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### How to increase font size of top menu bar (File Edit Idefix …) in TexStudio

How can I increase font size of top menu bar (the one that shows File Edit Idefix ...) in TexStudio. I cannot use a mouse. I am using a touch screen with a capacitive pen. It is difficult to hit the ...
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### How to recover lost .tex files [closed]

Initial position I recently bought a new computer, and I thought I have backed up all of my LaTeX files and documents from my old computer onto an external hard drive. Upon searching for old LaTeX ...
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### How to make a box with the minimal height and vertical alignment inside the box?

I need to set minimal table (one-row table) height, and valign content inside it. For this prupose i wrap tabular in parbox in tabular i have correct valign, and parbox gives me min height. My ...
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### Is there any way I can define a variable to calculate total value in for loop in LaTeX

I'm creating quotation report and use for loop to list product. But the problem is I've to calculate total value by myself then I tried to create variable and sum every time in loop like this \...
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### Why is scaling text evil?

The TikZ & PGF manual says that It is possible to transform nodes, but, by default, transformations do not apply to nodes. The reason is that you usually do not want your text to be scaled ...
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### TeXnicCenter and svg

I'm wondering why I can't use the package svg with teXnicCenter. I've seen that one must use shell escape to make it functions. I've also downloaded the latest version of inkscape and of ImageMagick. ...
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### Compute image ratio based on the largest picture available in the document

Following this question I asked a few years ago, I'm looking for a way to find the width of the largest picture (in width) in my document. Typically, this requires a for loop and some TeX programming....
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### Why does biblatex produce defcounter lines in .toc?

Questions With biblatex loaded, why does the .toc have the line \defcounter {refsection}{0}\relax immediately preceding each and every ordinary \contentsline line? And how can it be prevented ...
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### How to design multi-row and multi-column tables in latex?

I am trying to design this table, But this contains multi-columns How to go after this: \usepackage{multirow} \begin{table}[] \begin{tabular}{llllll} \hline \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{Type} & \...
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### Can I change words in bibliography to Turkish words?

Abbreviations in bibliography like "n" and "pp" or words like "Volume" and "and" come from English. I'm writing my thesis Turkish and except bibliography, there is not a problem but, like the picture ...
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### Alignment of multiple align-blocks

I try to align multiple blocks of equations in such a way that the same alignment is used for the different blocks. I am currently using align with an array-environment for each line. By specifying ...
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### How to properly cite an interview

I have some interviews in the bibliography, so far I've used @article{gigi2018, title={Interview with Gigi Pilotino}, author={Gigi, Pilotino}, journal={John Smith}, year={2018} } The ...
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### Illegal parameter number in definition of \enit@c after using \setlist*[enumerateoptional]{nosep}

On this question accepted answer How can I stop this useless empty line popping up in the middle of my lists?, it is defined a new enumitem list environment called enumitemoptional. I have been using ...
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### Colored word with listings

I added to the list of keywords by the colorful package listings (python) some functions of scipy.signal library using the otherkeywords control, I added the lti order, this order is put in color but ...
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### Customizing harvard bibliography style apsr

The apsr style is almost what I need to comply to our totally unique Harvard style based University referencing requirements. I need to make the following customizations: For displaying authors the ...
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### hyperref and \renewcommand\appendix

hyperref messes up with \renewcommand\appendix. This even tho \appendix is renewed exactly as it is defined in report.cls (and works with hyperref !) The problem: .toc file 4th entry of \contentsline ...
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### Suppress ORCID author footnote in els-cas-templates document class

I’m using the els-cas-templates LaTeX package (doc). I will be submitting to an Elsevier journal, which allows this official package for submission. I have not touched any of the template files. I am ...
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### Customizing the table of contents to show the word “Chapter” and its number

What can I do if I want LaTeX to give me 'CHAPTER 1: ' etc, instead of just numbers like '1 'etc as it normally do? I want it to write the word 'CHAPTER' in capitals followed by chapter number then ':'...
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### hyperref gives error with ltugboat document class

This simple MWE: % arara: pdflatex \documentclass[final]{ltugboat} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} prova \end{document} gives this error: ! Undefined control sequence. l.4767 \ifdim\...
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### “Undefined control sequence \includegraphics” after TeXstudio update [duplicate]

I know there are a gazillion of threads addressing the error Undefined control sequence \includegraphics but I couldn't find the answer to my problem in any of them. So here it goes. I am trying to ...
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### Transformer in circuitikz

Could you help me with drawing of the transformer (see below)? I haven't enough experience with circuitikz library, and at this point it seems that this block isn't part of circuitikz double dipoles (...
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### Add a horizontal line after last line on each page in longtable

When the long tables in my book reaches the end of a page, the vertical lines with no hline look very unappealing. Can longtable add an hline or maybe a thinner line at each pagebreak?
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### xymatrix figures cause compilation error

I formatted my computer, and installed LYX (latest version 2.3.3). I have a lyx file which won't compile (it compiled before formating my computer) for some reason. I realized that after deleting all ...
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### new commands, spacing and italic fonts

