is about finding the cause of errors or wrong results in (La)TeX code/documents using a methodical approach.
3
votes
1answer
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Bad interaction between keycommand and environ?
I suspect the keycommand and environ packages are not playing nicely together, because the following code gives an error. Can anybody explain what's going on?
\documentclass{article}
...
2
votes
1answer
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Debugging a custom-bib bst file that crashes on book items
I created my own bibliography file with custom-bib (makebst), but when I run it with a reference to a book I get:
$ bibtex PhD
[...normal output]
Database file #1: PhD.bib
You can't pop an empty ...
1
vote
0answers
229 views
Sublime Text 3 LatexTools
I just installed ST3 and installed the LatexTools package using Package control.
Everything seems to have gone fine except when I compile using CMD+b nothing seems to happen.
On the terminal I get ...
0
votes
1answer
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Strange issue after removing bug
I removed a bug in my LaTeX code. Now the section is bug free because it uses code from a Lamport book. But it still is included in the pdf after using pdflatex more than once.
What is the problem? ...
2
votes
1answer
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Standalone - \newlabel being written to .log instead of .aux
In my compiled document, which consists of many sub-documents using standalone, I have one sub-document in which the Figure references are undefined - they show up as ??. No MWE I've tried can ...
1
vote
0answers
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My WinEdt can only debug one file
I came across a weird question... The thing is, suddenly without
and reasons, I could only pdfTeXify one file in my WinEdt. As you know, we
usually open lots of files which we have edited historically ...
3
votes
1answer
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Why does loading pgfplots after tikz break the default layers in a tikzpicture?
Taking the MWE from Jake's answer to the question Background rectangles with equal width but 'fitting' height, I get an error when loading pgfplots after the tikz packages but not before. I'm assuming ...
2
votes
1answer
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No %.aux file in a particular directory
I have the following line in my report.tex
\include{intro/introduction}
\include{prlm/preliminary}
\include{svy/survey}
and the corresponding directory structure. The directory structure is ...
8
votes
2answers
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Ease the handling of labels
I want to ease the handling of labels in my document, and I want to show the label for a section if define a "variable".
Currently I'm doing it like this
Setting the up the "variable":
...
0
votes
0answers
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Stray number “1” appearing in an equation [closed]
I have compiled the following code in the middle of a document.
The received codeword $\mathbf{r}$ at the output of the channel is
\begin{equation}
r_k = \sum_{i=0}^{\mu-1} h_i x_{k-i} + n_k,
...
1
vote
1answer
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Unexpected hung latex compilation with property list retrieval
This is very closely related to a previous question of mine. From the comments to this previous question, I understand that my approach here is completely wrong headed. So why bother post a ...
1
vote
1answer
156 views
Debugging TikZ and PGFPlots compatibility issue
I just tried to compile an old TikZ code (which as far as I recall compiled perfectly in the past and was not changed in the meanwhile) and I faced some serious compilation issues related to TikZ.
...
8
votes
1answer
101 views
Using \typeout behaviour different with \newtoks vs. \def
I feel as I really should know this, but sadly I don't. Why is the output of \typeout{\the\myToken} not the same as having it printed in the PDF as \the\myToken. No problem with a \def, just with ...
7
votes
1answer
94 views
Get current source line number
How can I get the current .tex source line number? I want to use it to generate useful error messages in a package I am writing.
There are some errors that can only be detected at the end of the ...
6
votes
1answer
710 views
Install emerald font package on ubuntu
I tried to install the emerald font package on my ubuntu natty box. However if I compile a minimal example like (emerald.tex)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{emerald}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
5
votes
1answer
160 views
How to find the lost text part when having “Float(s) lost” error
I've lost some text. I don't know if theres something missing, so how can I find it? I'm not in the mood to compare the chapter1.tex to the pdf file by reading both. Chapter 1 (chapter1.tex) is rather ...
