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Using a TrueType font in LaTeX with XeTeX

I still prefer LaTeX for presentations. There might be more comfortable software for presentations, but LaTeX is in my eyes the way to go for scientific data. The font selection is just pretty limited. The XeTeX project can help you to get TrueType fonts into your documents and presentations.

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Mathematic expressions in HTML with KaTeX

KaTeX is a JavaScript library to render mathematic expressions in your web browser. Similar to MathJax it is able to use TeX as input.

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Custom code highlighting in LaTeX

LaTeX is the software that I prefer for creating presentation slides or small documents with technical and mathematical background. From time to time it is necessary to show code with highlighting in LaTeX documents. Sometimes also for less popular programming languages or file formats.

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Building a LaTeX Docker image

My local Tex Live version is a bit outdated and I do not want my Debian Jessie to force an update to the sid distribution. This is maybe a good point to start running the pdflatex command in a Docker container with a newer version.

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Debian - Increase LaTeX main memory size

I want to increase the memory for Tex Live on my Debian operating system. The reason is the following error that I get after executing the command pdflatex.

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LaTeX - Illustrate similarity measures of time series

I need to illustrate similarity measures of time series in a paper. Common illustrations are the euclidean distance and dynamic time warping.

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LaTeX - Multidimensional time series PGFPlots tikzpicture

I am working on my bachelor thesis and have to deal with multidimensional time series. Quite specifically time series containing acceleration data from the three sensors produced by a Wii controller. I would like to show on a small example how I represent multidimensional time series graphs in LaTeX.

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LaTeX - Scale and change aspect ratio of PGFPlots tikzpicture

I need to change the size of a PGFPlots tikzpicture in my LaTeX document. There are two different things, scaling the graphic to the full or half width for example and changing the aspect ratio of a graphic.

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LaTeX - Load table data for PGFPlots tikzpicture

My main resource to create tikzpicture graphics in PDF files generated via LaTeX is the PGFPlots Gallery. But I guess there are more than 400 examples on this page. Here a minimal example for a PGFPlots function visualisation with data loaded from an dat file.

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Ignore pause in LaTeX beamer with handout

When preparing my LaTeX slides with the beamer class for a presentation, I have used pretty often the pause command. This command splits a frame and hides the content under pause on the first frame. This is very helpful to give the audience step by step the content of a talk. But this can be very annoying when clicking throw the slides after the talk. There is a simple solution to ignore the pause commands.

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