# All Questions

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### How can I randomize a text itemization in ConTeXt?

I've defined my item groups as: \defineitemgroup[institm] \setupitemgroup[institm][1][text][symbol=2, indentnext=no, ] And \startinstitm {\bf Contributors } \item Foo Pty Ltd {\sc nsw} ...
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### Can TeX detect a newline at the end of the file?

Is TeX able to distinguish beween a file containing, say, the single character a/ byte 97; and a file containing this same character followed by a newline marker (which is system-dependent)? I had a ...
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### Latex, remove blanks between sections in a chapter [closed]

I am writing thesis with 10 chapters, each of them has multiple sections. In Latex, I put each section in a separate file. But, there are blank spaces between sections in each chapter in the pdf ...
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### Which editors color/highlight between the $…$ with syntax coloring? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: LaTeX Editors/IDEs I'd like to know which TeX editors have syntax coloring options which color/highlight the math mode text between the $...$. This way it is easy to see ...
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### TikZ edge thickness causing errors in foreach loop

I'm experiencing some weirdness in making a simple TikZ diagram (a comb-shaped graph with variable number of nodes). The weirdness comes from the style applied to the edge paths. Here's the ...
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### Roman numerals appear in toc but not in document

I'm writing a thesis and sections are required to have roman numerals in both the toc and the document itself. The pertinent document code looks like this: \documentclass[twoside,12pt]{report} ...
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### PGFplotstable: Is it possible to set a number format for a *row* instead of a column?

Using pgfplotstable, it's straightforward to set a column number format using columns/(columnname)/.style={(format)} What I would like to do is change the number format of a particular row. In my ...
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### Beamer buttons change zoom in Adobe Acrobat [closed]

I am using Beamer to create slides (the editor I'm using is Bakoma Tex). I can add buttons to go back and forth between slides using the \hyperlink command. When I open the slides as pdf (in Adobe ...
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### Expl3 syntax highlighting for TeXworks

Does anyone have a syntax pattern for TeXworks’s syntax-patterns.txt that will correctly highlight Expl3 code? I.e., something that will recognize that the entirety of \cs_new:Npn is a command ...
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### utf-8 characters in latex math mode

I'm using utf-8 characters like "ğ" or "ı" in math-mode in LaTex, but it does not render the characters as it should. Outside of math-mode I do not have this problem. My preamble with respect to font ...
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### commutative diagram having drawings as objects

I need to draw a commutative diagram having drawings as objects, like in this link which is also shown below. I have some problems: xy-pic "slants" the objects; "matrix" library in TiKZ is not ...
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### Pgfplotstable: how can I add percent signs (and respect dec sep align)?

My data contains a column with numbers like 0.01 or 0.9412 which I want to display as 1.00% and 94.12% . I would like to declare the column by means of dec sep align. How can I do that? [This ...
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### Colon after appendix number

How do I get a ":" to show up after Appendix in my ToC. Right now I have APPENDIX A. Classification experiments but I want: APPENDIX A: Classification experiments In the preamble I am ...
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### Difference between “hbox group” and “adjusted hbox group”?

eTeX's \currentgrouptype distinguishes two types of \hbox group types \hbox{\showthe\currentgrouptype} % 3 "adjusted hbox group" \noindent \hbox{\showthe\currentgrouptype} % 2 "hbox group" Looking ...
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### Citation style in biblatex: (1) get rid of first names; (2) remove comma before year

I'm trying to use biblatex and biber so as to have access to @online, etc. But I'm quite overwhelmed. In-text citations used to just show the last names. Now they are including first names or ...
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### Programatically style words/sentences/paragraphs based on arbitrary metrics?

It'd be nice to be able to style words or sentences or subsections based on arbitrary metrics. For example, it might be useful to highlight words based on their length - bolder highlighting for longer ...
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### Unbalanced output routine

The TeX primitive \output behaves almost like a toks register, except in the fact that it is always surrounded by braces. For instance, after \output={\plainoutput}, the result of \showthe\output is ...
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### How to typeset the name of a category?

I'm LaTeXing some category theory, and typeset the names of my categories in boldface (Set, Rel, ...). Since I might want to change that, I put \newcommand{\catname}[1]{\textbf{#1}} ...
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### TeX-run-Tex wrong type argument in emacs [closed]

I use such a function for compiling LaTeX in emacs (AUCTeX) taken from here (accepted answer by Jouni K. Seppänen): (defun run-latexmkk () (interactive) (let ((TeX-save-query nil) ...
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### How to specify a fill color in RGB format in a node in tikzpicture?

I am just trying to get a rounded corner box with some text in it. The text color will be white and the box will be filled with a particular color. The preamble includes: \usepackage{tikz} ...
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### What is the thickness of \hrulefill

This seems like a simple question ... I know from this question that \hrule and presumably \hrulefill have a thickness of 0.4pt. I think \hrule is a primitive, so does that mean that you cannot ...
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### Beamer: display previous graphics (in an overlay) in a lighter color

With Inkscape (software to create vector images) I created a file with several layers. Thanks to a very useful script (beamerscape), these layers are then saved as separate PDF files. Next, using ...
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### Specific margin size in memoir

I am writing my thesis nowadays, and one of the few things the instructions have specific recommendations about is page size and margins. The page should be A4, and the margins should be: (I revised ...
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### Token expansion with the token library

I don't understand how the token library of luatex works. \documentclass{standalone} \begin{document} \def\mymacro{A} \directlua{% t = token.create ('mymacro') token.expand(t) ...
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### TeX as the basis for data driven document generation system?

