# All Questions

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### Deleting blank page after title page

Using amsbook, I get a blank white page after the title page and before the TOC. Any way to delete this page? Many thanks. Here is a MWE, for what it's worth: \documentclass[openany]{amsbook} \...
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### Have XeLaTeX use the default Times font in Ubuntu

Using the Texlive PPA backport to Ubuntu 12.04, I am having trouble getting XeLaTeX to use a standard times font (i.e. one that would not be embedded). I am using e.g. \setmainfont{times} and \...
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### Beamerposter example does not work [closed]

I want to create a poster using beamerposter. I am trying to compile this example from the package documentation. Without touching anything, when I compile the example-style-I6dv.tex, I obtain 75 ...
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### Avoid infinite compiler passes with biblatex ibid citation styles?

I've run into a problem when using both gb4e and the authoryear-icomp style of biblatex. [I mistakenly thought gb4e had something to do with this, so this question was originally named Avoid clash of ...
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### Strange spacing when putting a math macro before a binary operation

I found there to be very odd spacing when using a math macro just before a binary operation. Here is a minimal example: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \DeclareMathOperator{\id}{id}...
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### pgfplots with symbolic x coords and error bars

I am trying to plot explicit error bars like this: \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} [symbolic x coords={Lighting,Computers,Total}] \addplot+[only marks] plot[error bars/.cd, y dir=both, y explicit] ...
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### Not having “Chapter” appear in chapter names

If, in amsbook, I write something like \chapter{My great chapter} it appears in the text as Chapter 1. My great chapter I would like to make it appear simply as 1. My great chapter Anyone have ...
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### set minor grid values in pgfplots

I have a weibull plot (at least I try to create a decent one), based on the code shown here. However I do want to have a minor grid as it typically appears in log plots. Here however the y axis tics ...
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### hyperref generated bookmarks pointing too low

I'm using the hyperref package to create a Table of Contents with internal links (bookmarks in Acrobat Reader). However, I don't like the fact that it jumps a little too low when the links are clicked....
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### pass xkeyval option to class

I have read about passing options to classes in this thread, but do not understand what I'm doing wrong. My class is defined like so, using xkeyval and based on memoir. \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \...
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### What's the difference between \paragraph and \paragraph*?

Is there any difference between \paragraph{} and \paragraph*{}? When it's used (if nothing has been modified before, i.e. like in this post: Paragraph header), there's no difference in the created ...
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### multirow and text wrapping

I have a problem using multirow along with text wrapping when spanning cell contains a lot of text. Here is my code: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{...
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### Emacs+AUCTeX lost highlighting

Adding additional highlighted keywords in Emacs+AUCTeX messes up conventional highlighting. My code: (defvar my-new-face (make-face 'my-new-face)) (defvar my-another-new-face (make-face 'my-another-...
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### Random coefficients in the polynom package?

I am using the probsoln package to generate random math quizzes. For polynomial division, I can generate random integer coefficients, but I had planned on using the polynom package to auto-generate ...
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### How to highlight all words of the form [0-9][A-Za-z0-9]* immediately following an equal sign?

I am using the Latex Listings package to include code in a document. I need to implemented syntax highlighting similar to what you see in a standard IDE. I've been able to assign colors to comments, ...
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### Unicode characters changing order in listings (XeTeX)

I am trying to input code listings with unicode characters and everything seems to work (more or less) except some unicode characters being displayed out of order. For example instead of służąca ...
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### How do I make text to appear in multiple columns as in newspapers on Texworks?

How do I make text to appear in multiple columns as in newspapers on Texworks instead of rows?
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### Spacing between footnotes and footnote mark

The school I attend requires that footnotes be single spaced with a blank line in between. That is easy enough with \footnotesep, but the first footnote has to be close to the footnote mark. Not sure ...
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### Filter by value when reading and calculating data using pgfplotstable

I am trying to plot data from a file, using pgfplots for the plot and pgfplotstable to read in the data and calculate a new column (cummulative values from another row), which is plotted as well. My ...
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### Implementing a syntax: Smooth curves with specified points and tangents

Note: the following question is similar to the final version of this question, but none of the answers to that question appear to answer my question. Often, I find it desirable to specify a curve by ...
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### Shaded region between the area and a circle

How can I draw a square whose side is 6 inscribed in a circle and make the program display the shaded region between the square and the circle
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### Reformatting LaTeX code after excel2latex

I use excel2latex to generate tables from Excel. The issue is that excel2latex generates really horribly formatted code with extra spaces, misaligned, etc. Does anyone have another solution to ...
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### Modify tex file to move chapter headers upper

I'd like to modify this code to make chapter titles appear uppper, so more text can get into the first chapter page and modifiy the TOC adding dots from the title to the page number. How can I do it? ...
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### putting the title in the header for an article

For various reasons, I need to put my name and title in the header of a LaTeX document. The reason is I have a page limit and need the extra space which is taken up by \maketitle. Does anyone know ...
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### Plot in TikZ: f(x) = 1/(x – 2) + 3

I am trying to plot the function f(x) = 1/(x-2) + 3 using TikZ, however I get that the domain is undefined. What code should I type?
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### Box around raggedright links spanning two lines extends to right margin

I need to use boxed links and ragged right text. The problem is that when a link spans two lines, though the link is broken correctly (when using pdflatex) the box around the linked text extends until ...
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### Change chapter command

I am using the book class, is there a way to modify the \chapter command to avoid the "Chapter #" above the chapter name and keeping it numbered? Normally I get, for example Chapter 2 The flight of ...