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Beamer Bibliography Icon

I want to list my references in a beamer presentation using thebibliography environment, with the nice little book icon (\beamertemplatebookbibitems) and article icon (\beamertemplatearticlebibitems) in front of each source. Is there an icon for…
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Fitting text to a shape in TikZ

I am designing a poster, which has some geometrical shapes (TikZ paths) surrounded by some text. I would like the text to flow neatly around these shapes. I bet there's some clever TikZ magic that could do this. EDIT: This is the sort of effect I…
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Is there any way to get real-time compilation for LaTeX?

I would really love to have a software or tool which provided real time compilation of my LaTeX document (to be able to see the final pdf or dvi document as I type the latex code), especially for when I am drawing pictures using tikZ. So far, I know…
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Is there any way to type LaTeX code directly into the text boxes Inkscape?

I use Inkscape on Windows 7 platform. The principle to enter integrals and other mathematical symbols in Inkscape seems that the best thing to do and write them in a LaTeX compiler and cut them in Adobe PDF and paste it into Inkscape as…
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Hide tick numbers in a TikZ/PGF axis environment.

I have a TikZ/PGF axis enviroment where by default numbers are shown along the ticks. I want it to look like this: (Axis without tick numbers) I found out how to modify the ticks itself using something like x tick label style={major tick…
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Is there a LaTeX trick to prevent a PDF viewer from copying the line number?

A PDF output is obtained by compiling the following code. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{listings} \lstset { language={[LaTeX]TeX}, numbers=left, numbersep=1em, numberstyle=\tiny, …
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How to cite a University lecture (or its slides or script)

I need to write an introduction to a topic which relies heavily on several University lecture slides and scripts. I would like to acknowledge this by using something like this: The following exposé is based on the lectures by \citet{A, B, C} and on…
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All letters in uppercase, but the first letter bigger than the other ones

I want to know how can I achieve this effect in LaTeX: Basically it looks like this: {F}IRST {L}ETTER, where the letters in the braces are a little bigger than the other ones but they all the letters are uppercase. Any suggestions?
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Subfigure: error "Missing number, treated as zero"

\begin{figure} \center \begin{subfigure}[b] \includegraphics[width=60mm]{a} \label{fig:a} \end{subfigure} % \begin{subfigure}[b] \includegraphics[width=60mm]{b} \label{fig:b} \end{subfigure} …
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Aligning equations with text with alignat

I'm trying to add this expression to my work: I understand that the best way to achieve this is using the alignat environment within the amsmath package, so I tried the following: \begin{alignat*}{3} m && \text{módulo} && m>0\\ a &&…
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Axis break in pgfplots

Is there an easy way to 'break' the axis in a pgfplots environment? What I'm talking about is something like this Any minimal plot will do as an example...for example \documentclass{minimal} …
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How to automatically resize the vertical bar in a set comprehension?

I have a simple command which I use to write set comprehensions so that the braces automatically resize with respect to size of the enclosed arguments, e.g. \usepackage{amsmath} \newcommand{\set}[1]{\left\lbrace…
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Using Notepad++ with MiKTeX on Windows

I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows. So far I've been using LeD to compile my PDFs (using pdflatex). I want to start using Notepad++ to compile my LaTeX PDFs as I've lately become very fond of this editor. Would anyone be able to point me to a way to…
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Reducing the time it takes to write a document

Exemplar case I often have situations in which I must quickly write and print a report, within a short time. Some features of TeX allow me to work quickly. For example, with BibTeX, I can quickly add a source to an article. Issue However, some…
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Why is 1.5 the default pdf version?

At least TexLive creates PDFs by default in version 1.5. Why this particular version? This question has been asked before in a comment and didn't receive the attention it deserves. (duh!) This site alone has multiple questions concerning the problem…
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