# All Questions

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### Font/text size suddenly changed [on hold]

I'm currently writing my thesis using \documentclass[12pt]{book}, I've really liked the size of the text up until today. So I just finished adding my references, and suddenly the text of my document ...
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### TikZ: remove side-bearing from text node

I want to horizontally align the first letter of a text node with a shape I've drawn. In my example, I want the F to be horizontally pixel-aligned with the left side of the square. The first step is ...
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### Angle in ellipse coordinates

I need an explanation here. Consider the MWE below. If I set X=Y=3 the point (-20:{\X} and \Y) ends up at the -20 angle as expected. If I set Y=1 then the point is on the ellipse, but at a different ...
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### how to deactivate eqnarray environment in AUCTeX

It is mentioned in several places that the environment eqnarray should be avoided, e.g., this Avoid eqnarray! article. That said, when I am using AUCTeX in emacs, if I type C-c C-e eq TAB, I would ...
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### comma between title and edition

As per the answer to another question I have removed the punctuation at the end of book titles like this: \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{#1\addcomma} \DeclareFieldFormat[book]{title}{\textit{#1}\...
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### How to add two vertical lines in LyX

I need to do two vertical lines in LyX like this: How to do that?
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### How can I make the label text in description lists wrap in the label area over multiple lines if needed?

I use the enumitem package to customise description lists. Here a MWE printing some fictitious personal details: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist[description]{leftmargin=5em, ...
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### Position of powers/subscripts when using symbols/symbolslist via glossaries

I'm using the glossaries package to generate a symbols table from the document I'm writing, which works fine. However, today I noticed that the symbols are than treated as a new object and if powers, ...
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### Table formatting like MS office

Hi I'm trying to create a table like this picture: But when I try this code: \documentclass[3p,onecolumn]{elsarticle} \usepackage[labelfont=bf,singlelinecheck=false]{caption} \usepackage{...
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### Double accent on single character [duplicate]

I wish to write the name of pdfTeX's author: I am not able to figure out how to write the middle name. I triedTh\'{\^{e}}, but it doesn't return the desired output. It's different from the similar ...
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### Texmaker is Not installing?

I am getting Error while installing Texmaker in ubantu 14.04. Error is Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ...
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### A glossaries beauty issue in two-column mode

I think I discovered a minor beauty issue in 'glossaries'. When printing 'acronyms' in two-column format, the heading overwites item in the second column, see attachment. BTW: How the name 'Acronym' ...
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### Using \input within \textcite{}

I have a file called Test.tex containting ID1 I'm trying to feed this file to a \textcite{} command, using the input{}command. \begin{filecontents*}{References.bib} @article{ID1, Author = {...
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### Problems with \wideparen

I am using \wideparen from the yhmath package to indicate arcs. Now I have encountered problems with the following symbols: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{yhmath} \begin{document} \$\wideparen{\...
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### TikZ: Place a text node in the middle of a cycled path

I have drawn an arrow using a cycled path. I want to put a text node in the middle (relatively to x and y axis). \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}...