Archive for the ‘LaTeX’ Category
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
I needed to find an easy way the other day to make a simple list in LaTeX. Specifically, I was recreating a problem set, and the problems were numbered one through three but were aligned nicely. I tried using the tabular environment to recreate it, but that wasn't working. And ...
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
I have only very recently begun to play with the graphics production capabilities of LaTeX. The most common means of producing graphics in LaTeX is the picture environment. It turns out the default picture environment is quite limited, and I needed to use the epic package to achieve the desired ...
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Sunday, December 4th, 2005
I have struggled for quite some time trying to find a nice way to space entries in the tabular or array environments in LaTeX. I am often in the situation where I have used a fraction in an entry, and the numerator is in contact with the upper horizontal rule ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
I found a new LaTeX package the other day, known as cancel, which allows me to either strike through or zero out a term in an equation. For example, if I want to strike through a term in an equation, I can get an effect that looks like
with the following ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
I must admit this post is much more for my benefit than anyone else's, but I found a nice way to put a tilde under a character in LaTeX. I found this method from a post in the Usenet archives, and it seems to work fairly well. Placing the following ...
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