Questions tagged [automation]
{automation} is about automating certain tasks when creating a (La)TeX document, e.g., with the help of {packages}, custom {macros} or {tools} for {compiling}.
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Python from LaTeX: Strange Networkx/Graphviz error
It is hard to give a minimal example, because Python3 with some packages is needed. I want to call Python from LaTeX, here is an example how I want to do it (--shell-escape is needed):
\documentclass[]...
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Writing a tex package for better auto brackets
The automatic brackets sizing provided by \left ... \right really often produces too large brackets. I want some package that for a given formula finds the right bracket size selected from \big, \Big, ...
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Automated labelling and references in enumerate list
I am preparing a syllabus book containing a number of courses. For each course, I have an enumerated list of course objectives. Then I have units/modules under the course that addresses those ...
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Generate the hyphenation of a given list of words
I'm new to LaTeX; is there a way to tell the TeX engine to generate the hyphenation of a given list of words as a text output file? For example:
abdomen
abduction
aberrance
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What I want is ...
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How do I make the brackets $\{\}$ appear automatically in a function that I personally defined?
I'm currently writing a big paper and I defined a lot of function to save time, most function are in the math mode (I don't really know if that's important).
My question, that while using overleaf, ...
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Enumerate Environment with Item Numbers in Left Margin and Item Textwidth = Page Textwidth
MWE---
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{enumitem,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[3]
\begin{enumerate}[wide,labelwidth=6pt,labelindent=-15pt]
\item \lipsum[13]
\item \...
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Automated BFS drawing with Lua
I tried to learn Lua with TeX. To do so, I tried to implement BFS in such a way, that it can automatically create Tikz pictures. Here is a short example of what I did:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Automatically Right Justify the Emdash and Name at the End of a Quotation When Space Permits [duplicate]
This is an extension of the question posed in Automatically Display the First Word of Every Quotation in Small Caps
Consider the code
\documentclass[14pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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Automated Dijkstra Visualization
I want to visualize the Dijkstra algorithm for finding the shortest path. I am inspired by this post. Sadly, I am way too bad at LaTeX. My initial idea was doing it with LuaLaTeX using Lua and I was ...
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Automatically detect acronyms without \ac or \gls around them
My Situation:
I am using glossaries package to manage my acronyms.
They are all neatly defined in one file with a list generated automatically.
But I have to confess: I was very inconsistent in using \...
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How to automatically populate a latex template from multiple tex files in pure latex?
I have a folder mytexfiles/ including tex files which I'm trying to automatically include/populate in a main.tex template located in the same directory as mytexfiles/.
Each file contains a filename in ...
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Automatically Display the First Word of Every Quotation in Small Caps
Consider the code
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[sfdefault]{cabin}
\newcommand{\longemdash}{{\fontfamily{cmss}\selectfont---}}
\newcommand{\emdash}{\nobreak---\...
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Numerical precision issues within PFGplotstable
I am creating a table which automatically generates outputs of various quantities of interest for compressible flow.
The first column contains Mach numbers, which are used to calculate the quantities ...
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Cross out a transition of automaton
I have the following automaton.
\begin{tikzpicture}[>=latex, >=stealth', auto, node distance=0.5cm and 1.5cm, semithick, initial text=]
\node[state, initial] (q0) {$q_{0}$};
\node[state] (...
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Automatically customizing the front cover of different memoirs
I need to create several memoirs with the same format. For each document I want to customize several features of the front cover, for example the background color. I'm trying to automate the ...
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postscript hyperlink url auto-open
I'm trying to add a hyperlink to a PDF by modifying the PostScript.
Any possible to open this action link automated or opening postscript or pdf. it will be executed the link.
[/Rect [ 0 425 295 445 ]
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How to draw a border around a subset of nodes？
I need diagrams like this:
I've automated the "black" part but could not figure out how to do it with the red border; my current version is this:
Here are latex ""code""...
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Auto-capitalise lone "i" in LaTeX
Is there a package or pre-amble command which would auto-capitalise all lone 'i's within the text of a LaTeX document (i use overleaf to compile)?
I find it easier to write text without manually ...
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Study materials for automatic impagination with Context?
Here is the thing, I am working with a lot of catalogs but we are doing it, in my opinion, the wrong way! It is a mix of ancient catalogs made in Photoshop and newer ones made wrongly in InDesign.
In ...
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Is there a program that automates the use of a standardized Tex document?
I have a standardized LaTex document that contains two letters and several pages of documentation. This is to be sent to each and every customer we have, for every order we deliver. The document stays ...
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Individualized exams, some with no questions (not as a bug; as desired behavior)
I am generating individual exams for my students. I have that code working, and the other questions I can find on stackexchange are about generating the exams.
The issue comes from the fact there are ...
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Read metadata from a file
Say all homework files: hw1.tex, hw2.tex, ... use some common homework.cls. Problem is that in every hw*.tex file these variables have to be set manually.
\documentclass{homework}
\author{John Smith}
\...
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Automatic upright subscripts in pdflatex
For some time I used Micos solution to the problem of automatically typesetting subscripts upright based on lualatex. Now I want to switch back to pdflatex (because of compile times and the better ...
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glossaries package - default "text" field of an entry to its name + symbol
Can you think of any simple way to use the values given to the fields "name" and "symbol" as input for the field "text" when making a \newglossaryentry?
