TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, July 30, 2015

Top new questions this week: Why do PDF files produced by pdflatex not pass validation? Why do simple PDF files compiled with pdflatex contain so many PDF errors? The simplest example I can see is "Hello World!" that once compiled, \documentclass{report} \begin{document} Hello ... {pdftex} {pdf} {luatex} {pdf-a}   asked by Paulo Ney 37 votes answered by Heiko Oberdiek 48 votes "| shortcut no longer available in babel? In the answers to this question, people recommend using the "babel shorthand" command "| to break the ligature in the word shelfful. Am I doing this wrong or is this command no longer available in ... {babel} {ligatures} {shorthands}   asked by Andrew Cashner 15 votes answered by Herbert 12 votes Is `\hspace*` equivalent to `\strut\hspace`? Is using \hspace* essentially the same as \strut\hspace? The description at \hspace vs. \hspace* seems to suggest that this may be the case, but I was wondering the cases where they might differ. {spacing} {starred-version}   asked by Brian M. Hunt 11 votes answered by Herbert 8 votes How to delay expansion Consider the following document: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{polynomial} \begin{document} \def\a{-3} \def\b{-2} \def\c{-4} \[ \polynomial{\a,\b,\c}\quad\polynomial{-3,-2,-4} \] ... {expansion}   asked by Gonzalo Medina 10 votes answered by egreg 9 votes How to make underbrace label text wrap at brace width? Is there a way to make underbrace label text automatically wrap at the underbraces width, preferably even with automatic syllabication? Example where brace label text exceeds underbrace width: ... {math-mode} {amsmath} {labels} {width} {wrap}   asked by norritt 10 votes answered by Ruben 13 votes Parameters in a caption I have a simple figure with a code like this: \begin {figure}[htbp] \centering % \begin{tikzpicture} [scale=1] \def \r {1/4} % y-scaling % % PARAMET. \def \a {1} %x^6 \def \b {-6} ... {tikz-pgf} {parameters}   asked by Emilio Novati 9 votes answered by Gonzalo Medina 8 votes Making an anti-clockwise circled arrow around a + sign in a math environment \makeatletter \newlength\@SizeOfCirc% \newcommand{\CricArrowRight}[1]{% \setlength{\@SizeOfCirc}{\maxof{\widthof{#1}}{\heightof{#1}}}% \tikz [x=1.0ex,y=1.0ex,line width=.15ex, draw=black]% \draw ... {math-mode} {environments}   asked by user82745 8 votes answered by hbaderts 10 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to suppress page number? I've made myself custom title-page, put it in separate .tex file and when I input it, it is numbered with 1. The very next page is numbered with 1 also, and page-number increases on the following ... {page-numbering}   asked by user1996 69 votes answered by Stefan Kottwitz 90 votes How to typeset subscript in usual text mode? It's easy to make subscripts in math mode: $a_i$. How do I make a subscript outside math environment, likethis? {subscripts}   asked by Pavel Shved 110 votes answered by Stefan Kottwitz 78 votes Can you answer these? With the following preamble the identation works fine but there is no distance added between the footnote number and the footnote text % XeLaTeX can use any Mac OS X font. See the setromanfont command below. % Input to XeLaTeX is full Unicode, so Unicode characters can be typed directly into the source. % The next lines tell TeXShop ... {footnotes}   asked by Guillaume Coatalen 2 votes Robust handler of arguments with conditionals and complex elements Context This question is a follow up of the answer of this question Spurious space on moderncv \cventry using \if Problem The problem is that complex content (for example, itemize on the content of ... {conditionals} {expansion} {arguments}   asked by adn 2 votes LaTeX /includepdf stacks images on top of eachother I'm trying to insert a pdf with multiple images into my LaTeX document using \includepdf but either no image shows up (for page={1} or page={1-4} etc.) or it stacks them all on top of each other and ... {graphics} {pdfpages}   asked by Rainbow 3 votes New blog post: TeX User Group Meeting 2015 by Stefan Kottwitz on Jul 23 From 20th to 22nd of July, the TUG 2015 conference took place in Darmstadt, Germany. It was a splendid time, and it was so great to meat you brilliant TeX Stack Exchange friends there! We had awesome ...

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