# All Questions

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### Increasing horizontal space between chapter number and chapter title in scrreprt

I would like to change the distance between the chapter number and the chapter text. A poor way to do it would be renew \thechapter, but this affects section titles too. Other answers seem to suggest ...
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### Transparency in itemizing

\documentclass{beamer} \setbeamercovered{transparent} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{itemize} \item<1-> a \item<2-> b \item<3-> c \end{itemize} \end{frame} ...
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### Incollection entry with separate years for book and chapter

I want to cite a chapter in a book, hence I think I should use incollection. However I would need to specify two years: one for the year the book was published one for the year the chapter was ...
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### mktexpk error regarding missing font

I just set up the MacTeX-2014 distribution on my MacBook working OS X Yosemite 10.10. As i try to build a document on which i already worked without a problem on said machine before clean installing ...
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### How to align item labels?

When I try to answer the a matching question in my assignment, I find that my final PDF of the four answers shown above are not aligned with each other. It seems that the lowercase "b" is taking more ...
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### A question about ticks on a graph

I am trying to make a graph with a grid in the background. I want it to be standard windows size, but I only want numbers next to the -10 and 10 on both the x axis and y axis. I am using this code ...
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### Missing } inserted. \end{alignat}? why this error keeps on popping up?

here is a part of my code, which I am trying to run. \begin{alignat}{2} [M]: \max_&Z ~ \label{eqnP27}\\ \mbox{s.t.}~ %capacity constraints & \sum_{k \in H} y_{k} \leq ...
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### Change citation style from square brackets to forward slashes

In latex, how can I change citation style from square brackets (e.g. "As authors in [1] show ...") to forward slashes ("As authors in /1/ show ...")? EDIT To answer the comments below... I don't know ...
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### How to pass an argument as a new command's name? [duplicate]

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I keep getting these weird errors when trying to compile with Asymptote. I compile with pdflatex, then asymptote, then pdflatex. The error is as stated in the title. For example, when building ...
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### Modify the dash in biblatex ibid

I'm using \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear-ibid]{biblatex} Is it possible to modify the dash used in the bibliography to denote the same author by another symbol (e.g. a much longer ...
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### Remove white space before landscape

I am inserting a landscape figure. \begin{landscape} \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figures/sensor_diffs.jpg} \caption{Example of a single rep in which sensors are fused ...
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### Large gap in typesetting before group of displayed equations

I'm new to LaTeX; my lab professor said it would be great to have our first lab typed up nicely. I plan on doing research in my future, so I figured learning LaTeX early would be an excellent ...
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### How to include graphics inside the section name

I am trying to insert an icon (a pdf file) literally next to the section name. I want the little shield icon to be where the <Icon> is. The code to generate this image is: ...
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### How does PGFplots calculate trig functions?

In plotting the graph from my last question I have discovered that the plots I'm getting from PGFplots are not entirely correct. I was attempting to plot (4.9/(w^2))*(cosh(w*x)-cos(w*x)) for multiple ...
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### Placing text between horizontal lines generated by \rule: equispacing

How to fix the vertical spacing between the text and the lines? In the following MWE the vertical space between the text and the line below it is much greater than the vertical space between the text ...
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### is pdfTeX from TeX Live 2015 supposed to work with LyX 2.1.3? [on hold]

I am trying to compile a PDF in LyX with the pretest TeX engines installed, and so far they break. I don't recall what else would have changed from using the folder instead of the 2014 analog. pdfTeX ...
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### \xpatchcmd defines macros when applied to undefined commands

I stumbled over this feature (it's part of a bigger question, but I splitted it into two questions): Say, that we want to use \xpatchcmd (from xpatch) or \patchcmd (from etoolbox) and apply those ...
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### plotting linear programming on a graph using Latex code [on hold]

could someone help me solve the problem of using latex code to generate Phase Portrait diagram from the equations below; x ̇=-4x+y y ...
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### Latex code to plot linear programming on a graph [on hold]

I am in a big problem. And I would like to have a Latex code for the equations below that would produce three (3) graphs on the same sheet. S'=0.085-0.0182si-0.098s I'=0.182si-0.178i ...
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### mhchem macro in subscript

Consider the following MWE \documentclass{article} \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem} \begin{document} \begin{equation*} % c_\ce{CO2} not working c_{\ce{CO2}} \quad c_\text{working} \end{equation*} ...
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### Problems with pattern color

Why in the following MWE in all shapes the pattern color is as in the first one regardless that it is defined differently? %%%% pattern-color \documentclass[tikz,border=5mm]{standalone} ...
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### Ignoring rotation in pgf decorations

Edit: I am interested in how this problem could or could not be solved using pgf decorations, not in how to draw this specific shape. I am trying to use pgf line decorations to draw dotted lines, ...
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### Copy-Paste error in LaTeX

When I try to copy some text from a Word page or pdf an paste it to LaTeX, I get the error below. Any idea how to fix this? PS: I am using LaTeX on a Mac While the text which I typed my self works ...
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### Option for Coloring the Background of pgfplots

I have been looking for a simple answer for this with no success. I want to plot the function y=x^2, and color the background of the whole box made up by the axis environment. Intuitively, one would ...
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### When having too much figures, force LaTeX to change the geometry of the page to fit more figures on one page when text is over

My problem is the following : I have a lot of figures to add in my report. These figures are usually about 0.4 of the height of the page. With the caption, the height is more like 0.55 or something. ...
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### Hyperbola instead of ellipse. Note the code below to the ellipse, there is a similar code for and hyperbole?

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]; \draw (0,0) ellipse (5 and 3); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
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### preventing automatic detection of email addresses [on hold]

I'm trying to use this resume template. When I compile the document, pdflatex is automatically detecting the email addresses in the header and formatting it as a clickable (mailto) link. I would like ...
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### Unwanted vertical white space in tikz [on hold]

How to delete unwanted vertical white space in tikz
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### Need a little guidance for latex document design

I want to use LaTEX to write a fascicle (a small book part of a bigger set of books). So I need some specialized design. For example a specialized design for headers, specialized edging, rearranged ...
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### Error compiling code matlab in latex

good morning, someone help me? MWE: \documentclass[preview]{standalone} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \usepackage{latexsym,amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts} ...
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### Typesetting verse with line numbers directly adjacent (not in margin)

When I quote verse (in a document typeset by XeLaTeX), I would like to be able to place line numbers directly adjacent to the lines, not in the margin to the left. For example: ...
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### When using custom path style in a tikz graph the quotes label isn't printed

I can put labels onto normal edges fine, but when the edge has a style applied to it, the label is no longer applied. Any idea what is going on/how to fix this? \documentclass{standalone} ...