# All Questions

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### Defining multicolum by macro with optional argument

I try to define macro for shortcut form \multiline{1}{<pcolumn type>}{\textbf{text}}: \documentclass[12pt,border=1mm,preview]{standalone} \newcommand\mcbf[2]{\multicolumn{1}{#1}{\textbf{#2}}} ...
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### Add picture in Exam class

I am writing assignment using exam class. I am having difficulty in adding pictures. Could anyone help me with it, please? The following is my work. As a test, I attach the following picture. ...
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### How can I increase the vertical size of a pre defined transformer core?

How can I increase the vertical size of a pre defined transformer core? \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{mathrsfs} ...
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### Wide figure in a 2 column document (figure* doesn't work)

I am new to this environment, but I believe I have checked other questions related to mine problem, still couldn't find a solution. What I want is to have a wider figure in a two column document. I am ...
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### Keep the word Abstract in the same page as the actual abstract

I am writing a report and i am using a specific .cls file for the layout and fonts etc. The abstract is defined as follows: \newenvironment{abstract} { \btypeout{Abstract Page} \thispagestyle{empty} ...
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### How can I make the board render correctly (Sharelatex)? [duplicate]

I'm trying to use the psgo package to insert some go diagrams into a sharelatex file, but the boards are failing to render. Here's a minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{psgo} ...
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### Adjust Margins in {res} while maintaining layout

I am composing a resume based on the style file and example CV from "Latex template for creating a CV/Resume", which I found at ...
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### From table to longtable

I have tried to convert this table to longtable but did not succeed and am hoping that you can help. The longtable-package is loaded already. \documentclass[a4paper,oneside,abstracton]{scrartcl} ...
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### Create fancyhdr footer with something like: \lfoot{\centering{Centered to the left}}

How can I create a footer like this one? It appears to be text centered in the left half of the page, and in the right half of the page. I tried, eg., using fancyhdr with: \lfoot{\centering{some ...
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### Combine multiple pgfplots from tex files

I have been using Sharelatex to write my thesis and I have accumulated many pgfplots. I can't include more than ~6 pgfplots produced by csv files before I get compile time out. I have been dividing my ...
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### Why does it appear that some lineno internal commands are never called?

At the end of lineno's cryptic documentation, the author lists certain "for wizards commands." I'm trying to implement a special tag for the first line number, so I thought I would probably begin by ...
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### Display step of square root of an integer in LaTeX

How to display step of square root of an integer in LaTeX as follows: or There is no need to write in Bengali digits. It can be express in 2304, 16 etc
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### Undefined font shape

I have a xepersian document, e.g. \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report} \usepackage{xepersian} \settextfont{Nazli}% ...
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### Uninstalling a font installed through otftotfm's automatic mode

I'm using otftotfm to install my fonts. Since I like to tinker with fonts a lot, I end up running otftotfm many times to get the font just right. An example command I'd use in the command prompt would ...
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### Paragraph above scrolling enumerate in beamer keeping position

I have done this before using tricks with absolute positioning of nodes in tikz, or more crude by repeating the content manually in slides and using \phantom. I would like to know if there is a nice ...
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### tikzexternalize in TeXMaker doesn't work

I'm having some troubles while compiling my thesis with the tikz externalize feature in Texmaker. I created the user command: "D:/laTex/texlive2014/bin/win32/pdflatex.exe" -synctex=1 ...
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### TikZ Chromaticity Diagram

I'm trying to make a chromaticity diagram in tikZ, does anyone know how to make one? I want this My issue is not in forming the spectral locus that I can do, right now I'm only using three points ...
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### How to deal with schemes of curly braces

I'm looking for a package if it exists or options to deal with schemes that use curly braces. In general, how can I do something like this:
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### How can I change the caption font and size for figures and tables

I want to specify the figure caption font size in order to follow a stupid standard at my university. I need the font to be Arial (I am using Helvetica because Arial is not available for LaTeX) 11pt. ...
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### Change starting page number

How I can start page numbering from 68 to 74 by using header and footer in latex instead of 1 to 7.
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### TeXmaker's Quick Build tab not visible [on hold]

I started using TeXmaker for making my presentation. It was working fine but then the QuickBuild tab just disappeared from the toolbar. Instead I started seeing this XeLaTeX stuff? Compiling with ...
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### Underline long url and linebreak

I have a long url which I want to appear blue and underlined. Furthermore it must linebreak if the url is to long for a single line. \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} ...
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### Use of tabular format to insert images [duplicate]

I have used a table to insert images using the suggestion at this SO question. The problem is that I have several images to be placed and hence the images start getting hide behind the bottom of the ...
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### How do I make unruled footnotes within an environment?

