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Typesetting Zig Programming Language: Seeking Listing or Minted Environment
As I delve into the Zig programming language, I'm exploring options for effectively typesetting code snippets in my documents. While LaTeX offers powerful tools like the "listing" and "...
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How break page numbering and restart it by the last automatically?
When I write a document it is usual I divide it into more part: so, I am usual to not number part page as into the example put below where I put a document with three parts, like Overture, Part I and ...
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How to do unit test for graphics generated by evolving packages?
Assume we have a lot of diagrams generated by one of any existing packages (PSTricks, TikZ, Asymptote, etc). We know that the packages are evolving and we need to make sure our existing codes are ...
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Metapost plotting B-Spline recursive formula gives strange results
I am currently trying to make a general B spline basis plotter with meta post. The definition of a basis function is on wikipedia under properties. The knots of a b spline should have the pattern ...
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Metapost how can you return values in a recursive function?
I am trying to code the recursive definition of B splines but I am stuck writing the recursion, my code won't compile because I am trying to assign "vacuous to numeric", According to online resources,...
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Drawing an histogram of the repartition of a data set
I have a dataset of marks (0 to 20), for example a [2, 3, 7, 14, 15, ...] I would like to draw an histogram of the repartition of this dataset. What I mean is an histogram where on the x-axis are ...
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How to more efficiently get code like this?
I have a folder containing files like these, 2007.pdf 2007_Q1.pdf 2007_Q10.pdf ... 2007_Q5.pdf 2007_Q6.pdf 2007_Q7.pdf 2007_Q8.pdf 2007_Q9.pdf 2008.pdf 2008_Q1.pdf 2008_Q10.pdf 2008_Q11.pdf 2008_Q12....
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How can I escape plain text?
How, given string of plain text one may produce equivalent latex code? For example red fox sauté zażółć gęślą jaźń \newline is a new line in LaTeX Samp_Dist_Corr would produce something like red fox\...
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Is it possible to turn off ligatures when using semantics package
I'm using the semantics package to produce inference rules. My inference rules contains quite a lot of \langle and \rangle, so I've made ligatures for these commands as such: \mathlig{<}{\langle} \...
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Is there a way to use TeX programmatically from a custom text editor?
What I mean is, is there something like a tex.dll that I could use to incorporate TeX's functionality inside a custom text editor? For various reasons, and specific purposes, I am writing "the ...
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Is there another way to avoid name clash in nested multido?
Constraints I want to use the same name for inner and outer loop. I am reluctant to append @ and make use of \makeatletter...\makeatother. Is there any name-spacing construct to use? MWE The ...
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Why LaTeX is the winner? [closed]
When LaTeX was LaTeX 2.09, AMSTeX seemed for me to be deeper. Tools for a beautiful math were advanced and the manual by Michael Spivak reminded in its beauty The TeXbook. But LaTeX have won and now ...
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