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### Challenging plot in “3D”

I was wondering if there is any chance to plot this in LateX. It either is too challenging or it cannot be done. What tools are available in such case? More clear view:
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### Advanced Introduction to biblatex (coding guidelines for database)

I am looking for an introduction to writing/coding a .bib file for biblatex that covers more than the basics and goes into more depth than the biblatex manual. Basically the content of the “Database ...
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### Alternatives to arc

For reference, I am trying to re-create this diagram from a 1931 paper. After looking here, here, here and here I managed to generate the following: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \...
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### How can I move certain nodes near coords in a bar chart depending on their value? [duplicate]

I want to write the values of bars in a bar chart (ybar) inside each bar, except for when there is not enough space. In that case, I want to write the value above the bar. This is my code: \...
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### Matrices with cloud comments

I’m trying to draw what’s on the picture. I’ve got no problem with drawing the two raw matrices but when it comes to the comments I’m a mess. MWE: \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \...
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### How to select the right index tool for LuaLaTeX in 2019?

There are several tools for indexing: luaindex (one release from 2011, written in Lua, "This is an alpha version!", by Markus Kohm) makeindex (1987-1993, written in C, by L. Lamport, P. Chen et al.) ...
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### Interleaving images in paused lists with Beamer

I have the following frame in my Beamer code: \begin{frame}{Motivation} \begin{itemize} \item<1-> We deal with a lot of cameras. \item<1-> We do lots of experiments. ...
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### Customize BibLaTeX: Automatically generate N.N./ O.V. (no author) and n.d./ o.J. (no date) in bibliography (style alphabetic-verb)

How can I customize BibLaTeX, so that I get the following?: N.N. (or O.V.) in my bibliography when no author is given in my .bib-file n.d. (or o.J.) in my bibliography when no year is given in my ....
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### Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! AND I am Freaking out [on hold]

I am a new user, and I am trying to typeset my PhD thesis using LaTeX. Things were going great until a couple of hours ago when I tryied to typeset my document entering some \gls into the text. I ...
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### Shifted Quote environment

By some weird standards I need to create a quote environment following some strict rules. (as we can see in attached figure) While the document uses 1.5 spacing the quotation should use regular (1) ...
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### Different options to typeset in greek characters (no in math-mode)

How many and what are the Greek fonts used (without using fontspec) with pdflatex + option italian babel? For example, I use greek.ancient typing with the latin charaters. See this MWE: \...
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### Bottom margin is smaller with no reason in IEEEtran.cls

I"m writing a IEEE Transactions paper using the IEEEtran.cls provided by the IEEE website. With no reason the bottom margin is smaller than the one set by IEEE (and one of my reviewers noticed that). ...
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### font size definition problem in math mode

I am defining some abbreviations to use in a very large book in order to get consistency over chapter. I have the following definition that works in regular text: \newcommand{\pr}{\fontsize{9}{11}\...
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### Correct spacing in the alignat*-environment

The following code is given: \begin{alignat*}{3} h(0) & = g_s(0) - g_s(0 - 1) = 0.25 & - 0.00 & = \nicefrac{1}{4}\\ h(1) & = g_s(1) - g_s(1 - 1) = 0.50 & - 0.25 & = ...
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### Unknown graphics extension eps

When I try to compile my tex file with an eps figure, I get the error message "Unknown graphics extension eps". I don't understand why: I write \usepackage{epstopdf} in the preamble so there should be ...
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### foreach loop error in generating diagrams

In my previous question, How to set macro for looping with minipage?, I was suggested using a foreach loop to solve the problem. After testing, the loop works correctly as show in page 1 pdf. However, ...
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### How do use {<setup>} in \tl_set_rescan:Nnn to replace \scantokens?

This question is related to (Changing escape character in \tl_set_rescan:Nnn) and (https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/496258/7832) but is not the same. I've tried to change this: \exp_args:NNx \...
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### Using chemfig, how to make individual bonds longer or no longer visible

I am currently trying to draw the structure of a complex for a project \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{chemfig} \begin{document} \chemfig{ La(-[:0](**5(...
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### Spaces are Missing when writing a math proof

\begin{proof} \begin{align*} \end{align*} \end{proof} Now, inside the align* environment, it will not put spaces between anything. This is what I need help with. Thanks
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### How to avoid large spacing within a document in latex

How to avoid the extra spaces in latex document, here i am facing the spacing from . to Kadokave, i am writing a large number of such texts assuming it may happen in some other lines also. Here is my ...
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### Formatting sub figures which use tikz

I'm writing an exam paper for a friend's tutoring business. One of the questions is going to be on velocity-time graphs. I wanted the 4 graphs to show up in a 2x2 grid but using the code below they ...
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### Why does this prod_ render in Jupyter but as PDF with texlive?

In a Jupyter notebook, I have $$P' = \prod_\nolimits{i=0}^{m-1} \frac{(s-i)}{s}$$ which renders correctly (to me) in Jupyter as When I render the notebook as PDF, I get this on the console: ! ...
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### How to place a copyright note at the bottom of a page after the footnotes?

Similarly to this question I need to put a copyright note on the first page of a paper. I would like to have a similar \mycopyright command to set its text. However, differently from the other ...
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### How can I ensure a figure on an appendix page is constrained to a single page?

