# All Questions

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### XOR and II (concatenation) summation symbols

In Latex, in math mode, if I want to express summation over a range I can use the following expression \sum_{from}^{to}. I can do the same for the product. What is the name of the symbol that does ...
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### Define Macros depending on argument

I'd like to draw some linear Systems with tikz. The problem is the orientation of the Systems. Some have input on left - output on right input on right - output on left input above - output below ...
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### Spaces within a set of tuples

I want to have a set of tuples spaced with ":". I tried the following: $\{1:1, 1:0, 0:1, 2:1, 1:2, 2:2\}$ but in the output, there is a space between the number and the colon. How can I get rid of ...
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### How to get correct rendering for \dh \TH (ð þ Þ)?

I have some references containing \dh and \TH. When using these symbols in either the LaTeX source or the .bib file I only get a black box. Neither \dh nor ð works. According to the documentation, T1 ...
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### \StrLeft has no effect on \citetitle

\footfullcite uses too much space so I decided to define a own command. I called it \footshortcite. It only display a pre- and a post-Option and the Author with Year. However, I don't like that most ...
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### Difference between \relax and % for ending a line

when would I use one over the other? Are they the same?
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### Typesetting Right-to-Left math

UPDATE: I've managed to produce something that is aesthetically correct, however with a lot of "hardcoding" and trial and error to manually measure my spaces. Not to mention that I have to write my ...
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### Inverse PDF Search in beamer

Can you please help in fixing a problem with inverse PDF search in beamer documents beamer does not work correctly with SyncTeX. Inverse PDF search (in Sumatra, Texworks, etc. I’ve tried all windows ...
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### How can I split a beamer bibliography across two slides?

I have several citations in a beamer-based presentation. Is it possible to split the bibliography across two slides? I'm using natbib / bibtex. And I currently just have: \begin{frame} \tiny ...
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### How to undo a \def (i.e., Need a \undef capability)

I thought the way to undo a \def was to define it to \relax, but that does not appear to work. Also, am not sure why this produces no output if I try to use \def instead of \let in my attempt to do ...
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### Length between nested lists in beamer

How do I adjust the length between nested lists? For example, in the following, I would like to adjust the distance where it states "distance here" \begin{itemize} \item one %% distance here ...
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### Diagonal strikeout starting too low and ending too high

I want to strikeout an equation with diagonal line but I've not managed to get the diagonal line to draw as I want. The closest I've gotten is via the first example in Frédéric's answer of \cancel ...
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### How to add border for an image?

I use \includegraphics command to insert image to the document. But how can I add a border around this image w/o any margin between border lines and image? It seems to be very easy, but I can't find ...
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### How to test if a directory exists

The command \IfFileExists works great to test is a file exists. Is there an equivalent to test if a directory exists? \IfFileExists does not seem to work for directories. \documentclass{article} ...
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### biblatex : which style for a footnote once then nothing?

Ok sorry for this not so clear title. I'm having trouble to express & find what seems so simple :s I'm biblatex and I would like to know which citation style/bibliographical style and/or option I ...
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### Why wasn't \fbox defined to enclose its contents based on the most left, right, bottom, top parts of its contents?

Case 1: \fbox cannot enclose characters tightly Why don't \fbox and PSTricks \psframebox enclose its contents accurately? In my opinion, every edge should exactly touch the outer part of its ...
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### Wrapfigures beneath section headings misbehave

I'm writing a chemistry thesis and my experimental basically consists of section headings (naming the compound), followed immediately by a wrapfigure (an eps of the compound structure), followed by ...
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### line break aware custom environment

I have a use-case where I would like to specify some special formatting for the text being input via the \input command. This text is customer's address being printed in some sort of a form. Ideally ...
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### Drawing tri-axial ellipsoid and intersecting it with a sphere [closed]

I would like to draw a tri-axial ellipsoid (that is, an ellipsoid with three different main axes). I'd also like to draw a sphere in the same picture, showing the curves of intersection between the ...
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### Linking text nodes in a page

I'd like to know what package can link nodes in different parts of a page. To simplify my question I uploaded an example extracted of tkz-linknodes manual (AlterMundus). Please note that the page ...
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### Height of sparkline

I'm trying to place a sparkline in a ctable using the sparklines package. \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{ctable} \usepackage{sparklines} \begin{document} \ctable[ caption = ...
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### Strikeout in math mode

How can I strikeout words in math mode (similar to \sout with \usepackage{ulem} in text mode)? I've tried \usepackage{cancel} and $$\cancel{1+1=2}$$ but that draws a diagonal line.
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### Hyphenating a verse range

I am typesetting verses using bibleref and sometimes verse ranges get cut in the end of lines. For example, in: Jean 3.16-18 the cut might happen right after the "-" (which is actually typeset as ...
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### Export Latex to an png/pdf file [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Compile a latex document into a png image that's as short as possible. I once found a class on the Internet which allowed to export an latex image to an ...
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### biblatex: is it possible to combine two styles?

