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Do commented out options slow down compilation?
My main TeX template has a whole bunch of commented out packages and options (so that when I need a package, I can just skim my preamble and comment out the right thing, rather than try and remember ...
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Are ae and aeguill only needed when using CM fonts?
I am using the memoir class with the option extrafontsizes so as I understood this uses the LM fonts and at the same time set the T1 encoding.
If this is correct, are the packages ae and aeguill ...
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How do I detect the options passed to the documentclass from my own style?
In the listings package, they note that "a global \documentclass-option draft is recognized, so you don’t need to repeat it as a package option"
I tried looking into its source to see how it ...
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Is there any support for Esperanto in LaTeX?
Is Esperanto supported by LaTeX? And, if so, are there any required packages?
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Adding a CTAN package to a MacPorts-maintained TeX installation
I have installed TeXlive through MacPorts and now discover that I am missing some package. For clarity let's use a trivial example and say I am missing lipsum.sty.
I now have two options:
Option 1
...
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Collaborating with the non-TeX-savvy
What tips do you have for collaborating on a LaTeX document with people who may not be as TeX savvy as you?
For one example and potential problem case: Consider you have a set of new commands and ...
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What LaTeX Lab packages use expl3?
I am trying to migrate documents to http://latexlab.org, but they won't compile because they require expl3.sty. Yesterday I started by uploading all of the expl3 sty files but then latex demanded even ...
6
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1answer
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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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646 views
Is there a LaTeX package to format computer language grammars?
I need to display BNF grammars, but couldn't find any LaTeX package that does this.
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115 views
Where to get help for the package options?
OS: Windows 7 + SP1
TeX: MiKTeX 2.9
IDE: Kile 2.1
For getting help on usage of package options, I usually Google "foo options latex", where foo is the name of the package. I wanted to know whether ...
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Package to create a printable form
I need to create a printable form. Please suggest a LaTeX package that can do these types of questions:
Text:
1. Your e-mail: __________________________
Paragraph:
2. Describe your ...
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1answer
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“No room for a new \read” with writing a journal
I'm fairly new to TeX and learning as I go. I am trying to keep a journal in LaTeX. I'm using the solution provided at Using LaTeX to keep a diary . It's essentially a setup where each day's entry is ...
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878 views
Why can't MikTex find all of my style files?
I was wondering if you could help me please. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 and WinEdt on Windows 7 and I've tried to add the style files that I need to use for a particular project to the search path for ...
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249 views
How to create a command to load my own new .sty file
I have created my custom class myclass.cls and I've put it into the BASE folder on MiKTeX dis. (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base). Then I have created my xxx.sty file with some additional ...
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875 views
Good (latex) package for typesetting bible quotations?
I'm in the market for a good package for typesetting quotations from the bible. Got any suggestions?
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(Nonfatal but Symptomatic) Conflict of amsmath and mathstyle Packages
This was brought to my attention by our colleague, Lover of Structure, but since it affects my scalerel package (which began using the mathstyle package to detect the current math style, as of version ...
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117 views
How to install and use the ocr-a font
Can someone help to install the ocr-a font? I'm using fedora, I'm trying to find a proper tutorial but cannot find a good one.
6
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When I load multiple font packages, which one will win?
I haven't used more than one font package. But I noticed some people use multiple font packages. Shortly speaking, which one will win if we load multiple font packages?
Is there a rule for loading ...
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1answer
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What is the proper way to pass user input to package commands?
I'm wondering if someone can fill me on the proper technique for passing parameters from a document to the underlying package. The user would interface via a document like this:
...
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Installing new packages from ctan through command line or AUCTeX on Mac OS?
I've needed a few new packages for some macros to draw diagrams that I'm working with.
I've heard that some LaTeX editors can automatically download the correct packages from CTAN when they're not ...
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LaTeX cannot find my personal packages
I'm venturing into writing my own packages, but LaTeX is not finding them.
I working on a iMac OS X, but I don't want to use TEXMFHOME=~/Library/texmf. I would like to put my packages in a different ...
6
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1answer
233 views
Background Package with Options [closed]
I get the error message Error: Unknown option pages=some for package background, when I tried to compile the following code from the manual of the Background package.
\documentclass{article}
...
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1answer
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randtext not working
All \randomize{} does in the following MWE is removing the space between the words. I wonder why the text is not randomised.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
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How to create a line graph in LaTeX?
I am in need of displaying line graphs in a LaTeX document but I can't figure out how. I searched on Google but did not receive any promising results. Is it really possible to do this within LaTeX or ...
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I'm not managing to download from CTAN. How can I select the mirror I use?
Yesterday I was stumped while not managing to download any package from CTAN. While I could navigate and browse the directories, any time I selected a file to download the request would time-out. A ...
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1answer
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Shipout line like Shipout page
In lineno package guide, I found:
Attaching line numbers after TeX has broken the paragraph into lines
is already quite a difficult job for TeX. Why? Because TeX does not
normally give you any ...
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Do I need onlyamsmath when using nag?
