Questions tagged [notes]
about adding temporary notes into a document as reminders to edit parts of the document or to provide information to collaborators.
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Add notes under the table
I'm using the latex package apa6e because the apa package isn't using APA style version 6 yet.
Now I'm trying to add a table with notes right underneath it, like in this table for instance:
Since ...
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How can you use LaTeX to write a document with other people?
I imagine that many users are or were [PhD] students, so I would like to know: how do you use LaTeX to write a document (like the final dissertation) that requires many revisions from other people.
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Add notes to latex beamer [duplicate]
I need to add notes for presentation like we add Microsoft PowerPoint 'click to add notes'. Is there some way to do it using latex beamer?
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Note below figure
I have a figure and include it in LaTeX using \includegraphics in a \figure floating environment. The caption is at the top. Basically I would like to have a note below the figure too. I see some ...
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Beamer notes "show notes on second screen" option does not work
I want to use the "show notes on second screen" option for beamer. Here's my code (MWE):
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}
\title{TEXPLORE}
\...
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Beamer - compile only notes?
Is it possible to compile only beamer notes without slides?
For practice I only wanted print the notes but I could not find any way to do so.
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Sticky notes image
I've tried looking in the site for this but I couldn't find anything (rather surprising).
I want a package (or even a TikZ drawing) to accomplish a note on a sticky note. I just need one note, so I ...
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What is a good package for taking note of draft ideas? [duplicate]
What is a good package for taking note of draft ideas, and have them emphasized in the output document? For example:
This is a very brilliant idea for a
research topic \...
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Cornell Notes - A lyx or latex solution needed
I teach academic writing to computing students and one of the tasks they have to carry out is to compile a set of research notes which can then be developed into an essay. I find that the Cornell ...
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Split beamer notes across multiple notes pages
I've only recently discovered the notes mode for beamer, and I'm trying to build a presentation with notes containing my speech. However, my speech is quite large, and is causing note page overflows.
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Easy chemical reactions
I'm trying to convert some of my lecture slides to LaTeX. What's the best way to convert a number of slides (similar to the one below) into nice notes? I am aware of mhchem and chemstyle, but I don't ...
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Side notes marking multiple lines of text
I am looking for a method to put small side notes next to the text, by simultanously marking the amount of lines to which the note refers. So, something like this:
I was trying many methods like ...
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Could TeX typeset note text between two lines of the body?
How to typsetting the note text like
There is body blahblah blahblah I need a note here and then blah blah
The note about word
blahblah blahblah ...
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threeparttable notes layout
I am using threeparttable for adding notes to my table. Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[para,online,flushleft]{threeparttable}
\begin{document}
\par
Lets ...
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How to handle only overlays while printing a latex beamer notes
Using overlays and showing multiple graphs in the same slides and even text is really great but I am really wondering how can we show each piece of overlay while printing the slides or notes ? It ...
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Changing the textwidth of the notes in Beamer (repost from SO)
I've asked this on SO and didn't get a good answer, so I'm reposting it here.
I've been using the beamer class to create presentations in LaTeX and I love it. Recently I started using the \note ...
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Beamer : Changing font size in notes when using \setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}
I'm using Beamer with \setbeameroption{show notes on second screen} to add notes for each slide. I'd like to change the font size of the text in the notes so I can fit more text on the page.
Clues?
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Swallowed space after \tnote
I'm using threeparttable to add table notes to a tabu tabular*. A common use case is to have a note at the end of a cell. If the note is however not added to a cell's last word, the following space is ...
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Best documentclass for class notes
Is there a documentclass specificaly for taking notes in a class? If not, what does the community see as things which should be included in such a class (which I'd be happy to write)?
Edit: This was ...
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Beamer notes on secondary screen doesn't work [closed]
I am writing a presentation for at introduction to latex and think it would be nice to show how I have my presentation-notes on my laptop screen (Macbook Air) using Beamer.
But it just won't work.
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Change beamer notes list type for in-frame notes
When you use the \note{} command within a frame, the notes are appended to a notes frame after the current frame. If you use \note[item]{}, each note is an item in an enumerated list. Can this be ...
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Use Beamer to put 3 slides per page with notes beside (like powerpoint)
I am trying to transition from powerpoint to beamer for the slides for my class. Powerpoint puts a thumbnail of the slide on the left and any notes associated with the slide on the right of the page. ...
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Notes after bibliography entry with Biber and biblatex
I'm using biblatex with Biber as a backend. I need to add a one-sentence note, in bold, after a few of my references in the bibliography. These notes are not contained in my .bib file; they are ...
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Extract all \note tags from beamer as a simple text file
There is a nice presenter tool I am using called pdfpc.
Sadly it does not show notes I put in my latex presentation with \note{}.
Is there a way to extract the content of all my \note{} tags to a ...
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Output Beamer notes to a separate PDF file?
