@NicolaTalbot Psmith, the TeX bot: Here is your fortune: Confucius say: if you think we are going to sum up your whole life on this little bit of paper, you are crazy.
I have a very long equation of the following format
\begingroup
\allowdisplaybreaks
\begin{align}
a &= very long expression here
+ & another long expression here
+ & another long expression here
\end{align}
\endgroup
Now this equation is labelled thrice for each line. How do i make sure th...
@NicolaTalbot Psmith, the TeX bot: Here is your fortune: Confucius say: if you think we are going to sum up your whole life on this little bit of paper, you are crazy.
@egreg Could you tell me, why Gonzalo Medina is using \hfill\phantom{P} in his answer: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112288/…. It works without it. He doesn't reply.
@Speravir It depends where this chat room gets positioned on the screen when you leave. It's usually first, so I can just click on it again, but sometimes it's further along the row, which wastes time while I look for it.
@PauloCereda We're trying an experiment to see if we can replicate the same conditions where my avatar managed to cross when I apparently left and arrived at the same time.
I use scrbook.cls
How to generate TOC from .toc file information available with me.
using Pretty Table of Contents
solution with memoir documentclass
I want to generate TOC separately and i want to attach to main pdf file. (As i am not using memoir.cls)
I don't understand why LaTeX is giving me this error:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \@Arabic
\c@page
l.1 ...berline {1}Introduction}{\@Arabic \c@page }
Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nostamp]{draftwatermark}
\begin{document}
Hello World
\end{document}
The error message looks like this:
! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `nostamp' for package `draftwatermark'.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanatio...
I’m using the \cite package with by appearance ordering in the references section. All good, however I’d like to extend the ordering.
Let’s say I use \cite(zhang2001, fisher2012, primroseIET2013) yielding (28,1,51).
I could reorder the cites myself, but this is likely to mess up similar orderin...
Searching for a way to calculate the left side horizontal coordinate of a bounding box of a given character in a given pdf, I came across the XeTeX Reference where on page 8 it explains the calculation of the bounding box:
What does kern and the % mean ?
Is there a way to make use of \XeTeXg...
I am using the followig:
\chapter{Theoretical framework}
\section{Econometric framework}
\begin{equation}
{r^{h}_{t+1}}=
\alpha+\beta x_{t} + u^{h}_{t}
\end{equation}
%random test equationn
\begin{equation}
{a}=
\log \left( 1 +\sum_{k=1}^n b_k \right)
\end{equation}
However this makes the...
I have a lot of Windows file/folder paths and register paths in my document. And I'm having 2 problems:
The \ is seen as and escape character which obviously doesn't compile. \\ Starts a new line rather than escaping the \. I tried $$ too, but that didn't work either.
There is no line breaking,...
@JosephWright A MWE is needed, but I think the OP wants the citations sorted in the cited list. In which case the answer given is okay, but could do with a MWE.
@JosephWright Isn't that just a case of using \verb (given that pathnames look best in typewriter font)?
Trying to use pst-gantt right now, and although I'm following the documentation as closely as I can (the specific documentation of pst-gantt seems to be a bit vague), and have tried again and again to output something meaningful. Mostly have been getting strange output where lots of text is overl...
OK I'm not a LaTeX developer but I'm using someone else's file to produce a document. I don't know LaTeX at all, How do I pass a command option to tell the package to use english and not french when this is in the .cls file?
\DeclareOption{french}{\ORG@isfrenchtrue}
\DeclareOption{english}{\ORG@...
I am new to using LaTeX and ran into the following problem. I make use of the apacite package. I made a .bib file with the following entry:
@misc{Ambulancezorkort,
author = {Rijksinstituut voor gezondheid en milieu, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid Welzijn en Sport},
title = {Ambulancezorg ko...
I'm trying to add a glossary to an article in ShareLaTeX but It seems the whole \makeglossariescommand doesn't work if you don't use the makeglossaries document_namewhen compiling (as it says
here).
Is there any way to force the compiler to execute that (I mean the shareLaTeX-online-compiler)?
I'm trying to draw an automata in LaTeX with TikZ, but I don't know how to make a long transition between two states. I need a sized label to be placed on it.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{automata,positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[shorten >=1pt,node ...
My problem is that after adding a chapter now I have a blank page with just these characters:
ï¾
The page is between the new chapter and appendix A.
I'm wondering why. How ca I get rid of that page?
