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Learning from the link here and here, I have the following code: \documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[ foo/.tip={Stealth[harpoon,swap]}, mystyle/.style={thick, shorten >=2pt,shorten <=2pt}, ] \node[draw,circle,fill=teal] (A) at (0,1) {A}; \node[draw,circle,fill=magenta] (B) at (0,-1) {B}; \node[draw,circle,fill=cyan] (C) at (2.5,.5) {C}; \draw[-foo,mystyle,transform canvas={xshift=-0.3ex}] (A) -- node[left] {$\Delta$} (B); \draw[foo-,mystyle,transform canvas={xshift=+0.3ex}] (A) -- node[right] {$\nabla$} (B); % \draw[dualharpoon={$\Delta$}{$\nabla$}] (A) -- (B); % ? \draw[-foo,mystyle,transform canvas={yshift=-0.3ex}] (B) -- node[below right=-3pt] {$f(x)$} (C); \draw[foo-,mystyle,transform canvas={yshift=+0.3ex}] (B) -- node[above left=-3pt] {$g(x)$} (C); % \draw[dualharpoon={$f(x)$}{$g(x)$}] (B) -- (C); % ? \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} I want more smartly syntax like: \draw[dualharpoon={$\Delta$}{$\nabla$}] (A) -- (B); \draw[dualharpoon={$f(x)$}{$g(x)$}] (B) -- (C); which control exactly how much to xshift/yshift moved towards in the direction perpendicular to the connection between the two nodes, in addition, I also don't want to decide the node's position by above left=-3pt manually. Any suggestions on how to support such two-sided harpoon arrow with label? Edited after cfr's answer(first edition): % Source - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/762315 % Posted by cfr % Retrieved 2026-04-28, License - CC BY-SA 4.0 \documentclass[tikz,border=5pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} \makeatletter \newcommand\dualharpoon{} \newcommand\dualharpoon@aux{} \newcommand\dualharpoon@noaux{} \protected\def\dualharpoon{% \@ifnextchar[\dualharpoon@aux\dualharpoon@noaux } \protected\def\dualharpoon@noaux{% \dualharpoon@aux[]% } \long\protected\def\dualharpoon@aux[#1]#2#3#4#5{% \path (#4.center); \pgfgetlastxy{\temp@ax}{\temp@ay} \path (#5.center); \pgfgetlastxy{\temp@bx}{\temp@by} \edef\temp@angle{\fpeval{(atan((\temp@by-\temp@ay)/(\temp@bx-\temp@ax)))*(180/pi)}} \draw[-foo,mystyle] (#4.{\temp@angle - 5}) -- coordinate (temp@1) (#5.{185 + \temp@angle}); \node[anchor={90+\temp@angle}] at (temp@1) {#2} ; \draw[foo-,mystyle] (#4.{\temp@angle + 5}) -- coordinate (temp@2) (#5.{175 + \temp@angle}); \node[anchor={270+\temp@angle}] at (temp@2) {#3}; } \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[ foo/.tip={Stealth[harpoon,swap]}, mystyle/.style={thick, shorten >=2pt,shorten <=2pt}, ] \node[draw,circle,fill=teal] (A) at (0,1) {A}; \node[draw,circle,fill=magenta] (B) at (0,-1) {B}; \node[draw,circle,fill=cyan] (C) at (2.5,.5) {C}; \node[draw,circle,fill=olive] (D) at (-3,1) {D}; \dualharpoon{$\Delta$}{$\nabla$}{A}{B} \dualharpoon{$g(x)$}{$f(x)$}{B}{C} \dualharpoon{$p$}{$q$}{B}{D} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}

I am typesetting the following matrix equation (MWE): \documentclass[preview]{standalone} \usepackage{iftex} \ifLuaTeX \usepackage{unicode-math} \else \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \fi \begin{document} \[ \begin{pmatrix} \underline{v}_1^T \\ \underline{v}_3^T \\ \underline{v}_3^T \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} v_{11} & v_{12} & v_{13} \\ v_{21} & v_{22} & v_{23} \\ v_{31} & v_{32} & v_{33} \end{pmatrix} \] \end{document} When I compile with pdflatex, the matrix elements on the l.h.s. look good to me. In particular, both the subscripts (indices) and the superscripts (T) are properly set and readable: However, when I compile with lualatex, the subscripts overlap with the succeeding line: I've also created a gif for a better comparison: My question is: How can I avoid the overlap? (My wish would be to consistently raise the subscripts. I'd like to avoid increasing the row distance, because then the rows on the l.h.s. would not properly align with the rows on the r.h.s.)

