# All Questions

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### Breakable boxes with Tikz and right and leftmargin

I've found a method to obtain breakable boxes, using polyglossia for arabic, and the Tikz package and I have two problems... 1) the commands leftmargin and rightmargin of Tikz have no effect on the ...
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### Texindy sorting Icelandic

I use command texindy -L icelandic -M lang/icelandic/utf8 dict_main.idx to create a list of the names of the photographes, their authors and licenses. But the sorting is not correct (for example ...
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### How can I create full page table with varying column widths?

Concretely, this is what I want to do as described in this picture. Create two columns, one of larger width and spanning the whole page. I understand there is multicolumn but I can't seem to make it ...
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### How to draw a spiral in phase portrait?

I am aware of easily drawing a spiral in the note of nonlinear dynamics. Here are some examples:
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### how write this code using (pseudcode) algoritm2e?

My question is if anyone has an idea if these issues can be resolved, and how? Thanks in advance for your help! Below this question is code illustrating the problems: wanting typing (pseudo code) ...
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### Undefined control sequence (\email, \address) in combine class

I am using the combine class to merge several tex files. Each of these files has a title with the name of the article, name of the author and the author's address and email id. Here is a sample of ...
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### How to ignore everything in the document environment?

Yes, you did read the title correctly! I want to ignore everything that is between \begin{document} and \end{document} when I \input a file. I thought that that would be very simple, just use the ...
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### Changing font size in equations changes superscript size in text (LATeX)

I used \DeclareMathSizes{12}{20}{14}{10} to make my equations larger than the default output of LATeX (I'm using 12pt font throughout the rest of my text). However, the subscripts and superscripts ...
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### Problems with itemize

I had the following situation \begin{itemize} \item[(A_s)] Item (A_s) such that $$\label{sob} \sum_{n}n$$ \item[(B_s)] Item (B_s) \end{itemize} and the result was blank ...
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### Vim complains of Whitespace error with \hspace

When I type the following line in Vim: \hrule height .1mm Why do I get the following error in the Vim Location List: foo.tex|258 error| Whitespace before punctation mark in " ." NOTE: It ...
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### how to put words in several lines in one cell?

The table is too wide, and I want to make it narrower by wrapping the Second under the First, how should I achieve this? The latex code looks like this currently: \begin{table*}[htbp] \centering ...
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### An underline with texts one both ends of a line

I want to make a blank between texts on both ends of a line. For example, \begin{enumerate} \item There \hrulefill\ in the room. \end{enumerate} But, the above appears in student's version only, ...
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### How to add a target directory when you convert from tex file to pdf in Vim-LaTeX?

I just installed Vim-LaTex on OSX. I learnt :TTarget pdf and type \ll to convert a tex file to pdf. When I do this a pdf file is created in the same directory as tex file. How can I add the target ...
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### Numbering figures in beamer while using the caption package

I am trying to number my figures in beamer while using the package caption but it doesn't work. I want to use caption because I can break a line with \\ and I like the way the caption is formatted. ...
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### adding significance levels under regression result table

I have a table as the following: \begin{table}[htbp]\centering \caption{Dependent Variable: Enrollment} \begin{tabular}{c c c c} \hline\hline \textbf{Variable} & \textbf{Model 1} & ...
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### Bump right-aligned text to next line iff no room within a \savebox

This is a follow up to my earlier question Bump right-aligned text to next line iff no room. The difference now is that I need to place this formatted text within a \savebox. In my actual use case, ...
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### How to make lualatex select the correct OpenType features?

After fiddling around with egreg's answer to my previous question, I finally discovered that lualatex is not selecting the tnum OpenType features, that is it uses the default numerals instead of the ...
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### Using KOMA-Script packages with other classes

When speaking of KOMA-Script most people will refer to its classes scrbook, scrreprt, scrartcl and perhaps scrlttr2. But not everyone will know, that part of the bundle are also some packages, that ...
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### tikz has probably problems with czech babel when compiling .Rnw

Problem Tikz seems to have a problem with \usepackage[czech]{babel}. I had a moderately big .Rnw document written in czech with some plots via knitr chunks. When I set dev = 'tikz' the TeXmaker ...
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### Is it possible to make siunitx typeset exponents in “cramped” style?

I'm using siunitx to typeset physical quantities. The result is not always ideal with many exponents in my eyes, because the exponents increase the line to line distance. At least this is my ...
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### Using Tikz, is it possible to draw a cube within a sphere

I would like to construct a diagram of a cube sitting inside a sphere. I can draw them both separately, but need some idea of how to construct the diagram such that the cube sits exactly within the ...
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### BibTeX: How to get rid of a period after author initial?

a have problem with authors initials. A should have a period after a list of authors, but when there is an author, which has only an initial it looks like: "Smith, J.." There are two periods, one from ...
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### Macro: Replace all occurrences of a word

I repeatedly use certain keywords such as var in my document which I highlight using \src{var}. This is cumbersome to type and gets annoying after a while. Repeatedly search-and-replacing var to ...
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### Questions about single and double space, and Arial font [on hold]

We are very interested to know the real thing about two issues: In the first place, we want to know how to implement the space between lines: single space, as well as double space. The problem is that ...
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### Head style and Contenst problem

I have two problems in one. I am writing my thesis using the package fancyhdr, and all my chapters look great. However I have to add some parts, which are not chapter but I would like to have the ...