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Wrapping a circle on a torus
I have used the sample code from latexdraw that draws a torus. I am trying to draw a filled circle and a dashed circle where they should be wrap around the torus instead of being drawn uniformly at z=...
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parskip after opening in scrlttr2
Using the parskip=half option, scrlttr2 still sets a full parskip after the opening. I feel that this is not intended and also not appealing.
Is there a way to only get a half skip?
I did not find ...
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Why does this pdf figure crash lualatex?
I have an old workflow that uses LaTeX itself to process diagrams and plots. I've used this generate hundreds of figures over the years. This has suddenly started producing invalid pdf figure files: ...
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Accent placement issues with STIX2 Math: \hat and \tilde too close on uppercase letters
I am using the classicthesis style for the document layout and STIX2 Math as the math font, and I am encountering systematic issues with the placement of math accents, in particular \hat and \tilde.
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Putting two flowcharts on the same page side by side in Latex
So i have the following code in latex and i'm trying to put these two flowcharts side by side, for some reason i cant do that and instead one is on top of the other , i can't understand what i do ...
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How to check if pdfmanagement tools are loaded are not in *a stable way*?
Of course, one can check \IfPackageLoadedTF{pdfmanagement-testphase}{true}{false}, but since the name has testphase, I assume that some day it will go. If I use this test in a package, some day it ...
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\usepackage{lua-visual-debug} yields error
I used lua-visual-debug before but now I have a good application.
In the newest version it seems broken:
\documentclass{article}%[a4paper,draft]
\usepackage{lua-visual-debug}
\begin{document}
test
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How to adapt miniframes to increasing pagenumber in overprint
I use overprint and manually increase the framenumber counter (see \stepcounter below). The footline appears as I would like it, but I would like to have the miniframes also adapt to the manually-...
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Change the syntax highlighting color in TexStudio
How can I change the color of {flushleft} inside the parentheses in TeXStudio?
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Why do I have to create _minted manually?
I am using the latest TeX Live 2025 installation.
minted only works if I manually create a directory named _minted. This behavior occurs regardless of whether -output-directory is used.
If the _minted ...
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Glossaries package for acronyms: how to set color of acronyms same as surrounding text
I'm using the glossaries package for acronyms. By default, \acrshort{}, \acrlong{}, and \acrfull{} produce black (or sometimes dark blue) text.
Investigating \acrshort{rfid}, a cool technology.
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Automatically adding support for custom macrogenerating function in VS Code LatexWorkshop for intellisense
This is a follow up question.
When generating new commands with a macro generating command and not directly with latex natives like \newcommand or \providecommand the macros are not added to ...
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How listoftables creates lot file - aux file processing
I try to figure out how to create conditional list of tables without reading the counters or using packages like assoccnt and found an answer that uses
\IfFileExists{\jobname.lot}{%
\listoftables
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}
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Latex verapdf warning duplicated key /Group
I encountered the same issue described in this question. I generated a PDF/A-compliant document using LuaLaTeX with MiKTeX 25.12. When the resulting file is tested with veraPDF, it passes validation, ...
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How do 256+ character pdfLaTeX fonts work, and how to make one?
I am talking about those "fake fonts" that are composed of multiple fonts to have more characters. An example is Computer Modern, which uses multiple fonts, one for text symbols, one for ...