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Best practice on organising your preamble

I am putting together a large document and my preamble is unwieldly and disorganised. What order does it make sense to load packages. Obviously, hyperref goes last, apart from things that have to go ...
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titling's \thetitle, \theauthor and \thedate don't work

I was trying to use \thetitle, \theauthor and \thedate of the titling package, but none of them worked. MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{titling} \begin{document} \thetitle \theauthor \...
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Consistent way to define document title, subtitle, author, affiliation, abstract etc

Many document classes seem to have their own way of defining document title and author information, often with only subtle differences. (\title seems to be pretty much standard everywhere, in contrast ...
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\title after \begin{document}: When to do it?

My answer to Problem using \alert{} in Beamer title with metropolis theme solves an incompatibility problem between TiKZ and \title with \protect-ed contents in beamer documents. Following code ...
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Abstract and titlepage

I compile my code and the abstract shows up before the titlepage, but I want it after the title page. \documentclass[12pt, oneside]{report} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \geometry{letterpaper} \...
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3.33333pt at the top of the document

I am currently attempting to write my first Latex document and having some issues with it. There is a weird 3.33333pt at the top of the document, as can be seen in the attached image, and it will not ...
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Dodgy quotation formatting. Both start quote and end quotes are in the direction of end quotes, [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Automatically convert quotations in the form of “abc” to become ``abc" My quotes are coming up like end quotes on both sides of the quotation. How can I overcome this? ...
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babel: adding language shorthands to work inside glossaries

I added ngerman shorthands to my english babel as described here. But they do not work for glossaries, and probably in other macors as discussed here. I load all the acronyms as a separate file in the ...
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IEEEtran class: How can I center the title using the two columns option?

When I compile, I always get the title as part of the left column. I'd like the title to be on the top of the page, bridging across the two columns. Thanks Diego
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I am having problems with typeset?

My document is called introduction.tex. I have the following code: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \title{Identification of potential therapeutic targets in human breast cancer} \author{...
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