I have used the \def command for several long scientific terms so that I can have an easy shorthand reference and do not have to keep typing them out every time e.g. \carb for $\delta$$^{13}$C (full ...
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### Superscript citations in numeric-comp style

to meet the requirements for our lab reports I need to use a special citation style. It is basically the numeric-comp style from biblatex but the citations shall be superscripts. Everything else is to ...
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### Latex Koma instead of titlesec for section spacing

As suggested by esdd I post this as a new question. Original post: Latex KOMA and titlesec incompatible again. I have some section spacing settings in titlesec, which I would like to "convert" to ...
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### Is there a way to have different behavior for even pages and odd pages

I would like to modify the below template so that it prints out 1 problem per sheet. Example: Problem 1 on pages 1-3, problem 2 on 5-6 and nothing on page 4. Another Example: Problem 1 on Pages 1-2, ...
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### Referencing my own command

I'm trying make my own command for a requirements document. I'm now looking for a way to reference my requirements. This should be possible by using \ref and the later on with the hyerref package. ...
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### pgfplots error: dimension too large

I am trying to generate a LaTeX pgfplot: \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ xmin=.2,xmax=.5, ymin=-.00000000000000001,ymax=.00000000000000001, xlabel=Distance a (nm), ylabel=Force F (mJ/nm) ] \addplot[...
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### \reference in uppercased header (memoir + hyperref)

I would like to reference something in a header, while still having it upper-cased. Is it possible to "protect" the \ref commands? \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \...
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### Error when we are using \DefineBibliographyStrings . How to correct it?

When I am trying to use \DefineBibliographyStrings with this codes, \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{biblatex} \DefineBibliographyStrings{english}{% bibliography = {References}, references = {...
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### How to split the word into 2 row in table?

I am quite new to latex and building a table. I want to split the content into 2 row, so make it more space in a table. From one row: Sig. (2-tailed) into two row: Sig. (2-tailed) \documentclass[...
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### Viewing a separate PDF in Texmaker

I like the functionality where I can type my tex file and compile it and have it show up on the right, but would like if I could switch between viewing my compiled pdf and viewing a separate pdf (in ...
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### Sidecaption layout question using sidelegend memoir

Linked to this previous post, i make some tests to have more elegant sidecaption using memoir class. I try to reproduce this layout, with two type of caption style : a normal centered caption with ...
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### description list with long label and wrapping run into the second label, and problem with \tcbline in tcolorbox package

This problem is related to this one Since long enumerate list is not acceptable in table, we have to live with list. Ulrike Fischer provide a frame work to attack this problem with package tcolorbox. ...
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### Mathtime and (unwanted) bold version of \mathcal

I have mathtime (not the new fancy MTPro2, but rather, the version from the early 1990's). I learned this summer how to use \DeclareMathVersion so that I could have some chapters in my document that ...
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### Form: Tabular arrangement of 'TextField's and digsigfield

I use digsig.sty from Martin Lottermoser http://home.htp-tel.de/lottermose2/tex/dist/digsig.sty How can I arrange two 'TextField's and one digsigfield in this shape, as seamlessly as possible? MWE: ...
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### About installing LyX!

I am trying to install LyX, which is a typewriter program for LaTeX, but I'm having trouble doing it. Really I tried tons of way to do this, but the error message is the same: LyX: No textclass is ...
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### How to get last box in vertical mode?

I'm trying to get the contents of a paragraph with \showbox via \vadjust, by overloading \par. I came up with this: \showboxdepth\maxdimen \showboxbreadth\maxdimen \let\oldvadjust\vadjust \def\...
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### How to fix the column width of my table? [duplicate]

Sorry I have deleted the text in the table (since it would be seen as plagiarism (on my thesis, I can publish it). Here is my code. I have tried to use \begin{tabular}{|c|c{3in}|c|} in order to fix ...
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### Problem with english number in xepersian package [duplicate]

I'm writing a document using xepersian package to write Kurdish in Latex.Every thing work perfect but the only problem is when I want number in every place in my latex file to be like ( 123456789). ...
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### mathdesign fails with font error

I have mathdesign installed with texlive 2013. Nothing special about the installation, at least mathdesign or its fonts are not installed by myself. Everything worked half year ago, but latest ...
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### Package won't get loaded [duplicate]

I have written a package and placed it in the same directory as e.g. latex.ltx. However, TeXShop just won't load it, or rather, XeLaTeX and pdfTeX called through TeXShop won't. If I, however, on the ...
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### align to decimal point in the table

I want to align the number values of second and third column in the table, with the decimal point. Anyone can help me? \newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}} \begin{table}[htbp] \...
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### How to Change Bottom Margins on Specific Page Style?

I'm using fancyhdr. My fancy page style has no footer (only footnotes). However, on chapter titles, I am using a plain pagestyle, which has the footnote on the bottom. In any case, I would like to ...
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### Allow space before heading at top of page in book class

Another question asks about the possibility of leaving space before a section heading at the top of a page in the memoir class. Is there a similar solution for the book class? One workaround I've ...
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### Change references sorting in different bibliography sections

I have my bibliography organized into sections (Papers, Articles, Technical Reports, Books, Online). For example: Papers: [4] Paper x [12] Paper y etc Articles: [2] Article ...
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### how to auto bold a keyword?

I would like to auto bold some keywords in my file.tex without writing \keyword. For instance, I would like to bold all the word "example" in my text without doing anything. I don't know if it ...