# All Questions

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### Removing vertical grid lines from graph

I am trying to remove the highlighted vertical grid lines from my graph. How would I achieve this? The following is the code I have written: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage[margin=0.5in]{...
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### tikz/fit around node with label above // refer to node.label [duplicate]

I want tikz to draw an automatic fitting outer node around an inner node combined with its above-label, i. e. the size of the outer node should be computed by tikz basing on the inner-node-size and ...
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### How to remove one of the sides and show the inside of a cuboid

I would like to remove the top side of the following cuboid, \documentclass[border=3mm,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \newif\ifcuboidshade \newif\ifcuboidemphedge \tikzset{ cuboid/.is family, ...
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### biblatex causing random letters appearing outside of my text environment

I'm quite confused, when I first add a reference to my main document everything occurs normally, however after 1 or 2 additional 'Build & View' random letters and numbers begin to appear above my ...
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### Installing Texlive and Texmaker

I'm trying to install Texlive and Texmaker. So I ran this command for installing Texlive: ./install-tl After that, the installation guide advises adding PATH, MANPATH and INFOPATH: PATH=/usr/local/...
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### Replacing a character with other character in all the document, on specific conditions

In Hebrew, there is a special punctuation mark, called Gershayim, that's used to indicate an acronym. It's written before the last character. It looks very similar to quotation mark, and since it ...
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### IEEE Template. \cline error in table. Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr

I had this table working with an IEEETemplate but now when I try to build it with an IET Template I get the error that you can see on the title .. could anybody help me? Thank very much for your time....
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### Dual y-axis plot

Want to do a dual axis plot and I am stuck with some details - maybe someone can point me in the right direction? The main problem is that both bar plots overlap! \documentclass[border=5mm]{...
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### PGFPlot vector field has uneven display

I have a simple 2D vector, however the points are aligned such that the vectors at the top pointing upwards are not include in the plot. I was wondering if there's a way to make the vector field more ...
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### Faulty chapter header with latest Tex4ebook running on Texlive 2018

This is a followup of my question here and uses the same MWE and the config file provided by michal.h21. MWE: \documentclass[ebook,12pt,oneside,openany]{memoir} \usepackage{lipsum} \...
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### Restore TikZ settings after {pgfonlayer}

This is kind of a follow up question of Bug in TikZ? Line width on layers. When using a {pgfonlayer} two problem occure: a) inside of the background scope settings from e.g. every picture are missing....
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### How modifying the width of xticks line in a barplot?

I have the following plot The code for obtaining it is \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots,pgfplotstable} \pgfplotsset{compat=1....
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### Numbering List of Appendices

I use the following for creating my own list of appendices (which comes as the e.g. table of figures after the toc): \newcommand{\listappendicesname}{Anhangverzeichnis} \newlistof[section]{appendices}...
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### Glossaries add figure (image) after every entry [duplicate]

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### Creating a new minted style

I want to create a new minted style for my own use. After searching for a while, I found the folder containing all minted style I have: C:\Users\<my name>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-...
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### Hyperref in LoF do badbox (overfull \hbox)

I write theses and when I compile the file, I get "Overfull \hbox (1.74275pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 21--21". I think it is the problem with hypperref as you can see in the picture bellow. (...
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### Drawing Shapes on Graphs

I am trying to draw a regular pentagon on a graph (I need to add more stuff to it, so having the axis is desirable), but when I try to draw the two together they do not line up. Here is my code: \...
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### Bullet corner frame using tcolorbox

Here I am using tcolorbox package, I want to set the bullet/dot need to expand based upon the box spanning as per requirement. Here I attached the screen shot and highlight the area in red color which ...
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### What is this p-like symbol [duplicate]

I have looked it up on http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html but I was not able to figure out what this "p-like" symbol is.
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### Move text to the very end of the Chapter

I am writing my thesis in Chapter form. Each chapter has sections. I want to move my final section titled 'discussion' at the very end of the chapter. However, it is coming either before or between ...
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### Undesired extra space on the left

Hello I am using MikTex in TexStudios and I have this document: \documentclass[paper=letter,fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl} % KOMA-article class \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \...
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### How to create a string comparison with xparse's \NewDocumentCommand?

My MWE was created with the help of these two Q&As: 1 and 2. MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse} \usepackage{xstring} \usepackage{pdftexcmds} % Command declaring a global ...
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### Big Parenthesis in Latex

So you know how this code: $(\frac{1}{2})$ produces small parenthesis. How would I get bigger parenthesis?
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When I use \hypersetup to change the link colors for the outline of my presentation, it also changes the colors of the section and subsection titles in the header. I have some code that I believe ...
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### Add same text at bottom of several pages

I'm working on my thesis document, and the university requires the following disclaimer be at the bottom of all pages of the Acknowledgments section. Acknowledgements reflect the view of the author ...
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### How to fix scrlayer-scrpage / microtype kerning issue?

