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What's the best way to arrange LaTeX documents?
I am very new to LaTeX. First question I have is can latex do this?
I have ~1000 verses
Each verse has its meaning in English and Sanskrit.
three authors commentaries on each verse.
When I ...
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Follow up to “Whats the best way to arrange latex documents” [closed]
A follow up question
Whats the best way to arrange latex documents
There are couples of characteristics to my data described in original question –
Verse numbers are unique
Authors name is unique ...
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what TeX package(s) should I use for a Church Bulletin
I create Sunday Bulletins (aka service leaflets) for an Episcopal Church each week. Currently, I use the MS Publisher (PITA) I also do some web design using Ruby. While a physics undergrad, I ...
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Writing and Managing Thesis in LaTeX
I'm in the process of thesis writing. I'm LaTeX newbie and have its limited knowledge and experience. I'm thinking to use LaTeX or LyX for my thesis. Which one is better for thesis write up? If I go ...
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how to deal with multiple titles and multiple documents?
I am compiling my dissertation which is composed with several separate papers (with independent LaTeX code).
I have a title for my dissertation and want to insert my individual papers with their own ...
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How to use the volumes package?
I need to split a book in two volumes, the problem is that I need the table of contents and the index of the whole book in each volume. I already tried to use the package volumes but I can't make it ...
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Is there a good way to subdivide your tex document into subdocuments?
Like classes in java (if that means anything to anyone)? Can you have a document which handles all the graphing, another which handles the figures where you can call parts when you need them in your ...
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Why did the fontsize of normal text change after dividing into included sub-files? [closed]
FIXED, SOLVED.
OLD SHORTEND QUESTION: As a last step of my template creation I divided my scrbook-file into several sub-files. Nearly everything worked: Font size of main font changed to appear ...
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How to best use and compile multiple .tex files as part of same final document?
I have a large document which currently is comprised of a variety of .tex files.
The mainfile.tex looks something like:
%lots of total formatting stuff
\include{Body/chapter1}
...
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Inserting a document with its own internal section numbering in another document
I have a fairly large LaTeX document, with several chapters. In one chapter, I intend to insert another LaTeX document. "In the following pages, we include (DOCUMENT) ..."
I could use \includepdf, ...
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Setup for producing multiple documents based on the same source file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Guide to managing multiple resume with one LaTeX?
I would like to make a combined résumé & CV document class that can be used to generate two documents with some ...
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Avoid short sections at the end of page
I am using LyX and try to avoid the occurence of short text sections at the end of a page which start with a chapter/section etc. Is it possible to add a preamble line which can tell LyX that if a ...
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What is the right way to use hyperref options with Tufte handout class?
EDIT: I must clarify that the example below works with tufte-latex-3.5.0, but doesn't work in older versions. The accepted solution is a good workaround for older versions (<3.0.0) were nohyper ...
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Cute document in LaTeX
My girlfriend is teacher at primary school, she's new using LaTeX and she needs to make a "cute document" for kids, but I don't know how change the parts, sections, numer of page and all this things ...
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master mode in Texmaker
I am writing a project with texmaker, and i've separated it into several files, to keep it organized.
But I run into the following problem -
I have to define every startup that the main document is ...
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Is it possible to place standalone graphics in subdirectories
When using standalone sub-directories do not seem to work properly.
While
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[subpreambles,mode=buildnew]{standalone} %standalone tikz
\begin{document}
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How to insert one latex document into another.
This is probably online but I am not sure how to word the search. I have a long latex document, and it is getting messy editing it, is there a way to split the chapters into separate latex documents ...
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Version Control with GIT for Tex / Latex Files in One repository or split to sep. repos
I am looking up at setting up version control for my latex documents. I was wondering people's typical setup for this. Do they set it up in there top folder or individual projects. I will be using ...
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Compiling Master and Individual Child documents with correct pagination
I'm using a master document by including the child documents with \include{} command. I can compile the master document to get the big document with all child documents included. I wonder how to get ...
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Merging many tex-documents together?
I have a serie of publication papers that I would like to gather into one group of papers (or a collection). Is there some easy way for that without removing all headers such as ...
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How do I load a custom class in LyX?
I'm interested in making some modifications to a standard class to use as the class for many documents I'm creating, and see that one way to do this is to simply create a "wrapper class". This ...
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Placing temporary files outside of dropbox for compilation: issues with openout_any and nomenclature
So I store my TeX source files in dropbox for backup and synchronization. Of course, it's annoying when you compile to have dropbox upload and download the changes to the temporary files, so you want ...
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Selecting A8 Paper
As I frequently use
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
I though a simple change could select the A8 paper:
\documentclass[a8paper,12pt]{article}
But I get a warning saying the a8paper option ...
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Document configuration via tags or labels?
This question led to a new package:
tagging
I'm trying to work out options for configuring a large memoir to multiple audiences via multiple editions.
Obviously one method of doing this is by ...
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Options for building multiple documents from the same content with different layouts
I need to produce two document layouts using the same content. I'm going to be making heavy use of the input{} command to do this, but it is more complex than just this. I'm looking for suggestions ...
