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Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (¡) or question mark (¿)?
When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode.
biased_estimator
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How to add a URL to a LaTeX bibtex file?
I'm using bibtex for my bibliography in LaTeX. I have some URL's I need to cite in the paper. How do I add URLs into the .bib file?
A typical section in my .bib file looks like this:
@conference{eigenfacepaper,
title={{Face recognition using…
Janusz
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How to typeset subscript in usual text mode?
It's easy to make subscripts in math mode: $a_i$.
How do I make a subscript outside math environment, likethis?
P Shved
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Absolute Value Symbols
What is the "best LaTeX practices" for writing absolute value symbols? Are there any packages which provide good methods?
Some options include |x| and \mid x \mid, but I'm not sure which is best...
jamaicanworm
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How to typeset the symbol “^” (caret/circumflex/hat)
I need to display the symbol '^'
d <- dist(fascores, method = "euclidean")^2
How do I do that?
Cost
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How do I create an invisible character?
I cannot remember how to create an invisible character in LaTeX, i.e. I want to put a space that has the width of a particular character, say `M'. I know there is a command for this, and this is a really dumb question, but my Google-fu has failed…
Matt Leifer
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Why are default LaTeX margins so big?
I've read that—unless I know a lot about typesetting—I shouldn't change the margins of a LaTeX document. The default margin size of the article class is really big and it feels like a lot of space is waste. Thanks to the geometry package, it is…
jlconlin
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What are the different kinds of boxes in (La)TeX?
I've seen hbox, vbox, mbox, parbox and others used in various code samples. What are the different kinds of box in (La)Tex? Which are suitable for use in LaTeX, as opposed to plain TeX?
Mohan
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How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?
I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that
\usepackage{array}
\begin{tabular}{| c | c | m{5cm} |}
vertically centers the…
Covi
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How to force a table into page width?
I have the following table:
\begin{table}[htb]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] {
\begin{tabular}{ l | l }
{\bf Symptom} & {\bf Metric} \\
\hline
Class that has many accessor methods and accesses a lot of external data & ATFD is…
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Entering Unicode characters in LaTeX
How do I enter Unicode characters in LaTeX? What packages do I need to install and what escape sequence do I type to specify Unicode characters in an ASCII source file?
John D. Cook
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Command for argmin or argmax?
How can you get the argmin or argmax in Latex? Two solutions I found are:
\underset{x}{\operatorname{argmax}}
\DeclareMathOperator*{\argmin}{arg\,min}
Any other ideas?
[1] http://www.breakthru.altervista.org/?p=27
[2]…
Alejandro
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How to add border for an image?
I use \includegraphics command to insert image to the document. But how can I add a border around this image w/o any margin between border lines and image?
It seems to be very easy, but I can't find it in the documentation.
TheBug
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Reference different places to the same footnote
I want to make footnotes both at Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 (which are on the same page) to the same footnote.
For example, Wikipedia's "References" have this effect.
Covi
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Good way to make \textcircled numbers?
This question led to a new package:
circledsteps
I'm trying to make some good-looking numbers in a circle, using the simple command:
\textcircled{1}
However, the circle is misaligned vertically with the number, and look a bit sloppy:
Any…
Martin Tapankov
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