# All Questions

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### Help to finish an incomplete figure using “tikz”

I have very limited LaTeX knowledge. I am trying to plot the following figure using "tikz" and I appreciate if anyone can help me to finish plotting my figure. I did the following so far: ...
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### Using \mathpalette with macros that take more arguments

As I understand it, \mathpalette takes two arguments; the first must be a macro A that itself takes two arguments. A will be passed as #1 commands to reproduce the math enviroment at the location ...
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### Big watermark for tiled pages

I want to arrange pages of my presentation in a rectangular array. I want to print on each page (what may be the equivalent of) a watermark which is a portion of a glyph. For this discussion let us ...
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### Why my lyx math equations are algned to left?

I am using a lyx template to write my thesis, I found that the equation are placed on the left of my page. I do not have "fleqn" option shown in Document->Settings->Custom section. How can I align ...
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### How to write \LaTeX properly? [duplicate]

I just started learning LaTeX, and I'm having trouble to write a symbol, LaTeX.
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Ok, I have no typographical knowledge, but this: just looks wrong to me, intuitively. The spacing between the 't' and the 'u' in "Einleitung" seems clearly too wide, imho. That's the code ...
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### xtab alignment problem

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{xtab} % table page breaks \usepackage{array} % for advanced column specification: use >{\command} for ...
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### Customizing the bibliography. elsarticle-num

This one seems to be an easy one but It's not. I'm trying to set up the bibliography for an article I'm doing to be submitted in some of the elservier's publications on Statistics And Probability. ...
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### How to give a name to \pic

I read instruction how to use \pic in PGF 3.0.0 manual, but description how to give names to \pic are not clear to me and given example generate error: "No shape named EmmaEmma-left is known." ...
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### Producing Delaunay Triangulations

Does anyone know how I can produce 2D Delaunay Triangulations in tikz by giving as inputs a list of randomly generated points? Or at least a program that takes that list and produces tikz output.
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### Hyperref and ulem commands cannot be combined

Some hyperref commands do not mix well with ulem commands. Compiling this MWE \documentclass{article} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} ...
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### Remove or Change heading on certain Chapters

I have headings in all my chapters (on the top corner stating which chapter you are reading), however at the end of my document I have a chapter which is not numbered as my appendix and glossary. For ...
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### Create spreadsheet corresponding to \item's

I am writing a mathematics book. For each example, I would like to store a few attributes, including: -The source -Whether I have checked the problem -The difficulty of the problem (etc.) ...
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### Articleno in biblatex?

Does biblatex have an articleno field or equivalent? In addition, can I use article number in page ranges? The problematic article in questions has the following: pages = {19:1--19:39}, articleno = ...
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### What is the increment step of \fnpnodes?

Case 0 uses \fnpnodes and case 1 uses \curvepnodes to create nodes based on the given function(s). \def\method#1{% \ifcase#1 \fnpnodes[plotpoints=8]{1}{8}{\f[x]}{P} \psxTick(/dx ...
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### Symbol for definition := [duplicate]

Sometimes the symbol := is used to denote a definition. For example, X:=Y+Z means that X is defined to be Y+Z. When using LaTeX, can I just use $:=$, or do I need to do something special?
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### mdframed environment not breaking over pages

I apologise in advance because I cannot provide an MWE. I am writing a book with a custom (Springer) format and I wish to use mdframed to provide an example environment. I adapted an example from the ...
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### Remove the spacing between items of etaremune

Is it possible to remove or reduce the spacing between the items listed by the package etaremune? Something similar to \begin{itemize}[noitemsep,nolistsep]. \documentclass{article} ...
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### Single item list based off enumerate

I have a successful questions environment that is based off of the enumerate environment using the enumitem package. It correctly continues numbering from the previous questions environments. What I ...
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### How to iterate/continue a pattern in TikZ?

I need to do a diagram in TikZ and, although the result I have look like I expected, I was wondering if there is a better/more general solution to my problem. Basically I want to draw a node with ...
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### Different output from TeX Live 2013 vs. TeX Live 2014

The output of pdflatex has changed between TeX Live versions 2013 and 2014. A minimal example: \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} ...
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### LaTeX: table with variable number of lines [duplicate]

In LaTeX, I can do this: \begin{tabular}{|p{5ex}|p{5ex}|}\hline & \\ \hline & \\ \hline & \\ \hline \end{tabular} But I cannot get a variable number of blank lines this way ...
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### How to cite SEVERAL articles of Wikipedia (if all labels are wiki:xxx)?

Citing one article is as follows: @misc{ wiki:xxx, author = {{Estimation lemma}}, title = "Estimation lemma --- {W}ikipedia{,} The Free Encyclopedia", year = "2010", url = ...
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### How to only have similar font in latex to that of a Mathematica codes

After I used the answer posted to this question of mine: How to show similar display of codes of different programming languages in LaTeX, it seems that the package and styles I use have problems with ...
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### How to simulate a bold font if I only have a Regular Height TTF file?

