# All Questions

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### Set xticks, yticks and colorbar tikz at once

I couldn't figure it out how I can manually set the xticks, yticks as well as those ticks of the colorbar at once. It only works for one of those three, but compiling never ends if I try to change a ...
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### Which commands does LyX run to generate PDF (pdflatex) and other export formats?

What commands should I run manually to repeat all the steps LyX makes to generate a final output (like pdflatex PDF) for a specific document? I need it for using in a report generator written in ...
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### How Does Texlive Interact with the Editor?

The question is somewhat technical and not the usual troubleshooting type I see here. I just want to have a basic understanding of how do texlive, the core operative system and the latex editor work ...
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### Would I use \catcode, tokens, or look outside of tex for a markdown-like parser solution?

My use case: a LaTeX template for courseware designed in a beamer presentation style. The template I'm designing is company-specific and the specificity of the company's presentation guidelines limits ...
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### Text across two pages

I am making a small book and I want to put a phrase in both pages like the picture above, I want to keep the chapter title and page numbers. Could you give me a hand on this?
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### KOMA: Page range in TOC chapter entry

I need to print page range in chapter entry, like Chapter title ------space------- starting page number - ending page number \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{lmodern}% for ...
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### Centering nodes with Tikz automatic node placement

I would like the nodes to be centered, an I can't see a way to do this: MWE: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{graphs} \begin{document} ...
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### pgfplots tick lines are behind const plot

The tick lines in the plot are in a layer behind the actual plot. Have a look at this example below: \documentclass[11pt, oneside]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} ...
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### What causes the following gaps?

I have tried to remove any possible white spaces by appending % but the gaps still exist. What causes these gaps? \documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt,12pt]{standalone} \usepackage{graphicx} ...
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### How could we fix the legend in the x-axis with bar chart?

How could we fix the problem with the x-axis ? Also, would it be possible to have written above or in the middle of each column each number ? So as to make my bar chart, I have used the following ...
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### Using arara to compile powerdot twice

I want to compile my powerdot presentation twice -- once with, once without notes. I am trying to achieve this using arara with something like: % arara: latex { set \powerdotmode=slides here } % ...
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### Color/Opacity of a circle segment [on hold]

I'd like to know how to color a segment of a circle, more specifically using the provided example in this link. For example I want to color the circle in 45 degree segments or similar. I'd also like ...
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### Gaussian random numbers

The Tikz manual has all sorts of different options regarding math, but the following is the first version which actually worked. Is there a better way to do this? \documentclass{article} ...
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### Solid portable LaTeX installation

The MikTeX installation has a huge number of files which causes issues with my file system(bloats it). Is there any distribution that has a solid (and portable) installation so that essentially it is ...
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### Short blockquotes don't get indented?

I am using the csquotes package for my blockquotes. I want them to be indented regardless of length, but its not working for short ones (~3 lines), only for longer ones. MWE: ...
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### Problem using optiontohead in scrreprt class

I am using claasicthesis version v4.1 along with scrreprt version v3.11b. I am trying to force printing the longer version of the section title in the table of content but no success so far. I used ...
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### How do you vertically flip a figure in place?

I am using MiKTeX on Windows 7. I am trying to vertically flip a figure that is a component of a multi-EPS figure. The method I use is \scalebox as follows. \documentclass{article} % Specifies ...
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### Use node name with arithmetic counter expression

I want to call a PSTricks macro with a node name which involves the result of an arithmetic expression with counters. Consider the following, not working example: \documentclass{article} ...
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### Conversion of .pl and .vpl files in windows

I am trying to install a type 1 font in MiKTeX, I use Windows Seven. I am using fontinst and following step by step the guide here ...
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### How to create an unnumbered theorem?

I'm looking for a way to create a new theorem without numbering. I found Theorem without numbering and tried the accepted answer, but I get the error "Command * already defined". This is the code I'm ...
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### boxed verbatim environment disappears

I want to center a box containing a verbatim environment. The (almost)MWE below is my attempt to use the answer at center /verbatim text in /figure . \documentclass{article} \usepackage{verbatimbox} ...
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### Force use of tex live in /usr/local/ instead of old copy in /usr/bin

The TeX live installation bundled with TeXmaker in ubuntu (Xubuntu 11.10) is ancient and was breaking the acronym package (and who knows what else) so I though I'd update by installing using ...
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### How to put a text like this pattern? (different size, style)

It is difficult to explain what I want so I found this text and I planning to make a small book that containts, quotes and some poetry so I thought it will be nice to have this kind of text, not to ...
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### How to make the equation very extended bold?

