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Vader brought Leia to the Death Star straight from Tattoine, but doesn't it seem unlikely a minor prisoner or escaped slave Wookiee would be held on a secret battle station? Did none of the personnel ...

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So I'm compiling with lualatex, using fontspec with unicode-math. It seems that both NewComputerModernMath and LatinModernMath produce a kerning issue with the letter "T". Just build $(T)$ ...

I am trying to include some blocks of code in a ltx-talk slide. The code below uses listings as an example that works for me if I use Beamer, but now I get the errors shown below. How can I show some ...

I'm trying to identify this story I probably read in the late '80s or early nineties in an anthology. It was a story set in an empty city where there was only one boy and one girl left, and they lived ...

I am using a MiKTex Windows distribution of LaTeX and trying to create a custom package. I am unclear how Latex parses arguments and expl3 makes absolutely no sense to me! For now, what I would like ...

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