I am in the early stages of trying to replace an existing document generation system based on Microsoft Office apps (Word and Excel). The system runs once a year to generate over 300,000 individual ...
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### Glossary as appendix

I'm using the glossaries package to manage my glossary. This works nicely, except that it forces a page break and creates a huge heading saying Glossary that conflicts with the style of my paper ...
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### Understanding some pieces of luatex the program [closed]

I'm looking forward the implementation of a tex.execute() command on the lua side in luatex. But it needs patching luatex the program and I have a dream: providing the patch... :) As I have nearly no ...
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### underfull vbox (badness 10000) with memoir

Sorry if this question has been asked very often, but I can't easily find an answer to my specific question. I am using XeLaTeX and the memoir class to produce a rather long document (100 pages) with ...
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### How to print keywords into margin?

Many documentations and textbooks print essential keywords of a paragraph into the margin. Is there any package for this? Of course it wouldn't be all too complicated to define a custom command based ...
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### is it possible to include tikz picture from a file

I have a tikz picture in a tex file \begin{figure}[ht!] \begin{center} \resizebox{.4\textwidth}{!}{\begin{tikzpicture}[ .... \end{tikzpicture}} \end{center} \end{figure} The ... portion is quite ...
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I have a question similar to TikZ Fading Speed and defining a fading-style directly in the fill command but I can't figure out how to get a nice solution. I would like to, given a list of increasing ...
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### How to escape single quote in lstlisting? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Package listings: Error “Undefined control sequence.” because of single-quote-symbol? How to escape single quote ' in lstlisting? I tried \' and ''' but ...
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### titlesec section font size incorrect

My dissertation requires the section title to be of the same font size as the text. I am using the titlesec package and I have provided these options: \usepackage[rm,tiny,center,compact]{titlesec} ...
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### LaTeX: splitting the words

I have a quite long text, and I sometimes I have words breaking in a weird way, so I wonder if there is some command in LaTeX which will prevent the splitting of words in the whole document?
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### How to escape backslash in rangeprefix?

I want to escape backslash to be used as a rangeprefix as follows. The current MWE does not work as expected because it still imports all codes rather than the codes sandwiched by document ...
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### glossaries, fancyhdr: acronym not replaced properly

In the following example the acronym is not replaced properly in the header and look like in this screenshot: \documentclass{book} \usepackage{fancyhdr} ...
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### How to download MacTeX 2011 now that MacTex 2012 is available

Is there a way to download the older MacTeX-2011? I am transitioning to a new mac and would prefer to have both MacTeX2011 and the 2012 version available. I thought I was in luck when I found the the ...
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### Introducing a blank area in the header with a0poster

I'm writing a poster with a0poster and have to make the poster according to the conference instruction. In the header, left of the title, I have to leave some space so that the organizing committee ...
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### How to center twocell arrows

I'm using 2cell (as in this previous question of mine: Natural transformation arrow ). I'd like to know how to center not just the twocell double arrow, but arrow with its name too. A picture is ...
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### Why doesn't cleveref's \namecref work? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before? I'm trying to use cleveref's \namecref command to get the name of the type of section a label is in, ...
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### Pagebreak and Verbatim environments

Given the following piece of code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{fancyvrb} \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{shell}{Verbatim}{ commandchars=\%\{\}, label=\shelltitle, ...
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### How to suppress page number on cover page? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: removing page number for title page I'm using the following code to create my front cover: \documentclass[twoside,11pt,titlepage]{article} ...
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### How do one reset the section numbers in beamer?

I want to reset the section numbers when a part in beamer starts. So I tried: \setcounter{section}{0} That does not work. So after searching I found this: \makeatletter ...
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### How to put code in beamer two column

I was trying to put code and a figure side by side in a beamer presentation. I tried two methods - one said in beamer documentation and other in standard LaTeX. But couldn't get the output. The two ...
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### Counters for use in array/tabular cells

The following practical example \documentclass{article} \usepackage{array}% http://ctan.org/pkg/array \newcounter{tabcol}\newcounter{tabrow} \newcolumntype{C}{>{\stepcounter{tabcol}}c} ...
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### Using \input|texlua… to emulate \directlua in pdfTeX

When --shell-escape is enabled, pdfTeX allows to run external programs and input the result expandably with \input|"...". Together with the Lua interpreter texlua, this could be used to provide a ...
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### Strange line spacing effects in longtabu

I got some strange effect with longtabu: As you can see the line with λ seems to be closer to the above line than to the one below of it. I cant’t figure out why … This is the code with which I ...
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### How to use the geometry package with newlfm documents?

I am using the newlfm letter documentclass, and try loading the geometry package. This returns the following error: ! LaTeX Error: Command \geometry already defined. What I want to do is put more ...