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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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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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A package (installed according to TeX Live Utility) doesn't run [duplicate]
This is an example :
I've found here (What package allows Elvish in TeX?) that there existed a package called tengwarscript. I want to use it and when I used TeX Live Utility in order to download it, ...
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Error during installation of TeXLive 2012 in Fedora [duplicate]
I am facing problems while trying to install TeXLive 2012 on fedora. I did the following-
Unzipped the package.
Navigated to the location of install-tl.
Typed in ./install-tl
I got the following ...
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Error in english.cfg
I have the following error:
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf
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2answers
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Updating packages in TeXLive 2011
I have TeXLive 2011 distribution on my Windows 7. I haven't updated it before. I downloaded it as an iso file. Anyway, I tried to use the mdframed package in an example document like below:
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Problem with packages apparently not there [closed]
Well, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but I don't find a better place.
Looking around about 3d images I got here. And I wanted to compile that image. So I installed sketch with
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Fatal format file error; stymied. fmtutil: infinite recursion
I'm using texlive / ConTeXt / Xetex, but I don't know which of those might be relevant to the problem.
The summary is that when I run TeX, I get a "Fatal format file error; I'm stymied" message. ...
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fontenc with T1 option gives error: Font … not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version).
I have following line in my code:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
I get following error:
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2
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LaTeX Command line in OS X
I need to run latex from command line for a project on OS X. LaTeX is installed in:
/usr/local/texlive/2010
in the bin folder there are three folders:
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3
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2answers
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LaTeX Error: File `knitting.sty' not found - cannot get knitting package to run
I am using LaTeX to typeset instructions for a knitting pattern that I designed.
Additionally, I would like to include a knitting chart to visualize the motif.
I found the knitting package on CTAN ...
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Hebrew TeXLive on Ubuntu 12.04 missing fonts
The installation is TeXLive on Ubuntu 12.04.
I've been using a variety of source files, some of them extremely simple. I can post if necessary, but thought it might be irrelevant given the seeming ...
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TeX Live 2011: tlmgr not using xz after system upgrade [closed]
I have moved my TeX Live installation directories from one computer to another when I bought a newer system. I simply did a tar cfj texlive.tbz /texlive/ (the root directory where I had put TeX Live) ...
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Bugs in the Gummi (beta) version for Windows [closed]
I'm a beginner in LaTeX typesetting, and I'm learning with the help of Gummi's live preview editor, installed on Windows 7. As suggested by the developers I am using TeX Live, not MiKTeX, as my Latex ...
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texlive manager fails to update packages
My TeXLive installation is corrupt (mdframed supposed to be installed, but it is not).
Running update with the tlmgr, fails with
regenerating fmtutil.cnf in C:/texlive/2011/texmf-var
running ...
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2answers
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“xelatex: Command not found.” on network installation
I installed a TeX Live 2011 distribution on a network drive, actually an Apple Time Capsule. Even though normal TeXing with LaTeX (via pdfTeX) in TeXShop works fine, when I try to use the %!TEX ...
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1answer
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xelatex stopped working after TexLive2011 update 2 days ago
I updated Tex Live 2011 a couple of days ago and I can't run XeLaTeX anymore on a document I was working on. When it runs it gets stuck and I have to abort it. Resulting in the following error. I've ...
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1answer
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TL2011 installation keeps failing due to error
Installing [0960/2311, time/total: 22:33/56:42]: hfoldsty [598k]
Installing [0961/2311, time/total: 22:39/56:53]: hhtensor [167k]
Installing [0962/2311, time/total: 22:43/57:02]: histogr [95k]
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2
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1answer
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Path-related errors with TexLive2011
I was playing around with the path settings in tlmgr and the following error came up:
Updating symlinks ...
Executing action path add
Can't exec "kpsewhich": Too many levels of symbolic links at ...
3
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1answer
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BibLaTeX doesn't seem to work with MacTex 2010
I've read good things about biblatex so I want to use it for my paper. I use MacTex 2010 on OS X 10.6.6 with Textmate. So far I've been happy with MacTex but I just can' get biblatex to run.
I did a ...
2
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1answer
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Chemstyle xkeyval error
I recently installed texlive-science from the Ubuntu repos and received the following error when I compile:
! Package xkeyval Error: `load-configurations' undefined in families `key'.
LaTeX works ...
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2answers
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TeX Live error on Ubuntu 10.04: pdflatex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 over-top of Ubuntu 9.04, preserving my /home partition, but aside from that partition, it was a fresh install. I installed the texlive package (2009-7) from Ubuntu's ...
