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{math-mode} is about typesetting mathematical content, e.g. tweaking the appearance of spacing and symbols in a formula, or producing specific mathematical constructs. For questions about "wrapper" environments like equation or align, consider the tag {equations}.
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Is there a way to write custom fractions in this format: ½, ⅘, ⅞, etc.?
You can use the nicefrac package to do this.
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Controlling scope of \displaystyle
There's a flaw in the premise of the question: \displaystyle cannot be used in the preamble of the document (or outside of math mode, for that matter—\displaystyle $\frac12$ will give an error).
That …
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How to write limit exactly below the lim?
The placement of limits for operators is dependent on whether you're in display math or in-line math. The simplest thing is to write, e.g.,
\[
\lim_{(x,y)\to(x_{0},y_{0})} f(x, y) =
\lim_{(x,y)\to …
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Draw small rounded and colored boxes of same height in math environment
Try creating your own \mybox command as follows:
\NewDocumentCommand{\mybox}{ m } % ❶
{\boxed{\mathstrut#1}} % ❷
(If you get an error with the line marked ❶, you have an old LaTeX. You can either c …
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Inconsistency between equation and \[ \] [closed]
While answering another question, I noticed that the definition for \begin{equation} is:
\def\equation{$$\refstepcounter{equation}}
Shouldn't \begin{equation} include the following like unnumbered di …
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How to write the numerator like shown in the image
The simplest approach to this is to use a single-column tabular to stack up the text with \left( and \right) surrounding each of these tabulars:
\[
\mbox{mass \% element}=\frac{
\left(
\be …
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Mingled math and text in math mode
\{x \in \mathbb Z : \text{$x$ is even}\}
is semantically correct and preferable.
The output of both options will be identical in terms of spacing, but semantically, the x in “x is even” belongs to th …
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How can I determine if a formula is out of margin?
If you put \overfullrule=1pt into your document preamble, LaTeX will put a bar next to any overfull boxes which will make finding your too-wide formulas in the PDF easier. As campa noted in a comment, …
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Overriding the look of a single character?
You're going to need to descend to some low-level TeX to make this work. The command you care about is \mathcode which is described in chapter 17 of The TeXbook. I don't have my copy handy to give you …
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Can we have a blank line while inside math mode using $$
(a) You should not use $$ in LaTeX. Use \[...\] or \begin{displaymath}...\end{displaymath} instead.
(2) new lines are not a problem in math mode.
(iii) blank lines (e.g., what you use to mark paragrap …
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Align numerator of fraction to the center
To get a zero-width ², you'll want to define
\newcommand\zwe[1]{\rlap{${}^{#1}$}}
\[
\frac{\pi\zwe{2}}{6}
\]
although this will have the superscript extending beyond the fraction bar. An alternati …
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Punctuation character following a '\left(...\right)^3' group?
If you’re writing a long number with commas as place separators, you should write those commas using {,} instead of ,. The former gives “ordinary” spacing so you won't have the extra space between th …
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Add background colour to Theorem Header only
OK, first let’s fix some of the glaring issues here.
The \makeatletter and \makeatother around your \theoremstyle are unnecessary. Delete them. Kill them with fire.
It seems to me a bug that \newthe …
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Backend reasoning on font size in math mode
To expand on David's answer, what \DeclareMathSizes does is define a macro S@XX where XX is the current type size in points, e.g.,
\S@10 = macro: -> {
\gdef\tf@size{10}
\gdef\sf@size{7}
\ …
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newcommand returns math mode error
With \newcommand, I get
! LaTeX Error: Command \deg already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
which I'm assuming you ignored when running with that version of …
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