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What is ⍼ used for?
This is a crosspost from the Mathematics Stack Exchange (original post there deleted), I thought I'd ask here as well in case anyone knows. In the STIX package there is a character called \rangledownzigzagarrow, which corresponds to U+237C ⍼ RIGHT…
ionchy
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Are there any disadvantages of TeX being Turing complete?
I have read that TeX is Turing complete. I was wondering if making TeX Turing complete gave raise to unwanted effects.
nimcap
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Change the type of equation numbering in document class article
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Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements
I have written my thesis in document class 'article' (don't ask me why). Now I want to number my equations by sections, i.e. in…
Wolfgang
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Can you make chemical structure diagrams in LaTeX?
Can you create diagrams of chemical structures in LaTeX?
Example(s) of "chemical structure diagrams":
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Turning off and on images in figures
Is it possible to prevent the contents of a figure from being rendered? I have a large book document, and to speed up compiling while working on a draft, I would like to have some way of ignoring the content of the images, but ensuring that the…
celenius
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How do you cite conference proceedings?
This might be a little far fetched for this site, if it's inappropriate, close it, but please direct me to where I could ask this question.
My bibliography is growing quite huge and the time has come for me to standardize it. Most of the papers in…
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How to get intersection point(s) of two glyphs?
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I'd like to introduce you my long-term task which I wish to see solved one day.
Let's have two glyphs (any fonts, glyphs, location, transformation), one fixed, one moveable and some (randomly selected) direction. How to find a…
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How can I see the "implementation" of protected commands such as \LaTeX?
After reading another question relating to how to see definitions of commands, I tried:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\show\LaTeX
\end{document}
But this shows me in my logfile:
\LaTeX=macro:
\protect \LaTeX
I just want to see where the…
mring
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Add more anchors to standard TikZ nodes
I frequently find myself needing more than the standard anchors TikZ nodes provide, i.e. north, north east, east and so forth. I usually use coordinate calculations for this, as in the example below, but it's a bit tedious for such a seemingly…
Jake
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multicol and figures
I have a two column document (using multicol) and want to insert figures so that they do NOT span columns. I have searched around and the only thing I can find says that only figure* is supported which spans the whole page (both columns). Is there a…
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What do ExplSyntaxOn and ExplSyntaxOff do?
Related to the question What do \makeatletter and \makeatother do? for LaTeX2e, here related to LaTeX3
What do \ExplSyntaxOn and \ExplSyntaxOff do?
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Add tif image to LaTeX
I have to add .tif graphic in my LaTeX file, but it is not working.
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=15mm]{myGraphic.tif}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
After some research, .tif files won't…
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How can I set the page number to any needed value?
I have a seven page long paper which will be assembled with other papers. I know that the first page of my paper will be page 68 in the assembled work. What can i do to tell LaTeX to start counting from 68?
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.bib library file in a different directory, how to use? (Mendeley centralised .bib file)
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Hello All,
I have the possibility of a centralised, updated .bib file using Mendeley Desktop. This file will stay updated with all the changes I make using my Mendeley citation software.
I want to access this centralised .bib file via…
Timtico
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How to arrange image and text to appear side by side?
I want to place an image on my document and have it appear, say, on the right part of the page with text flowing on the left. How can I do that with LaTeX? Just like one would do with HTML and images “floating” to the right (or left).
(when…
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