Linked Questions
31 questions linked to/from Contest: Show Off Your Skillz in TeX & Friends [TeX.sx birthday]
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Best way to part answers from solutions?
Now, if anyone could change the title into something better that would be great =)
I am writing a rather long document, which contains plenty of integrals. I have a big list
of integrals sorted in a ...
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Adding a list of bios to the book class
I am busy with a document where I need to add an Appendix with a list of names and short biographies (about a paragraph each).
I would be happier if I can do that as I describe the person in the ...
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Do I need LaTeX?
I read that LaTeX is all about "typesetting". What does that mean? What is typesetting?
I read some FAQs, they showed the code, not the output.
Following are my needs and I am not sure whether ...
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Document Layout Styles
I am inviting partial solutions for defining styles for document layouts. The solutions should be capable of defining the font size, leading (interline distance), and type for the running text as well ...
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Split a scanned photo across multiple pages (with a predifined splitting point)
I am a relative (La)TeX newbie! I want to split an A4 scanned image across two pages! Is there a package to achieve this or is it possible to do this manually so that to be able to define the exact ...
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How to create attendance sheets?
Is there a package for creating sheets you fill out by handwriting?
Like for example attendance sheets, a list of key borrowers, a sign-off sheet for dangerous stuff etc.
Basically some sort of ...
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What is a good strategy to internationalize a document class?
I am busy with a new document class and I have been trying my hand in internationalizing some of the contents. I have tried using translator from Beamer. Is this a good strategy? Can the code shown ...
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How can I divide a figure in multiple pages?
I have a figure that is really high, it would fit well in 3 pages, but currently I have it stretched in one. It's only one PDF (converted from a PNG image) and I cannot find out how to divide it in ...
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Working with clist indices in LaTeX3
Friends, I'm trying to port an old code of mine to a LaTeX3 implementation. Thanks to egreg, Joseph and David, I made a good progress! But then, I got stuck.
From the link above, I'm porting my ...
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Trying to draw a coloured 3x3x3 cube using tikzpicture
I am trying to draw Rubik's cube in LateX, and I have used the code below. It all seems to work except for the front face, which for some reason isn't right. Does anyone know a solution for this ...
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Any advanced example of layout designing with ConTeXt?
I'm looking for an advanced example of layout designing with ConTeXt? I've checked reference manual and few another docs from contextgarden, but they show only simple, elementary things. I'm ...
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Customizing Gonzalo Medina's Award Winning Entry
I am trying to do few modifications to Gonzalo Medina(GM)'s award winning contest entry. I want to change the fonts GM used in the header box. I achieved partial success by changing following lines ...
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using **xyz** instead of \foo{xyz}
How can I use **xyz** or another similar one instead of \foo{xyz} or \foo*{xyz}?
note: question is updated to reflect my concern, question is general and is not depended on a special package. You ...
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Redefining an environment and summary box using grid and gridleno
This question is inspired by Gonzalo's great answer here concerning his creation of gridleno.sty to enhance the functionality of grid.sty.
Ultimately I have two seemingly simple questions (please ...
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Enable rectangle to have a 3-D vision [duplicate]
How to draw a rectangle with 3-D vision, or 3-D rectangle. I also need to fill it with text.
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