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How many lines of code does the original TeX contain?
The tex.web file contains 24985 lines at the moment. This is in the literate-programming style, so has a lot of what you might call comments.
When passed through tangle (e.g. tangle tex.web), you get ...
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Sentences are crossing the margin. Is there any solution?
The solution here is usually to enforce the hyphenation of the faulty words.
Since you are using a blind text, some words are not properly hyphenated.
In your case, adding \hyphenation{Do-nec} to ...
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Sentences are crossing the margin. Is there any solution?
Adding \usepackage[latin]{babel} will also help in your case.
\documentclass[12pt,a5paper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{ebgaramond} % main font
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[latin]{babel}
\...
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votes
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dashed signature
There's no “official” LaTeX interface to leaders, so we need some low level programming.
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\signaturespace}[2]{%
% #1 = width of the dotted line
% #2 = legend
...
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14
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Change all line width proportionally
The line widths thin, thick, etc. are defined liked this (taken from here):
\tikzset{
ultra thin/.style= {line width=0.1pt},
very thin/.style= {line width=0.2pt},
thin/.style= {...
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Horizontal Line in Array
You're missing the vertical line | in the column specification and a \multicolumn{1}{r} for the element in the top left corner:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[
\left(
\begin{array}...
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dotted line with appropriate length for answering a question?
What you are probably looking for is \dotfill. Like \hfill, it spreads as much as possible, but inserting dots instead of white space. If you lock \dotfill into a box of fixed width, you get dots of a ...
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12
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Custom line style with custom decoration
Two approaches are demonstrated here. Both repeatedly use the preaction key with different line widths and colors to draw the pipe (and also the flange). The first approach uses the markings ...
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Commenting an equation with a vertical bar
Yes, it's possible:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,array}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}
\setlength{\arraycolsep}{0pt}
\begin{array}{
>{\...
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How to draw parts of a line dotted with TikZ?
Inspired by Mark Wibrow
\documentclass[tikz, border=5]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing,calc}
\tikzset{%
middle dotted line/.style={
decoration={show path construction,
...
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What's the dotted line equivalent of \rule?
There is a canonical TeX command: \leaders
https://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html#leaders-rp
For example \hbox to 5cm{\leaders\hbox to 10pt{\hss . \hss}\hfil}
UPD:
example explanation
\...
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thick line in array environment
They all work within the array environment. Here is a demo with makecell, boldline and booktabs. \cmidrule can even be used in the xmatrix environments:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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How many lines of code does the original TeX contain?
To supplement ShreevatsaR excellent answer, here is the beginning of tex.p, the “tangled” form of tex.web
{4:}{9:}{$C-,A+,D-}{[$C+,D+]}{:9}program TEX;label{6:}1,9998,9999;
{:6}const{11:}memmax=30000;...
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Horizontal Line in Array
With nicematrix. The environments of nicematrix create PGF/Tikz nodes under the rows, columns and cells and the array and it's possible to use them to draw whatever you want with Tikz.
\documentclass{...
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9
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Centred and flushed right on the same line
If the text elements are short, you could divide the line into several boxes:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\makebox[.32\textwidth][l]{}%
\hfill%
\makebox[.32\textwidth][c]{...
9
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Centred and flushed right on the same line
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\noindent\mbox{}\hfill centered stuff\hfill\mbox{}\makebox[0pt][r]{right}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
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Two equations on the same line
I propose this solution, with a code borrowed on this site from @DavidCarlisle:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}%
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{mathtools, nccmath}
\...
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Using Chinese in a table
You want to set a couple of line break parameters, if you use XeLaTeX.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{array}
%\setmainfont{NSimSun}
\setmainfont{SimSong}
\...
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votes
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tcolorbox tcbline style
Just define the segmentation style that you need as is explained under tcbline definition in tcolorbox documentation.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
\newtcolorbox{results}[1][]{...
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How to draw and label vertices of a polygon?
You can see the explanation why it is not working in the Heiko Oberdiek's answer.
To overcome this you can replace node[position] (n) {n} by coordinate[label=position:n] (n). Here is the full code:
\...
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8
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Remove intersect line for one circle using venndiagram2sets
A solution with "plain tikz":
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds,positioning}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{showframe}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[H]
\...
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8
votes
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Drawing a long dashed line
Yes, even with many lengths in a pattern:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [very thick,dash pattern={on 10pt off 2pt on 5pt off 2pt}] (0,0) -- (6,...
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Line Wrap Siunitx's \num macro
The following example allows line breaks between digit groups by smuggling a line break penalty in group-separator. Also the surrounding \hbox is removed from the text mode number is removed, ...
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7
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How to create a table with double line column?
to my taste the the following table is more nice:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\caption{Caption for the table}
\label{tab:table1}
...
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Varying thickness hrule
That doesn't look like a varying width rule, just two rules:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{.5pt}
\nointerlineskip
\noindent\rule{3cm}{5pt}
\end{document}
For ...
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7
votes
dashed signature
tikz to the rescue
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand{\sig}[1]{\begin{tikzpicture} \draw[ultra thick,densely dotted] (0,0)--(4,0) (2,0) node[below]{#1}; \end{tikzpicture}}
\...
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7
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Vertical lines only in certain columns
Here it is. I slightly simplified and improved your code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{booktabs, caption, multirow, ...
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