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What's the current state of LaTeX3 (2020)?
There are a few questions on this forum asking about why LaTeX3 is taking so long to come out. However, all of these are from the early 2010s.
I'm just wondering what the current state of the project is and whether it's ready (or nearly ready) for…
ScottishTapWater
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What needs to be introduced in a short introduction to LaTeX?
One of the things listed at the How you can help in the TeX community page of the TUG website is:
We'd like to have an ‘introduction to LaTeX’ document that falls somewhere between the brevity of sample2e.tex and the completeness of A Not So Short…
Seamus
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Why is LaTeX free?
The fact that LateX is not paid seems to me as good as it is strange, being that many people work developing it.
So..why is LaTeX free?
Minsky
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Numbers outside Math environment
Should numbers inside the text be placed inside a math environment?
For example, if I am writing ...indent code by 4 spaces..., should I write it this way or ...indent code by $4$ spaces...?
Perhaps the output is the same but semantically they are…
Anna Taurogenireva
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"The duck pond": showcase of TikZ-drawn animals/ducks
We have tons of nice TikZ-drawn pictures on this site. Among them some great pictures of animals like cfr's cat code. But they are distributed all over the site.
As we definitely miss a place to collect them, this post asks about nice examples of…
TeXnician
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Software-generated bibliographic entries: common errors and other mistakes to check before use
Background Story:
While answering bibliography questions on this site, I often come across incorrect bibliography entries - most of the time they were automatically generated by
Google Scholar
Mendeley
ADS
Journal websites
...
Question:
What are…
samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
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Which figure type to use: pdf or eps?
Both are vector graphics (typically) and both can be imported painlessly into a pdflatex document (so let's say we ignore dvi for this question).
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? What should I use?
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How to place a table on a new page with landscape orientation without clearing the current page?
I'd like to place a table on a new page with landscape orientation. To do so, I use
\usepackage{pdflscape}
...
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{llll}
...
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}…
Marco
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Why do I get (author?) when I use \citet with natbib?
I would like to show the author names using \citet but I get just the reference number. Here is a minimal code:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
The author…
keynes
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Section numbering without numbers
I want to add a section without a number, but \section* also excludes it from the numbering, so if there is this
\section*{Section 1}
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsection{Subsection 2}
\section*{Section 2}
\subsection{Subsection 3}
I get what I want…
Nuria
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Breaking words at the end of line
LaTeX tends to break words at the end of the line when that causes better typography. Great. I'd like to have some sort of influence on where the words are broken, though.
For example, LaTeX currently breaks cryptography into cryptog-raphy when it…
Joost
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How to force output to a left (or right) page?
I am putting together a document that has several cover pages, both for front and back cover. The bulk of the document is two-sided. Cover pages, however, must be right-side (or left-side, for the back cover) pages.
How can I force the next page…
Little Bobby Tables
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Beamer: Creating a slide with short, centered, prominent text
Between the introductory slides and the meat of my presentation done in Beamer, I would like to add one slide with the text: "Coming up: Our Work". Or some such. This is the only text on this slide, and it should appear centered on the slide. Is…
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Missing $ inserted issue
Trying to get my dissertation sorted (due in a few hours) and I keep getting this error:
! Missing $ inserted.
$
l.190 ... pp. 225--236, 10.1007/978-0-387-68772-8_
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Jon
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How do I cite author in LaTeX?
How do I cite authors in LaTeX?
I tried using natbib package
---- doc.tex ----
...
\usepackage{natbib}
...
\citeauthor{736184}
...
---- doc.bib ----
@inproceedings{736184,
author = {Broder, Andrei Z.},
...
but all I get is (author?) (in…
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