# All Questions

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### Display specific locations in the glossary

I use the glossary package with xindy and compile my document with lualatex. Is it possible to display specific locations in the glossary? My favoured way would be: The standard \gls{} command ...
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### Superscript size when using reflected glyphs

I want to use a reflected $\Gamma$ symbol as a superscript in math mode. I am using \reflectbox from graphicx package to declare a macro for reflected symbol and it works in normal size (math) mode. ...
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### Cannot cross-reference figure after using \captionof [on hold]

I'm using \captionof instead of \caption because I had a problem with the figure environment. Whenever I wrote the code to place two figures and some text between them, the text was placed before the ...
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### How to add commas in biblatex citations

I'm struggling with my bibliography. I'm using ShareLaTeX and the biblatex package; nonetheless, my references appear in the document as (rogers 1995) but I need to add a comma after the author's name ...
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### LaTeX3 l3msg best practices

The LaTeX3 module l3msg provides some nice functions for messaging, errors, warnings and the like and is truly flexible. The workflow is different from what we have been using for LaTex2e packages. ...
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### I want to insert a file into my lyx document not import

I have a lyx file and I want to attach some csv files. I don't want to import the files because most of them are very large tables, rather I would like to so something like what Microsoft word does ...
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### Centering chapter titles

In the MWE below. What is the most convenient way to center the titles Preface and Abstract, rather than setting them flush left? \documentclass{book} \begin{document} \chapter*{Preface} ...
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I'm trying to create a table from .csv files using csvsimple. Here are the contents of my file: Degrees,10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90 Time,1.33,0.90,0.72,0.63,0.50,0.43,0.41,0.40,0.38 This is a table ...
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### Why is my minipage in beamer foreach environment moving horizontally?

I am preparing a presentation with several very similar slides so I would like to use a \foreach loop with \only to generate them. The frames also contains minipages and these minipages seem to cause ...
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### Text indentation for dedication page

I am using stock book template and would like to create a dedication page. I have used this answer to align the text vertically and my current code is the following: \cleardoublepage ...
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### How to customize blank space between chapter title and text in gsm

I use gsm packages from AMS to write my book. Overall, the package is beautiful and works well. There is only one problem, that is the vertical space between the header and the chapter title & the ...
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### LaTeX health check

Is there any health check facility for testing the installation? When compiling \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{beamerarticle} \begin{document} Hello \end{document} I receive in the log ...
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### Texniccenter 2: numbered bookmarks

In Texniccenter 1, there were numbered bookmarks set with Ctrl+1 - Ctrl+9. In Texniccenter 2, this extremely useful command was removed. Can I somehow get back, or emulate, this functionality? As ...
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### Author-number citation with elsarticle

With the elsarticle class, how can I achieve author-number citations? This is what I need: Smith and Dow [1] wrote Using \citep{SmithDow} wrote only prints [1] wrote and \citet{SmithDow} ...
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### Problem in puting text under \only in tikzpicture environment

In slide 2, I want to put a "text" (not "node") "Hello" (as mentioned in the code) to the left of the node "O.D.E soln". Not able to do that \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} ...
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### Unknown symbol - how to create it with Latex [duplicate]

I'm searching for a way to create the attached character in LaTeX. It's not the one that is created with \mathbb{R}as this creates double strokes for each line and not just the leading one. The image ...
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### Install MiKTeX on Ubuntu 15.04

I am using Ubuntu 15.04. Where can I get the Miktex for this platform ?. I could not find in any Ubuntu software sources.
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### Undefined control sequence with \delete and the changes package

I keep on getting the following error message when I attempt to compile my source code: ! Undefined control sequence Before, I was unable to compile and saw another question that had been answered ...
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### Adding labels to the equations when they are broken

\begin{align} \begin{split} \pd{EU}{\alpha} &= d(\theta) U'(\pi_{1}) [G_{\alpha}(\alpha, \theta, \epsilon) - \widebar{P} C_{\alpha}(\alpha, \theta)] \\ &+ (1-d(\theta)) ...
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### Aligning the equations [duplicate]

How do I align the two equations and label them? \begin{split} \pd{EU}{\alpha} &= d(\theta) U'(\pi_{1}) [G_{\alpha}(\alpha, \theta, \epsilon) - \widebar{P} C_{\alpha}(\alpha, ...
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### Formatting symbols in the glossaries package

So I love the glossaries package, and have it tweaked and automated about as well as I'd like it. However, I'm still having one issue: how do I format the symbol in the glossary? I'd like to have ...
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### Problems with tikz on TexMaker in RedHat

I get an error ! I can't find file `pgflibrarytikzfit.code.tex' when I try to build a TeX file in TexMaker with Red Hat. The same things compiles perfectly in Ubuntu.
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### Hyphenation tables not working

Consider scratch.tex: \language0 \hyphenation{ab-cdef} \newlanguage\newlang \newlang \hyphenation{abc-def} \language0 \showhyphens{abcdef} \newlang \showhyphens{abcdef} Why in both cases ...
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### add label at fit block top left corner

