TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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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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Problem with TexLive installation on Fedora 17
I just upgraded to Fedora 17 and tried to install TeX Live, as usually, by downloading the install script, install-tl from tug.org. When I run
./install-tl
I get this output:
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Fresh install texlive 2012 @ Ubuntu 12.04: tlmgr nowhere to be found
I know this subject has come up quite a few times so far (with different distro's of texlive). See for instance:
Missing tlmgr texlive 2012
tlmgr: TeX Live 2011 is frozen forever
Texlive installation ...
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Is it necessary to disable virus scanner during TeX Live installation, and if so, why?
Is it necessary to disable virus scanner during TeX Live installation, and if so, why?
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How to move TeX Live to another partition (/data)
I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (/data) and so reuse that partition for LyX-TeX after OS re-install, as well as share that TeX ...
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installing comicsans to TeX Live, Windows
I need help to install the comicsans package and the fonts. My system is TeX Live 2011, and Windows 7. Below is what I did:
Copied comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf in
C:\texlive\texmf-local\fonts\ttf. (I ...
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How can I call TexLive in Ubuntu?
Following the instructions in this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX , I installed TexLive, which needs some 1GB of space (I installed the texlive-full package). Yet, after installation, I ...
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How to improve texdoc results?
texdoc often fails for me, e.g.
$ locate beameruserguide.pdf
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/beameruserguide.pdf.gz
$ texdoc -l beamer
1 ...
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How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17?
On Fedora 17 I have at least 3 ways to use TeX Live:
Install it from the default repository (TeX Live 2007, very old)
Add a work-in-progress developer repository - is it stable enough? In the past ...
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What formats do the file extensions in the TeX Live source tree denote
The TeX Live source tree is really huge. Is there an overview somehow somewhere of the meaning of all those file extensions? I mean e.g. in texlive/Master/texmf, there are 10 .sty, 18 .enc, 21 .tcx, ...
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How to register my own packages or classes in a separate drive to TeX Live installation?
I create my own documentclasses and packages in some directory of tex\latex. The directory tex\latex itself might be in any other directory in any drive. I can register the packages/classes to Miktex ...
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How soon do all CTAN mirrors update for TeX Live Utility to detect the changes?
If a new package gets officially recognized with an entry at CTAN today, (on average) when can I typically expect all mirrors to be updated so that TeX Live Utility can detect the changes?
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Purpose of local texmf trees
In Tex Live there are several local texmf trees (TEXMFLOCAL for admin and TEXMFHOME for user, compare comments and answers to What are TeXLive's four different texmf folders?), in MiKTeX I manually ...
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How to download MacTeX 2011 now that MacTex 2012 is available
Is there a way to download the older MacTeX-2011? I am transitioning to a new mac and would prefer to have both MacTeX2011 and the 2012 version available. I thought I was in luck when I found the the ...
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What analysis of Texlive's restricted permissions model exists?
TH. writes, in How should one use \write18 with BibTeX:
Background
Now that TeX Live 2010 has a restricted \write18, I figured it'd be reasonable to update my cv which uses the bibunits package ...
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How to remove everything related to TeX Live for fresh install on Ubuntu?
How can I remove everything that is related to TeX Live from my Ubuntu 12.04? I first used the backport packages from ppa:texlive-backports/ppa and later the manual install via install-tl-unx.tar.gz. ...
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using perl from texlive
I am working on some packages and for the creation of the final dtx files I use perl.
So far it worked from commandline by just calling the script.pl file.
However now I installed texlive 2012 on my ...
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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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Determining which TeX Live collection a package belongs to
When using the TeX Live Manager or browsing CTAN, sometimes I want to know what TeX Live collection a particular package is found in. What is a convenient way to check?
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How can I use -max-print-line in pdftex (TexLive)?
I know that Miktex has an option -max-print-line=n to change the width of the output. I wondered if something like that existed for pdftex from TexLive ?
I'm on Gentoo.
It is very annoying to have ...
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tlmgr is not accessible after installing TeX Live 2011 on a Ubuntu system
tlmgr -gui No command 'tlmgr' found, did you mean:
Command 'vlmgr' from package 'qdbm-util' (universe) Command 'rlmgr'
from package 'qdbm-util' (universe) tlmgr: command not found
Since I ...
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How to mirror TeX Live?
I have a local network with many clients using (La)TeX. Mirroring TeX Live distribution in my server will save time and bandwidth. We are Windows users who are not familiar with RSYNC.
I have read the ...
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How to use arara with TeXworks
I'm trying to use arara with TeXworks in Ubuntu 12.10 (TeX Live 2012). I've been searching all over the web but couldn't get it working.
First: I'm not sure how to correctly implement arara: Should ...
