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### Add keyword to a lstlisting language [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Extend a language with additional keywords? I'm using the package listings to write some Scheme code. I setted: \lstset{language=Lisp} since "Lisp" is the most ...
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### Does anyone know what a cmap file has to look like

This may be an off-topic fringe case, but I need it for pdftex... I made an encoding QS7 for ASCII+Greek and now the only thing missing is a CMAP file to enable copying text from acroread. I made ...
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### How can LaTeX code in a data file be read by pgfplotstable?

I would like to place some LaTeX math code in the columns of a file to be read by pgfplotstable. Unlike How to use underscores with pgfplotstable?, I would like the columns to be formatted so LaTeX ...
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### Reduce space after \includegraphics

I do not know how to reduce the vertical space between a figure and the following text or line. LaTeX code: \begin{document} \centering \includegraphics[width = 5.0cm]{logo.png} \HRule ...
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### How do I make a bibtex style file compatible with natbib author citations

I'm trying to convert my manuscript to PloS Comp Bio style. They provide a BibTeX style file. This works fine for inline citations with \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib} (i.e. ...
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### Keeping the same style inside a scaled plot

I have a graph with three different curves, two of which are very small compared to the other. I therefore decided to add a magnification of such curves inside my graph, in the following way: ...
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### How to use the command \autoref to implement the same effect when use the command \eqref?

For example, the first equation of Section 1 in a tex file is numbered in the form (1.1), When we use the commands \autoref and \eqref for referring it, the compiled pdf file will show Equation 1.1 ...
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### Insert a separate mark inside a pgfplots graph

First of all, let me apologize if the title is not enough clear, but I didn't know how to explain myself better. I have a graph consisting in three different curves that are covering almost the same ...
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### starred version of \DeclareMathOperator not working

I am using Kile as my LaTeX editor. I have defined a star for DeclareMathOperator but it does show the behavior of \limits, the subscript appears only in the sides rather than below. But using maptop ...
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### beamerarticle - problem with commands in sections

I encountered the following problem with the beamerarticle package. If I use commands like \textit{} I get the following error massage: ./test.tex:7: Argument of \@sect has an extra }. <inserted ...
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### The whitespace character in listings [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Explicit space character? The listings package by default replaces spaces in (for example) strings with a strange underscore style thing, almost like a square bracket ...
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### Label automatically positioned so that it doesn't overlap anything

I produce automatically generated LaTeX-files with nodes and links. Is it possible to put the label of the node outside of the node and it is automatically positioned somewhere, such that there is no ...
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### I need to change the font to computer modern for one word [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: change font of certain part of the text My problem is exactly that. I need to change the font to computer modern for one word.
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### How can numbering of specific headings be disabled in Org-mode's LaTeX export?

By default Org-mode exports to numbered LaTeX headings. For example, the following #+title: Test * Introduction * Heading * Heading * References exports to \section{Introduction} \label{sec-1} ...
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### High level macros and environments based on Tikz

I was browsing the tikz examples that I found this wonderful example. The example uses tikz to create a tex environment to produce a framed text. The result looks like this: The underlying process ...
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### Drawing a Zero Pole plot

I'm trying to draw a zero-pole plot for use with some filter design. Since i couldn't find any standard way to go about this, I tried using the polar library of PGFPlots. I'm having some trouble, ...
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### How can I add automatic consistency tests for formulas in my paper? [closed]

Let me start with an analogy: In test driven software development, you craft a couple of tests that describe what your program is supposed to do. When introducing a new feature, you start with a test ...
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### vertical text orientation (multiple rows) in tabular environment

I would like to create a table that is labelled like the axis of a plot, i.e. a vertical orientation of the y-axis' label. This is what I have \begin{tabular}{rc|c|c|c|} ...
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### Installing Texlive on Debian x86-64 Platform

I had previously worked with the texlive distribution provided in the Debian repository, but I came across many inconveniences as a result of it being outdated (no tlmgr; forced to manually update and ...
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### PDF bookmarks for sections and subsections with the llncs class

The following code is in the preamble of my LaTeX document: \documentclass{llncs} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{url} \usepackage[algoruled,vlined]{algorithm2e} ...
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### Frame breaks inside mdframed environment with beamer class

The mdframed environment fails to break into several pages (slides) when used in a frame environment from the beamer class. In the other hand, the boitecoloriee environment from the boites package ...
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### Does Windows version of TeX contain patgen?

