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### New command with cases / conditionals / 'if… then's

I defined a command to insert figures easier and according to some college formatting. It is working just fine, but I am having a problem trying to add a conditional statement. The command is this. %\...
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### Capital Greek \mathtt not showing in arxiv

I need to write something like \mathtt{\Pi}, which renders nicely on my mac but both on arxiv and on coworkers' laptops does not work. How can i typeset \mathtt{\Pi} in any latex document? Bonus ...
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### Negative amplitude signals on tikz-timing (Return To Zero)

I'm trying to do RZ with tikz-timing, like in the following picture. For that I tried using the high impedance timing character Z, like in this MWE : \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz-timing}...
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### How can I make my LaTeX text look like Knuth's CWEB text?

I think this font is cmr, but what about the spacing?
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### figure environment doesn't work in poster latex

I am creating a poster and for some reason, this doesn't work: \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.6]{Fig/pic.pdf}\\ \caption{BLAHBALH} \end{figure} It doesn't produce any ...
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### Modernized Computer Modern

What about the mysterious Modernized Computer Modern font (mmo) designed by Alan Hoenig? Is it still downloadble? Has it been used somewhere, or withdrawn at all?
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### Biblatex supress page prefix S. while using Citavi Publication Wizard

I am using the authoryear-icomp style and I am trying to suppress the page prefix S. at \autocites and replace them with a colon. Yet, I am getting Dummy (Heinrich 2013: S. 197) with this MWE: \...
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### Listings - Hide range labels and suffix/prefix from code

I'm using listings to generate some code boxes, and am taking excerpts using range labels with suffixes and prefixes. I'm able to hide the begging tag from the full code by escaping to LaTeX and using ...
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### Writing juridical documents with Latex

I would like to start building some juridical documents with LaTeX but the ecosystem is too big and I don't know where to start from! If someone could enlighten me, I would like to build documents ...
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### How to include SVG diagrams in LaTeX?

I'm making all my diagrams in SVG format using Inkscape and then I export them to some other format (e.g. PDF, EPS or PNG). I wrote a short script that does this for me automatically, but I'd like to ...
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### How can I write the following reactions and label them?

I would like to write those following reactions and label them like equation mode. How can I do that?
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### ! Missing } inserted error in equation/split

I have the following equation. \begin{split} E_\textrm{el}&=\sum_{i}^{\textrm{occ.}}n_i\bra{\psi_i}H\ket{\psi_i}+\frac{1}{2}\sum_{\textrm{A,B}}^{}\sum_{l\textrm{(A)}}^{}\sum_{l'\...
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### Blocks in Beamer

I want to put boxed text/block in Beamer and my LaTeX source is \documentclass[pdf]{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{block}{Observation 1} Simmons Hall is composed of metal and concrete. ...
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### Define a command differently in inline vs display mode

I would like to have a command \catlim which behaves differently in inline vs in display mode. Namely, in inline mode, it should be equivalent to \lim and in display mode, it should be equivalent to \...
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### How can Ι align the items in enumerate environment?

I use the enumerate environment and I wanted some items to be in the same line with horizontal numbering. I don't want use the multicol or tasks packages and so I found the following code: \...
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### Missing font 'zplsups-Regular-t1' after Catalina update on macOS

I seem to be missing some fonts since the Catalina update. Minimal failing example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{newpxtext} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} Error at footnote number ...
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### How to redefine a varioref macro?

I want the final line of this example's output \documentclass{article} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{varioref} \begin{document} \label{text1start}\blindtext[5]\label{text1stop} \label{...
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### How to represent the “Triangle of Power” in LaTeX?

So, I've just seen a video about a method of notation called "Triangle of Power", which simplifies things when it comes down to exponents, logarithms, etc. It was originally introduced in this post on ...
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### How to change the colormap in quiver?

I have made this quiver plot with pgfplots: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat = newest} \usepgfplotslibrary{colormaps} \begin{document} \def\...
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### Easily remove page numbers for blank pages (book class) [duplicate]

Edit: it was suggested that there is a case of duplication. There is no case of a duplicate, because this question specifically concerns only removing page numbers on supposedly empty pages, while the ...
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### Springer Bibliographystyle: References in paper text too long and without brackets

I have to write a paper with Springer Bibliographystyle. I do \cite{khan2013} and receive this in the text: Khan, Muhammad Naeem Ahmed and Khalid, Muhammad and ul Haq, Sami (2013), That is ...
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### BibTeX entry including “Foreward by”?

