{tools} is about the complementary tools needed to produce particular jobs. Note that it may not refer to any particular tool in a standard TeX bundle.
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Vim-Latex spell checking : ignore comment regions
I'm using the Vim-Latex environment for writing french documents. The problem is that when I comment a line containing a command, the spell checking tool highlights the command as a spelling mistake.
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Using Excel2LaTeX in Excel 2010
I just installed Excel2LaTeX in Excel 2010.
I do see it in add-ins. However, I cannot find a way to operate it. That is, there is no change in the ribbon area after the package was installed.
How ...
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Compiling documents online
I have heard rumors that you can compile documents online, and more specifically that Google has a free online compiler, but I have never been able to find any. Is there a way to compile documents ...
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Long LaTeX files in Sublime Text 2
I use Sublime Text 2 for my LaTeX documents, but I tend to write very long documents. What kind of tricks or add-ons would be helpful when working with super long files?
For example, since I have ...
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FOSS for real-time PGFPlots
Any FOSS for real-time PGFPlots? Is it worth opening a feature request for KtikZ (QtikZ)?
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How can I use LaTeX from Python.
I need to generate documents from a web application and would like to do this using the Python language and LaTeX, are there any tools that will help me?
Edit
This Application will be hosted on ...
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Searching for a LaTeX Processor
I would like to know if there exists a LaTeX processor that works similar to SAXON for XML and XSLT documents. I would need it to extract some information from source code, and define its semantics.
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Comprehensive list of tools that simplify the generation of LaTeX tables
Manually hacking tables in LaTeX is one of the less funny things when preparing a document. Naturally, there are quite a few tools that promise to simplify this. In fact, I have somewhat lost track of ...
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Bibliography tools that are compatible with biblatex and biber
I’m currently in the process of reconsidering how I do bibliography management. It seems to be most sensible to use biblatex with biber. I’d like to know what tools are available on which I can build ...
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Tools for exploring and analysing document structure?
I'm currently writing a thesis. Just the introduction is 25 pages/8000 words. The whole document will probably be 70 pages or so. With a document this large, and on such a complex topic, it can be ...
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TikZ editor for Mac OS
I'm looking for an editor like tikzedt for Mac OS X. Or something similar in order to write and see quickly the result.
Any suggestion ?
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When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?
Occasionally, I see other people's documents starting with two lines like that:
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
It's clear to me that the first line declares the engine ...
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Using Excel2LaTeX in Excel 2013 [closed]
I'm using Excel 2013 and having no luck getting the Excel2LaTeX add-in to do my bidding.
When I view my add-ins from the options menu, all seems well--Excel2LaTeX shows up, and its checkbox is marked ...
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LaTeX and bibliography management tools
For my writing I am using MS Word and Zotero as bibliography manager. But now I think I am going to move to LaTeX on a Linux box. I just toyed with Texmaker to generate my documents and it works fine ...
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Good LaTeX Table Editor? [duplicate]
For LaTeX tables editor, I am using LaTable version 0.7.1 which is good to a large extent. The only problem I have (so far) with this editor is the ability of adding multi-lines in a cell.
Can ...
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Are there LaTeX performance profiling tools?
The most obvious way to speed up LaTeX processing is to split a large and complex document into smaller pieces. For example, Makefiles, \beginpgfgraphicnamed/\endpgfgraphicnamed when using TiKZ, and ...
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Do the online LaTeX compilers use a TeX daemon to speed up their compilation?
There seem to be quite a few fabulous web-sites now that compile LaTeX online.
I was wondering what techniques these sites used to speed up compilation of documents. It would seem they would be ...
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Are there tools for importing from CSV to BibTeX?
I'm seeking a way to get my books database, stored on Goodreads, into BibTeX form. As near as I can tell, Goodreads provides no support for this directly, but does provide for CSV export (on the ...
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Is there a WYSIWYG editor for biblatex styles?
Does anyone know if a WYSIWYG editor for biblatex exists, where I simply can enter some kind of template (e.g. regular expression or whatever) and the needed commands to produce this style would be ...
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Tools for automating document compilation
A lot of people write makefiles that say something like
paper.pdf: paper.tex
pdflatex paper
bibtex paper
pdflatex paper
pdflatex paper
To handle re-running TeX to ...
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Run Latexian output with latexcalc
I'm using Latexian to typeset my documents, and also another tool called latexcalc(check it out, its really useful!) , which automatically evaluates the result of typeset calculations. Is there some ...
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Remove beamer markup
I have a main.book.tex and a main.beamer.tex which then \input the same source files. In those source files, I have a lot of \mode<> designations and generally, a lot of beamer markup ...
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A resource for converting LaTeX within the browser [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Compiling documents online
Does anyone know of a resource that converts LaTeX within the browser? Not using something I have to install like mathjax but something ...
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PDF conformance tool
Is there a (freely available) tool that will check the conformance of a PDF file to the PDF standard?
I've heard this referred to as "pre-flight" or something along those lines.
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Spell checking in Shell
I know I can use TeXShop or any other word processing program to spell check my document, but I was wondering, if there are any spell checking scripts, which run in a shell/Terminal.