2
votes
3answers
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Help me to debug long LaTex equations with errors
I want to learn debugging of long LaTeX equations like below:
$\tau=\int\frac{dt}{\gamma} = \int\sqrt{1-\frac{v(t)^2}{c^2}}dt = ...
0
votes
0answers
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~ does not produce the desired behaviour and is rendered [closed]
Consider the following .tex document
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
F.~Bar
\end{document}
Somehow the document gets rendered as this (using texi2pdf)
The problem does not ...
3
votes
1answer
112 views
Print macro output instead of executing
I am attempting to debug a Tikz/PGF script. I have a STY file that generates Tikz/PGF scripts, but the output graphic isn't quite what I want it to be.
In order to debug the problem, I was hoping ...
11
votes
4answers
461 views
LaTeX debugging strategies and brace mismatching
What is the recommended way to track down brace mismatches in LaTeX? I have a large beamer presentation, but this equally applies to any other LaTeX work I've done.
In other computer languages I've ...
1
vote
0answers
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tikzpicture fails when externalization is enabled [closed]
In a document of mine I'm trying to use the external library. For the record, I downloaded the CVS version of TikZ, since I want the better update checks. Anyway, I have a figure in my code which ...
3
votes
1answer
253 views
TikZ datavisualization example fails
While trying an example from the datavisualization section of the current TikZ manual I get a strange error message. On my system I have the current MikTeX 2.9 and installed the CVS version of TikZ ...
5
votes
0answers
220 views
Biblatex 2.1 bug [closed]
After updating my texlive 2012 installation using tlmgr update --all --self the biblatex was updated to version 2.1 and biber to version 1.1. Now I cannot compile my document. I get the following ...
0
votes
0answers
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How can I debug this problem with math typesetting? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
problem compiling some 'math' using LuaLaTeX
While trying to write an equation it seems that the square root does not like particular elements. I tried to ...
3
votes
2answers
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Debugging vertical space on top of page (section inside a custom biblatex cite command)?
Please consider the following MWE, compiled with lualatex test.tex (+ bibtex test + lualatex test.tex):
\documentclass[twoside,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{lua-visual-debug}
\usepackage{lipsum}
...
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votes
0answers
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A LaTeX log analyzer application (visualizing TeX expansion)
Consider the following MWE, test.tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\tracingassigns=1
\tracingmacros=1
\def\aaa{something}
\def\bbb{else \aaa, else}
\edef\ccc{third \bbb, level}
...
5
votes
1answer
242 views
A \typeout (or expandable command) that can expand once - or with variable levels of expansion?
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\def\aaa{something}
\typeout{=1==\aaa==}
\typeout{=1==\meaning\aaa==}
\typeout{}
\def\bbb{else \aaa, else}
...
3
votes
2answers
517 views
Output ASCII code as character on terminal in Latex?
If I have a letter/character, I can output its ASCII value using \number and backtick command:
*\typeout{\number`a}
97
What do I do if I have "97", and I want to show "a" in terminal? I have ...
2
votes
1answer
186 views
Generating a catcode table in Latex (with \typeout to terminal)?
I often need to look up a catcode table, and quick searches on the web are rarely satisfying.
So I thought, it must be (in the long term) easier to use a Latex function of sorts, to loop through all ...
5
votes
2answers
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Showing definition of macros with custom characters?
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\begin{document}
\typeout{1.=\meaning\usebibmacro}
\typeout{2.=\meaning\usebibmacro{name:first-last}}
\makeatletter
...
18
votes
1answer
511 views
Latex \tracing commands list?
Often I need to recall the different \tracing commands; and a couple of times I stumbled on some webpages that worked fine for me; sadly, I didn't keep them, and my searches don't take me there ...
24
votes
3answers
12k views
LaTeX with Sublime Text 2
I recently (2 days back) started using LaTeX, I use Sublime Text 2 (ST2) for most of the programming. I found that ST2 has LaTeX package. So what I am doing is write the document with ST2 and run it ...
3
votes
1answer
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Showing expanded `\let` command with `\typeout`
I have already seen the related page macros - What is the difference between \let and \edef?, but I'm afraid it still doesn't expain to me the following MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
...
