{formatting} is for general questions about formatting document elements. Use this tag in addition to other tags specifying what should be formatted. For questions about font attributes (e.g., {bold}, {italic}, {small-caps}, {sans-serif}, {typewriter}), use the appropriate tag instead.
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Is it possible to use the listings package incrementally in beamer?
Given a frame that has code rendered in a \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} environment, is it possible to use beamer's incremental frame building feature to highlight code snippets?
Here is an ...
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Customizing a biblatex style - can I start with lockstep's post?
I want to customize a biblatex style based on authoryear (and thus based on standard as well). So when I read this, does it mean I have to work with the cumulated paste of both .bbx-files or can I ...
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Too wide figure caption
I included a figure using the figure environment with a rather long caption. The width of the caption is the same as the page width, which doesn't look so nice. Is there any way to reduce the width of ...
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siunitx and engineering 'E' notation
Is it possible to use the siunitx package to typeset numbers with the "E" notation so that the output might look like
1E3
instead of
1 x 10^3
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Chapters titles and sections are not added to the contents page for any sections on page 21 or later
I am currently writing a report in Latex from a template I was given. However formatting such as adding chapter headings to the contents or referencing figures does not work beyond page 20. This is ...
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Format long numbers with a thousand separator?
In most language, long numbers are split into groups of three digits, to increase readability.
In Dutch (my native language), 1000000 is usually written as 1 000 000. In English, this would be ...
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Customize 'appendix' heading
My appendices are rather small and I want them to come one after another (like \section) without the blank page before \chapter{} (due to openright option). Another problem is that chapter headings ...
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Know the width of the widest section label in memoir
I'm using memoir class to write my master's thesis, and my university asks to align all section labels to the left. I say section, but I really mean all levels, as chapters, sections, subsecs and so ...
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Proper way to format text when not using a lot of math
I'm confused about text formatting, I see almost everywhere the \text command, which I believe is part of the amsmath package?
If I'm doing mostly writing with just a bit of math here and there, is ...
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Format time span for CV
I would like to add the month to the time span of moderncv. I order not to occupy much more space and still having a beautiful solution, I would like to do the following:
Year - Year
Month - Month
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radical of polynomial A rad A
Do we have something like \rad for the radical of a polynomial in LaTeX? I am writing in the equation mode within the theorem environment and everything is in italics. If I use \text{rad}, then I get ...
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How to define a custom formatting “style”? [closed]
Within the tablenotes of threeparttable I'd like to manually include a source like so:
Source: Rumors of Oz, 2013 (unpublished / forthcoming).
so that "Source" is either in \textit{Source} or ...
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How can very long algorithms be automatically split over multiple pages?
I have a very long algorithm than spans several pages. I can not get Latex to make it span across several pages. I know that several questions similar to this one have already been asked, but I ...
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Misplaced label mixing list environments
I am hacking the dramatist package. My aim is to get speech-prefixes to align with speeches for the verse environment, as they do for the prose environment. I've got it working except for a problem ...
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How can I create a table that spans across the width of two vertical (and opposite) A4 pages?
I have a large (wide) table to typeset. I usually use the code below for my tables which enables me to specify the width of each column in the table.
However, it is up to me to make sure that the sum ...
