I m learning metapost and i want to know how to generate a figure like a polygon number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_number , i got triangular numbers but not hexagonal. Thanks for help.

in blah.tex , I have a cite{blah} I have a blah entry in blah.bib I run my file with : latex blah.tex && blah.tex && dvipdf blah.dvi The blah.pdf results in [?] How do I fix ...

How do I encourage/make Latex typeset some portion of text so that it will all appear on a consecutive even-page, odd-page pair of pages? With trial and error, opagebreak can be coaxed into doing ...

I was learning about using the command line version of latex today, and I was experimenting with outputting .tex to .dvi, and then .dvi to .png. The problem is, I have a simple .tex document which ...

This is for creating flashcards in LaTeX. My printer doesn t support duplex printing - which packages like flashcards and flacards seem to require - so I am trying to create a two-column arrangement ...

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I want to have text above text (not superscript - x^2) but a overbrace and text above it. (same for below the text) thanks

As far as I understand it (a few days of research here and there), there are two major TeX engines: pdfTeX and XeTeX. pdfTeX is the "standard", having been around since the early 1990s, renders ...