Questions tagged [console]
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TeX outputs slowly to the console
I have TeX live 2022 running on Windows 10. When I compile a file using TeX (3.141592653) it writes to the console (cmd) so SLOWLY character, by character, as if it's trying to emulate a teletype. Is ...
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TexShop doesn't compile any new documents after upgrading to Ventura 13.1
After I upgraded my Macbook to Ventura 13.1 (previously it was running on Catalina, I don't know which version though), I can't compile any new documents. It doesn't even open the console window after ...
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Small number of programming instructions [duplicate]
I am writing an article and I need to insert a small number of code instructions for a topic related to computer science.
I know the existence of many packages, such as Listing, Algorithmic and so on, ...
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How can I solve the errors in Miktex console compilation?
I have the following errors while trying to compile my .tex file in console mode:
"entering extended mode
<C:\Users\Documents\myfile.tex>
Latex2e <2021-11-15> patch level 1
L3 ...
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Pass text from console to context
I want pass text from console to context, like this
echo "\starttext Hello, World! \stoptext" | context -
but this does not work. It seems that context just could be invoked against a file (...
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Reducing the Size of the TEXshop Console
I'm new to using LaTeX and TeXshop. I'm not sure what I did or how this happened, but the TeX console window is taking up almost the whole width of the of my screen.
This happened recently, it used ...
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latex style to emulate appearance of a terminal window
I am writing on computer science and UNIX systems. Is there a latex package or style file for creating the image of a terminal window on a page?
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Error on Launch - MikTeX Console not working
I just re-installed MiKTeX for the same reason, when I try to launch the console I'm prompted with this message:
"MiKTeX cannot retrieve attributes for the directory 'G:\USER\program\Instaled\...
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How can I write a space character in the console?
The following code writes in the console, but it doesn't print the space character. How can I force printing space characters?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\message{%
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Sorry, but "MiKTeX Compiler Driver" did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again. Appreciate any help
I checked the log file, it said as below:
texify - starting with command line: "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\texify.exe" --pdf --synctex=1 --clean myFileName.tex
664-0400 ...
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Convince pdflatex et al. to not restrict console output to 78 columns
For some reason I'm unaware of, every *latex executable I've used has the strange habit of wrapping its console output at 78 columns. That's a bit surprising, since it always either ends up on a ...
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revtex4.2 on miktex breaks (Missing \begin{document})
TeX experts.
Below is a MWE of an error I see during compilation, which I think is associated with revtex:
\documentclass{revtex4-2}
\pdfoutput=1
\begin{document}
\title{the title}
\author{the ...
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Why all the underfull \hbox (badness) in the console, for this simple code?
I'm getting lots of warnings in the console, about Underfull \hbox (badness ...), with several sub-figures settings. Here's a MWE reproducing the issue:
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
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Unable to select the repository where to download the packages
For several months I want to know after an old update the reason because the MikTeX console doesn't give me the possibility to choose the server where to download the packages both in user and ...
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Write to screen/console but not to .log file
I use LaTeX without Lua extensions. Is there a platform-independent possibility built into (La)TeX for writing a message to screen only but not to the .log file?
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WinEdt 10.2 cannot find the file specified
Error launching Console Application PDFLaTeX ...
Command Line: pdflatex.exe --interaction=errorstopmode --synctex=-1 "article.tex"
Startup Folder: D:\Article - number3
The system cannot find the ...
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Reference 'last page' undefined, only running latex twice shows wanted result
If I run lualatex on a .tex file I only get ?? as a result from 'lastpage' in my document. Then if I run lualatex a second time, the correct result (2) is shown in the document footer.
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MiKTeX Console Updates Error: 503 [closed]
I'm use MIKTeX in windows and i can not update the packages, when i press the Check for updates button, it return an error, here is :
My computer configuration:
MiKTeX: 2.9
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, ...
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MiKTeX updates packages only partially
When I requested recently MiKTeX console to update my installation (portable version on Win10) I noticed that not all packages that have been updated in the package database are recognized to be ...
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MikTex Console crashes on Windows 7
I just installed the basic-miktex-2.9.6942-x64.exe on my notebook with Windows 7 (SP1) for all users. Then I tried to start MikTeX Console for updates. The console didn't appear, the Windows message "...
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MiKTeX console not opening after update
Recently after updating to MiKTeX 2.9 the console did not open again. I tried deleting everything and installing MiKTeX again. This didn't work at all. Every time I try to execute miktex-console.exe ...
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No maintenance, maintenance (admin) and console
In response to the previous question I'd like to share my error with the maintenance options of MiKteX. Whenever I try to start the package manager, settings or update menu I get a message saying the ...
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MiKTeX update error (Windows API error 32): MiKTeX console already in use
I just downloaded MiKTeX with the goal of using TeXstudio. My laptop is running Windows 10 Pro.
After installing MiKTex 2.9.6942, when I try to install updates using the MiKTeX Console (as per the ...
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problem with MiKTeX and MiKTeX Console
I had a problem with MiKTeX after updating (see here). I suggested to do something with MiKTeX Console, but I couldn't find anywhere MiKTeX Console. So I decided to reinstall MiKTeX. Then MiKTeX ...
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how to emulate \message in LuaTeX
How do I emulate the \message primitive in Lua code in LuaTeX? I want something like texio.write('foobarbaz'), but without the line break within the word foobarbaz.
Example with lualatex:
\typeout{1}...
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How to make TeXstudio show console output in its GUI like what TeXworks does?
When a file with hundreds of pages starts to be compiled, users will wait for several minutes but the "message" window of TeXstudio does not show the compilation progress bar.
TeXworks shows the ...
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After a clean and complete setup of MiKTeX, there is still no Maintenance and Maintenance (Admin)
After performing several clean uninstallations and installations with both the basic and the complete (net) setup of MiKTeX 2.9, I still won't get any of the MiKTeX Maintenance tools (like the Package ...
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How to get LaTeX to output UTF8-characters in the command line?
For a script, I want to get the hyphenation that LaTeX chooses, including my custom hyphenations file.
I use this code and it works mostly:
echo "\\\documentclass{standalone}
\\\usepackage[T1]{...
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Can't add local texmf directory in latest Miktex
I installed the portable version (from Scoop) of MikTeX 2.9.6615-x64 on Windows 10 (as I did before with previous Miktex versions).
When I try to add a custom texmf directory for local packages in ...
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Can I reuse entries in from a former console?
Hey I created a template document that asks the user for input to customize the document. The user inputs various entries into the TeXShop console. The LaTeX file uses those inputs throughout the ...
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Complete previous typeset when re-typesetting in TexShop
It is really annoying when a typesetting error happens in TexShop. It presents you a console and from there you can go to the error. After you fix the error you re-typeset and then boom — you are ...
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How can I print out the exact dimensions of my images?
Please note that while there is an existing question titled "How do I get the exact dimension of a picture in LaTeX?", that question is actually asking something different.
I have a document that ...
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