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What would you like to change about TeX/LaTeX/XeTeX/etc.?

tex-general

feb 4 at 6:45 Xavier 3,810

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Generate Mandelbrot images using TikZ?

tikz-pgf fractals

aug 25 at 13:56 Click Me 1,047

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\setbox vs. \sbox and \savebox - What are the differences I need to know about?

boxes plain-tex

mar 2 '12 at 13:22 David Carlisle 107k

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Properly aligning drawn lines between the corners of 2 rectangular nodes in TikZ?

tikz-pgf

jan 8 at 16:49 Qrrbrbirlbel 29.2k

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Should I read Donald Knuth's The TeXbook?

tex-core books learning

feb 15 '11 at 19:42 jvarilly 135

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Rotate node text and use relative positioning in TikZ?

tikz-pgf positioning rotating

feb 27 '12 at 11:34 Alain Matthes 44.6k

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How to form “if … or … then” conditionals in TeX?

tex-core conditionals

sep 29 '11 at 13:49 Joseph Wright♦ 80.4k

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Why does TeX Live's pdflatex produce smaller PDFs than MiKTeX's pdflatex?

pdf texlive miktex file-size

mar 2 '12 at 10:17 dıʞsdoʇ 18.5k

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Using opacity in TikZ makes the entire page become “more coarse” when printed

tikz-pgf printing transparency

jan 9 '12 at 22:44 Daniel 12k

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How do you define your environment such as to use […] for some parameter(s)?

environments optional-arguments

may 16 at 6:26 Herbert 113k

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How to prevent last period in captions from appearing in the list of figures?

macros table-of-contents captions punctuation

dec 25 '11 at 12:43 lockstep 99.6k

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TikZ style attribute for adding default node text?

tikz-pgf nodes

nov 13 '11 at 20:11 Alan Munn 57.9k

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Detect which text “mode” (normal, italic, bold, etc.) is currently in use?

fonts conditionals small-caps

oct 17 '11 at 13:10 egreg 187k

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What to do when a line in a bibliography entry overflows?

bibliographies line-breaking

feb 14 '12 at 12:32 Frank Mittelbach 28.1k

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Shrink figure only when necessary?

tikz-pgf beamer scaling

jan 21 '12 at 10:06 Herbert 113k

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Need help creating a 3D cube from a 2D set of nodes in TikZ

tikz-pgf

oct 5 '11 at 22:52 Tom Bombadil 16.5k

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What is the purpose of \protect? [duplicate]

macros

may 9 at 16:08 Lightness Races in Orbit 185

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Customizing varioref to only add “… on page XX”, and only when there is more than one page in between reference and figure

cross-referencing varioref

feb 11 '12 at 22:11 Frank Mittelbach 28.1k

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Extend a language with additional keywords?

listings languages keywords

sep 29 '11 at 14:02 Dominique 188

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Are there any packages for creating charts?

packages graphics

jan 20 '11 at 17:45 Stefan Kottwitz♦ 86.4k

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\ifmmode doesn't seem to work correctly inside an array environment

math-mode conditionals

jan 7 at 14:47 Qrrbrbirlbel 29.2k

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Moving from pdfLaTeX to XeTeX - what do I need to know?

pdftex xetex pdf

jun 18 '12 at 10:40 TeXter 703

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Problem with loop-generated pkgkeys containing a space

tikz-pgf pgfkeys

mar 29 '12 at 14:57 Martin Scharrer♦ 102k

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Why do I need a '\vspace{0pt}` to align a table and a figure along the bottom line when using '\vbox' and '\hbox'?

tables vertical-alignment boxes

mar 2 '12 at 17:44 egreg 187k

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Where is “texmf” on a Windows install?

packages windows texmf

mar 5 '11 at 11:26 Stefan Kottwitz♦ 86.4k

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How to exclude text portions by simply setting a variable or option?

macros text-manipulation

may 1 at 8:02 EbiDK 98

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How to make a thick line connect completely with the side of a box in TikZ?

tikz-pgf boxes arrows

jan 26 '12 at 20:07 user11171 123

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While loops in TikZ?

tikz-pgf loops

dec 29 '11 at 13:52 Leo Liu 34.8k

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TikZ: How to rotate and then shift?

tikz-pgf positioning rotating

dec 26 '11 at 7:50 Alain Matthes 44.6k

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In how many ways can you create a paragraph in LaTeX?

paragraphs

dec 4 '11 at 18:15 Stefan Kottwitz♦ 86.4k

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