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LaTeX Packages A-M
Symbol legend: BitBucket, GitHub, Launchpad, Google Code, GitLab
abc: Enrico Gregorio (egreg)
abraces: Werner Grundlingh (Werner)
accents: Javier Bezos
accsupp: Heiko Oberdiek
acro: Clemens Niederberger (clemens)
acronym: Heiko Oberdiek with Tobias Oetiker
adforn: cfr [LaTeX support only]
adfsymbols: cfr [LaTeX support only]
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Installing, updating, restoring, other system operations
Installing/updating the TeX distribution (TeX Live, MikTeX, etc.)
How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
[How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1092)
How should one maintain and update a MiKTeX installation?
[How should one maintain and ...
discussion comments new-users big-list
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Bibliographies and citations
General problems
Question mark instead of citation number
[Question mark instead of citation number](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/63852)
BibTeX loses capitals when creating .bbl file
[BibTeX loses capitals when creating `.bbl` file](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/10772)
BibTeX: How to write “ä” and other umlauts and ...
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Symbols (see also Fonts & Font encoding)
Scott Pakin's Comprehensive symbols list
[Comprehensive symbols list](http://mirror.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/)
Symbols in math
How to look up a symbol or identify a math alphabet?
[How to look up a symbol or identify a math alphabet?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/14)
Importing a single symbol ...
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LaTeX Packages N-Z
Symbol legend: BitBucket, GitHub, Launchpad, Google Code, GitLab
nameref: Heiko Oberdiek with Sebastian Rahtz
newfloat: Axel Sommerfeldt
newunicodechar: Enrico Gregorio (egreg)
newverbs: Martin Scharrer
nfssext-cfr: cfr
noindentafter: Michiel Helvensteijn (mhelvens)
nopageno: David Carlisle
notes2bib: Joseph Wright
nowidow: ...
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Figure/table (float) positioning
How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
[How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/39017)
This is the "official", general post.
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
[Keeping tables/...
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Correct centering
Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?
[Should I use center or centering for figures and tables?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/2651)
When should we use \begin{center} instead of \centering?
[When should we use `\begin{center}` instead of `\centering`?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23650)
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Support Scripts
Symbol legend: BitBucket, GitHub, Launchpad
arara: Paulo Cereda, Marco Daniel, Nicola Talbot and Brent Longborough
bib2gls: Nicola Talbot
checkcites: Enrico Gregorio (egreg) and Paulo Cereda
check-parens: Jaap Eldering (eldering)
csv2latex: Alan Munn
ctanupload: Martin Scharrer
dosepsbin: Heiko Oberdiek
jmakepdfx: Nicola Talbot
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Math environments
Questions involving coding
Preferred LaTeX coding
Blank lines in math, missing $ signs
Blank lines in an equation and some other similar function
[Blank lines in an equation and some other similar function](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/315200)
“!Missing $ inserted” error using amsmath environments
[“!Missing $ inserted” error ...
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Frequent source code related issues
Control sequence naming
Is \10 allowed as a control-sequence name?
[Is \10 allowed as a control-sequence name?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/141888)
Package loading order
Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before?
[Which packages should be loaded after `hyperref` instead of before?](https://...
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Assembla
BitBucket
CTAN
GitHub
LaTeX2e
LaTeX3
SourceForge
Not applicable
Code corpus
:: Sean Allred
:: Andrew Cashner (musarithmia)
:: David Carlisle
:: dustin
:: Paulo Cereda
:: Claudio Fiandrino
:: Christian Feuersänger
:: Paul Gaborit
:: Paul Gessler
:: Patrick Gundlach
:: Patrick Gundlach (for Speedata)
:: David Haberthür1
:...
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Cross-referencing, including hyperref
Hyperref: using abbreviated labels like Eq., but keep correct spacing after period
[Hyperref: using abbreviated labels like Eq., but keep correct spacing after period](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/497152)
labels
Understanding how references and labels work
[Understanding how references and labels work](https://tex....
