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Aligned nested enumerate
I'm trying to create a nested enumerate items as shown below. I cannot get the second level labels to align with the first level labels. Is there way to do this cleanly?
\item $\text{ }$\vspace{-0....
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confused about babel australian/british/american hyphenation differences
I'm quite confused about hyphenation differences between the different English variants.
I tend to use australian as my default language, but I notice that this often does quite poorly at hyphenation.
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Enumerating two equations with them having only one reference number
I am currently trying to write a paper. The Format i have to adhere to is for more then one equation:
that they should have one reference number,
they need to be enumerated.
I have the easy solution:...
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Getting the width of bold text in node
I'm creating a box for theorems, I need to calculate the length of the title to cut the top of the frame in order to not cover my title. The code works but if I replace #3 \arabic{#1}##1 by \textbf{\...
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Remove space after symbol [duplicate]
How can I remove the space after a symbol? The question comes from this example:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
GD\& T
\end{document}
will be typeset ...
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How to change the colon to a comma after the vol.(num.) in bib-file or .tex file?
I need to use a comma instead of a colon between the volume and the page numbers in the references. How can I achieve this directly in the bib-file or alternatively directly in my .tex file?
\...
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updated version of expl3 package
Apparently the LaTeX of the machine I use is hold, and not all functions described in the LaTeX3 documentations are available for me. (I call it via \usepackage{expl3})
Ok, it is better to upgrade ...
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How to disable rendering of certain package content (draft mode)
I'm using the tikz-cd package for drawing commutative diagrams. Now I want to disable the rendering of the content produced by this package similar to the behaviour when importing the graphics package ...
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bib file from a bbl file and source bib
This has possibly been asked before, but I couldn't find any answer.
Some editors would like to have the bib file corresponding to the paper (so they process the bbl to their liking).
For personal ...
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ChkTeX does not handle lines over 509 bytes correctly
When longer paragraphs have no line breaks in the middle, I get the warning:
chktex: WARNING -- ChkTeX does not handle lines over 509 bytes correctly. Some errors and line numbers may be wrong in this ...
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Keeping a single bibliography up to date in Overleaf
Say I have many similar projects running at the same time. I want to use the same bibliography for each project, so far I have just been updating one and copying it into the other projects. However ...
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Regarding the DEPENDS.txt in CTAN upload
Recently I got a suggestion from one GitHub issue that I should add a DEPENDS.txt to my packages, and I am planing to do so. However, there is one thing that confuses me.
Suppose that there are two ...
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How to change the size of emojis in the twemojis package?
How can I change the size of emojis from \usepackage{twemojis} ?
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Disable LyX preamble
In LyX, I would like to know if there is a way, for a given document, to disable all parts of the preamble that LyX adds automatically, leaving only the user-defined preamble before compilation occurs ...
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The idea behind the \outer primitive
It seems that this primitive was designed for the purpose that in case programmers forgot to put } in the end of the definition of a macro (in this case, TeX thought all characters until the end of ...
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Why are my footnotes using symbols instead of numbers?
I want my footnotes to be numbered with Arabic numbers. However, they have symbols instead of Arabic numbers. Although I've inserted the code \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}} the ...
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Package fontspec Error: The font "Lato-Lig" cannot be found. \setsansfont
I get this error Package fontspec Error: The font "Lato-Lig" cannot be found. \setsansfont when I run this code:
%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=1.25cm,...
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How to add an equal sign between two nodes in tikzpicture
How can I add an equals sign between the leftmost "A" and the next "A" to the right?
Here's what I have so far:
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,shapes,decorations,...
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Multiple subfigures show under the page instead of on the next page
I have used the following to show five figures, but there are two problems which I think happen because the total size of all five figures is too large.
First, the figures are not placed exactly where ...
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amsmath: Erroneous nesting of equation structures [duplicate]
\[|{{e}_{j}}\rangle \langle {{e}_{k}}|=\begin{matrix}
1 \\
{\begin{align}
& \vdots \\
& j \\
& \vdots \\
& n \\
\end{...
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Clockwise and counterclockwise path around the origin
I want to draw the following
At first I thought of doing something like a dipole but then I realized that it was not like that, it is just a curve that returns it to the origin of coordinates in a ...
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Why doesn't the new command work? [closed]
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\newcommand*{\QEDA}{\null\nobreak\hfill\ensuremath{\blacksquare}}
\begin{document}
test \QEDA
\end{document}
The error says "undefined ...
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Removing page numbering on the Continued float two page figures in Overleaf
I have two pages consisting of two groups of related figures using the floating commands. I want to remove the page number on the second page of these two. I have tried this page using afterpage
and ...
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Use different languages for glossaries-extra (but only one at a time)
Is there a possibilty to include multiple languages (but only use one language at a time) to acronyms produced with glossaries-extra as shown in my MWE:
% !TeX program = lualatex
\documentclass[...
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the file is open in pdftex- extension of knuth's typesetting program Tex in texmaker [closed]
the file is open in pdftex- extension of knuth's typesetting program Tex.
tex file not found intexmaker
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How do I make titles in a biblatex bibliography be formatted as Latex?
