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Lowercase \mathcal
The standard font used for \mathcal does not include any lowercase characters. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List suggests redefining \mathcal to use Zapf Chancery. However I do not particularly like that font. For example the uppercase "I" is…
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What is the meaning of double pound symbol (number sign, hash character) ##1 in an argument?
I've seen sometimes that people use a double pound sign (##) when defining/using arguments.
What is the difference between the normal argument, #1, and the double sign one, ##1? Are there any restrictions for its use? Can you list the good…
adn
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How to strike through obliquely, e.g. to indicate cancellation?
How can I strike through an expression (e.g. "2x") obliquely, e.g. from bottom left to top right, so as to indicate cancellation? With the \sout command from the ulem package, I can only strike horizontally.
Harry Macpherson
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How to use more than 10 tab stops in bmatrix or other amsmath matrix environments?
I'm using bmatrix environment from the amsmath package, and I'm trying to do something like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\begin{bmatrix}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 &…
Martin Tapankov
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New line after paragraph?
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paragraph style - how to force line break? \paragraph{} \\ - make paragraph a header?
I have the following problem. I have a paragraph and only after this single paragraph environemnt I want to have the text following in a new…
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What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) for PGF/TikZ?
Are there any WYSIWYG editors for PGF/TikZ? Perhaps something similar to LyX but for PGF/TikZ?
If there is no WYSIWYG editor for this tandem, is there one perhaps that allows the user to easily generate PGF/TikZ templates?
Alternatively, how can…
Amelio Vazquez-Reina
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Formatting the union of sets
In the example
$\cup^{i=1}_{\infty}F_i$
How do you get the i=1 directly below the union symbol and the infinity directly above?
Trajan
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What are \immediate & \write18 and how does one use them?
What are \immediate and \write18 and how does one use them? I'd like some examples spanning from basic to advanced scenarios.
Display Name
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Left brace including several lines in eqnarray
How is it possible to make a brace and have something like this in a eqnarray block?
Alex
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Insert multiple figures in Latex
I need to insert 10 figures (in two columns- side by side) in LaTeX that will have one global caption, but also I need to name each figure (1a, 1b, 1c, ... ect.). So they will look like:
1a 1b
1c 1d
1e 1f
1g 1h
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What are the benefits of writing resumes in TeX/LaTeX?
Today, I've written my resume in LaTeX and it looks great and all
It took me about 2 hours to get everything right
But I've been thinking, what benefits do I get from writing it in LaTeX rather than in a word processor like MS Word or OOo…
Mahmoud Hossam
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Real Time LaTeX?
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Is there any way to get real-time compilation for LaTeX?
I'm looking for an application in which I can write pure LaTeX in one half of the screen and on the other half to see the compiled document in real time.
This seems…
shoosh
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Multiple alignment
In the following piece of code
\begin{align*}
[x \mapsto s]x &= s \\
[x \mapsto s]y &= y \qquad \text{als } y\neq x \\
[x \mapsto s](\la{y}t_1) &= \la{y}[x \mapsto s]t_1 \qquad \text{als } y \neq x \text{ en } y \not \in FV(s) \\
[x \mapsto s](t_1…
codd
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Blackboard bold characters
The blackboard bold font in the AMSFonts package only has capital letters. I sometimes wish to use a blackboard bold "1", for which I can use \usepackage{bbold}. But this changes the entire blackboard bold font, and I like the original AMSFonts…
Mark Meckes
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Animation in PDF presentations, without Adobe Reader?
I sometimes have to present on other people's equipment, such as machines running stripped down Linux distributions, presentation servers with a bare-bones PDF viewer running in a virtual machine, or a Windows box with a heavily locked-down Adobe…
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