Here's part of my preamble:
\documentclass[a4paper,singleside,11pt]{report}
\usepackage{ia_u...
My table consists of two groups of rows. The first group contains large values (X,XXX). The second groups contains smaller values (0.XXX). Siunitx aligns all numbers based on the position of the decimal marker. The result isn't beautiful: some numbers are aligned very much the left, while others ...
@Speravir I wasn’t active in the chat for quite some time. But maybe I have only got a notification after much more time. Usually I get the typical Stackexchange notification after about half an hour.
I had a very very similar problem with footnote inside mbox.
My original problem started using the glossaries package, using a glossary entry inside the description environment, a minimal example is shown here:
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[acronym,toc,section=chapter,style=indexgrou...
Whenever I have a pandoc markdown file that I am converting to PDF or HTML, and it contains a reference to a large biblatex file (> 100 KB) for citations, the performance is incredibly slow. I end up needing to convert directly to tex first and then running regular latex commands, e.g. latex, bib...
I've encountered a problem very similar to this: I'm trying to run Kile 2.9.60 on windows through KDE 4.8.00. After successfully installing Kile with the dependent packages (Kile, Kate, kde-baseapps,kde-workspace,okular), I've managed to run it but I cannot compile PDF files. I get the following ...
I have the toc showing up to \subsubsection, by
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
The problem is that the \subsection and \subsubsection are listed at the same distance from the left margin. I would like to have the \subsubsection farther away from the left margin, i.e. ``double inden...
Is it possible to specify the exact and absolute page one wishes some content/environment (e.g. a minipage or similar) to be output? In particular, I'm interested in being able to place the code for the content at some convenient point in the source file(s), for example the beginning of a chapter...
I'm using the Calligra font for the names on wedding invitations and I am having some problems related to kerning. As stated by egreg in a comment to Unsightly spacing with Calligra font (Christmas card), no kerning is defined for Calligra. The solution presented, ie. to \kern manually, would be ...
I want to know if it's possible to fill an area interval (i.e from -0.2 to 0.2) under a gaussian curve, more exactly just an interval under this curve, using PSTricks.
I'm using pst-func, pst-plot, pst-math, pstricks-add packages also. Based on pst-func package
\psset{yunit=4cm,xunit=3}
\begi...
This question follows on this post Plot
To be short I can't run this file:
\documentclass[png,border=10pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\pgfkeys{/tikz/.cd,
vertical factor/.initial=0.5,
vertical factor/.get=\vertfactor,
vertical factor/.st...
In this case I'd already effectively answered in a comment, which the questioner apparently found correct. I've taken the liberty of turning it into an answer.
I'm writing my thesis in LyX using Biblatex.
Would it be possibly to get an output bibliography that is subdivided into one section with the work of my main subject (Wittgenstein) referred to with abbreviations of his works and another section with other authors referred to authoryear-style?
ED...
@egreg -- hate to disagree about tex.stackexchange.com/questions/97689/… ; while i agree that it's not particularly tightly described, the concept is not unknown. i've had to do this sort of thing in plain tex; too complicated to describe here, but i'll try to do so later, off-line.
In Texmaker, in the caption environment, why does spell check not work if the figure has a label?
This is an example I made to show this 'feature':
From the first line, we see that the spell-checker is working as normal. This also follows in the figure environment, but not in the caption envi...
I am trying to make a 36 x 36 poster, but the dimensions are not coming out correctly. I have tried
\documentclass[size=custom,width=91.44,height=91.44]{sciposter}
.
.
.
\renewcommand{\papertype}{custom} \renewcommand{\fontpointsize}{25pt}
\setlength{\paperwidth}{91.44cm} \setlength{\paperheig...
This question follows on this post Plot
To be short I can't run this file:
\documentclass[png,border=10pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\pgfkeys{/tikz/.cd,
vertical factor/.initial=0.5,
vertical factor/.get=\vertfactor,
vertical factor/.st...
@kan looks like TeXmaker disables spell-checking on a line with \label indeed - probly to avoid correcting label names, which don't need to be grammatically correct...
@kan TL then?
@kan maybe wait a bit more? the post is 2 weeks old
@CountZero Yes, but, I'd still consider that a bug. The whole line should not be dropped from spell checking. May be, some one should file a bug report... what do you think?
@CountZero Ok, sure! I think I can write up something too...
I've moved from the outdated OS install of TexLive to the custom install. Everything seems to have completed fine. A package called csvsimple requires xcolor loaded. I've tried installing via tlmgr install xcolor but get the following error:
tlmgr: package repository
http://ctan.mirror.ac.z...
