{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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Large block diagrams with auto positioning
I need to make some (large) maintainable block diagrams. Some small diagrams I already made using Tikz, but I always need to specify the placement of every block. Now for large diagrams this could be ...
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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 ...
