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What is glue stretching?
I had a question about dynamic vspaces (Dynamic vspace depending on text height) and there was a hint I should use a stretchable glue.
Searching with Google didn't give me a helpful answer.
I would be glad, if someone can explain it and give me a…
CSchulz
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What have been the most important changes to LaTeX in the last five years? (2005–2010)
I hope I will not be flamed for this question, but I have been out of the loop for the last five years. Therefore my question is: what do you consider the most important changes to LaTeX in the last five years, or asked differently: if you hadn't…
Owe Jessen
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Insert list of figures in the table of contents
Is it possible to create a list of all the figures at the end of a document (this I can do) and make it appear in the table of contents?
So in the the table of content there will be a line saying List of figures ... 19 for example?
lpostula
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How to write a book in LaTeX
I have taken a look at other questions, and I don't see any answer to my question. If this is a duplicate for some question I haven't seen, feel free to comment.
I am an experienced TeX user, I've been writing with TeX for about 3-4 years now. I am…
Patrick Da Silva
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How can I create a pdf document exactly as big as my tikz picture?
I often create pictures in tikz that I want to either send to someone, or include in an email. The problem with that is that there is a big white space around and and especially below my pictures.
To get around this, I usually print screen my figure…
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automatic size adjustment for nested parentheses
As I prefer outer parentheses to grow larger in nested expressions, I happen to insert \bigl and \bigr and its larger cousins a lot. I have always wondered whether there is a way to do this automagically.
Inserting \left and \right prophylacticly…
uli
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How to fit a large figure to page
Possible Duplicate:
Best figure size adjustment when dealing with different image sizes
Given: a large figure, whose height:width ratio is unknown.
Todo: Include this fig in LaTeX, such that:
if the figure is very tall, then fit its height to…
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Braket notation in LaTeX
I am using the braket package to generate bra and ket vectors. However, I could not figure out how to do <0|0> using the package. Is there a command for this?
sodiumnitrate
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Difference between LaTeX, LaTeX2e, LaTeX3 ?
I was wondering, what is the difference between LaTeX, LaTeX2e and LaTeX3. Are the 2 higher versions available for use? I use LaTeX. How can I use the other 2 on Windows 7?
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How to trace LaTeX errors efficiently?
One of the most annoying things about LaTeX is that handling errors can be cumbersome and nerve-racking. In fact, it is the main reason that keeps me from actively recommending LaTeX to most people (not only Apple users). Handling LaTeX errors is…
Christoph
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How to place label in middle of line (above and below) with TikZ
\fbox{
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1,auto=center]
\node[circle,fill=gray!20] (n1) at (2,8) {Node A};
\node[circle,fill=gray!20] (n2) at (8,8) {Node B};
\foreach \from/\to in {n1/n2}
\draw (\from) -- (\to)…
Faheem
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Change the background color of a frame in Beamer
How can I change the background color of one frame in my Beamer document? I tried doing
\begin{frame}
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=violet}
% frame contents here
\end{frame}
but it seemed to have no effect.
Anyone know what the problem…
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How to make the limit (mathematics) sign?
I want to learn how to make the limit sign. For example, take 'Limit of f(x) as x approaches 2 is 5' , how to make this?
JohnPhteven
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Bibliography not in ToC when using biblatex/biber
I just managed to switch from using BibTeX to biblatex with the biber backend. My references now appear how I want. However I have two new issues.
1) How do I change "Bibliography" to references? The old \renewcommand{\bibname}{References} does…
Alex
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Make first row of table all bold
I'm trying to do something that I thought would be relatively simple but seems to be quite hard. I have a table with a number of columns, and I'd like to make all of the titles appear in bold text. Obviously I can add \textbf to each of them in…
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