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### scatter, group, error bar, and a legend

I want a grouped scatter plot with xy error bars and a legend. So each point is a different group, with its own color, mark, and legend entry. The error bars should have the same color as the mark ...
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### ! Package pdftex.def Error: File first_sketch.pdf' not found

I am trying to compile image which I created by Inkscape but I am getting the following error ! Package pdftex.def Error: File first_sketch.pdf' not found. the PDF file first_sketch is in the ...
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### amsart option titlepage puts the address on the last page

The following code produces a title page with the title, authors, and abstract, but the addresses appear at the end of the article. Every variation I can think of produces the same problem. Putting ...
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### Countries are not visible with pst-map3d

Currently I am trying to use pst-map3d package. The code below plots the earth ball but doesn't draw the countries / country lines. I tried the code now on a Windows, Linux and Mac machine and every ...
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### Can't move sidecap figures from top of page

Thanks for your help in advance. I am using LyX to typeset my dissertation. However when I export to plain LaTeX the problem persists, so I know is is a LaTeX problem. I am using sidecap with ...
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### Avoid table overlaying with another column in IEEEtran

I am trying to create a table which is occupying end to end in the IEEEtran paper. If the table comes in the first column, then the text on the right column overwrite the remaining columns of the ...
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### How should I typeset the complex conjugate of a subscripted variable?

I have a variable $z_{2n+1}$ and I want to write the complex conjugate of it. I am not sure which of the following should be preferred: \bar{z}_{2n+1}: The bar is not so large and may be hard to ...
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### How to draw five pentagons from another pentagon?

I can to draw a pentagon: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=2.2] \draw[ultra thick] (1,0)--(0.30,0.95) ...
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### pfgplots groupplot with more than one \addplot per \nextgroupplot?

I'm having trouble making a group plot in pgfplots. I want to have 2 separate graphs, each with two regression lines and two sets of dots, but groupplot lumps everything onto 1 set of axes. I can't an ...
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### Table example made in Google Docs - how to make (would one make) this in LaTeX?

edit -> the emphasis on Google Docs might be a bit much, basically it's just a little table thing, it's not something unique to Google Docs thats just what I happened to use to make this. I made ...
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### Specifying some points in rectangular coordinates and other points in polar coordinates

I would like to draw a right triangle inscribed in a circle on the Cartesian plane. In the following code, a circle of radius 3 and center (1,1) is drawn. One side of the triangle, the hypotenuse, is ...
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### Draw octagon with color node at middle edges

I would like to draw three pictures in TikZ but I don't know how to do it.
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### Header in chapter with chapter marks/info

I want to have header in chapter page but it must include the chapter's number as well. For example, in Chapter 1 the header should include the nunber of the chapter 1. I have found the: ...
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### \autoref and linguex

I use the linguex package for linguistics examples, and I'd like to be able to refer to the examples with the \autoref command. This works great for examples with labels: \ex. \label{example} Hi. ...
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### how to cite this book with bibtex? [closed]

This might be an easy question to some of you but for me I find it hard because I am not familiar with the names mentioned. Which is a city and which is a publisher. Mack, Chris A. Fundamental ...
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### Creating a question-solution capability

I am trying to modify a question-solution capability that was answered brilliantly a while back here. After each question text, one can freely use \solution to keep the solution directly with the ...
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### XeLaTeX won't use superscript-table of OTF

The following MWE will show you the problem I encountered today. As asked, the problem I see, is that in math-mode the numbers aren't displayed as in the first line. David Carlisle stated, that this ...
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### ifnum x is even DO THIS \else DO THIS \fi

I am looking for a conditional command with the next structure ifnum x is even DO THIS \else DO THIS \fi usually ifnum command have the options = < >, but I would like to have the option even ...
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### unicode-math + siunitx + lualatex = long compile times. Why?

The following MWE, compiled under several situations (with appropriate lines removed) gives the following timings (with all output files removed between runs), as timed by Measure-Command on Windows 7 ...
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### Plotting trajectory with latitude longitude [closed]

I am interested to plot time series data of moving object using latitude and longitude data...I have looked and haven't found anything before I give up I thought I would ask here...Is there a package? ...
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### How does one change the frame size and colors in the frame option of titlesec as in MWE?

%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- % \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,reqno,fleqn,xcolor=x11names]{book} % ...
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### A brace in an equation to say both variables are equal to the same value

Say I had; \begin{cases} x = 0 \\ y = 0 \\ z = 0 \end{cases} \qquad \text{and} \qquad \begin{cases} x = a \\ y = a \\ z = b ...
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### Pgfplot, show mark when distance along the path is reached

Is it possible to show marks when there is a certain distance along the path has been reached? Example With \documentclass[10pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{pgf} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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### How to format a list of lists?