I have a single environment, fancyfoot, in which I would like footnotes to have no rules. \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{lipsum} \newenvironment{fancyfoot}{ \renewcommand{\footnoterule}{} ...
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### remove first label in inline enumitem

I'm using an inline enumitem with bullets, but I would like there to be no bullet before the first item. After reading the manual, I tried the following, but it still leaves an unwanted space before ...
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### Use of \cmidrule in booktabs [duplicate]

I'm using the method from this post to generate booktabs tables with alternating rowcolors (yes I know it's a frowned upon practice but I have to use it). Now I want to use \cmidrule to generate a ...
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### I redefined \- but it does not work in captions

I defined \+ and \- macros for conveniently entering notation. Surprisingly, I noticed that in table and figure captions \- does not work while \+ works. (The same problem appears also in the content ...
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### Changing the view angle distort 3D tube image

In previous post water inside 3d tube I added a code. What I need is to have a look from front, but the problem is, if I change the angle from \tdplotsetmaincoords{30}{10} to ...
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### TexWorks on Fedora 20

So I migrated completely to Fedora from windows and the latex files which were compiling fine on windows (miktex 2.9 and texworks) are not compiling on texworks on fedora 20. The current error I am ...
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### How to get subfigure alignment

I have a 3 figures and I am trying to put them on one line but I can't achieve that. Any help would be great. Here is my code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[demo]{graphicx} \usepackage{caption} ...
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### Vertical colorbar (in tikz) + subfigures (png)

I have an issue with the placement of a colorbar. The colorbar is defined separately in a tikz-environment, as suggested in this topic. My goal is to place one colorbar together with 4 png pictures ...
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### How to create this graphic with TikZ?

I want to create a graphice like the following: Below is my code: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows} \newcommand{\psign}{+} ...
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### macro for typesetting and adding a line to another document

I am writing a lengthy document and breaking it into chapters. I would like to use something like \include in my main.tex, and that typesetting of each chapter would typeset the main.tex with an ...
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### BibTeX: How to show article titles within apsrev4-1?

I'm writing an article using revtex4-1 format, and in order to generate the bibliography I use the BibTeX style apsrev4-1. Recently, the journal change the bibliography format and are now admitting ...
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### Equation with a loop arrow (see picture)

How can I typeset this equation:
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### LaTex Error: Environment equation* undefined

I am trying to work on a Poisson problem (BVP) which looks like the pic above. However, when I executed my codes as below, the compiler showed that "LaTex Error: Environment equation* undefined." ...
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### using framed within itemize or enumerate

I have the following code: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{classicthesis} \usepackage{hyperref} ...
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### How to include Matlab code into LaTeX in colour? [duplicate]

I need Matlab code, e.g. the one here, in LaTeX and in colour (the comment is green, for/if/else/end is blue). % super cooles Programm i = 1 for i = 1:10 if i > 3 i=i+2 else ...
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### How to deal with a cover page?

A report, or a book, has a cover page and a title page, but the typical templates and latex solutions in general seem to ignore the cover page. I can't figure if this is just not enough developed or ...
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### font bbm5.pfb for Bakoma Tex [on hold]

I am currently using a Bakoma Tex. I tried to install the "bbm5.pfb" font but the file is corrupted. Can some help me where can we find the said font?
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### Vertical spacing in mathtools

When using mathtools with the option showonlyrefs I find a spurious vertical spacing. I have found a similar question but the issue there was a long equation, which is not my case. Consider the MWE ...
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### Uneven spacing using \vspace inside \itemize in beamer

I have a slide that is just an itemize. I am using \vspace{.5cm} to space things out. For some reason between two of the bullets the spacing is larger than the others and I have to use ...
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### Typesetting a node in bold font

How do I typeset ${\mathrm{HR}}(\ray{r}, \, P)$ in a node in bold font? I apologize for the cumbersome code. The command for the pertinent node is in the last line. \documentclass{amsart} ...
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### Placement of labels in tikzpicture

I have constructed a polygon using tikz and would like to know how to label the points in the manner shown in the diagram below I have constructed my polygon as follows: \documentclass{article} ...
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### water inside 3D tube

How can I generate the above image using TikZ. The oval inside tube represents water and arrows indicates the dipole orientation of water. What I was able to get so far is pasted below. ...
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### Vertically aligning content in table cell

I have the following code: \begin{table}[h] \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ m{4cm} X } & Derivations \\ $v=v_0+at$ & test \newline test \newline ...
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### chemstyle doesn't replace temporary labels

I'm a newby in LaTeX, sorry if it has already been answered but I couldn't find any that works for me. I want to number six different compounds on the same scheme, numbering just besides each ...
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### Inserting \\ with a command doesn't do the same thing as inserting it directly

I'm using the mathpartir package and I have some code generated (by LyX) that puts an environment (that I'll call lines) in the \inferrule* and it seems to bother pdflatex whenever there are more than ...