Yesterday, we lost Hermann Zapf. Brilliant type designer, a very special person. Hermann was 96.
He lived in Darmstadt, Germany and had been an Honorary member of the board of the TeX Users Group since 1980, with the deserved title of “Wizard of Fonts”.
Hermann Zapf directly contributed to the TeX world with the Euler fonts and with several discussions with Donald Knuth about the design of the Computer Modern fonts. His legacy to the world of typography and type design is too big to be reduced to a list of his contributions: just the mention of Palatino, Optima and Zapfino, three fonts he designed, can illustrate his craftsmanship in type design. …
Jellyfish are... weird. They're clear, slimy, and can sting after death. Sounds perfect for experimentation, so lets weaponize them!
Consider a hypothetical world where jellyfish are extremely common and you can get them cheaply anywhere, and there's an extreme fascination amongst the human popu...
It has been pointed out on this site, e.g. here by egreg, that text punctuation doesn't belong to the formula in inline math. I've been following this practice for a long time, so I write for all $v\in V$, where ... as opposed to for all $v\in V,$ where .... However, the first version prevents ke...
How do I justify the chapternumber in the MWE below to the left? Thanks
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier}
\definecolor{wine}{rgb}{.5,0,0}
\makeatletter
\newlength\dlf@normtxtw
\setlength\dlf@normtxtw{\textwidth}
\def\myhelvetfont{\def\sf...
Like this?
The only change was in
\renewcommand\printchapternum{\null\hfill\feline@chm[2.5cm]\par}
deleting the \null\hfill.
The code:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{color,calc,graphicx,soul,fourier}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149}
\makeatlette...
I am using the daleif1 theme, and I would like to have the \part's title juste above the \chapter's title on the same page.
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{calc,graphicx,soul}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
\definecolor{nicered}{rgb}{.647,.129,.149}
\m...
I'm working with LaTeX for a short time, and I am currently trying to write my thesis with it, but unfortunately something just doesn't work. When I compile my files there is no Bibliography output generated. I am using JabRef as a help for organizing my bibliography stuff.
But when I compile my...
I want to read in a .csv file and draw each line as a point (x,y) with his color (r,g,b). I managed to set the points and the drawing part is fine except for the color. How can I use my variables out of my .csv file in the draw-method?
EDIT: Draw is used the way I thought it was supposed to, I ...
I can adjust the shape of nodes using commands such as minimum width or inner xsep, but these require explicit units. When I scale the entire figure (\begin{tikzpicture} [scale=0.5]) it does not scale the node.
NOTE The following question does not solve my problem:
Using scalable sizes for recta...
Is it possible to have pages displayed for both sections and subsections? As I see it, I can only choose between \Atbeginsection and \Atbeginsubsection.
Thank you
I found the code that permits the design of a gear. But what I want is to be able to
Control the distance between teeth so I can increase their numbers.
Fill each tooth with different colour.
Be able to write text in each teeth.
How can I do so?
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
...
I am having problems uploading my cv to many sites. It is written with pdflatex. I think that the problem is that the .pdf will not assemble into a bigger pdf at the other end. I have tried pdftk cvmc.pdf output cvnew.pdf allow Assembly to no avail. Any suggestions?
I am trying to make the title page for my master thesis. I found on the internet a template, in which the cover page is given by the following code
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
\textsc{\LARGE University Name}\\[1.5cm]
\textsc{\Large Master Thesis}\\[0.5cm]
{\huge \bfseries Thesis Title...
As I learned from Where can I find a list of English hyphenation exceptions?, using the fine collection ushyphex.tex takes care of some of the known wrong hyphenation for US-English. It also includes some proper names and internationalisms that will be useful for most languages.
Working with di...
I have downloaded additional Slovenian dictionary package for TeXstudio and when I run spellchecking, I thought it worked fine, since it pointed out some misspelled words and came up with possible replacements.
The problem is that spellckecker missed some obviously misspelled words.
I made ...
My "Conclusion" chapter do not have any figures or tables. I'm using the following code in the beginning of each chapter containing a figure/table in order to get a LOT/LOF with chapter headlines:
\addcontentsline{lof}{chapter}{{\large Chapter \ref{sec:somechapter}:\ \nameref{sec:somechapter}}}...
How to use the command \leqslant with pgfplots ?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\definecolor{mycolor}{cmyk}{0.00,0.18,0.29,0.02}
\begin{document}
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{dnorm}{2}{%
\pgfmathparse{1/(#2*sqrt(2*pi))*exp(-((x-#1)^2)/(2*#2^2))}%
}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
...
