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How to use Verdana without Serifs in pdfLatex?
This is an alternative way to use Verdana (or in fact an equally looking replacement) without serifs in latex.
\usepackage{DejaVuSans}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
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Latex compilation error miktex-makepk -makepk - METAFONT failed for some reason METAFONT failed on ecsx0800
Adding a line
\usepackage{lmodern}
at the beginning of my LaTeX file solved the issues for me.
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Put reference above inequality symbol within align* environment
With use of the stackengine package:
\documentclass[margin=3mm,varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\newcommand\marksymb[2]{\,\stackon{#1}{\scriptscriptstyle (#2)}\, }
\...
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Put reference above inequality symbol within align* environment
Here's a way:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\markthis}[3]{% #1 = marker, #2 = label, #3 = relation
\overset{% the marker and the label
\textup{\makebox[...
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pdflatex error due to empty *.pfb file in VSCode with LaTex Workshop
As Ulrike Fischer stated, reinstalling cm-super package
$ sudo aptitude reinstall cm-super
resolves the problems.
Now sfrm1095.pfb isn't empty anymore and all other files in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/...
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Custom Header Style
I tried these commands, and they worked like a charm (with some personal preferences). You can tweak them until you get the result you want.
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[RE]{\rightmark}
\fancyhead[RO]{...
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Executing python script or code using \input not working
You need --shell-escape and remove the geometry setting which is forcing the text off the page;
\documentclass[10pt, export]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{animate}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%\...
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Executing python script or code using \input not working
It works if you use TeX's primitive \input, which is saved in LaTeX as \@@input:
This is script.py:
print("Number four: %d." % 4)
This works:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter % to ...
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How can I draw an arc from point A -> B on a 3D sphere in TikZ?
Above, Alain Matthes mentioned that "To give a correct answer, we need to define cross product ...", and that sounds like my idea of fun this evening, so let's get at it.
We have two points ...
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broken hyperlinks with memoir, caption, hyperref, sidecaption, and pdflatex
The author of the caption package just implemented a fix: https://gitlab.com/axelsommerfeldt/caption/-/issues/175, thanks to this question.
It is not released on CTAN yet, but you can already ...
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Show actual math source code in pdf
For simple inline math you could define a command \mymath that has two different definitions for math and code mode.
The code is printed using the listings package.
Code
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Show actual math source code in pdf
Well with the (experimental!!!) math grabbing code that we develop it nearly works:
\DocumentMetadata{testphase=math}
\documentclass{article}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\math_processor:n
{
\texttt{\...
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Latex error 'can't pop an empty literal stack for entry XXX'
The issue is how empty number fields are processed by the .bst file. I don't recognize the .bst you are using, but the following hack seems to resolve the issue.
Insert this code into the .bst file ...
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Texmaker can't compile "pdflatex: Bad parameter value. pdflatex: Data: font_mem_size"
Last tip: immediately after running the program press File > New then press play button. Then search and open your file, CLOSE THE COPLILED PDF WINDOW, and press play. Now it works (after many ...
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Set the print flag on links with hyperref to preserve them with Ghostscript >= 9.25
The OP @alex-pacini asked on the hyperref repo and, two and a half years later :) it was mentioned that it's possible to set the print flag by default on the hyperlinks created by hyperref, but one ...
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Using Demotic Alef unicode character with Noto font package and pdfLaTeX
Thanks to the hint by @UlrikeFischer and @DavidCarlisle I came up with the following solution (as someone can already guess from the comments):
For those few very special Demotic characters its of ...
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Accessibility issues
I found my way to this question with a similar issue: I was attempting to use LaTeX to create a mathematics-bearing PDF document that could be parsed by a screen reader. I tried some of the solutions ...
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pdflatex stops at \vec when using many packages lubuntu 23.04
The following does no longer work ...:
\documentclass[twoside,14pt,a5paper]{extarticle}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{accents}
\begin{document}
Test $\vec{a}$
\end{document}
... but it works ...
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