Recent content by Stefan_K

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    LaTeX Drawing an Arrow between Two Graphs in LaTeX | Tikz Package Solution

    Hi Sara, use the overlay option to draw on the graph: \tikz[overlay,remember picture] { \draw[dashed, o->] (2,4) -- (10,4); } or draw the arrow within the graph picture itself. Btw. you can find many TikZ examples, also with overlays, on TeXample.net in the TikZ gallery. If you...
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    LaTeX Latex: flushleft environment within tabular cells

    For properly inserting code, use the "Code" button in the post editor. Regarding the problem: you cannot use a flushleft environment within tabular cells. It's implemented as a list environment, that's why you got the error "Missing \item" because a list consists of items. You could use...
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    LaTeX How can I add text to figures in LaTeX using the beamer class?

    Beamer works fine with pgf and TikZ. For overlays, I use \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture] ... \end{tikzpicture} Besides images, I annotate arbitrary text and math elements, such as drawing arrows between matrix elements. An example: Highlighting elements in matrices. This...
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    LaTeX What is the solution for taller parentheses in a matrix using xy-pic in LaTeX?

    Hi Aikon, the problem here is the baseline of the matrix, which is not at the center. You can fix that by \vcenter: \begin{displaymath} \left(\vcenter{ \xymatrix @=0.5pc { a \ar@{-}[dr] & b\\ c & d\\ }} \right) \end{displaymath} On LaTeX-Community.org, it has been made...
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    LaTeX What is the use of \frac{5}{15} in LaTeX?

    Hi Luke, if you would like to learn something about LaTeX, perhaps have a look at LaTeX-Community.org. There's a large collection of articles, news posts and feed, and a very active LaTeX dedicated user support forum. Stefan
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    LaTeX How to include contraction symbols in LaTeX

    \contraction works fine for me with simplewick.sty, placing the style file in the same same directory should work. Perhaps you forgot \usepackage. This example is compilable: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{simplewick} \begin{document} \[...