TeX Live is a widely used TeX distribution available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems.
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Latex ignores blank space after capital letters
I am having a weird problem. When I compile my documents, Latex drops white spaces between words. This happens only after capitalized letters. For example,
R reports the standard OLS SE, instead of ...
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URL package installed but cannot be found by pdflatex [closed]
I recently installed a full version of TeXLive 2012 (around 3.2 GB installation). Following is a simple LaTeX code that I am unable to compile:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
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Unable to install url package using tlmgr [closed]
I recently installed latest version of TeXLive and am using tlmgr utility to manage and update all my packages.
When I try to load a simple document containing a URL address, I get following error:
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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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How can I use Source Sans Pro in Tex-Live 2012?
I use TeX Live 2012 on an updated Ubuntu 12.10 machine with Latexila. I intended using Adobe's open source font Source Sans Pro in my latest paper.
I followed the instruction on the LaTeX Font ...
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change to xeCJK under TeXLive 2012, since 2011?
Beginning in the late Spring of 2011, I have been using a few lines of code regularly in all my documents, making it possible to produce documents with regular Roman text, IPA, and all (or nearly all) ...
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TeXLive with custom location does not find “biblatex.sty”
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and installed TeXLive 2012 via download. I did not use the packages provided by Ubuntu. Since I don't have enough space I installed TeXLive to another partition. However, LaTeX ...
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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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TeX Live in .iso or .exe file
Is there a way to get TeX Live in a .iso or .exe file with all required files and packages instead of downloading the net downloader/installer?
I would download TeX Live just one time, and install it ...
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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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Problem with installing TeX Live under Windows 8
I am new to LaTeX and wanted to install the required "programs". But when I came to installing TeX Live, there seemed to be a problem:
Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at (directory)
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Update package of TeX Live 2009
I have a CLSI (LaTeX server) instance running on Ubuntu 10.04:
http://code.google.com/p/common-latex-service-interface/
Now I want to install a new package and also upgrade an existing package. The ...
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CLSI on ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 (EC2 instance) using chef [closed]
I'm trying to install CLSI on ubuntu 11.10 using chef (see: https://github.com/scribtex/clsi-chef).
I'm trying to get a CLSI server up and running but I'm not able to :( Getting:
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How can I install citeref via tlmgr from TexLive 2012?
How can I install citeref via tlmgr from TexLive 2012 in Ubuntu 12.10?
Why was citeref.sty dropped in Texlive 2012?
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Proxy settings bypass [closed]
I am trying to update my TeXLive 2012 installation in my office computer. As it is a university, I am behind a proxy, which does not allow me use tlmgr update -all straight away.
I use Windows XP in ...
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Xubuntu 12.04 + Tex Live 2012 no biblatex binary and no biber
I am getting really confused now. I installed Tex Live 2012 on my Xubuntu 12.04 with a backport and I installed TexMaker.
I could user PdfLatex right away and it generated everything I needed except ...
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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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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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LaTeX editor with GUI for Ubuntu 12.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX Editors/IDEs
I've installed TeXLive but I found it complicated. Actually I couldn't run it completely. So I need a LaTeX editor with GUI on Ubuntu 12.10. What's ...
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How to configure TeXLive search paths?
Every time I run pdflatex my whole home directory is scanned. It takes forever and one cpu core is at 100% usage.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 TeXLive packages and can't find where this is set.
kpsepath ...
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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 using installed fonts, incomplete ifx
I have a problem with using a font in LaTeX. I installed the font via the installfont-tl script but cant use it to create the document. When I add the \usepackage{$fontname} I get an error which I ...
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tlmgr cannot access working repository [closed]
I'm trying to install package from a repository via tlmgr and always get the error
tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.uni-altai.ru/
TLDownload::get_file: response error:
404 Not Found
permanent ...
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Check if compiled using MiKTeX or TeX Live? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to detect from inside a package that MikTeX is used?
We have multiple people writing on the same project. Since some of us are TeX Livers and other ...
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Biblatex with apa6 package on Ubuntu
I am trying to get the apa6 package to work on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise). In order to do so, I first installed TeX Live2012 from texlive-backports, and after some trying installed the following packages: ...
