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TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, July 31, 2014

TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter

Top new questions this week:

How to number the letters of a sentence?

I need to number the letters of a sentence consecutively. Every letter should have the corresponding small number centered below it (see image below). Does anybody know how to do this? I tried …

{align} {characters}  
asked by MartinB 29 votes
answered by egreg 15 votes

Crop jpeg into circular tikz node

\documentclass[demo]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \node[circle,draw,inner sep=2cm]{\includegraphics{myimage.jpg}}; \end{tikzpicture} …

{tikz-pgf} {graphics}  
asked by JennyC 21 votes
answered by percusse 27 votes

Online LaTeX editor or local LaTeX editor?

Now there are a couple of online LaTeX editors that seems fancy and handy to use, such as ShareLaTeX and writeLaTeX. On the other hand, there are classic local Latex installation packages that are …

{online} {distributions} {workflow}  
asked by WoodBunny 19 votes
answered by m0nhawk 22 votes

Write a package that is aware of the mainlanguage selected in babel or polyglossia

How can I make my package aware of the language choosen with babel or polyglossia, so that some auto-generated strings can be generated in respect to the current language? As an example, I have a …

{babel} {package-writing} {polyglossia}  
asked by NobbZ 16 votes
answered by cgnieder 13 votes

How to decorate a \pic path?

Consider the following example using the angles library and a pic path to mark an angle: \documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{angles,decorations.markings} \begin{document} …

{tikz-pgf} {decorations} {pic}  
asked by Gonzalo Medina 13 votes
answered by esdd 0 votes

Foreach loop between two lists

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \def\firstlist{0,1,2} \def\secondlist{0,1,2} \newcommand{\testa}{ \foreach \x/\y in {\firstlist/\secondlist} { \draw(0,\x)--(1,\y); } } …

{tikz-pgf} {loops}  
asked by Carlitos 12 votes
answered by Paul Gaborit 5 votes

Why is the \underbrace off the line?

I have the following problem with \underbrace: As you can see, the third underbrace and its comment are not in the line with the first two. Here is my code: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} …

{vertical-alignment} {amsmath}  
asked by Leo Schmidt 12 votes
answered by Werner 14 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

How to add indentation

I am writing my Thesis report using LaTeX, I need to add indentation because every thing is right but only thing is every new paragraph is starting at initial stage but I need to add some indentation. …

{spacing} {indentation}  
asked by pavani 13 votes
answered by Frank Mittelbach 17 votes

LaTeX template for resume/curriculum vitae

If you have a TeX'ed resume, did you use a template or make your own? Are there any useful packages? What looks the most professional? How about special considerations for different areas of work …

{packages} {templates} {resume}  
asked by Otis 294 votes
answered by Konrad Rudolph 110 votes

Can you answer these?

eledpar doesn't respect changes of line spacing

I try to typeset a bilingual text on facing pages. For this I use the eledmac/eledpar packages. The latin text on the even pages should get displayed larger than the translation on the odd pages. …

{fontsize} {line-spacing}  
asked by FredFisch 3 votes

Is there an easy way to generate weighted vertices in graphs?

There are several ways to include edge weights in graphs, but what about node/vertex weights? I need each vertex to be labelled with a letter and weighted with a number; I cannot find code that does …

{tikz-pgf} {graphs}  
asked by Shawn 3 votes

Any alternatives for longtable package? (produce tables can continue to the next page)

I have a program and I want to output the program results as PDF. I am considering to use LATEX to do the work. My results may contain many big tables, I just realized it is not so direct to output …

{tables} {longtable}  
asked by postit 2 votes
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