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by Oscaruzzo
Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:14 am
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: Why there is this space in my text?
Replies: 3
Views: 2070

Why there is this space in my text?

I believe that's because you're using \begin{figure}[H] for your figures. You're saying the figure should be inserted right where the code is. And because figures cannot (and should not) be split on two pages, TeX is stretching the vertical glue to fill the page. The usual solution is to specify ...
by Oscaruzzo
Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:31 pm
Forum: Community talk
Topic: Coming back to TeX and friends after 15 years (or more)
Replies: 3
Views: 22913

Coming back to TeX and friends after 15 years (or more)

Thank you for your kind answers, and sorry for not replying sooner (I was expecting mail notifications, sorry). What "up-to-date introduction to LaTeX" would you suggest? I see the "not so short introduction to latex" has been updated in 2021... In the meanwhile will investigate your suggested links ...
by Oscaruzzo
Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:03 pm
Forum: Community talk
Topic: Coming back to TeX and friends after 15 years (or more)
Replies: 3
Views: 22913

Coming back to TeX and friends after 15 years (or more)

Hi everybody,

I'm "coming back" to the TeX (and friends) world after some time (i.e. 15-20 years ago). If I remember correctly, when I last used LaTeX for my master thesis, the situation was more or less like this:
* LaTeX whas the "common" choice for structured documents
* Fonts were bitmap, and ...