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Questions related to the typesetting-system LaTeX and closely related subjects. Please note that there is a Q&A-site dedicated to this subject https://tex.stackexchange.com Most questions involving LaTeX are a better fit there, and if asked here, might still be migrated to the other site. Most of the existing questions with this tag predate the existence of the other site, they are not a good indicator for which questions now would remain on this site.

Please note that there is a Q&A-site dedicated to this subject. Most questions involving LaTeX are a better fit there, and if asked here, might still be migrated to the other site. Most of the existing questions with this tag predate the existence of the other site, they are not a good indicator for which questions would now remain on this site.

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Modular Arithmetic in LaTeX

This question may end up [closed], but I'm going to ask and let the people decide. It's certainly the kind of question that I'd ask people at tea, and it's not one whose answer I've been able find with Google. TeX, I have heard, is Turing complete.…
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Recommended page layout settings for latex

I would appreciate input and thoughts on what a good page layout for a mathematical article looks like in latex. What would you consider good practice? What is your own personal preference? Which page layouts annoy you as a reader? 11pt or 12pt?…
Arend Bayer
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Typo/grammar checker for LaTeX

Anyone know a good grammar checker for LaTeX? I find that by the time a paper is ready for submission that my small typos are invisible to me, because I have looked at it so many times already. Spell check catches some of the errors, but grammar…
jon
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Automatically updating PDF reader for Windows

So, when doing LaTeX, it is absolutely necessary for ones sanity to using a preview program which updates automatically every time you compile. Of course, any previewer designed for DVIs will do this, but as far I can tell, Adobe Acrobat not only…
Ben Webster
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Seeing math when viewing abstracts on arxiv.org

One very enjoyable feature of mathoverflow is that the math just works. You enter it using the usual LaTeX, and then the jsMath magic does the rest. One of the most frequent activities for many mathematicians is checking abstracts on arXiv. So you…
VA.
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Beamer printout

I have just created a presentation using beamer, and I want the "one" command at the top of the file that creates a printable version. It is true that I can recompile having searched for all the \pause commands and percent them out, but I remember…
Scott Carter
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Polyglot note-keeping?

I sometimes give roughly the same course in different languages, and update my TeX notes (if any) each time. Keeping all sets of notes current is a pain (and doesn´t always get done). Does anybody know of a system for keeping and updating the same…
H A Helfgott
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Accessing AMS fonts in LaTex

The document amsfndoc.pdf, available from the AMS website , has large tables of unusual fonts at the end. Can someone explain how I can access these fonts in a standard installation of LaTex? I use TexShop, with MacTex. I've looked around on the…
Dan Ramras
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Any viable modern LaTeX alternative for expressing mathematics?

Is there any viable (meaning working) modern LaTeX alternative for expressing mathematics? Or is LaTex the accepted standard?
Slavomir Kaslev
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Online latex editor

I am not sure if this is a proper place for my question, but: can anybody recommend any good online latex editor? Anyone interested in this would probably benefit from the answers to this question on the tex.SE site:…
Sasha
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Latex Template for a Popular Math Journal

Can anyone offer a Latex template for a popular mathematics journal? It is easy to prepare a template for a technical journal with simple page layout but what I am looking for is something like the AMS Notices. A partial template I can work on or…
Sonat Suer
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Splitting book into chapters

I need a way to split output pdf-file (a book) into chapters on such a way that cross-references will survive. A simple example with a solution (based on answers below) can be found here
Anton Petrunin
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