# All Questions

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### Preparing an abstracts book for a session

I have a list of contributions for a conference, with each one consisting of a serial number, a title, a list of authors, and an abstract. What I'd like to do is: typeset the list of contributions ...
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### Style to make axis tick label opaque using “extra y tick” feature

This is a follow up to Style to make axis tick label opaque, where a suggestion was made to use the extra y ticks to specify special tick marks and use extra y tick style to apply a style to only ...
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### white text on black background in entire table

I am looking for a way have white text on black background in the PDF output of PDFLaTeX applied to a document containing a basic table with dividing lines and some colored links. Using ...
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### \DTLdeletedb (from datatool package) has no effect within \foreach

This question led to a new feature in a package: datatool \DTLgdeletedb is available in (v2.13) and later. I am trying to use a \foreach loop to iterate over a few items. For each iteration ...
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### Change distance between page number and bottom edge of page

I am trying to make my page numbers .75in from the bottom of the page. Currently they are about .5in or so. I think \usepackage{fancyhdr} will work but what is the option to change this without ...
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### How to rename a command for a symbol

I'm using the symbol int for the interior of the topological space and Int for the interior of a closed manifold in Rn. But \int is the built-in command for the 'integral' symbol. How can I rename ...
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### How do I put a side brace around several lines in the align* environment?

I would like to put a side brace around several lines in the align* environment, as shown in the comments in the code below: \begin{align*} left side & = right side \\ left side & = ...
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### How do I adjust the height of a superscript?

I have an operation that I call \conv, that I defined as follows: \newcommand\conv{{}^{\scriptstyle\smile}} Sometimes I use it in this situation: $a\conv$ and sometimes I use it in this ...
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### Is there a nice color scheme generator for beamer(poster)?

There are plenty of palette generators for the web, e.g., Color Scheme Designer . Among other stuff it can export schemes in XML. Is there a nice XSLT to convert it into STY file that I'd use with ...
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### Can't shift/position \chapter with titlesec?

Somehow I my attempt to change the placement of \chapter seems not to work. I would like to that my chaptertitle begins right at the top of the page. Do I need to change the plain pagestyle? ...
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### Math formula mixed with wrapfigure

I use a wrapfigure as below: \begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.5\textwidth} \begin{center} \includegraphics{image.png} \end{center} \caption{\small \sl My Diagram. \label{fig:image}} \end{wrapfigure} ...
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### Wrap Caption Around TikZ Figure

I have a TikZ figure that appears as follows. The figure also has a caption. I'd like the caption to fill up that blank space in the bottom-right and bleed over into the space it current occupies. ...
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### How to place two ctables side by side

ctable, not a regular table/tabular. How can I get two narrow ctables to go side by side? I want them to be subtables of a larger table, just two independent tables side by side. I've tried using a ...
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### Error with \footnote{\bibentry{foo}} when using beamer

I am making a beamer presentation and having the following problem: When I use \footnote{\bibentry{foo}} to cite an article, I get the following error message: Undefined Control Sequence} And the ...
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### Changing proof endmark when using ntheorem with thmmarks and amsthm options

Q: Is there an easy way to change the default proof environment endmark (it's normally a funny open square and I'd like to change it to \blacksquare) when using the ntheorem package with the amsthm ...
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### Position tikz pictures at left margin of a listing code block

I'm trying to finish my attempt at having good looking unlimited line annotations for the listing environments, using tikz. The original problem was that indentation caused shifts in the positioning, ...
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### Nice-looking $x_i^j$

When I write $x_i^j$, the j is very high up, and it looks ugly. (This problem is especially apparent in the New Century Schoolbook font.) I know that TeX is capable of automatically lowering it, ...
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### Nesting command definitions more than two levels

How do you access macro arguments if the macros are nested by more than two levels? To explain it in more detail: Creating a new command in another command (nesting command definitions), it is ...
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### Can I get the page number of included PDF page?

I have to put some academic papers at the end of a document, but only include a subset of their pages (due to the page limitations in our project). Now, I would like to mark each included page with ...
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### Calculations and undefined control sequence with TikZ

I already produced several figures with TikZ, but I can't see what's wrong with this snippet: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt,twoside]{scrbook} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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### Count words in LaTeX with inclusion in LaTeX build process [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Dynamically count and return number of words in a section I'd like to include the word count of my LaTeX document in the document itself and not have to worry about ...
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### How to treat specific words formatting (ie. API names to wrap inside texttt command)? [closed]

I would like to know if there is any elegant way to treat specific words as symbols, and automatically wrap them with a \texttt command. This would come handy with API names for instance, so \texttt ...
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### feynmf with pdflatex [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to use kile with feynmf or feynmp? I would like to use feynmf, or better feynmp, with pdflatex. My first idea was to replace all the files file.[0-9]* which are ...
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I have TeX Live 2011. I set \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} \setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O} but I get a warning that these fonts are not found! If I try ...
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### Windows API error 5: “Access is denied” when trying to compile TikZ picture

