Questions tagged [text]

May refer to: 1) Text & Talk, 2) Text File, 3) Textbook, 4) Religious Text or 5) Writing.

Text may refer to:

  1. Text & Talk (formerly Text), an academic journal
  2. Text (literary theory), any object that can be "read"
  3. Textbook, a book of instruction in any branch of study
  4. Religious text, a writing that a religious tradition considers to be sacred
  5. Writing, communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols

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Is there a text-mode equivalent of $\approx$?

In non-equation mode, using the normal font. How do I make the approximation sign that in mathematical mode is $\approx$?
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How to write ^ in LaTeX?

I would like to type a^b in LaTeX. Note that I do not want b as superscript for a in the sense a power b, rather I want the text as is. I have seen here (http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_155.html) that ^ is a special character and…
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Some text rows longer than others

In my report, some lines are bigger than the others as it can be seen in the image. I have seen some solution in other questions but the problem is still continue. Could you help me please to find the problem out? I have tried \hyphenation{op-er-and…
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Typesetting in the style of mobile phone texts

I would like to include into a "traditional" text document an environment that mimics the graphical style of basic text on mobile phones: author 1 text left adjusted, on red blocks with rounded corners; author 2 text right adjusted, on green blocks…
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Overlaying text boxes

I'm working on a writing project that requires some unusual typesetting. One of the things I want to achieve is to write two lines of text in the place of one, deliberately overlaying them. Basically, like creating two text layers in Photoshop or…
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Putting the symbol hat over greek letter in text mode

In latex text mode \^{} puts hat on characters but i need to put hat on greek letters in text mode. How can I put the symbol hat over a greek letter in text mode?
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is it possible to connect two text box in different page

I would "create" a feature (like indesign do). I mean: I have a box A on page 1 and a box B (or page). I copy some text, I put it on box A, but the text is much more that the A box text can contain. I would that the Remaining of text goes to box B…
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Transfering text

I need to transfer section 5.3 after the pictures but \pagebreak and \vspace seem to do nothing enter code here begin{figure} [h!] \centering \includegraphics[scale=0.55]{Immagini/opt gen} \caption{Data comparison technique.} \end{figure} …
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Set a maximum number of words per page

Sometimes I have to write literature with guidelines for the number of words per page. In these cases, I would like to know how to specify this condition, because although I know the number of words written, I have not found an answer to this…
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Song lyrics on one page in two columns with centered title?

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{parallel} \textwidth=6in \begin{document} \begin{center} He Rescued Me\\ \end{center} \begin{Parallel}[c]{}{} \ParallelLText{ \noindent Grey coat gold eyes\\ \noindent Maybe I'm…
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LaTeX as alternative to Scribus for large text books

I want to publish multiple large text books, each one about 480 pages long, this is print on demand (POD) on IngramSpark. The content is basically text and a few black and white images. Another important aspect is that the text is already written…
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"Invisible" solution text

I'd like to have answers to my worksheet in LaTex that is visible when highlighted. Simply changing the text color to white means that when it is highlighted, you can tell there is text there, but it isn't legible, as it would be in Microsoft Word.…
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Line with equations and text

I would like to have a line with both equations and text, but the math environment takes over. What can I do so that I can include text in the equation display ?
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How can I translate a Word page into LaTeX?

I would like to learn to make a Word document to LaTeX. In particularly, I found on the internet an essay template in Word format in https://www.jyu.fi/edupsy/fi/opiskelu/opiskeluohjeet/pikaohjeet/esseen-tyylipohja_paivitetty-22-9-2021.docx and I…
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