I already read questions about recommended packages, and they often have the advice for
\RequirePackage[l2tabu, orthodox]{nag}
and
\usepackage[all, warning]{onlyamsmath}
I use nag for quite some ...
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336 views
Solution for typesetting interviews in LaTeX?
Are there any packages for typesetting interviews in LaTeX?
Of course, I could manually format all the text but I am sure that there are typographical rules for interview sections that I would ...
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1answer
265 views
Hide solution when using xlop
I'm using xlop to display primary school style addition/subtraction/mul/div problems.
When using \opadd{1}{2} for example, It will solve the equation.
How do you hide the solution so it is suitable ...
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What needs to be done to update lablst.sty?
This question is related to the question How to get a list of all the labels in a LaTeX document. According to the author of lablst.sty, you can use lablst as a global option to documentstyle as ...
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How can one undefine an already processed class option?
I'm using a class classX that accepts class option optionX. Thus, I can write:
\documentclass[optionX]{classX} ...
Now, as I understand it, being a class option, after classX processes this ...
6
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1answer
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Where does BasicTeX put the texmf directory on OSX?
I have just installed BasicTeX on OSX 10.5 and I'm trying to locate the texmf directory to copy the llncs (LaTeX .cls and .sty files) folder into.
According to the install log the location should be ...
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Is there a LaTeX package for conference event programs?
I'm helping to organize a symposium, and I'd like to generate the event programs with LaTeX. Is there an appropriate package for this, or should I do it by hand? Thanks in advance!
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What packages are actively maintained/developed on github/bitbucket?
I would like to improve my TeX skills by following the development of actively developed packages. I findingwould like to give back by taking on some of the low hanging fruit among the ...
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1answer
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Trying to change a predefined value in a package
I am trying to use the dnaseq package (documentation here: http://mirrors.linsrv.net/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dnaseq/dnaseq.pdf)
Basically, it takes whatever you put between "\DNA!" and "!", ...
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1answer
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How do I determine what items to add to my “restricted-shell-escape” safe list?
I am trying to follow the MacTeX-2012 instructions for migrating from (unsafe) shell-escape to using "restricted-shell-escape". But it is unclear to me what items to put in the file that specifies the ...
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1answer
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Is there a lipsum-like package for metadata?
I know about the lipsum, blindtext and kantlipsum packages. What I would need is a variant creating dummy metadata: author name/affiliation, title, thanks etc. Does anyone know of anything like ...
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TeX Live OS X users: testing needed for “download on the fly” script?
Not sure if this is a strictly appropriate question (I hope so, because it has to do with TeX-related tools) but I need to know whether or not my texliveonfly.py script runs successfully on OS X. ...
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How to automatically generate Venn diagrams given the inclusion relations?
I'm writing a paper about classes of formal languages, and I'd like to have a diagram showing their heirarchy.
Something similar to this (from Wikipedia:)
Is there a LaTeX package which, I can give ...
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How to create package with custom symbols (i.e. glyphs) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Create a symbol font from SVG symbols
I want to create a package for myself, that prints custom glyphs (some glyphs for instance that I made up). How do I go with this? ...
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Math mode commands with more semantics?
I accustomed myself to define my own little macros for any mathematical expression I use frequently. For example, I have a macro for the expected value of a random variable:
...
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Latex replacing “Page 118” with “P1ge 118”
I am getting this very strange error in Latex using enumerate. My code is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[margin=.75 in]{geometry}
...
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2answers
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Automatic missing package download on the Mac
Is there a LaTeX distribution for the Mac which has or comes close to MiKTeX's ability to download missing packages automatically?
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xfrac.sty not found
I am using Tex Live 2011 on Windows, and when I compile (vim-latex) my file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% makes for prettier typography
\usepackage{microtype}
% For slanted ...
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2answers
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How do I prevent LyX from using fontenc by default?
All of the documents I create with LyX have
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
in the preamble, which causes problems when I use certain classes or try to switch from pdfLaTaX to XeTeX (for example).
Is ...
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2answers
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“Missing Number” error when using “switch” in “boolexpr”
\pdfoutput=1
\documentclass[12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{boolexpr}
\def \p{1}
\def \q{1}
\begin{document}
\switch[\p=]
\case{\q}abc
\endswitch
def
\end{document}
Compiling the above I get the ...
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New TX math font symbol: skew underbrace with package newtxmath
I found that the New TX math font newtxmath could not displace underbrace, see: latest Texlive 2012
The correct underbrace with default CM font:
It's weird that it works well when I test it ...
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Which package includes \Rho? (Big rho) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
Why can I only use some capital greek letters inside my equations?
I want to use the big rho (\Rho) in my document but can not find a package ...
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*.sty file not found
This question is very similar to a previous post:
Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
I am using MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXnicCenter to compose and execute my ...
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Bundle packages with a document
I'd like to have my LaTeX document be self-contained, that is, if I move to another computer I'd like all of my non-standard packages to work without first installing them. For simple enough packages ...