I know two Windows versions of TeX -- MiKTeX and proTeXt. Do they contain patgen package? If not, what Windows version of TeX contain the package? Can MiKTeX or proTeXt import such package from TeX ...
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### “nodes near coords” shows y value instead of x

I am pretty new to LaTeX and have the following problem. From the pgfplots manual I found the example: % Preamble: \pgfplotsset{width=7cm,compat=1.5.1} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ ...
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### Shrinking text in a node, such that the minimum width and minimum height are the actual width and height of the node

I want to shrink the text in a node such that the minimum height and width are the actual width and height of the node. I found this Shrinking text to the width of a node within a tikzpicture, but I ...
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### Multiple TIKZ-UML usecase not showing correctly when included in document

I'm using TIKZ-UML to create four simple usecase diagrams. I have made them individually in seperate files to make sure that they all compile as they should. I include the required packages in my ...
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### Should \tikzset or \tikzstyle be used to define TikZ styles?

The PGF/TikZ manual states in section 12.4 Using Graphic Options, page 120 (v2.10), that TikZ styles can be set using: \tikzset{my style/.style={<tikz options>},...} However, in several ...
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### Show only the last two year digits in Biblatex citation

I'm writing a piece where I'm citing several standards, for example @STANDARD{en1990, title = {EN 1990: Eurocode: Basis of Structural Design}, organization = {Comit\'e Europ\'een de Normalisation ...
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### How to put a quotation box wrapped in text?

What is the easiest way to put a box for quotation wrapped within text as we do for figure with wrapfig. Like half-sized box of text in magazines. I am trying float, but I am not sure if it is the ...
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### Book style used in Concrete Mathematics

Does anyone know what style is used in Dr. Knuth's Concrete Mathematics? I'm hoping to use it for my dissertation. I know that they use the concrete and Euler fonts, but with regards Chapter ...
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### LaTeX installation query

I have just installed TeX Live 2011 using the install-tl Perl script on my extenal hard drive. What do I have to do next in order to get LaTeX up and running? EDIT: i am using ubuntu 11.10. Terribly ...
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### Why does biblatex-chicago print accessed twice in bibliography?

I am using biblatex-chicago to manage my bibliography but whenever I try to set a bibliography entry with the urldate field, it prints the word 'accessed' twice. I have created a minimal example to ...
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### Quote marks are backwards (using texmaker/PDFLatex) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the best way to use quotation mark glyphs Automatically convert quotations in the form of “abc” to become abc" I am (obviously) new to LaTeX and ...
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### “For” loop without “do”; “if” statement without “then”

How can I get rid of the do in a for loop and the then in an if statement when typesetting algorithms using the algorithm and algorithmicx packages?
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### Aligning sub-equations within align

Update: How do I align both the \sum signs and the = signs in the last two equations? I have updated the picture. Original Question: When I use the following code: \begin{split} ...
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### Multi-line brackets in align [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to make \left, \right pairs of delimiter work over multiple lines? The following code (from the official User's Guide for the amsmath Package) works: ...
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### Detect markers in macro arguments

I'd like to find a way to define a command which would work like this \mycommand{This +is+ a +simple example+.} and give This is a simple example. i.e a command which looks for words ...
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### Table specific questions

I use report class and I have just started working with tables. I have created one: \begin{table} [ht] \centering \caption{Ut convallis pharetra augue at aliquet} \label{table1_disc_log} \small ...
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### longtable spanning multicolumns

How to use make a longtable span across a two-column document? I'm working on a twocolumn class, and I'd like to make the longtable be centralized in the page, as well as to make the orphan items, ...
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### pdfTeX warning: “version allowed”

After including some figures (saved as .pdfs) in my LaTeX document with \includegraphics, I got the following warning: pdfTeX warning: pdflatex.exe (file ./figure/figure_1.pdf): PDF inclusion: ...
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### Does tex know its own command line arguments?

Is it possible to test within the document what commandline arguments were passed to tex? The particular case that prompts this is the question Tabs in output file written by xelatex and pdflatex are ...
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### Properly align numbers with units in table

I need to typeset a table comparing, among other things, the temporal resolution of certain datasets. Ordinarily, I would put the common unit into the table header, and only list the values in the ...
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### Hiding a part of a plot

Is there a way to hide a part of a plot, possibly by specifying the interval numerically? I have a plot with xmin, xmax, ymin and ymax defined and I need to move it from the y axis without using ...