# All Questions

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### TexMaker PDF viewer blurry

I am using TexMaker on a macbook retina with an additional external display. The documents displayed in the PDF viewer while on the external display are very grainy/blurry and hard to read, while they ...
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### dot2tex does not work when there there is math

I am not able to reproduce an example from dot2tex documentation. Is there something wrong with my installation? Is there a bug? How can I solve this? This is directly from dot2tex documentation. ...
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### picture in picture: how to eliminate influences of outer node options on inner node?

In the case, when you have in some shape (rectangle in my case) a TikZ picture, than it seems that parameters of outer shape also influences on parameters of inner picture. This can be eliminate with ...
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### How to create this figure?

I have now spend hours by creating this figure - without luck. I have tried different types of tikz, tikzpicture, pstricks and multido usepackage. Can you maybe help me? I would really appreciate ...
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### How to reference a student report (semester report)?

There are some institutions where undergraduates/bachelor students may submit reports (e.g. project reports) at end of a semester. Say, I want to refer to such a report using a bibtex or biblatex ...
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### media9: Locally enable or disable play button

Is there an existing way (without updating the media9 package) to enable or disable the play button after the package is loaded? The current motivation is to disable the play button for only some ...
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### Can I write code in Word like LaTeX? [on hold]

You know, when you type code in Latex, the Latex editor like Kile does not compile it. I wonder if I can do this in Word, so that I can format the way I want easily, and then typing code when I don't ...
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### Biblatex: suppress colon after “In” for edited volumes

I'm using Biblatex with biber backend, authoryear-comp style. Is there a quick way to remove the colon after the "In" introducing the title of an edited book (@inbook bibliography items)? I've found ...
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### I would like to do this (1) in big size ? is it possible? [duplicate]

I would like to do this (1) in big size using latex (a one surrounded by a circle) is it possible without including the picture ?
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### How to cope with version incompatibilities (i.e. binary units in siunitx)

I have to compile my dissertation on two machines with two different TeX Live versions (TeX Live 2009 on Ubuntu 12.04 and now TeX Live 2013 on Ubuntu 14.04). Unfortunately, the siunitx maintainer ...
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### Define and set length in one command

Sorry this might be a very simple question, I am trying to cleanup a style file, and would like to write a command that basically runs the following code: ...
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### An image side by side in latex

I would like to have two figures side by side in my document. I found an example on here with the following code \begin{figure} \centering \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth} \centering ...
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### Two graph - same page? (R/LaTeX)

I am using R to create my graph, and I am doing a paper, where I have to put two graph, as showed in the image: In R, my output looks like: y1 <- c(6524, 6701, 6946, 7080, 6920, 6887, 6660, ...
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### Pdf in bookmark dimensions using geometry

Trying to make my own bookmarks, I began with using geometry to get the right dimensions (for some reason this is 20cm x 5.5cm). Using the first two answers to another question, I wrote the following: ...
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### how to get square brackets with \SIrange{}{}{}?

I'd like to get something like this: [-40 ; 80] °C Instead I'm getting: Below is a MWE. I've tried to include all necessary packages for siunitx, as written in its documentation; there are more, ...
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### Large horizontal gap between my align equations

I wanted to show how a bijection works and so created equations below: \begin{align*} x_1 & \longmapsto &y_1 \\ x_2 & \longmapsto &y_2 \\ & \vdots & \\ x_n & ...
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### A pgf plot problem

I'm new to pgfplot and I have a pgfplot problem. figure 1 :As you can see the line is going through the number '2'. How can i fix it? figure 2: Also can i fix the line length, going through 2, ...
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### tikz-cd: Error: No shape named tikz@f@1-0-1 found

In my use of tikz-cd, the down, right and left arrows (\ar[d],\ar[r], \ar[l] respectively) work fine, but I seem to have no uparrow (nor any up right arrow or up left arrow). When I have \ar[u], I get ...
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### Write/export envelope label to an external file

The following example was taken from documentation found at this url on page 4, figure 1. \documentclass[12pt]{letter} \usepackage[personalenvelope]{envlab} \makelabels \address{% Joe Casanova\\1 ...
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### Changing the font document

I need to write a whole document with a specific font. My problem is that when I compile it seems to be working, but my pdf result has the original font. Nothing happened. I have downloaded my .ttf ...
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### Trying to embed mp4 in a Beamer presentation

Sample document \documentclass{beamer} \usetheme{Amsterdam} \usepackage{media9} \title{TITLE} \author{AUTHOR} \institute{INSTITUTE} \date{DATE} \begin{document} \addtocounter{framenumber}{1} ...
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### Citing Arxiv manuscripts in IEEEtran bibtex

I would like to learn to cite arXiv documents properly in LaTeX IEEEtran style. Biblatex has special entries for arXiv, but the standard bibtex, as well as IEEEtran Bibtex style that I am using, do ...
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### TeX programmer needed - or assistance with page dimensions and crop marks

is there a place where i can find/hire a TeX programmer to adjust TeX files that were set up for us in the 80s? I can make minor edits, but things like page dimensions and crop mark locations are ...
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### How to put a gigantic number next to the title?

