Questions tagged [document-configuration]
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Cute (child-friendly) 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 following items to make them look nice for the kids:
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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 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}
\include{Body/...
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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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How to interpret the page layout in LaTeX using layout package?
I have used package layout to generate the page layout figure for both article and amsart class. It's quite curious that although different in values, the patterns for those two layouts are quite the ...
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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 ...
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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 merge several tex files so that they have one table of contents/List of tables & figures
I have three chapters which I combine into a thesis using pdfpages: as shown in this link
Merging several papers
This gets me 95% of what I need the only thing I still need is a table of contents ...
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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 finish ...
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How can you maintain a documents 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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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 \documentclass{article}...
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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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Need to produce one tex document in multiple volumes
I have a very large document (1000+pages) that I need to produce as four separate volumes. I'm using Texmaker and TeXLive on a Win7 PC with the book class (too late to switch to memoir), and each ...
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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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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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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 GIT....
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What is \DocumentMetadata? What key-value pairs does it take and when should I use it?
So, I stumbled across a document that began with,
\DocumentMetadata{pdfversion=1.2}
\nonstopmode\synctex=1
\documentclass{article}
I have seen line 2 and 3 in the wild but I have never seen line 1 ...
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How to change the 'Section' title and its arrangement in a LaTeX document
I am handing in an assignment that is structured by exercises, rather than sections. I have already written my responses using the \section{} command and would now like to structure the final output ...
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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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Do something on every second page
Does there exist a way to only print the main text in the document on every second page while running some other code on the other pages? What I want is something that runs like in the below example:
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How to typeset a smaller size book with trim marks from letter paper stock?
How could I use the memoir package (or anything else, that's just what came to mind) to output a letter paper size document, but typeset with a different page width (9" by 7" in my case) with a trim ...
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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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ConTeXt project structure: Component not linking to environment via product
Following the ConTeXt documentation enter link description here I should be able to use this project structure.
test.tex
\startproject *
\environment test_env
\product test_prod
\stopproject
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ConTeXt Project Structure: Add metadata to component
I am setting up a project structure for a new journal and I want to use a structure like the one in this answer. However, instead of using document:start I tried \startsetups component:start, but no ...
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Add NON-English spell-checker and/or dictionary to Kile?
I'm running Kile 2.1.0 on Debian 7.3 Wheezy, KDE desktop, 32-bit processor. I'm trying to add Italian dictionary and spell-checker to Kile's configuration. I've followed the instructions of user np8 ...
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Merging several papers
This link seems to have the answer.
But what does he mean by "Create a new document as a frame"?
Also whatever it is how do you create it in TeXnicCenter?
Baz
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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Standalone chapters with separate references and counters
I'm looking for a convenient way to integrate standalone chapters in a main.tex (scrbook) file. More specifically, they will be already published papers within a thesis framework text and should
each ...
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Lyx error: Could not find bind file: ertWarning
I use Lyx 2.0.2 under Linux and I've never hat problems. Since yesterday Lyx does not recognize short cuts. Every time when I try to configure Lyx using the Lyx gui (tools - new configuration) I get ...