I'm attempting to create a bibliography using biblatex in overleaf. My issue is that some papers use latex themselves to format their titles. I don't know if there is a better way of formatting or a ...
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Creating illustrations in LaTeX [closed]
I saw a picture in a paper. What package has been used for creating this illustration?
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Translate "Algorithm" in the caption in beamer
I use the algorithmic and algorithm packages for algorithms in Beamer and I want to translate the word "Algorithm" in the caption as in this Question.
This solution doesn't work in Beamer.
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How to write a command that includes a figure?
I would like a shorthand command to include a figure.
Description and filename are mandatory
Short caption is optional
Optional arguments can be passed to \includegraphics
Here's the snippet I am ...
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Latex Beautiful showcase [closed]
How I can create the font to showcase in Latex?
attached : exmaple font.enter link description here
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Resizing table in beamer for readability
I have inserted a table, originally from Excel, into a Beamer presentation. The table does not fit into the frame and I used resizebox to make it fit. This renders the table unreadable. Is there a ...
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How to add label to bent arrow?
I use this code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[place,
accepting,
label=above:$p_1^1$] (p11) at (-3,0) {};
\node[transition,
minimum width=1.5mm,
...
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Cross-Refs: Sublabel-Skipping Variants as Optional Command Arguments
While cross-referencing linguistic examples, I am using zref to define commands for referring to pairs or ranges.
For each command I have two "skipping" variants mainskip and maxskip, meant ...
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Help with newenvironment for unnumbered theorems
First I tried this \newenvironment{axioma}[2]{\newtheorem*{#1}{#2} \begin{#1}}{\end{#1}}. It did not work.
Then I tried \newenvironment{axioma}[1]{\newcommand{\axiomhead}{\newtheorem*{kkk}{#1}} \...
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How to use U+1F54A (DOVE OF PEACE) with pdfLaTeX?
How can I use U+1F54A DOVE OF PEACE in my document, especially with pdfLaTeX and not LuaLaTeX?
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Need help animating these figures with Tikz in Beamer
Can someone help me to animate these figures
with Tikz in Beamer?
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pgfkeys - is choice + value pass to graphicx
I'm trying to implement a macro which is a wrapper over the graphicx \includegraphics command (because I'd like to pass the parameters for cropping in a key-value fashion). While doing so, at first I ...
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The figure/(table name) is on the page header by use fancyhdr, How to solve it?
The is black line is page header line.
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{cctbook} in the preamble.
\pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead[CE]{\songti 一维二维}\fancyhead[CO]{\songti 为了部落}
I insert the figure or ...
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Using TexStudio with unicode - incorrect cursor position
I find myself becoming a fan of using more and more unicode as it make source files way more readable. In my favourite editor TexStudio I am facing a slight annoyance: some unicode characters are ...
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How to draw Markov chain paths with LaTeX
I am trying to draw something like this in LateX (also with more steps):
Alternatively I could create this somewhere else and put it as a figure into latex, but I would prefer LaTeX. I think TikZ is ...
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After changing the catcode of the escape character `\`, why can this code still be compiled successfully?
I read some macros of manmac.tex, when I read this code snippet
% (now Appendix E resumes again)
% macros for verbatim scanning
\chardef\other=12
\def\ttverbatim{\begingroup
\catcode`\\=\other
\...
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Can't colour the right rows table
I have made a table with a table generator. I want the two first rows to be white, the following row to be grey and white intermittently.
This is the code I generated:
Preamble:
(long since this is a ...
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Synctex problem with exsheets package
If I use forward or backward synctex within the question environment of exsheets package it points out the whole exercise and not precisely the wanted line inside the environment.
This is a minimal ...
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Overleaf: error compiling in a popup window
I was trying to use a method detailed in this answer by Jonas Metzger on the browser Brave, I have not tried on other browsers. I recieve the following error while clicking the button:
Uncaught ...
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Pgfmath code conflict
I am using the following code, and it works except for the custom macro \QuadraticEquations.
However, it works in a stand alone file. Am I missing something obvious?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Draw dots on specific points of a line
With the contribution of a kind user : it has been possible to reproduce this scheme :
Using this code :
\documentclass[margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}...
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Simplify a TikZ code
Is there a way to simplify this code, obtaining the same tikzpicture?
(Simplify: I mean reduce code length, e.g., add more \begin{scope}...\end{scope}, …)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,...
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Does tikz collide with certain packages?
Don't know where to start. When I use a large preamble I can draw some straight lines in tikz but then it stops drawing without error indication.
Also the first example at https://tikz.dev/tutorial ...
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Wrapfig after subsection near page break
I know wrapfig has problems with images near the bottom of the page, but I want to know if there is a solution (even with a different package, for example with minipages). This is my MWE:
\...
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Garamond Italic font: First capital letter looks strange
I am using the Garamond font, included by the fontspec package:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Garamond}
In my opinion, the first capital letter in italics looks strange.
It does not fit to the ...
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