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I am completely new to Latex. I have been trying to create a paper based upon IEEEtran. But when i tried to see the output after writing just 4 lines, i got an error "file not found". I have already ...
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### Fill the area under minimum of two functions using tikz and pgfplots

I am loading two curves from a file and plot them with \addplot table [...] {the table.txt}; I have managed to fill the area under a single curve, but I want the minimum of the two curves filled. What ...
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### Space that disappears at the edges (beginning/end) of a math formula

Is there a way to produce a space that disappears at the beginning or end of a math formula? Idea: For the formula-final case, something that looks ahead or takes an obligatory argument might be a ...
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### How can I write these chemical reaction equations?

Trying to write a thesis, and I need some reaction equations. How can I write this in LaTeX?
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### \Vline for a table

I was hoping to get some help using tables in LaTex. I am using the tabular method with 3 columns. Basically what I want to do is separate column 1 from columns 2 and three using a vertical line. ...
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### How to pass the abscissa of a node to the first 2 mandatory arguments of \psplot?

How to pass the abscissa of a node to the first 2 mandatory arguments of \psplot? I have tried \psGetCenterNode but it produced an error in PS interpreting phase. ...
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### Custom style just for width and height?

I have some pgfplot graphs in .tikz files and I want to define a custom style to them that only overrides some entries, and uses whats in the .tikz files for the rest. Example: In my .tikz file I ...
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### No page number on the first page of an Index (not ToC)

The publishing house I am going to publish a book with demands no page number on the first page of each chapter. I used \thispagestyle{empty} in most cases and had to use ...
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### Position Node to the right of tree

I currently have the following: \begin{forest} for tree={ draw, minimum height=2cm, anchor=north, align=center, child anchor=north }, [{Size 5}, align=center, name=SS [{Size 1 \\ Size 2\\ Size 3}] ...
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### How can systems be side by side with an arrow between them

Here's my problem : I'd like to a write many equivalent systems of equations. Therefore, I'd like the first to be at the left, then an arrow (\Leftrightarrow, for example, since they're equivalent ...
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### How can you highlight a C compiler directive spanning multiple lines?

In my \lstset{...} I have morecomment=[l][{\color[rgb]{0.1, 0.2, 0.8}}]{\#}, which I've seen used to give preprocessor commands colour. This works just fine but I'd like to get multi-line macros to be ...
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### TeX capacity exceeds, when adding a singe line [input stack size]

I get a strange error which unfortunately seems to be impossible make into a MWE – so I know we all prefer answers with compilable code, but maybe some one can help me sole it without … This is how ...
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### MonTeX (mls, manju, mongolian) with Latin script with diacritics

I am using the montex package to type text in Manchu (manju). In my documents, I also use Latin script with diacritics. When I load montex, these diacritics no longer appear, and when characters with ...
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### Pullquotes not working

I am want to wrap text around image using pull quote from Two-column text with circular insert, but I wasn't able even to compile example file correctly. Is there anybody that has pull quotes working? ...
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### Problem with minipages' images overlapping

I am trying to place two images next to each other and I use minipages for that. I create two minipages and when I compile it the one image overlaps with the other. Shouldn't be the one next to the ...
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### Alternative text for Javascript (form) boxes for viewers that don't support Javascript?

I am using the tdclock package to display the current date and time. In looks pretty good in acrobat, but in other viewers (like Evince) it looks terrible because they don't support Javascripts and ...
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### Width of \chapter section with titlesec

I use the titlesec package for styling the sectioning commands. But I have a problem with the chapter width or right margin: The width of the text should only reach to the blue line, "Organisation" ...
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### Index references off by two pages

Never seen this before but I have a 400 page latex manuscript where the index references are 2 pages off. Eg they should reference page n, but the index gives n-2. I noticed that if I comment out the ...
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### Remove Chapter Number from Header--Memoir Class

I'm working in the memoir class using A6. For this format, I want to remove both the word "Chapter" from the default memoir page heading style as well as the chapter number, so that only the chapter ...
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### How to crop background from image automatically?

I have a Google Docs drawing that is a small scheme. However, this small scheme is surrounded by a lot of background that occupies a lot of useless space. I do not want to remove the background ...
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### Setting up your own LaTeX compile server?

I know services like TeX cloud and similar. My question is: Are there ready-made distributions of LaTeX that allow me to set up my own server? What are the best solutions? My goal is to have a nice ...
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### How to make memoir's \tableofcontents behave like starred \tableofcontents* by default?

I am writing a class based on memoir, which provides \tableofcontents (which lists the ToC within the ToC) and \tableofcontents* (which does not list the ToC within the ToC). I have seen this ...
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### How to put bullet symbol on top of downarrow symbol

I want to put bullet symbol on top of downward arrow symbol. Can someone help me on this? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} The transition is represented with ...
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### How to transform Google docs tables into Latex Tables?

