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### special char in a latex equation [duplicate]

I don't know how to make this special char in latex equation, if anyone could please advise:
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### Making a diagram like this in TeX?

I want to make two diagrams, along these lines: I'm having trouble finding a way to do it most simply, I've been able to do it with bubbles which I then don't draw the borders of, but that leaves a ...
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### I want a really small underbrace

This question is related to, but distinct from Oversized \underbrace's label causes unwanted spacing. My issue isn't with the spacing of the label, but with the size of the underbrace itself. ...
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### Why am I unable to use BibLaTeX?

I've been encouraged to use BibLaTeX, so I'm trying to, but I'm not meeting much success. I'm sure I'm doing something dumb wrong, but I don't know what. I am using TeXShop on a MacBook Pro running OS ...
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### Making broken references extra visible, redux: interacting with Cleveref and BibLateX

In Making broken references extra-visible, I asked how to make LaTex's normal ?? and [?] markers for broken references instead render as some super-annoying, colored text, so that in skimming a long ...
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### TikZ: double line, one dashed?

I'd like to draw a double line between two nodes; one of the two lines in the double should be solid and one dashed. I'd prefer not to have to manually shift one of the lines, but maybe this is the ...
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### Creating separate pdf file containing the bibliography

Some grant agencies require separate pdf files for the main proposal and the references. I guess, it is easier to work this way in Word :-) In LaTeX, one can create a single PDF file and then split ...
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### How to wrap some text (numbers) in an ellipse (oval shape) in table?

I followed the example here and got this: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,array,booktabs} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \def\startCirc#1{\tikz[remember ...
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### \newcommand in imsart package

I am currently using the imsart package provided by http://www.e-publications.org/ims/support/ims-instructions.html However, it seems the pdfLatex/Latex/pdfTex/pdfTexify compilers cannot read one ...
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### Merging multiple documents into one document

I have a few different LaTex documents/articles, and I would like to merge these documents into one large document. Each article has its own title, and references. Specifically, I would like to ...
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### Marginalia not appearing

If you look Here you will see a wonderful answer to a question I asked about how to insert Automated Marginal Documentation of Page Changes. I've been looking over the document where I used this and ...
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### Why are my images not being inserted?

I don't know why but when I compile this document, only the first two figures are inserted. I tried changing the order, by putting the third image at the top (simply but cutting and pasting) and then ...
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### How should I handle a counter where the numbers do not have a pattern?

I am working on homework and problems are assigned from several sections of a book. For example, I have to solve problems 1, 7, 24 from section 1 and problems 2, 5, 9 from section 2. I do not care ...
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### Wrong anchors in bookmarks and TOC

I am having some trouble with some anchors for sections, which automatically start at a new page. The TOC shows the right page numbers, where the PDF bookmarks show the page number of the previous ...
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### Bold code in listings environment

I want to do a box like this but the bold text doesn't appear. Edited: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{listings,xcolor,etoolbox,lmodern} \definecolor{verbgray}{gray}{0.9} ...
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### Why does hanging indent with \everypar mess up table spacing?

I'm trying to add a hanging indent to every paragraph of a particular column of a table: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{array} ...
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### alignment of rows in a bmatrix which are themselves bmatrices

in the code below I'd like the elements in each of the rows to be aligned with the corresponding elements in the other rows and the inside brackets in each row to be aligned with the corresponding ...
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### htlatex adding _ after - in URLs

I'm using htlatex on Fedora 21, texlive-tex4ht-svn33024.0-1.1 I noticed that whenever a URL has a hyphen within it, in the HTML output it's formatted with an underscore symbol following -. For ...
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### How to change the position of the Chapter Number (pedersen style of memoir)

I am creating a document using the memoir class and pedersen style. In my document which is mainly portrait, I have to display some diagrams in a landscape orientation. Unfortunatley, one of the pages ...
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### Multiple \label's error in align environment

Here is the minimal not working example: \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} ...
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### Header with Chapter and section on page of chapter begin

How can I display the section in the header of the page that starts a chapter? On following pages the chapter and the sections are displayed but not on the page where the chapter starts. If there is ...
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### Changing filling of some node in tikzpicture using \matrix

I have used the handy \matrix trick in a tikzpicture (see code) to build up a graph. Now I wanted to change the filling of one node. I can't find out how! Of course, I can find out, how to change ...
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### unwanted vertical spacing in supertabular with babel

I have a question regarding supertabular and babel. Whenever I'm using different language specifications inside a cell, there is a slight vertical space, which is not there when there is no language ...
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### usebackgroundtemplate after section

I am attempting to insert a full-page figure into my slides, see the MWE below. The first experience, that 'Title' and 'subtitle' appear at their normal position. With the option 'plain' I expected ...
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I'm using the verse environment to write some biblical text. It's nice tool for that. Now, I need to write some comments on the right side (not in the margins) as comments for texts blocks. Here is my ...
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### List of equations, including equation contents and caption

