about using TeX's programming capabilities to modify input text.
Questions tagged [text-manipulation]
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truncate text from right to left
I would like to have a command that truncates text like
'An example sentence.'
to
'...ple sentence.'.
When called like this
\truncateToLeft{4cm}{An example sentence.}
I have no idea how to implement that (I do not understand…
MCH
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Automatic species names in latex / command that does something differently the second time it is run
In academic publications it is a rule of thumb that the first time you give a species name, you write the genus and species in full...and the second time you can abbreviate the genus.
First time:
Escherichia coli
second time:
E. coli
I wanted a…
weemattisnot
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How do I get text above and below text?
How would I do {text}_{i=1}^{i=n} with the written exactly above and below the text?
Hope you can help!
user82130
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How can I force-move text?
My question is simple: how can I force-move text to the left or right (or even outside of the margins)?
Some examples would be perfect.
Egel
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Text across two pages
I am making a small book and I want to put a phrase in both pages like the picture above, I want to keep the chapter title and page numbers.
Could you give me a hand on this?
Cesar
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truncate text from left to right
I simply need to truncate a text string, which is just a sequence of characters without whitespace, therefore the linebreak won't work. I just need to decide the length of the string in centimeter, the rest should be cut.
I found the package…
EverythingRightPlace
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Typeset just the first letter in a group
How can I typeset (print) just the first letter of a group of text?
For instance, how does biblatex or bibtex determine the first initials of a name?
MWE to get started:
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{document}
This prints \firstinit{just the…
cslstr
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\expandafter usage and plain TeX programming
Hello everybody out there using TeX,
Actually, I wanted to write a LaTeX macro in plain TeX in order to include source code examples with individual modifications like stripping off comments and the first 21 characters in LaTeX documents. My code so…
Penguin Nurse
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Automatic apostrophes for quotation marks
There are some other questions on this side addressing related issues, but I haven't found any which cover exactly my issue.
I have a text (converted from XML) which uses the apostrophe ' with three different meanings: Begin quote, end quote, and…
Gaussler
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Transformed text as from a specific viewport
Is there a possibility to shear (any) LaTeX text or the output of a mathematical formula as it would be obtained as a result from looking at a different angle/viewport?
I do not mean mere rotating of text, that would not be sufficient.
user31729
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Move textregistered symbol more towards the top right
I have this as my code:
\Huge\bfseries Cambridge IGCSE\textsuperscript{\small{\textregistered}}
And this shows:
To make it more aesthetically pleasing, how do I move the text registered symbol a bit more to the top so that it is aligned with the…
Eugene
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alternating text position in latex
I am writing my PhD thesis and I want to give the following format to my document (see image).
I appreciate any guidance provided.
I have not found any help in the standard "text positioning settings"
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Make text fall of a line
As a joke in a songbook I'm editing I want to make a phrase "fall of the line", letter by letter. I do remember a long time ago to have seen something like this in WikiBooks but can't find it again.
I recognize there are different ways to do this…
StiggyStardust
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Printing just the first 20 characters of a text, adding \ldots
Is it possible to truncate the name of a chapter to - let's say - 20 characters and adding \ldots to it? So that it fits into the space of the tabs shown here?
Harald
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Two instances of the same text in the document
I am writing problems-solutions book. I have decided that problems and solutions shall be separated; first half of the book having problems and the second half solutions. But I need the text of the problem in the solution part too.
Eg.
PART…
Pygmalion
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