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Biblatex Styles
Symbol legend: BitBucket, GitHub, Launchpad
biblatex-chem: Joseph Wright
biblatex-phys: Joseph Wright
biblatex-ieee: Joseph Wright
biblatex-musuos: Tobias Weh (Tobi)
biblatex-nature: Joseph Wright
biblatex-nejm: Marco Daniel
biblatex-publist: Jürgen Spitzmüller
biblatex-sbl: David Purton
biblatex-trad: Marco Daniel
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About:
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Generic Packages
Symbol legend: BitBucket, GitHub, Launchpad
apnum.tex: Petr Olšák (wipet)
asapsym: Paul Gessler
chemfig.tex: Christian Tellechea (unbonpetit)
cnv.tex: Petr Olšák (wipet)
code128, ean13 Petr Olšák (wipet)
csplain (+opmac): Petr Olšák (wipet)
ctustyle, custyle: Petr Olšák (wipet)
dirtree: Jean-Côme Charpentier
docbytex: Petr Olšák (wipet)...
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Fonts & Font encoding (see also Symbols)
Which OpenType Math fonts are available?
[Which OpenType Math fonts are available?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/425098)
How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?
[How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45919)
Do fontsize environments ...
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Spacing and pagination
Space after LaTeX commands
[Space after LaTeX commands](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/31091)
Double line spacing
[Double line spacing](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/819)
Inconsistent line spacing (need for \par)
[Inconsistent line spacing](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36454)
Adding vertical space at the start of a page
[...
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Old font macros
Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, \bfseries or \bf, etc.
[Does it matter if I use `\textit` or `\it`, `\bfseries` or `\bf`, etc.](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/516)
Will two-letter font style commands (\bf, \it, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?
[Will two-letter font style commands (`\bf`, `\it`, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?](...
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Stefan Kottwitz
LaTeX Beginner's Guide
answered Apr 20 '12 at 18:47
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ConTeXt Modules
Symbol legend: GitHub
filter: Aditya Mahajan
gnuplot: Mojca Miklavec
letterine: Taco Hoekwater
mathsets: Aditya Mahajan
simpleslides: Thomas Schmitz and Aditya Mahajan
vim: Aditya Mahajan
visualcounter: Aditya Mahajan
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Figure/table numbering
Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements
[Continuous v. per-chapter/section numbering of figures, tables, and other document elements](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/28333)
How to get more subfigures than 26?
[How to get more subfigures than 26?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/...
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Documentation & Definition of commands
(La)TeX core
Difference between optional and delimited arguments
Are all commands with an optional argument fragile?
[Are all commands with an optional argument fragile?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/497356)
Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language?
[Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language?](https://...
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Naming
How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?
[How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/82993)
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Frank Mittelbach
LaTeX Graphics Companion
The LaTeX Companion
Der Latex Begleiter (in German)
15
Marc van Dongen
LaTeX and Friends
14
Herbert Voss
PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX (in English)
Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX (in English)
LaTeX Quick Reference (in English)
Typesetting tables with LaTeX (in English)
Tabellen mit LaTeX (in German)
PSTricks (in German)
Bibliografien mit LaTeX (in German)
Einführung in LaTeX (in German)
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TikZ
Difference between "right of=" and "right=of" in PGF/TikZ
[Difference between "right of=" and "right=of" in PGF/TikZ](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/9386)
Should \tikzset or \tikzstyle be used to define TikZ styles?
[Should `\tikzset` or `\tikzstyle` be used to define TikZ styles?](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/52372)
Vertical and horizontal lines ...
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Fixed
biber fixed version 2.8
Biber gets perl warning
latexdiff fixed version 1.2.0 Issue #61
latexindent fixed version 2.2
latexindent: it does the work, but emits these messages
makeglossaries fixed in version 2.17 (distributed with glossaries version 4.20 2015-11-30, makeglossaries version number is now synchronized with glossaries.sty as from v4.33).
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Capitalization (of TeX, LaTeX and Friends) and Markup
Prompting the user to change "latex" to LaTeX
"Official" capitalizations of words from the TeX world
What is the policy on adding keyboard markup?
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Removing greetings, "Thanks" and signature
Removing "thanks" from questions
Why is "thanks" inappropriate at the end of a question?
Etiquette: Should I edit questions with "Thanks" or wait for Moderator?
What to do about a post when the OP insists on putting a thanks at the end?
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