Questions tagged [text-manipulation]
about using TeX's programming capabilities to modify input text.
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Base64 encoding in LaTeX?
How can we encode some text/string using Base64 encoding in LaTeX? or any alternative solution?
For example, the Base64 encoding of string Latex is bGF0ZXg=.
Here's a representation of what I want to ...
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Enumerate environment inside scalebox
I want to reduce the text below to a scale 0.5:
\lipsum[1-1]
\begin{enumerate}
\item \lipsum[1-2]
\item \lipsum[2]
\end{enumerate}
However, When I use
\scalebox{0.5}{
\lipsum[1-1]
\begin{...
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Equation with cases and numbering and including text
I am trying to create cases in the equation with numbering to individual cases and trying to push the text which is in \mbox{...} to the right. But I wasn't able to succeed. I request your kind help ...
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How to apply a linebreak inside a sentence
I want to write down a claim (i.e. a sentence), which consists of three important elements.
The first part (the left hand side of the claim) is supposed to be a very short statement, which I would ...
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How do I create a text box that will have a fixed size and could be filled with text after the pdf is compiled?
I'm sure this has been answered already but I couldn't find it.
Because I have no idea how it's called I don't know what tag to use, this may have nothing to do with text manipulation.
I want to make ...
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Adding text under words (to count words) and automatically
In order to count easily words in a text, i'd like to display for each word its "number",
Context : I'm teaching my students to copy a text and to evaluate them I count how many words they ...
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Adding text moves part of the previous page text to new one
I have an itemize which perfectly fits to the end of the page. However when I add more text after it, last bullet of itemize is moved to the next page with the new text. Is there a way how to prevent ...
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Normal Text font under math mode
I want to write symbols in the math mode in the normal font as the text. A picture for the same is attached. The code for the math mode is as follows.
'''$14,\mu m {\times} 95 , {\mu} m$'''
I want the ...
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How to create a fake ToC on a title page?
I wrote a large book of 2000 pages, so I have to split it into 4 or 5 volumes of about 500 pages (250 paper sheets), for printing and paper binding issues. Each volume would have its own front title ...
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alternating text position in latex
I am writing my PhD thesis and I want to give the following format to my document (see image).
I appreciate any guidance provided.
I have not found any help in the standard "text positioning ...
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Float text around a figure
I need some help from anyone of you who knows how to code in LaTex. I want to include an image in the left side of the paper and in the right remaining part I want to write some text.
I actually ...
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How to use displaystyle for all maths expressions in text? [duplicate]
I would like to display all inline maths expressions in displaystyle, but without typing \displaystyle{...} everytime I insert a math expression into a block of text. How can we do that at the ...
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Blotting Out the Curve Used to Bend Text in a Tikzpicture
This is a follow-up to a question I posted yesterday:
How to Bend Words to Conform to the Arching Pages of an Open Book Image
After receiving no answer to the above question, I have since been able to ...
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Simple implementation of the abs function by getting rid of or by consuming the “-”?
I wish to build a (simple) implementation of abs.
I tried \FPabs but I get a lot of zeros after the decimal point. I could get rid of them with the FP round function, but I don't know the number of ...
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Outline text in plain XeTeX?
I use plain XeTeX. I've been asked to include a shamrock character in a typeset document (which I've found at Unicode 2618), but only in outline. The examples in the excellent PST-Text package (page ...
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text not fitting to column width
I have used a template for a 4 page double column format. It works for all the other pages up to the point shown on the screenshot (end of page 3 to page 4) , and I have no idea what has triggered ...
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How to get a shorter hyphen in text mode?
I'm creating a title page with large fonts, in French, and I really hate the usual hyphen for such a big title. So I'm looking for a shorter hyphen, something elegant and simple. Here's a MWE ...
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How to hide the labels of the formulas in the final output pdf?
I want to hide the labels of the math formulas and equations in the output pdf, what is related command to do that? (see the picture)
The followings are the packages I use in my \documentclass[12pt]{...
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Textboxes on my PDF don't show up when loaded into LaTeX
I have used a PDF reader to add textboxes to a PDF image. When I save the changes, one can open the PDF and see that there are now textboxes on it, but if I try to upload the PDF into an article ...
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Why does \ifx consider \MakeUppercase{1} and \MakeLowercase{1} different?
In this minimal example, an uppercase number is different of the same lowercase number. Why?
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\def\testone{\MakeUppercase{1}}
\def\testtwo{\MakeLowercase{1}}
\...
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If I am only printing text (characters, bullets, indentation), is there an advantage to using LaTeX?
I need to create a PDF with entries from a database (using C# .NET if it matters, but C# is not required). The final document does have to be physically printed, but the printer does not get LaTeX, ...
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Custom text alignment
Is there an option to define custom alignment for text? For example, to make your own \begin{flushright}...\end{flushright}?
In particular, I want to have an alignment (for text) that it is centred ...
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text mining and cross referencing
I want to make an adjacency matrix with citations.
I want to conduct make an index of 130 words and search 130 papers against the 130 words. Manually this is a long process. But I want to automate ...
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Character replacement does not work correctly
I am replacing a character. It works fine if I give that character as input directly. But when that character is extracted from a string, and then fed in to command for the reassignment it does not ...