What is the best practice for including "Foreward by" (or its equivalent) for @BOOK entries in BibTeX? The problem with NOTE = is that it appears at the end of the typeset entry whereas I'd like it ...
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### too much space between two environment create with tcolorbox

i want write a maple book, see this example code in that book: ‎\documentclass{article}‎ ‎\usepackage{tcolorbox,fancyvrb}‎ ‎\tcbuselibrary{skins,breakable}‎‎ ‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎%--------------------------------...
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### Square brackets around \footcite{} reference [duplicate]

How can I put the reference of \footcite{} between square brackets? I need it to look like a Wikipedia note. For example, the code The term foobar is used as metasyntactic variable.\foocite{wp:foo} ...
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### memoir: headers for short and detailed tables of contents

The following memoir documentclass source produces two tables of contents -- a short one and a detailed one. (The difference is that only the latter includes subsections.) Question: How do I get the ...
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### modifying default tabular behaviour

I basically do all my tables the same way: Is it possible to make tabular automate the \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule and \hdashlines? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{booktabs,array,arydshln} \...
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### Files not found because of \endlinechar (space) character

A recent MikTeX update broke some code that I'm using. I have many files filled with filenames, the code reads these filenames, and then does some stuff with the contents of the corresponding file. ...
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### What's next?—Moving away from labbook as my laboratory notebook

I learned today that using labbook is probably not a good idea because it is problematic and has not been maintained in many years. This makes me sad because I've been using it for 6+ years. I'd ...
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### Custom align environment which auto breaks line before = and aligns at =

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{mathtools} \DeclareMathOperator{\lcm}{lcm} \begin{document} \begin{align*} \lcm(13, 7) &= (13 \cdot 7):\gcd(13, 7) \\ &= (13 \cdot 7):1 \\...
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### How to split a sheet of exercises in different files, one file containing just one exercise?

I have a big file having the following structure : \begin{exo} ... \end{exo} \begin{exo} ... \end{exo} My aim is to create different files containing just one exercice. How can I do this ? Does ...
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### The best LaTeX distribution in 2019 for macOS?

Is MacTeX the best all-arounder LaTeX distribution at the moment or is it better to use MiKTeX, TexLive or something else that I don't even know. I'm looking mostly for an easy to install/uninstall ...
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### Chemical standard state symbol with achemso article

I am completely new to LaTeX, but I know how to use the chemstyles package to generate the standard state plimsoll in a document that I am working on for, say, my students, etc. However, for ...
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### Citation with DOI that has underscore breaks functionality in BibDesk

One functionality of BibDesk that is nice is the ability to click on a link at the end of the Doi entry field, which will open up the link http://dx.doi.org/DOI-HERE in a browser. One problem I've ...
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### Making a table for layout and flow

I have some troubles with starting on a table for flow and layout. I would like to make it like this picture. Does anybody have a good idea? I have tried nothing and I am already out of ideas. Kind ...
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### Binomial queue in forest?

I was hoping to get some help drawing a binomial queue with the forest package. All I can find are references to binomial trees, but I am looking to replicate this: I tried using phantom to make ...
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### Italic font in custom command in LaTeX

I have the following custom command: \newcommand{\resumeSubheadingExperience}[6]{ \vspace{-1pt}\item \begin{tabular*}{0.97\textwidth}[t]{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r} \textbf{#1} & \...
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### Why is tikz boxes started on different y-levels?

I've this code that suppose to draw a schedule/schema/timetable \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[top=5mm, bottom=5mm, left=5mm, right=5mm]{geometry} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \...
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### “Paragraph ended before \Gin@iii was complete” while inserting image with \includegraphics

I'm trying to insert a figure into my LaTeX file using the following syntax: \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics [width=3in]{fig1.png} \caption{Calculation of shortest path betweenness} ...
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### How to insert an image and not get error message when resizing [duplicate]

Hi I am trying to insert an image in a document and have the width of the image be the same as the width of the text. I have included the following and cannot seem to get the display command to work....
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### Bibliography after appendix

My main LaTeX file has the following structure: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book} \usepackage{lscape} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage[english]{...
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### Caption package with beamer changing tables to figures

I have a weird problem Whenever I use the caption package with beamer class on Mac OS (Windows works fine), Tables labels are changed to Figures (only started happening recently) .. I wonder what ...
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### ! File ended while scanning use of \caption@xdblarg. error

I wanted to compile my latex file and got an ! File ended while scanning use of \caption@xdblarg error without changing anything obviously in the code. I tried to look for missing brackets but couldn'...
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### Typesetting a Gantt chart

so I'd like to typeset a Gantt chart like the one pictured below. It shoud go: Year>Month>Day of month, preferably with the orientation in the second image: What I get: My code: \documentclass{...
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### Change chapter numbering in body and ToC

To change the numbering of chapters I have included this in the preamble: \renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Alph{chapter}} \titleclass{\chapter}{straight} \titleformat{\chapter}[block]% {\bfseries\...
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### Hand position for typing in Latex [on hold]

As most of the users here, I spend a considerably amount of my daily time typing in LaTeX. I think that the typing position of the hands, at least for the US layout, should be different from the one ...
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### Getting a proper reference number with \ref while using custom counter and environment

I am trying to make a reference-able environment with its own counter, that I later refer to in text. I want the counter of my environment to have the style Chapter.Number . I have been able to make ...
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### Anchoring arrows

The arrow from the circle around the checkmark to the 1 starts within the circle, not its border, and its arrowhead pierces the border of the target circle. I would like, instead, for the arrow to ...
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### Whitespace characters

I am defining a command that uses an subscript somewhere. I want the subscript to dissappear when I leave its corresponding command-input open, but then LaTeX will trow an error since no character was ...
I have the following code: \begin{minipage}[c]{0.35\linewidth} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline $X_{1}$ & Frecuencia & $P(X_{1})$ \\ \hline 10 & 37 & 0.4157 \\ \hline ...