How could choose the level of boldness? The difficult point is that it is not bold the text. Any idea? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath,bm} \begin{document} ...
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### comma separated Lyx Ieeetran bibliography citations

How do you setup Lyx with the ieeetran template to produce citations that are comma separated? for instance: "foo is reported to be bar percent in [1,2,3]". or equivalently: "foo is reported to be ...
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### longtable misplaced noalign

Question Why am I getting multiple misplaced \noalign errors? Reproducible example \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{booktabs} \begin{document} \section{Table test} ...
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I'm creating a report that uses roman numeral section numbers (requirement for the conference that I'm submitting to). When I create the table of contents, I'm having the following problem: With the ...
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### Why is the default font in Latex using 10 pt

I know that it can be configured, but my question is why 10 pts is the default size. The reason I ask is that a professor has said it was too small to read and I'm worried a proposal could be affected ...
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### Caption of Table “floating” above the table

I have the following code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{booktabs} \begin {document} \begin {table} [ht] \caption*{\bf{Table 6: Pattern of Share Ownership, 2011}} ...
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### Creating an example environment structured exactly like amsthm's proof environment

I want to create an environment for examples that is structured exactly like the \begin{proof}...\end{proof} environment, i.e. starting with an italic "Example.", continuing in the same line and ...
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### How do you make a square element symbol (\in), to show that an element belongs to a collection of set?

I was reading a book the other day and they distinguished between the usual element symbol (\in) and an element symbol to show that a set is a member of a collection of sets. For the latter they used ...
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### Why to use [T2A, T1] when [T2A] is enough?

I am writing some seminar in Cyrillic for university \documentclass[a4paper,14pt]{extarticle} \usepackage[T2A,T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{droid} ...
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### Draw a vertical line with filled areas and dateplot

I'like to add an vertical line with some text in a graphic, but i've not found the way. I tried something like \addplot coordinates { (2008-01-01,0) (2008-01-01,130)} node {some text}; but it ...
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### Change font size enumeration

I have the following LaTeX code to format page numbers: \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} \fancyhead[R]{\thepage} \fancyheadoffset{0mm} \fancyfootoffset{0mm} \setlength{\headheight}{17pt} ...
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### Preventing a code listing of multiple pages to be split to several parts

I have a lstlisting that doesn't fit on one page. It continues correctly on another page but instead of putting the last lines in the beginning of the next page it actually splits into three parts on ...
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### How to generate a “<section> continued” heading after page-break?

This is a follow-up question of the answer to Re-displaying section headings after page-breaks As in the follow-up question, I'd like to repeat the section heading after a page break, obviously ...
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### Can a TeXShop engine set the #PDFPATH#?

I have written an engine to run Sweave (a preprocessor) from TeXShop. It works fine on simple projects. For complicated projects (e.g. books), I might want to run the preprocessor on a chapter (e.g. ...
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### Select specific items located outside a main file

I have a data base of questions (simply individual .tex-files) and include some of them in a main file with the help of simple \input commands, in order to create an exercise. Some of those question ...
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### Making a table independent of pgf

I use pgfplotstable to generate tables to be included in online submission to journals. I would like to make my paper independant of pgfplotsable because compilation of the document is made online ...
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### package calc Error :\gdef invalid at this point \title

I get the following error message when I try to compile the code below. package calc Error :'\gdef' invalid at this point \title What am I doing wrong? \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book} ...
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### subsection font size with beamer theme Warsaw

I am trying to change the font size of subsection bar of a beamer presentation using Warsaw. I found this which is doing exactly the same for the Berlin. I tried that in my presentation with Warsaw ...
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### Sideways figures only are 50 % on the page

I am using the Springer Monography class and am trying to include sideway graphics. What always happens is that with rotating the Graphs end up about 50 % to the right of the page. They were fine on ...
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I got a problem with the table of contents. I can not see the list of figures or tables include it. They are not present, even when they are before the Introduction and have the roman numeration. ...
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### Rightarrow with a Delta on it (for use with the mhchem package)

I have a small problem with arrows. I need a \rightarrow with a \Delta on it. Can you help me, please? I use the chemistry package \usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}.
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### Rotating figure within a block of figures

I am using MiKTeK 2.9 on Windows 7. I am trying to make a single figure out of a block of eps files using the following code \documentclass{article} % Specifies the document class ...
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### Header on even or odd pages

Hi everyone I have been trying to create a different header for even or odd pages where I want to see the name of the section and the name of subsections. This is what I have done but it is not ...
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### Table moves out of border [on hold]

I have used the following code to build a table, but it goes out \begin{tabular}{|p{5cm}|c|} \hline hello hellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohellohello & 1 \\ \hline world ...