I saw last week a presentation that was made with keynote and which was showing cells filled with speckled colours. Is there a way to get speckled colours in latex/beamer ? Until now I was only able to find uniform fills.  greetings, yves  SAM: I would like to see some granularity in my fill:
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How to have a new recalculated random pattern? This one is the same translated everywhere.  Edit  I perfectly understand that the pattern is calculated once and drawn several times after.  My question is, how to change this: use the mechanism of the pattern to paint an area with, but to force a recalculation of the pattern at each drawing. For an usual pattern it is useless, but in this case one could extract the code and switch the order and insert the pattern calculation and drawing inside the loop that fill the area: a sort of pattern-bis that one could use as normal pattern syntax.  I don't know TeX programming enough to do that if it possible. Of course such a work will deserve a bounty !    \documentclass[tikz,margin=3pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{patterns}  \pgfdeclarepatternformonly{Rnd} {\pgfpointorigin}{\pgfpoint{1cm}{1cm}} {\pgfpoint{.5cm}{.5cm}} {\foreach \i in {1,...,100} {%     \pgfpathcircle{%         %\pgfpoint{.25cm}{.25cm}}{.4pt}         \pgfpoint{rnd*.5cm}{rnd*.5cm}}{.25pt}}     \pgfusepath{fill} }  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}  \draw[pattern=Rnd] (0,0) rectangle (5,5) ; \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}
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Is there something like indent for LaTeX? I have a collaborator that is using Scientific Workplace and the code it produces is totally messed up; I know I shouldn't expect miracles, but any machine support would be useful.  EDIT: This question is quite undefined without my comment to KeithB's answer; the idea is to save VC-friendly one sentence/one paragraph per text file line structure which SWT "fixes" by wrapping everything into fixed column width format.
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What packages do you use and recommend for creating graphics in your LaTeX documents?     As this is a community wiki post, please add your package to the accepted answer (or add a comment, and someone with >100 rep will add it to the CW answer), and include a brief description of what differentiates it from others and how it can be used (GUI drawing tool which generates code, type in raw text, or generates image for inclusion in document).   We'll eventually sort these answers under headings.
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I have a problem. I'm working with an object at 50% opacity. When it's over the artboard itself the color looks great, but when I put a white object behind it I get this weird color that doesn't look accurate.  This happens with every object and only in CMYK. I'm pretty sure this never happened to me before so maybe I changed something in the settings or I don't know.  Does anyone have any idea?
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How do I color only the vector symbol in \vec f? I'm using beamer, so xcolor is already loaded.  Extra "points" to an answer that also explains  how to fish..and not only gives me the fish.  Thanks!
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As a follow up to , I'd like to know how to generate an animated image (gif) from a series of beamer slides.  Martin Scharrer came up with this example:    Some hints on cropping the PDF file are also welcome. =)
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Currently, I am working on a latex document but unfortunately, black cells appear on the head of the table while using table generator. Any idea?
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I am working on a game where I want to allow users to mix multiple colors (similar to shown in this video): . I have the following questions:  I am expecting that this is done using shaders. What kind of shader I have to use for such implementation? What will be the logic to create this type of shader? Are there any other ways using which this feature can be implemented? Are there any open source tutorials or examples?  I would appreciate any suggestions and thoughts on this topic. Thank you.
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I have vector graphic created with Adobe Illustrator CS4 saved as PDF, it looks like:    You can download the PDF .  As you can see, the lines are black.    If I include the PDF with \includegraphics in a beamer document which has a changed foreground color, all lines of my graphic get colored in that color!  \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{graphicx} \setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=white,fg=red} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{dummy.pdf} \end{frame} \end{document}     Oh yes, that's unexpected.   What goes wrong? Is that really intended behaviour?  How do I get my lines black again?  If it's a problem related to the graphicx package, I'd prefer a solution by that package. But a beamer workaround would be fine as well. I tried to locally set  \setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=white,fg=black}   but it does not have any effect. Also I need the foreground color as it is (non-black), just the graphic should be affected by the change.
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The following is produced by beamer version 3.41 with enumerate:  \documentclass{beamer} \mode&lt;presentation&gt;     {\usetheme{Rochester}} \begin{document} \begin{frame}   \begin{enumerate}[(a)]     \item Foo     \item Bar   \end{enumerate}   \begin{enumerate}[1]     \item Foo     \item Bar   \end{enumerate} \end{frame} \end{document}     And with beamer version 3.42 the following:    The latter output is so, well, ugly, that it's probably a bug. While waiting for a bug fix (?), how can I temporarily fix this so that I get the output produced by beamer 3.41?
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If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX &amp; friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find many such documents called 'books'). Extra bonus for documents whose LaTeX source is available.  This is not an idle question. Seeing great examples of any craft is both educational and inspiring, let alone explaining why we prefer TeX to Word or other text editors.  For instance, I like how Philipp Lehman's  looks. I don't know enough LaTeX to realize how much customization was done, but the ToC looks polished.  Your nominations, please ...
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I am curious to know if there is a display style package, or something that would produce the same effect. You see, I get tired of constantly having to type \displaystyle, and making sure that it is in every place that it should be.   Is there some package that will "automatically" display style all of math symbols?
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What LaTeX markup would one have to write to produce a result similar to the image below?    Please excuse my Paint-and-mouse drawing skills. :-)
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I understand that there are some questions here regarding the block diagrams. However, I am strongly interested in one particular style shown as below:    This is a picture from a paper. As can be seen, the text can be selected there. So it is not an attached picture. I suppose it is done by LaTeX.  Could anyone point me to the right direction to achieve this?  (I specially LOVE the colored "thin grid"! It is much more beautiful than the fully filled color!)
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I have a Beamer presentation with note pages, in which everything renders just fine with pdflatex.   However, when the file is compiled using xelatex (I need to use fontspec), texts in frames after a note page are not visible -- they are rendered in white colour. This problem is reproducible when using Beamer v3.33.  %% Compile with xelatex \documentclass[handout]{beamer}  \mode&lt;handout&gt; { \setbeameroption{show notes} \RequirePackage{pgfpages} \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm] }  \begin{document} \begin{frame} A test, A test! \note{ } \end{frame}      \begin{frame} This text does not appear! \note{ } \end{frame} \end{document}   While this problem can be solved by compiling with lualatex, I'm wondering if there's any thing one can do to make it work for xelatex?
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With \setbeamercovered{transparent} covered parts of a slide are displayed transparently. If there is a (small) picture among the text, it is shown as it is. Beamer has only this picture, so it shows this picture. My question: How can I give a gray version of the picture to beamer such that in covered parts of a slide, this gray version is used?
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For a presentation with Beamer, I would like to have a slide where a long list of formulas (maybe mixed with text) scrolls automatically within a certain part of the slide. This should look like e.g. closing credits in movies.   I have tried the idea from  based on animateinline from the , but whenever I use environments like \begin{equation} ... \end{equation} or commands like \textcolor{red}{...} I get an error:  TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000]. \end{frame}   Ideally, the formulas/the text should be given within the document itself, but if a solution with an external PDF works fine, I'll take it!  Any ideas how that might work?