TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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How do I list the available classes in my installation?
I am using TeXLive in Linux and want to learn and experiment. How can I list available document classes in my installation?
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Why autoref lets text ignore wrapfigure [closed]
I just ran into a problem concerning autoref in combination with the wrapfigure environment of the wrapfig package.
Minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
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luaotfload cannot load system font [closed]
(I have asked this question in comp.text.tex and lualatex-dev@tug.org mailling lists, but I still haven't got any reply. I know this website is not for bug report, but since no developer responded me, ...
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How to open installed docs
Sorry if it sounds too naive, I am quite noob, so please bear with me.
I have downloaded texlive-docs using ubuntu repository, but how can I view/use them?
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Use new Beamer theme [duplicate]
I am sorry for the silly question, but I am new to TexShop and new to Mac as well.
However, I have been looking for a solution in the last two days between the documentation .pdf and various forums. ...
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Installing TeXlive on Ubuntu, revisited
The Debian/Ubuntu packages for TeXlive are usually outdated, sometimes up to several years behind CTAN. Now, I understand that
packaging TeX Live takes a lot of work
and, if you want to follow ...
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I can't get LaTeX to recognize the Venndiagram package even though TeX Live says the package is installed [closed]
I am new to using LaTeX, I have not figured out how to properly install a package yet. I believe this is my issue, if someone could help guide me through the proper way of doing so I would appreciate ...
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Problems with installation of MinionPro [closed]
I am trying run my .tex-file after I installed MinionPro in TeXLive, but the following problem appears:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file MinionPro-Bold.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file
for reading
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How to update TeX Live distribution manually (without using the frozen TeX Live Manager)?
As an illustration, let consider that I want to update the installed tcolorbox package to the new one from the CTAN.
I have downloaded the newest tcolorbox.zip package from ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox. I ...
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Where is TeXLive after i installed it via terminal ?
What i want
install LaTeX for Linux on Mint 14 OS
What i did
download LaTex from http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html
i installed this package: install-tl.zip
successfully installed ...
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How do I add Hebrew support to TeXLive on Windows (with pdfTeX+babel)?
I just downloaded & installed TeXLive 2012 on my Windows 7 box, including Hebrew language support. I then tried to process the following document:
\documentclass{article}
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TexLive 2012 Ubuntu 13.04 - Correct way to set TEXMFHOME
I have found numerous guides on how to do this (heres a couple):
$TEXMFHOME setting
customizing TEXMFHOME
but I have a different directory structure and none of the places present in the answers ...
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Is is possible to installing only required LaTex tool “pdflatex” in Ubuntu?
I do not know the dependencies b/w the tools provided by the Latex bulky lib.A suggested command to install LaTex tools on Ubuntu is:
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
Its full installation requires ...
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Latex on Linux: Path problem after new install of TeX Live
This may well be a duplicate of something that's already been covered here -- in fact it seems close to the problem described at "How does LaTeX find package files?" -- so I hope this is not too ...
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luatex cannot find font metric data
After installing TeX Live 2012 in a non system directory (not sure if this makes a difference) and running some of the tests found at TeX Live Install, LuaTeX can't find the example font metrics even ...
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TeXLive cannot be updated, older version not available and cannot install pretest version
I freshly installed Ubuntu 13.04 and proceeded to install TexLive 2012 which has been frozen for upcoming release of TeXLive 2013 and hence cannot be updated. I wanted to modify and compile a LaTeX ...
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Beamer presentation fails to compile after TeX Live upgrade [closed]
After an upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) to 13.04 (Raring), pdfLaTeX fails to compile a simple presentation using Beamer. Besides Beamer, the only package I am explicitly using is minted, for ...
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Error with ASCII characters [closed]
I have an apostrophe as in educator's, which is displayed as eductaor's and prevents TeX from generating a pdf.
I have used this as well:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
how can I fix that?
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Where can I find the changelog of TeX Live releases?
I know that TeX Live 2013 is now in beta and that there are already some new packages. I would like to know where the complete changelog will be available, when the new version will be released, and ...
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How can I tell TeX Live Utility where my TeX distribution is?
So, I was in a hurry, and didn't read the copious verbiage on TeX Live as directed by the TeX Live Utility when you have an out-of-date TeX Live install (I had 2010).
So, I'm comfortable with the ...
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Add documentation to TL install
I installed the Tex Live 20130407 on my system. To save disk space, I did not install the documentation, because I thought that texdoc can download those files I ask it. However, issuing
texdoc ...
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It is possible to make fonts appear heavier (darker) in pdf output of Latex?
[Edited to include what I have learned from the answers.]
I am using Latex in TeX Live on my Mac, through TeXLive. I compile .pdf files using Pdflatex. I use the default fonts. [These fonts are ...
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telling luaotfload where to look for fonts
The documentation of luaotfload states that on Linux fontconfig is used to find the font locations. However all fonts I install in /usr/share/local/fonts edit: /usr/local/share/fonts(as I don't want ...
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Auto Package download for TeXLive
I use MiKTeX on Windows and quite satisfied with it. Recently I started switching all my tasks toward open-source alternatives, and in the course I would love to use Linux. But the problem is in Linux ...
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Problems installing BasicTex on Mac OS [closed]
I was following this tutorial to install BasicTex. Running latex command immediately returns without any warning or error. My environment variables are:
$ echo $PATH
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How to Install Garamondx font properly? Don't know how to create bitmap font for zgmr8r
I try to install the LaTeX package garamondx and compile the doc which comes with the package. For this, I downloaded garamondx.tds.zip from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/install/fonts, extracted ...
