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### separate appendix file with cross-referencing

I have a tex file with appendices. The publisher wants separate source files for the body of the document and the appendices. However, I have used many cross-referencing in the appendices that refer ...
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### How to number a given equation in the align* environment such that the number depends on the whole document?

\documentclass{amsart} \begin{document} We have \begin{align*} x^{2} &= x\cdot x\\ &= x^{6/3} \end{align*} for all real $x$ \end{document} To illustrate, suppose I would like to number ...
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### Write special characters to (aux) file

I would like to print a special character to an aux file. In particular, I would like to write the line \@input{file.aux} So far, I have achieved the best result with ...
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### Formatting book class display style

I recently decide to change the report class to book class for my thesis. One noticeable difference is that at the top of the page, chapter name appears for book class. Another noticeable difference ...
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### Placing text on face of 3d cube

How simple/hard would it be to add text to the front face (the red colored face in this example) of the cubes found at http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/plane-partition/? I have seen examples like ...
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### Include SVG layers as steps in beamer

I have a .svg figure (created with inkscape) with multiple layers and I would like to include them in a beamer presentation so that layers appear progressively. slide 1 -> layer 1 slide 2 -> layer ...
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### Vim and Latex on Mac Terminal

I am very, very new to vim and using it through the mac terminal app. Based on this snip bit and the terminal being native to osx, I am trying to avoid macvim or iTerm at this point, so have not ...
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### Pstricks not working after update MacTeX 2015

After an update on MacTeX, my code stopped working. I am not sure what gives. My preference is to use PDFLaTeX (I am using the shell-escape option) but XeLaTeX is also not working. ...
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### Can we hilight inside a listing?

I found a few questions here and tried the resulting answers, they did not work. Is it possible to hightlight inside of a listing outside of syntax? I need to call attention to parts of code, inside ...
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### It is possible to set up inverse/forward search in LyX with zathura pdf viewer?

In the following wiki page of LyX it is explained how to set up reverse search in LyX using Okular and PDF Sumatra: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX#toc1 Additionally, the following link gives the set ...
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### Undefined Control Sequences

I am writing a fairly long paper (150+ pages) in PDF TeX using eplain. In the last ten pages I am getting error messages to the effect that control sequences are undefined. These are control ...
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### Line type not working! [on hold]

I've been having a problem with compiling gnuplot where it ignores what line type I put in and just assumes lt 1. Here's an example .sh file: set term wxt enhanced "arial,16" set notitle set ...
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### issue with macro expansion

The following code works, but if you comment line 20 and uncomment line 21 LaTeX complains about \endmap being undefined. I do not really understand why that is and even less what to do about it. ...
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### What does this mean in LaTex?

I'm trying to read the most recent changes in the C++ Standard on this page. Very close to top, you'll find the following line of command (I'm just guessing about the name of this entity). What does ...
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### Trouble with declaration of mathx necessary for \widecheck

The following code in preamble gives me trouble on my desktop, but not on my laptop (I'm using on both of them Ubuntu 14.04). If I remove it, I find myself unable to use \widecheck throghout the ...
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### LuaTeX equivalent of \XeTeXglyph [duplicate]

Does LuaTeX have an equivalent of \XeTeXglyph? Or better yet, is there a command to select a glyph by number that works both with xelatex and lualatex? I did find a handmade version in German, but ...
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### Problem with adding exercises - “missing \item error”

I have the following MWE: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \makeatletter \usepackage[dutch]{babel} \usepackage{blindtext} %Paragraphs get numbered continuously \usepackage{chngcntr} ...
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### sequence of bibliography items getting ramdomly altered

I'm trying to write bibliography using biblitex and have declared 15 items. eg.: @Article{1, title={article 1}, author={name}, booktitle={} } @Article{2, title={article 2}, ...
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### Beamer : what are the back, find, forward hyperlink commands?

