Frequently Asked Question List for TeX
FAQ Tags
- Citations
- Classes
- Ctan
- Deprecated
- Figures
- Footnotes
- Hyphenation
- Index
- Labels
- Latex
- Latex3
- Layout
- Lists
- Luatex
- Macros
- Math
- Metafont
- Pdftex
- References
- Structure
- Tables
- Toc
- Unicode
- Xetex
Citations
- Choosing a bibliography style
- Format of numbers in the bibliography
- Multiple bibliographies?
- Multiple citations
- Non-english bibliographies
- Normal use of BibTeX from LaTeX
- Putting bibliography entries in text
- Reducing spacing in the bibliography
- References from the bibliography to the citation
- Separate bibliographies per chapter?
- Sorting and compressing citations
- Sorting lists of citations
- Table of contents rearranges “
unsrt” ordering
Classes
- A “report” from lots of ‘article’s
- Creating posters with LaTeX
- Formatting a thesis in LaTeX
- Letters and the like
- Other “document font” sizes?
- Producing presentations (including slides)
- Replacing the standard classes
- Setting papers for journals
- Curriculum Vitae (Résumé)
Ctan
Deprecated
- Missing symbol commands
- Old LaTeX font references such as
\tenrm - What’s happened to
initex? - Where are the
amfonts? - Where are the
msxandmsyfonts?
Figures
- Centring a very wide figure or table
- Diagonal separation in corner cells of tables
- Facing floats on 2-page spread
- Figure (or table) exactly where I want it
- Fixed-width tables
- Floats in multicolumn setting
- Floats on their own on float pages
- Flowing text around figures
- How to alter the alignment of tabular cells
- How to change a whole row of a table
- Merging cells in a column of a table
- Placing two-column floats at bottom of page
- Spacing lines in tables
- Tables longer than a single page
- The design of tables
- The thickness of rules in LaTeX tables
- Variable-width columns in tables
- Vertical layout of float pages
Footnotes
- Footnotes in LaTeX section headings
- Footnotes in captions
- Footnotes in tables
- Footnotes numbered “per page”
- Footnotes whose texts are identical
- More than one sequence of footnotes
Hyphenation
- (Merely) peculiar hyphenation
- Accented words aren’t hyphenated
- Hyphenation exceptions
- My words aren’t being hyphenated
- Preventing hyphenation of a particular word
- Stopping all hyphenation
- Using a new language with Babel
- Weird hyphenation of words
Index
- Bibliography, index, etc., in TOC
- Multiple indexes
- Table of contents, etc., per chapter
- The format of the Table of Contents, etc.
- Unnumbered sections in the Table of Contents
Labels
Latex
- Adjusting the presentation of section numbers
- Changing the words
babeluses - Commands defined with * options
- Defining LaTeX commands within other commands
- Finding if a label is undefined
- Finding if you’re on an odd or an even page
- Fonts at arbitrary sizes
- How to change LaTeX’s “fixed names”
- How to change the format of labels
- How to print contents of variables?
- LaTeX internal “abbreviations”, etc.
- Making labels from a counter
- Master and slave counters
- More than one optional argument
- Optional arguments like
\section - Preferring
\newcommand*over\newcommand - The definitions of LaTeX commands
- The quality of your LaTeX
- There’s a space added after my environment
- Using Plain or primitive commands in LaTeX
- Using labels as counter values
- What’s the reason for “protection”?
\@and@in macro names\edefdoes not work with\protect
Latex3
Layout
- Adobe
Readermessing with print size - Changing margins “on the fly”
- Changing the margins in LaTeX
- Controlling widows and orphans
- Drawing a rule
- Enlarging TeX
- Getting the right paper geometry from (La)TeX
- How to create crop marks
- How to get rid of page numbers
- How to set up page layout “by hand”
- Moving tables and figures in LaTeX
- Packages to set up page designs
- Parallel setting of text
- Preventing page breaks between lines
- Putting things at fixed positions on the page
- The size of printed output
- Typesetting epigraphs
- Typesetting things in landscape orientation
- Underlined text won’t break
- Watermarks on every page
Lists
Luatex
- Am I using pdfTeX, XeTeX or LuaTeX?
- TeX Engine development
- Unicode Maths using OpenType fonts
- Unicode and TeX
- What are XeTeX and LuaTeX?
Macros
- Active characters in command arguments
- Adjusting the presentation of section numbers
- Am I using pdfTeX, XeTeX or LuaTeX?
- Changing the words
babeluses - Commands defined with * options
- Comparing the “job name”
- Defining LaTeX commands within other commands
- Defining a macro from an argument
- Defining characters as macros
- Defining macros within macros
- Detecting that something is empty
- Finding if a label is undefined
- Finding if you’re on an odd or an even page
- Finding the width of a letter, word, or phrase
- Fonts at arbitrary sizes
- How to break the 9-argument limit
- How to change LaTeX’s “fixed names”
- How to change the format of labels
- How to print contents of variables?
- Is the argument a number?
- Is this command defined?
- Key-value input for macros and package options
- LaTeX internal “abbreviations”, etc.
- Making labels from a counter
- Master and slave counters
- More than one optional argument
- Non-letters in macro names
- Optional arguments like
\section - Patching existing commands
- Preferring
\newcommand*over\newcommand - Spaces in macros
- Subverting a token register
- The definitions of LaTeX commands
- The quality of your LaTeX
- There’s a space added after my environment
- Transcribing LaTeX command definitions
- Using Plain or primitive commands in LaTeX
- Using labels as counter values
- What’s the reason for “protection”?
\@and@in macro names\edefdoes not work with\protect
Math
- Adjusting maths font sizes
- Cancelling terms in maths expressions
- Defining a new log-like function in LaTeX
- Ellipses
- Even subscript height
- Line-breaking in in-line maths
- Numbers for referenced equations only
- Proof environment
- Re-using an equation
- Set specifications and Dirac brackets
- Sub- and superscript positioning for operators
- Text inside maths
- Theorem bodies printed in a roman font
- Unicode Maths using OpenType fonts
- What are the AMS packages (
amsmath, etc.)?
Metafont
Pdftex
References
Structure
- 1-column abstract in 2-column document
- Alternative head- and footlines in LaTeX
- Appendixes
- Balancing columns at the end of a document
- How to create a
\subsubsubsection - Indent after section headings
- My section title is too wide for the page header
- Page numbering “‹n› of ‹m›”
- Page numbering by chapter
- Really blank pages between chapters
- The style of captions
- The style of document titles
- The style of section headings
- Wide figures in two-column documents
Tables
- Centring a very wide figure or table
- Diagonal separation in corner cells of tables
- Facing floats on 2-page spread
- Figure (or table) exactly where I want it
- Fixed-width tables
- Floats in multicolumn setting
- Floats on their own on float pages
- Flowing text around figures
- How to alter the alignment of tabular cells
- How to change a whole row of a table
- Merging cells in a column of a table
- Placing two-column floats at bottom of page
- Spacing lines in tables
- Tables longer than a single page
- The design of tables
- The thickness of rules in LaTeX tables
- Variable-width columns in tables
- Vertical layout of float pages
- What is the difference between
arrayandtabularenvironments
Toc
- Bibliography, index, etc., in TOC
- Multiple indexes
- Table of contents, etc., per chapter
- The format of the Table of Contents, etc.
- Unnumbered sections in the Table of Contents