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Making clickable links to sections with hyperref

I would like to make a word of text, that when clicked upon in the PDF file takes me to some section. I'm using the hyperref package. I rejected \nameref because it produces the section title and I want my own link text. I also rejected…
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How to insert page number in Beamer navigation symbols?

I created a presentation with Beamer, and I used Darmstadt theme. But, this theme doesn't have the page number. I know that I can insert the page number in Footline with: \setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number] But, how can I insert the page…
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Is There an Online Diagram Graphical Editor that Produces the Corresponding LaTeX Code?

Is there an online tool that generates the corresponding LaTeX code of a diagram which can be drawn using a graphical interface? A tool such as latexdraw but only using a web browser (like Detexify)?
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Make MS Word document look like it has been typeset in LaTeX

A few years back, I used to use LaTeX for writing reports and such, and I really liked the look of them. However, nowadays I am forced to use MS Word to write my reports, but that does not hinder me from playing around with the document…
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Specifying the width and height of a tikzpicture

Is it possible to specify the width and height of a tikzpicture? To scale a tikzpicture I use the option scale, i.e. for instance \begin{tikzpicture}[scale = 2] ... \end{tikzpicture} I tried to change the width and height…
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Two letter variable names

In math mode, TeX assumes "hidden multiplication" (so that two variable names put nearby have invisible multiplication between), so that, AFAICT, expressions like $ABC$ are rendered with small distances between letters. Now, what to do if I have a…
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Isn't there any other way of doing double quotes in LaTeX besides `` + ''?

The standard way of writing quotes and double quotes in LaTeX is with `` and '', but I find them quite ugly. Isn't there something similar to \emph{}, but for quotes? I mean something like \quotes{quoted text goes here}. I've been looking but…
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TikZ Adding Text

I'm a recent convert to TikZ from xy-pic, and am still trying to get a hang for it. I see that one can add labels to the end of arrows and the like using \node. Is there a way to add an arbitrary piece of text at a given position in the drawing,…
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Why does \\ not return a new line in an equation?

\begin{equation*}\label{eq:pareto mle2} A_0 = \frac{1}{(\alpha+t_x)^{r+s+x}}{}_2F_1\left(r+s+x,x+1;r+s+x+1;\frac{\alpha-\beta}{\alpha + t_x} \right ) "\\\"
- \frac{1}{(\alpha+T)^{r+s+x}}{}_2F_1\left(r+s+x,x+1;r+s+x+1;\frac{\alpha-\beta}{\alpha…
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How to draw Venn diagrams (especially: complements) in LaTeX

What I am up to is to write some exercises dealing with logical formulas for my students, like: And the students should draw these formulas on Venn diagrams. At the end of the lesson, I really would like to print the correct answer for them. I…
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How do I insert a backslash inside a mathematical statement?

I'm trying to write a set subtraction operation in an AMS formatted template. In the end, what I want should look like A\B. But I'm doing this in math-mode $A\B$ and this gives me errors. I've also tried using the \diagdown symbol, but it doesn't…
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What can I use to typeset MATLAB code in my document?

This question led to a new package: matlab-prettifier Does anybody have a quick and easy way to typeset some relatively long MATLAB code in the appendix? I looked up a few methods, and the mcode package emerged as a possibility, but it seems to be…
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Tikz: Multi-line text in the node description

I use tikz to create pictures in latex. My picture consists of set of nodes. Every node has its own text inside the node, for example, "This node is valuable": \node (mynode) [mystyle,right=of anothernode] {This node is valuable}; When I…
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\ref Chapter Name in LaTeX

Possible Duplicate: Get the title instead of number of a referenced chapter? Is it possible to use \ref{chap:conclusion} to refer to the actual name of the chapter instead of the chapter counter in LaTeX? So that I can do this: See the…
joec
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Change align of a single cell in tabular

Possible Duplicate: Aligning inside tabular environment, specific cell I have a simple table with a given align. I want to know if there is a way to specify a different align for a cell. For example, in the following table, how can I make Item 3…