Most Popular
1500 questions
104
votes
11 answers
Is there a spell check package for LaTeX?
I normally use my gedit spell check extension for the task, but wouldn't it be much better if you could fix any typos or otherwise during compilation time, in a sort of interactive mode?
Ayman Elmasry
- 8,814
104
votes
7 answers
Is it normal for BibTeX to replace similar author names with "------"?
In my .bib file, I have two entries with exactly the same author names:
@article{Seshadrinathan2010A-Subjective-St,
Author = {K. Seshadrinathan and R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik and L. K.…
slhck
- 1,406
104
votes
1 answer
Add watermark that overlays the images
I want to put a draft watermark using the below script but the problem is that the watermark don't come over the images and I want it to come over it.
\usepackage{draftwatermark}
\SetWatermarkText{DRAFT}
\SetWatermarkScale{1}
Tak
- 2,346
- 4
- 20
- 33
103
votes
4 answers
How do I color table columns?
I've found question How do I fill table cells with a background color?, but the link to the documentation isn't helping me at all.
I'd like to know how to color a table column given my column code, but the documentation only gives the syntax of the…
Mirrana
- 2,601
103
votes
2 answers
How to draw a filled rectangle without a border using TikZ?
Method 1:
\draw [fill=orange] (0.1,0.1) rectangle (0.2,0.2);
For the line above, by default, the filled orange rectangle will have a black border.
Method 2:
\draw [fill=orange,orange] (0.1,0.1) rectangle (0.2,0.2);
With this line, the border…
Shashank Sawant
- 6,557
- 11
- 37
- 49
103
votes
8 answers
Why should I *not* use the KOMA-Script classes?
I've heard a lot of recommendations to use the KOMA-Script document classes in place of the base document classes. I appreciate that there is a lot of added functionality, and customisation is easier. But before I jump in, I would like to know of…
naught101
- 8,224
103
votes
2 answers
How to center one node exactly between two others with TikZ?
How can I center a TikZ node exactly between two others?
Hypothetically,
\node (a) {a}
\node (c) [right of=c] {c}
\node (b) [between={a,c}] {b}
103
votes
3 answers
Citing a range of papers using numeric keys as in \cite{a, b, c} -> [1-3]
How can I cite a range of papers, the output is a range of numbers, instead of a list of numbers? In other words, when I type
... some dummy text here is due to me \cite{me1, me2, me3, me4} ...
I want the output to be
... some dummy text here is…
Willie Wong
- 24,733
- 8
- 74
- 106
103
votes
13 answers
Why do people still use Postscript?
I submitted a journal paper this morning, and they asked me to include a PDF file, which I expected, and a Postscript (PS) file.
Generating the PS file proved more difficult, because some of my LaTeX commands, which I always compiled with pdflatex,…
gozzilli
- 1,594
- 3
- 12
- 15
103
votes
10 answers
\pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink
I started using showkeys in one of my documents and see this error
\pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink
A bit of google suggests that this "happens when hyperref is used under pdftex and a citation splits across a page…
Leo Liu
- 5,445
103
votes
7 answers
Package babel Error: Unknown option `francais'
I recently updated my operating system from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10.
Since then, I am facing difficulties compiling my TeX code in which the french babel package is called. Please note that all my sources were compiling very fine before the…
Martingal
- 1,326
- 3
- 9
- 11
103
votes
4 answers
Using multicolumn in latex
I want to create a table like this using Latex
---------------------------------
| sets |
---------------------------------
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---------------------------------------
|…
mahmood
- 3,359
103
votes
6 answers
What package allows Elvish in TeX?
Anyone who has read The Lord of the Rings will recognise the Elvish script at the top of this page (in the Tengwar alphabet). If this is meant to be an example of what is typesettable in TeX/related software, what package is used to produce it?
theHigherGeometer
- 2,027
- 2
- 15
- 24
102
votes
2 answers
Different sizes of font available in table?
I have a table and it appears I only have two options when it comes to font size: large and small. There should be a medium option, correct? I get an error when I replace small or large with medium.
The beginning of my table looks like…
ngramsky
- 2,363
102
votes
1 answer
Personal notes when preparing a talk with LaTeX-beamer class
Suppose I prepare a talk using the beamer class. To each slide I want to add personal notes (detailing what I exactly want to say, frequently asked questions etc.). So is there a smart way to write those notes into the same file and get a nice…
student
- 29,003