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### How do diacritical marks impact centering and overshooting?

I am creating a table containing several foreign names with diacritical marks in them, and it seems to me that they ruin the vertical alignment, as they are too close to the top horizontal line. How ...
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### Why is \strut working in these scenarios?

\strut seems to be a powerful command to get the interlinear spacing correct; particularly, when working with text in \parboxs or minipages. But it's also nice in contexts in which LaTeX is setting ...
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### Problem with vertical space in Memoir title

I've been struggling with titlingpage and Memoir a few hours, trying to make the document title have equal linespacing between its lines when using \\. The code is: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,...
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### Correct placement of sum limits

this is maybe some captious question like the correct placement of := but I always notice the unattractive placement of the limits between two sums. Lower limit example (The same holds for the upper ...
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### How do I encircle a partial table in tikz?

I am trying to create a diagram that looks roughly like this picture: Except that I want it to have rounded corners. It seems that the obvious way to do this would be to use tikz, so I have made an ...
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### how to add more white space over symbols in a nested fraction? [duplicate]

I am writing some complicated formulas that involve several layers of fractions. Example: \begin{displaymath} \scalebox{2.5}[3]% {\$ 1+\frac{1^2}{2+\frac{3^2}{2+\frac{5^2}{2+\frac{7^2}{2+\frac{9^2}{2+...
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### Overset placement is uneven

I'm using this code to show that one element of the equation is greater than zero and the second element is less than zero. \begin{align} \overset{+}{\pi_{i}} + \overset{-}{w_{g}(S)} > 0 \end{...
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### Possible package missing [closed]

I started using LaTeX yesterday and there's something I can't figure out: I've noticed that I don't have some commands, for example right now I'm trying to use \vphantom and \phantom, but when I type ...