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Confusion: \onehalfspacing vs. \spacing vs. Word vs. the world?
I have to write a paper with the requirement to use "1.5 line spacing" 12pt Times New Roman. Naturally I used
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
\onehalfspacing
Lorem ipsum…
So far so good. But I'm a litte paranoid so I checked it with Word and…
niclas197
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Detecting all pages which contain color
In an larger LaTeX document there are often only some pages with color content (mainly figures) and the remaining ones are only black and white.
Because printing costs for color pages are much higher than for black and white it would be good to be…
Martin Scharrer
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Vertical spacing of a table cell
I want to tabulate formulas, but I find that the lines of the table cells are too close together, and this is aesthetically unsatisfactory. Example (formulae copied from wikipedia):
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
Cylindrical & $\displaystyle{{1 \over…
yohbs
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What is the difference between \hspace*{\fill} and \hfill?
In the memoir manual on page 183 ,this example is given:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\hspace*{\fill}
{ILLUSTRATION 1} \hfill {ILLUSTRATION 2}
\hspace*{\fill}
\caption{Example float with two illustrations}
\label{fig:mult1}
\end{figure}
I have tried…
hpekristiansen
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How does one typeset a URL?
I'd like to insert a URL into this document. Is there a "correct" way of doing that? If so, is there a way to turn it into a link inside the final pdf generated with pdfTeX or XeTeX?
Billy ONeal
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How to get long \texttt sections to break
I often format path names with \texttt which can be very long. Usually Tex will not break this text. The line will just create a hbox overflow. It looks like this:
................
...C:\documents and…
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Referencing page number with only one reference
So I'm making this summary of a course where I've only been getting information from one book. Sometimes I want to show what page from the book a statement is taken from but I can't figure out a clean way of doing it.
Basically I would like to have…
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How can you use LaTeX to write a document with other people?
I imagine that many users are or were [PhD] students, so I would like to know: how do you use LaTeX to write a document (like the final dissertation) that requires many revisions from other people.
When I work with my professor, I usually send him…
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Referencing within an align environment
The following LaTeX document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
E=mc^2 \\ \nonumber
E=mc^2 \label{eq1}
\end{align}
ref \ref{eq1}
\end{document}
Does not display the reference \ref{eq1}. Why?
Yotam
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How to install a current version of TikZ?
TikZ is undergoing lots of development with new features being added, but the versions distributed with standard TeX releases are often a little old. How do I get the latest version? If I want to be sure that I get the latest stable version, how do…
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\newcommand and spacing
How can I define my own shorthand command, but making sure that the spacing afterwards is correct?
\newcommand{\abc}{\textsc{abc}} produces 'ABC,' but has the problem 'ABCmoretexthere' (i.e. no space before the next word).
Vice…
Ben
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How can I position an image in an arbitrary position in beamer?
I am making a presentation using beamer, and I want to be able to position a certain image the way I want in a frame. I am not sure how to do that.
Is there some way you can specify coordinates in the frame and then set an image there?
Is there a…
user5032
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How to use itemize in Table environment
I want to create a table like the picture below, and i wish to itemize the lamba_1 > lamba_2 > 0 using 'item style', which is the cell of each categories. Can someone help me?
superhuman1314
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Customize legend position in PGFplots axis environment
I am trying to customize the position of the legend in the axis environment of PGFplots. A simple way to do this is by using something like
legend pos=south west|south east|north west|north east
in the axis options. If none of the directions…
Adriaan
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How do I get numbered entries in a beamer bibliography
Instead of the default icons or the text option, I would like to have numbered entries in my bibliography.
I added the line:
\setbeamertemplate{bibliography item}{}
to get rid of the icons, but can't figure out how to get numbers to display in their…
andy mcevoy
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