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How to make the PDFs produced by pdfLaTeX smaller?
I feel that the PDFs produced by pdflatex are too huge. So for example my 50 page book with no illustrations is 500KB. I feel it should be more like 50K or even less. The .tex files together are just 40KB. Anyone knows why the final PDF is so huge…
user5177
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Why is LaTeX3 taking so long to come out?
I feel as though I have been hearing about the LaTeX3 project for a very long time.
Why is it taking so long for it to come into fruition? Are there major technical difficulties, or is it purely a lack of developers that is causing a bottleneck?
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Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number
I've browsed the forums and found a number of posts that have addressed this issue, but none of the solutions seem to work for me. I have the following script that I just copied from the bibtex home page to get familiar with it. Instead of the…
user16747
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Syntax similar to \centering for right and left?
For images, we can use \centering. Is there anything available to align the image to the right side or the left side of the page.
sachin irukula
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Fonts larger than \Huge?
How can I make text that is larger than the size of the output of {\Huge ...}?
I would like to be able to make text arbitrarily large (even if that is done by some suboptimal scaling routine).
bryn
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How do I turn off equation auto numbering
I have an equation like this:
\begin{align}
P(A \cup B) = \sum_{\omega \in A \cup B} P(\omega) = \sum_{\omega \in A} P(\omega) + \sum_{\omega \in B} P(\omega)
= P(A) + P(B)
\end{align}
For some reason, LaTeX is automatically…
user1046
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Prettiest way to typeset "C++" (cplusplus)?
Writing "C++" in plain text results in an ugly setting, as the '+' signs are too big and too spaced:
I've seen around the web several marcos for typesetting the "C++" symbol, ranging from mild kerning to shrinking, raising and lowering the '+'…
Little Bobby Tables
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Simulating hand-drawn lines
I am working on a project that will have some vector graphics, perhaps using TikZ (or a similar package). All of the graphics consists of lines, in shades of gray. However, the lines from TikZ appear too clean.
Is there any way to make the lines…
Village
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Force LaTeX image to appear in the section in which it's declared
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How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
How can I force an image in a LaTeX documents to appear in the section in which I declared…
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Why should a table caption be placed above the table?
In the papers I read the caption in figure floats is placed below the figure and in table floats the caption is placed above the table.
I recognize that this is a common style that a lot of people recommend.
But what is the reason behind this…
maxschlepzig
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\vspace vs. \vskip
What is the difference between \vspace{-1em} and \vskip -1em, for example? I guess the first is LaTeX, and the latter is TeX. When is the proper time to use one and not the other, and why?
Geoff
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Change line spacing inside the document
This is my code
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\begin{document}
\include{Chapter1}
\end{document}
I have please a question:
I would change the line spacing (1.5 --> 1.0) of a page inside the document and…
researcher
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Footnote without a marker
I would like to have a footnote about the funding source of my work in the first page without marker.
I tried below approaches:
\footnotetext{text goes here}
This creates a footnote but with '0' as marker. However, the marker reference does not…
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Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX
Until now, I have been compiling my LaTeX documents with pdfLaTeX. My standard document preamble includes the "usual suspects" for non-English speakers (inputenc, fontenc, babel) and a bunch of other packages. Assuming I were to convert to XeLaTeX,…
lockstep
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LaTeX vs Word; improvements of LaTeX over the years
When comparing MS Word vs LaTeX the proponents of Word often say that many advantages of LaTeX over Word from say 1997 disappeared over the years as Word evolved to the current 2013 version. For example,
Word no longer has a binary format, the…
student
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