I installed PGF but are unable to compile the following document: \documentclass[10pt]{article} \usepackage{pgf,tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (0,0) --(1,2); \end{tikzpicture} ...
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I want to put a TikZ figure with a fading effect (which I reproduced in the body of the document as illustration) in the page header, which I set with the package titlesec. The following MWE seems to ...
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### Caption and footnote width with ctable

I am using ctable and I have a table with footnotes. Since the table is narrow, the caption text is squeezed in the table width, which looks odd. I can use mincapwidth to specify a minimum width for ...
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### defining a fading-style directly in the fill command

In the following MWE i define a fading monfading with the command \tikzfading which is then used in the command \fill. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{patterns,fadings} ...
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### Alignment's \author

How I can put authors in list form. \author{ aaaaa \and bbbb \and ccc } Ok, but the names appear on the same line and I want to display them vertically.
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### Gummi breaking on inclusion of bibliography [closed]

Gummi is refusing to compile whenever I include the line \bibliography{bibliog.bib}{} I've tried with and without the .bib and it doesn't seem to matter what the contents of the file are (I've even ...
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### QED symbol on the same page as proof

I'm using the proof environment from the amsthm package. In some cases, the last line of a proof falls at the end of a page, but the QED symbol (the little white box) ends up on the following page. ...
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### Equation tags in lining numerals

This is a follow-up to this question; I'd like also the tags (typeset by the \tag command) to be in lining numerals. However, inspecting the definition of \tag in amsmath didn't reveal too much to me ...
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### Centering table column titles above comma-aligned numbers

I am trying to make the following table look nice. With that I want the title to be centered horizontally, and the numbers to be alligned at comma. Here is how it looks now: And my code. ...
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### Removing TeX fonts from being system-wide

After reading XeTeX can't find font I executed sudo cp \$(kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf sudo fc-cache -fsv I am now ...
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### Clique symbol in Math [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to look up a symbol? I am working with the font Palatino on the memoir class. \uspackage{mathpazo} How can I get the second C below in a mathematical formula? ...
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### Why \hyperlink{\rightmark}{} does not work in fancyhead (and inside some other macros)?

\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\hyperlink{\rightmark}{\bfseries\rightmark}} (\leftmark is all the same) cause error: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size... Why? (here, \rightmark has double ...
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### \caption full features, but no showing at list of figures?

Using tocloft for my list of figures, I am looking for some method that enables me to select some specific entires (\caption) such as that one further down, which shouldn't goes to the list of ...
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### Recreate efficiently this figure

I am writing a technical document, and I need to explain several steps of a construction which use matrices and linear equations. I was puzzled how I would create my figures and one paper I reference ...
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### How do you effectively debug overfull \hbox warnings?

I still haven't found out how to effectively solve Overfull \hbox (0.80913pt too wide) has occurred while \output is active warnings. For instance, this piece of latex generates such a warning and I ...
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I have a table of contents that looks like the following in my working example. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{amsart} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{ellipsis} \usepackage{soul} ...
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### How can I use TikZ to make standalone (SVG) graphics?

I would like to use TikZ in other settings than TeX and I'd especially like to use the drawings on websites where the text should be searchable and selectable. However, I'm unsure of the best way to ...
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### “Tex capacity exceeded.” with beamer [closed]

I use MikTex 2.9 and am compiling a beamer presentation. I have 100+ pages. The file compiles if I comment out about half of the frames. I managed one presentation by compiling the two halves one ...
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### How to cite Wolfram Web Resources in Bibtex?

Wolfram offers very helpful web resources for mathematical terminology. Every article has a short note at the end, e.g. in Tree it says: CITE THIS AS: Weisstein, Eric W. "Tree." From ...
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### Change make contact graphic in TikZ circuit lib and add closed option

Is it possible to change the appearance of the var make contact symbol from the TikZ circuit library as follows (i.e. add the second circle) and add a "closed" option as shown in the following ...
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### avoid space before \textsuperscript in linebreak

I have a lot of Ca\textsuperscript{2+} in my text. In my editor I use automatic linebreaking to keep the text readable. Now it sometimes happens that lhe line breaks like this: Ca ...
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### How to put an itemize label on multiple lines?

I was wondering if it was possible nicely display a long label when using the itemize environment? e.g.: \begin{itemize} \item[long ugly displaying label] Stuff \subitem more stuff ... ...
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### \global\renewcommand equivalent of \global\def

The following MWE works just fine, but I had to resort to using \global\def (not that there's anything wrong with it). The intent of the MWE is to provide access to the value of macro as set in an ...
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### LaTeX: outputting a “tight” svg

Concise Problem Statement Given an input of a *.tex (LaTeX) file, I want to output a "tight" *.svg file. By "tight", I mean a svg file that does not show the full page -- rather, just the rendered ...