# All Questions

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### problem with chronology package

I want to do a horizontal time line. I find this script: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{chronology} \begin{document} \begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{3ex}{\textwidth} \event{1984}{one} \event[...
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### Minion math font for low budget

I'm thinking about buying Minion Math fonts. Prices go from 80€ to 700€, with multiple intermediate sets. I don't understand the differences between weights and between optical sizes. Can somebody ...
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### Cleveref - change crefname for paragraphs to include paragraph title

I'd like to change the \crefname for paragraphs so that it produces "paragraph " instead of the numbering The regular latex command \nameref already produces the title but without "paragraph" in ...
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### ConTeXt : how to go after float?

When one uses \placefloat[right] with ConTeXt, it automatically wraps the text around the float, which is generally very useful. However, if I need to go at the first line after the float, I don't ...
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### How to draw in tikz with label in radians

I want to draw in TikZ the graph of the next image:
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### Insert name top rigth memoir

How can I insert name in every page of on the top right document \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oldfontcommands]{memoir} ? I have tried this: \usepackage{scrpage2} \pagestyle{scrheadings} \ohead{my ...
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### Why does my two-column book have column breaks that leave huge empty spaces?

I have the following XeTeX document. You can view and play with it on ShareLaTeX. I have a two-column layout, and sometimes there is a column break that leaves a very huge empty space. \documentclass[...
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### How to do \hrulefill in LyX without a TeX inset

A very similar, but significantly different question is LyX command(s) to insert WYSIWYG horizontal line, for keyboard shortcut. I'm trying to achieve the effect of \hrulefill in LyX, without ...
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### How to define index and multiple glossaries with the glossaries package?

Problem Statement I would like to make an index with the courtesy of glossaries package. However, I received a message while using makeglossaries Warning: File 'document.idx' is empty. Have you ...
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### bibliography producing extra number at the end

When I compile my document, I get an extra number at the end. How can I get round to work on actually citation and remove the superfluous (1)? .bib @online{BLS, author = {Bureau of ...
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### TikZ-Drawing of Euler-cases (Knickfälle), bended lines

As a novice in TikZ I tried to draw the four so called Euler-cases (Knickfälle/Buckling; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckling). I got that far: But it should rather look like this: As you can ...
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### Centering tabular-looking nodes in TikZ

I've recently decided to make a formal study of LaTeX so I can upgrade my talents from "copy, paste & hack" TeX user to well, someone who knows how to use the tools. One of the things I'm trying ...
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### How to Generate Random Negative Integer?

I am trying to create a worksheet constituted of random numbers so that kids can practice integer operations. E.g. 3+-9=? 2x(-5)=? 18/-3=? Etc. How do I do this? Here is what I've tried so far. ...
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### I can't get rid of this errors. I use TexMaker (linux)

! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.<to be read again>relax \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont ! Package babel Error: Unknown option `spanish'...
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### how to list authors in a bibliographic entry?

How should authors name be separated in a bibliographic entry? Suppose for example : @article{edgar2000automatic, title={Automatic control in microelectronics manufacturing: Practices, challenges, ...
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### use \partial sign from other packages, for example mathpazo [duplicate]

I would like to include another \partial sign, for example the one from mathpazo. i found a way to do it but i'm not sure wether it will change other things as well, so is this the right approach? \...
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### How to print in white text over black background in latex

I already have set a document with text and image. On the whole document: Is it possible to make the white background go set to black? That is: text in white color & background in black color. ...
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my thesis was built successfully on texbasic2015. Today I updated my textlive version to texbasic2016. After updating and installing all required packages, it is not possible to build the thesis. In ...
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### Print Latex Code with LuaLatex in function

I want to print Latex Code with a Lua Function. But there is a problem with my function if there are parenthesis in the string: in the example the second code will not be printed), who can help me? \...
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### How to align terms in polynomials in display math?

I'd like to align the terms of some polynomials in display math. For example, in the following: \begin{align} e &= x^5 + x \\ f &= x^5 + x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1 \...
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### Formatting Mailing List archive

I have archived a mailing list, with multiple writers/speakers, asking and answering questions on a variety of subjects. I've been looking around for solutions, but none come close to what I'm ...
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### CM Concrete with Latin Modern bold in LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX?

With LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, how do I use Concrete (or any other font family that already has a bold) as main font but use Latin Modern bold as bold? This doesn’t work: \usepackage{fontspec} \...
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### Floatrow package conflicting with centering longtable

Consider the MWE below. If I \usepackage{floatrow} the longtable is not horizontal centered. If I comment out \usepackage{floatrow} the table is properly horizontal centered. How can I get this ...
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### Detecting overflow into margins of a compiled pdf

I have a fairly large pdf file compiled in Tex. I used XeTex to compile, though it doesn't matter for this question I think. I want to see if on any page of the PDF, any line, there is text ...
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### How to place text at a specific position

I am trying to generate a pdf file with a logo at the top left, and an address right below it. Here is what I have tried so far: Based on this \documentclass[8pt]{extarticle} \usepackage{tikz} \...
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### making linegoal pay attention to equation numbering

linegoal is an incredibly useful package. Is there a way to make it take equation numbering into account? Consider the following MWE: \documentclass[leqno]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,tabularx,...
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### tikzexternalize, list-and-make, list of figures to be updated

I am using tikz' externalize library on windows. Since my document contains graphics with \ref, I need to use list and make instead of convert with system call. Since I am working on windows, I cannot ...
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### MinionPro vs. FontPro

In the past I've used the MinionPro scripts/packages, by Achim Blumensath, Andreas Bühmann and Michael Pedler, to install the Minion Pro font set. I have to do this once more on a new computer —a Mac ...
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### Wrap two column minipage on a multicols{3} layout

I'm new to TeX and been searching for a solution for this for a while. I'm writing a document which contains a multicols environment with three columns. What I want to do is to create a box of ...
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### Changing the colour of a cell and positioning text vertically in that cell

How can I change the vertically position of the text 'Data' in the multicolumn cell? And how can I colour only that sell? \documentclass{article} \usepackage[table]{xcolor} \usepackage{colortbl} \...
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### Aligning Text in Enumerate Environments within TeXMaker

I don’t really know how to phrase this question, so I am sorry if I am a bit meander-y. This question pertains to the formatting side of typesetting in LaTeX, not the compiling side. I am currently ...
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### How can I make a command execute exactly once in an AMS environment?

I'm wanting to create a command similar to AMS's proof environment that automatically calls a command (like AMS's \qedhere) when it gets to the end, but allows you to call the command earlier if you ...
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### PGF Plot: Different Graphs/Plots in one file

I want to plot my benchmark results from Celero (C++ benchmarking library) in latex, via PGF Plot: I get a csv file with all data in the form of (here with example data): Now I want to plot the ...
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### Using standalone to combine multiple .tex into a single file

I have a number of latex files section1.tex, section2.tex, etc. Each of them should be able to be compiled individually to give a normal LaTeX document. I would like to write a file master.tex that ...
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### Changing \leftmark number to \oldstylenums in memoir

Referring to the image below, I am trying to change the number 1 on the \leftmark header to \oldstylenums number format. Can anyone help? These are the codes: \documentclass[12pt,twoside,openright]...
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### Extra space in LaTeX bibliography

I have a problem with my bibdesk. I have a source, which is inserted fine. @article{pal1981, Author = {E. Palmore}, Date-Added = {2016-01-28 18:33:05 +0000}, Date-Modified = {2016-06-28 12:42:40 +...
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### Tikz: shade area between two bezier curves and an intersection

I'm trying to shade the area between two Bezier curves and two lines, but I can't make it work. Here is an example \documentclass[12pts]{beamer} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{frame}{...
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### Limits to number of indexes using multind?

I am encountering errors building multiple indexes (10) using multind. Are there some limits I run up against?
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### Which sharelatex theme is most similar to texmaker's default?

Just started using sharelatex for the compiling boost, and the theme they use is throwing me off, because I very much used the default colour scheme used in texmaker for highlighting text to spot ...
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### IEEETran Bibliography Style - Problem with @electronic type

I'm writing a paper using the IEEETran class and bibliography styles and I have a problem when trying to reference a website. I'm using the @electronic style as per the IEEETran.bst file but for some ...
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### Biblatex style for author only and numbered when not unique

How do I get a biblatex style which only displays the author, i.e. Hans, and in case there are several publications by the same author, numbers them like Hans1 and Hans2 ?
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### how to cite an online document [duplicate]

I want to cite this article from the internet- enter link description here Can someone help me ?
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### Reference list is not generated and Bibtex key appears in the pdf file

I am using TexMaker and Jabref to input my references, however on compilation the reference list doesn't appear and the bibTex keys are presented in the pdf file. I am working in a thesis template ...
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### How to align 4 subfloats of different size?

I want to control the image positioning that way that the space between the images is always a straight cross. But for unequal image width it doesn't work. I want to use subfloat and textwidth to. How ...
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### How to add numbers occuring in a text?

How make LaTeX to remember some numbers and output the total sum by calling another command? Consider this example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} The price of the ...
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### tikzpicture curved arrows

I am trying to make I diagram with two boxes, one above the other, and two arrows: I would like the arrows to be curved (that would be kind of circular flow diagram) and in just one direction. ...
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### Unable to move element to right

I have the following file testCV.tex: %testCV.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Medium Length Professional CV - RESUME CLASS FILE % % This template has been downloaded from: % http://...
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I took some style files along with a certain .fts file containing a list of fonts from a person to give format to my own tex file. However, The tex file I made is not running on Ubuntu 16.04, although ...