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awarded  Student
Feb
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asked Symbol for external links
Jan
17
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Nov
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answered Which manuals are on your “TeX Reference” shelf?
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Aug
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accepted Problem with fancyref, babel and equation references
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asked Problem with fancyref, babel and equation references
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awarded  Enlightened
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awarded  Nice Answer
Jan
10
comment \flushleft with p{} option in tabular
I like to define something like \def\myraggedright{\rightskip0mm plus10mm\relax} and use that instead of \raggedright in the column definition. This way you have the text flushed left without the large space between words, but with hyphenation, so that the output looks much less ragged than with \raggedright.
Nov
30
awarded  Commentator
Nov
30
comment How to conditionally define a new command in LaTeX?
These commands are no TeX primitives, but defined in e-tex. In newer tex distributions, latex usually links to pdftex, which includes the e-tex extensions already. If you run your code snippets through plain tex you'll see, that they won't work, running them through etex works. Good answer nonetheless.
Nov
7
comment Indentation in AUCTEX and algorithmic package
@Seamus: The FAQ says: If you have a question about ... * (La)TeX related software and tools like BibTeX, LyX, LaTeX editors, viewers, and converters ... then you're in the right place to ask your question! So, I guess it's really on topic here.
Nov
4
awarded  Quorum
Nov
3
comment How to get an “approximately proportional to” symbol
Great, thanks. There's always so much to learn about TeX. I didn't know \mathpalette (cute) and had completely forgotten about \rlap. What about box1? Is it reserved for something? As boxes are local to a group I wouldn't expect any problem here...
Nov
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revised How to get an “approximately proportional to” symbol
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Nov
3
comment How to get an “approximately proportional to” symbol
@barbarabeeton: Thanks for the comment. The size of the symbol adapts now to the environment as it should.
Nov
3
comment How to get an “approximately proportional to” symbol
@egreg: You were right. The code was pretty ugly, just a quick hack to get the symbol right. I've updated it now, and if there's still anything to improve I'll gladly hear from you.
Nov
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revised How to get an “approximately proportional to” symbol
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