I am experiencing a weird interaction between scrlayer-scrpage package from Koma Script and a custom microtype setting. I am using scrartcl class together with Minion Pro font and scrlayer-scrpage. I ...
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### Drawing a thick line through rows of a table to separate first column from second column

I have code for a table to be drawn. It is almost what I want. I am requesting three modifications to be made to it. I would like vertical lines, forming the left and right edges of the table, to be ...
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### A symbol of triangle with “infinite” length

I want to know if there is a way to create a symbol of triangle like $\Delta$ (which I use to mean a bounded triangle) but each edge goes slightly father across the vertex (rather than stop at the ...
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### Clever setup of \multiframe with diverse conditions within animate package

I'm trying to setup an animated counter with PSTricks predefined digits. Got it to work up to 18 frames. However when increasing the number of frames, I can't handle it clever enough. No problem for ...
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### Weird formatting in a smaller created empty set symbol

A while back I created my own sort of emptyset symbol because the "not equal" slash didn't line up and it annoyed me. So I defined my own emptyset via \DeclareMathOperator{\vempty}{{\centernot{\Circle}...
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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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### Help to solve the issue with re-install MiKTeX 2.9

For reasons unknown to me I had to uninstall old MikTeX due to console problems after an update six days ago and with the recent installation of MiKTeX 2.9.6930 I have actually problems with ...
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### Problem with theorems numeration

Good morning members of the community. I am preparing a document and the same problem of enumeration in the theorems always arises. In this case I do not know how to do so that the first proposition ...
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### Broken column wrap with update to newest version of TexLive

I recently updated to the newest version of TexLive for my Mac. The first stumbling was that I had to \input{bidi.tex} instead of loading it. And things were going well. But then, when I wrote my ...
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### How to use xparse's NewDocumentCommand for global definition?

This is re: egreg's solution to this question. Issue: I would like the \NameOne command to replicate the \NameTwo command where it outputs only when being called on like so: \NameOne. When an ...
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### Box / Frame / Border around quote

I have been using minted to tcolorbox and etoolbox to draw a border around source code blocks (Box around minted environment). Now I'd like to do the same for quote blocks, but I am not sure how to ...
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### be Using Biber with Texmaker

I have been trying to get my bibliography to work in Texmaker for days, searching the internet, etc. and am having no luck. I'm hoping you can help me out. Here is my test code: \documentclass{...
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### Advanced Fraction with several Level

I would like to ask, how could I use LaTex to create following tools refer to the uploaded graph. Do you have some idea to mock such tool in following graph? Some descriptions: The Tool is for ...
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### Todo note floats into the wrong margin with page break and TeX capacity exceeded

While writing a seperate document I noticed that the todo note was printing in the wrong margin. Initially I thought this was because of a rogue use of \reversemarginpar, but after a bit of playing ...
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### Perfect alignment, LuaTex and sidebearings. Part II

I want to achieve a perfect alignment of the right (and/or left) margins of all the lines of paragraph (to the ink), among the lines themselves and eventually with other geometric elements of a page. ...
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### imshow like diplay of image with colormap

I would like to show an originally gray scale image with a specific colormap like matlabs/matplotlibs imshow. Original: % python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.image as mpimg ...
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### TeX Live's texlive.profile isn't generated automatically

Platform: macOS Mojave 10.14.2 TeX Live version: 2018 install-tl revision: 49210 I'm installing TeX Live to macOS like: $# Download an installer$ curl -O http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/CTAN/systems/...
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### Change the language text variables in the optidef package

How can I change the language of the optidef package. Specifically I would like to redefine the "minimize" and "subject to" text variables: \documentclass{report} \usepackage{amsmath, optidef} \...
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### Convert TeX display math style ($$MATH$$) to LaTeX (\begin{equation*} MATH \end{equation*})

I'm trying to write a script (in emacs lisp) to convert TeX display math style like, e.g., $$x + y = z$$ into the LaTeX \begin{equation*} x + y = z \end{equation*} To get my purpose I imagined ...
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### Best (as of 2019) way to install LaTeX

I would like to encourage my students to use LaTeX for their homework. I can make a template for them to learn basic math symbols. The most difficult thing is recommending a way to install LaTeX. I ...
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### glqq and grqq cause an error with the SCfigure environment

I am trying to use quotation marks in the caption of a SCfigure (side caption figure). This is the code I'm using: \documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl} \usepackage[outercaption]{sidecap} \begin{document} \...
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### align optimization problem with multiple conditions

I am using the following environment to align optimization problem statements from Typesetting an optimisation problem \documentclass{report} \usepackage{amsmath} \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\lVert#1\...
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### Conditionally print VC macros

How might I go about conditionally printing a macro? I know this exists for graphics (\includegraphics) and there's ifdraft for the rest. For example, using fancyhdr I have the following (simplified) ...