I am using this code in luadraw to cut a sphere with a plane and move one of the cut parts to another position. Currently, the surface of the sphere is not really smooth. If I increase the number in this line local S = sphere(Origin, R, 60, 60) to a larger value, the compilation becomes slower. How can I make the sphere smoother? \documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone} \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[3d]{luadraw} \begin{document} \begin{luadraw}{name=sphere_clip3d_fixed} local R = 3 local g = graph3d:new{window={-R-2, R+1, -R-1, R}, viewdir={110, 60}, size={10, 10}} Hiddenlinestyle = "dashed" local S = sphere(Origin, R, 60, 60) local Box = parallelep(M(-5,-5,1.5), 10*vecI, 10*vecJ, 10*vecK) local S_top = clip3d(S, Box) local S_bottom = clip3d(S, Box, true) local vector = 2*vecK + 5*vecJ local S_top_shifted = shift3d(S_top, vector) local I_bottom = border(S_bottom) local I_top_shifted = border(S_top_shifted) g:Dscene3d( g:addFacet(S_bottom, {draw="ball color=orange", color="orange", backcull=true}), g:addFacet(S_top_shifted, {draw="ball color=orange", color="orange", backcull=true}), g:addPolyline(I_bottom, {color="Navy", hidden=true}), g:addPolyline(I_top_shifted, {color="Navy", hidden=true}) ) g:Show() \end{luadraw} \end{document}

I am using the code from this answer in my project. My project also uses the package siunitx. The code no longer works when siunitx is loaded. I am just a regular user with no knowledge of internals of siunitx or TikZ. What can I do to use the code and siunitx at the same time? In the code below, all I did was add \usepackage{siunitx}. % Source - https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/586432 % Posted by loved.by.Jesus, modified by community. See post 'Timeline' for change history % Retrieved 2026-04-26, License - CC BY-SA 4.0 \documentclass{article} \usepackage{siunitx} % if removed, the code works just fine \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{math} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} %Two points (A) and (B) \coordinate (A) at (0,0); \coordinate (B) at (2,2); %--Computing the distance between (A) and (B) %Creating a math coordinate \tikzmath{coordinate \C; %Storing coordinates difference \C = (B)-(A); %Computing the length of C = (Cx,Cy) from its components Cx and Cy %Note the length \distAB is in points (pt) \distAB = sqrt((\Cx)^2+(\Cy)^2); } %--Drawing %line A -- B \draw (A) node [above] {A} -- (B) node[above] {B} node[midway]{\distAB pt}; %Circle with center in (A) and radius \distAB points \draw (A) circle (\distAB pt); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Thank you for any help.

I want to change the greek font into STEP while keeping all other math font in TeX Gyre Termes Math and text font in Times New Roman. The following is my MWE: %! TEX program = xelatex \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmainfont{Times New Roman} \setmathfont{TeX Gyre Termes Math} \setmathfont{STEP}[ range={upgreek, uprightgreek, itgreek, italicgreek}, script=greek ] \begin{document} $\alpha \beta \Gamma \Delta$\\ $f(x) = x^2$ \end{document} It gives me some error messages: undefined Transcript written on test.log. Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> Use of \??? doesn't match its definition. <argument> \??? I don't know where went wrong. I downloaded all the fonts I need, and I can run the code if I remove the code: \setmathfont{STEP}[ range={upgreek, uprightgreek, itgreek, italicgreek}, script=greek ] but it gives me this instead. Any help would be much appreciated.

I am learning how to use tikz Matrix to layout few things. Notice that inside tikz matrix node, the alignment is not the same as outside tikz using standard &= for align math environment. I had to to put align environment inside a minipage to make it work inside tikz matrix node. It will not let me just use align directly since not paragraph mode. But the issue is the spacing between left side of &= and right side is different than outside tikz. \documentclass[12pt,varwidth]{standalone} %need varwidth to use align inside standalon \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{matrix} \begin{document} \fbox{\begin{minipage}{1.5in} \vspace{0pt} % Fixes top spacing issues \noindent % Ensures no paragraph indentation {\small All plots used the same initial conditions \begin{align*} x(0) &=1\\ x'(0) &=1\\ \end{align*} } \end{minipage} } \begin{tikzpicture} \matrix (m) [matrix of math nodes, nodes={anchor=center}, row sep=3.5em, column sep=2.5em, nodes in empty cells, draw] { 1& 2& \begin{minipage}{1.5in} \vspace{0pt} % Fixes top spacing issues \noindent % Ensures no paragraph indentation {\small All plots used the same initial conditions \begin{align*} x(0) &=1\\ x'(0) &=1\\ \end{align*} } \end{minipage} &4 \\ 5& 6 & 7 & 8 \\ }; \foreach \i in {1,2,3,4} \foreach \j in {1,2} \draw [help lines] (m-\j-\i.south west) rectangle (m-\j-\i.north east); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Compiled with lualatex gives lualatex, TL 2026