How can I simulate a bold font if I only have a Regular Height TTF file? I'm trying to use Ibarra Real font, but I have only Italic and Regular font files. Using xelatex and a preamble like: ...
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### How to highlight a path in Tikz with two different colours?

I have a small graph drawn in Tikz with two paths through it highlighted in different colours. However, these paths are going to share an arrow. What I would like is to highlight this arrow with both ...
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### How to page break a code print in a latex document into more pages instead of one

After this question How to show similar display of codes of different programming languages in LaTeX which prints a code in a standalone pdf document (for instance 1000 lines of code in only one pdf ...
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### url at the end of description

I would like to add an url at the end of each description. \documentclass[12pt,BCOR=15mm]{scrbook} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} ...
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### How do I get latex output to show up on tex.SE? [migrated]

This is a question from someone who is obviously quite new to tex.SE. (BTW: this site is awesome!) If I am writing a question, how do I get Latex output to show up on this site? I know how to write ...
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### Beginner learn Latex? [duplicate]

I'm a freshman and I'd like to start learning LaTeX. I have already installed Miktex and Texmaker. Where/how can I learn how to use LaTeX, Miktex and Texmaker?
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### Title and TableofContents in the first page, real contents from second page, how to make it?

I want the title and table of contents in the first page, and the real contents start from the second page. But when i use \tableofcontents, all title, TOC, and contents are in the first page. How can ...
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### How to hide the number of a table, whilst keeping it in the list of tables

I want the caption of one of my tables to say only Table, without the number. Caption* did not seem to work. Also, I still I want it to appear in the list of tables. Is there any way to do that?
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### Capture output of bibentry for use before \nobibliography in text file

\bibentry does not work before the \nobibliography command, and since I use it in combination with multibib for the second bibliography in my thesis, this is a problem for me since I cannot use ...
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### Font in harvmac title

harvmac is an old set of macros for scientific documents in plain TeX. I can't figure out what font is used for the title produced by harvmac, and how I could use the same font in LaTeX. Here's an ...
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### Citations undefined - Bibliography not compatible with with author-year

NOTE: Edited changes to bibliographystyle --> now \bibliographystyle{acm} \documentclass{report} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{fixltx2e} ...
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### What causes \psxTick to no longer work? [on hold]

I am using the latest pst-plot. When compiling the following, I got some errors as follows. MWE \documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone} \usepackage{pst-plot} \psset { ...
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### minitoc package adds extra page when used with float and lastpage packages

The minitoc package adds extra page when used with float and lastpage packages. I figured out that this problem can be resolved by loading minitoc package before float and lastpage packages. In LyX ...
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How can I adjust the chapter headline, so that the last line ends with the red box? And is there a way to move the whole chapter heading so that the word "chapter" is adjusted with the main text, i.e. ...
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### Extend vertical line in table

The following code: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \begin{table}[t] \centering \begin{tabular}{c|cccccccc} \hline id & \multicolumn{4}{c|}{Col1} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Col2}\\ ...
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### Track changes option in pdfLaTeX [duplicate]

Is their any track changes option available in LaTex, similar to word.
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### Error when using the tasks package

I have recently downloaded the tasks package which align a list horizontally in columns by using an environment tasks, And tried it on this MWE \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tasks} ...
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### Problem with horizontal and vertical centering of multiline cells in a table

I'm having difficulties perfectly centering (both horizontally and vertically) a few cells in my table. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like right now: The problem line is the one which ...
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### Beamer renewcommand

I am doing a presentation using the beamer class and I want to declare a new command, which shortens the following thing: \textsuperscript{1} to \up{1} I did this while using scrartcl with ...
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### How to continue a very long table on multiple pages? [duplicate]

I have a long table in latex. I used the commands: \begin{table}[ht] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{cccccccc} (..the table..) \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table} However the table length ...
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### Procedure to write questions

I want to write a LaTeX file in which a question appears after compilation as Question 1 if i write \begin{Question} \end{Question} But then i would like to write answer for that and in that case i ...
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### Center-justifying first part of multline

Consider the following MWE. With my document setup, the equation has to be broken into two lines. Luckily I can get the entire matrix on one line, so I can break the equation after the equals sign. By ...
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### What is a good way to write exponentials within paragraph?

I want write a paragraph that has an exponential term in it, like `the complexity is on the order of 10^5'. This exponential changes the spacing between the lines of the paragraph. I have seen in ...
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### Typesetting ST-traces in LaTeX

An ST-trace is a string with additional back-reference arc or arrows which may cross. An example may be seen at page 13 of http://kilby.stanford.edu/~rvg/pub/STbisimulation.pdf So, basically, this ...