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How to form braces or brackets used in math formulas around nodes in a TikZ picture? [duplicate]
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Adding a large brace next to a body of text
I'm trying to create a brace or bracket around two or more nodes within a TikZ picture. Since there are more elements in the ...
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Highlight elements in the matrix
I have a matrix and need to highlight some elements in the matrix. I have found how to highlight a single element (I want to put the cell in the square):
$$ A = \begin{bmatrix}
\fbox{0} & \fbox{0}...
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Dimensioning of a technical drawing in TikZ
Is there is an easy way to mark dimensions in a technical drawing with TikZ?
Is there a library or something?
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I am using XeLaTeX.
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I chose Martin's answer because it serves me well for ...
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How to draw arrows between parts of an equation to show the Math Distributive Property (Multiplication)?
There is a part of my paper where I use the distributive property and it can be not clear to the reader to see the operation (I'm using in proposional logic for a proof). The logic equation (part of) ...
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Enclose an entry in an enumerate list in parentheses
I'd like to enclose one entry of an enumerate list in parentheses, with the opening parenthesis appearing before the index number. I can do this manually by using \item[(3.] Item text), but this ...
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Using TikZ to depict intonation
I am looking into using TikZ to represent pitch patterns over a phrase or sentence (intonation).
I've got it to produce some useful results, already, as in the attached MWE (although in 1.1 the ...
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How to draw arrows from cell to cell at the borders of a table
How can I draw arrows from cell to cell at the borders of a table? More precisely I'd like to get something like this:
It would be nice to have a solution using TikZ.
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Since I have other ...
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Large braces over several items in an itemize with text by the brace
This question is related to this question: Adding large brace next to body text, but is not a duplicate.
I have an itemize in a beamer presentation. I want to put a brace over some of these items. So ...
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Align large vertical delimiters (brackets) to rows of a table?
I’m trying to typeset a table of data, with brackets (i.e. }) at the right-hand side to show a classification of the rows. Something like:
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| Aardvark | Armenia | \
|--------...
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Typesetting 144…4 with “n times” under the 4's is easy, but what about \sqrt{144…4}?
Inspired by this question on the math StackExchange, suppose you want to typeset the square root of the number 144...4, that is, 1 followed by n 4's. If you write $\sqrt{1\underbrace{44\ldots4}_{n\ \...
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Draw a line through one column of a matrix
I'd like to "cancel" (draw a line through) a column of a matrix (using \begin{pmatrix}..\end{pmatrix}). How can I do this?
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Asymmetric overbrace
This question led to a new package:
abraces
How can I control the position of an overbrace's spike?
e.g. I want:
/------^----------------------\
aksdj ajksdnkajs ajsdknakjsnd jaknd
As opposed ...
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Curly brace to insert something into an equation? Like an inverted underbrace
I have a generic equation, into which I want to "insert" something so that the reader can see what I inserted into the equation and at which point.
E.g.
\documentclass{plain}
\begin{document}
\[ f =...
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Arrow between parts of equation in LaTeX
I want to make an arrow under an equation pointing from one part of the equation to another. A bit like an underbrace, but with an arrow. How can I do this?
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tikzmark to have different behaviour if first run (and mark locations not yet available)
The macro \tikzmark has been incredibly useful to me, but do not like the default behavior upon first run.
So, I would like to be able to determine if this is a first run (where there coordinates of ...