LaTeX is a compiled markup language, and as such there is a compilation process that needs to be followed to correctly produce output. This can be a long and complicated sequence of steps, with multiple passes being required to successfully build references and tables of contents amongst other ...
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Hiring someone to help me with LaTeX for my PhD thesis
I do not know whether this is an appropriate question, but I was carrying it around for quite some weeks and now it just has to come out.
I am working on my PhD thesis. My thesis will include a long ...
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In TeXnic center, is there a command can I use to point to exactly the place in the article where I made a LaTeX error?
I know this probably could be a very elementary question, but I am a very beginner in LaTeX. I am using LaTeX in windows on a PC. I am using teXniC center and MikTeX for writing a laTeX article. When ...
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Does LaTeX have to reprocess included files that haven't changed?
I have included several .tex files (they do not contain the header code like documentclass, begin and end document, etc). When I include the file using \include everything works. But if I recompile ...
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textpos error with newenvironment{aside} and xelatex
I'm using xelatex with texlive 2011 vanilla on the latest ubuntu precise pangolin.
I fork and try to use the great cv template from https://github.com/afriggeri/cv
This template uses TikZ for the ...
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TeXworks won't make a pdf file [closed]
I compile and then a message appears telling me that "PDF is damaged or has a format not compatible". What can I do?
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Why does Latex/Bibtex need three passes to clear up all warnings?
As explained by Andy Roberts, if you need to compile a new document with bibtex citations, then you need to run latex three times, and bibtex once:
latex document
bibtex document
latex document
latex ...
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Changes don't appear in compiled tex files [closed]
I am using MiKTeX 2.9 with TeXnicCenter 1.0 and I have got an error showing up when I try to convert my project into pdf - an error of which I already get rid.
Recompiling, exiting, opening again, ...
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Avoid linebreaks in LaTeX console / log output
Is it possible to tell the LaTeX command not to use line breaks in its console / log output?
This would make it easier to automate the processing of the log file, e.g. extracting the names of missing ...
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Running several latex processes in parallel
I am working on an experiment running LaTeX on server to compile some documents on the fly. Assuming I want to have several workers waiting for documents to be compiled, are there any access issues in ...
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TeX works very slowly
LaTeX compiler on my Debian system works very slowly. For example, file including only a few lines of text compiles several minutes. All this time LaTeX does something, but what exactly it does is ...
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generating LaTeX tabular code during compilation
I use LaTeX for scientific reporting in brain imaging (fMRI). I have a tabular array in LaTeX, that contains quite a lot of rows and columns, which both are brain regions and in the each intersecting ...
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much time in compiling document latex [closed]
I have a problem in compiling my document. It takes much time in compiling and when I stop this this error appear:
! File ended while scanning use of \@writefile.<inserted text>\par ...
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How/where to test my template document?
I've created a sort of a template for a Ph.D. thesis at my faculty (a document class, a main thesis.tex file and some dummy content). The faculty's Linux server doesn't have a full TeX distro (e.g. no ...
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Why doesn't latexmk handle errors in the preamble?
Today I discovered that if I have an error in the preamble of my tex file then Latexmk produce an error only once.
Precisely, for example if my file looks like this
\documentclass{article}
...
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Long Execution Time with pdfLaTeX on Mac OS X [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Fast PNG embedding using pdflatex
I'm using pdfLaTeX on Mac OS X v10.7.3, and I've added about 25 PNG images to a LaTeX document that is roughly 35 pages long. The ...
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Variability in the line spacing of paragraph breaks?
Don't know how to describe my problem properly, but there seems to be a variablility in the line spacing of paragraph breaks, with my settings or generally or anything. Since I don't know what is ...
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Included graphics is not shown [closed]
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[polish]{babel}
%\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{graphics}
...
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How to exploit externalized images runtime-wise?
Thanks to the valiant efforts of @zeroth, I got TikZ' externalization running with todonotes, TikZ images pieced together by environments and macros and my homebrew compilation script. In particular, ...
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How does latex compilation work? [closed]
I am interested in understanding how the latex compilation process works. I guess "The TexBook" is probably the best authoritative source for such. But I would like to get a high level overview of the ...
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Endless compilation with TikZ. Bug? [closed]
If I try to compile this,
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node [rectangle, % <-- there's a syntax error
...
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I can´t compile/run with Texmaker [closed]
I´ve just installed TeXMaker, and it just doesn´t work. I´ve checked the manual and it says that I have to select the command in the file browser. Which command? I´m starting with all this and I need ...
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Error when using \begin{RÉSUMÉ}
I write a paper in French, I add a package \usepackage[english,francais]{babel} to use a French but when I write:
\begin{RÉSUMÉ} abstract in french \end{RÉSUMÉ}
I get the error:
! LaTeX Error: ...
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LaTeX importing Scripttex
I am trying to use the LaTeX Scripttex macro formatting. The problem is that when I try to compile a file using the imported formatting, the compiler hangs and the process has to be killed manually.
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Using Sublime Text 2 for LaTeX [closed]
Is anybody using Sublime Text 2? I use it quite frequently for coding, it by far my favourite editor. But I never used it for LaTeX. There is a package called LaTeXTools for editing and viewing LaTeX ...
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make flashmode work [closed]
I am not sure whether this is an appropriate question for tex.SE. Anyway: I am trying to use Flashmode, which I discovered reading the answers to this question.
Unfortunately I am not able to make it ...