I wish to move the label at the top left corner of the fit block, but now it seems at the center. \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning,fit,calc} ...
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### in texworks under windows, latexmk hangs

I have a windows 8 installation of texworks. Texlive is located at: c:\bin\texlive\2014\bin\win32 When I run the command: latexmk -pdf \$fullname (see previous question) texworks gives the ...
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Starting point should be this simple minimum example with the fromrule below the senders name and the senders personal data aligned to the right hand side: \documentclass{scrlttr2} \KOMAoptions { ...
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### Hebrew/English bracket placement in short English passage using XeTeX and polyglossia is wrong

The following is a minimal example of the broken bracket placement I observe using Hebrew and English in one document. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} % sans serif fonts in math mode ...
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### How do I repeat the first table row on every page using longtable inside of tcolorbox?

I'm using the \endfirsthead and \endhead but the first row is not repeated for some reason. Here's a piece of my code, I'll appreciate any help. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \linespread{1.2} ...
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### How to change the font family for tick labels in pgfplots + beamer + professionalfonts?

I am making a beamer presentation with some pgfplots figures and I want to change the font family to sans serif for all tick labels. The problem is that it doesn't work for the y-axis as you can see ...
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### How to do horizontal letterpaper in two halves with imposition?

I'm going to be manually binding the pages I print to turn it into a physical hard-cover book. To do this, I plan to print it on letter paper, fold each paper in half, and hold it horizontally to ...
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### How to globally add kerning between f and right parenthesis using TeX Gyre Termes?

I'm using TeX Gyre Termes as text font. On 2nd level enumerations, in the label corresponding to the letter f, the upper loop of the letter touches the upper tip of the right parenthesis, as ...
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### Height chapter number or height chapter name in memoir

I use memoir class. I want add some vertical space before chapter name or chapter number. I got that with \beforechapskip command, but this way add a fixed vertical space for all chapters. There are ...
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### Can't print bibliography

It just does not work, no matter how I try. Currently I use \bibliography{lit.bib} before starting the document, then \printbibliography{lit.bib} before ending it. I can refer to entries in the ...
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### Where is the LaTeX manual?

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### Make TikZ figure with scenarios and arrows

Hi all I am wondering if it is possible to create something similar to this in TikZ, but I dont have much experience with it. Is there anyone who can give me a starting hand? Thank you in advance
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### Add key of enumerate (already defined by enumerate) in a new list

This is a follow-up question to Enumitem \SetEnumitemKey and conflict between multiple key before and after. Here is the code to set two keys, for a list named answers, without conflict (as it was ...
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### Delimit comment on special character

I have defined a new language in Latex (Clojure) but I'm having some issues with delimiting keywords. A keyword in Clojure is any alphanumeric string starting with a colon. E.g., :foo-bar-baz. So far ...
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### Use of cvcomputer or cvdoubleitem

I have a cosmetic question. I am wondering how I could center the two words in the red circle. Basically I would like to have either: "Système d'exploitation" in one line or, "Système" and ...
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### How to make option langid={english} conditional?

How can i make all references to have langid={english} option unless there are cyrillic letters inside a reference, then it should be langid={russian}? Optional question: How can i make all references ...
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### What's wrong with my newcommand?

I defined a question macro, then made it successively fancier. Right now, three macro should define a short hand for the following: \section{Questions} \begin{enumerate} \item Q1... \item Q2... ...
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### Customized Citation Style

I started using Biber+BiblateX and I wanted to make it produce the citations in the form of a list of the first letter of the authors, similar to the alphabetic style. Similar is the key word: the ...
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### Table Wider than text

I am trying to generate a normal table, but some columns have long lines and this made the table go outside the page margin. How can I adjust the table width ...
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### Wrap page number in colored box in footer

I a looking for a way to achieve the following outcome for the page numnbers in my footer created using fancyhdr: My current code in a stand-alone example looks like this: ...
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### Is it possible to remove an empty white page due to inserting a too large picture?

From searching here, I have understood than when inserting a picture too large for the available space, even on an empty page, the picture will be put on the next page. However, leaving a page empty ...
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### Where can I get datetime2.sty or what is CTAN?

I am trying to build a huge latex project on my system - I downloaded everything, and did not touch anything. XeLaTeX tells me that datetime2.sty is missing, and I guess I just have to download it, ...
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### Symbol to the right of equation

I want the contradiction symbol to the right of the equation without moving the equations to the left. I've written \begin{align*} u(2-t, 1, 3-t) & > (2,1,3) \\ 1 ...
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### File ended while scanning use of \@topnewpage

I get this error while trying to compile the following code. I've already tried to delete .aux files. What else could it be the issue? \documentclass[conference,harvard,brazil,english]{sbatex} ...
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### PDF page labels

Is it possible to set page labels in pdfs “correctly”? Pages in my latex documents are numbered 1-x. I'd like the page labels to correspond to the actual page numbers (as mentioned here: ...