.tex:100: Illegal parameter number in definition of \test. <to be read again> ...
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LaTeX kerning decisions

In his answer to this question, our friend @egreg explains: It happens that certain combination of letters have “bad” spacing. I have noticed this too. As I understand it, LaTeX is supposed to ...
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I have a running miktex 2.9 in windows vista, but i can't run chronosys package

I installed the chronosys package with Miktex Package Manager, but it crashes with the following at the end of the log file: ... ! I can't find file chronosyschr.tex'. l.32 \input chronosyschr.tex ...
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pst-3dplot error: Transformation matrix not invertible

I'm trying to reproduce example 1 on page 26 of the user manual of pst-3dplot. It is supposed to rotate the label 'xy plane' into a 3D coordinate system. All I get is a warning: ** WARNING ** ...
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Package pdflscape has strange indent when including an abstract? [duplicate]

I am trying to use the pdflscape package. When I include an abstract, the indenting on the left margin becomes really large. Here is a minimal working example: \documentclass[letterpaper, ...
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Aligning equation pairs at equivalence sign

How do I align the following so all the \Leftrightarrows are aligned under each other like so: So far I have the following \begin{align} \frac{\partial f_A (x)}{\partial x_1} & = w_1 - ...
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Monotony table and signs

\documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{pgf,tikz} \usepackage{tkz-tab} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,snakes,arrows,backgrounds} ...
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I have almost finished my table format

Sorry for so many questions, but I am assembling my thesis' table. Thanks to the community's help, I was able to generate the following table: \documentclass{article} ...
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I'm writing my thesis in latex. I need to create a list of bibliographic references which by default latex create using the references I put in my document using \cite{key}. Also I need to create a ...
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How to custom symbol from LaTeX symbol?

\bigtriangledown creates How to fill color and remove the black boundary so that I can create a customed symbol similar to this:
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{beamericonbook} error .can't understand where and the meanimg [on hold]

\documentclass[xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer} \usetheme{PaloAlto} \usecolortheme[named=NavyBlue]{structure} \usepackage[italian]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} ...
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Remove et al listing in bibliography; list all authors by full name

I'm currently using TexMaker and Biber on a Ubuntu machine. I'm quite happy with just using the standard numeric citation style, safe for 1 thing: it shortens all authors in my bibliography to "First ...
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datenumber: define \dateshortmonthname

I am working with datenumber package with spanish option, \usepackage[spanish]{datenumber} and I want to define a command similar to \datemonthname, but each month with the first 3 letters, I mean ...
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Error when trying to use Roboto font with pdftex

I'm trying to use the Roboto font in a beamer presentation, built with pdftex. I installed the roboto package, but when trying to build, I get the following error: Trying to make PK font ...
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Typesetting for two variables muliplication

c, C, a, A are mathematical variables. $cC$ but the spacing is too close. The small c and big C almost stick together. How to solve this situation? For example: $aA$ the spacing is ok.
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Rectangular graphs in pgfplots

Whenever I draw a plot using pgfplots, the result is always a square grid. That's generally fine, but in the interest of saving space, something I'd like to be able to make a rectangular plot. ...
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I am trying to convert specific columns into scientific notations

I have the final table: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{pdflscape} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage[table]{xcolor} \usepackage{siunitx} ...
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Matrix format in Latex

How can a matrix be written in LaTeX? I have tried to use \begin{matrix} but I need to write the matrix below and I cannot understand how to fill it up exactly as this.
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How to split a string to figure float with figure name, label and caption?

I am struggling with a shorthand macro that converts a string to a figure. At the end is a working, but unstable version what I am trying to do. The goal is to parse make a command (or macro) like ...
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Creating a Blank space - Formula sheet

This is my first time here and I'm also quite new to latex, but I've managed (with the help from a template I found online) to make this nice three column formula sheet. My problem is that i need ...
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How to add a vertical block throughout whole page in poster?

I made a poster of my work using 'baposter' template. However, Professor told me it's better to make the poster using Institute template as follows (which I dislike). So my question is: how to ...
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Labeling equations and math mode

I have to write the equation shown below in Latex and I am using {\textbf{q}=($\mu$ $_1$ $\mu$ $_2$ ... $\mu$ $_{n-2}$ $\mu$ $_n$ )\textsuperscript{T}} and it comes OK. However, I need to ...
How to add acknowledgements'' on documentclass `memoir''?
By using intersections command I was able to make effect the line $\mathcal{P}_{t_{1},\gamma}$ is dotted outside of the set. However, I am curious if I can take a certain point on this line, for ...