I want to create a new environment, called usecase that will function like description environment: \begin{usecase} \item[Request item] Item is requested \item[Response] System returns requested item \end{usecase} And I want it to look like a regular billeted list with italicized terms, ...

I just recently noticed that when I have glossaries and acronyms on the same page the referencing isn't working correctly, meaning: when clicking on a reference, it jumps to the wrong place. \documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]...

I am using beamer to prepare a presentation and keep getting the following warning for each slide: Overfull \hbox (2.65947pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 99--99 [][][][] [] This is terribly annoying and slows down the compilation. The whole process has become a royal pain in the elbow. ...

I have installed MinionPro in Tex Live 2011 under OS X using the package README and the crib in the last answer here : MinionPro on Mac OS X The simple document \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{MinionPro} \begin{document} This is a test. \end{document} failed ...

I'm on Texlive 2011 on Linux, and I try to run this example: ftp://www.ctan.org/ctan/macros/latex2e/exptl/biblatex/doc/examples/21-indexing-advanced.tex I build, as recommended, with: latex 21-indexing-advanced.tex bibtex 21-indexing-advanced latex 21-indexing-advanced.tex On the second pa...

Put the \label at the end: \begin{theorem} With label.\label{L1} \end{theorem} It's a bug in thmbox way of doing its work.

My problem is as follows. I have many drawings with mathematical symbols. Only after the compilation of the last two there is a problem. On all other mathematical symbols are incorrectly displayed and the font changes from the Times to the Computer Modern. Any ideas how to solve it?

WinEdt 7 has been released with a claimed support of UTF8. It is true that now the arabic letters are showing correctly, but the default setting are still far from being useful. first, the arabic, persian and urdu words are made of connected letters (cursive writing), and winedt is showing them ...

Yesterday I decided to install TexLive 2011... but when I compile my latex documents in dvi, the dvi viewer (dviout) hangs, and I have to force the exit of the program. The dvi file is sucessfully created, but the viewer stucks saying "gswin32.exe is making tmpps1.pbm". This is so strange! I need...

I am writing this because I need a more efficient way to use the acmsmall class. The problem is when I add the .cls and .bst files within my folder everything works just fine, but when I remove them from the folder the message acmsmall.cls not found appears. Is there a way to add the class into ...

I cannot use latex, bibtex, pdftex commands on Terminal although I have already installed LaTeX on my computer. What about that? I have a MacOX SnowLeopard computer. I have installed LaTeX downloading directly of Latex website.

This question follows previous one about use of patgen. I installed TeX Live 2011 (thanks Martin) and find patgen (version 2.4) command. According to manual, command is: patgen dictionary_file pattern_file patout_file translate_file I do the same way like: patgen dic.dic pattern.pat out...

I have run into problems at my first attempt to use XeLaTeX and OpenType fonts. Even though I followed the instructions from the manual of the fontspec package, it seems that the bold+italic fonts are not loaded properly. I tried the set-up with different fonts installed on my system and it did...

How package developer find out whether other packages already used a specific command name or not? How do they avoid name collision?

[...] Your graphic driver pgfsys-xetex.def does not support fadings [...] That's what the following MWE returns: \documentclass{beamer} \usecolortheme{rose} \usecolortheme{seahorse} \useoutertheme{infolines} \setbeamertemplate{blocks}[rounded][shadow=true] \begin{document} \begin{frame}{} \be...

I need to make a presentation and am using beamer. I need to change this style. I want to replace this way: Standard style (wide or German, I need only one style) looks this way: And what I need is to add two fields in the upper part of the slide and in the lower part of the slide, but it can...

I've been using ebib to manage my .bib files, but I've just switched over from using bibtex to using biblatex & biber to actually generate the bibliographies in documents. Obviously the file format is still the same since I'm still just using .bib files, but a couple of things make ebib non-i...

I've using the examdesign class to create exams and it can do almost everything I want. But I find that I've been repeating myself as I reuse old exams as practice exams and quiz problems. I'd like to create a bank of test problems and it seems that this can almost be accomplished using the \Ins...

In my list of contents, the first row is the front page. And in the second line, there is the name of the author Is there a way to delete that from my list of contents? Example: And i have the following code in my prefix. \toctitle{Ticketmanagement System-Mobil} \titlerunning{Ticketmanagem...

An organization has the following specs for submitted articles: (a) maximum of 15 characters per 2.5 cm (b) maximum of 6 lines per 2.5 cm (c) minimum font size of 10 (d) Computer Modern font (e) 2.5 cm margins. Assuming an ``average text'', how can I maximize the number of words per page with suc...

I have posted this question to /r/vim, with no success. The title basically explains the situation: every time I compile with <leader>ll, Vim moves my cursor to the beginning of the line, which is really annoying! My vimrc can be found at http://pastebin.com/7F8hKyHs. Does anyone have any ...

When installing the MinionPro package from ctan I receive the following error after running the convert.sh script: Creating PostScript fonts ... warning: derived font name ‘MinionPro-SemiboldCnItCaptLCDFJ’ longer than 29 characters (Use the ‘--name’ option to supply your own name.) warning: de...

Synctex makes it possible to jump between your LaTeX code and the compiled PDF, which is absolutely great, if you have larger documents. However it is my impression that when you use environments, Synctex jumps only to the environment rather than the precise location you want to jump. This does n...

Is there a good template for software release notes? I typically cover new features, bug fixes, and enhancements. I'm currently using HTML but its ugly and not easy to distribute. Ultimately, I'd like to produce a single PDF.

How can one include an endnote within another endnote? The desired output would be one endnote structure with all endnotes appearing in the order in which they are invoked (i.e., a nested [child] endnote would have a number preceding that of a non-nested endnote occurring subsequent to the parent...

I'm trying to write a paper, and the format must adhere to APA style, 6th edition. I've found that I should use \documentclass{apa6} to do this. Well, I tried, and I get : File 'apa6.cls' not found. Of course I then saw Cannot get apa6 style to work in (MiK)TeX, and decided I could install...

If the objects do have all the same size, then \begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}c@{}} <object 1> & <object 2> \\ <object 3> & <object 3> \end{tabular} will do.

This is my first post here, so I can't promise to get all formatting right, but I'll try. Consider the following macro: \def\modes{{\bf \ifmmode\ifinner IM\else MM\fi\else TM\fi}} According to both the 'TeXbook' and 'TeX for the Impatient' the \ifinner macro should 'True if TeX is in [...] (n...

Unfortunately mathspec doesn't allow for specifying separately uppercase and lowercase letters.

I am relatively new to LaTeX, and I am having problems with using the algorithmic package. Whenever I add the command, \usepackage{algorithmic} and try to build the document, the number pages created is 0 and there are 0 errors and warnings too. I don't know where I am wrong. I am using MikT...

There's no way to make TeX stop at warnings. You can go to Plan B: the script texloganalyser (included in TeX Live) has facilities for showing different bits of the log file. As pointed to by John Collins, also pplatex and ppdflatex are meant to do this: http://www.stefant.org/web/projects/soft...

Although I'm not totally happy with this way of doing these trees, you can patch qtree so that the single branch tree produces no line. As long as you don't also need single branches, this will do what you want. I've made some other adjustments to your code: replacing \ensuremath{} with $...$ a...