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### Is there a command to find coordinates of projection of a point on a line in 3D?

Sometimes, I need determine coordinates of projection of a point on a line in 3D. I know The Syntax of Projection in 2D at 13.5.5 The Syntax of Projection Modifiers at Manual for Version 3.1. This ...
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### How do I remove this line from the bottom of the page?

% $Id: template.tex 11 2007-04-03 22:25:53Z jpeltier$ \documentclass{vgtc} % final (conference style) %\documentclass[review]{vgtc} % review %\documentclass[...
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### Using multiple footnote-citations per page in a column environment

So, I want to use multiple citations on one page in a beamer presentation slide. On this page I have a column environment and thus have to use footnotemark and footcitetext, at least I thought so. ...
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### can you help for diagram for in latex?

\begin{tikzcd} 3 \arrow[dr] & \\ 4 \arrow[r] & 2\arrow[dr] & \\ 1 \end{tikzcd} could you help me? how do yo writting latex?
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### Use all name initials when using biblatex mcite command

I want to use the biblatex package to manage my bibliography. I also want to cite a set of authors as one citation, therefore I use the option and command mcite. I have to use the style alphabetic, ...
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### pdflatex file missing after upgrade

My documents won't compile after upgrading to El Capitan on MacTex, and I saw that this usually means that the upgrade changed the path to pdflatex. However, it looks like the file is no longer on my ...
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### Exam class: TikZ-circled choices not aligned to hanging indent

I am typesetting a competition examination paper, and I wanted to satisfy a very specific requirement for the multiple-choice questions: five choices, each with capital letter choice labels all in ...
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### Different colors for each bib file and custom prefix

I have multiple bib files. I would like to use different text colors for all the references mentioned in different bib files. Secondly, i would like a custom prefix for each bib file. Please let me ...
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### tabularx inside tcolorbox not centered properly

I am trying to put a tabularx inside a tcolorbox but it's not centered properly, it's shifted slightly to the right. Here is the code I am using. I am using figure environment for the caption. Is ...
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### Inaccurate Calculations By pgfplots

In graphing a certain function using pgfplots (link here) I noticed a distortion in the curve that at first I assumed must have been a point of inflexion - but on investigating the maths, found that ...
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### Hyperlinks, theorems, enumerate, and autoref

Hyperlinks to theorem-like environments that begin with a nested itemize or enumerate are often broken (see for example http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/187647). Here is a MWE: \documentclass{amsart} \...
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### How to generate a xy diagram with multiple grouped data sets?

Based on the answer of Stefan Pinnow in 'How to group several charts into one chart?', I tried to generate a diagram with multiple grouped data. Therefore, I modified the diagram but I have some ...
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### org-mode export to pdf ignores #+ATTR_LATEX

I am using org-mode version 9.1.9. I have a table which is pretty big. When I export the File to PDF i can see only half of the table. I tried to use the following command but nothing changes #+...
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### Properly installing circuit_macros on a Windows PC

I am using WINDOWS 8.1, am a REAL BEGINNER with circuit_macros, a tool for creating circuit diagrams using M4 macros written by Dwight Aplevich. I realized that the support for Windows is very ...
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### How to index each tcolorbox box by a number/total fraction?

To create a course summary, I created a tcolorbox that I call for each new page. There is therefore only 1 box per summary page. This summary is indexed by 1/2 (first page on a total of 2) 2/2 (...
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### How to group several charts into one chart?

I have several charts that I want to represent via Bar Charts. Initially I thought about grouping charts together (as shown in pic A) but since I will have several different charts and to save space I ...
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### Grid width not textwidth when using fillwithgrid (exam package)

When inserting space for answers by \fillwithdottedlines the resulting lines have the same width as textwidth. When using \fillwithgrid the resulting grid is smaller on both sides: \documentclass[...
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### Display table nicely and better code

I have this code for a table... \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[margin=20mm]{geometry} \usepackage{rotating} \usepackage{float} \newcommand*\rot[1]{\rotatebox{90}{#1}} \usepackage{...
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### Help with MetaPost and Metaobj with latex

Kind help with two examples to do metapost and metaobj in latex running from Texicenter. what packages to include and program two examples I read through book not able to understand. First input ...
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### Is there a program for managing glossary tags?

This question led to a new application: bib2gls I use the "glossaries" package a lot, and it is super helpful in complex writing for sorting lots of things out. However, as my "glossary.tex" file ...
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### How to limit amount of numbers after comma in metapost?

I would like to limit floating point numbers inside a label: beginfig(1) for i=1 upto 5: label.bot(textext("$" & (decimal (-0.8*i)) & "$"), (-0.8*i, -0.2)); endfig; end; Currently ...
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### How to shorten Gantt chart?

I am doing a Gantt chart using the pgfgantt package for a graphical overview of the required steps for a thesis: Here is the code I used, which I compiled with pdfLaTeX: Will take some time to ...
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### CoNteXt XML: How do I typeset blank lines, leading spaces

I have the following example, where one <Line> is blank and one has leading spaces. CoNteXt is ignoring the blank line and trimming the leading spaces. How do I turn this off? \startbuffer[demo]...
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### Drop caps in a Royal Initialen font

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### How to plot from a csv file such that one column is the data and the other is errorbar?