Ok so after my first question yesterday Clickable, bottom page reference ?! Possible ? and based on the received answer I decided to head for biblatex, install biber and all. But the documentation is ...
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### How can I restrict the placement of images? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned It is there any chance to stop the auto-inversion of the images from a pdf (generated with MiKTeX 2.9) file? ...
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### Biblatex: How to suppress same author of multiple citations?

I need to use the features of biblatex's verbose citestyle but I don't want it to repeat the author's name in multiple citations by the same author (like the authortitle-comp option). Currently, ...
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### Horizontal row separation line in tikz matrix (like \hline in tabular)

In this question tikz-matrix-as-a-replacement-for-tabular a nice solution was given to let the matrix in tikz behave like tabular. In this solution cell/.style={rectangle} was used to draw lines ...
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### beamer & TikZ: gradually unveil trees

Imagine a simple tree: \begin{tikzpicture} \node {Selbstregulation} [edge from parent fork down] child {node {Kognition}} child {node {Metakognition} child {node {Planung}} ...
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### Dynamic stretching of text

For the needs of a running title (in header), I would like the text of a running title (in header) to be stretched over the page. So far, I stretch it manually (using LetterSpace and WordSpace in ...
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### biblatex: What's the first character of a field?

I would like to know, what's the first character of the value of the editor field. If the character is a curly bracket "{" the value should be printed for example bold, if the first character is ...
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### Space after lettrine

When using the lettrine package, there are often additional spaces after the small caps: It can get even bigger than that actually. It seems to me that this is because lettrine uses an mbox to ...
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### Is it possible to force auto-pst-pdf to use --hires option when it internally invokes pdfcrop?

What is --hires for? To obtain a better result when cropping a pdf image produced by PSTricks, I use --hires option as follows latex filename.tex dvips filename.dvi ps2pdf ...
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### bibtex: editor field: how to clasp a none-name value?

For compiling a bibliography I'm using BibLaTex and for managing the bib-file I'm using BibDesk. The names-sequence is surname before given name(s) separated by a comma. For example: Müller, Peter ...
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### Fixing an overfull box

I have an overfull box in a French text which looks like this: The sequence at the end of the line is: d'Ananias~: \og Vous "Vous" cannot be hyphenated and \og inserts a non-secable space, so ...
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### How to enable ligatures for emdash/endash in LuaTeX ?

I cannot switch on ligatures for emdash (---) and endash (--) in LuaLaTeX. Here is my test file: % !Mode:: "TeX:UTF-8" \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} ...
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### Tex Capacity Exceeded (if remove % after use of macro)

I don't understand why this simple (but lengthy) iteration results in TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000], if I remove the last % following the call to \DoNothing. I thought that a ...
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### Reduce white space before and after multicols environment

I wonder how to reduce the vertical space before and after a multicols environment. I have something like below \begin{multicols}{3} { $$\sum F_x = 0$$ ...
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### Passing \newenvironment parameters to the end block?

I am attempting to construct a new environment which will allow me to format arbitrary list types (itemize, enumerate, description etc.) with the new environment. As such I am passing it as a ...
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### Attractive Boxed Equations

I often used \boxed{...} from the AMS math package to place a box around important equations. However, this approach often produces somewhat awkward looking output. Consider \documentclass{article} ...
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### Clickable, bottom page reference ?! Possible ?

I'm new here but I see the place looks hyperactive. I guess I'll ask a lot in the next months. So new to LaTeX and starting my PhD thesis redaction. I got this template for a PhD thesis at ...
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### Vertical Alignment of Minipage

I have a question, I'm using the following setup for a title page: \begin{titlepage} \begin{center} \textsc{\LARGE University Name}\\[1.5cm] \textsc{\Large Bachelor thesis}\\[2cm] { \huge \bfseries ...
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### How to compile a ConTeXt input file that contains PSTricks code?

I can compile the following input file using context filename unless I un-comment the PSTricks code. \usemodule[pstricks] \setuphead[title][style={\ss\bfd}, before={\begingroup}, after={John ...
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### Signature in preface

I would like to make a signature field in the preface which looks like this: City(#1) \today ___________________ ______________________ ...
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### A cookbook in LaTeX?

I am interested in making a cookbook in LaTeX. Each page will contain a recipe, including ingredients, instructions, and a photo of the finished food. Has this been done previously? Where do I ...
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### Excluding chapters from ToC in amsbook

I'm writing a book using the amsbook class, and I've included a page for acknowledgements using \chapter*{}, thinking it wouldn't show up in the ToC. However, it does (and for some reason it's ...
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### Line with transparence changing with TikZ

I'd like to have a colored line that starts with transparent 100 and ends with trasparent, let's say, 30. I tried this code: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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### What is the right order when using \frontmatter, \tableofcontents, \mainmatter, \part, \chapter, \backmatter, \appendix etc?

I am using the book documentclass and want to know the correct order when arranging \frontmatter \maketitle or \begin{titlepage}...\end{titlepage} a page that contains copyright, ISBN, edition ...
How can you make the matrix cell contents aligned to the top? I am using plain format with XeTeX. \input tikz \usetikzlibrary{matrix} \hbox{I'd like for the cells to be top-aligned}\cases{ ...