I need to make a node in tikz matrix which spans multiple columns. After much struggle and trial and error, this is the result \documentclass[12pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning,arrows,chains,matrix,scopes,fit} \usetikzlibrary{backgrounds} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \matrix (m) [matrix of math nodes, nodes={anchor=center}, row sep=3.5em, column sep=2.5em, nodes in empty cells, draw] {1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\ 5 & & & \\ 9 & 10 & 11 & 12\\ }; \node[fit=(m-2-2)(m-2-4),align=center,text centered,draw,fill=yellow]{spans cols 2 to 4}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Compiled using lualatex gives Which is what I want, except I do not know how to make the text "spans cols 2 to 4" to be fully centered inside the node that spans the columns. I tried adding align=center and text centered as you see, but this had no effect on vertical centering inside the node. What is correct way to do this? Now the baseline as you see of the text inside, is not aligned with the baseline of the other nodes in the tikz matrix. TL 2026

Claim: I believe that the code example could be simplified further. However, I don't find it easy to construct... : Here below is the original case: % lualatex \documentclass[zihao=-4,fontset=none]{ctexbook} \RequirePackage[ papersize={210mm,297mm}, margin=25mm,showframe, ]{geometry} \RequirePackage{enumitem} \usepackage{txfonts} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate}[label={[}\arabic*{]}, labelindent=\parindent, leftmargin=*] \item Tao Y, \textbf{Liu H}, Wang X, et al. Probabilistically Informed Motion Primitives for Impedance Control in Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks[J]. xxxx. \end{enumerate} \end{document} If we add microtype, with lualatex, it works: % lualatex \documentclass[zihao=-4,fontset=none]{ctexbook} \RequirePackage[ papersize={210mm,297mm}, margin=25mm,showframe ]{geometry} \RequirePackage{enumitem} %%%%%%%%% \usepackage{txfonts} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{microtype} \begin{document} \begin{enumerate}[label={[}\arabic*{]}, labelindent=\parindent, leftmargin=*] \item Tao Y, \textbf{Liu H}, Wang X, et al. Probabilistically Informed Motion Primitives for Impedance Control in Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks[J]. xxxx. \end{enumerate} \end{document} But with xelatex, it doesn't: I found it hard to remove the \documentclass[zihao=-4]{ctexbook} dependency to simplifiy the code, which change fontsize internally... Learning from this link, there are many better alternatives to txfonts: \usepackage{newtxtext} \usepackage{tgtermes} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \setmainfont{Times New Roman} \setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes} But all confront with the word "Impedance" protrusion without microtype... My questions are: What caused the word "Impedance" protrusion here? Is this the expected bahavior? And is microtype the recommended package to tweak here (while failed with xelatex😔)?

How can I fill horizontally the whole space with e.g. 2 images and a spacer in between? Here's my try using \textwidth, but it crosses the text area. \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[showframe]{geometry} \setlength\parindent{0pt} \begin{document} \includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{example-image-9x16} \hspace{.1\textwidth} \includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{example-image-9x16} \end{document}

How can I use Lua syntax inside a pgfkeys key, and load that from Lua so I can later print it's descendents to TeX? This MWE looks ridiculous, but don't laugh! It's actually designed to show the type of behaviour I want to enable. That is, I want to have lua syntax highlighting in certain keys when I set them, and lua category codes too. I think it would be a really beautiful thing. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{jasper} \begin{document} \setobject[nice = { -- this is some lua syntax local with = "a \\par!" local wow = "!" -- I want to use the % operator too local test = 5 % 2 tex.sprint(test) -- blah return 7 }] \end{document} \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/06/01] \ProvidesExplPackage{jasper}{1994/04/05}{v1.0.0}{ LuaLaTeX package for a question about pgfkeys and Lua. } \RequirePackage{tikz} \tikzset{ /jasper/.is~family ,/jasper/.cd ,nice/.code = {\protected@edef\jasper@nice{#1}} } \lua_load_module:n { George } \NewDocumentCommand { \setobject } {o} { \group_begin: \tikzset{ /jasper/.search~also = {/tikz} ,/jasper/.cd ,#1 } \__jasper_setobject: \group_end: } local function register_tex_cmd(name, func, args, protected) name = "__jasper_" .. name .. ":" .. ("n"):rep(#args) local scanners = {} for _, arg in ipairs(args) do scanners[#scanners+1] = token['scan_' .. arg] end local scanning_func = function() local values = {} for _, scanner in ipairs(scanners) do values[#values+1] = scanner() end func(table.unpack(values)) end local index = luatexbase.new_luafunction(name) lua.get_functions_table()[index] = scanning_func if protected then token.set_lua(name, index, "protected") else token.set_lua(name, index) end end local function body_expression(str) return load(str, "expression", "t", _G)() end local function set_object(hash) local object = body_expression(hash.object) local name = hash.name lua_tikz3dtools.math[name] = object end register_tex_cmd("setobject", function() set_object{ nice = token.get_macro("jasper@nice"), } end, { })

