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How can we display fireworks?

Soon we can celebrate the New Year. How can we use TikZ for drawing fireworks? For example like this, photographed by Kurume-Shimin, found on Wikipedia: Click on Image search for getting further impressions. On the Wikipedia page you can see…
Stefan Kottwitz
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Long underscore in LaTeX

In LaTeX, how would I make a long underscore? For example, Name _______ Signature _______
Neil G
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How to change font size for specific lstlisting

I have a java lstlisting and it is too big and does not mach a single page. Is there any way to specify font for specific listing, not all listings in document?
Korniltsev Anatoly
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"(" or "\left(" parentheses?

What is the difference between ( and \left( in LaTeX? Sometimes, when the content is small, it does not seem to matter which pair I use. What is the best practice when it comes to which parentheses use?
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PDF colour model and LaTeX

(Strictly speaking, this is a question about XeLaTeX and the xcolor package but I’m assuming that the issue is actually with the color model of PDF.) I’m having the problem that colours in my PDF don’t match. For example, I screen grabbed a colour…
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Are there other "fun" packages like the "coffee stains" package?

I'm trying to convert some friends to LaTeX and have come up against a (to me) unexpected objection: there are too few packages that support "fun" (really), to which I responded: I know there are examples of clever and creative (and a bit silly)…
orome
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How to align a set of multiline equations

I am trying to align a set of long equations, that are themselves align environments as most of them are spreading on multiple lines. Currently I just have a sequence of align environments, with each equation inside in order to align the pieces of…
SeismicVibrations
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Allow line break, but without inserting a dash

I have a sentence that contains a number of long dataset names. I would like to allow LaTeX to break these names at certain positions that I would like to specify somehow just like I can use \- to allow a word break with hyphenation. But: I would…
fuenfundachtzig
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Fancy chapter headings

I'm searching for nice predefined chapter headings. I've found the fncychap package, and seen that memoir has quite a few, too. Do you know other packages that provide predefined fancy chapter styles?
raphink
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Is there a nice solution to get a "presenter mode" for Latex presentations?

I really like the way Keynote and MS Office (and also OpenOffice & similar) support a presentation mode that displays the current slide, the next (and maybe previous) slide, the elapsed and current time, and also any notes attached to the slides on…
brandstaetter
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Importing a Single Symbol From a Different Font

Is there a general way to change the font of a particular symbol without switching packages? For example, suppose I'm using Computer Modern for my entire document, but I want the "subset" operator to look as it does in mathabx. How can I redefine…
Nick Strehlke
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Converting Markdown to LaTeX, in LaTeX

I've started to use markdown for my notes simply because its faster than writing latex, but I would prefer to have the extra power to LaTeX. Is there/would it be possible to have a markdown environment which converted the markdown to latex? Is LaTeX…
superbriggs
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How to change font size mid document?

I want to create a TeX document for which the first (summary) page is \documentclass[10pt]{article}, but for which the rest of the document is \documentclass[12pt]{article}. Is there an easy way to do this?
Joel
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What is the simplest way to typeset an entire document in sans-serif?

How do I typeset an entire document in sans-serif, e.g. Helvetica, without littering the document with font changes for every heading/paragraph, etc.? Like in How to set the font for a \section title (and chapter etc), but with the paragraphs all in…
Jared Updike
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Adding more than one author with different affiliation

My goal is adding more than one author with different affiliations, it will look like something: Author A, Author B, Author C, Author D and Author E A,B,C Department of Computer Science D,E Department of Mechanical Engineering …
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