# All Questions

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### Rotation transformation of a parametrized plot

I'm working on this plot with pgfplots: The image is from our sister-site Mathematica.SE and there's also a nice explanation how to do it with Mathematica. I follow these steps: Parametrize the ...
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### Unexpected behavior of arraystretch and figures in table cell

Using the graphicx and the includegraphics command, I want to place a figure in a table cell. In addition, I use the arraystretch command the increase the padding of cells. Unfortunately, I get a ...
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### tikz edges too long, how to control the distance of nodes

I have in a beamer class document the following graph: \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture} [auto] \tikzstyle{every node}=[font=\small] \tikzset{ inst/.style={draw=black, rectangle}, ...
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### >> is changed to » using beramono [duplicate]

I have the following piece of text in Latex: \texttt{List<List<Integer>>} and it was rendering properly. Then, I decided to use beramono as my typewriter font, and I have a problem: >> is ...
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### How to get the sum of all sections and subsections in beamer

I want to determine how many pages I need for my toc which will be displayed in two coloumns with 10 (sub)sections each page. So if I had 8 sections and 20 subsections the code should return 28. ...
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### How to renewcommand the word-size in section titles?

I type \section{\Large Section title} to make the section title larger than what it originally appears. Please could you tell me how to achieve this effect by redefining the command \section ...
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### How to shade a single character?

I need a single character in two colors. Figuring I could use the shadings library of TikZ, I followed the manual (section 23.4.1, the TikZ example): \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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### Equations with only text in them

I would like to include equations in my article which have only text in them (in some cases there may be a little math) so that it keeps proper formatting. I tried using \mbox but then the text is so ...
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### How to access the Greek letters of a particular font?

I have a problem acessing the Greek letters of a particular font – for instance of the font TeX Gyre Pagella. I checked with the program Fontforge that this font has Greek letters. But when I try ...
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### \frac overlapping in nested itemize in beamer

When I try this MWE, the fractions are overlapping: \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{itemize} \item \begin{itemize} \item $\frac{5}{8}$ \item $\frac{5}{2}$ ...
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### OpenType MPlib labels with luatex-plain

I am trying to get the luamplib to work with the luatex-plain -format. I installed BasicTeX2014, and then did tlmgr install context. Then I did luatex --ini ...
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### Force itemize inside description onto a new line

I have an itemize inside a description, like this: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[vmargin=1in,hmargin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist[description]{style=nextline} ...
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### (How) can CSV data be transposed for display in tabular

I can use the csvsimple package to automatically display data from a CSV file in a tabular environment. Can the same be achieved in transposed (rows to columns and vice versa) form , as shown by the ...
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### Biblatex multiple author in-text initials missing

I have a strange situation with my in text citations. It's happening specifically with multiple author entries. The initial of the first author is fine but the the initials of the other two authors ...
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### Manual citation of specific references with biblatex-chicago

How can I tell Biber that I have just manually cited a specific citation? This question is not about \mancite. In biblatex-chicago there is a command called \mancite which allows you to signal to the ...
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### Laying out two footnote streams one beside the other

I am working with an author that needs two different footnote streams. This can quite easily be done by using manyfoot. EDIT Also note that the margins used are narrow, like 10mm or so. Therefore ...
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### Acrostic Environment

I tried to wrote the code of an environment for acrostics, using cenverse and boldfirst, but it doesn't work (probably because cenverse use // and boldfirst not). \newcommand\dob[1]{\textbf{#1}} ...
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### tips to make best estimate on aligning

Hey so I keep on using \ \ {text} to make sure all my equations are aligned. Is there any good ways to do this beside using the spacing systems? Like I had to print my project two times because ...
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### Automatic bold for every first character of a line

It's possible to do this Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis ...
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### Biblatex: leading colon and space in \printfield{postnote}

How can I suppress the leading ", " in \printfield{postnote}\printfield{postnote} which occurs only after the first call of printfield? output: , <postnote><postnote>
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### New Theorem (gray background color)

I'm trying to use a light grey shade in the new theorem below, for instance in the background of the title box. But, I get an error that grey is not defined ... how can I modify the code to do it? ...
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### Dashed circular arcs not created in texmaker

I am trying to run the following sample codes, containing PStricks codes generated by Geogebra, in Texmaker in the sequence Latex+dvips+ps2pdfviewpdf (in Ubuntu). \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{beamer} ...
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### how to make longtable continue a long row to next page?

