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I am very new to Latex and I am getting this error: Class scrartcl Error: undefined old font command `\bf'. See the scrartcl class documentation for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate ...

What's the difference between using \sl and \slshape? I don't see any in the pdf.

I want to parse markdown emphasis automatically in XeLaTeX. This basically means converting asterisks either side of a word into the \emph{word} that LaTeX uses. I know that more complex Markdown ...

I know I can make *hello* produce hello in bold typeface. But how would I, in addition, make **hello** produce hello in italics? \documentclass{article} \begingroup\lccode`\~=`* \lowercase{\...

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 ...

Is either of these considered better/more readable/more "proper"/more conventional than the other for making text bold? If so, what is the reason? I like my text \textbf{bold} versus: I like my ...

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 ...

Environments are allowed to have arguments, but reference to those arguments can only appear in the opening code of the environment, and not the closing code. What is the reason for this, and are ...

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, ...

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 ...

I just got the error Too many math alphabets used in version normal. on a document I'm editing. What can I do to fix this, other than stop using an alphabet? All I've found online is instructions ...

I'm using the \begin{proof} of the amsthm package. And I want to change the style of the Proof word that is added in the beginning. By default it is italic, I want to make it bold. How can I do it?

The LaTeX kernel uses these two all over the place. For example, apparently the correct way of defining something like \ifeq{\macro 1}{\macro 2}{true}{false} is (note Martin's response: each case ...

I rather like the system here where *...* is italic, **...** is bold, and ***...*** is bold italic. Is it possible to do that in (La)TeX? A MWE that implements the first one: \documentclass{article} ...

I have a table of formulas, some have a description next to them, I want the equations to appear left flush and the text between parentheses right flush. I was writing it in the following way. \...

If I have a line of text, how do I make just the first word bold? I tried this: \bf{NTn} = Number of lines but it made the entire line bold.

Is it possible to modify LaTeX so that good old $$...$$ behaves like \[...\] (and by this I mean that it should be synonymous to it). If yes: Dear LaTeX3 developer, please integrate this into LaTeX3! ...

I was reading LaTeX: Do not use these commands, but the author didn't explain why they are bad. Could anyone help me understand. \\ (except inside a special environment like tabular, array, or ...

I understand that \bf and \it are both deprecated in the current version of LaTeX. To the best of my knowledge, the correct control sequences replacing them are \bfseries and \itshape. Is there any ...

I would like to add two customizations to the algorithmic package: introduce a new break command and have the possibility to provide labels to the LOOP so that break {label} is clear to which loop is ...

I have biblio.bib: @article{XX, title={{Title}}, author={Author}, journal={Journal Title}, volume=1, number=11, pages={1-2}, year=1666 } And myfile.tex \documentclass[oneside]{memoir} \...

I try to typeset title pages and use LARGE and bold for this. The problem is that the lines seem to be too close to each other. I think it looks bad. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Is there a ...

I would like to merge column in LaTeX. I can make that but this line is incomplete because it still open on the left. Perhaps you will not understand what I mean, but this is the code that I wrote \...

Seeing as it is quite confusing for non-TeX expert to know how to specify italic or bold font, and the names such as \bfseries are not straightforward... Is there a package that defines synonyms like ...

I'm desperate, can't figure out what's going on... So here's my code for a gloosed example: \a \begingl \gla nie ale jeśli ją \underline{pan} \underline{zobaczy} \underline{będzie} \underline{pan} \...

MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{bm} \begin{document} $$x(t), \bf{x}(t), \bf{x(t)}$$ \end{document} Result: Question: Why are the second and third x(t) typeset the same? In the second ...

As scientific species names should be written in italic, I have adopted a shortcut to do this in LaTex by creating a definition in the preamble: \def\GM{{\it Gadus morhua~}} Then it's easy to call ...

TeXstudio does not recognize the LaTeX command \rm (red highlighting in the document, with the message: unrecognized command), even after I activate all possible completion files (.cwl). In such a ...

I have written in my work $X^{+},\,\rm{e}^{X},\,|X|^{p}$. Why is the second and third term not in italics?

I want to define some variable for my IPE template, such as the title, affiliation and author etc. The code is listed below. However when I compile it using pdflatex, it does not show the result what ...