# All Questions

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### Chapter Heading like this book, using memoir class

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### Mixing Icelandic, German and Ukrainian glyphs in the same PDF

This is more or less a followup to a previous question which I asked with pdflatex in mind and regarding another document class (letter-classic). Right now I am struggling to be able to mix German, ...
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### Typing CO_2 easily

I'm writing my dissertation and that involves typing a lot of $\mathrm{CO_2}$. I'd like to make a macro for it that's a lot easier to type, but if I put \newcommand{\co2}{\mathrm{CO_2}}, for example, ...
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### How to make this curly 'R' (ℛ)?

Which package has a similar looking fancy R or does anyone know how to make one? (Note: the line underneath the R is just the notebook paper... this is from a scanned set of notes).
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### TexMaker (and TexShop) not working after installation of El Capitan [duplicate]

After having updated to Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11), I'm no more able to compile using either TexMaker or TexShop. This is the message I get from TexShop "/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not exist. TeXShop ...
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### I can't use PDFlatex using apple mac! [closed]

I have recently joined the mac club and I am having trouble using pdflatex. I have installed MacTex which should have everything included but when trying to run typeset I receive the error '/usr/...
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### After El Capitan update, TeX doesn't compile [duplicate]

I get this error when clicking "typeset" on TeXShop: "/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not exist. TeXShop is a front end for TeX, but you also need a TeX distribution. Perhaps such a distribution was not ...
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### Using TexShop, upgraded to OS X El Capitan, and the fix isn't working

I am having issues compiling in TeXShop since upgrading to El Capitan. I have searched extensively for a fix, but none of the recommended settings are fixing my problem. Here is a screenshot of my ...
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### How do I make the page break occur in the following document, with \minipage and \tcolorbox

\documentclass[11pt]{book} \usepackage[top=1cm, bottom=1cm, lmargin=3cm, rmargin=1cm]{geometry} \usepackage[english,spanish]{babel} \usepackage[...
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### Passing an argument in a different way in a self-made environment

I want to pass an argument to a self-made tabular environment in the following format: \begin{customTabular}{|c|c|}{'@'} ...such that the second argument (here '@', WITHIN PARANTHESIS) is treated as ...
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### Using \texttt in an author block renders in italics

I have a document that has many uses of {/tt some text}, and I learned recently from reading this link: https://texfaq.org/FAQ-2letterfontcmd that apparently {\tt ...} is deprecated in favor of \...
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### Use package euler for only the integral symbol

is there a way to use only the symbol from the integral of the package "euler" without using the whole package? Thanks
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### glossaries: how to typeset the list of page numbers in \textsmaller and reduce the vertical gap

I use glossaries to typeset the list of symbols in a book I edit. Since the book is large, the list of page numbers for each entry is long, making the whole glossary occupy too much space. I wish to ...
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### Change width, height of Notepad

This code for Notepad in post - \documentclass{beamer} or standalone: poster-layout: background and boxes now i want to change to \documentclass{article} and can resize dimension of box (width, ...
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### How to create a citation in the bibliography corresponding to every footnote?

I'm pretty new to this whole thing, so forgive if this is a stupid question. The only thing I've figured out how to do so far is use \footnote to create a footnote which I use as a short version of ...
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### \autoref and subequations

I have an issue with \autoref and the subequations environment. I have added the () around the equation reference of \autoref (as explained here) and it works fine with normal equations. On the other ...
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### Customizing navigation bar in beamer

I would like to customize the navigation bar (I'm using smoothbars) in beamer but I do not know how to proceed. To be more precise, I would like that all sections that appear on the navigation bar to ...
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### How can I check if the current code is inside a certain environment?

I would like to define a command which checks if it is executed inside a certain environment. Like this: \documentclass{article} \newenvironment{myenv}[0]{at start}{ at end} \newcommand{\inner}[0]{%...
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### Change appearance of voltage source in circuitikz

I prefer my voltage sources as in the image below. How can I achieve this in circuitikz? There is an identical question here, however for plain tikz. I tried to implement the solution given their, ...
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### !package inputenc error unicode character ​(u+200a)

im currently writing my bachelors thesis and while inserting some cites and adding something to my bib file the above mentioned error occured. i tried to "fix" it by removing all the steps prior to ...
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### XeLaTeX broken pipe

I am trying to compile my tex files using XeLaTeX, I recently switched to Visual Code from Sublime Text 3. Whenever I compile my code, I get this as a log output: https://del.dog/iyuruxacaz Whenever ...
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### Is there an wasy way to program in Tikz something like the one in the image?

I am able of doing the hexagons and the rectangle, as well as all the nodes and so on. My problem is if there is an easy way to draw the blue arrows of the image, knowing that I have given to ...
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### Typesetting critical footnotes in reledpar package from right to left

I want to typeset two Persian (Arabic) text in parallel facing pages with reledpar and xepersian packages. I have done but critical footnotes is written from left to right. How I can have critical ...
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### Argument of \language@active@arg" has an extra }. <inserted text> \par l.298 …el{chap:references}Literaturverzeichnis}] {}

I keep getting this error when compiling my pdf. I'm using the german language in babel I have no idea which of my references could be causing it. \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[german]{...
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### Reporting LaTeX error at custom location

I'm familiar with \PackageError as a way to cause LaTeX to report a custom error message when the command is run. But I'm wondering, is there a way to cause LaTeX to report an error, with a custom ...
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### How to fix image positioning in IEEEtrans format?

