{automation} is about automating certain tasks when creating a (La)TeX document, e.g., with the help of {packages}, custom {macros} or {tools} for {compiling}.
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Automated generation of equation key
I am looking for a way to automatically create the legend for an equation (let's say embedded in the align environment).
What I'm currently using is a semi automated to fully manual way. Let me ...
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Setting an “attribute” for Theorem to be accessed later
I am writing a math paper with a large number of theorems. I'm looking to have a table summarizing my results, and I'd love it if the table could be generated automatically from my paper. I' looking ...
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How can I determine what a label is labeling (a-la \autoref)?
I want to have a command which gets a label and returns the environment (or the last sectionining command etc.) after which I had the \label. I mean, like \autoref, but no need to convert from the TeX ...
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Images off the page in multicols environment
Before my question, some background information.
I’ve created an algorithm (not latex) which will generate a catalog for a collection of books dynamically. A user supplies information to query an SQL ...
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Specify number of columns in brqalign
Some time ago David Carlisle wrote an awesome brqalign function in this answer: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/51543/4011. See the cited code below.
How to modify the brqalign environment such that ...
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Smart parentheses?
Is there a way of smartly nesting parentheses and square brackets (in text mode), so that LaTeX detects nesting relations and typesets them accordingly? I'm thinking in something like csquotes does ...
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Implementing a way to show data structures in LaTeX
Is there a way to implement data structures in LaTeX?
I am currently taking two classes that require large numbers of heaps (min,max) and queues (FIFO,LIFO) and the like to be drawn after inserting ...
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Automatically construct image file name
I have a lot of images numbered like so:
image_0001.png
image_0002.png
image_0003.png
...
I would like to set up a Latex command to include a specific numbered image, for example:
...
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How to define a custom formatting “style”? [closed]
Within the tablenotes of threeparttable I'd like to manually include a source like so:
Source: Rumors of Oz, 2013 (unpublished / forthcoming).
so that "Source" is either in \textit{Source} or ...
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Automatic arrangement of equations with comments
I am writing a paper with multiple chains of equations or inequalities, with optional explanations. Depending on the size of the equations, I use one of
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
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Detecting all pages which contain color
In an larger LaTeX document there are often only some pages with color content (mainly figures) and the remaining ones are only black and white.
Because printing costs for color pages are much higher ...
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Questions on designing a dynamic database of exercises
Almost all packages to handle exercises allow us to attach/retrieve meta-data to/from each exercise.
Some things one might want when handling exercises are:
Filter exercises according to their ...
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Incompatibilities with and alternatives to nath
I just discovered the existence of nath to auto-size mathematical expressions. But I also read that it has many incompatibilities and it also doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (last update was ...
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System: XeLaTeX, Circumstance: Automation, PROBLEM: error message “missing \item”
I am currently generating PDF's with variable contents from a template I made. Data is fetched from a database and used to create reports. This has been working greatly until recently I needed to ...
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How can i create multiple documents from one template - depending on special “variables”?
I am currently trying to set up a document template that allows for automated creation of different output files depending on a certain "input".
The "input" could be a variable or a certain kind of ...
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Automatic calculation of error in pgfplots
When taking in data through a file (such as table[x index=0, y index=1, y error index=2]{plots/mydata.table};) is it possible to automatically calculate the error bars (instead of putting them in ...
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TeXstudio: how to automate LaTeX biber sequence of compilation
I'm a bit confused about how to configure TeXstudio to use biber. It's not that I can't find a way, I'm just wondering what is the intended way, i.e. coming from WinEdt I'm used to that "Build" or ...
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Add space in `brqalign`
Some time ago David Carlisle wrote an awesome brqalign function in this answer: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/51543/4011. See the cited code below.
How can I add space between the rows of brqalign?
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Trying to make an automatic histogram (in pgfplots?)
How can I convert the automatic table generated by the macro, to an automatic histogram?
Is the best way do it using pgfplots?
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
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How can I enable non-standard characters such as blanks or german Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) for hyperref labels?
I am trying to write a small package that (as a minor sub-feature) incorporates some usage of hyperref to get internal cross-references. To be precise, I want to do provide functionality like the ...
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Latex-including many figures from a directory
I have a large number of figures (~300) in a folder called
'allimages'. The figures are numbered fig1.eps, fig2.eps,.....fig300.eps.
I want to put all of them in latex such that 6 ...
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Automatically generate workbook from a sort of database
I have already posted a similar question here before, but because it was way too open-like and not defined well, it got closed. I'm giving it another try, this time being a bit more specific. I'm ...
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Tools for automating document compilation
A lot of people write makefiles that say something like
paper.pdf: paper.tex
pdflatex paper
bibtex paper
pdflatex paper
pdflatex paper
To handle re-running TeX to ...
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Run multiple commands in TeXShop typeset [duplicate]
I am a user of biblatex-mla and I wish to run the whole bibliography generation workflow with a single click of "Typeset" in TeXShop.
pdflatex filename.tex
bibtex filename
pdflatex filename.tex
How ...
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Count and use the number of items in advance
When writing LaTeX code, I often successively make changes like adding or removing items. I'd like to have TeX count and update the number of items in the list automatically, as in
There are ...