I have a long table of 4 rows. I'd like help to make the table look better. (based on comments, this is not possible to do using longtable. Is there a different table environment or package I can use ...
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### TeX Live distribution not showing up in system preferences

I've been using MacTex-2012 for a while (well, since 2012) with no problems (well, relatively few problems). Today, while using tlmgr (which I hadn't played around with much before), I got an error ...
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### ragged2e justifying - centering figures

I am preparing a beamer presentation and I used the ragged2e package to justify the text in my slides (I justified the itemize environment). However, this does not allow me anymore to center a figure. ...
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### Href in \subtitle

How can i put href at the page subtitle? I have a: \usepackage[% verbose, colorlinks=true, naturalnames=true, linkcolor=blue, ]{hyperref} \begin{document} % % Title page % \title{Title} ...
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### redefine starred command \section*

with \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} I have defined \section like \titleformat{\section} {\ttfamily\Large\bfseries\color{red}} {\thesection} {1em} {#1} i want to redefine the starred ...
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### How to change spacing between caption numbering and text?

Like in an IEEE paper, after the figure caption numbering, there are two letters spacing: Fig. 1. Bla bla Not like Fig. 1. Bla bla I would like to have the former.
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### Error using glossaries package trying to compile with makeindex

I am having a trouble when I try running the makeindex command. I get the following error message: Index style file Tesis.ist not found. Usage: makeindex [-ilqrcgLT] [-s sty] [-o ind] [-t log] [-p ...
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### Texmaker, LED preview enabling

I have both texmaker and LED, but I do not know how to enable option that let me type and then after compile shows what I typed in the right pane (preview pane). In most of images I found from these ...
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### Automatic versewidth

verse package has \settowidth command to center a poetry. Example: \settowidth{\versewidth}{There was an old party of Lyme} \begin{verse}[\versewidth] There was an old party of Lyme \\ Who married ...
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### authors biography for springer journal

How can we write authors biography in springer journal? Tried looking around on the net can't find any solution. can someone please help.
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### View PDF viewing option in LED

I have LED editor of Latex, which I downloaded here http://www.latexeditor.org/download_main.html I would like to know how can I enable its PDF viewing option. I want to type and then compile and then ...
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### Adding a blank line in algorithm2e

Is there any way to add a blank line in algorithm2e? I have the following document: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[linesnumbered]{algorithm2e}% http://ctan.org/pkg/algorithm2e \begin{document} ...
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### Libertine fonts: spaces in PDF files

I am having trouble with the "libertine" font package using TexLive 2014. A PDF file generated will display properly, including interword spaces, but when I save from Acrobat to some other format ...
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### Chemnum putting wrong numbers when compound label is introduced as a variable (stored as commands)

I'm on the process of migrating to the chemnum numbering system due to its advanced features (thank you!). For my purposes I need to input external files with the information (for each compound) ...
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### Putting all cross references in brackets in LyX

I have many equation occurrences in a long document, where LyX automatically cross-referenced its equations with \ref{} rather than \eqref{}. I want all references to be in parenthesis. A few ...
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### Problems with gloss package

I have been trying to make an glossary using gloss package, but anytime I get the warning no driver for entry "gd" or "gloss definition". Basically i have the next code: ...
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### PGFplots - single legend in a group plot [duplicate]

I have a group plot and when I try to add a legend it repeats on all subgraphs. I want a single common legend line at the top of the whole graph. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{graphicx} ...
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### Set default sans serif font in XeLaTeX

How can I set the default sans serif font to the default in this example in XeLaTeX? I can only get Helvetica with \documentclass{article} \usepackage[a4paper,margin=5pt]{geometry} ...
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### PGFplots multiple ylabels

I want to have multiple y labels in a group plot. Now I have 4 different values for ylabels:Range1, Range2, Range3 and Range4. I want to add a common ylabel say "throughput". How do I do that? ...
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### two columns column breaks

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,BCOR10mm,DIV11,toc=listof,parskip=full]{scrbook} class and two columns there via "\twocolumn". It works fine mostly but in some instances of the texts involved I have the ...
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I know other people have asked this question but having scanned through the answers there seems to be two solutions: compiling 3 or 4 times and trying out some snippets of code involving the \markboth ...
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### Winedit problem with biblatex (cygwin1.dll)

I have a strange bug occurring when I compile my tex file with pdftexify in winedt 8.2 (I have a win7 64bit machine) First, I have set biber.exe in the Winedt execution modes screen. All the packages ...
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### pgf Error: Arrow end type latex''' unknown

The following document: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{tikzscale} \usetikzlibrary{trees} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \tikzset{ block/.style = {draw, fill=white, ...
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### Arrow tip center with TikZ (and pgfplots)

The arrow default behaviour is shown on the left picture part. How can I achieve that the “circle” arrow tips (see the picture below) end at their center, as drawn in the right image, but without ...
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### Paragraph settings

I am using the paragraph settings shown below: Correct use of \paragraph titles? 1) How can I reduce the size between the paragragphs? 2) Should I reduce the gap between paragraph title and text, ...
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### How to reduce the space between the hat of overset and the symbol?

I would like to place the \rightharpoonup on r and get them closer. I had tried the \overset and \Rvector package. But the spacing of the former is too much. And the latter performs bad when placing ...