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What font packages are installed in TeX live?
What font packages are installed in a full installation of TeX live? Which are obsolete? Example: \usepackage{mathpazo} brings Palatino as the roman font. The times package seems to be obsolete (as noted in l2tabuen). I only ask for "easy to use"…
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How to use figure inside a minipage?
I'm trying to include an image, and keep it centered, and prevent from wrapping from the next page. The following code works for that:
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{center}
Caption for image
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Jay Sullivan
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How to speed up LaTeX compilation with several TikZ pictures?
The slowest part is a dozen of diagrams in TikZ.
Łukasz Lew
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Why should the minimal class be avoided?
In a comment to my answer to Drawing a rectangle along the border of a circle, Peter Grill said that he read that the minimal class should not be used for a Minimal Working Example. I wonder why, and which class should I use instead?
BTW: Is it…
Tobi
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What is the degree symbol?
In order to have the following output involving the degree symbol
I can try
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
The angle is 30$^\circ$.
\end{document}
However, this is an awkward manner to obtain the degree symbol - one reverts to math mode…
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Conditional typesetting / build
Let's say I have .tex file which is a set of problems and solutions, of which I want to make two pdf files, one which includes the solutions and one which doesn't. so I need to build the .tex file under two different modes, and specify that parts of…
behzad.nouri
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bm package versus \boldsymbol
I'm typing a bold vector small x with a tilde sign above it. Now when I want to write its derivative, I'm putting a dot on top of everything. This is giving me problems and I found one solution:
\overset{\mathrm{\textbf…
yCalleecharan
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align vs equation
I always use align in my documents, and avoid equation. Is there anything wrong with that? My reasoning behind this: align > equation, so why not use it?
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Materials for learning TikZ
I feel intimidated in learning TikZ. I was wondering if there are some nice materials (or just your replies) at different level:
for providing big picture, which is
important to beginners to not lose
direction during learning.
for comprehensive…
Tim
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Is it still useful to load the lmodern package?
A few years ago, the lmodern package was a good way to have high quality fonts by simply adding :
\usepackage{lmodern}
Nowadays, lmodern seems less popular. I'm wondering if it is because LaTeX default fonts received some improvements which make…
ppr
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\newcommand argument confusion
I'm trying to work through LaTeX Beginner's Guide by Stefan Kottwitz. Here's where I got stumped:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\keyword}[2][\bfseries]{{#1#2}}
\begin{document}
\keyword{Grouping} by curly braces limits the
\keyword{scope} of…
147pm
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How to do the 'curvy L' for Lagrangian or Laplace Transforms?
I am new to TeX, working on it for about 2 months. Have not yet figured out how to script the 'curvy L' for Lagrangian and/or for Laplace Transforms.
As of now I am using the 'L' - which is not good! :-(
Any help?
UPDATE The 2 best solutions…
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How to rotate text inline?
I used the rotating package to rotate the symbol 90 positive degrees and that worked well. But I also want to rotate it 270 positive degrees and then it ends up hanging down on the line below. How can one rotate symbols any degree while it stays on…
Frode Alfson Bjørdal
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Manual font installation
Frequently there are questions about, how to manually install a font, what very often means “Type1 font”. So I thought, we should write a general answer about the several aspects to regard.
Beside the usual approach for manual installation of…
Speravir
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PowerPoint's "Smart Art" for TikZ?
This question led to a new package:
smartdiagram
I haven't been using PowerPoint for years, but today I immediately fell in love with its "Smart Art" feature (2010 version of PowerPoint). The idea is that an (indented) bullet list is transformed…
krlmlr
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