I'm putting many tables in many files generated by csv files.
I'm using datatools (opposed to say pgfplotstable) because it is much more forgiving in terms of the csv input format (e.g. it ignores quotes around text). However, I would like to make my tables "stripy" with a grey color every other...
pgfplot provides the possibility to insert a discontinuity on the axes (see MWE 1 & first srceenshot). However, it seems as this discontinuity is only applicable from the value 0 to ymin/xmin.
I plotted a histogram in which the occurrence of the values between -50 and -1.8 as well as between 3 a...
I'm trying to format a picture so that it fills the text width however it always errors and fills the whole page.
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{circle}
is the line I'm currently using also this is probably relevent
\documentclass[twocolumn,reprint,nofootinbib]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{gra...
I.e: I had my plots arranged with a 3-in-a-row style with this code:
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\subfigure[Figure A]{\includegraphics[width=55mm]{a.jpg}}
\subfigure[Figure B]{\includegraphics[width=55mm]{b.jpg}}
\subfigure[Figure B]{\includegraphics[width=55mm]{c.jpg}}
\caption{Small files}\labe...
My problem involes a qed symbol which appears too early.
My observations are that it happens after a displaymath inside an item of an unboxed inline list.
All of this seems to be necessary to produce the error.
The packages involved are ntheorem, thmtools and enumitem.
If I compile this code wi...
Disclaimer: I have very little knowledge of programming, but I have started using LaTeX and need to use it to track changes for revisions. latexdiff was working fine for me and I got a nice output file. However, now when I try to run it I get the following error:
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{do...
In the 2008 documentation of latex2html it is referred to a html package that permits to put some latex command inside conditional environments (latexonly and htmlonly).
It's useful because I want my latex source to be universal, and function for PDF creation and for HTML creation too.
Unfortunat...
Im using a complex template to write my document. It is old and I'm having a problem. I have two separate reference list, "Internet References" and "Literature". The problem is that the references counter "[3]" on "internet References" always starts with number 3 and it should start from 1 "1". T...
Is this a bug? Where can this be reported? Can someone of you report this?
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\begin{document}
bla
\end{document}
Output:
redefsymbols
bla
However, with this code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\usepackage{si...
Using the newtxmath package with beamer produces wrong output for the \hat{} command. I don't see the problem in the article mode. Also, using alternative packages such as times cause no problems. I am using TeX Live with kile under Linux Mint 14KDE.
\documentclass[handout,utf8]{beamer}
\usepack...
I'm kind of new to LaTeX and I'm struggling a lot to make a glossary. I'm using Texmaker under Windows, but I'm not very good at programing. I'm using \usepackage[toc]{glossaries} because I read that there is no version of xindy (somehow better for spanish users as myself) for Windows, or the sol...
I have most of the code in Python, which renders very nice with this simple configuration of lstlisting
At a certain point I have to include an XML file, so I switched to language=XML but it renders ugly with the default charset so I added also basicstyle=\ttfamily. Now I don't know how to switc...
I'm having a problem getting references in my document using Texshop. I searched for multiple solutions and already tried them but they didn't help me. At the end of my .tex file, I wrote the following lines:
\nocite{coronafe,finite}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{CoronaProject}
\end{do...
I am looking for a way to integrate handwritten math formula recognition (to LaTex) in my app. A good example of this can be seen here
http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html?locale=default
Any suggestions on where I can start or an available api to do this?
Is there a way to type some words in bold in an algorithmic environment? I want to have the word stop typed, but when I use \STOP, this gives me an error.
I'm new to TikZ and have produced the following figure
This is what I want except the fact the arrowed lines do not all join in the centre of the diamonds for some reason, why is this? and how can I make them all join up? The code I used is:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepac...
I wanted to write a theorem as
\begin{thm}
The number of VNs in a cycle of length $l$ is $l/2$.
\end{thm}
But, the following error is coming
! Latex Error: Something's wrong- perhaps a missing \item
What could be the mistake that i have made??
I want to create an empty form which will have several blocks.
After adding text to boxes empty spaces will be replaces with dots.
Is it possible?
\documentclass[10pt]{extarticle}
\usepackage[top=6.5cm,left=1.0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[pdfpagemode=None,pdfstartview=FitH]{hyperref}
\usepackage{e...