Is there a simple way to have Beamer output the presentation notes to a separate PDF file whenever compiling the presentation? I know one way is to create two master files, one for the presentation ...
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Small note (i.e. footnotesize) below figure
I want to include a small note (i.e. footnotesize) below a figure. How do I do that? If I use caption, the note has a caption size and interferes with my caption.
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How to write "note:" in front of an indented paragraph
I have a question similar to this one:
How to mark book paragraphs as note, warning, tip etc.?
I'd like to have my paragraph indented and the text "note:" appear just before it. Ideally this would ...
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threeparttablex table notes for tabu tabulars with less than \textwidth
threeparttablex can be used to add table notes to tabu tabulars*. If the tabular spans \textwidth, the output is as expected. It seems however that the tablenotes environment does not adjust its width ...
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Creating a handout with the notes on a second screen
How can I print slides and their accompanying note pages from a second screen as a handout? I try to accomplish this look:
(preferably 3 slides and their 3 note pages per page, the spaces between the ...
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Hyperref problems in Beamer when using notes
Update and MWE added
I'm working with Beamer for the first time, and I want to use notes pages to prompt myself. However, when I turn them on, either by using either \documentclass[notes]{beamer} or \...
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biblatex + \mcite; add arbitrary text in references with subentries
In chemistry it's quite common to add prefixes to bibitems or even add notes to the references. See some example in literature to give you a hint what I mean. It is not created with LaTeX!
I've ...
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Math notes between equations
Hi I was searching for a function that allows me to do what the picture shows, if someone could make a function like \underset{}_{}, where you put what you want to appear below the text, to make a ...
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Can my LaTeX (maths) code be improved?
I feel that my code isn't written very efficiently.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage[...
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Adding a note in tables
How do you put the "Note: preferred model for each metric bold."?
This is my work:
\begin{table}
\caption{Model selection metrics}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c c}
\hline
{} & {\...
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How to show a hint when lstlisting is breaking page?
I use inline lstlisting-blocks with caption.
I have several listings that are running over more than one page or starting at the end of a page.
Now I want to place a hint for the readers, that the ...
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Add space for handwritten notes at the end of each chapter
Is it possible to have LaTeX insert some lines for handwritten notes at the end of each chapter? As a new chapter will always start on a odd page, they should appear on the last even page of the ...
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Package for taking notes
After reading a book, I often take notes on that book. It usually has my thoughts about what I have just read and many cites (often long, more that 2 or 3 paragraphs, sometimes even more than one page)...
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Single-spaced multi-line marginalia
When writing papers, I like to keep track of notes, thoughts and to do's inside the documents.
I'd love to have tiny coloured multi-line marginalia. So far I used sth like
\newcommand{\mymarginnote}...
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Beamer presentation with notes: navigation does not work properly and "destination with the same identifier" warnings show up
I am refloating a long-standing Beamer problem and will put a good bounty to it, to see if we can all solve this problem once and for all...
I am following on a previous question I posted here, and ...
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Template for a talk with a column to hold abridged content
I'm looking for either a template (or some pointers to generate one) for using to give talks.
What I'm looking for is something that will allow a column for the 'full' talk, and then a second for ...
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Aligning Table Notes in Three Part Table
I am using the threeparttable environment to make tables. The table notes are always indented. How can I get the notes to start flush with the table?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\...
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How can I create a notes column in a document?
I need a document that has a notes column on the right hand side of each page starting after the contents page.
This notes column should have the heading "Notes" , should be 50% of the size of the ...
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References when using only notes in beamer
I use notes in my slides, what's good for my lectures. I also like to pass the notes to the students (with handout and show only notes).
When using biblatex's \printbibliography, however, the ...
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Beamer, notes, and bibliography
I would like to create notes for a set of slides, but I have problem with my long bibliography.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeameroption{show only notes}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=...
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todonotes on both sides of the page
I have defined two commands for todonotes:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos,textsize=scriptsize]{todonotes}
\newcommand{\mytodo}[2][]{\renewcommand{\...
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Colourful notes - todo list annotations in tables
I've decided that I'm going to make LaTeX notes for all of my lectures next year (I'm doing computer science at university). I want a way to brighten my notes up - make them more exiting to read when ...
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margin notes on both sides of a single-column document
I have to write a paper for a course work. We are supposed to use a given layout with a single column text and margin notes on both sides - references on one side and section notes on the other.
I ...
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Taking notes while reading a journal paper
I'm reading journal papers in physics/electrical engineering. What is a suitable document class or package to help with taking notes?
My idea would be having direct quotes on one side and my opinions/...
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Table notes next to a table
Does anyone have a simple solution for using tables with notes (as in threeparttable's \tnote) in a way that lists the table notes on the right of the table, instead of underneath it? I have a table ...
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Adding notes to beamer slide when using "\pause"
I know how to add personal notes to slides thanks to this answer
But, when I use \pause inside the frame, it duplicates the note, like in this example:
%\documentclass[notes]{beamer} % print ...
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