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78 questions linked to/from Will two-letter font style commands (\bf , \it , …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?
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How do I repeat a theorem number?
Often in my papers I want to mention theorems in the introduction that are introduced in more detail and proved in a later section.
I'd like to include the statement of these theorems twice over, ...
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What are the most common mistakes that beginners of (La)TeX and Friends make?
I want to collect the most common mistakes, misconceptions, pitfalls, etc that (La)TeX and Friends users make. Please one answer for each mistake, misconception, pitfall, etc.
I am only interested in ...
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Vertical space between tables vspace won't work
I have 2 tables, one above the other. At the moment I can't make any space between them in my report. The strange thing is I moved them in to a new blank document with all the same preamble and \...
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Why is LaTeX so complicated? [closed]
I have been using LaTeX professionally almost every day for almost 10 years, so I think I can say that, by now, I more or less know what I'm doing. I also do a lot of ordinary computer programming, in ...
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Edit style for italic caption
I have a style for Fig caption like below.
\def\fnum@figure{\small\it\bf\figurename{} \thefigure.}
This style change the caption and caption number bold.
But I need bold and italic numbering and ...
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Using characters to delimit commands (like markdown)
I recently came accross the \DefineShortVerb command of the fancyvrb package, which lets you "define a special character as an abbreviation
to enclose verbatim text", so for example:
\documentclass{...
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How can I define font size and style for ExPex text?
disclaimer: I am very new for LaTeX, so please do not redirect me to documentation, I read carefully several times ExPex PDF guide (http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/generic/expex/expex-doc.pdf) ...
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installing linguex into a main tex thesis file
The latex file has problems installing/using the linguex package in a ucla thesis latex template (uclathes) (downloaded from GitHub). I inserted it in a preamble of the mother tex file, but it keeps ...
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linguex in uclathes [duplicate]
\exi. environment sends `undefined sequence' error. How can I fix it?
Here is the code of the main tex file.
\documentclass [PhD] {uclathes}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{linguex}
\begin ...
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How to construct a coloured box with rounded corners
Here is the specs of the box.
Color of the bar rule should be:
\definecolor{mycolor}{rgb}{0.122, 0.435, 0.698}
Radius of the 4 corners of the box: 4pt
Thick line = 0.5pt
Text should be 6pt ...
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Missing \item when compiling my resume
I've building my resume using resume.cls, and I keep getting an error. However, it doesn't seem to be consistent:
\documentclass{resume} % Use the custom resume.cls style
\usepackage[left=0.75in,top=...
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How can I narrow down these gaps?
I am writing my curriculum vitae, but I have one question.
In the first image, there are spaces between different sections.
(Between contact and phone, between education and Seoul~~,....)
Thus, I ...
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Noindent in \thanks, left align
I am using the following command in WinEdt to have the corresponding author contact info at the footnote. I used \\ to have a new line since it was long.
I have two problems. First I need to left ...
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How to make a line in header and footer in the first page?
I am writing a proposal, and trying to decorate my header and footer by a line. The problem that I face with is the line under footer and header only appear on from the second page to the end, while ...
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aboveglftskip in expex linguistic glosses
First of all I am not an expert in using LaTeX, I just started a few months back.
I am using MiKTeX with the expex package for glossed linguistic examples.
If we take a look at a glossed example, we ...