Consider the following minimal working example: \documentclass[reqno]{article} \usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb, amsthm} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{cmbr} ...
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### Citation style and arranging references

Following is the latex code provided by @Mike Renfro from Putting Serial Numbers in References \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents*}{refs.bib} @BOOK {KandR, ...
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### Bad TOC entries spacing for chapter 10 and beyond [duplicate]

When making long documents under book class if one needs 10 or more chapters, something weird happens with the table of contents: the space between the number of the chapter and its title disappears, ...
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### Compiling error with \end{frame} in LaTeX beamer mode for poster

I'm having a problem compiling a LaTeX file for a poster (beamer), it keeps giving an error at \end{frame} Any help would be very much appreciated! end{column} % End of the third column ...
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### How can I edit the ajustable style of the TikZ-circuits.ee.IEC resistor?

Good Evening! I want to draw some X-dependent resistor (like temperature-dependent, as shown in the picture [there are some parts in red at this moment]). I have a solution, but I do not think, this ...
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### Tabular seems to create huge white space between lines

I am having a strange problem with a document I write. When I insert a table latex produces huge white gaps between the text lines and sends the table to the next page. I thought two possible ...
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### Using jPicEdt for graphic?

I'm using the jPicEdt to make the diagram and also generate the LaTeX code. I'm trying to increase the size of diagram? \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{eso-pic} \usepackage{graphicx} ...
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### What am I doing wrong to show the sequence with psmatrix?

Don´t appear the lines in the last lines of code to show the sequence!!1 (edited after Crishtopher suggestion/comment) What I want is(marked in red): \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} ...
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### How to use Tikz

I have used paint editor to create a scheme but I'm not satisfied by the result. So I decided to use Tikz. I haven't found any good tutorial, the ones I'm reading gives the commands without explaining ...
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### Changing margins in a beamer frame

I made a beamer presentation. In one of the frames I have a couple of pictures. However the left margin takes up a lot of space and the right margin is nearly zero. Having \centering in the figure ...
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### Skype Icon in the CV template?

I'm trying to add the Skype icon in my CV, but it is not working. I am using Miktex 2.9 and WinEdt 8. \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,roman]{moderncv} \moderncvstyle{casual} \moderncvcolor{blue} ...
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### Online journal pages field that is compatible with natbib+bibtex and biblatex+biber?

I want to know how I should properly use the provided page field of an article published in an online journal (such as PLoS Computational Biology). Even though articles published in online journals ...
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### LaTeX is crossing its limits

Pardon for the funny title. I have a large report in the middle of which there is a sentence Let $\mathcal{L}$ : $\mathcal{O}$ $\rightarrow$ $\mathcal{S}$ be a function This shows in the report as ...
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### How to control the size of diagbox(with long text) in psmatrix diagrams?

The problem for me is the 4th and 5th line from the bottom (code from an example of Herbert and the problem is where I try to add things ;-) ) \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,latexsym} ...
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### Can not compile TeXStudio’s Letter template

I have just created a new file from a template in TeXStudio. I have chosen the letter template. So I have this code generated: \documentclass[]{letter} \begin{document} % If you want headings on ...
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### Is there a way to reference your numbered equations?

Here is an excerpt document \begin{align} f(x) &= g(x) + h(x)// &= 3x + 8x^2 + 1// &= 3 + 8 + 1// \end{align} So when I compile this (assuming this is the only thing I Have), LaTeX is ...
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### Remove extra vertical space in amsmath's align environment [duplicate]

If I use \begin{align*}...\end{align*} and out of it I write a text then there is a big vertical space between the text and the mentioned environment. Why is there that space? And how can I erase it? ...
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### Why this errors with PSSets in psmatrix?

I´m starting with diagrams, and I have any errors with this code: (edited after Herbert´s comment) \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{standalone} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} ...
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### using gnuplot to plot data from a file

I am trying to plot some data using pgfplots, but the data are so extensive that the maximum capacity is reached. I get the error: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]. What can I ...
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### Dynamic programming of cheapest cost in LaTeX

From How can I automate the generation of this dynamic-programming graph?, Jubobs helped develop a foreach scheme to draw the paths. I was wondering if LaTeX can find the cheapest path by ...
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### How can we change the height of a header box

In my poster done using baposter, I need to change the height of the \headerbox. for example, I have this example: ...
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### change the font of table caption

In my poster doing with baposter, I need to change a font of some figures. I know that we can use \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption} to cnfigure the font of the caption. In a specific ...
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### Problem with includestandalone of a tikz graphics

From my post (Circuitikz: arrows on the path and changing directions of arrow with variable resistor), Gonzalo Medina helped correct a variable resistor. However, when I use include standalone in my ...
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### Edit BibTeX items appearance to add line break

I'm using BibTeX with a style called "hispa-annote" (source file), and @Misc items (that I use to link to websites) currently look like this: I'd like to have the title in one line and the url in ...
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### CV question: How do I remove the horizontal line below my name if I'm using \documentclass{moderncv} and \moderncvtheme{casual}?

I used LaTeX to write my CV. At this moment I need to remove the horizontal line that appears below my name (this line only appears at the top of the first page of the CV). How can I do this? Thanks ...