I'm currently trying to develop my thesis using LaTeX (specifically through TeXstudio) and am having issues keeping a landscape figure on a single page in my appendix section. \chapter{CHAPTER TITLE} ...
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### Putting out of focus command for LaTeX/fuzzying the resulting pdf

Is there a LaTeX command (and package) by which I can put out of focus the resulting pdf output so that this won't be so terribly sharp when printed with a 1200x1200dpi printer? I.e. how do I enclose ...
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### Doing iterative arithmetic inside of an iterative tabularx

I'm trying to create a matrix table that will iteratively fill in the cells based on inputs that I can change. I originally tried the solution shown here, but I wasn't able to get Latex to properly ...
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### How can I do to correct styles in chapter names with equations?

Edited I want to make the name written in mathematical mode match the style title of the section. The first lines of my code are \documentclass[pdftex,12pt,twoside,a4paper]{report} \usepackage[utf8]...
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### Break lines in last column of a table to fit in slide

I have the following table in my presentation: \documentclass[11pt]{beamer} \setbeamertemplate{headline}{} \AtBeginSection[] { \begin{frame}<beamer> \tableofcontents[currentsection] \...
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### How to write in english in an arabic text?

I am writing the abstract for my master thesis and I used this code in order to get three abstracts with three different languages - french, english, and arabic - on the same page. The code works ...
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### Exporting .pgn notation to TeX file

I've 855 positions in .pgn, which notations I want to export to .tex file. How can I do this? Should I do all of them one by one? In ChessBase, I can export them as .pdf file, but I cannot copy codes ...
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### Remove blank pages

If I try to include something via \includegraphics, I will sometimes get a blank space that goes away if I reduce the scale of the figure. How can I avoid that?
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### Issue with \bibliographystyle{apacite} [duplicate]

I used \bibliographystyle{apacite} and gives me the following reference: Herfindahl, O. (1950). Concentration in the u.s. steel industry [Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University]. ...
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### Texstudio Compilation error. please advise [on hold]

Trying to compile a document but getting the this error: Could not start build &view: PdfLaTex: "C:///Programs/MikTex2.9/miktex/bin/x64/pdflatex.exe" -synctex=1- interaction=nonstopmode "doc ".tex
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### Xelatex not rendering header of CV (frigiri adjusted)

So I've been messing around with the frigiri template and I can't get the header to render half the time. Sometimes, it randomly works and then it doesn't. I wil post the code below. CV.log https://...
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### Placement of bullets between 2 items

I am using a resume template and currently the bullets for the resumeSubheading entry appear somewhere in the middle of the 1st and 3rd entry. Somewhat like this: I want them to be directly before ...
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### How can I choose the left alignment size of a graphics

I'm using \includegraphics to display a pdf on my latex paper but I want it to be positioned at the leftmost position (\begin{flushleft} isn't enough), how can I do that?
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### Latex: Highlight areas in listing using different backgroundcolor

I'd like to highlight areas in a listing using different background colors. It should look something like this: This is a basic example with a background color for the whole listing: \documentclass{...
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### Calculating the partial sum of a expl3 sequence

How can I compute the partial sum of a sequence of integers? This is what I have so far \documentclass{article} \usepackage{calc, forloop, xparse} \ExplSyntaxOn \seq_new:N \g_tmp_seq \seq_new:N \...
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### How can I fully remove title and authors in ACM template, including whitespace

My university recommends to use the acmart document class for theses, while at the same time requiring a standard cover page which includes title and author information. Considering I am also limited ...
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### How would you write this set of linear programming problems as latex? [on hold]

I am not able to make myself understood over at Mathematics Stackexchange in this question. Therefore I ask here the Latex experts how to write these linear programming problems as latex, the ...
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### texstudio installation problem [on hold]

I 'm using Windows 10 Pro and I want to install TeXstudio 2.12.16. I download the exe file from here, I start installation, but a few time later I get this error message: If I select "Ματαίωση" (...
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### Layout of complex table

The MWE \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{colortbl} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{ragged2e} \...
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### Alternative to write \normalfont

When I use \begin{lemma} .. \end{lemma} I should write \normalfont after \begin{lemma} to get normal font. Otherwise, content in lemma would be in italic font. It is not comfortable to write \...
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### Environment for a cheatsheet table

I would like to create a new environment to create small tables to use in a cheatsheet. I want it to look pretty much like this and would like to invoke it with something like: \begin{commandtable}...
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### How to add a point at the end of an abbreviation with biblatex-sbl

In the examples of biblatex-sbl, there are several examples of abbreviations with the command \printbiblist. My problem: how to add a point only at the end of a lexicon article in such list? The ...
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### \underbrace disturbs balanced vertical spacing

How do I avoid the empty spacing above equation elements between \left( and \right)? \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \label{...
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### pgfmath / gnuplot: How to use gnuplot for complicated calculations?

Is there a way to use gnuplot for complicated calculations? For \pgfmathsetmacro{\x}{0.02} \pgfmathsetmacro{\y}{2*11000*(1 - 1.40576 - cos(\x) + sqrt(1.40576^2 - sin(\x)^2))} for example I get '...
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### tikz-qtree and linguex

I am using tikz-qtree and I don't seem to able to use it properly with linguex. % !TEX TS-program = xelatex \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book} \usepackage{linguex} \usepackage{...