Questions tagged [nesting]
{nesting} is about nesting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be nested.
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What's the best method for bracing a list of aligned equations?
I would like to reduce the height of the \left\{ in the following, to make it the same height as the equations:
%\usepackage{esdiff}
\begin{align*}
\mathcal L&= - 0.75 w(S) - 0.25 w(F) + \lambda ...
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tikz-cd nested tikzpicture wrong center anchor
I want to place a tikzpicture in a node/cell of a tikz-cd diagram and then paint some more stuff in the inner tikzpicture. However, it seems that the nesting messes up the center anchor.
Concretely: ...
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How to use \discretionary inside soul's \hl?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
Some \hl{te\discretionary{-}{-}{-}xt}.
\end{document}
The above does not compile due to Missing { inserted, Improper ...
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1answer
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How to write this underdash? [closed]
I want to write this expression :
so, what will be its code? please help...
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1answer
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Text not vertically aligned within tabular with nested tabular
I am trying to vertically align a row heading with a table inside the row. But no matter what I do, the heading remains in the center. I tried using p{'width'}, but that had no change.
\documentclass{...
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Renewcommand with ensuremath and brackets
I'm making a .sty file (which is called my-macros.sty and is in my home /texmf directory) where I define some commands that I constantly use. Among these commands, there are the following
\newcommand{...
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2answers
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“environ” package and nested environments won't work [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a little style package to make some nice blocks with icons and so on. I'm using environ package + tikz. Actually the document compiles and shows me my boxes but with errors saying ...
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Nested alignments
I want to make alignments that look like this:
which I have done by using
\begin{align}
& \frac{dx}{dt} = y \qquad \frac{dy}{dt} = x \\
\implies & \frac{d^2x}{dt^2} = \frac{d}{dt}\...
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LaTeX 2e environment that “knows” the name of surrounding environment
I'd like to have a LaTeX 2e-environment which when occurring inside another environment "knows" the name of the surrounding environment.
Is this possible?
I know that \@currenvir provides the ...
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1answer
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Nesting Nightmares
I am trying to place this in my document
Of course, if you have access to wolframalpha you can do this:
\href{https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=interpolatingpolynomial%7B%7Bx_0,y_0%7D,%7Bx_1,y_1%...
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Nested cases, alignment and numbering
I have tried all different sorts of solutions including align, aligned, cases and equation to have the result I get with this code except that I want numbering for the three lines in the aligned ...
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How to disable nesting in hyperrefs?
Is there a way to disable nesting in hyperrefs? Here is an example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{nameref}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\section{One}
\...
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1answer
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How does xparse handle nested delimited arguments?
In this answer egreg mentions that the r argument type from the xparse package handles nested delimited arguments, as shown in this small example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\...
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1answer
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TeX Capacity exceeded, semantic nest size
I'm having a problem that I have no idea what it can be caused by, the error it produces is the following "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [semantic nest size=500]. \end{align}" Using TeX studio and have ...
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Problem with nested if statements
I'm trying to use some nested if statements to decide if a file exists and what kind of loadings are possible:
\IfFileExists{./emoji.sty}{
\ifxetex
\usepackage[bw,font=seguiemj.ttf]{emoji}
\...
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Interrupting nested lists
How to interrupt the nested lists and resume directly from the inner list?
For example:
Step 1: Define the below items
\begin{enumerate}
\item Item Level 1
\begin{enumerate}
\item ...
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Problem with nesting macros
I have written a macro to denote either the Fourier transformation (curly F by itself) or the Fourier transform of a function (curly F followed by a function and enclosed in \left( and \right) ). It ...
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LaTeX Grammar and Nesting Rule
Is there any grammar and rule describing the allowed nestings and combinations and the allowed format of the arguments in LaTeX? E.g.
\section{\verb|mySec|}
\section{\begin{huge}mySec\end{huge}}
\...
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1answer
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How to nest multiple documentclass
I would like to create a running diary of documentclass 1 that constitutes multiple instances of documentclass 2, where preferred documentclass 2 is 'minutes'. I am aware of subfiles, but don't know ...
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Nested alignment of grouped equations
I want a collection of equations to be aligned as a whole, yet subgroups of them given descriptions. What follow are two attempts, each which achieve exactly one of the requirements:
\documentclass{...
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nesting macro identifying string length 1 using xstring ifthen packages
I would like to write a latex macro \p which given input X returns X or (X) depending on whether X has character length 1 or not. Moreover, I want to be able to nest applications of \p. E.g. I want ...
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How to deal with big equations?
I have a system of equations where the equations are big (one line isn't enough). I found this solution (the second one, from egreg How to align a set of very long equations) to manage the "how to ...
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2answers
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how to create a nested table
I searched how to create a nested table but I didn't find a solution that works for me.
What I need is to create this table.
Any one can help please?
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3answers
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Fix alignment in nested description list without line break
I'm trying to make a nested description list like so:
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[Languages:]
\begin{description}
\item[High:]Python, Java, R, SQL, SAS
\...
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1answer
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Verbatim environment nesting troubles [duplicate]
I have troubles trying to nest verbatim environment inside my \newenvironment definition one so I can include my source code faced to its result as on the most latex books printed. I can do it in a ...
