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How to modify the space between the numbers and text of sectioning titles in the table of contents?
I'm preparing a document using the book class. In the table of contents, the space between the subsection number and title is too wide. How to reduce it?
Ilya Ginzburg
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Different margins for title page
My document class is article with a4paper. The margins that I want for the body are:
top: 1 inch
bottom: 1 inch
right: 0.5 inch
left: 1.5 inch
The title page should have a 1 inch margin on all four sides, but the body of my paper should have…
nixnotwin
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number format in pgfplots axis
How can I change the type of the decimal/thousand separator from the american one to the european one? More precisely, I want:
"1000" to be written as is, instead of "1,000"
"0,1" instead of "0.1"
Mircea Gherzan
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What is CTAN.org now?
Today I clicked in this link in TeX StackExchange http://ctan.org/pkg/svg and I got this message (screenshot below).
In particular, what does it mean that "Latex Productions International has acquired the world wide exclusive rights from D.F.Knuth"…
alfC
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How to avoid page-breaks inside paragraphs?
I would like to know if there is any global command that would prevent any page-breaks inside paragraphs. I'd rather have the whole paragraph on the next page instead of having it cut in the middle. I tried the \nopagebreak command but it doesn't do…
themetis
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Differences between "xindy" and "makeindex"
I'd like to know which are the essential differences between makeindex and xindy (or texindy) in this sense:
What things can we do with xindy that we can not do with makeindex? or vice versa.
What is the primary use of each one of them?
Syntactic…
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How to control the position of floating images?
Possible Duplicate:
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
I want to make it like this:
text
image
text
image
But even if I put [h!] to the position the figures, the figure is moved to the next page because it is too large. The…
user606521
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Crop jpeg into circular tikz node
\documentclass[demo]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[circle,draw,inner sep=2cm]{\includegraphics{myimage.jpg}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
How do I modify the above code so that the…
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How is arc defined in TikZ?
Several questions about how arc is computed:
The start and end angles seem to be defined relative to the y axis, yet in the Tikz manual they are defined relative to the x axis. Is this right?
Is the end angle defined between the y (or x) axis and…
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Is it ever bad to use \left and \right?
For mathematics, is it ever disadvantageous to use \left( and \right) in equations?
I can't see any way that doing this would hinder the typesetting, so why isn't () just converted into \left( \right) automatically? This would save a lot of…
user50612
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Test if a package (or package option) is loaded
[french]{babel} (aka frenchb) is incompatible with some other packages, such as tikz, since it tries to insert \thinspace before semi-colons.
In order to make these two play nice, you have to call \shorthandoff{;} in the document.
Now I have a…
raphink
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Where to put the institute information in the article document class?
I've seen in other document classes that one can input the authors' institutes via special commands, for example in revtex4 I can put
\title{Aggregation According to Classical Kinetics---From Nucleation to
Coarsening}
\author{Yossi…
Yossi Farjoun
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\par vs \paragraph
What is the difference between \par and \paragraph? I can skip a space between two paragraphs and have it retained on in the output on XeLaTeX. How is the effect different from using paragraph environment?
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Difference of the \dots*
I came to wonder, what is the difference between the following?
\dotsc
\dotso
As well as between:
\dotsb
\dotsi
\dotsm
Dennis
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Omit heading in biblatex with printbibliography
Is it possible to omit the heading when I use the \printbibliography command?
I want to print two different bibliographies one after the other and need to add some text between the second heading and the bibitems.
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bibitem1
bibitem2
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