TeX - LaTeX Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, December 31, 2015

Top new questions this week: Best Practice: Match different Journal specifications In most cases one does not write papers for one journal exclusively. Changing your code to match all specifications takes a lot of afford and time. There is a wide variety of question referring to ... {best-practices} {journal-publishing}   asked by Rico 23 votes answered by yo' 18 votes How can I temporarily change text colour? I'm making corrections to a report and the examiner would like my amendments highlighted in red. Of course, if(!) they are accepted, I would then have to produce an unmarked (black text) pdf. Rather ... {color}   asked by Shep 15 votes answered by Christian Hupfer 19 votes Is eqnarray really obsolete? I just learned in eqnarray vs align that eqnarray should be avoided in general. Ok, so I started looking at my documents to get rid of it and (as suggested) use some environment of the amsmath package ... {equations} {amsmath} {obsolete}   asked by cryingshadow 12 votes answered by egreg 10 votes How to omit group separators in the decimal part when using siunitx? That's my MWE: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{book} \usepackage[load=addn,separate-uncertainty=true]{siunitx} \sisetup{% output-decimal-marker={,}, load-configurations=abbreviations, ... {siunitx}   asked by Leonardo Castro 12 votes answered by Christian Hupfer 14 votes Why vdots and ddots are square dots, while cdots are round dots (in Beamer)? I was writing some mathematical equations in Beamer and I noticed something strange. The outcome of the following code, using the standalone class, seems perfect. \documentclass{standalone} ... {beamer} {math-mode}   asked by R. M. 12 votes answered by Zarko 12 votes How to write an actual superscript with \lim, \sup, etc? I'm trying to write $\sup' S$ -- that is to say, $\sup S$ but with a prime on the sup. However, in display style, this comes out instead with the prime on top of the sup instead of in the superscript ... {math-mode} {superscripts} {displaystyle}   asked by Harry Altman 10 votes answered by user43963 8 votes When/How should a class load biblatex I would like to write a custom class that loads the biblatex package, but I am having trouble with option clashes. For example, the following MWE gives me an error % arara: pdflatex % arara: biber % ... {documentclass-writing} {package-options}   asked by StrongBad 10 votes answered by egreg 6 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document? The standard font packages make global changes to the fonts in my document. What if I want to use a particular font for just a portion of my text? How do I find the right name of the font? How do I ... {fonts}   asked by Alan Munn 246 votes answered by frabjous 210 votes Commenting out large sections So to "comment out" a line, I need to insert a % at the beginning of the line (so that line will not be compiled). Is there way to comment out a large section without having to manually putting a % ... {comments}   asked by user5419 143 votes answered by Martin Scharrer 117 votes Can you answer these? How did I ruin my MikTeX installation and how can I fix this? Today, I started the MikTeX update program because I needed a newer version of some library. It first wanted to update the base installation and at some point it complained that it couldn't replace ... {miktex}   asked by Frunobulax 3 votes Using setupbackend and pdfpageattr together via ConTeXt Is it possible to use setupbackend and pdfpageattr together via ConTeXt? I was able to use setupbackend alone via ConTeXt (LuaTeX). Got the result as expected. I was able to use pdfpageattr ... {pdftex} {luatex} {context}   asked by Sol 3 votes How to attach files in LuaTeX in pdf mode? I have this code to attach files via dvipdfmx, and it works well: \def\attach#1{% \special{pdf:fstream @file (#1)}% \special{pdf:ann bbox 0 0 10 10 <</Type /Annot /Subtype /FileAttachment ... {pdf} {luatex} {plain-tex} {dvipdfmx}   asked by Igor Liferenko 3 votes

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