For example, I ...
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is there a way to autofill tables in latex like in excel with equations [duplicate]
i would like to be able to auto calculate simple values based on other values already present in the tabular environment or a similar environment
i have tried looking on google but couldn't find ...
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Automation hyperlink from title to relevant Wikipedia page
I would like to hyperlink any subsection to a relevant Wikipedia page while clicking on it. let's say that the name of the subsection is:
" Row and column vectors (wiki) "
when clicking on (...
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Define categorized, changeable variables for use throughout a document
TL;DR
How do I print categorized and subcategorized values declared in a JSON file (or in some similar type of file) inside of a LaTeX document?
In my document, I am assigning a bunch of values to ...
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Automatically generate two-page index entries
I'm writing a text where there will be several index entries for short biographies. The index entries for persons are supposed to be in small caps and the biography entries will get page numbers in ...
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Automatically suppress claim number if there's only one claim
When writing a proof, I often need to include a claim, for which I've defined a separate environment. In my current set up, claims are numbered successively, with the numbering resetting within every ...
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Automating the Build and View (F5)
Is there a way to automate the Build and View (F5) function such that it knows which command to use amongst latex, pdflatex, xetex and lualatex? For example, if I load the fontspec, I want my ...
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Loop through directory structure and include all *.pdf files
I have a document that is constructed from a number of *.tex files stored in a directory organized as follows:
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-note.tex
-file1.pdf
-differentfilename....
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How do I know, whether I need to run BibTeX or not?
If I have an unknown *.tex file and want to know, whether I need to run BiBTeX afterwards or not, what is the simplest way to find out in a script?
Consider this file:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{...
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Polynomial long division with complex numbers
I heard of the polynom LaTeX package, which can be used to do polynomial long division in LaTeX documents; I have even used it myself before for normal polynomials with real coefficients.
However, now ...
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Change vertex and edge style
I wanted the larger circle to be an ellipse, and the loop on the right to be smaller (as the below drawing shows). Does anyone know how to do it?
this is my .TEX document:
\documentclass[12pt]{...
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LaTeX software to evaluate expressions
I am looking for a latex package that can evaluate symbolic expressions by substituting the values of symbols declared in some header. For example, in these set of equations, as you can see, I get ...
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Get number of pages in document [duplicate]
When writing reports it is common to have a page of meta-information at the start, written by, checked by, client, date etc. One of the fields I need is number of pages. Since I'm going to be ...
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Margin when using auto-scaling of parenthesis: Is there a better way than adjusting for it with "\!"?
Whenever I need larger parenthesis I use \left( \right) which automatically adjusts the size as needed. I know that the optimum would be to always manually choose from \big, \bigg, \Big, ... but for ...
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Priority based removal of optional sentences to fit page
I am wasting days of my life rewriting rejected papers for other conferences with different page limits. Also it would be nice to extract parts for a website without a page limit.
Is there a way to ...
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lua code inside directlua throws an invalid escape sequence error
I'm trying to make use of lualatex to automate generation of some part of a pdf. The directory tree for my minimal working example looks like the following:
│ lua_escaping_issue.tex
│
└───a_folder
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Create a function that generates a letter?
I have to write many letters where each time I have to modify just the names, dates and address, but it is always the same content.
A short version would be something like "Dear [name], from [...
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Automatically adding images directly from python code (preferably using VSCode)
Imagine I have some python code that generates an image.
e.g.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
# Data for plotting
t = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
s = 1 + np....
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How to ignore theorems when creating a pdf?
I am writing a document which includes exercises and their solution. To do distinguish them nicely, I used the amsthm package and the following code:
\newtheoremstyle{dotlessP}{}{}{\color{black}}{}{\...
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How to Left Justify the Lettrine Only with the Text After Inserting Opening Quotation Marks
Consider the code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lettrine,xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\input GoudyIn.fd
\renewcommand{\LettrineFontHook}{\usefont{U}{GoudyIn}{...
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How to automate table generation via function or macro
This should a simple question with a simple answer but I couldn't find something related to this online (being also a TeX newbie...).
I am trying to automate table generation so that I can avoid copy ...
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Scaling tables between page sizes, and filling the page
I'm a teacher, and this is a design pattern I hope to use a lot. I have some information that I want to present as 1) a poster (a1), and 2) a handout (a4). What I would like to be able to do is set ...
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Enumerate in Beamer: Automize only@
I would like to split enumerate environment over multiple slides in an automatized manner.
In the following example, I need to write only@ for each slide. How to get an automized version of this code?...
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How to reset alternating row colors using xcolor and longtable?
I am attempting to automate alternating row colors in a longtable environment. My rows alternate between gray and white, and the alternating persists across pagebreaks. My issue is that I would like ...
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Algorithmically generating the syntax of math equations
Is there a way to algorithmically write equation syntax in latex?? Suppose I want to write the N-point DFT matrix in an equation, then is it possible if i specify what each entry of NxN matrix will be ...
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Create .bat to execute XeLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibLaTeX
Time ago I created a bat script to execute PDFLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibLaTeX so I can add as a processing tool in TeXworks (image below), and it was easy because I found many sites explaining how to do that ...
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Can't write to aux file from cmd
I have an automating script written in Java to generate a PDF file from a source tex file. The?main tex file may reside in one drive say 'C:' and one included file via \input in another drive say 'D:'....
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