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Writing text side-by-side [closed]
Can someone please help me figure out how to write two columns of text side by side for just a short region of a page in LaTeX? As a MWE please see the attached pic.
Edit : I just want to write two ...
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separating characters in a string
I want to write a macro that will separate the characters in a given string with some condition.
If I have a string abcdef<ghi>jkl<mn>opqrs I want to access each character as a string for ...
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how to shift text right in a tabular data
This is code in a simple document I am writing abbreviations.
\begin{tabular}{l l}
\textbf{VM} & Virtual Machine\\
\textbf{AWS} & Amazon Web Services\\
\textbf{GCP} &...
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How to change the size of all types of text?
I am fairly new to latex, but when I started writing my document, I noticed that the text was very small (from the normal text I used in paragraphs to the text I used to name different sections).
My ...
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How to write this kind of colour text in LaTeX?
I need to add following text to my latex document. currently I created some image and add it to document.
I need to know some simple way to adding it as text , to my latest project.
An additional ...
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Text running through the line
I am quite not sure how to create something like this: text across a line border on latex.
Edit1:
\begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced,title=My title,
attach boxed title to top center={yshift*=-3mm},
boxed ...
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Text manipulation with xstring failing: \@xs@StrRemoveBraces@@
Consider the following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\mycommand@firstchar}[1]{%
\StrRemoveBraces{#1}[\FirstChar]%
\StrChar{\FirstChar}{1}[\...
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\reflectbox in \newenvironment
I have the following problem with the \reflectbox{} command used in a \newenvironment{}: It doesn't do anything. Here's my code:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\...
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Wrap text in table
I'm trying to convert my CV (originally assembled in word) into a Latex file, largely as a learning exercise. I just wondered if someone could help me wrap text as in my current version certain pieces ...
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Help drawing as text a number from a formula (For instance [ 1-\thepage)*70+\i ] )
Googling I found that it is common that \lineno does not work properly around displaymath with the ifacconf.cls template.
I am trying to improve a workaround I found for peer review reference. ...
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Two Flowing Frames per Page [closed]
I want to write a document where the history, geography, culture of a certain place is the main text. Together with that, I want to present a timeline of events but, rather than a separated topic or ...
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Alignment inside in-line $$ math environment [duplicate]
I would like to be able to use (equation) alignment inside a simple in-line $...$ environment.
Of course, normally nobody does this, when this is properly done with the standalone equation ...
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How can i have text between brackets in equation with respect to some criterion?
I try to have something close to that
Here is my try,
\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{cccc}
\partial_t C & + \partial_x u C + \partial_x v C = & D_x \partial_{xx} C + D_y \partial_{yy} C + &...
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How can I put text in the left margin using enumerate
I'd like to use\begin{enumerate} to create a list of numbered problems, but I want to place text to left of the numeral, in the margin, like this:
Any suggestions?
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How to add a superscript in text mode
I'm writing about C* algebras and I'm trying to write *-strings efficiently. I managed to define C* like this:
\newcommand{\Cstar}{C\textsuperscript{*}}
While I have to invoke it as \Cstar{} to ...
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A way to use textbf and textit at the same time with one command
Hello I have to make a document where I use a lot \textbf and \textit at the same time, so I tried to create a new command where it use both at the same time, but it gave me an error and I don't know ...
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\rightsquigarrow with the text above and below it [duplicate]
is it possible to write a text above and below the \rightsquigarrow? I am trying \xrightsquigarrow[\text{b}]{\text{a}}, but it is not working.
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How to add multi-line text below a node in a tree in forest
I want to make a tree which has bulleted lists centered below the child nodes, like so:
I've searched on TeX SE and found questions which describe putting labels below nodes, but it doesn't quite ...
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Make blocks of text invisible only if said so
Is there any command which allows me to make some blocks of text invisible only if initially I said so?
I.e., I would like to mark some lines throughout the text that would only appear in the ...
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problem with text formatting \ itemize
I looked for a command to improve the equation item and I met this one.
\usepackage{amsmath}
newcommand{\itemEq}[1]{%
\begingroup%
\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{0pt}%
\...
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Make text fall of a line
As a joke in a songbook I'm editing I want to make a phrase "fall of the line", letter by letter. I do remember a long time ago to have seen something like this in WikiBooks but can't find it again.
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Disable word break
How can I disable word breaks in the whole document? I don't want any of my words broken and hyphenated across 2 lines.
I have tried to use the package:
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
But then my ...
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How to emulate this page style from the comic book Watchmen?
Basically, I want to create a page so that it looks like a "photograph" of a piece of paper (with text) over another piece of paper (also with text).
Is this possible in LaTeX? If yes how? I have no ...
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problems with margins in textual minipages
I'm writing a restaurant menu and i have problems with the left margins of this page, in particular in the paragraph 'Wine'. If I omit \vfill, the code overlaps the two paragraphs but it puts them ...
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Placing a Text over another Text in Beamer
How can I place a text on top of another text in beamer? I want something like this but over text while the original text becomes transparent.
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A Single Command for Combining Text and Math?
I'm trying to add units to some quantities for my physics homework. Here's what I want:
Normal Text
Math Commands Allowed
All Bold
One command to accomplish the above
For example, if I want to write ...
