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On the LaTeX document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting language. Note that http://tex.stackexchange.com is specifically dedicated to (La)TeX related questions.

LaTeX is a document preparation system based on the TeX typesetting language developed by Donald E. Knuth. LaTeX was first developed by Leslie Lamport in 1985 and is available as free software under the LaTeX project public license. LaTeX is thus short for Lamport TeX.

There is a Stack Exchange site dedicated to LaTeX, which is a good place to ask any (La)TeX-related questions.

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A great many problems can be solved by selecting the right existing macro package from CTAN.

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Is there any information about the trend of journals preferences regarding Word over LaTeX?

Is there any information about the trend of journals' preferences regarding LaTeX and MS Word? My main concern is computer engineering and linguistics fields of study.
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Are there any potential risks of avoiding type 3 fonts when using matplotlib to draw figures

Many conferences/journals start asking me to use Type 1 font in the submitted PDF. So when I use matplotlib to generate figures, I have two choices: Configure matplotlib to only use tex fonts rcParams['ps.useafm'] =…
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ASME “text-only” submission in LaTeX

We are submitting a journal paper to ASME Journals of Mechanisms and Robotics for the first time. The manuscript is prepared in LaTeX. In the final submission, it is required that we submit "text-only" file along with the final PDF. II. TEXT-ONLY…
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Figures on the number of LaTeX users

I am looking for figures on the number of academics using Tex or LaTeX. How may people use LaTeX? LaTeX is a computer language used to produce pdfs and make books. It is popular across STEM fields. I am also interested in related figures that…
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using size for font icon list symbol?

I'm using these two packages \usepackage{graphicx,pifont}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{graphicx,pifont} \let\oldding\ding% Store old \ding in \oldding \renewcommand{\ding}[2][1]{\scalebox{#1}{\oldding{#2}}}% Scale \oldding via optional argument this line…
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