I saw that there ...
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How to automate using biber in MiKTeX-TeXworks
I have MikTeX 2.9, 32-bit, Windows 7, all the latest updates are there. I'm using TeXworks ( pdflatex + makeindex + bibtex).
When I use biblatex package with option [backend=biber] I have no ...
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TeX family tree with timeline?
When I first started using TeX, I felt overwhelmed by the myriad of names — BibTeX, XeTeX, LaTeX, XeLaTeX, ConTeXt, LuaTeX, MacTeX, TeXLive — and more. I didn't know the packages from the programs ...
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How can texdef be made to return indented definitions?
With texdef it is easy to find definitions for (La)TeX commands. It can show what a definition for a given command is. For instance if I issue texdef -t latex \LaTeX I get the following definitions:
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Command-line tools for some bibtex database manipulations
Inspired by an answer to another question, I am reminded of the various reasons why it's difficult to have only one BIB file. I would like to have a set of command line tools that I could script to ...
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Turning parts of text on and off
Is there a way to turn certain parts of the text on and off in LyX/Latex ?
I'm thinking of having something like an environment (lets call it "TL" for "traffic light") and a parameter t such that if ...
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tool for checking my scientific writing for common style errors [closed]
I write frequently scientific reports such as technical reports, research papers, book chapters etc. I use LaTeX for writing these reports.
My question is "Is there any tool with latex support, which ...
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Results that need LaTex [closed]
What are the concrete effects that can only be reached with LaTex systems?
I am not asking if some LaTex systems are more userfriendly, or if you can work faster with wysiwy*m* systems, once you ...
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Utility to Strip Comments from LaTeX Source
I've a LaTeX source.
I'm ready %for submission
%But first I would like
to strip its comments.
So I hope there are
100\% auto
ways to get this done.
\begin{comment}
Because there are subtle ways ...
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Documentation of “%! TeX” codes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When and why should I use %!TEX TS-program and %!TEX encoding?
I want to create a list of "%! TeX" codes to a documentation file for my template and want it to be as ...
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Good tools for LaTeX maintenance tasks?
I have a big bunch of old to new LaTeX documents written by several independent people. I have to bring them up to date, modern and consistent, standardized LaTeX code. In these documents there are a ...
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Command line tool to extract .bib entry by key?
I'd like a tool that, when given a .bib file and a key from that file as inputs, outputs a plain text rendition of the full entry. For example:
bib.bib
@Article{tversky83,
author = {Amos Tversky ...
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Tool for cleaning LaTeX code
Is there something like indent for LaTeX? I have a collaborator that is using Scientific Workplace and the code it produces is totally messed up; I know I shouldn't expect miracles, but any machine ...
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How to get showkeys bugfix into tools package distribution
Almost a year ago, the showkeys package was updated to v3.16 in response to a bug report:
http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=tools/4173
Showkeys is supposed to be part of the tools ...
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Best Windows tool for managing .bib files to be later processed by biblatex?
I think this topic is not specifically covered by none of the existing questions about biblatex. Sorry if I am wrong.
I am planning to use biblatex to include and manage references in my LaTeX ...
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Portable LaTeX?
This isn't explicitly a question on TeX syntax, but is there a program available (or a flag for latex itself) that will create a complete standalone LaTeX file from one that has multiple dependencies?
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Help me to debug long LaTex equations with errors
I want to learn debugging of long LaTeX equations like below:
$\tau=\int\frac{dt}{\gamma} = \int\sqrt{1-\frac{v(t)^2}{c^2}}dt = ...
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What useful web services are out there?
Looking at this question, I wonder what good and useful web services are out there. For example the LaTeX symbol classifier looks interesting. You can draw a symbol with your mouse and get back the ...
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In xcolor, what is an easy way to experiment with color choices?
I want to check color choices in xcolor, for example for row coloring of a table. Is there a site for
code ⇒ color; as in you play with the code and see what color you get
color ⇒ code; you choose a ...
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CSVTools and Lines Every Fifth line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Checking if a number is a multiple of 4
First, let me apologize for probably a dumb question. I'm trying to make a table, but I want to use CSVTools because, well ...
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Is there a “ForwardPDF” tool available?
When I am working on a big document, I find the srcltx package to be extremely useful. However, I also really like the hyperref package. Is it possible to use both? In particular, is there a way to ...
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Macro find tool
Does there exist a tool to find in what package a given macro is defined?
I have to work with LaTeX (not XeLaTeX, for legacy reasons). I'm dealing with very old code, which I have to get compiled. ...
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Identifying styles in PDF
It happens many times that I take a look at an interestingly typeset document in LaTeX, but to which I don't have the source-code to inspect the style. One such example is this one: ...
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Migrating from MiKTeX on Windows to OS X. Toolchain options?
I've got a 'living' document that I re-visit every couple of months which I originally developed using MiKTeX and WinEdt on Windows. I'm quite comfortable with this, and quite like the functionality ...
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Is there a makebst-like style definition helper for creating biblatex styles?
I know that there is documentation on biblatex and I know that there are loads of answers how to customize the respective biblatex configuration files to meet one's needs to achieve a specific layout ...