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Interaction with multicol and mdframed results in misaligned rows
This works fine with TeXLive2011 and was working fine with TeXLive2012 until I recently updated the packages. So with TexLive2011, this produces:
but with an updated TeXLive2012 this yields:
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How to install texlive-fonts-recommended (from Debian/Ubuntu) into texlive2012 (from CTAN)?
while compiling my tex file, I am getting lots of this error --
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 0+540/600 --dpi 540 zplmr7v
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font ...
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Paths, kpsewhich, can't locate files [closed]
My Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) system seems to have TeX trees in /usr/local/texlive/2011 and /usr/share/texlive/ (I don't know if this is standard or not). Anyway, kpsewhich doesn't seem to be able to find ...
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Cannot find warnock.sty aller.sty and luximono.sty
When running the brochure template from here. Got the error warnock.sty aller.sty and luximono.sty not found. I am using TeXLive 2011 in Debian GNU/Linux
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Is verbatimbox.sty missing in frozen TeX Live 2012?
I found that verbatimbox.sty is not directly available in the now frozen TeX Live 2012. Having a \usepackage{verbatimbox} generates a verbatimbox.sty not found message on compilation. I can see that ...
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TeX Live 2011: Can I still update it to its final (frozen) state?
I wish to know that if I download TeX Live 2011 from TUG today in April 2013 and then try to update the packages from CTAN, will I get the last packages that were frozen for the 2011 year for TeX ...
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TeX Live Windows: Installation Failure
I've decided to replace my current MiKTeX installation with TeX Live 2012, and (like previous times) it isn't going too well. Instead of giving up however, I figured I'd ask here this time :)
I ...
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What does “skipping forcibly removed package xxx” mean? Should I care about it?
I got the following messages when updating TeX Live 2012 using the provided GUI.
What does "skipping forcibly removed package xxx" mean? Should I care about it?
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Cross-platform package manager for packages *not* on CTAN [closed]
I do not want to reinvent the wheel, so perhaps you could help me find a tool that fits my needs.
Background
As far as I know, it takes some time to get a LaTeX package available on CTAN. And some ...
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Why does TeX Live “require” yearly updates?
Every year TeX Live provides a new version. My recollection is that soon after a new version is released, the old version's tlmgr stops fetching updates to packages. They provide upgrading ...
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Stuck with XeLaTeX fonts on Mountain Lion [closed]
I've been exploring XeLaTeX recently because I was interested in the, apparently, smoother font handling than offered by LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. However, I have yet to get a test document to compile even ...
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How to install the latest version of microtype (v. 2.5) in Linux (Ubuntu)?
How to install the latest version of microtype (v. 2.5) in Linux (Ubuntu) ?
(also, is v. 2.5 still in beta?)
Edit
I'm using this ppa https://launchpad.net/~texlive-backports/+archive/ppa/ which ...
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compiling pdflatex from the terminal in vim [closed]
A file I can compile in Texmaker won't compile after editing in Vim. I am giving the error hw9problem1xplot can't be found. This is from an includegraphics command. However, the pdf image file is ...
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installing texlive to work with texmaker [closed]
So I have followed the instructions on installing texlive from the thread How to install "vanilla" Texlive on Debian or Ubuntu but that didn't work so I started the thread installing vanilla texlive ...
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installing vanilla texlive [closed]
I followed the instructions in "How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?" but when I do
sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2012-1_all.deb
it doesn't work. How can I complete the ...
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Texlive and Gregorio Manual Font Installation
Here I am again trying to get Gregorio working. I discovered that the Gregorio installation failed to install its fonts, so I am trying to install them manually.
When I run Gregorio, I get this ...
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texlive2012 on Ubuntu with KILE
Where can I find the res.cls (resume class) for texlive? Also, the curriculum vitae class?
I wrote my resume in the resume class on TC with Miktex but now I can't compile it since I don't have the ...
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Getting Gregorio to work on Windows 7
I need help trying to get Gregorio working on Windows 7 x64. I've installed TeX Live 2012 and Gregorio, and have configured TeXworks. When I try to compile a tex file, it tells me that it can't find ...
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gnuplot, ubuntu 12.10, kile, texlive2012 [closed]
How can I download and install gnuplot for ubuntu 12.10? I can't find it on the software center or in repositories. Maybe I am not calling it right.
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Artifacts in TikZ picture when using scale option [closed]
When compiling the example code below with pdflatex Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/W32TeX), I observe an artifact (horizontal line starting from the start point of the objects) in the ...
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Using the erdc package on Mac OS X
I have the MacTeX-2012 Distribution installed on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. Opening TeX Live Update, I see that the erdc package is installed. However, as stated erdc.pdf, ...
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smartdiagram 0.2 / xparse / Kubuntu
I have a package dependency problem on Kubuntu 12.10. I have installed Texlive2012 from the known ppa.
The brandnew "smartdiagram 0.2" package has a dependency for xparse. This package does not exist ...
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Referencing bib files with spaces in the filename
I am using a Mac with TeX Live and Mendeley for automatically generating .bib files, some of which have spaces in the file names. I would like to know how to reference such files from LaTeX as using ...
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TeX live 2012 full installation on gentoo linux
What is the "gentoo-way" to install the latest full TeX live collection?
I know the tex live installer script to install the complete collection manually, but I would prefer to "emerge" a gentoo ...