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Will TikZ compilation become faster? [closed]
I find that TikZ compilations are rather slow. I often work with old computers and the LaTeX compilation is very fast but TikZ slows down the process. Externalizing the graphics helps but making a ...
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Delete .aux file in order to successfully compile
From time to time I need to prepare presentations, and I use the beamer class plus the minted package.
I would like to know why sometimes I need to delete the aux file generated by pdflatex to ...
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Issues when compiling TeX files with Vim and LaTeX-suite
I'm having problems compiling a TeX file with LaTeX-suite on Ubuntu.
In my .vimrc, I have the following lines :
filetype plugin on
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
filetype indent on
let ...
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Precompile header with xelatex
I read about precompiling the preamble in http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/15606/4918 and it worked fine with pdflatex but how can I do this for xelatex?
I tried
xelatex -ini -shell-escape ...
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1answer
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When compiling in ConTeXt, context vs texexec
I'm interested in learning ConTeXt. In the past I've mainly used LyX, and a bit of LaTeX recently. I was reading Berend de Boer's introduction to ConTeXt, and pretty much the first thing he said about ...
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Post-commit service hook for GitHub repository containing LaTeX?
This question is related to Compiling documents online.
I store my LaTeX documents in a git repository on GitHub. Is there a web service which offers a post-commit hook for GitHub which automatically ...
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What shell commands are executed by LyX View menus?
For a variety of reasons, I'm using LyX as my primary LaTeX document creation tool, but I want to avoid doing things or relying on features of LyX that make it hard to use other tools as well. While ...
3
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1answer
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How to control the PDF output based on the compiler being used?
I have a batch file that will compile the same input file with 3 compilers one after another as shown below. This mechanism is used to see the file size of the resulting PDF (before and after ...
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Require a certain (or later) version of a package?
Is there a way to enforce that a certain version, or a later version, of a package is loaded when building the document? I've found that compiling a document on another platform, where the package ...
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1answer
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Compiles to PDF but not DVI
I just installed TeX Live on Ubuntu 10.04 using the install-tl-unx.tar.gz package. However, when I tested the installation I noticed that it cannot compile to DVI but it can compile to PDF.
My ...
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How to jump from a line in a .ps file to the corresponding line in the .tex file
I have TeXnicCenter and GSview. If I have a .tex file house.tex, and the resulting PostScript file house.ps, I'd like to be able to jump from a line in house.ps to the corresponding line in house.tex ...
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Does ConTeXt ever require multiple passes to compile?
When I compile my ConTeXt document with context file.tex, it seems that the compiler compiles the code several times. I have never noticed any messages, common in pdflatex, asking me to compile the ...
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Interweave .tex files to create single PDF
I have three .tex files.
contains all the verses in a document in this format: \subsection*{वृद्धिरादैच् 1.1.1} \label{1.1.1}
contains explanation 1
contains explanation 2
Is there a way to merge ...
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Call pdflatex with a stream
When creating LaTeX-driven reports, I would like to skip writing LaTeX sources to the disk prior to compilation and cleaning up afterwards. Can a stream be sent to pdflatex somehow?
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How to test --jobname compilation option within latex file
Due to some commands in my preamble (\synctex=1,\makenomenclature,\settocdepth{subsection}) which are not fully compatible with --jobname procedure, I would like to add a test before these three line ...
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TeXnicCenter does not compile a document [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I fix the error “GUI framework cannot be initialized” with TeXnicCenter and MiKTeX?
I checked the net, but haven't found a solution so far.
I'm using ...
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Bypass % !TEX TS-program =
Some LaTeX editors (TeXShop and TeXworks, for instance) allow a special comment line to define a default engine to use with a current document, like this :
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
It's really ...
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Why after compiling twice, the table of contents is still missing in pdf file? [closed]
I am compiling a LaTeX file with 10 chapters and a table of contents. I have added the following in the first page.
But why is the table of contents still missing?
\pdfbookmark[1]{TABLE OF ...
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Why won't my glossaries print?
I have a look around online and at other posts however I haven't been able to find a solution to this problem. Here is the code I'm using:
\documentclass[a4paper,final]{report}
\usepackage{epsfig}
...
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How to make the moderncv templates from CTAN work in Ubuntu 11.10
I am trying to use moderncv on Ubuntu 11.10. The class is in texlive-latex-extra but it seems to be an old version and it does not recognize some new commands.
I would like to either upgrade the ...
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makeglossaries hangs waiting for input on mac
I'm very new to Latex so apologies if this is a newbie question. However I have looked around online and can't find an answer.
I'm trying to compile my file in TeXShop (on mac) using the following ...
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Speed up LaTeX compilation on a document with lots of automatically created tables
I know that similar ground has been covered before (e.g. Speeding up LaTeX compilation), but this question is more specific.
I want to create some reports programmatically, so I wrote a program that ...
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Bugs in the Gummi (beta) version for Windows [closed]
I'm a beginner in LaTeX typesetting, and I'm learning with the help of Gummi's live preview editor, installed on Windows 7. As suggested by the developers I am using TeX Live, not MiKTeX, as my Latex ...
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compiler can't find file on cifs/Samba share [closed]
I am unable to compile LaTeX files whenever they are on a particular network drive. I am using ubuntu lucid and mount a samba share in fstab like so:
//domain.com/me$ /home/me/H_DRIVE cifs ...
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AutoLaTeX or LaTeXMk? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Tools for automating document compilation
I stumbled upon AutoLaTeX today and it seems to be very similar to LaTeXMk indeed. Can you point out some differences, and give ...
