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Conflict between ifxetex and ucs under pdflatex/xelatex - why?

I use TexLive 2012 (on Mac) and the following minimal example does not work: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{ifxetex} \usepackage[mathletters]{ucs} % Need newline here! \ifxetex \else \fi ...
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How to use hyph-utf8 correctly?

I'm using MiKTeX and pdfLaTeX and the package manager tells me that hyph-utf8 is installed and auto-download of packages is activated, too. But when I do \usepackage{hyph-utf8}, because I hope that ...
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Where to put Latex generic commands? [duplicate]

Using more and more Latex I reach a point where I don't want to copy/paste anymore the new "generic" commands I created. As an example, I have generic commands to create Tikz pictures. These commands ...
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Style sheet found by TeXShop but “not by terminal” [closed]

I'm having some strange problem. I have a personal style sheet, which has been used for years without any problem when using TeXShop. For some reason, I want to generate a PDF with the pdfLaTeX ...
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In which order should I load inputenc and fontenc?

When I’m using pdfLaTeX, my preamble usually contains \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} Should these two be loaded in any particular order? What problems could arise if ...
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How to tell which package is defining \ifpdf?

I'm experiencing a problem similar to this one: Package ifpdf Error After upgrading to a more recent version of TeX Live, my pre-existing documents stopped compiling, with complaints that \ifpdf was ...
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URL package installed but cannot be found by pdflatex [closed]

I recently installed a full version of TeXLive 2012 (around 3.2 GB installation). Following is a simple LaTeX code that I am unable to compile: \listfiles \documentclass{article} ...
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XeLaTeX logo with pdfLaTeX? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to write (La)TeX (with braces) [or any other TeX-related logo] I try to typeset the XeLaTeX logo in a document that has to be run through pdfLaTeX (for a journal). ...
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AucTeX (in Emacs) doesn't seem to find certain packages

I am using AucTeX in emacs v23 in PFD-mode. When invoking the pdflatex compiler through C-c C-c LaTeX I get a [...] file <some_package>.sty not found error for some particular packages. For ...
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Easily assign undefined ligatures with pdfLaTeX?

Ulrike Fischer showed how Linux Libertine's special ligatures are accessible. Even though she also pointed me at a chapter of the LaTeX Graphics Companion, I'm not really sure how to get these ...
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statweave problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Problem in StatWeave I installed statweave on Windows 7. The installation is like this: MiKTeX 2.9 is installed in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\ statweave installed in ...
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Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

I'm in the process of switching my LaTeX document from pdflatex to lualatex. Similar to Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX I would like to know, what are typical ...
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pdftex.def Error: 'pix/quadratic.pdf' not found : Beamer

I am using a beamer template to make a presentation. When I compile the code I am getting the following error which I have no idea about. <Package pdftex.def Error: File 'pix/quadratic.pdf' not ...
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Which packages can you use to improve the typographic quality?

List here which packages can be used to make text easier to read and nicer to look at. After all, the superior typographic quality is one of the main reasons to prefer LaTeX to, for example, MS Word.
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Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX

Until now, I have been compiling my LaTeX documents with pdfLaTeX. My standard document preamble includes the "usual suspects" for non-English speakers (inputenc, fontenc, babel) and a bunch of other ...
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Is there a simple way to use the gentium font in latex?

I'd like to use the gentium font in a LaTeX document, and the instructions I found at this site make it look rather difficult. Is there a simple package that is now available that would allow me to ...