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20 questions linked to/from Please tutor the usage of patchcmd and xpatch
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How to append to definition of a macro which has arguments? [duplicate]
I’ve been using \let\oldsomething\something\renewcommand*something{\oldsomething ...} in a couple places, but it’s tedious and I guess prone to errors if I were to try to redefine again with the same ...
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Remove comma from moderncv's \cventry
This image shows the excerpt of a CV produced with the moderncv document class:
Notice that after the bold text there is a comma. This seems to be produced automatically. How can I stop this?
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Are commands defined by \newcommand[.][.]{.} robust?
This question is from the comments at the foot of Abbreviations for AM, PM (small caps) for use within \textbf. Readers will get the remaining gist from there.
With
\newcommand\cmd[2][0]{\def\y{#1}...
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How to disable paragraphs inside my environment with \let\par\relax?
I would like to disable the automatic paragraph inside my thesis abstract which is called resumo. On the question How to disable new paragraph at empty line? they said I could use \let\par\relax to ...
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\hspace before \section?
I would like to add a space before a section heading.
I have tried:
\hspace[*]{5pt}\setkomafont{section}{\fontsize{45}{40}\selectfont
\fontspec{Mathilde}}
unsuccessfully. I realise that Latex ...
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Place a footnote in an environment in the bottom of the page
I have this code:
\documentclass[11pt]{book}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% VARIOUS REQUIRED PACKAGES AND CONFIGURATIONS
%--------------...
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Patch \insertshorttitle in beamer
In this answer @cfr showed me how to preserve short title color in beamer while allowing hyperlinks to work. His solution was to modify the \insertshorttitle command (defined in beamerbasetitle.sty) ...
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Table caption not left aligned in revtex
I am currently writing an APS article and use:
\documentclass[%
reprint,
amsmath,amssymb,
aps,nofootinbib,
]{revtex4-1}
%
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usepackage{bm}
\...
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no page number on appendix divider page
I have found some links on here (for example No page number on \appendixpage) that explain how to remove the pagenumber from the divider appendix page, but how can I use this when using the appendices ...
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Why \PackageWarning is giving me LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document} while patching standard latex list environment?
I wrote this code I started doing after on How to set \topsep=0pt on the latex standard list implementation inside an environment? I find out I could not change the standard latex \list{} environment ...
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A question about using a \renewcommand to adapt a package
This article is a sub-question of: Cross-referencing on 2 kinds of end-footnotes (separated and with different coloured numbers)
Hi,
I am trying to adapt a package called parnotes (which can be ...
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One paragraph style bibliography with numbers
I am writing a document that has a two page limit. I am trying to find a way to make it so that each citation in the bibliography does not start on a new line. This would be sufficient to fit into my ...
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How to patch a command from leipzig.sty
As shown in Issues with leipzig and glossaries used together, there is a problem when using the package leipzig with the glossaries package since the leipzig package relies on deprecated commands from ...
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Problem patching by appending to \footnote command. “Missing \endcsname inserted”
I want to test whether a macro is (a) outside or (b) inside a \footnote command, similar to what's asked in (i) How to test if I'm currently in a footnote or not, (ii) Detect whether I'm in a \...
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How to determine if a macro is used inside the argument of a sectioning command?
In order to further automatize a macro I have written, I would like to know if there is a possibility to determine if this macro is used inside the argument of a sectioning command or inside the text. ...