So I'm not really certain what to call this situation, but I need a list that looks a bit like this: Ia. Foo b. Bar c. Baz IIa. Foo b. Bar ... Any ideas on how to accomplish this with the ...
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I'm using amsthm and thmtools to customize theorem-like environments. I want a theorem enviroment that has a header that looks like the following: . I tried to use something like headformat = ...
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### How to use fewer markers while keeping curve details?

I am trying to add a few markers to a curve with lots of points, like shown below, but without resorting to the second addplot: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} ...
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### Creating hyperlinks in TeXmacs [closed]

In TeXmacs, I'm trying to insert hyperlinks that link to urls with the command \hlink and then I fill out the appropriate name and the url. But when I try to open the link in TeXmacs it yields the ...
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### Is it possible to fix the width of the included image with includegraphics?

I have tried to use the renewcommand do redefine includegraphics, as shown in this answer: % save the meaning of \includegraphics \LetLtxMacro\latexincludegraphics\includegraphics ...
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### Declare non-stretching non-pairing delimiters

How do I define my own delimiters from arbitrary symbols for math which have these properties: They have a fixed size. Unlike the usual delimiters they do not stretch to adapt to the enclosed ...
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### Scoping \raggedbottom to a single page

How does one define a single page to be \raggedbottom? Or, for completion's sake, \flushbottom? Background In a comment to a related answer, Ben Lerner provided the following snippet of code to ...
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### Ligature with a char inserted by \symbol command is ignored by pdftex

I have some change to a virtual font like this: (LABEL C 9) (LIG O 344 C L) (comment д L) (STOP) (LABEL O 346) (comment ж) (LIG C 7 C 9) (comment 7 9) (LIG O 134 C 9) (comment backslash 9) (STOP) ...
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### Automatically show verbatim content of a custom environment

I've defined an environment with \newenvironment, which I am mainly using for tikz diagrams. I have it set to dynamically change the margins, vertically and horizontally center the diagrams, and put ...
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### Can openout handle a filename with spaces?

With pdflatex, can \openout handle a filename with a space in it? (We're using MiKTeX and our users seem to think it's clunky to restrict them in this way. We also have tons of legacy TeX files and ...
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### How to make a picture taking the maximum space?

To expand a picture imported with \includegraphics that is wider than heigh to the width of the text block, you just do this: \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{ ... } When they are heigher than ...
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### How to make a rectangle of 3 colors with Tikzstyle and Tcolorbox

I've to write a book in arabic, with a background given by an image with stripes in 2 colours in the margin of the page. I include it in the document without any problem with the package bachground. ...
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### French characters

I am writing my PhD thesis but I have a problem in typing French characters: like "à" "é" "ç" etc. In the main page I have to use these two packages: \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} ...
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### Using xr to refer to another document without hyperref

I have two documents A and B. I wish to refer to theorems and lemmas from A in B. To do this I am using the package xr in B. If I use the package hyperref in B then it's all fine. Otherwise, when I ...
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### \textsubscript undefined in Beamer? [duplicate]

Beamer tells me \textsubscript is undefined. Isn't it a core LaTeX command? How can I use the command in Beamer? This example throws "undefined control sequence" errors and does not subscript the ...
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### include (and input) with part of a file name [closed]

Is it possible to use the \include and \input commands with only part of a file name and use relative directories? I.e. \include{Part1} \include{Part2} instead of \include{Part1_Filename} ...
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### How can I have a horizontally shaded frametitle in beamer?

This question is similar to How can I have a horizontally shaded block title in beamer?. I want to achieve the horizontal shading effect in the frametitle and when I use ...
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### Why the issue number is missing in reference?

My source is: @article{Astrm2014, doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2013.10.012}, year = {2014}, month = {jan}, publisher = {Elsevier {BV}}, ...
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### Highlight code with squared brackets

I want to show some .ini file in my work. The ini file works with squared brackets. I try to use \lstdefinelanguage but I can't handle it. That is what I try before and in my understanding it should ...
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### Biber 1.9, working with Biblatex 2.9a on Yosemite, suddenly not producing .bbl file [duplicate]

Out of the blue, I'm getting this error for all my .tex files with citations (even those which ran smoothly just a couple of days ago). I typeset them on another MacBook with the same distribution and ...
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### can't draw a line far enough to the right in a pspicture in landscape

I want to use pspicture in a landscape document, but I can't draw a line to the right hand side of the document with \psframe, while \rput works as expected. I've tried to create an MWE to demonstrate ...
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### How can I maintain the current page nodes for portrait when temporarily entering landscape mode in TikZ?

Question How can I keep the current page nodes aligned with the same physical corners of the page in a document where the main layout is portrait, but some pages with longtable are in the landscape ...
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### Left and right text in header without Fancyhdr

Is there a way to write a header with left- and right-aligned text without using the package Fancyhdr?
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### Drawing figure of a boat with the Tikz-package

I want to draw a simple figure of a boat in LaTex, does anyone know a good way to do that? Is TikZ the best package to use for this? I want it to look similar to the boat in the picture below, which I ...