I'm attempting to use the exam document class to write an exam for my class, and for some reason this particular exam is not leaving space for their answers when I use the [noanswers] argument to the document class. Here is the markup:
\documentclass[noanswers]{exam}
% Additional LaTeX Packages...
How does makeindex sort alphabets of a language? How many languages does it support? Is the sorting hardcoded or does it provide someways to create sorting alphabets for a new language?
@kan I don't think so. What the questioner wants is some way of producing a pdf form, I think, which will get filled in in some way and then dots added afterwards. I have no idea if that's possible, but I don't think it's just dotfill!
@PaulStanley Oh, pdf form! I see. OK. Sorry about that. Reading comments, I could figure the last bit, but I thought, all (s)he was saying was have dots under entries.
Using the CSV Tools perl script (this is to remove the CSVTools commands so that everything is in one file), I'm getting the following error. There is no EOF character in the CSV file (except at the end of the file). Has someone else had this problem? Here is the error:
Bens-MacBook-Pro:Ellis...
I use Ubuntu 12.04 and I'm just getting started with TeXmaker. However, I need to get the library/package (what's the difference anyway?) for it to work and I'm having trouble with finding it in the Ubuntu software manager. I have thought of installing them manually, but again I think I would hav...
I have a MacOSX 10.7. I wanted to install MacTeX (2012) on my Mac. But after installing TeXShop could not compile a simple Text. I used a former version of MacTeX on my Tiger Systems for which it was working well.
Now with the OSX10.7 I have the problem. I get the following error message:
/usr/...
I installed MAC OS X 10.6.8 some weeks ago. Whenever I compile .tex file the following message turns up:
"Can't find required tool.
usr/textbin/pdflatex/simpdftex does not exist. Perhaps TeXLive was not installed or was removed during a system upgrade. If so, go to the TeXShop web site ...
I have a very long equation of the following format
\begingroup
\allowdisplaybreaks
\begin{align}
a &= very long expression here
+ & another long expression here
+ & another long expression here
\end{align}
\endgroup
Now this equation is labelled thrice for each line. How do i make sure th...
For example, the sum and term general of an arithmetic progression in LaTeX?
I use scrbook.cls
How to generate TOC from .toc file information available with me.
using Pretty Table of Contents
solution with memoir documentclass
I want to generate TOC separately and i want to attach to main pdf file. (As i am not using memoir.cls)
I don't understand why LaTeX is giving me this error:
! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \@Arabic
\c@page
l.1 ...berline {1}Introduction}{\@Arabic \c@page }
Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[nostamp]{draftwatermark}
\begin{document}
Hello World
\end{document}
The error message looks like this:
! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `nostamp' for package `draftwatermark'.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanatio...
I’m using the \cite package with by appearance ordering in the references section. All good, however I’d like to extend the ordering.
Let’s say I use \cite(zhang2001, fisher2012, primroseIET2013) yielding (28,1,51).
I could reorder the cites myself, but this is likely to mess up similar orderin...
Searching for a way to calculate the left side horizontal coordinate of a bounding box of a given character in a given pdf, I came across the XeTeX Reference where on page 8 it explains the calculation of the bounding box:
What does kern and the % mean ?
Is there a way to make use of \XeTeXg...
I am using the followig:
\chapter{Theoretical framework}
\section{Econometric framework}
\begin{equation}
{r^{h}_{t+1}}=
\alpha+\beta x_{t} + u^{h}_{t}
\end{equation}
%random test equationn
\begin{equation}
{a}=
\log \left( 1 +\sum_{k=1}^n b_k \right)
\end{equation}
However this makes the...
I have a lot of Windows file/folder paths and register paths in my document. And I'm having 2 problems:
The \ is seen as and escape character which obviously doesn't compile. \\ Starts a new line rather than escaping the \. I tried $$ too, but that didn't work either.
There is no line breaking,...
I am new to using LaTeX and ran into the following problem. I make use of the apacite package. I made a .bib file with the following entry:
@misc{Ambulancezorkort,
author = {Rijksinstituut voor gezondheid en milieu, Ministerie van Volksgezondheid Welzijn en Sport},
title = {Ambulancezorg ko...
I'm trying to add a glossary to an article in ShareLaTeX but It seems the whole \makeglossariescommand doesn't work if you don't use the makeglossaries document_namewhen compiling (as it says
here).
Is there any way to force the compiler to execute that (I mean the shareLaTeX-online-compiler)?
I'm trying to draw an automata in LaTeX with TikZ, but I don't know how to make a long transition between two states. I need a sized label to be placed on it.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{automata,positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[shorten >=1pt,node ...