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Cross Platform LaTeX Build System
I am on Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) and would like to be able to execute one command to completely compile a PDF from source .tex files (including all required runs to get the table of contents, ...
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Forcing xelatex [closed]
How can I force the document processor to automatically select xelatex as a engine if pdftex is set as a default. Can I specify and invoke xelatex by putting some code in document itself?
It should ...
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automatically to apply \enlargethispage{\baselineskip} when single-word-widow occurs
Sometimes I encounter this single word widows instance very often, please find the right hand page, topline scoundrel. My design strategy is to leave enough white space at the bottom margin, so when ...
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Getting TextMate to call biber
I've recently made the switch to biblatex from natbib but one problem I've been unable to resolve is how to make TextMate (which is my preferred editor) call biber instead of bibtex. I've installed ...
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Automating the creation of name badges for an event
We are organizing an event. There will be around 60 participants and I need to prepare name badges (tags) for them.
The badge will involve, name surname and affiliation fields which is different for ...
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Intelligent paragraph reflowing in vim?
I'm not sure whether this is an appropriate question for tex.SE. If you think questions like this should not be asked here, please voice you concern. If necessary I'll open a question on meta.
For ...
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Automatic new directory for new files
I am looking for some way to have a tidy folder system.
My idea is, when I create a new file for latex to automatically create a new folder under the same name inside my working directory and put all ...
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Shortcuts for code in latex
I am tired of writing \frac{\partial something}{\partial something_else}. Can I automate it by defining some sort of shortcut to it, so that when I write \p(x)(y) it will transform to \frac{\partial ...
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Building LaTeX files by one command [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for automating document compilation
Is there a single command which would run bibtex, makeglossary (pdflatex x N ...) etc. automatically?
I could create Makefile ...
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tikz External: \tikzsetnextfilename and \tikzpicturedependsonfile
Consider the following MWE. If \tikzpicturedependsonfile is commented out, the code runs as expected. A.dep is created stating the dependency of A.pdf on A.dat. Now, lets try to add the tikz source ...
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Is there a macro telling which OS we're using?
I got some LaTeX documents that I have to compile them under different TeX Live, such as MacTeX or TeX Live. But in different OS, the font seems different too, for example, while in Windows, I prefer ...
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How to use kile with feynmf or feynmp?
Does somebody know how to teach kile to automatically do the additional steps for compiling Latex documents that contain Feynman diagrams produced with feynmf or feynmp?
For what I know I have to ...
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Tool to handle “precompiling the preamble” automatically
On Windows there is a nice little tool called latexdaemon that can handle "precompiling the preamble" (and thus speeding up compilation) automatically. It doesn't require any additional setup: one ...
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Create a LibreOffice spreadsheet from luatex
After reading this amazing answer, I'm wondering if it possible to do the same thing but the other way round, that is create a LibreOffice spreadsheet from luatex, exporting data from the tex file to ...
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Persuading (la)tex “silently to go beyond the envelope of 'good taste' ” to avoid an overfull hbox
My understanding, based on reading this website, is that (la)tex performs at most three passes when trying to typeset a paragraph: one based on \pretolerance, one based on \tolerance, and one based on ...
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Mathematical functions inside LaTeX tables
I have several tables where I have tables which may look like this:
-------------------------------------
| X | Y | X + Y | X - Y | (X + Y)/2 |
-------------------------------------
| | | | ...
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latexmk endless loop when non-PDF outputs are specified
My source file is based on the standalone package. The \documentclass command specifically looks like this:
\documentclass[preview, convert={density=300}]{standalone}
If the source file is named ...
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Auto-generating tables using etoolbox
I have a particular problem which I am trying to solve using etoolbox, but I can't figure out how. What I'm trying to do is to auto-generate a table based on information from a previous table. This is ...
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ultrafast pdflatex with precompiling
I try to improve the time pdflatex needs to compile my book.
Really working example
book.tex
%&preamble
\begin{document}
Hi
\end{document}
and
preamble.tex
\documentclass{article}
I run ...
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How to automatically arrange an unknown number of images?
I have several compilable LaTeX input files and their corresponding PDF files. Each PDF file contains any number of pages. I want to import each LaTeX input file with \lstinputlisting followed by its ...
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Solutions to problem sheets
For writing problem sheets I have a customized theorem environment called pr for the problem and a specialcomment called solution for the solution. See example below. Now my question is, if it is ...
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Iterating over files in a directory and including them
I have a folder called diary which contains a series of files:
20120101.tex
20120105.tex
20120304.tex
etc.
How can I create a single LaTeX document that includes each of these files, in ...
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Automatically convert “…” to “\ldots”
Is there a way to automatically convert a basic string into a command, for example converting instances of ... to \ldots? I have to work with a large number of plaintext files, and doing a dozen ...
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Exam poll generator?
I need a recomendation for some good LaTeX document generator.
I have two lists of questions - I want the Generator - to make a given number of exam polls which will have first question from the ...
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Find optimal figure size to fit two images on one page
I often encounter a situation where I would like to fit two or three figures on one page.
I define my figures as follows:
\begin{figure}[htpb]
\centering
...