I look for back, find and forward commands, like this set of commands : \hyperlinkslideprev{texte du lien} : va à la couche prédédente ; \hyperlinkslidenext{texte du lien} : va à la couche suivante ; ...
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### Undefined control sequence \end{tikzpicture}

Sadly I wasn't able to get the help I needed from this other question with the same problem: Undefined control sequence \draw and \end{tikzpicture} I am using the code presented in this answer: ...
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### Spreading letters evenly across a line from margin to margin

I wish to achieve something that can be easily accomplished by simply pressing this button in Microsoft Word: So that I could make something like this: What I've seen so far on this forum either ...
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### Pythontex and the g-brief address field

I calculate some coordinates to include a cut out of a PDF (eStamps) via python. My code looks like this: \documentclass[ ngerman, % deutsch-neu %russian, % russisch %english, % ...
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### How to draw a figure with output as input with latex?

I want to draw the exact replica of this figure with latex but I failed to draw the feedback as I want. Thanks for your help. Here is my result and my code. \documentclass[11pt, ...
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### When I open and close the pdf made by latex in acrobat,I cant work anymore on latex

I recently have a problem with my latex , that when I open the pdf produced by latex in acrobat, I can not reproduce it and I have to restart windows, it also give an error that is : \begin{document} ...
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### How to write “for” block with counter by Algorithmic package

How can I write a code like below using algorithmic package for (int i = 0; i < node.children; ++i) ..... I can't use foreach or forall because in a point inside the loop I should decrement i ...
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### number one page every two pages

Hi I have to write an article and I want to put the figures on the back of the pages where the text is. So I thought I just had to always put a blank page between every text page so I can put my ...
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### biblatex how to cite newspaper article showing date

I'm trying to cite a newspaper article using biblatex with bibstyle=authoryear. But I'm not able to make visible in the bibliography the newspaper issue date. The only workaround found so far is to ...
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### Unexpected center alignment of the text after the remark block

I am working on a draft within an ieeetran template. There are a couple of definitions and remarks within the text, have which been embedded, deservedly. But the odd thing is that, as I try to ...
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### Copy Paste on Latex

I can not copy and paste text from Latex itself, nor from nowhere else. I have shecked the hotkeys and they do not inclue CRTL + C nor CRTL + V. Could you please help ? thank you !!
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### Customized bold labels for enumerate [duplicate]

I would like to have bold enumerate labels that both have a Roman numeral and a custom text in them, like on page 26 (pdf page 2) of http://www.ams.org/bookstore/pspdf/stml-48-prev.pdf. I'm using ...
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### Tweakes to invoice

I need help fine tuning this document. I basically need three things: Get rid of the duplicate company information on top of "Client" Be able to stamp today's date automatically. I tried using ...
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### Refer to a glossary entry

I want to refer to a glossary entry from my text or form another entry in the same or from another glossary. What's the label I have to put in my hyperref options like \ref{<label>} or ...
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### How can I stop index section inheriting header from bibliography?

In a book I'm just completing, I finish with a bibliography and index. And the problem which I simply can't fix is that the index section has a running header which says BIBLIOGRAPHY instead of ...
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### apa6 package “man” document mode produces unwanted page 3

I'm trying to write my thesis as closely conforming to APA6 style as reasonable. I've scraped together a preamble from answers on this page that is messy, but works pretty well. The only problem is ...
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### How can I align multirow and multicolumn equations?

There is a multiline and multirow equation: \begin{cases} f(x)=\frac{1}{12} \cdot x \quad g(x) = \frac{1}{24} \cdot x, & x<12 \\ f(x)=1 \quad g(x) = \frac{1}{8} \cdot x - 1, ...
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### Float placement for lstnewenvironment

I've defined this environment: \lstnewenvironment{pddl3}[1][] { \lstset{ keywordstyle=\color{black}, commentstyle=\color{black}, language= VBScript, ...
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### Hide Text with Latex

So I was wondering if there is some commands or/and packages that allows us to hide text (I didn't find an answer here on the site ...) , because I really need it for hiding hints in some math article ...