I usually do all of my tables using Google Docs spreadsheet. This is a good and quick way to organize information and create quick tables. Now I am writing a document in Latex and I would like to ...
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### Shift title and author text up?

What is the best way to shift the title text 'up' in a LaTeX document compiled with pdftex? When I do this: \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper, onecolumn]{article} \setlength{\topmargin}{0in} ...
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### Package for more creative text formatting in latex

What is a reasonable package to be used for realizing something like the following example (including image altered): The source is ...
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### Help me with reference in beamer

I have some reference generated by below code: \begin{thebibliography}{50} \bibitem{luhasz2012} Luhasz.G; Tirea, M ; Negru, V; \emph{Neural Network Predictions of Stock Price Fluctuations.} ...
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### How to combine and simplify the following PostScript operators?

Background Let \def\RR#1{(2^(#1/10))} \def\TT#1{(#1)} be the radius and angle functions, respectively. Christoph defined a PS operator AAA as follows. /AAA {AlgParser cvx exec exch AlgParser cvx ...
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### Drawing Cantor Set

I am trying to draw a cantor set in LaTeX and I am having issues doing this. I am trying multiple \put commands, but they just go to the right of one another. Does anyone know how to do this? Any ...
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### Table caption not appearing in PNAS document class

I am unable to get table captions to show up when using the PNAStwo document class from 2008 (the latest version includes printer marks that I do not want). The documentation says "Figure and table ...
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### Bold and italic subsection title with custom font size

I have defined fontsize, and even with your answered question help I solved the situation in this way: \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\chapter} ...
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### XeLaTeX resume coffin error

I am trying to compile a resume template using XeLaTeX. I am getting the following error: ============== Latex Code ================================ \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} ...
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### How can I reuse my infix-to-postfix operator for \psVolume?

Constraints Assume I don't want to use infix-RPN package for unknown logical reason (seriously). Instead I want to use my own A2P describe as follows. In the first case it succeeds but it fails for ...
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### Different languages in my bibliography biber problem

I am starting to use biber with biblatex for my bibliography. I cite books in French and Spanish therefore several books and articles have accented letters in titles or author's names. I hadn't had ...
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### How can I have a brace on the left and the top of a matrix without overlapping?

Consider the following code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{rotating} \begin{document} \begin{align*} \rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{$n$ ...
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### columns have not the same size although centered

I made a table like this one \documentclass{article} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{booktabs} \begin{document} \begin{table}[htb] \centering \caption{Reproduzierbarkeit der ...
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### Why doesn't a \foreach variable work in \draw in an \axis?

I'm finding some weird behavior with TikZ's \foreach within an \begin{axis} environment. This works: \foreach \x in {-2,-1,...,2} { \addplot[thick, domain=0.05+(\x*2-1)*pi/2:+(\x*2+1)*pi/2-0.05] ...
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### Automatically check if a math character is greek or latin

My question is similar to Bold math: Automatic choice between \mathbf and \boldsymbol for Latin and Greek symbols?, yet slightly different. My non-compilable minimal example is the following one: ...
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### Using glossaries in Texlipse

Is there a way of adding a glossary using the glossaries package in Texlipse? %%% GLOSSARIES \usepackage[xindy]{glossaries} \makeglossaries \begin{document} ...
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### Biblatex: Date-Fields B.C.

If I wanted to quote a book written 45 B.C. - how would I have to enter the year in fields like origyear or year to cite (and list it in the bibliography) accordingly? Using the authoryear-style …
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### arrows with tikz package

I use tikz, and try draw a directed graph with \begin{tikzpicture} \node[draw, circle] (1) {1}; ...
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### How to shrink tables so they fit in one page's length?

I have seen a similar question to this one: How to shrink a table automatically so that it fits onto a page? However, I do not want to resize my table so it fits inside the width of a page (I ...
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### Problem with fraction

I have a problem with the appearance of a fraction which has in its numerator another fraction. It is not very beautiful as the second fraction is small, even though I use \displaystyle. How can I ...
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### Several strings in one biblatex-field — multiple references

As I understand it, biblatex-fields as eprint and related accept one and only string/key, though I want them to refer to two or more items/addresses. To give an example which might make it clear what ...
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### Math mode inside LyX tables

If I insert a math mode environment inside a table cell, then the output will show no vertical space between the borders and the equation, here is an example: Is there any way that will make ...
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### Automatically remove page number in one-page documents

I find LaTeX's choice of putting a page number in one-page documents stylistically odd, so I would like to suppress that behavior. I've previously done this manually, but it would be better to not ...
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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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### semiverbatim with tikz in beamer

I'm using semiverbatim with tikz in beamer. My following MWE throws error: ! Package tikz Error: Sorry, some package has redefined the meaning of the math-mode dollar sign. This is incompatible ...