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LaTeX symbol for "does not divide"
What is the correct way to make the "does not divide" symbol in plain LaTeX 2e?
I'm talking about the symbol that is a vertical bar with a slash through it. I prefer not to install AMS or other packages, but instead to use plain LaTeX.
user448810
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Example environment?
I was wondering if there is any formal environment for specifying 'examples' through out the text. If not, which environments do you recommend?
Md Oliya
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Can a table include a horizontal dashed line?
In a normal table, you can use the \hline command to draw a horizontal line. I am trying to make this line a dashed horizontal line.
I have found the package dashrule via this answer, but this only works for \rule situations; i.e. it can't be…
jevon
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Multiple citations with pages using BibLaTeX
How can I do multiple citations with page numbers using bibLaTeX/biber?
I have tried \cite[2,3,4]{ref1,ref2,ref3,ref4} but it doesn't work.
SpmP
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How to upload LaTeX-generated pdf paper to arXiv without LaTeX sources
arXiv is smart enough to detect whether your PDF is generated by LaTeX.
If it is, arXiv asks for the sources of the PDF instead of the PDF file itself.
This is really annoying and inconvenient.
I ask a way to fool the arXiv and avoid PDFs being…
Changwang Zhang
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Adding a large brace next to a body of text
I'm writing a short document listing some chronological events. I want to pick out a period with a big brace. Here's a quick mockup:
What's the best way to do this? Can I set the size declaratively - ie from line A to line B - somehow?
Internet man
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Tabular: title above and caption below?
I have a table that I would like to put the Title above and a caption below. Intuitively (though I know how troublesome intuition can be in something like LaTeX), I should be able to do as below:
\begin {table}[H]
\caption {Table Title}…
Alec
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What is the difference between \eqref and \ref?
Is there any difference between \eqref and \ref? I used both of them in my document using the package classicthesis and saw no difference in the result. Is there any specific situation in which I should use \eqref or \ref?
shashashamti2008
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LaTeX Introductions in languages other than English
Inspired by What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner?, I thought that it might be useful to collect a list of the many brilliant introductory LaTeX books and tutorials written in languages other than English. I think that such a list…
Jesper Ipsen
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Utility to Strip Comments from LaTeX Source
I've a LaTeX source.
I'm ready %for submission
%But first I would like
to strip its comments.
So I hope there are
100\% auto
ways to get this done.
\begin{comment}
Because there are subtle ways to mess it up.
\end{comment}
Is there a utility…
Richard
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What is the difference between \let and \edef?
When you write
\edef\a{\b}
\let\a\b
the results are often identical. What is the difference between these two commands? When do they behave the same? When do they not?
(The question isn't for me; inspired by this question comparing \let and \def,…
Will Robertson
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Reasons to use plain TeX
Given the active development in LaTeX and ConTeXt, and how LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical details and ConTeXt gives the user extensive control over formatting thus taking useful complementary approaches (see ConTeXt wiki), are there…
user2265
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Advantages and disadvantages of fully expandable macros
As I currently understand them, fully-expandable macros are analogous to pure/effect-free functions in functional programming. Correspondingly, things that are not expandable, such as \def, are effectful computations -- they can't be "evaluated"…
Henry DeYoung
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How to draw an ellipse?
As I know, I can draw a circle using:
\draw (1,0) circle (2)
I try this kind of method to draw a \draw ellipse, failed. Would you tell me how to draw a ellipse? What's wrong with the code below?
The code…
sweetyBaby
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Label rows of a matrix by characters
How to add label to index the rows and columns of the matrix ?
because I want to number the line outside the matrix
\[
\begin{array}{lc}
\ Mat_{\varPhi to M} & \left(\begin{array}{@{}ccccc@{}}
1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
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Chouria Ali
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