# All Questions

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### Misalignment with framed package and column

I'm trying to use the shaded environment as follows: \documentclass[11pt]{beamer} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{framed} \definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{1,0.8,0.3} \begin{document} \begin{frame} ...
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### Right-aligning text over expression

Basically, I want something like this: $$\overset{\qquad\quad\; 2}{\sqrt{x+x^2}}$$ where the expression above is (automatically) right-aligned, but I have no idea how to achieve this. (The example ...
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### Rotating curve by 360 degrees properly with TikZ

I'm writing about the volume by an integral, and I had to draw this. How do I draw it properly? Here is my codes: \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage{pgf,tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows} ...
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### MonTeX and XeLaTeX fonts

This is my second question regarding MonTeX, a follow up to this one, which concerned a conflict between xelatex and MonTeX Since writing that question I contacted and received help from the author of ...
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### How do I find memoir's margin settings for twocolumn mode?

I have a long document that I don't want to use twocolumn mode for, but I like the margins it uses. I'm going to manually use multicol to create two columns instead (so I can easily have footnotes and ...
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### How can I style tkz-euclide points?

The tkz-euclide package lets you do things like \begin{tikzpicture} \tkzDefPoint(0,0){A} \tkzDefPoint(4,0){B} \tkzDefPoint(2,3){C} \tkzDrawPoints(A,B,C) \tkzDrawSegments(A,B B,C C,A) ...
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### How to make a tabularx table on more then one page by using the table environment

I need to make a table over more then one pages. The standard approach seems to be to use the ltablex environment. However, it doesen't work, also I assume that the table environment may be also ...
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### Array within Align*

LaTeX fresh beginner here. Using TexStudio. In the second row of an equation array (using align*), I am trying to multiply a row vector by a column vector, using the array command. Apparently the ...
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### How start a new line in \boxed{}?

I have: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \newcounter{conto} \setcounter{conto}{\time} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{dsfont} ...
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### How to have columns of different sizes using tabularx and make table respect page height?

I am using Kile and I am trying to learn how to use tabularx to have tables that fit within the width of my pages. However, I have two big problems: I have to use X for column size and therefore ...
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### Where are LyX Octave settings?

I can't find it in settings, I can't find it in user guide. How can I tell LyX, where Octave is? I found some instructions, but only for older editions (something around 1.6) of LyX and they ask to ...
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### Avoid a weird error with ltablex

I'd like to have an table over many pages with the same headline. I use the tabularx package, and the ltablex is required according to link. However if I use ltablex I get sticky errors ! LaTeX Error: ...
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### put a link in the document

I'm using the following code snippet to put a link in the document: \begin{footnotesize} \begin{verbatim} http://vlm1.uta.edu/~zhangzhong/fall_detection/ \end{verbatim} \end{footnotesize} But the ...
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### Expanded toc-like environment

I'm typesetting a book. It has a special toc-like text at the begining of each chapter. What I want to do is: use after each section an environment (say abstract) and get the result at the begining ...
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### Tufte style range frames for three dimensional plots

This question is a follow up to this question, that allowed me to solve the two dimensional case. For example this plot is created by the following code: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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### Force Kile to create tables that are inside the page width

I am using the Tabular Wizard on Kile to create a \tabularx environment for one of my tables, and I want it to fit inside a page. Currently this is my setup: {% ...
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### Double occurrences of names in Index with biblatex

I use biblatex with indexing option; moreover, inside the text I have some names to index, with the usual \index{} command. Since I have the same authors in the bibliography and in the text, in the ...
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### Kile creates special character in empty cells for tables

I am using Kile as a Latex editor, and I particularly like the Tabular Wizard. However, when a cell has an empty value, Kile adds a special character, a pink ×. When I try to compile the document ...
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### enumerate with Arabic numbers and right parentheses [duplicate]

Cannot really figure out how to create such a list: 1) List item 2) List item 3) List item Here's what I have to use so far: \begin{enumerate} \item[1)] List item \item[2)] List item ...
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### Bold Roman expressions in Math Mode, with proper spacing

I have some math formulas where I need bold roman style for some math expressions. Since they appear quite often, I need a macro for them. The obvious way is to write ...
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### Table with equal columns

I need a table with 4 rows, 3 columns and a partial horizontal line in column 2-3. I tried: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{table} { \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline ...
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### Append text to biblatex footnote citation

Does biblatex allow to append arbitrary comments to footnote citations? For example, I now have this code: Lorem ipsum.\autocite[2]{foobar} And it gives this at the bottom of the page: Foobar, ...
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### Reduce size and justify font of caption using memoir

I try to reduce and better align my caption text (and not the automatic label "figure.") text with memoir. I try this this without success, and i search in the memoir documentation, and try some ...
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### Descriptive diagram with direction

I'm new to Tikz and am working on converting SmartArt from MS PowerPoint to LaTeX. One of my diagrams looks like this: I'm aware of the package smartdiagram, and I found the "descriptive diagram", ...
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### float row figure box - two lines in caption

I am trying to get the caption on two lines with this command but using \\ does not work. If anyone know how to do this it would be helpful \begin{figure} \begin{floatrow} \ffigbox{% ...
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### How the plot in \groupplot could be moved horizontally and vertically?