Can anyone help me with the positioning of the image in Project description?
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### How to put the 5x5 grid of images in whole page in a conference paper IEEEtran format

I want something like the above But I get this because the page is split into two sections. Can anyone please help me with this? I tried the following both of which won't put the image in a whole ...
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### LaTeX 2e's verbatim-environment and different input-encodings

The inputenc-package provides means for selecting an input-encoding for subsequent tex-input. If I understand correctly, the verbatim-environment as of the LaTeX 2ε-kernel does change ...
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### Draw sloped and above path text between two edge-connected nodes with “circle connection bar option”

I wish to draw the text "USA" on path_1 using options as it was drawn "USA" in path_2, but draw without using nodes,only using edge in path_1. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \...
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### ConTeXt: Matrix inside startalign/stopalign changes specified column alignment

Example: \starttext \startformula \startalign[n=2,align={right,left}] \NC x \NC = a ~ long ~ sequence ~ of ~ terms \NR \NC y \NC = ok ~ left \NR ...
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### Context images / figures and linenumbering

When typesetting a document with linenumbering, I get heavy problems with images. The linenumbering becomes a mess. What do I do wrong? Here is an MWE: \setuppapersize[A5] \setupexternalfigures[...
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### I want to get a page chapter like the image below

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### LyX enumeration style from numbers to letters

I'd like to use, for this specific instance, letter style enumeration [ like a) b) c) ] . I realize that I can nest one enumerate environment in another and the style will change, but I don't want a ...
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### Express mathematically that a vector has an element greater zero

This might not only be related to latex, but I'm struggling to find a way of expressing a condition which is if a vector contains at least one element that is greater than zero. Currently I have this,...
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### Latex for-and in equation

I need to write equation as shown in the attached image in LaTex. So far, I have written it like shown below but I can't figure out how to separate (or write properly) the "for" and "and" part of the ...
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### Different and unique numbering to list of publications

I use biblatex package for the bibliography list in my thesis, where entries which have many authors provide only the name of the first author. The citations of the references use numbers, and the ...
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### Keep sorting local to groups for symbols in glossaries-extra with bib2gls

Consider this example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[record,style=alttreegroup,nomain,symbols]{glossaries-extra} \begin{filecontents}{symbols.bib} @symbol{alpha, name = {\ensuremath{\alpha}}, ...
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### Draw curve in the plane by using tikz

I would like to represent a curve in the plane (i.e. a continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a 2-dimensional space). The (parametric) equation of the curve is (x,y)=(f(t),g(t)) where t real ...
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### Chemnum commands not recognized

I am writing my Master thesis in Latex (Texstudio). I need to draw a lot of molecules and want to number them throughout the whole thesis. For some strange reason, the package chemnum isn't working. ...
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### Solve search for rotated or tilted words within the Zathura PDF viewer

I do not know how far this topic belongs to the field of TeX's languages and their derivatives, but I leave my question below. \ I want to know why Zathura does not find words that are rotated or ...
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### Listings: Replace the left out code

Is it possible to leave out some code and mark this, instead of including only parts of the code (which is almost the same)? I would like to have an output almost like the second and third listing in ...
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### Generating adjacency matrices from isomorphic graphs

Here are some isomorphic graphs and their corresponding adjacency matrices. I can draw the graphs with tikz. But I'm not sure the best way to draw the matrices. Is it possible to generate one from ...
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### Equation number messes with horizontal alignment

I have an equation with long lines that doesn't align very well: Equations (9) and (10) are identical except for the equation numbers, and the first line of either equation marginally fits into the ...
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### \printglossary is not printing anything in Overleaf

I made this simple code to try to print a glossary, but it doesn't works. The strange things is that the code is just like the one on the Overleaf website: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{...
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### node command while defining a coordinate in TikZ

This question is related to Strange behavior in TikZ \draw command but is not the same. While working with coordinates and nodes in TikZ, I was expecting that: \coordinate (x) at (4,0) node[right] ...
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### Email-style reply layout: Vertical line in left margin, except for reply environment

I have a long document with nested enumerations and sections. It is important that I keep the numbering as it is, but I want to insert replies that are visually different from the original text. I ...
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### Footnote citations (using biblatex) not compiling with TeXShop

I'm currently compiling a large article with footnote citations. Using the biblatex package and compiling in MacTeX, my document allegedly compiles without errors, but the footnotes do not compile ...
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### xelatex: bidi problems with RTL character placing

I'm preparing a text on how bidirectional formatting works and using xelatex for that. For this I need to put RTL characters exactly as they are placed in the text, with disabled bidi processing, and ...