# All Questions

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### LyX forbids horizontal centering of tables inside a theorem environment!

How can I center a table in a, say, theorem environment in LyX ? When I have a centered table in the standart LR-mode writing mode everythings ok. But when I select the whole table and try to turn it ...
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### Output Filename

I'm using texmaker and PdfLaTeX. With the exception of changing the .tex filename, does anyone know how to modify the output file name based on a parameter? I am aware that the following line... %&...
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### Write the value of enumerate to output file

I would like to save the present value of an enumeration into an output file. Using information from another question I have the following minimal example: \documentclass{article} \newcommand{\...
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### Setup for producing multiple documents based on the same source file [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Guide to managing multiple resume with one LaTeX? I would like to make a combined résumé & CV document class that can be used to generate two documents with some ...
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### Is there an biblatex equivalent to natbib's citealp command?

Currently I'm trying out biblatex but not entirely committed, so I've declared a few aliases in my preamble (which I can comment out if I compile in bibtex): \newcommand{\citep}{\autocite} \...
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### How to change fonts

I'm sure this is a newbie question, but I can't figure this out. I have tried to follow the advice here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Fonts and here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rf10/pstex/...
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### How to encoding of Lyx LaTeX output without Lyx adding inputenc declaration to preamble

I want to specify encoding that is used by Lyx when it generates LaTeX source for preview or export. That is not a big problem Document->Settings->Language->Encoding->Other->Select encoding from combo ...
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### Back references for shorthandlist

I am using biblatex for writing my thesis and it works generally fine. Now I want to put back references to my bibliography. However, after putting the option into the preamble, the back references ...
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### Rounded corners as a tangent in the right direction

I want to split a path into two branches as in the following MWE. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \node (A) [rectangle] {...
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### Beamer miniframes: side-by-side section names and navigation dots

I'm using the beamer miniframes outer theme (with subsection=false). Currently the navigation shows navigation dots below each section name. I would prefer it if the dots came to the right the ...
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### Using page counter in \newtheorem

I would like to use the page counter as a the first part of the label for definitions. I tried \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[page] but that wouldn't work if the definition is at the top of a ...
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### Center caption in listing

I want to put the caption of my listing in the center but I can't do that. Do you have any idea how I could achieve this? The code: \documentclass{report} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{xcolor} \...
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### Footer Suppression

I'm wondering if it's possible to suppress footers if the page has a footnote, but display the footer as normal otherwise. To be specific, I'm reproducing an old book which uses catchwords for pages ...
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### Print section number with moderncv

Using moderncv, I want to print the section number before the section name. Does anyone know how to do it?
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### Option clash for package inputenc when using Lyx with LaTeX class that already uses inputenc

I use Lyx to edit document whose class declares \usepackage[latin2]{inputenc} in its .cls file. While I only use languages for which Lyx uses the same encoding it only adds the same command (\...
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### \expandafter usage and plain TeX programming

Hello everybody out there using TeX, Actually, I wanted to write a LaTeX macro in plain TeX in order to include source code examples with individual modifications like stripping off comments and the ...
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### Problem with multicolumn color tables

edition might be grateful since i don´t know how to name this problem. English is not my native idioms. Also I don't know how to interpret this problem as well on so apologies in advance. I am ...
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### Remove the qed symbol of only a proof environment, not everyone else

I have seen several posts on how to remove the qed symbol in a proof, but that affects all proof environments. I would like to know how to remove the qed symbol in a particular proof because I have a ...
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### Working with Bib files in Word/LibreOffice

I've a huge database of books in .bib files. Are there any ways to import this database into Microsoft Word, Open Office, Libre Office etc.?
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### Mindmap with Tikz

I created a mindmap according to this example: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/computer-science-mindmap/ Sometimes the branches contain too much information so that the map looks ugly like in ...
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### Latex would not set because it fall over things like \begin{document} and other thing [closed]

I can't set my latex document. it stuck at l.22 \begin{document}. When i type H in the type area under the controle output, it says: I suspect you have forgotten a }, causing me to read past it when ...
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### Why do the output fonts of Latex often appear fuzzy? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why are Bitmap-Fonts used automatically? When I look at the output of my LaTeX files, the fonts appear markedly more blurry than standard computer output. Why is this? Is ...
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### File expl3.sty not found when trying to compile a *.tex file with XeLaTeX [closed]

I've installed XeTeX to my Fedora 17 recently (before that, I was using pdfLaTeX). The main reason for switching to XeTeX was the polyglossia package I'd like to make use of. Unfortunately, whenever ...
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### Linenumbering per page with XePersian and the traditionalpoem environment

I’m editing an Arabic poem with XePersian and the traditionalpoem environment which works fine so far, but I have some questions regarding the line numbers and the paragraph footnotes. (1) I would ...
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### Alignment in Rotated Text

