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Answered by Heiko Oberdiek. With many thanks!

Dear LaTeX users,

I'm revising a manuscript and I need to highlight all changes to the original in red. For normal text things are simple.
\textcolor{red}{some text}
The problem arises with citations in the text. I am using author-year citations with the natbib and hyperref packages. I have ...

Hello!
I am running texlive-20100722. Now I need to update the pgf package. How do I do this? I see there is the automatic package manager for texlive: tlmgr. However, when I issue:

tlmgr update pgf

I get:

/usr/share/texmf/bin/tlmgr: open(/usr/share/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb) failed: No such file or ...

frabjous,
Thank you really very very much for your reply, it was tremendously helpful. However, as I am using a coloured version of this table there are some further complications. Here is a working example of my table:

\begin{tabular}{*{4}{>{\columncolor[gray]{1}\centering\arraybackslash}m{4ex ...

localghost,
Thank you very much for your reply. Actually, I rather need a solution with \hhline than with cline. I read thoroughly the documentation for colortbl, but obviously I am missing something. Here is a minimal working example that I think should work, but it doesn't:

\documentclass[utf8 ...

Hello!

I need to create a 4-column table with the horizontal rule for the second row having the following feature:
for column 1 the horizontal rule must be blue in color while for the next 3 columns it must be black. Is there a way to achieve this with LaTeX? A solution with \hhline will be most ...

Dear LaTeX users,

I have a question regarding tables. I would like to ask you how to produce the table that I have attached (LongTerm.pdf) with LaTeX, more specifically with Beamer? I have tried so far with the package rotating, but I could not reproduce the good-looking horizontally and vertically ...

Dear LaTeX users,

As you know LaTeX automatically typesets the chapter heading on a new page. I want to make the chapter heading come on the same page, i.e. to suppress the new page. Is there a way to achieve that?
I am using documentclass book.

Regards,
Martin

Take a look at the fltpage package:
The fltpage package offers the outhouse of the caption for figures or tables which needs the whole page for its contents. This will be done by placing the caption on the bottom of the previous or next page.

HTH,
Axel

Dear Axel,

Thanks a lot! That worked ...

Hello!
I am running texlive2009 on Slackware Linux-13.0.

I have a big picture that must not be shrunk and that occupies a whole page. The figure caption has to go on the top of the next page. Is there a way to achieve that? Currently I have clumsily solved the problem by typesetting the picture ...