# All Questions

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### Biblatex's textcite inserts a breaking space between author names and citation number

I have the following document : \documentclass{article} \usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric,maxnames=2,maxbibnames=6,firstinits]{biblatex} \bibliography{sample} \begin{document} Here we want to ...
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### Spacing after itemize inside a tabular

I have a problem with the spacing after an itemize inside a tabular. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{framed} ...
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### Problem with beamer xcolor and cellcolor

I'm having trouble changing the cellcolor in beamer. I've loaded xcolor alongside beamer, and specified the svgnames and table options; \documentclass[xcolor=svgnames,smaller,12pt,table]{beamer} ...
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### How to resolve option clash for package xcolor? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Option clash with xcolor and TikZ The following is my MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage[table]{xcolor} \begin{document} Hi! \end{document} ...
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### Abbreviating text within a reference

IEEE conferences want references which abbreviate certain words, like: International -> Int. Conference -> Conf. etc... I realize that IEEEabrv.bib provides similar functionality, but that ...
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### What is a good practice to achieve vertical placement? (e.g. a Titlepage)

My titlepage looks right now like this: using this code: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside,titlepage,german,final]{scrreprt} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} ...
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### \DoubleSpacing not working as described [closed]

Page 48 of the memoir manual states this about using \DoubleSpacing: The spacing in footnotes and floats (e.g., captions) is un- altered, which is usually required once the controllers see what ...
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### Add four images on a beamer frame

What is the best way to add four images on a beamer frame? I am using \documentclass[slidestop,compress,11pt,xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer} \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif} \definecolor{LHCblue}{RGB}{4, ...
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### In graphics/graphicx, how to show actual pictures despite draft mode

For collaboration purposes I am using the draft mode in my LaTeX manuscript to show todo-notes, remarks and so on. By switching to final mode all of these additions become unvisible. However, I'd ...
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### Problem with pdfcomment and pdfsync [duplicate]

I have a problem with using both pdfsync and pdfcomment together: once I use pdfsync, the comment causes a line break, which it shouldn't do. As an example, compile with and without ...
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### Using align within savebox?

I have a custom environment called 'quiz' which puts its input into a savebox and then uses it later depending on a package option. The code works fine, unless I use an align* environment in which ...
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### Adding numbers to references with authoryear citation style

My document is based on the report class. I am using custom bibtex style file generated through makebst for my thesis and the citation style I need is authoryear. The references are to be sorted ...
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### Strikeout - when which package ? ( ulem vs soul vs …)

When to use which package for strikeout? I see answers : \usepackage{ulem} \sout{Hello World} or \usepackage{soul} \st{Hello world} or \usepackage{cancel} \cancel{Hello world} In what ...
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I would like to know if the siunitx package offers the possibility of adding an adjective after the unit, to get a hyphenated compound adjective. For instance, when typesetting "a 10 km-long road", I ...
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### Macro which creates another macro with custom name

I want to create a macro \foo which creates another macro which a custom name set just before the execution of \foo via a macro \defcommand{myCustomName} and saves/adds something to it just as the ...
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\pgfkeys{/pgf/fpu} \pgfmathsetlengthmacro\x{5^2} \show\x -> 25.0pt % OK, thanks. \pgfmathparse{5cm^2} What is the meaning of ] in the following? \show\pgfmathresult % ->1Y2.0238983e4]. ...
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### How to put two images side by side and put some symbol in the center?

I want to put two images side by side and put a comparison symbol in between them. Here is the tikz code : \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage[margin=15mm]{geometry} ...
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### Decorate path with arrows at nodes

Standalone example: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[black, very thick] plot[smooth] coordinates {(4,1) (2,2) (1,3) ...
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### font name with a space, using XeLaTeX and fontspec

I use XeLaTeX, amsmath, fontspec, unicode-math and standalone to create a pdf containing one single equation which I then import to Inkscape for a poster. When using font names with a space in it, ...
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### algorithmicx package comments on a single line

Is it possible in algorithmicx package to have comments not aligned to the right side? For example I have code like this - \begin{algorithm}[!ht] \caption{My Algo.} \label{myalgo} ...
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### Create xkcd style diagram in TeX

The unique style of the diagrams at xkcd has an informative but nice hand-drawn touch. I guess they are actually drawn by hand but just recently on our partner site for Mathematica someone asked how ...
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### parindent in TikZ node

I'm playing around with the new ocgx package. It uses TikZ nodes to place text. Unfortunately, parindent does not work in the nodes. Is there a way to make it work? Edit (source code) ...
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### How to use pgfplotstable's iflessthan key

pgfplotstable offers the iflessthan key to define a custom comparison function: /pgfplots/iflessthan/.code args={##1##2##3##4}{<...>} I just don't know how to use it, there's no example in the ...
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### Control column width with left alignment in tabular

I want to make a table with a bigger than default column width for the first column. The text in this column should be left aligned. Here is my code. \begin{tabular}{llll|l} Address1 ...
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### The option vlined with algorithm

Please i ask if it's possible to add the option: [vlined] withe the package \usepackage{algorithm} \usepackage{algorithmic} This is my example: \usepackage{algorithm} ...
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### Unexpected clash between babel and pgf spy

The following example taken from the pgfplots manual (p. 121) works fine only if the line loading babel is commented \documentclass{article} \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} % this is the troubelsome ...
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### ToC like list of definitions (using theorem environments)

For one of my documents I use these commands to setup my theorem environments with amsthm: \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{framed} \colorlet{shadecolor}{lightgray!25} ...
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### How can I customize this code for signature line to fit a specific format?