I want to draw that cool diagram by Penrose in twistor theor; it's supposed to be composed of steographically projected Clifford parallels. credit: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/928836 Not this Clifford: But rather this one: I attempted to try it myself, as I am fond of stereographic projection. However, I have never studied Clifford tori. I have no basis to check is my work is actually based on Clifford parallels. I only made tori using regular old stereographic projection. I don't know if this is right. This is the MWE I made. It uses my package, which can be downloaded from github. \documentclass[tikz,border=1cm]{standalone} \usepackage{lua-tikz3dtools} % https://github.com/Pseudonym321/TikZ-Animations/tree/master1/TikZ/lua-tikz3dtools \begin{document} \foreach \CCC in {5,10,...,25} { \begin{tikzpicture} \useasboundingbox (-5,-5) rectangle (5,5); \appendlight[v = {return Vector:new{1, 1, 1 , 1}}] \def\SSS{3} \foreach \AAA in {0,30,60} { \pgfmathsetmacro{\AAA}{\AAA+\CCC} \setobject[ name=a,object={\AAA*pi/180} ] \setobject[ name=R, object={1/cos(a)} ] \setobject[ name=r, object={sqrt(abs(1/cos(a)^2)-abs(cos(a)))} ] \setobject[ name=view, object = {Matrix.zyzrotation3(pi/2, pi/3, pi/6)} ] \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\BBB}{((\AAA-10)*10/7)} \appendsurface[ ustart={pi/2}, ustop={-pi}, usamples= 20, vstart=0, vstop=tau, vsamples= 50, transformation = {return view}, v = { return Vector.hsphere3(u, v, r) :hadd(Vector:new{R*cos(u), R*sin(u), 0, 1}) }, filter = { local M = A:hadd(B):hadd(C):hscale(1/3):multiply(view:inverse()) return abs(M[1]) < \SSS.001 and abs(M[2]) < \SSS.001 and abs(M[3]) < \SSS.001 }, fill options = {fill={gray!\BBB!black!50!ltdtbrightness},fill opacity = 1}, curve = { local segments = {} local domain_origin = pi/2 local branches = 7 local samples_per_branch = 40 local samples = branches*samples_per_branch local step = tau/samples local function append_segment(s0, s1) if s1 <= s0 then return end local wrap = floor(branches*s0/tau + 1e-9) local u0 = domain_origin - s0 local u1 = domain_origin - s1 local v0 = branches*s0 - wrap*tau local v1 = branches*s1 - wrap*tau table.insert(segments, { Vector:new{u0, v0}, Vector:new{u1, v1}, drawoptions = "draw = green!50!black, thick" }) end for i = 0, samples - 1 do local s0 = i*step local s1 = s0 + step local wrap0 = floor(branches*s0/tau + 1e-9) local wrap1 = floor(branches*s1/tau + 1e-9) if wrap0 == wrap1 then append_segment(s0, s1) else local seam = (wrap0 + 1)*tau/branches append_segment(s0, seam) append_segment(seam, s1) end end return segments } ] } % ends foreach \appendsolid[ ustart=-\SSS, ustop=\SSS, usamples= \SSS, vstart=-\SSS, vstop=\SSS, vsamples= \SSS, wstart=-\SSS, wstop=\SSS, wsamples= \SSS, transformation = {return view}, filter = {return false}, v = {return Vector:new{u, v, w, 1}} ] \displaysimplices \end{tikzpicture}} % ends \CCC \end{document}