I would like to automatically generate a list of equations present in the document, which includes the equation itself. Here is a MWE: \documentclass{article} \def\caption#1{} \begin{document} First ...
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### Put default text in listings environment

I want to make a gray box with some code inside but it should already appear a centered tilde followed by a dollar sign. Or how can I use a command inside the environment to obtain certain text like ...
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### Redefine section headings for my appendix sections to be a full page

I am creating a document (document class is article) with several appendix sections. I change from numeric to alphabetic like this without problem: ...
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### Beamer: handout/article mode - produce multiple copies of a frame with distinct overlay numbers

Similar questions have been asked before, but I was unable to come up with a general purpose solution out of the answers provided. First, here is a MWE: %\documentclass{beamer} ...
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### pfgplots plot in degrees

Everywhere on the web, and in this forum, tells me pfgplot plots trig functions in degrees, which is what I'm after. Here is the code for my graph: \begin{figure}[H] \centering ...
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### How to kern small caps with italics or regular characters?

Theoretical question Why are small caps and italics of the same typeface treated as if they were absolutely different (and, as a consequence, they aren't properly kerned)? I know no —so to speak— ...
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### Footnote near author's name does not appear

I'm submitting a paper at AISTATS 2015, and I wish to add a footnote about an author. I tried using \thanks and \footnote, but only the footnote number appears, the footnote text does not appear. ...
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### “List of listings” listed twice in header

The header in my document displays: Chapters and sections below. It also displays other "sections" like "List of listings" etc. Problem is: The "List of listings" is displayed twice, which is ugly to ...
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### Figure with caption at its side

I need a help with figure caption for a figure where the figure caption is placed at the side of the figure. I'm using \documentclass[a4paper]{jpconf} and writing: \begin{figure}[h] ...
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### Automating Lettrine

I know this topic has been touched on here and other places on the web, but it doesn't seem anyone has come up with a good solution. What I would like is to apply lettrine to a paragraph so it always ...
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### Problem with fonts and rerunfilecheck package Miktex 2.9

I'm trying to compile a document that I download from here: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/plasmati-graduate-cv It works on one computer, but not in my new PC. The xelatex says: ...
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### Using titleformat, “frame” is supposed to result as “hang”, but in a box (numbers followed by text)

\documentclass{book} \usepackage{titlesec} \usepackage{color} \definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0,0.08,0.45} \titleformat{\chapter}[frame] % was display {\normalfont\Large\sffamily\bfseries} ...
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### alternative to METAFONT

I'm interested in creating new character forms for computer-based calligraphy (freehand letters and kerning); strangely, such an attempt seems almost unheard of google. The closest thing might be ...
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### Bibliography style: sort unsrtnat alphabetically and not by first cited

I am writing my master thesis, and I would like to have the following style for bibliography: \documentclass[11pt, oneside]{book} \usepackage[round]{natbib} \usepackage{hyperref} ...
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### Is a4 = a4paper?

\documentclass[12pt, a4, twoside, openright]{book} Above is from my university master thesis template, I checked other schools templates, they all use ...
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### How to automatically create a book of abstracts of a scientific conference?

I'd like to prepare a book of abstracts of a scientific conference with about 650 articles. The articles are all the same document class and all have the following structure: ...
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### Text within an equation

I am trying to achieve the equation shown in the figure attached below I am not getting the desired result in terms of the alignment of the text between equations and the main text. I have tried ...
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### Alignment of CV Reference in ModernCV

I'm using the latex template for CV from here CV Template. For reference, I added these lines \newcommand{\cvdoublecolumn}[2]{% \cvline{}{% ...
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### Delimited \def's and expansion

I try to understand how work the macro named \separator in MWE . \documentclass[]{article} \def\separator#1\separator#2{% \unexpanded{#1}% \ifx*#2% \else , \expandafter\separator\expandafter#2% \fi ...
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### How to disallow break in source on bibliography slides in beamer?

Is there a way to disallow breaking a source over 2 slides? I use the following command to show the bibliography: \begin{frame}[allowframebreaks] \nocite{*} \frametitle{Literaturverzeichnis} ...
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### Don't want to reset page numbering in appendix

I use these commands to create my appendix: \appendix \include{app1} But the problem is that page numbering resets and starts from 1 again. How can I have countinuos numbering in my appendix?
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### Positioning of progress bar relative theme elements

I’m trying to position a minimal progress bar just beneath the frame title and frame title + framesubtitle bar of the Warsaw theme: \documentclass[compress]{beamer} \mode<presentation> { ...
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### adding single points to bar figure in pgfplots

I have a bar plot, in which I would like to add some single points overlayed on the bars. Those points are in another scale compared to the error bars. Below, I'm illustrating those single points in ...