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Is there a circle symbol?
Is there a circle symbol for the composition of two functions? Or do I have to resort to using other ways to represent that?
wrongusername
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tilde over a symbol Phi
Please suggest me a way to put tilde over a symbol phi.
I can easily put it over a letter but coming to the case of symbols, it is giving problems.
Thanks in advance.
user17404
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Style/class tutorials
What are some good tutorials on writing custom styles (classes) that clearly explain commands used and some of the features that TeX has to offer in the way of styles?
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Which OpenType Math fonts are available?
What OpenType math fonts are there available for usage in TeX/LaTeX, e.g. with the unicode-math package?
Here is a MWE which you can use to show off the…
Henri Menke
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How to properly 'make' a latex project?
I've got a latex project that looks like this:
project/
|-- main.tex
|-- main.bib
|-- preamble.tex
|-- preamble.fmt
|-- makefile
The preamble (preamble.tex) is being precompiled into preamble.fmt. main.bib is generated using the file…
romeovs
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Indenting a whole paragraph
How do I indent a whole paragraph at the same distance from my left margin, with the simplest command or environment?
Ayman Elmasry
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How can I flip the direction of curly braces in TikZ?
I am using TikZ with the following code to draw a picture. How can I turn the curly bracket next to $P_2$ to the…
Helium
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How can I convert my TeX-illiterate coworkers to LaTeX?
I've been using LaTeX consistently for about two years now and I haven't looked back to my MS Word/PowerPoint/Publisher days since.
I'm working at a research institute / university spin-off where the use of MS Office prevails. Aside from the odd PhD…
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How to convert PDF to (La)TeX?
I know that hardly any information is passed to the PDF when a .tex file is compiled.
But is there a tool that can convert a PDF document back to (La)TeX?
Martin Vseticka
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Error message: There's no line here to end
In a letter-class document that had no previous errors I am suddenly getting the error message:
"There's no line here to end" \opening{text}
I've used this file many times and today it starts giving this error. How do I troubleshoot this?
Kent
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Shift title and author text up?
What is the best way to shift the title text 'up' in a LaTeX document compiled with pdftex? When I do this:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper, onecolumn]{article}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
\title{Blah Blah Cool}
\date {}
\begin{document}
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Rebecca Morgan
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Set noindent for entire file
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable automatic indentation on new paragraphs?
Is there a way to set noindent for all paragraphs gloablly in latex, so that I do not have to manually do \noindent before each paragraph?
yayu
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When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?
Occasionally, I see other people's documents starting with two lines like that:
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
It's clear to me that the first line declares the engine that should be used for compilation, and the second…
doncherry
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How to use biber
Simply put I want to know what steps I need to take to start biber with biblatex. I haven't been able to find any proper tutorials or guides showing how you go about using it instead of BibTeX.
What is biber's syntax?
How do you compile?
Etc.
Are…
benregn
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Passing parameters to a document
I compile most of my documents via Makefiles which take care of the bibliography, indexes, etc. Often I'd like to compile different versions from the same TeX file changing only small things (e.g. a beamer presentation plus a version with the…
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