Does anyone have a workaround to this problem? I am working on my CV, and want to use some rotated text to improve the presentation. Here is a MWE. \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage[a4paper,...
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### How to do such a figure in pgf

I am new to latex and pgf/tikz. My supervisor asked me to create such a figure below in pgf. I don't know where to begin. Could anybody help/lead me on this please?
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### Row colored with alternatingly with \taburowcolors is pink

I'm making a table with tabu having alternating row color, but I'm getting a pink row, which is not a color that I defined. The code: \definecolor{lightb}{RGB}{217,224,250} \begin{table} \begin{...
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### Middle height dot like \vdots

I am trying to make actually a "\vdot" instead of \vdots. What I am trying to achieve is something like that I tried \vdot(within ) in the sence of \cdots and \cdot but it's not recognised as a ...
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In order to strip comments from code I would like to input from a file into TeX, I am using the following loop \documentclass{article} \def\getfirst#1#2\relax{#1} \begin{document} \openin1=mysrcfile....
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### XeTeX/mathspec math environment font

How does one set the font for text inside a math environment? If I use \setmathsfont(Latin){FontName}, I can change the font for individual letters in the math environment, but not for functions such ...
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### Stop listings going over page breaks

I am using Pandoc to generate Tex from Markdown. It automatically generates listings when it comes across the appropriate Markdown (code indented four spaces). It then uses the listings package to ...
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### fancyhdr not centering after changed geometry

I have a document with different page margins, so I have to change geometry settings after fancyhdr loaded. However, the width of header after geometry is not correct. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \...
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### Translating custom \section format to titlesec

I have some custom \section formatting with a horizontal rule, and I'm trying to DRY out my code by using titlesec to define default formatting options. But I can't exactly reproduce what happens when ...
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### Alternative to \text inside an align environment

Is there a way to write texts without resorting to using the \text macro every time I write something in the align enviroment? I am trying to write a proof and pretty much 90% requires me to write ...
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### How can I justify without making a new line in mdframed?

\begin{mdframed}[backgroundcolor=green] \textbf{Theorem:} \begin{center} A set $E$ is {\bf open} $\iff E^c$ is {\bf closed} \end{center} \centerline{or equivalently,} \centerline{...
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### Problem randomizing answers in eqexam [closed]

I'm trying to use the eqexam package to randomize answers to multiple choice questions in an exam. The package works without options, but when I include the allowrandomize option needed for this ...
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### How to avoid logo on beamer been covered by graphics

While using Beamer I found that when I add figures, if they are big enough they will cover the logo on the bottom-right. How can I define the logo to be on top of every image? The solution I am using ...
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### Using Sweave and XeLaTeX

I'm doing a report that is heavy in R but also would like to use system fonts, so I was hoping to be able to use Sweave and XeLaTeX. My preferred tex editor is TexShop (Mac 10.7), but it seems to ...
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### Does \today use the system clock or take time off of a time server?

I would like to know whether \today gets time off of a time server or the system clock, and when. Does it get the time when compiling? Upon viewing the document created?
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### Indent only first line in multi-line subsection header

I'm requested that my subsection titles look like this: However, so far I didn't manage to achieve that. titlesec documentation didn't help much. The best I could get is something like this: ...
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### Custom style for \listplot or \dataplot

Is it possible to make custom style for \listplot and friends? By default they support only plotstyle=curve, line, bezier, and I need to use bspline from pst-bspline package. \documentclass[a4paper,...
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### How to define an environment that begins with a node?

Please see the following definition: \tikzstyle{boxStyle} = [draw=blue!80, fill=blue!9, very thick, rectangle, rounded corners=3mm, inner sep=10pt, inner ysep=15pt] \tikzstyle{...
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### Bar overlapping in bar plot

I created this graph using pgfplots: As you can see, the bars overlap near 0. How can I solve the problem? MWE \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book} \usepackage{tikz} \...
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### How to reference the most recently used multiply-defined label

I want to be able to do something like the following: \incmycounter{abc} %% counter value initialized to 0; associated with label 'abc' \incmycounter{def} %% counter value initialized to 0; ...
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### Create bar graph wider [closed]

I created a bar graph using pgfplot and option ybar. I would get a graph wider. I used width option \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning}...
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### Distance between related, but separate math terms

Say I have two equations that I would like to have in display math, a_1 = 1 and a_2 = 2. If I just put them like this, they do not look separated enough: $a_1 = 1, a_2 = 2$ I usually use ,\quad ...
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### Image displays until it's wrapped by {figure}

I have the following code which works and adds an image to my document \includegraphics[scale=0.71]{ed.jpg} However when I try to turn it into a figure \begin{figure}[t] \caption{A nice ...
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### Dynamic (sub)sections? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Create context sensitive headings I am working on a rather large document, where the final structure is not quite clear. As another dozen people are working on it, we ...