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Recommended practices when creating CTAN archives for packages for inclusion in multiple TeX distributions?

How can I adapt the archives I upload to CTAN to avoid problems in MikTeX, while adhering to CTAN requirements and TeX Live recommendations? Judging by the issues tracker on GitHub, I am not the only ...
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Vertical shift of X relative to digits with Computer Modern Sans Serif/Latin Modern Sans Serif

While using beamer, biblatex and the iso-authoryear (ISO690) style, I noticed that when ISSNs are printed, X's are vertically shifted relative to digits. Here is an example: \documentclass{beamer} \...
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customize article function output in bst file

I'm working with a modified harvard.bst file to match the specific (and weird) requirements from my University guidelines. I must reference articles following this structure: if there's no doi, the ...
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pst-node, graphicx: how to fix scalebox messing up position of node connection labels

Using scalebox to scale a pspicture environment messes up the position of node connection labels. This is shown in the MWE below using naput, but some testing indicates that this seems to occur with ...
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Testing for floating point and int in expl3

I cannot figure out how to test if an argument is a floating point or integer using expl3. Take this simple example where I convert \milk{number} into \dotfill, the number, and gallon or gallons with ...
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How to align long labels to the left, and to remove the indent of the text

I want to create a list environment, with long labels that are align to the left , and where the text that describes each item on the list is to the right and centered, forming a kind of box so to ...
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How to move tikzpicture horizontally and vertically?

I have a beamer frame as shown below. The problem is that tikzpicture is a bit more down, and it covers my items. How can I move the whole tikzpicture a bit horizontally to center and also vertically ...
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How to make vertical/diagonal bars coming out of a word (similar to a trees)

How can I do this in latex so the spacing and format is nice? {Some text} / | \ {text} {text} {text}
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How can I adhere to the best practices when handling math for TikZ with Lua?

I use pgfmath for making 3D illustrations with TikZ, but want to convert it to Lua. I was informed that many people do not adhere to the most "bureaucratic" approach when incorporating Lua ...
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Appendix labels in table of content

I am using the book class and have several appendices. These are titled 'Appendix A', 'Appendix B', etc., where actually all letters are small caps. To achieve small caps for the labels (A, B, ...), I ...
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Removing paragraph numbering in Koma scrjura

By default the scrjura package will automatically number paragraphs. This can be overcome with \parnumberfalse. My problem is that at each new \Clause that I use, I need to write \parnumberfalse again....
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Align right twentyitem

I am using the Twenty Second Resume template (https://it.overleaf.com/latex/templates/twenty-seconds-resume-slash-cv/mhyfwrmwjkbc). I have this environment: \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0pt} % New ...
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LaTeX Slides font and Computer Modern Math font Sizing

I'm using LaTeX Slides as the main text font and want to keep it in math mode for regular letters, while everything else uses the default Computer Modern math font. Since Slides appears larger, I’ve ...
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List of acronyms spacing

I am using the glossaries package to keep track of acronyms. I'd like a list of acronyms at the beginning of my document but the style in which it is displayed is not very nice. The line spacing is ...
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many instances of \DeclareSymbolFont leads to odd behavior

By random chance in a large document of mine I discovered that having many instances of \DeclareSymbolFont can lead to strange output. For example the following document, which includes several ...

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