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### xparse verbatim with newline

I'm trying to define a simple command using xparse and it's verbatim argument: \DeclareDocumentCommand\macro{v}{#1} but see ! LaTeX error: "xparse/verbatim-newline" ! ! Verbatim argument of ...
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### Remove whitespace before tabular within textblock*

Could you help me align Text2, within tabular and textblock*, to the baseline of Text1? Would be much appreciated. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos} \begin{document} ...
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### center horizontally and vertically a block of text

I would center horizontally and vertically a block of text as if it was an abstract text block.How can I do? I tried this: \null\vfill \begin{center} \end{center} \vfill\null it It correct?
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### How do I paste codepoints outside of the basic multilingual plane with accsupp or \pdfglyphtounicode?

As described in the answers to this question, the accsupp package can be used to have symbols paste as arbitrary Unicode codepoints. For example you might want to write something like the following, ...
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### pmatrix line break

I wrote a matrix using the pmatrix environment. The content is very long and LaTeX produces an output of the kind (the "a" line extending beyond \textwidth): ( aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa + aaa aaa aaa ) ...
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### How to modify this command to vertically align a table cell?

This minimal code example: \documentclass[helvetica,portuguese,narrow]{europecv} \usepackage[top=1.5cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=1.5cm, right=1.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} ...
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### Using Terminal to run LaTeX commands

Since I always used TeXShop to compile my tex-files I did not have to run LaTeX commands via terminal (many macros like BibTeX, MakeIndex etc. are included in TeXShop). Now that I want to include an ...
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### TikZ compiles fine with pdfLaTeX but all labels are placed at origin with pdfTeX [closed]

I have the following code that works just fine when I compile with pdflatex, but does not work right with latex. In the second case, the lines are fine (at least to my eyes) but all labels are written ...
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### center the listings title above the code

I can't manage to center the title "Listing:1" over the listing. \documentclass[8pt,blue]{beamer} \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} \usepackage{subfigure} \usepackage{fontspec} ...
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### Savebox with \bgroup/\egroup doesn't work in beamer (for environment)

This works: \documentclass{article} \newsavebox{\mybox} \begin{document} \savebox{\mybox}\bgroup This is a test.\egroup\usebox{\mybox} \end{document} But this fails (Missing } inserted. at the ...
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### How to produce layers of running commentaries?

I am looking to make a quite common document for which I'm nevertheless having difficulty finding the right package/setup. I want to produce a Sanskrit document (using xelatex) of a base text with ...
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### Two Captions for the table

I got tables working based on MWE. It was provided by @Yiannis Lazarides How to create new table environment How can I create two captions one on the top and one on the bottom. ...
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I am trying to plot a small dataset and a regression line for it. Here is my MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{filecontents} ...
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### How to use classicthesis?

Once I discovered classicthesis I fell in love with the layout and used it for study reports and so on. In the first step I downloaded the sources and customized the settings in various files as ...
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### pdftex: Embedded pdf graphics not printed or partially printed

My problem concerns PDF not being portable across platforms. I use these apps: * MacOSX 10.6.8. * Texshop 2.47, right out of the box, nothing customized. Default command is LaTeX. Default script is ...
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### How to draw tangent lines at control points of a path in TikZ?

I'm drawing smooth paths by using the \draw plot[smooth, tension=.7] coordinates ... command. Now I would like to draw tangents at the specified coordinates. I alreade tried Jake's answer, but I ...
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### Vertical line in middle of a binomial tree (lattice)

This is a really tough problem that I have no idea how to solve. I wish to have a dotted veritcal line in the middle of my binomial tree, with a $\tau$ underneath.. The kind of thing I want is as ...
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### \thispagestyle{empty} and page numbering [closed]

I'm trying to suppress the page number on a few pages of a large document. I'm using \thispagestyle{empty} to perform this task, and it works exactly as I want it to. However, when I later compile the ...
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### Setting page numbers correctly

I'm preparing a paper and I created a title page, an abstract page and an acknowledgments page. Those pages must not show page numbers. So I used \setcounter{page}{-1} for the title page and ...
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### blank page not created

I create a blank page using \newcommand\blankpage{ %comando pagina vuota \null \thispagestyle{empty}% \addtocounter{page}{-1}% \newpage} Here it is one my page: ...
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### Reduce spacing between items [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Vertical space in lists Please, how can I reduce spacing between items ? \begin{itemize} \item[\textbullet] first \item[\textbullet] second \item[\textbullet] third ...
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### Minor bugfixes and adjustments for the TOC of classicthesis

I am using classicthesis and prepared my document with parts, chapters and sections. This produces the following table of contents. There are some details that I would like to fix: Longer part ...
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### delete page number in cleardoublepage [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to remove headers and footers for pages between chapters? I created a document using \documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twoside, openright]{book} ...
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### Footnote rule in beamer showing too early with overlays

Consider the following MWE : \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item item \item item\footnote<.->{footnote} \item item \end{itemize} ...
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### Why can't I get pstricks with auto-pst-pdf (and cropping) running on MikTeX?