Before of this question, I would like to thank the authors of the answers and everyone who appreciated my question. I had previously created these two figures related to two triple integrals. Is there a better way to improve their presentation and make them clearer and more visually appealing? T={(x, y, z) ∈ ℝ³: (x²+y²)¹/² ≤ z ≤ 1}. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{tikz,tikz-3dplot} \begin{document} \begin{center} \tdplotsetmaincoords{60}{130} \begin{tikzpicture}[tdplot_main_coords,scale=3] \pgfmathsetmacro{\h}{0.6} \pgfmathsetmacro{\raggio}{\h} \draw[thick,->] (0,0,0) -- (1.5,0,0) node [below left] {\footnotesize$x$}; \draw[dashed] (0,0,0) -- (-1.5,0,0); \draw[thick,->] (0,0,0) -- (0,1.5,0) node [right] {\footnotesize$y$}; \draw[dashed] (0,0,0) -- (0,-1.5,0); \draw[thick,->] (0,0,1.0) -- (0,0,1.5) node [above] {\footnotesize$z$}; \draw[dashed] (0,0,0) -- (0,0,1.0); \foreach \altura in {0.01,0.02,...,1.0}{ \draw[cyan,opacity=0.5] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({\altura*cos(\t r)},{\altura*sin(\t r)},{\altura}); } \draw[blue,thick,fill=brown!50,opacity=0.6] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({\raggio*cos(\t r)},{\raggio*sin(\t r)},{\h}); \draw[dashed,fill=yellow,opacity=0.4] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({\raggio*cos(\t r)},{\raggio*sin(\t r)},0); \foreach \t in {0,10,30,60,90,120,150,250,280,310}{ \draw[black,dashed,thin,opacity=0.7] ({\raggio*cos(\t)},{\raggio*sin(\t)},{\h}) -- ({\raggio*cos(\t)},{\raggio*sin(\t)},0); } \fill[gray,opacity=0.1] (-1.2,-1.2,\h) -- (1.2,-1.2,\h) -- (1.2,1.2,\h) -- (-1.2,1.2,\h) -- cycle; \draw[red,very thick] (0,0,\h) -- (0,\raggio,\h); \node at (0,1.5,\h) {\small $z=h$}; \node at (0,0.5,0.75) {\small $z$}; \node at (0,0.25,-0.35) {\small $T(z=0)$}; \node at (0,.75,1.3) {\small $T(z=h)=T(z)$}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \end{document} C= {(x,y,z)∈ ℝ³: z∈ [0, 2], x²+ y²≤ z} \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{tikz,tikz-3dplot} \begin{document} \begin{center} \tdplotsetmaincoords{70}{130} \begin{tikzpicture}[tdplot_main_coords,scale=2.5] \pgfmathsetmacro{\h}{.6} \pgfmathsetmacro{\raggio}{sqrt(\h)} \draw[thick,->] (0,0,0) -- (1.5,0,0) node [below left] {$x$}; \draw[thick,->] (0,0,0) -- (0,1.5,0) node [right] {$y$}; \draw[thick,->] (0,0,0) -- (0,0,1.5) node [above] {$z$}; \draw[red,very thick] plot[domain=-1:1,smooth,variable=\t] (0,{\t},{\t*\t}); \draw[blue,fill=yellow,opacity=0.4] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({\raggio*cos(\t r)},{\raggio*sin(\t r)},{\h}); \draw[fill=yellow,dashed,opacity=0.5] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({\raggio*cos(\t r)},{\raggio*sin(\t r)},{0}) node [above] {\tiny $C(z)$}; \foreach \t in {0,10,...,350}{ \draw[gray, dashed, thin,opacity=0.4] ({\raggio*cos(\t)},{\raggio*sin(\t)},{\h}) -- ({\raggio*cos(\t)},{\raggio*sin(\t)},0); } \foreach \altura in {0.0125,0.025,...,1.0}{ \pgfmathsetmacro{\radio}{sqrt(\altura)} \draw[cyan,thick,opacity=0.5] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({\radio*cos(\t r)},{\radio*sin(\t r)},{\altura}); } \fill[orange!30,opacity=0.4] (-1,-1,\h) -- (1,-1,\h) -- (1,1,\h) -- (-1,1,\h) -- cycle; \draw[blue,very thick] (0,0,\h) -- (0,{\raggio},\h); \node[black, above right] at (0,{\raggio/2},\h) {\tiny $\sqrt{z}$}; \draw[blue,fill=yellow,dotted,thick,opacity=0.4] plot[domain=0:360,smooth,variable=\t] ({\raggio*cos(\t)},{\raggio*sin(\t)},{\h}); \draw[blue!80,thick] plot[domain=0:2*pi,smooth,variable=\t] ({cos(\t r)},{sin(\t r)},{1.0}); \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \end{document}

Are there ungrouped alternatives to \foreach which are still canonical to use with tikz? I need to define a color in a loop and use it outside. Maybe expl3? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgffor,xcolor} \begin{document} \foreach \i in {1,2} {\colorlet{blah}{blue!\i}} \textcolor{blah}{blah} \end{document}

I have a pie chart representing a distribution of hours, and I'm using the option sum=auto to display the chat by these values. But I'd like to add the unit of the values inside the plot. If I type 12~h/Maths it raises error because LaTeX tries to compute the percentages. How could I achieve it ? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgf-pie} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \pie[sum = auto]{ 12/Maths, 9/Physique-Chimie, 2/Informatique, 2/TIPE, 2/Français } \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}

I would love to have bold, italicised small caps in my LaTeX document, using T1 encoding and, ideally, a font as close as possible to European Computer Modern. And I would like to only redefine \textbf{\textit{\textsc{}}} so that I can use smallcaps in italic and bold from another font. Related, I found this older question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/746482/114622 Thus, this is my MWE, which doesn't work, as in, it produces the warning: Font shape `T1/cmr/bx/scit' undefined \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} begin{document} \begin{center} \textbf{\textit{\textsc{my text}}} \end{center} \end{document}

How could I create a gap here (as seen sometimes)? \documentclass[landscape]{article} \usepackage[margin=11mm]{geometry} \usepackage{pgf-PeriodicTable} \tikzset{every picture/.append style={remember picture}} \begin{document} \pgfPT[ show title=false, show legend=false, IUPAC=false,% puts La and Ac above ] % Test \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay] \node[fill, inner sep=0pt, minimum size=2mm, cyan, text=red] at (3.center) {UL}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}

