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whittaker function

How can I plot whittaker function; i mean what is the code? I tried the below: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{mpmath} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{...
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Changing line width in tikz makes arrow heads ignore size specification?

I am having trouble in changing arrowhead parameters in Tikz. The length and width parameters from arrows.meta work as expected until I also specify a line width, then all my arrowhead specifications ...
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How to make a small $\varhexagon$ in latex?

I would like to have a command that shrinks down the size of $\varhexagon$ from the wasysym package in latex to a very small size. In principle, $\tiny \varhexagon$ does what I want, but apparently ...
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Bibliography, correct way to setup and invoke the category 'electronic'

Short question: What is the correct way to setup and invoke the bibliography mecanism in context, to use, for example, the category electronic? Long question: Looking at context documentations and ...
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latex \cite shows all the field in the text

I am new to LaTeX, and at this moment I am writing my thesis paper using Turabian style. I am trying to cite using \cite but rather than showing "(Author last name, year)" or even "[number]" it's ...
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How to capitalize section title in body document but not on table of contens

How do I capitalize section title in body document but not in table of contents. I use \renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}% {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@...
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Overlay of tcbitems are not well aligned

I'd like to be able to overlay several tables made from raster/tcbitems. I tried several methods to do that, but none of them work for me. There is always a margin somewhere that is wrong. This ...
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What are current environments for combining LaTeX/MathJAX/… and handwritten notes/sketches/drawings?

I am pretty sure there must exist by now several editing environments where you could, using touchscreen, insert any kind of scribbling into TeX-generated output (or maybe even intersperse the source ...
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Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line with tikz

I have this code: \documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{matrix} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \newcommand{\listbcs}[4]{ \tikzset{ barycentric setup/....
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Arguments stops being evaluated inside tikz node

In the following example, the code \textwidth-1mm is "evaluated" in the first page, but on the second page (where I add a node around it), the text is not evaluated anymore and I can see a bit -1mm in ...
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How to join two vertical cells in latex?

I have a table looks like exactly what I want, except for the first column from the left, the word Grain is not in the middle of the cells (I used cline{3-11} to hide the line but how to make the word ...
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Tree node alignment wrong

I am having a mental block and I hope someone can help. I am trying to draw the following tree and have two problems: The subtree that is rooted at the left-most "doc" should be rooted at node &...
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Grouping lines in cases and aligning them

I am reading an article, where I faced the following: I want to write such a thing in LaTeX. Basically, this whole thing is in a bracket, every two lines are grouped and labeled together, and there ...
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Can't set \mathindent to 0pt

I am trying to make my equations completely flush to the left, along with the text. Even with \mathindent set to 0pt, there is still an indentation. What am I doing wrong? \documentclass[fleqn]{...
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Typing CO_2 easily

I'm writing my dissertation and that involves typing a lot of $\mathrm{CO_2}$. I'd like to make a macro for it that's a lot easier to type, but if I put \newcommand{\co2}{\mathrm{CO_2}}, for example, ...
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Problem with output attempting to force itself all onto one page, but it does not fit

It was hard for me to come up with a title for this question. So, for one, my document is starting on the second page. The second issue is that I cannot seem to get everything to appear in my document....
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Special Formatting of Uppercase Title

Style To Replicate I have seen the style used above in multiple LaTeX documents but have not been able to identify how to replicate it. It makes the word all uppercase, with the first letter a little ...
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Formatting subfigures with images and text

I was wondering if there was a way for format a subfigure like so: Thanks! I originally tried this: \documentclass[acmsmall]{acmart} \begin{figure*}[!ht] \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\...
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TikZ plot too verbose

I was wondering if there was a more succinct way to express the following plot (I'm using the plain format): \input tikz \tikzpicture \draw[help lines, ystep=.5] (-.2,-10) grid (12.5,15); \draw[-&...
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Bubble smartdiagram with borders?

I was wondering whether there's any way to have smartdiagram do bubbles with borders, e.g. black borders around both planet and satellites. Here's the code I've used trying, though to no avail. Any ...
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Rotated table (90 degree in whole page) in two-column article

I tried to make a table rotated in one page (according to ferahfeza's post in rotate table (90 degrees) and stretch to fill whole page) but when I paste the same code in two-column article format, it ...
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Create command that uses a \foreach to be used in a barycentric cs

I'm trying create a command that will be used in a barycentric cs:. I will use the barycentric cs a lot of time to get a node the middle of others, so I'm trying to make it less painfull for myself. ...
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How do I allow multicols environment to break across multiple frames? (beamer) [duplicate]

It does not seem that multicols environment can cross across pages. Is there an alternative to create multiple columns that are filled automatically (i.e., we just insert the items and the environment ...
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Micro-container && docker [on hold]

For my thesis I need to know exactly the advantages of micro-container and docker and also I need to know the difference between micro-container and docker?
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cleveref does not work inside a note page (beamer)

cleveref package works well in my beamer frames, but when it comes to note pages. The tags work well and cleveref can refer to items outside the note page, but not to items inside it \documentclass[...
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how to draw the following schematic diagram using Tikz?

