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What are the most common mistakes that beginners of (La)TeX and Friends make?

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 ...
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When does \nopagebreak work?

There are many examples where \nopagebreak doesn't work as expected: Nopagebreak nopagebreak nopagebreak - why won't LaTeX listen to me? How to make longtable respect \nopagebreak in the ...
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How to Label and Caption a Tikzpicture inside a tabular environment

What is the correct way to label and captionize a tkizpicture inside a tabular environment? (Since figures are not allowed inside a tabular) Excerpt from my .tex: \begin{tabular}{l r} & \...
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How to prevent page break between section heading and longtabu table?

I have created a minimal working example (MWE) consisting of a section and a longtabu table. \documentclass{report} \usepackage{longtable,tabu} \begin{document} An initial line of text \vskip 47....
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Why is it so hard to prevent a page break?

Why won't LaTeX just let me keep things together on one page whenever I want to? Why isn't this straightforward to do? There is this: Absolutely, definitely, preventing page break. Maybe that works, ...
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Prevent table rows from being split across pages

I have a twocolumn document with a very long supertabular table. Within the table, I have "subsections" that I want clumped together; not split over multiple pages. For this example, each "subsection"...
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Force paragraph to stay on same page where it began

I am organizing several abstracts for a conference booklet; some of them are too long, thus inducing a page break. After finishing the booklet layout I am going to edit the abstracts to make them ...
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Unwanted page break before align

I am having some issues with the positioning of a page break with align. My code is roughly the following. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath, amsthm} \begin{document} %Lots of text to ...
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Image going down in the next page, shifted towards right

\documentclass[12pt]{exam} \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{commath} \usepackage{epstopdf} \usepackage{tikzpagenodes} \...
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2 answers
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Connection of two specific paragraphs

I have a specific kind of text. It looks like a big paragraph from several lines and than goes one another paragraph on one line (and consists of one reference to a link). But the text is too big, so ...
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Flexibly start a new page for proof environment

I would like to redefine my proof environment so that if the content of the proof environment is only, say, 3 lines or fewer, then the entire proof environment will just start on a new page. Here is a ...
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Highest Variable Value on Every Page

I am writing a document where each paragraph is categorized. I'm encoding the category as a simple numeric variable: 1, 2, 3, &c. On each page I want to know and possibly display the highest ...
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Spacing between "clamped" paragraphs bad at end/start of page

I defined a new command that would "clamp" text together to prevent it from breaking across a page. I wanted to be able to switch from clamped to unclamped text with no jarring issues with line ...
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2 answers
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Vertical spaces in htlatex \ScriptEnv

I am using htlatex to generate the HTML version of book and I am having problems with vertical spacing. I have configured an environment like this: \ScriptEnv{tawny} {\begin{samepage}\IgnorePar\EndP\...
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How can I make sure that an *arbitrary* part of a document is printed on the same page?

I want to make sure that an arbitrary part of the document is always printed on the same page. Note 1: My problem focuses on lists and tables. However, I believe that the solution (if there is one)...
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