For a long time, I was aware that something like this would throw an error, because \textit could not span paragraphs: \textit{this\par that} But lately, looking through LaTeX code, I see that the definition of \textit uses \long. I was under the impression that a "long" macro could span paragraphs. Did something change, in TeXlive 2026? Apparently not. Discussion: The \textit{text} command requires that its text be in a single paragraph. If not, an error results, attributed to \text@command. MWE: \documentclass{article} \show\textit \expandafter\show\csname textit \endcsname \begin{document} \textit{Hello \par World.} Goodbye, cruel world! \end{document} That produces the following console output (simplified): > \textit=macro: ->\protect \textit . > \textit =\long macro: #1->\ifmmode \nfss@text {\itshape #1}\else \hmode@bgroup \text@command {#1}\its hape \check@icl #1\check@icr \expandafter \egroup \fi . <recently read> \textit Runaway argument? {Hello ! Paragraph ended before \text@command was complete. <to be read again> \par l.5 \textit{Hello \par World.} Goodbye, cruel world! The \show\textit tells us that \textit is protected by a sneaky LaTeX trick. The following \show reveals the trick. Thus, since \textit is supposed to be a "long" macro, with one argument, I expect that it should be able to span paragraphs, and take one argument (rather than being a switch). But that is not the case, because internally, \textit contains \text@command, which has different behavior. This kind of situation is not unique to \textit. So my question is, why is \textit defined using \long, when it is not really a multi-paragraph "long" command? Or, what is really happening there?

I need to create a page break command called \nextoddphysicalpage that moves the current point to the next odd-numbered page, considering the physical numbering of the document, not the logical numbering. My near-solution was based on the \checkoddpage command, but it takes into account the logical numbering, not the physical one: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[strict]{changepage} \def\checkifodd{\checkoddpage \ifoddpage Odd\else Even\fi} \addtocounter{page}{1} \begin{document} Logical page: \checkifodd. \end{document}

In trying to boil down my problem to a MWE, I came to the following code: \begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{foo.cls} \ProvidesClass{foo} \LoadClass{article} \AtBeginDocument{\relax}% <-- comment this line out \RequirePackage{icomma} \AtBeginDocument{\show\mathcomma} \end{filecontents} \documentclass{foo} \begin{document} Hello world! \end{document} Running pdftex on this yields > \mathcomma=undefined. \__hook begindocument ->\relax \show \mathcomma \mathchardef \mathcomma \mat... l.9 \begin{document} while commenting out the first \AtBeginDocument one gets (./mwe.aux) > \mathcomma=\mathchar"613B. \__hook begindocument ...,="8000 \show \mathcomma \__hook_toplevel begindocu... l.9 \begin{document} Background (in case it matters) After loading icomma I'd like to calculate the math code of a \mathord comma, something along the lines of \RequirePackage{icomma}% this defines \mathcomma \AtBeginDocument \AtBeginDocument{\edef\ordcomma{\the\numexpr\mathcomma-4096*(\mathcomma/4096)\relax}} and this kept failing until I found out something seems to interact with the hook used before loading icomma.

I am trying to typeset the forall introduction rule using ebproof, as suggested here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/762165/319072. I am reading the manual, but the left label key is not producing the expected result. I am getting this: and what I expect is this (credit Constructivism in Mathematics): \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{mathtools} \usepackage{unicode-math} \usepackage{ebproof} \begin{document} \[ \begin{prooftree} \hypo[left label=\forall I]{\overset{D_1}{A}} \infer1{\forall yA[x/y]} \end{prooftree} \] \end{document}

I want to set up the schematic of a modus ponens deduction which uses elimination and implication. I don't think I can get \frac to behave for this Source: Constructivism in Mathematics by A. S. Troelstra and D. van Dalen. \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{mathtools} \usepackage{unicode-math} \title{Quack} \author{Jasper} \date{\today} \begin{document} \[ \frac{B\to C\ \frac{A\to B\ A}{B}\to E} {C}\to E \] \end{document}

I wanted to try calculating some tangent vectors for a picture, just for fun. This requires taking partial derivatives. It will be some time before I can automate partial derivatives algebraically for illustrations, even though it is a long term goal of mine. In the meantime, I want to see how people would suggest I approximate them. \documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone} \usepackage[3d]{luadraw}%https://github.com/pfradin/luadraw \begin{document} \begin{luadraw}{name=tangent} local g = graph3d:new{viewdir={30,60}, window={-4,4,-3,7}, size={12,12}, bbox=false} local f = function(u, v) return M( 3*math.cos(u)+math.cos(u)*math.sin(v), 3*math.sin(u)+math.sin(u)*math.sin(v), u+math.cos(v)) end -- local dfdu = ??? -- local dfdv = ??? local S = surface(f, 0, 2*math.pi, 0, 2*math.pi) g:Dfacet(S, {mode=mShadedOnly,color="blue"}) g:Show() \end{luadraw} \end{document}

I am trying to recreate I want it working in github markdown, but github markdown doesn't support this trick Missing or unrecognized delimiter for \right \left. aaaa \right\} Edit Github requires you to use \lbrace and \rbrace \left. aaaa \right\rbrace