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows} \begin{document} \tikzstyle{block} = [draw, fill=white, rectangle, minimum height=3em, minimum width=6em] \tikzstyle{sum} =...
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How to get \baselineskip instead of \lineskip when using a stored box?

Consider this code: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \def\contents{% \parindent = 0pt \LARGE \strut \raise\baselineskip \vtop {% {\Large\smash{...
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Center page as a whole without centering each element individually

I have some narrow text and tabular environments that I'd like to center based on the horizontal space they use up in total. However, it's important that when centered, the original alignments between ...
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Why does a vertical arrow get rendered incorrectly?

I am drawing a table with arrows in it. All the arrows are fine except for vertical ones pointing down. Here is a MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{matrix} \begin{...
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Why this tikzpicture does not appear centered?

While creating a state machine diagram with tikz I noticed that it appears to be off center. This result seems counter intuitive to me because of the way the diagram was created, using a foreach ...
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I'm using pdflatex, and I would like to load a specific font from a package. For example, I only want to use the mathfrak, mathcal, and mathscr fonts of stickstoo from newtxmath (but nothing else). ...
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Any suggestions on how to make this prettier?

Any ideas how to make these description in the last line prettier without losing information? I mean it will be fine the way it is, but it is quite suprising what nice things you sometimes are unaware ...
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How can I prepare a report about continuity in latex, [on hold]

can you help me to prepare a report about limit and continuity in latex, I have tried and I'm so tired, I can't prepare the report, or short chapter, please one help me, thank you all.
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outlines package spacing

The outlines package restarts the numbering of the item following a \0 entry, which is a paragraph type entry. The documentation for the outlines package provides preamble code to avoid the restart. I ...
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Rays within a circle

I am trying to create the same figure as the one posted in here (see reply) but centered around a different point than (0,0). Any suggestion?
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Circle using tikz and pgfplots package

I have been trying to obtain this Since i am still an amateur at using the tikz package, i started somewhere. This is my bit of code, but all i am obtaining is this \usepackage{pgfplots} \...
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View all the tags through a keyboard shortcut in TeXShop

Within the TeXShop Macros Menu is the Goto Labels option, and you can configure a keyboard shortcut to open a window and find the Label that is needed. So I want to ask three things: How can you ...
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ConTeXt: Line Break for chinese characters

I automatically generate documents in which users can input any kind of text. If the user enters chinese characters the text overflows and no line break is occuring. How can I prohibit the text ...
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I can't use a saved dimension in an anchor into a loop

I have the following problem: Into a \pgfdeclareshape I have the following code for a saved dimension: \saveddimen{\long@sal}{ \pgf@x=\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/longitud salidas}\unidad@medicion \...
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Newspaper special rules Biblatex

I would like to make some amendments to my entries. 1) I would like to create a special rule for newspapers as special journal entries (I thought it might be helpful if I label the entry as "...
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PGFPlots grouped bar chart with error bars providing additional information above, convert point to string in comma for display

How can I get comma as a decimal separator in my upper axes (the number above the major grid)? All suggestions to improve the graph are warmly welcomed. basic requirement using .csv data with (long)...
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Table of Figures loses format after 9th figure (see attached image) [duplicate]

How would I fix this issue to add a space in between the caption and figure number.
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I have a subsection named "Resources" defined after a section as \subsection{Resources}. I am getting unwanted blank padding right underneath the heading of the subsection in the pdf. Below the image ...
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Remove section numbering from specific sections in TOC

I want to remove the number only from the first two sections, i.e. Acknowledgement and abstract. The rest of the sections should retain their numbering. I also want the above two (acknowledgement ...
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Better use of rounded corners of links from multiple nodes to multiple nodes with tikz on \draw[->]

My question follows one of my previous questions. Here's my current code: \documentclass[tikz,border=5mm]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{matrix,positioning} \newcommand{\multilinkstoonenode}[3]{ \...
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Title space of List of listings is too small

I am encountering the problem that the space between the title and the actual list is too small no matter what I do. But this issue only exists regarding the list of listings. All other lists (e. g. ...
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Trouble with encoding latin1 with biblatex

I am having a little trouble with biblatex package. When I try to compile (with pdflatex) the following WARN message is being returned: Process started: biber.exe AuxDirectory/"example" INFO - This ...
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convert ancient dvi file that uses special fonts to pdf?

I have a dvi file from 1989 that uses special fonts. The dvi file was created from LaTeX. I saved all of the LaTeX source, all of the .tfm files, all of the .pk files, all of the .pxl files, and all ...