# All Questions

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### multilingual table content

I want to introduce table that has multilingual content which are (Arabic, English, Vietnamese and Armenian) as the following figure Any idea how to produce that UPDATE: code used to produced ...
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### How can I typeset the reduced Planck constant (ℏ)? [duplicate]

How can I typeset the symbol for the reduced Planck constant (from quantum theory)? It consists in an italic "h" whose upper part is crossed by a small "slanted" bar: For information, this slanted ...
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### Connecting two elements in the equation [duplicate]

Suppose that my equation has six elements and I want to visually connect them into pairs (A with C, B with E and D with F). Is that possible to do? Example: --------- ...
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### How to avoid page breaks between the paragraphs of a description item?

Is there a way of preventing LaTeX from putting page breaks between two paragraphs of a multi-paragraph \item in a description environment? Preferably without having to put in explicit \nopagebreak ...
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### Why does \usepackage[british]{babel} change the hyphenation to wrong?

Now I know there are hyphenation differences between British and American English but in no dictionary, British or American, could I find the word "alternate" to be broken down to al·tern·ate instead ...
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### How can create one bibliography file for different tex files in one project

I am beginner in Tex writing, and writing a report in Texmaker on Ubuntu 13.10. I have separate files for different chapters. Now I want to create one .bib file for all chapters including main file, ...
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### How to rewrite this command using \newenvironment?

I once defined a customized latex command, which works well. And now I would like to convert it into a latex environment using \newenvironment command. However, I failed after trying several ways. ...
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### Draw block diagram with a switch

I'm trying to draw a simple block diagram that looks like this: schemabloc seems to be the package to use, but then again, it doesn't have the switch symbol that I need. circuitikz doesn't seem to ...
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### Unbalanced binary tree with forest

How can one draw an unbalanced binary tree - with missing nodes using the forest package?
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### punctuation from times

i'm using pdflatex and my math font is palatino. i want to change the punctutation into times because apostrophe is so similar derivation symbol. i used the command below but it changed all math into ...
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### How to start a curvilinear bezier curve at a specific point?

I'm currently fiddling around with the pgf library curvilinear. What I want to do is make a shape bending like the shape of a grid, a grid very similar to this one: Canvas transformation of grid to ...
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### How to reference an Annex [duplicate]

How to reference an Annex (A)? I've tried \ref{Annex A}, but this wouldn't work.
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### Importing plots from MATLAB to LaTeX

This is my first time trying to import plots created by MATLAB into LaTeX and it's not turning out very nicely. I have saved my MATLAB plot as a .png file here and an .eps file here. Using the .eps ...
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### eps import wrong title in graphic \pi looks like \neq

Need to import a figure from Matlab. I export it as an eps and use epstopdf to import it in latex for some unknown reasons the greek pi in the title of the plot that looks ok in the .eps does not ...
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### flow chart page size issue

I have been doing this since from last month. I want to draw this flow chart using \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report} but if I use above configuration (which I want to use) the flow chart does ...
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I'm trying to use the titletoc package to add the word "Chapter" only to my numbered entries in my Table of Contents. I'm using a report document class. I'm really close (I think), I just need to know ...
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### What are the differences between mdframed vs. tcolorbox [duplicate]

I am familiar with the mdframed package and its usefulness when content crosses page boundaries. But lately, I have seen quite a few questions about the tcolorbox package and don't know much about it ...
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### How to correctly display and separate the author names in a bibliographic entry?

How to correctly display and to separate among the BibLaTeX's author's names? Code: @book{atl1, label = {SELLS}, author = {Cristopher TAVARES, Kirk FERTITTA, Brent RECTOR, Chris ...
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### fontawesome package deforms orginal font style

Why do I notice a shift and deformation in the fonts when I use the fontawesome package. The firs image doesnt use the fontawesome package and the font looks thicker and neat, when the package is ...
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### easylist in tabular

I'd like to build this table: As I have a very long list to itemize, I'd like to use easylist. Obviously the easylist-group causes problems in the tabularx-environment. That's what I coded so far: ...
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### Generating a table but an error occurs

What is the most efficient way of getting the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_and_conductivity#Resistivity_of_various_materials into LaTeX syntax? I tried to get it in, ...
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### Capital ẞ in LaTeX/XeTeX/lualatex/whatever

I am trying to get a ẞ in my LaTeX document. How can I do this? I already tried: Using other fonts: dejavu and libertine Using \MakeUppercase{ß}, which sometimes produces nothing, sometimes produces ...
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### How to pre-evaluate commands that are problematic for a specific environment?

