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Should I load packages (for instance, all AMS packages) separately or all together?
I was reading some post here at SE and I noticed that many people load packages one by one. For example,
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsthm}
and so on. Usually, I load ...
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Is there a source function/capability in LaTeX [duplicate]
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How to make a standard preamble into a package
I often have the same preamble stuff in my documents that kind of clutter the work space a bit. Some are custom commands ...
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Preamble vs. external style file - same code doesn't work in the later
I'm experiencing the following issue when using todonotes along with TikZ and its externalize library. If my document contains no \todo's then it compiles just fine and seems like the externalization ...
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Could using different packages cause a contradiction for the compiler?
If I am writing a pdf with LaTeX,
I would like to use commands from different packages for figures or tables or what so ever ... and I just use all the packages i need, could this lead to a ...
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4answers
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meta packages and typesetting
Background(just ignore):
Is there an exhaustive list of packages that you should load and of things you should do to improve your document? Here I mean packages and things that have to do with the ...
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2answers
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Load package after other package with \AfterPackage
I want to group packages together (in the real document, I load many more packages) and want to solve the sorting of the packages with commands like \AfterPackage from KOMA-Script.
I am using this ...
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2answers
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Placing items before \documentclass
When looking in books or at sample code, I always see \documentclass appearing first. Is that absolutely necessary?
I have created some test code which seems to compile fine:
\def\SetClass{article}
...
3
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1answer
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Extracting parts of a .sty file
Can you load only some specific parts from a package while not loading the rest at all?
For example, from the code below I wanted to load only the \newcommands
%theorems
\usepackage{theorem}
...
13
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1answer
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Sorting preamble packages thematically while accounting for compulsory load orders
Within a document's preamble (or a custom "preamble" package), at times there's the need to take compulsory load orders for certain packages into account. Most packages must be loaded before the ...
4
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1answer
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What is pkgindoc.sty really for?
During a discussion of this question, I looked a bit into the pkgindoc.sty buried in ltclass.dtx (docstrip option afterpreamble). While I understand how this works (and it works in an ugly way IMHO), ...
3
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1answer
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Only \usepackage if the package can be found [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Conditional “if a package is available”
I'm using a package "mcode.sty" that enhances/colors listings output; typesetting will work perfectly without it. ...
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What's the right order when loading packages? [duplicate]
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Non-commutative packages
I remember reading in some reference guide that the order of loading packages with \usepackage in principle doesn't matter. Real life, however, ...
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How to make a standard preamble into a package
I have a preamble that I copy and paste into nearly all of my documents. Is there a nice way to turn this into a package than I can use? I would prefer to do this in a way that doesn't depend on my ...