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If tug.org is down, where can I download TexLive?
If tug.org is down, where can I download/update TeX-Live?
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If I have TeX Live 2011 how to install a previous version of biblatex (1.0)?
I install from the internet TeX Live 2011. I have to use MLA to write all my papers, and I have this problem: biblatex-mla sometimes \autocite[prenote][pg]{key} is not printing the author's name
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Problem With updmap-sys
I ran the TeX Live 2012 update this morning on my 64-bit Kubuntu 12.04 linux system (tlmgr update --all) and received the following error:
tlmgr: package log updated at ...
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Non-repository management of TeXLive packages on Ubuntu
I am looking to update my version of beamer to 3.10 (which supports nonstandard slide aspect ratios), however the Ubuntu main repository only has version 3.07. I was not able to locate tlmgr. Is there ...
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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 ...
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How can I make texdoc find certain documentation?
(This is a question in relation to something brought up in chat, http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/41?m=1918860#1918860.)
I'm using TeX Live 2009 in Ubuntu 11.04 and neither texdoc pgf nor ...
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Font: Is British Baskerville typeface available in TeXLive 2010
I would like to know if the British Baskerville typeface is available in TeXLive2010 (i.e. freely). If yes, which package to load?
Thanks...
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Whatever happened to \newfontinstance?
I just installed a pretest version of TeXLive 2010 and tried compiling some files as a test. None of my XeLaTeX files compile because apparently the command \newfontinstance (which was defined in ...
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Does TeXlive 2012 come with TrueType or OpenType equivalents to common fonts used with latex?
I'm using the package helvet in a document and would like to use the same font in a figure I'm making. Does TeXlive 2012 come with the TrueType or OpenType fonts that correspond to the helvetica clone ...
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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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Error in siunitx with TeXlive 2012? 'missing $' with inter-unit-product option
With the latest TeXlive update to the 2012 version, for some reason I am getting missing $ inserted messages, when using the inter-unit-product option for \si.
For example, this is taken directly ...
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TeX Live 2010 and Thunderbird add-on LaTeXIt! don't cooperate
I am using the Thunderbird email client on Windows and I have TeX Live 2010. I have tried the Thunderbird add-on LaTeXIt! (to insert equations as images in emails). (This is not the Mac tool LaTeXiT, ...
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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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How to install system wide packages without requiring an ls-R database (with texlive)?
Question
How can I install packages for system-wide use, but without requiring the ls-R database to be updated?
Background
The texlive documentation indicates that user specific packages should be ...
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TeXLive 2011: pdfLaTeX does not convert eps to pdf for eps files in subdirectories
As from 2010, TexLive has been converting .eps files directly to pdf file if the compilation is done with PDFLaTeX. Thus a file named
coilsans.eps
will be automatically be converted to a file named
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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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Cyrillic monospaced font in XeLaTeX
I've installed full TexLive 2011 using "install-tl" script in Ubuntu 12.04. When I was using TexLive 2009 from repositories the following file was compiled without any errors.
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Latex on Linux: Path problem after new install of TeX Live
UPDATE: between the suggestions made in comments, and Andrew Stacey's patient walkthrough/diagnostic, the problem was eventually solved by correcting a faulty environment variable in the bashrc. It's ...
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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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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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Install downloaded package via tlmgr
I’d like to install a package (microtype 2.5 beta 4) under TeX Live that isn’t available in the official repository.
Now, I know that it’s usually enough to put the package under ~/texmf/tex/latex/ ...
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How to configure the dictionary-path for TeXworks @ TeX Live portable?
I want to use spell-checking with TeXworks under TeXlive (portable) under Windows XP.
Is it possible to use the dictionaries of Mozilla, e.g. en-GB.aff
and en-GB.dic?
Where do I place the ...
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Copying LaTeX packages from another machine
I use a linux, windows dual boot computer. I have a full installation of MiKTeX on Windows, and have installed texlive-basic packages on linux. Can I copy the TeX packages from MiKTeX onto linux? If ...
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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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Greek pdf-bookmarks with greektex package; is it possible?
I am using TeX Live and also, package greektex. In order for greektex to work I must use iso-8859-7 encoding. I was wondering if with these settings there is a way to produce pdf bookmarks in Greek ...
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tlmgr stopped working with error message 'Unknown tag'
I tried today to update my install, and tlmgr does not want to cooperate:
$ tlmgr update --all
Unknown tag: runfiles si at /work/usr/texlive/2010/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 241, <TMP> line ...
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pdflatex (texlive) tells me that “\homepage” is an 'undefined control sequence' when using moderncv
I'm getting an error when trying to typeset my CV using moderncv. I'm doing this on Linux using texlive and when I try to compile it using pdflatex an error is returned at the \homepage{} line, ...