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Make xelatex cache font families in Windows 7? [closed]
I'm using TeXLive + TeXMaker to write a paper and I need to include the font Scala Sans Pro, which I have as a set of otf files in the local directory as part of the file. After much wrangling with ...
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Libertine italic sans-serif missing
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and installed the Ubuntu package 'texlive-fonts-extra' to be able to use the Libertine font. Everything is working fine except the sans-serif (Linux Biolinum) italic font. I ...
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What does “restricted \write18 enabled” mean and why does TexLive keep reporting it?
I've installed a backported version of TL2012 on Ubuntu 12.04, and every time I start pdftex, xetex, luatex, pdflatex, xelatex, or lualatex, I get the statement restricted \write18 enabled. entering ...
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Make LaTeX recognize local files in Dropbox under Linux
I have some local LaTeX files in Dropbox and have not been able to make LaTeX recognize them. It does find my local texmf folder, but that doesn't help me.
I am working under Fedora 17 and uname -r ...
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Problems installing MathTime Professional 2 font on TexLive
Recently I've been trying to install the MathTime Professional 2 font (free Lite version). I'm using TeX Live on Ubuntu 12.04.
I downloaded the files and copied them over to the folder ...
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Why does pdflatex stall when called by NIS Users?
I ran into a very strange problem recently: I'm administrating Mandriva Linux in a networked setup where users authenticate via NIS. We noticed that pdflatex simply stalls with no error messages and ...
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TeX Live directory structure [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX, package documentation look-up
This information must be somewhere on the Internet, but I am not able to Google it ... I am using amsmath with TeX Live (Ubuntu in ...
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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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tlmgr usage to get a package from CTAN [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
I'd like to install this ...
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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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Exec format error with fresh TeXLive 2012 install [closed]
I just performed an install of TeXLive 2012 over the network, and I cannot execute any of the binaries at all. Running tex --version returns zsh: exec format error: tex, even install-tl in ...
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Where is updmap.cfg? [closed]
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I found the problem and the solution: I renamed the .pfb files to the correct name, that is, MinionPro-Regular.pfb.
Please, close the post.
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I found this file here ...
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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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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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How to get mdframed package working correctly?
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits system, I wanted to add the mdframed package to my texlive distribution.
After searching in Ubuntu standard repositories without success, I went to the CTAN website to ...
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TeXLive - no latex binary after installation [closed]
I have installed TeXLive 2012 on Ubuntu 12.04 via install-tl and chose a minimal set of packages, so that I could later tlmgr install ... everything I would need with dependencies automatically ...
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“web2c does not exist” error when trying to build using pdflatex [closed]
I have a large number of LaTeX files on my computer that I've successfully built many, many times using TeXLive. I installed TeXLive on Windows, but generally access it through Cygwin; I'm not using ...
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XeLatex: problem with aux-directory and include-directory options on TexLive?
I am trying to port some app from MikTex to TexLive (Windows to Ubuntu basically). The options that works perfectly fine with MikTex just ended up as not recognized for TexLive
The options in ...
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How to repair path to updmap config files in MacTeX [closed]
I installed MacTeX 2012 on a freshly installed Mountain Lion. I now would have liked to install some special fonts (Trebuchet, Frutiger etc.). For that I made sure that all the font files are in
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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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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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Missing tlmgr texlive 2012 [closed]
I just succesfully installed texlive 2012, apart from the fact that
tlmgr is missing: it should be in the directory
/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux/ but there's not! The
only thing with the ...
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Corrupted TeXLive2012 installation? (File `l3candidates.sty' not found)
This is a follow up to my earlier question, Corrupted TeXLive2012 installation? (Option clash for currfile). Refer to that question for the history.
With an "updated" TeXLive2012, I am now getting:
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Corrupted TeXLive2012 installation? (Option clash for currfile)
Background:
As per Manually copy older TeXLive2011 from one Mac to a new Mac, I attempted to get TeXLive2010 and TeXLive2011 (with the latest libraries) on a newer mac. The older releases are not ...
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Update TikZ/PGF on mac
the TeXLive 2012 distribution on my Mac is shipped with TikZ version 2.10 - I want to use (try) the CVS (most updated beta(?) version). Here's what I've done so far:
Downloaded the the TDS package
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