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LaTeX in Industry
I know LaTeX is used a lot in academia to format papers and dissertations.
How is LaTeX used in industry and what are some examples? I am wondering
whether knowing LyX will give me a leverage when applying to jobs.
Concerned_Citizen
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Description list - How to put the definition on a new line?
I have the following LaTeX code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[foo]
bar
\item[baz]
bang
\end{description}
\end{document}
and it produces the following PDF:
I want the definition of the item (in this case…
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What are good sites to find citations in BibTex format?
When working with Bibtex, manually transferring the citation information for articles, prooceedings, books, etc. can be a tedious work. Some web sites provide citations in Bibtex format. What are your favorite sites to get Bibtex citations of your…
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What is the advantage of using $f^\prime$ instead of $f'$?
Although the two outputs look quite similar, what is the advantage of using $f^\prime$ instead of $f'$?
By the way, here is my code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[ f^\prime (x)=y \]
\[ f' (x)=y \]
\end{document}
Hadi Safi aghdam
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Error in TeX Live – Font ... not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version).
I have following line in my code:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
I get following…
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Rotate node text and use relative positioning in TikZ?
In TikZ, I sometimes want to rotate the text within a node and then position the node relative to another. However, the approach below doesn't work as…
gablin
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Best practice on organising your preamble
I am putting together a large document and my preamble is unwieldly and disorganised. What order does it make sense to load packages. Obviously, hyperref goes last, apart from things that have to go after hyperref. I tend to load font packages…
Seamus
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Insert PDF file in LaTeX document
I have a problem when I insert a PDF file in LaTeX:
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\includepdf[pages=-]{file.pdf}
The problem is that the PDF page is not centered:
I've tried to place tags center, but nothing works.
Thank you for your response.
I…
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Tools for automating document compilation
A lot of people write makefiles that say something like
paper.pdf: paper.tex
pdflatex paper
bibtex paper
pdflatex paper
pdflatex paper
To handle re-running TeX to get new/changed references and so forth. Is there a…
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When should one use \begingroup instead of \bgroup?
Is there ever a case when the use of \begingroup is preferred to \bgroup? Obviously, \bgroup is necessary in cases where you need to have balanced braces and thus cannot use {, but when is it necessary to use \begingroup?
A related question would…
TH.
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Biblatex: submitting to a journal
Suppose that I moved from BibTeX to biblatex. With BibTeX I just copied the content of .bbl file into final version of my paper before submitting it to a journal. What should I do at same stage having .bbl file produced by biblatex? It is of quite…
Igor Kotelnikov
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What does [t] and [ht] mean?
I would appreciate if someone could tell me difference between [t] and [ht] in the following example? I don't see a difference in the output pdf file.
\begin{figure}[ht]
...
\end{figure}
and
\begin{figure}[t]
...
\end{figure}
nacho4d
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pdflatex, \includegraphics, and multi-page PDF files
I have a PDF file with multiple figures; each figure is a separate page in the PDF file.
I am using pdflatex, and I would like to use \includegraphics or equivalent to include some of the figures.
Of course I could use an external tool to split the…
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How to vertically center two images next to each other?
How can I vertically center two images next to one another? Here is some example code:
\begin{minipage}[h]{6in}
\centering
\vspace*{.3in}~\\
\includegraphics[height=1.25in]{fig1.pdf}
\hspace*{.2in}
…
Chris Cannon
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How to add indentation
I am writing a thesis report using LaTeX and I need to add indentations because every new paragraph starts from the initial position on the left.
How do I add indentations?
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