How to draw the plot and its error bar from a csv file, when a column is the data and the column after it, is the error bar. Look at the following example. This is an answer from Torbjørn T. to this ...
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### TeXworks script for inserting inline math mode

I've been trying to set up a TeXworks script that would add the in-line math mode symbol '$' around a selection. E.g., if one selected '\omega' and executed the script, the result would be '$\omega\$'. ...
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### TikZ path with rounded corners and decorations.markings not working as expected (pos=0.0 at wrong location)

I want to put small round markings at fixed distances on a six-pointed star. There are two problems though: pos=0.0 is not at the expected location, but slightly shifted possibly due to the rounded ...
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### Make table page size

I am new to latex and cannot solve to fit this table to page size even though I looked up the problem in the forum. Any help would be very much appreciated. \documentclass[11pt]{article} \...
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### Longtable and tikz

I used a preamble for many months where tikz and longtable lived together without problems. From a few days, I think after last update, I have the problem that I have reproduced with the MWE I send. ...
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### prevent blank area caused by wrapfigure in multicol environment

I'm using wrapfigure inside a multicol environment to wrap my text around a tikz graph. This however creates an unwanted blank area in the second column (after \columbreak). How can I prevent this? ...
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I have this code which is the beginning part of a big table. \begin{table}[H] \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{XXXXXXXXXXXX} \hline \multicolumn{1}{|X|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{X|}{Shaft Diameter}...
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### Title overlapping page when using pdfpages

I'm trying to include a printed Google forms form as a part of an appendix using the following commands: \documentclass{report} \usepackage{pdfpages} \begin{document} \chapter{Chapter 1} Some text ...
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### Wrapfigure displayed at wrong place after some page breaks

I have troubles with displaying right-aligned portraits wrapped by text. These images shall be displayed at the begin of (some) subsections. Displaying itself was also full of bugs, but in older ...
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### Reverse direction of writing automatically with RTL script

A new interesting feature with latest release of babel a lua algorithm which detect the beginning and the end of Arabic sentences and revers direction of writing without adding explicit markup (\...
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### Repeat same label of the table from previous frame

I am working on a presentation and would like to reuse the same table with the same label from the previous frame. I tried a lot of things, but did not have success. Attached u can find the frames and ...
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### Defining adaptive width of columns in a table

Is there a neat way to define all column widths in a table as the same value and adapted to the page size? For example I would like the following 32 columns to have all equal width of 1/32 of the ...
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### Legend customisation in groupplot

I have a groupplot in which each plot shows only part of the data--the first shows one out of five datasets while the second shows the remaining four. For space and aesthetic reasons, however, I want ...
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### Macros \dv and \pdv eat the subsequent parenthesis argument

The physics package has the macros \dv and \pdv which are great but I have a small problem with them. If an argument with parenthesis included right after them they eat the whole argument. If there ...
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### LYX crash - SIGFPE signal caught

I'm using LYX 2.3 version on Win10. When I try to save my document, I get an error popup: "LYX crashed! SIGFPE signal caught! Bye". What can I do to fix this? Thanks
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### Have a big integral in the environment \begin{cases} \end{cases}

When I write $$\begin{cases} f(x)-\int_C f& x\in C\\ 0 & otherwise \end{cases}$$ I have a small integral as in the picture below. Is there a way to have a big integral?
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### Cubes drawing code modification

The following code from this example (by Jang Soo Kim) has 2 faults, I could not figure out how to overcome them. Firsty, the value 0 equals to value 2; i.e. value 0 draws 2 cubes. Secondly, it does ...
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### New to LaTeX and need help with table

I'm new to LaTeX im trying to convert a table I created with LaTeX. However, I'm finding it confusing any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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### Tikz | How to change line color of histogram

I am trying to follow this answer for drawing a historgram. I was able to change the fill color of the histogram but I was not able to change the line color of the bars. Question: What do I have to ...
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### Is there a flat (projected) version of \addplot3[surf]?

This relates to problem 5.7 from "Riley, Hobson and Bence - Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering". I would like to have a 2D projected (looking down from z) version of the surface shown, ...
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I am writing my PhD in Polish. I use pdf_tex files for inserting images. This is the file which is working fine \documentclass[oneside, 12pt]{book} \usepackage[top=2.5cm, bottom=2.5cm, left=2.5cm, ...
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### Increase space between lines in a conversation

I'm sure this has been asked before, but couldn't see an answer which I could use. I am using the \quote package to relay a conversation. How can I increase the spacing between lines in the ...
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### Increment the section number with 1, not 0.1 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Section numbering I'm happy with the logical layout of my document, but the section numbering is bugging me. I'd like the first section (the introduction) to be 1, not 1.1. ...
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### What is the difference between \text, \textt and \texttt?

LaTeX has a number of different commands which begin as \text and then end in a differing number of letter ts. What do each of the following commands do? \text \textt \texttt