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Exporting from Inkscape to LaTeX - via TikZ

I know only the very basics of TikZ, having only used it to produce a pretty flow chart for one of my documents. I recently learned that you can use Inkscape and export to TikZ. What are the limitations of the Inkscape->TikZ workflow? Is there some…
Dennis
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Avoiding jumping frames in beamer

Sometimes I want an element on a frame to change in steps. I do this by \only<2>{ ... } \only<3>{ ... } etc. But this causes the frame to jump due to different sizes of the included content. How can this be avoided?
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How can I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to write LaTeX math formulas by voice efficiently?

I write LaTeX documents by voice using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for speech recognition. It allows me to write much faster than if I had to type on a keyboard (~ 100 WPM vs. 50), I find that voice commands are easier to remember than keyboard…
Franck Dernoncourt
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Verbatim environment that can break long lines?

I want to generate a PDF of user-submitted text using LaTeX. To handle crazy user input, I first thought about using the verbatim package, but of course it doesn't break up too long lines. Is there some package that works similar to verbatim (i.e.,…
kotlinski
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Crossing out sentences

I had to cross out a sentence and I did it the following way, which is kinda sloppy. $ \rlap{\textbf{-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------}}% {\mbox{Its derivative should be}}$ $2z +…
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What is the easiest way to draw a 3D cube with TikZ?

I'm trying to find the easiest way to draw a 3D cube (it's for my UML diagram) with TikZ. Could you please give an example? Like this:
yegor256
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Multiple references to the same footnote with hyperref support - is there a better solution?

According to the Latex wikibook the workaround for having multiple references to the same footnote with hyperref support is this: \footnote{This is the footnote}\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}\addtocounter{Hfootnote}{-1} I could of course simply wrap…
Björn Pollex
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How can I use LaTeX from Python.

I need to generate documents from a web application and would like to do this using the Python language and LaTeX, are there any tools that will help me? Edit This Application will be hosted on Linux, we can run any external commands using popen,…
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How bad for TeX is omitting braces {}, even if the result is the same?

Sometimes writing braces and omitting them produces the same result: \tilde{\psi} \mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i} \pi} vs \tilde \psi \mathrm e^{\mathrm i \pi} Or (taken from Werner's comment below) \frac{1}{2} vs \frac12 If that's the case, how bad…
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Need *.aux file in separate folder

When compiling with pdflatex we need the *.aux files in a separate folder.
S. Murugan
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My phd supervisor wants me to use Word because they can't edit LaTeX. What to do?

How do I make it possible for my supervisor to edit my thesis while using LaTeX? I submit a pdf document but they want to edit it.... how do I do this without switching to MS Word?
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Welcoming 2019 Pi day: How to draw the letter π?

First of all: don't forget that exactly 140 years ago, Albert Einstein was born; but exactly one year ago, Stephen William Hawking passed away. What a special day for science! Question How to draw the letter π not in the standard way (i.e.…
user156344
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Understanding line height / line spacing / baselineskip in LaTeX

I tried for a while now to figure out how LaTeX is determining the spacing between two lines but instead of getting clearer I'm more and more confused (and it seems the Internet is mostly confused, too), so let's see if turning it into a question…
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How to use the parskip package? (space in between paragraphs)

Sorry, because I think it's a many times asked topic. But I don't find an example which help me to understand how to create a white space between paragraphs. I think parskip is the package I need to use but I don't know how to use it. I have this…
Jorge Vega Sánchez
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Packages that need to be included in a specific order

This isn't a real question, so I'm marking it community wiki. When I was new to LaTeX, I thought that the \usepackage command worked much like the #include command of the C language: just put whatever you need in the preamble, in whatever order you…
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