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May
26
comment How to easily determine the full name of the latex file when a build error occurs?
@karlkoeller I am sorry, I do not get it. What exactly did you write on the command line? If I use exactly what you show, then it is an error. I do not understand what "<currentdir>" is suppose to be. I am on linux btw. I do not use Latex on windows, too hard :)
May
26
comment How to easily determine the full name of the latex file when a build error occurs?
@egreg, yes please, if someone can make this feature request. It will be VERY useful to have, and should be easy to add I would think. I do not know to make feature requests to texlive, and if this is something any one can do. But will look into it.
May
26
revised How to easily determine the full name of the latex file when a build error occurs?
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May
26
comment How to easily determine the full name of the latex file when a build error occurs?
Actually, if there is a way just to tell it to print the actual commands used and not all that extra huge amount of logging on the screen that latex does, then it will be easy to see the actual latex command and hence know the file name.
May
26
comment How to easily determine the full name of the latex file when a build error occurs?
@egreg Thanks, that helps, but just a little. is there a way to have it tell me the FULL path name of the file? I have 100's of index.tex files for example, and many file names that are the same but in different places in the tree, (it is a very large tree) and an error in index.tex:88 does not help me too much to find which index.tex it is. Thanks for your hint, I found this command line options here linuxcommand.org/man_pages/pdflatex1.html but do not see another option now to show the full path. But will keep looking
May
26
asked How to easily determine the full name of the latex file when a build error occurs?
May
25
comment How can I use LaTeX to build my website?
You definitely can do that. I use only latex for everything. This way, I have pdf files and also have the web pages. Try that with html only based web site. I used latex2html before, but now I am using tex4ht. With tex4ht you can inject any additional CSS configuration if you want, or just keep things simple and just do tex4ht file.tex and you get your web page with links and all. Think how nice it is to have all your web pages compiled to one book if needed. You can do that with Latex+tex4ht, but not if you just start from HTML. Also the pdf generated will have links inside it.
May
23
comment Missing $ error using htlatex
@Jubobs I am on debian system, and hence I use texlive debian. I have latest version 2012. I can't use the texlive update package tlmgr tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html to update. I have to use debian package manager and so I am stuck until the repository there is updated to texlive 2013? I would not know how to update specific pakcages and all that with debian texlive. I need to go search to see if/when texlive 2013 can be used on my linux (it is mint/debian OS linux)
May
23
asked Missing $ error using htlatex
May
17
comment Draw an aircraft with Tikz
I wonder why bbding is not part of texlive 2012? ! LaTeX Error: File bbding.sty' not found.` when I do pdflatex on the above code on Linux. pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
May
17
accepted is it possible to add line numbers to input files read using \verbatiminput?
May
17
comment Missing $ inserted - did I make something wrong?
You can't use '\textbf' inside math mode. See tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1328/… and tex.stackexchange.com/questions/595/…
May
17
revised Vertical alignment of table rows with images. PDF vs. HTML generated by htlatex
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May
17
revised Vertical alignment of table rows with images. PDF vs. HTML generated by htlatex
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May
17
asked Vertical alignment of table rows with images. PDF vs. HTML generated by htlatex
May
14
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May
6
accepted dvipng error when using htlatex on eps file. includegraphics Unrecoverable error 36096
May
6
comment dvipng error when using htlatex on eps file. includegraphics Unrecoverable error 36096
Thanks. I did not know there was eps with preview and one without it. I was simply using the Mathematica UI, and selecting the image on the screen, then right-click and selecting save as EPS. There was no option for preview or no preview. I changed now the way I am exporting the image and instead of using the UI and the mouse, now I export the image using the command Export["mma_e1.eps", plot] and now the eps file worked fine with htlatex ! the preview part is gone. (How a user was supposed to know this difference?). Now I know and will export images using the export command from now on.
May
6
asked dvipng error when using htlatex on eps file. includegraphics Unrecoverable error 36096
May
4
comment Are \( and \) preferable to dollar signs for math mode?
"$math$" is much much easier to write and also read. I do not understand how anyone can think that forcing us to use "\( math \)" will make Latex "better" for the end users. With "\(....\)" one also can get them mixed up. Please keep the option to use "$ math $". Latex is hard enough without adding more ((( ))) to it.