Found a nice piece of code here dynamic signature/date line and modified it to this: \newcommand*{\DateAndSignature}[1]{% ..\newline \par\noindent\makebox[2.25in]{Musterstadt, den}{\hrulefill} ...
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### Can I use hanging indentations for my bibliography references with bibtex?

I have used hangparas from the hanging package, tried setting bibhang, setting parskip and leftindent to no avail. I have an author-year citation format and plainnat.bst and savetrees package if this ...
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### Increase Spacing in an algorithm

Please, how can i increase spacing in an algorithm, between instruction 1 et instruction 2 ? \usepackage{algorithm} \usepackage{algorithmic} \begin{document} \begin{algorithm}[H] \caption{My ...
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### Optimised visualisation of top circles in beamer [closed]

I am making a presentation in Beamer. I am using smoothbars as an outer theme. However I am having a problem when a section has many frames, as indicated in the following image ...
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### pgfplots: lines and markers in different colors

With pgfplots, I am creating a simple coordinate plot with error bars like this: \documentclass[crop,10pt]{standalone} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document}% ...
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### Opacity in TikZ, ruins whole structure in Beamer [closed]

I am making a presentation in beamer. I wanted to make a TikZ picture and change it's opacity, locally on specific items. When I did, the structure color changed... I will attach my preable as well ...
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### Removing scientific notation in tikzpicture made by matlab2tikz

I am having a very hard time trying to figure out how to remove the scientific notations on the y-axis of my graphs. The graphs are made in MATLAB and then converted into TikZ files using the package ...
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### How shoud I manage captions and sub captions with float and non float items?

I am currently writing my PhD thesis and I am using this code to put some figures or tables on the left page. So, I have two kinds of figures, some are in a float, some are not. In both cases, I often ...
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### “Namethatchar” macro

I am searching for a macro/package that would give the name of characters. Here are a few examples of a possible behaviour: \namethatchar{A} → A \namethatchar{À} → Agrave \namethatchar{a} → a ...
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### Use float counter in a section title

I defined a new float environment for examples \usepackage{float \newfloat{example}{htp}{example} \floatname{example}{Example} that I the use throughout the document \begin{example} ... ...
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### natbib: temporary citation for missing references?

Is there a way I can specify a placeholder text for citations in which bibliographies are missing? For instance, I would imagine the syntax might look something like \citep[Author, Year]{AuthorYear}. ...
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### Show code similar to documentation of packages

I saw that several documentation packages use the environment to show macrocode long codes with page break, the example implementation of the package geometry. How do I do this? I wanted to show a ...
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### A macro for looping through a pgfplotstable set by cell

Hi following on from the following question on multi-line headers with pgfplotstable, the solution was to set each affected cell individually. I decided to throw together a command to do that but keep ...
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### Tikz bug with math in decoration text?

Following this example, I write: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{ decorations.text, } \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \coordinate (a) at (0,0); \coordinate (b) ...
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### How to create counters that display and increment dates in ConTeXt?

I need to create a document that has section titles named "October 1, 2012", "October 2, 2012", etc., like this: \section{October 1, 2012} This is text for the first day. \section{October 2, ...
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### Lost float in exam class

For some reason, I can't seem to put a figure or a table environment inside a solution environment while using the exam class. It produces a float is lost error. Has anyone found a way to bypass this ...
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### How to line up blocks in columns with full width blocks in beamer/beamerposter?

This input to pdflatex (whatever version of texlive is on Debian/squeeze) \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a3,scale=0.9]{beamerposter} \usepackage{lipsum} ...
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### inner-column labeled matrix

I am slowly becoming more efficient with math environments and macros in TeX, but occasionally come across something where I'm not really sure what the best solution would be. I wanted to hear from ...
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### LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor

I have an option clash between package xcolor and another package, but I don't know which. Here is my MWE \documentclass[10pt]{beamer} \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} \usepackage{caption} ...
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### Text wrap in multicols

The following LaTex code (credit) features a table within muticols: \usepackage{multicol} ... \begin{multicols}{3} \subsubsection{Another Subsubsection} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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### Aligned equations in LaTeX

I have a long equation in LaTeX, which I need to break up into more lines. I've done this, although its not quite what I was looking for. Here is a MWE showing my problem: ...
I have a document, where I want to use $\tau_{ff}$. If this is rendered it looks like a space is inserted between the two f's. $\tau_{rl}$ looks fine ... Where does this additional space come from ...