5
votes
2answers
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On unprotecting (expanding) \protected macros (or, “the space after command name”)
I quite often come into a situation, where I need to obtain some text produced by a package macro as a string, like in say:
Expanding (edef) a lipsum command?
How do I "unprotect" an ...
2
votes
2answers
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Generating pages in response to iterated parameter on engine level?
Just to jot this down here, while I have the thought: The method I used for the .gif animations in Why does \vspace, after section heading, sometimes jump/snap in discrete steps? was basically have a ...
43
votes
4answers
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Why does \vspace, after section heading, sometimes jump/snap in discrete steps?
Well, this is one question that I've had for a long time, and one that always gets me extremely irritated. However, this time I'm even somewhat happy - that I can ask the question at all; and that is ...
5
votes
3answers
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\settowidth problem in tikz and in groups
I just came to the following problem - using \settowidth on a length in a tikzpicture resets that length to 0? Here is a (totally command-line) MWE, compiled with pdflatex test.tex:
...
1
vote
0answers
219 views
Debugging Lua in LuaLatex with LDT [closed]
LDT is an IDE for lua based on eclipse. It is quite nice and the best free lua debugger I've seen(I've just stumbled upon it the last 2 days or so). It took me a bit to get setup properly but because ...
0
votes
0answers
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Intermittent bug: Equation shifts to the left along with number [closed]
I have an issue with an equation in my latex intermittently shifting to the left. It is really sensitive to the layout of the page in general -- which means that I can't get a truly minimal working ...
7
votes
0answers
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Visualizing correct page lengths with 'layouts' and 'tikz' packages?
I am currently working on a project with xelatex/fontspec and tikz, and so, this example is basically the same as the one from layouts package reads all length as zero with tikz/fontspec/xelatex?.
...
1
vote
1answer
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layouts package reads all length as zero with tikz/fontspec/xelatex?
After getting the suggestion to use the layouts package for visual debugging of lengths, I came up with the following example, which I compile with xelatex test.tex:
...
2
votes
2answers
210 views
Visual debugging of lengths in paragraphs and environments?
During my searches, I found a couple of online images, which I doubt are produced with Latex - however, I found them immensely useful in understanding what is going on.
I'm pretty sure the images ...
1
vote
1answer
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How to print out to “log” without affecting anything else (lua print equiv)
lua's print is very effective for my debugging purposes but I can't easily use it in TeX because of all the macro expansion issues.
All it does is print the text to the window (console window or ...
2
votes
2answers
229 views
Strange behaviour debugging a document with AUCTeX-GNUEmacs in math mode
When I try to compile this document
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
A simple fraction with an error $\frac{a}{b$
\end{document}
I obviously get an error because there ...
0
votes
0answers
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A bug in revtex4-1 bibliography style [closed]
I'm using Revtex 4.1 bibliography style with other class, that is my preamble looks like
\documentclass{article} % or any other
\usepackage[sort&compress,numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{doi}
...
2
votes
1answer
213 views
Unwanted spaces
The code given just after produces extra unwanted spaces indicated in the following picture. How can I fix it ?
Sorry for the colors, this choices will be changed later when technical issues will be ...
9
votes
1answer
4k views
How do you effectively debug overfull \hbox warnings?
I still haven't found out how to effectively solve Overfull \hbox (0.80913pt too wide) has occurred while \output is active warnings.
For instance, this piece of latex generates such a warning and I ...
8
votes
1answer
181 views
Help with the lua-visual-debug package
The documentation for lua-visual-debug is a little sparse. Can someone interpret the boxes/lines/colors that lua-visual-debug produces?
0
votes
0answers
376 views
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 ...
4
votes
3answers
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Error using \usepackage{fancyvrb, fancybox}
With TeX Live 2009, with this MWE.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyvrb, fancybox}
\begin{document}
\begin{Verbatim}[frame=single]
auto eth0
\end{Verbatim}
\end{document}
I ...