I am trying to match the style of a document (a French math exam, see the first image below). While I have identified the main text font as EB Garamond, I am struggling to reproduce the mathematical rendering (my current attempt is the second image). I am interested in knowing the name of the math font used in the document, as I do not think Garamond-Math is used (the symbols are different). I have also noticed that the original uses ligatures for internal "s" characters in italic (for example, "question" on the second line or "descente" on the third one), which I haven't been able to replicate. The reference (original): My current attempt (using EB Garamond and Garamond-Math): My code (I downloaded EB Garamond and Garamond-Math in the font folder), intended to work with XeLaTeX. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[fontsize=13pt]{scrextend} \usepackage[a4paper, margin=3.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{EBGaramond}[ Path=./font/, Extension=.otf, UprightFont=*12-Regular, ItalicFont=*12-Italic, RawFeature={ +cv06, % narrow guillemets +calt, % Contextual alternates +clig, % Final s +liga, % f+letter, and Q, j in italic +dlig, % T+h +lnum % Numbers }, ItalicFeatures={ RawFeature={ +hlig, % st, ct, sp, sk +lnum % Numbers } } ] \usepackage[math-style=ISO, bold-style=ISO]{unicode-math} \setmathfont{Garamond-Math.otf}[Path=./font/,StylisticSet={ 1, % \mathbb 2, % \partial 9 % \tilde }] \begin{document} \frenchspacing \noindent\textit{Cette partie porte sur les fonctions convexes dont les gradients sont lipschitziens, établit le théorème de Baillon-Haddad à la question 21), lequel permet enfin d’étudier la convergence de la descente de gradient en l’interprétant comme une itération de Krasnoselskii-Mann.} \medskip Soit $f: \mathbb R^{n} \longrightarrow \mathbb R$ une fonction de classe $\mathscr C^{1}$. On note $\nabla f : \mathbb R^{n} \longrightarrow \mathbb R^{n}$ la fonction gradient qui a $x \in \mathbb R^{n}$ associe le vecteur $$ \nabla f (x) = \begin{pmatrix} \frac{\partial f}{\partial x_{i}}(x) \end{pmatrix}_{1 \leqslant i \leqslant n}. $$ \end{document} The full document is available here. Thank you for your help!

I am using LuaHBTeX (TeX Live 2026) and would like to automatically append a command (say \mycmd, for example a sequence of characters) to all mathematical superscripts and subscripts, without making ^ and _ active — and without using some custom commands to write the said superscripts and subscripts. Could some lua code achieve that? Unlike gsub, it should also apply when symbols ^ and _ are not directly used in the body of the document. For instance, in math mode, a_{b}, a_{b^{c}} and \mytest, where \mytest is defined as a^{b}, should be respectively replaced with a_{b\mycmd}, a_{b^{c\mycmd}\mycmd} and a^{b\mycmd}. \documentclass{article} \def\mycmd{!} \def\mytest{a^{b}} \begin{document} % \verb+\( a_{b} \quad a_{b^{c}} \quad \mytest \)+ should give \( a_{b!} \quad a_{b^{c!}!} \quad a^{b!} \). \verb+\verb!a_b a^b!+ should give \texttt{a\_b a\textasciicircum b}. % \end{document}

I have been googling for a while and have seen quite a few posts on this, but none of them seem to work. I would like to horizontally and vertically align the below table so that the text appears in the center of the column and the center of the row. I tried this with [b]{|c|}, hoping that this would align the text to the bottom (I also attempted this with [c]{|c|} and got no change. The reason that I use the m/p/b parameters is because I also need the columns to be a set width, I even made sure to include the array package. I had hoped that the b parameter would align the text to the bottom, and the m would align it to the middle, but again, none of them change anything. \documentclass[]{subfiles} \usepackage{array} \begin{document} \begin{table} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{|m{2.1cm}|m{1.9cm}|m{1.9cm}|b{1.9cm}|m{1.9cm}|p{1.9cm}|b{1.9cm}|} \hline & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Initial volume ($V_i$)} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Final volume ($V_f$)} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{$\Delta V=V_{object}$} \\[20pt] \hline & [ml] or [cm$^3$] & [m$^3$] & [ml] or [cm$^3$] & [m$^3$] & [ml] or [cm$^3$] & [m$^3$] \\[20pt] \hline Lab Partner 1 & & & & & & \\[20pt] \hline Lab Partner 2 & & & & & & \\[20pt] \hline Lab Partner 3 & & & & & & \\[20pt] \hline & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{} & \multicolumn{2}{l|}{$\Delta V_{average}=$} \\[20pt] \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table} \end{document} Here is the output of the above (you'll notice that the m/b/p parameters all give the exact same result). How can I adjust this code to force the text to be both horizontally and vertically center aligned while maintaining the column widths?