More specifically, my problem occurs in the caption environment, but I imagine this applies elsewhere. I would like to insert the text generated by \suppOrApp and store it in the variable \sOrA: ...
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### Change entry label to [Jones,82]

I'm trying to set a bibliography this way: \documentclass[12pt,french]{report} \usepackage[backend=bibtex, style=alphabetic ]{biblatex} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib} ...
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I want to make the code shorter. I defined the following pair of macros: \def\b*{\begin{align*}} \def\e*{\end{align*}} My point is that I saw this is a document, with \def\b*{\begin{eqnarray*}} ...
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I'm trying to build a model here with Sublime + MacTex + Skim But I get this message: winfont.sty not found I looked at the winfont readme ...
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### Installing biber for use with TeX Live 2013 on Debian wheezy

I recently backported what I think is TeX Live 2013 from Debian testing/unstable to Debian wheezy. The version number is 2013.20140314-1. This is no longer the most current version in Debian; there is ...
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### pgfplots: adds “-indexX” to duplicate columns when pulling column name by \pgfplotstablegetcolumnnamebyindex

I am making graphs from a huge CSV with a macro hacked from http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/45125 and http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/24023 Which selects start/end column and adds them etc. But ...
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### Specifying a letter class \address from an external file using catchfile package

I'm working with the letter class, and have created a custom .cls file in which most formatting of a letter is taken care off. From a .tex file used to produce the letter (or call, as I may have ...
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### Why is my beamer presentation failing to compile when I include letters in my math?

Forgive me I am new to LaTex. I have a presentation that I would like to do in Beamer, but it fails to compile when I include letters in my math statements. For example, the following will compile, ...
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### TeXStudio: Any command is an “Undefined control sequence” [duplicate]

I'm trying to configure TeXStudio (using Windows) with MiKTeX. I configured the path to latex.exe and pdflatex.exe in Options\Commands and still I get errors compiling any .tex. Every command (like ...
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### TeXStudio: high CPU usage after version 2.6.2 [closed]

How can I fix that problem? All versions after 2.6.2 increase the CPU usage and the fan goes like crazy. Thanks P.S. I have already tried to not use spelling correction, yet the problem is still ...
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### Alignment of image (via includegraphics) in fancyhdr with and without tabular environment

Below I show two examples; an image (via includegraphics) is placed in fancyhdr with and without tabular environment. When the image is placed in the tabular environment, a vertical offset is ...
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### Split a character string n by n

I want to split a character string n by n. I know how to do that 1 by 1 : \documentclass{article} \makeatletter \def\s@plit<#1#2>{% \ifx\empty#2% #1% \else #1,\s@plit<#2>% ...
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### Bottom frame of listing appears on top of the next page

As the title says. I use, among other things, the following in my lstset: framerule=1pt, frame=tblr Some places a page break happens in the middle of my \lstlisting. Fine. But sometimes the whole ...
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### What does \def\foo#{…} mean? [duplicate]

I came across this idiom recently: \def\foo#{...} That is, a hash but no parameter number. What might be the purpose of this?
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### How to crop my page to the size of tikz graph

I want to crop the page to exactly fit the tikz graph in it. When i used standalone document class, all the page content became on one line. Here is my code \documentclass{standalone} ...
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### Horizontal alignment within itemize

My minimum working example: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{itemize} \item 1. First \item 2. Second \item 3a. Third \item 3b. Third \item 4. Fourth \end{itemize} \end{document} ...
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### pdftooltip color assign

How can we assign a color for the pdftooltip ? For example I want the text CD to be blue. How can I get the color of my choice in RGB? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pdfcomment}% ...
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### eledmac package: \pausenumbering and \resumenumbering

I'm using the eledmac package to typeset a rather large work of theology. For simplicity and the sake of a MWE, I'm just using the two stanza poem below. Intended outcome: Between sections that are ...
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### Scaling a graphics leads to an error [duplicate]

I have the following problem: I want to attach a photo in my resume on the right top. If I not use a scale argument, the file compiles but the photo is to large. However using a scale argument leads ...
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### everyshi.sty is missing, how to install

I'm trying to use the package pgfplots, and I have successfully installed it along with the pre-requisite pgf. Whenever I compile, I get the error message "The required file ...everyshi.sty is ...
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### Problem importing Octave Plot using TiKZ - pgfkeys Error on gpcolor

I am trying to include a set of Octave generated plots in a report, however I am constantly receiving the same error from pgf about it not recognizing \gpcolor A MWE would be ...
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### Change line style in pgfplots in the middle of a line

I have the following MWE graph: \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.10} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis} \addplot coordinates { (1000,1) ...
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### How to swap field entries in Bibliography (biblatex, bibtex8)? [closed]

I am currently modifying the layout of my thesis' bibliography and I still have to change three things. This is part of my preamble which includes the biblatex package. I already managed to render ...
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### How can I replicate verbatim's letter spacing in listings? [duplicate]

I was trying to imitate the code listings in the book Mathematical Recipes in C, I understand that it uses the CM TT font. What I am interested is in the proportion between the text and the code, and ...
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### Custom verbatim commands writing into index

I have created a custom fancyvrb command via \CustomVerbatimCommand{\afun}{Verb}{} to use for writing programming language functions, say \afun|object.method.blah|, etc. I would like to automatically ...
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when I am writing a letter and using the class scrlttr2. I would like to use \obeylines for the address, so I can just paste an address into my latex source code, i.e. somewhat like this: ...