\documentclass{minimal} \usepackage[pdf]{pstricks} \begin{document} \begin{pspicture}(-5.25,-5.25)(5.25,5.25)% \pscircle*[linecolor=cyan]{5} ...
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### miktex, ucs, uni-global.def and empty unicode directory

I'm trying to compile a cv with LaTeX and the europecv class. Compilation fails because a file named uni-global.def is missing. After a Google search, I found that file should be into the ...
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### Making 1 skinny column in TikZ binomial tree

I have a binomial tree with arrows pointing backwards. I currently have short arrows pointing towards the left-most node (which is invisible). This first colum is taking up very little visual space, ...
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### correcting kerning for tikz shapes as accents in mid-word

I'm trying to place arrow shapes above certain letters in a text. I tried compensating for the extra space of the tikzpicture in mid-word, using execute at begin picture and its end pair. The results ...
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### (Tikz) graphics: series of pictures _outside_ beamer-style frames and overlays?

I want to create a series of related graphs, for instance, higlighting the traversal through a graph. It works nice using overlays in beamer frames. Can I do analogous things in a normal document? ...
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### \textsuperimposetilde does not superimpose as \sum subscript

Compiling the document, the tilde and P lie seperately under the \sum operator, but as the command superimpose would suggest, I would like them to be superimposed. Works just fine when using ...
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### alltt package's \alltt{} makes a newline

alltt causes a line break (newline). How do i suppress this? I want something to the effect of \verb+HELLO+ in that it does what \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim} does except doesn't cause the line to ...
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### Highlighting some nodes of a TikZ binomial tree

In this binomial tree I have 4 columns of nodes. I want the entire last column to be highlighted with light blue, and perhaps a border around this highlighting. Something like a opaque blue-ish ...
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### Using .bib files for bibliographies

When using references in my document, I'm used to having a central .bib file from which I pull all my references (using \bibliography{path/to/bibfile}) and then let the journal's .bst file do the ...
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### Is there an easy way to use only mathpazo's blackboard-bold facilities (without it using Palatino)?

The mathpazo package sets Palatino as the document's main font. However I am only interested in its blackboard bold symbols. Is there an easy way for me to only use Mathpazo's bb symbols?
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### create a horizonal line having the length of the text

I would insert two horizontal line here an example: ------- Foo ------- I had used hrulefill but the line has the length of the page.
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### Difference between various methods for producing text in math mode

What is the difference between \text, \textrm, \textnormal, and \mbox (and possibly other commands commonly used to produce text in math mode)? Various (La)TeX tutorials teach different methods, and ...
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### Why are so many symbols restricted to math mode?

A common beginner's mistake is to forget $$...$$/$...$ around symbols that require math mode. Why doesn't (La)TeX let people use isolated symbols in text mode by default? I am sure there are at ...
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### Align the text in flushright block

I had two different lines into a block flushright.it is so: Foo Hello Everyone I would align these two lines in this way: Foo Hello Everyone Edit: \begin{flushright} Foo Hello ...
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### customs margins of my paper [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Latex margins, need specific advice for publishing specifications I'm trying to set the margins of my paper using geometry. I would set the margin of binding 3.5cm ...
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### \read: trailing spaces are removed

I'm trying to copy a (binary) file with LaTeX (mostly for the sake of it), but when I read a line, the trailing spaces are removed. The MWE, based on this TeX.SX answer: \edef\infile{infile} ...
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### \part and \chapter commands output both numbered and named headings

I have the following LaTeX document being compiled in TeXstudio 2.3 on Windows 7 (mode is PdfLatex + PdfViewer): \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report} % Modified \part and \chapter from report.cls ...
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### Problem with pgf-pie and \newcommand use

I am currently using pgf-pie package and I face a problem when I write the pgf-pie content using \newcommand instruction. The following MWE \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgf-pie} ...
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### How to customize the page header and the page number of classicthesis?

I am using the classicthesis package and would like to customize the page headers and the page numbers. Here is a test project that shows the problem. \documentclass[dottedtoc, headinclude, ...
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### Empty page with number at the end of chapter

My thesis document is having an empty page at the end of the chapter. The page is numbered too. Any ideas what could have caused this ?
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### How to outsource \hypersetup to an external file?

I use the hyperref package and defined custom settings as follows: \usepackage{color} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{hyperref} \hypersetup{ bookmarks=true, ...
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### Problem/solution environment

I'm writing a textbook and an accompanying solution manual. In the book, I have a series of exercises at the end of each chapter. As the number of chapters and exercises grows, I'm getting to the ...
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### Have almost managed to get my TOC the way I want, but need help making it 100% perfect

If you compile my current TOC code: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book} \usepackage{lipsum,kantlipsum} \usepackage[dotinlabels]{titletoc} \contentsmargin{0pt} ...