I am working on a layout where I draw a grid in two different contexts: Inside tcolorbox environments (using an overlay) In the page margin using \AddToShipoutPicture Here is a minimal example: \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,svgnames]{book} \RequirePackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=3.9cm, right=1cm]{geometry} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} \newcommand{\myoverlay}{ \begin{tcbclipinterior}%[remember picture,overlay] \draw[%shift=(current page.north west), step=0.524cm,white!70!gray,very thin] (interior.north west) grid (interior.south east); \end{tcbclipinterior} } \newtcolorbox{Box4}[1][ bicolor, colback=white!05,grow to left by=2.5cm,colbacklower=black, boxrule=0.5pt,overlay=\myoverlay]{#1} \newtcolorbox{Box4bis}[1][ bicolor,colback=white,colbacklower=black, grow to left by=0cm,grow to right by=0cm, boxrule=0pt, overlay=\myoverlay] {#1} \usepackage{lipsum} \usepackage[]{eso-pic} \begin{document} \AddToShipoutPicture{% \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[shift=(current page.north west),step=5.24mm, lightgray, very thin, opacity=0.5] ([xshift=0cm,yshift=0cm]current page.south west) grid ([xshift=3.7cm,yshift=0cm]current page.north west); \draw[black, very thick, opacity=0.3] ([xshift=3.7cm]current page.south west) -- ([xshift=3.7cm]current page.north west); \end{tikzpicture}% } \begin{Box4bis} \lipsum[1] \end{Box4bis} \begin{Box4} \lipsum[2] \end{Box4} \lipsum[3] \begin{Box4} \lipsum[4] \end{Box4} \begin{Box4bis} \lipsum[5] \end{Box4bis} \end{document} The code gives this: Goal I would like the grids drawn: inside the tcolorbox environments in the page margin (via shipout) to be perfectly aligned, so that the grid appears continuous across the whole page. What I have tried Using current page coordinates inside the tcolorbox overlay Adding remember picture, overlay and current page.north page and retrieve absolute positions (see tikz: How can I find the value of `current page.north west`?) Trying to manually shift grids to match visually (impossible) However, I could not find a reliable way to make both grids share the same reference system.

Good evening, I've drawn 52 cards using the "JeuxCartes" package. I'd like to arrange the cards in 4 rows (one row per suit), but I can't. Could someone please help me? I would also like to introduce a little bit of space horizontally and vertically between one card and another. Thank you very much. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{pgfplots} \usepackage{JeuxCartes} \usepackage{eurosym} \begin{document} \\ \AffCartesJeu[Hauteur=2,StyleJeu=v3]{AT § 2T § 3T § 4T § 5T § 6T § 7T § 8T § 9T § 10T § VT § DT § RT} \\ \\ \\ \AffCartesJeu[Hauteur=2,StyleJeu=v3]{AK § 2K § 3K § 4K § 5K § 6K § 7K § 8K § 9K § 10K § VK § DK § RK} \\ \\ \\ \AffCartesJeu[Hauteur=2,StyleJeu=v1]{AC § 2C § 3C § 4C § 5C § 6C § 7C § 8C § 9C § 10C § VC § DC § RC} \\ \\ \\ \AffCartesJeu[Hauteur=2,StyleJeu=v2]{AP § 2P § 3P § 4P § 5P § 6P § 7P § 8P § 9P § 10P § VP § DP § RP} \\ \\ \end{document}

I get a strange error message when I use \half command in exam class. Here is a MWE. \documentclass{exam} \begin{document} \begin{questions} \question \begin{parts} \part \(\left[\half\left(A+A^*\right)\right]^*=\half\) % \part \(\left[\frac{1}{2}\left(A+A^*\right)\right]^*=\frac{1}{2}\) \end{parts} \end{questions} \end{document} In the present state, it gives this error message: ! Missing \right. inserted. <inserted text> \right . l.6 \part \(\left[\half \left(A+A^*\right)\right]^*=\half\) I've inserted something that you may have forgotten. (See the <inserted text> above.) With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear. However, if I remove the comment from the second line and comment out the first line, it compiles successfully. My lualatex information is: This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.22.0 (TeX Live 2025) (format=lualatex 2025.6.12) 21 APR 2026 15:09 What could be the problem?

autoWorldFlag applies a scale factor to \f@size; I guess the dimension is poorly specified for the number .88 to show up in the output for \Huge. How then should it be set? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{worldflags} \usepackage{xparse} \ExplSyntaxOn % helper dimension \dim_new:N \l__flag_length_dim \makeatletter \NewDocumentCommand{\autoWorldFlag}{m} { \dim_set:Nn \l_tmpa_dim { 0.9pt * \f@size } \worldflag[ length = \dim_use:N\l_tmpa_dim , width = 0pt ]{#1} } \makeatother \ExplSyntaxOff \begin{document} \normalsize Document bilingue \autoWorldFlag{FR} \bigskip \large Document bilingue \autoWorldFlag{FR} \bigskip \Huge Document bilingue \autoWorldFlag{FR} \end{document}