# All Questions

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### \PARstart not working (IEEEtran)

Ok, I am useing the IEEEtran document class. It is in journal mode and I get this error when I try to use \PARstart: ./main.tex:148: Undefined control sequence. l.148 \PARstart {T}{his} ...
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### Summary of TeX Capacity Limits

I seem to often run into capacity issues and have been upping the limits each time. There are several question on this site pertaining to these. However, there seems to be some conflicting information ...
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### How to access the arithmetic value of count in \foreach, and use them in rotate box{}?

I have a question about access the mathematical value of count in \foreach, I will used that value to do some calculation in the following code. But it didn't work. ...
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### Hide irrelevant numbers in ToC [on hold]

I have a question concerning the numbering of sections in my file. I use the article class and tocloft to format my table of contents. The relevant commands are: %customize table of contents ...
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### How to set-up a this html outline for tex4ht with toc on the left+main text+footnotes

I have discovered a nice outline to have a html page with: a table of content the main text the footnotes at the bottom of each page all of these windows can be resized with the cursor of the mouse ...
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### Undefined control sequence.\BState ->\State \algbackskip \BState

I got the error while creating a pseudocode for my report. The following is my code in LaTeX. This gives out an stating "undefined control sequence \BState ->\State \algbackskip \BState". Kindly help ...
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### merge cells using multirow package

I have the following code for a table: \bgroup \def\arraystretch{1.5} \begin{table}[ht] \textbf{\caption{My Table}} % title of Table \centering % used for centering table \begin{tabular}{ c|ccc } ...
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### Numerators and denominators in fractions at different height

I'm trying to write a rather lengthy equation with a fraction multiplied by another fraction that has several \left( and \right) brackets. The height of the symbols above the fraction line is two high ...
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### Using \mathcal font outside of latex [on hold]

I am writing an article and I want to use the \mathcal font in microsoft word, which is where I am creating a figure. I have successfully done this by using the font jsMath-cmbsy10. However, it only ...
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### Problem with pgfplots and histograms

I just played with @Jakes pgfplots binomial examples from http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/198575/4011, however the histogram seems to be shifted to the left or to the right depending on the whole plot ...
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### Make spaced caps bold in classic thesis environment

In a classic thesis environment I want to make spaced caps bold. Can somebody tell me how to do this since \textbf is not working properly? \documentclass{article} ...
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### TikZ: how to draw arrows from the y axis to a curve? [duplicate]

I should draw this: This is what I have done so far. I do not know how to draw the horizontal arrows. Besides, in order to draw the dashed line from point Q to point P, I wrote \draw [fill] ...
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### How to make TOC sections apper in pdf as bookmarks?

I am very new to Latex. I am trying to make my thesis paper in latex as now. I am using the mwart documentclass. I dont know either it is a documentclass specific thing, but the items i have in table ...
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### Adobe Garamond Pro cannot be found, Mac xelatex

I am using Mac, and following a template .tex file. I have tried to run xelatex myFile.tex, but I receive the error: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! fontspec error: ...
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### pdf annotations

There is a package pdfcomments to place annotations in the pdf. However, when producing DVI output, yap gives errors. I do not mind not seeing the annotations in the DVI, but I do mind seeing the ...
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### Draw two dependent figures with tikzpicture

For a report I want to create one figure showing the costs of employees vs. time in a small company. In the bottom figure the accumulated costs are shown. The plots should look as follows: With the ...
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### Big space between longtable/longtabu and the preceeding section header

If I add a longtable or longtabu environment directly after a \section command a very big space is set between the header and the table. In case of the second example where some text is in between ...
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### How to snap a float to grid

I have a two-column document with some column-spanning floats. The problem is that floats essentially reduce the page size when present, and the remaining page size does not necessarily correspond to ...
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### Equation numbers in split environment messed up by ntheorem thref

When I use ntheorem with the thref option, every time I use the amsmath split command the numbering skips ahead by one. Here is an example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} ...
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### problems with ifthen and tabularx

I have a problem related with ifthen and tabularx packages. Here is a minimal example: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{tabularx,colortbl} \usepackage{xcolor} ...
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### Problem with gather and labels

This gives a way of combining two different math environments (so there is no extra vertical skip): Adjusting vertical skip between equations But add labels to that exsample \documentclass{article} ...
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### Combine two smartdiagram diagrams

I would like to join up two smartdiagram circular diagrams, so that there is only one Research node. So far I have got: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{smartdiagram} ...
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### Mini TOC next to chaper

I would like to place a mini table of context directly next to the chapter like in the following. For compatibility reasons the toc should be created using titletoc as suggested in this answer. The ...
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### natbib displaying all authors in text without using \citep*

Evening, I have two references in my bibliography file that display all the authors instead of (Author et al., year) I have this at the start of my file: \documentclass[12pt]{article} ...
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### MikTeX 2.9 does not respond under Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

Two weeks ago I installed MiKTeX 2.9 64 bit on my laptop with OS Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. When working a while on a document (article) MiKTeX all of a sudden no longer responds. This invariably happens ...
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### Can't compile file with cyrillic name

When I try to compile file with cyrillic name in XeTeX it shows the following: : Invalid argument: "РЎРѕС‡РёРЅРµРЅРёРµ Рє 08.02.2016".log xelatex.exe: Data: "РЎРѕС‡РёРЅРµРЅРёРµ Рє ...
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### Cannot compile old luatex code

I can't compile the answer given here: In LuaTex is it possible to change font/language according to the script/glyphs used? Is it because it's old? My compiler says that \luatexdirectlua is ...
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### No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for the language 'nil'

I simply load the package babel with the options nil and french. I need the language nil to be able to prevent hyphenations of certain words like names of persons or publishers. In the past, I used ...
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### Line up nested tikz enviroments or how to get rid of them

In my diagram I have a few components I reuse a lot, thus making "macros" in tikz for them. The current code I have is using nested tikzpicture environments and is not exactly working as expected. Do ...
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### Create array of specific counter values

I want to create an array containg specific values of a counter to be used in a foreach loop. So I want to define a command that adds the actual counter value at the end of the list. What I can do is: ...
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### Adjusting vertical skip between equations

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} $$1 + 1 = 2$$ \begin{align} 7 + 5 &= 12\\ 12 &= 11 + 1 \end{align} \end{document} ...
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### Make output pdf consistently viewable on other systems [on hold]

I understand that there are pdf files that contain fonts, and pdf files that rely on the fonts that are already installed on the viewer system. If your pdf does not have embedded fonts, and the pdf ...
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### Replacement of accentuated characters in a variable

I would like to replace accentuated characters in a string variable but I am not an expert about programming my own macros in Latex. So, I found a macro here : ...
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### A quarter of point instead \half point in Exam document class

I would like to have a quarter of point (1/4) instead a half of point (1/2) in the exam document class. How can I obtain this? Thanks so much
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### How to Center Titles in Forest Trees?

Here goes my third question. I am actually drawing Game Theory trees using the package Forest, and I have a small issue with the title of some Trees that I cannot manage. Essentially, I order LaTex to ...
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### Minipages parallel with included image

Bonjour! I created two columns with information using \itemize in two different \minipage environments. Now I want to include an image parallel to these two 'columns'. I tried to include the ...