This is my code: \documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{mathptmx} \usetikzlibrary{pgfplots.groupplots} ...
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### Simple Line-Plot with date on x-axis

I need to do a really simple line plot and my data is looking like this: Date Value Apr2013 0.06 Mai2013 0.08 Jun2013 0.1 Jul2013 0.2 Aug2013 0.4 Sep2013 1.5 Okt2013 2.0 Nov2013 4.1 Dez2013 8.1 ...
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### tikz-figures in minipage: Captions at the same height and top alignment

I want to place two tikz pictures next to each other, both of them should be figures I can reference to. Please consider the following MWE: \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} ...
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This question on the memoir table of contents has an answer that works well, however, the dots end too soon (in my opinion). Is there a way to make the dots more like the default without triggering ...
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### How to make the third vertical bar disappear in the third row of my table?

How to make the third vertical bar disappear in the third row of my table?
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### Problem with sidecaption and memoir alignment

I try to use sideCaption with memoir class, and i have two problems (red anotation in image 1) : sideCaption doesn't respect the margin at left ... how can i say to saidCaption to align the figure ...
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### How to make a delimiter out of a character, eg \right!, similar to \right) [duplicate]

I must be missing something simple but could not find \right| and was wondering how to duplicate a matching vertical bar after a formula. Edit My mistake! I forgot \left. . But I guess one can ask ...
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### Origami package

Does exist a specific package to draw origami? Some example: http://goclom.net/origami-papier/origami-grue.aspx
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### White space between caption and sidewaystable

I am using a sidewaystable from the rotating package. I am trying to add some white space between the caption and the table (caption is placed above table). I tried using ...
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### TeXMaker: Autocompletion of brackets

I have just switched to texmaker from texstudio since I am working on mac now. I am wondering if there is a possibility of setting texmaker to autocomplete (),[],{}, since I extensively use these ...
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### Visualisation of the Cantor set [duplicate]

I want to draw the first few iterations of the construction of the Cantor set. Since I am a TikZ beginner, I need your help. Thanks in advance. More information about the Cantor set can be found ...
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after an automatic update of Latextools I can't get biber to work. I have done nothing to the code (worked before) else than setting the path to latexmk. Now I get Package biblatex Warning: Please ...
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### import package does not work with 'latex' but works with 'pdflatex' command, any solution?

I am using the add-on import package of Donald Arseneau to typeset my thesis while allowing each thesis chapter files to be placed in a subfolder. Using this package lets me do it when I typeset my ...
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### mdframe size not matching table size

I'm having some problems with the mdframed package in combination with tabular. After figuring out how to get the width of the frame to match the width of the object (a table in my case) using a hack ...
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### Why does the vertical bar disappear in one cell of my table? [duplicate]

For some reason, the third vertical bar fails to appear in the third last row. Why? \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline & & & \\ \hline & & & \\ \hline & ...
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### How to prevent page break in the last three lines of an environment?

I want to create an environment, thats content should not allowed a page break in the last three lines of the last paragraph. If the last three lines of the text inside the environment reach the ...
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### How to automatically color a string that starts by a specific character (@)?

Using the memoir class, I'm looking for a way to automatically color any string that starts whith an @ character, whether it be in the main text or in a footnote. Any idea how to do that? Update : I ...
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### Making a table with several lines in each box

I'm trying to make a large table where each of the boxes has several lines of text underneath each other. I have tried \newline and \linebreak to get onto a new line, but neither work. The command \\ ...
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### LaTeX error! Too many }'s. \color@endbox ->\color@endgroup

I am trying to input r code using the listing package. However, at the moment my file will not compile and returns the following error: ! Too many }'s. \color@endbox ->\color@endgroup \egroup I ...
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### Cannot use xgreek in XeLatex with Fedora

I am trying to enable greek hyphenation in a XeLatex document. But when I do I get: |Package `xgreek' version 2.4 by Apostolos Syropoulos |! Undefined control sequence. |\ds@monogreek ->\language ...
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### why is texmaker backward synctex search not working if the .tex file's dir name contains chinese characters?

I found a strange thing when I use texmaker. When my tex file's directory name is in english, the backward search is OK. While if the directory name contains chinese, the backward search is disabled. ...
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### outline package, how to change enumeration style?

I'm working with the outlines package. I want to change the 2nd level enumeration style from small letters ( a b c ) to small roman letters ( i),ii),iii)... ). In other words, I want to exchange the ...
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### First paragraph in environment without indent or space

I'm trying to create an environment that does not indent the very first paragraph of the text inside the environment. My latest attempt and the corresponding output are shown below. As you can see, ...