My problem is that after adding a chapter now I have a blank page with just these characters:
ï¾
The page is between the new chapter and appendix A.
I'm wondering why. How ca I get rid of that page?
Here's part of my preamble:
\documentclass[a4paper,singleside,11pt]{report}
\usepackage{ia_u...
I had a very very similar problem with footnote inside mbox.
My original problem started using the glossaries package, using a glossary entry inside the description environment, a minimal example is shown here:
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[acronym,toc,section=chapter,style=indexgrou...
[Converting a comment to an answer]
Try
\[ \left/ \begin{array}{l} V(p)= \\ F(p)= \end{array} \right/ \]
I have the toc showing up to \subsubsection, by
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
The problem is that the \subsection and \subsubsection are listed at the same distance from the left margin. I would like to have the \subsubsection farther away from the left margin, i.e. ``double inden...
I want to know if it's possible to fill an area interval (i.e from -0.2 to 0.2) under a gaussian curve, more exactly just an interval under this curve, using PSTricks.
I'm using pst-func, pst-plot, pst-math, pstricks-add packages also. Based on pst-func package
\psset{yunit=4cm,xunit=3}
\begi...
This question follows on this post Plot
To be short I can't run this file:
\documentclass[png,border=10pt,tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\pgfkeys{/tikz/.cd,
vertical factor/.initial=0.5,
vertical factor/.get=\vertfactor,
vertical factor/.st...
I'm writing my thesis in LyX using Biblatex.
Would it be possibly to get an output bibliography that is subdivided into one section with the work of my main subject (Wittgenstein) referred to with abbreviations of his works and another section with other authors referred to authoryear-style?
ED...
I've moved from the outdated OS install of TexLive to the custom install. Everything seems to have completed fine. A package called csvsimple requires xcolor loaded. I've tried installing via tlmgr install xcolor but get the following error:
tlmgr: package repository
http://ctan.mirror.ac.z...
I'm trying to format a picture so that it fills the text width however it always errors and fills the whole page.
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{circle}
is the line I'm currently using also this is probably relevent
\documentclass[twocolumn,reprint,nofootinbib]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{gra...
My problem involes a qed symbol which appears too early.
My observations are that it happens after a displaymath inside an item of an unboxed inline list.
All of this seems to be necessary to produce the error.
The packages involved are ntheorem, thmtools and enumitem.
If I compile this code wi...
I wanted to draw a tree diagram so that i can put citations beside the node texts. Is there an example in code?
Is this a bug? Where can this be reported? Can someone of you report this?
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\begin{document}
bla
\end{document}
Output:
redefsymbols
bla
However, with this code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\usepackage{si...
I'm new to TikZ and have produced the following figure
This is what I want except the fact the arrowed lines do not all join in the centre of the diamonds for some reason, why is this? and how can I make them all join up? The code I used is:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepac...
I wanted to write a theorem as
\begin{thm}
The number of VNs in a cycle of length $l$ is $l/2$.
\end{thm}
But, the following error is coming
! Latex Error: Something's wrong- perhaps a missing \item
What could be the mistake that i have made??
I want to create an empty form which will have several blocks.
After adding text to boxes empty spaces will be replaces with dots.
Is it possible?
\documentclass[10pt]{extarticle}
\usepackage[top=6.5cm,left=1.0cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[pdfpagemode=None,pdfstartview=FitH]{hyperref}
\usepackage{e...
I'm attempting to use the exam document class to write an exam for my class, and for some reason this particular exam is not leaving space for their answers when I use the [noanswers] argument to the document class. Here is the markup:
\documentclass[noanswers]{exam}
% Additional LaTeX Packages...
How does makeindex sort alphabets of a language? How many languages does it support? Is the sorting hardcoded or does it provide someways to create sorting alphabets for a new language?
I have a MacOSX 10.7. I wanted to install MacTeX (2012) on my Mac. But after installing TeXShop could not compile a simple Text. I used a former version of MacTeX on my Tiger Systems for which it was working well.
Now with the OSX10.7 I have the problem. I get the following error message:
/usr/...
I installed MAC OS X 10.6.8 some weeks ago. Whenever I compile .tex file the following message turns up:
"Can't find required tool.
usr/textbin/pdflatex/simpdftex does not exist. Perhaps TeXLive was not installed or was removed during a system upgrade. If so, go to the TeXShop web site ...