My text in thesis is as below:
%\documentclass[croppedpdf,pagebackref,showinstructions,showtodo]{adsphd}
%\documentclass[pagebackref,showinstructions,showtodo,showtodopriv,showlabels,biblatex,biber,biblatexstyle=authoryear]{adsphd}
%\documentclass[online]{adsphd}
%\documentclass[print]{adsphd}
\...
Tell me, please, what is connected with the error? winedt+miktex
I have a very large bibliography in Mendeley that I want to use for a Tex document. I have imported the bib-entries directly from the arxiv using the plug-in.
The trouble is that the titles and abstracts contain symbols like '^{}' etc.... When I try to compile I get a zillion of error messages....
I have been getting the same error " log file not found" all the time. I have the MikTex installed and it is on the path. my input file has a correct name. I set all options in the configuration as it must be. but still betting the same error. any new Idea? :(
I've started a new blank document and it shows a compile error even though it's a blank document. Any suggestions on why it's doing that?
I just started to learn LaTeX and I have this error popping up when I try to compile my file:
latex error: pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %tex
Can someone tell me what this error means and how to fix it? I would greatly appreciate it!
I get the following error
Package tikz Error: Giving up on this path. Did you forget a semicolon?.
when compiling this TikZ code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\def\r{1cm}
\def\v{2.5mm}
\foreach \n in {3,4,5,6}{
\begin{scope}[xsh...
This my first time to print my latex documents, I wrote all my thesis which contains huge equations, and compile it to PDF, it runs fine. But unfortunately, all my negative signs, plus or minus \pm, multiplication sign \times and square root \sqrt are not shown on the printed pages, what is the r...
I have this code
\documentclass[paper=a4, fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\allsectionsfont{\centering \normalfont \scshape}
I get...
Whenever I try to install some package from MiKTeX Package Manager, the packet manager crashes. Why would this be happening?
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mpm_mfc.exe
Application Version: 2.9.4196.0
Application Timestamp: 4e3327b8
Fault Module Name: Mi...
Is it possible to combine Aquamacs editing buffer and the speedbar with Skim in one window? If possible, I would like to be able to open all three windows from one button on an Apple macbook using OSX Yosemite 10.10.3.
I am writing a book using the amsbook style. I would like references to formulas and theorems to appear without chapter numbers when I cite within the chapter, and with them otherwise. For example, I want
... see (3.2) ... [if that equation is in the same chapter]
and
... see (II.3.2)... [if t...
I am trying to include a separate TeX file that will contain the text of a chapter, however when I try to point the main TeX file to the chapter TeX file, there is an error which claims to not be able to locate it.
Here is a MWE:
%%Preamble%%
\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babe...
I would like to use something like this in my LaTeX document: P29_Ampl_1. After this I have got an error because I use _. I can solve it by insertign $ between the P29_Ampl_1 -> $P29_Ampl_1$. It cause that text doesn't look good. How can I solve it. I would like to use P29_Ampl_1 as a normal plai...
This is my Metapost code that I wrote on Sublime Text on Windows 7:
filenametemplate "%j-%3c.mps";
verbatimtex
%&latex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\begin{document}
etex
beginfig(1)
pair G, H, I, D, E, F;
G:=(-1cm, 2/3 cm); H:=(0, 2/3 cm); I:=(1cm, 2/3 cm);
D:=(-0.5cm,...
I have had this problem before, and I have usually gotten around it the lazy way: by adding some filler text between the \end{minipage} and \end{example}, but I would like to know the correct way to do this. The code below doesn't give me an "end of proof" symbol:
\documentclass[12pt]{report} ...
I want to use babyloniannum to write some equations.
When I run the comipler I got errors like this
latex code:
\documentclass[paper=a4]{minimal}
\usepackage{pgffor}
\usepackage{babyloniannum}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{0.2\textwidth}
\noindent\foreach \n in {1,...,20}{%
\n\quad\ba...
I used gms package (a special package of AMS, provided for their Graduate Studies in Maths serie) to write a math book.
I got a problem with space, and then I want to narrow a line by reduce the space between words.
Here is a MWE :
\documentclass{gsm-l}
\usepackage[papersize={160mm,240mm}...
i can't have a minus sign in this "equation":
thanks
\documentclass[french,12pt,oneside,openright]{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx,xcolor}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackag...
