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Tikz brace annotation

An example of placing a brace notation in the document. The result can be found in page 35 of CO 255 notes. BFS $x=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 4 & 0 & 0 & 5 \end{pmatrix}^T$ \tikzmark{right} \tikzmark{2nd} Obj. value = 12. \tikzmark{4th} \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture] \node[anchor=base] (a) at (pic cs:2nd) {\vphanto... Read more

Tikz annotation

Sometimes we want to have some annotations around the text by drawing some arrows towards the text. By doing the following, we can have annotations around the text with tikz tricks. \tikz[baseline=(a.base)]{ \node[inner sep=1.5pt] (a) {$x$}; \node[overlay,below =1em of a] (text) {\scriptsize\color{gray} set}; \draw[overlay,->,shorten <... Read more

The eucal and euscript packages

Check this link for the fancy font. To use it, make sure you include \usepackage{euscript} and then \EuScript{C}. Read more

MUSIC 254 Listening Assignment

Since we were impacted by COVID-19 this term, in MUSIC 254 the listening quizzes and listening portion from the final exam were merged into this big listening assignment. We were allowed to be creative: letter, a series of texts… as long as we mentioned the info of three pieces. Here I used chat history template from here. I also made some mino... Read more

MUSIC 110 Timeline

In this course, we are required to do a timeline assignment. Here I used this answer and here as a starting point and produced the following: I only keep two entries for demonstrating purpose. I have attached my code below. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[TS1,T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{fourier, heuristica} ... Read more