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how to write this nested expression
How to write this mathematical expression in Latex
I have no idea ..please help
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How can I achive “no” or better “leftmargin=* from main enumerate” indent on nested enumerate?
I use enumerate inside a tabularx and I removed vertical spacing.
I also set the indentation of the first level to leftmargin=*, which leads to the right indentation.
Now I want the second level ...
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1answer
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TikZ: Better solution than nesting tikzpicture?
I created following example script to draw a TikZ that contains a nested tikz:
\documentclass[tikz,border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning, shapes.multipart, backgrounds,...
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conflict between hyperref and enumitem packages (and \refstepcounter)
The solution outlined for each of the following two posts appears to conflict with the hyperref package.
How to skip an \item in sub-enumerate level
nested enumerated lists numbered for ...
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1answer
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nested enumerated lists numbered for mathematical proofs
For numbering mathematical proofs, I'd like to be able to generate output something like this, where (i) each item (item 1 in this case) in the enumerated list can be replaced by a nested sublist of ...
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1answer
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Subfiles package - two levels (subfile in subfile)
Although the documentation of the subfiles package states that nesting is supported, I somehow can't get it to work.
I have the following structure:
./main.tex
./level1/level1.tex
./level1/level2/...
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Defining a new command using another new command
I want to defined a command that uses another command in its definition, like so:
\newcommand{\command1}{$\alpha^x$}
\newcommand{\command2}{\command1_\beta}
I understand that csname may be used for ...
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1answer
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Ampersand conflict when using align inside table
I am trying to use an align environment inside a tabular environment. Whenever I use an & character inside the align environment, there seems to be a conflict, i.e., the following works
\...
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What's wrong with nested tikzpicture and xelatex?
I want to draw a line between to nested tikzpicture,while the code runs without any problem with pdflatex, the result of xelatex is not acceptable. I've to use xelatex because my document contains ...
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1answer
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ShareLaTeX - Nested 'Main'
I'm trying to create the version / revision copies within the ShareLatex structure itself. I would like to know if there is a way to nest 'main' inside each folder and compile that folder alone. If ...
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Nested enumerate starting from 0
Here is my latex code:
\begin{enumerate}
\item
\begin{enumerate}
\item I do not feel sad.
\item I feel sad
\item I am sad all the time and I can't snap out of it.
\item I am so sad and unhappy ...
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Command Defining Nested Command
I'm trying to define a command which, upon being called with a certain parameter, 'renews' a different command. In particular, I tried the following (it doesn't work!).
\newcommand{\gap} %initialise \...
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\emph breaks soul's underline
\emph within soul's \ul leaves small gaps in the underline, their size varying depending on the font and whether there is a space after \emph.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}
\begin{...
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How do I nest a declaration within another declaration?
I want to nest a bold-face formatting declaration within an italic-shape declaration. For that I tried using the command:
{\itshape\bfseries nested}
However, this doesn't work. Output given below:
...
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How to use biblatex to have a nested bibliography with a nested toc?
Biblatex is really cool, and allows the subdivision of the bibliography into sections based on different filters : for exemple, if I want to print only the articles of my bibliography, I can write :
...
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Creating a custom list/enumerate environment with no bullets, custom spacing and alignment, a higher nesting limit, and in-item line breaks
I'm writing a document (bridge system notes, if that helps anybody visualize what I'm looking for) and need to make extensive use of nested lists. Here's a minimal example of what I'm using now:
\...
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Problem with nested IfSubStr calls
I have the following code in my preamble:
\usepackage{xstring}
\newcommand\myhelpermacro[1]{\IfSubStr{#1}{true}{Text contained the word "cat"}{Text did not contain the word "cat"}}
\newcommand\...
asked Aug 13 '17 at 15:48
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Get fully expanded tex file [duplicate]
I'm using TexLive 2016. Is there a way I can get the expanded Latex BEFORE it is converted to PDF? Quick example in case I'm asking the wrong question! i.e.
main.tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\...
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Vertical Spacing between headings in nested multicol List
Hi I have the following MWE and would like to know if using \\ is BP or if there is a clear/better way to achieve the spacing between each headings. General opinions on the look of this are welcomed ...
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Nested itemize don't show item label
I use these itemize:
\begin{itemize}
\item [\textbf{Home Page - Utente Semplice}]
\begin{itemize}
\item Sono presenti troppi contenuti poco utili (1-6-7);
\item Il proprio avatar, non è un ...
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1answer
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how to nest LaTeX documents [duplicate]
I'd like to nest load one document inside another, skipping the preamble and \begin{document} and \end{document} of the nested document.
So
\documentclass{article}
% load some packages here
\begin{...
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In LyX, how can I nest Itemize inside Enumerate, without starting a new Enumerate item when leaving Itemize?
What I'm trying to accomplish in LyX is best shown via the following simple example:
I start using
an Enumerate environment
And I'm writing multiple blocks of text, even tables, etc., inside the ...
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Can I footcite something from a footnote with biblatex?
I have a relatively long footnote with some explanatory text that refers to some citations. My current approach is to use \footnotemark where I want to cite something and then \fotnotetext{\cite[xx]{...
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Nested Array-like environment without Math-region
I'm working on my master thesis and I need to render some structures like this:
Edit: Example doesn't use highlighting for the sake of simplification, but I would like to use specifically minted, not ...
