Questions tagged [debugging]
is about finding the cause of errors or wrong results in (La)TeX code/documents using a methodical approach.
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Why do I keep getting a “missing \begin{document}” error?
Sorry about the awful formatting, this is a screenshot from my mobile.
I am an absolute beginner when it comes to Latex and I just can't understand why it keeps giving me such an error when I clearly ...
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How to display string variable without hanging texworks
I was getting unexpected results storing a parameter into a string variable, and added the statement "\str_show:N \l_tmpa_str" to produce debugging output. Texworks treats the output as an error. My ...
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Debugging space in badges
I would like to create badges in Latex. I want to place the badges on the paper next to each other, so I have to cut the paper only once!
I have the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{...
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Text not wrapping on column boundary
I am trying to render a LaTeX project and the words are spilling over the column boundary. What could be the reason for this? I thought that the class library took care of these issues.
For example:
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Can't Find what's causing the error in this code, trying to insert a figure
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\...
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Gibberish string prepended to deleted text in the PDF obtained by compiling 'diff' file generated by latexdiff
I am using latexdiff for marking up corrections requested by the examiners to my PhD thesis. I have a strange issue with this.
Upon compiling the diff.tex file, I get a specific string 4.0pt=-.55ex ...
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Possible bug in flexsym
From this answer we find a solution to use prime in text mode, via \textprime from flexisym package.
The problem is that the package has a problem with amsmath, since it makes \dots not be aligned ...
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Warning if footnote text appears to early
I am currently finishing a book project, and there it sometimes happens that the text of the footnote appears a page too early, meaning not on the same page as the footnote reference but one before ...
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Extra vertical space at end of last column when loading adjustbox (only luatex)
I have noticed some odd extra vertical when placing boxes in a twocolumn layout:
\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage{calc}
% issue only happens with adjustbox loaded
\usepackage{adjustbox}
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Cryptic tikz error - 'pgfpmth@float@max' [closed]
I have a tikz chart that won't build. When I check the log file I find
Package PGF Math error: Could not parse input 'pgfpmth@float@max' as a
floating point number, sorry. The unreadable part ...
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Missing $ inserted with tikzpicture [closed]
Forgive me if I breach ettiquite here, it's been a while...
A couple of years ago I wrote two papers as part of my PhD research and submitted them to a journal...they were each about 20 pages long. ...
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The “max” function on Tikz being annoying, help?
I used Tikz to chart the following function.
This is fine, except that I want the function to equal 0 instead of negative values. So I tried using "max(0,f(x))", where f(x) is my function (specified ...
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equivalent of showframe on generic boxes (for debugging)
I have done a lot of searching but cannot figure out how to visualized the box that a piece of content falls into without shifting the content. How do you debug?
Note: How can I visualize boxes? ...
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ACMart documentclass creates a vertical space at the end of the second column of the first page
When using \documentclass[sigconf,letter]{acmart} I noticed that without regard for the text (I tried different nudges), latex always leaves a space of a couple line-spaces on the end of the right ...
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Debugging - spacing in math mode
I was trying to do some debugging in math mode related to spacing. More
specific, I wanted to create some vertical rulers to check for
discrepancies in horizontal alignment in math mode. With this ...
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Compilation error: “! Argument of ” has an extra }"
My TeX document gives me the error:
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\base\ulasy.fd") ! Argument of
" has an extra }. \par l.32 }
Can anyone tell me what's wrong? This is my code:
\...
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Stacking thick bars below a symbol
I am using the following commands to place an arbitrary number of specialized, thick bars (\xbar) below a letter.
\documentclass[prb,preprint]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\stackMath
\...
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`pstricks` package preventing compilation [closed]
Today I updated to the latest version of MiKTeX (2.9.6703, I was previously using an older version of MiKTeX 2.9) and now the pstricks package entirely prevents me from compiling a document when ...
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Collision between `siunitx`, `cellspace` and the letters 'd' and 'e'
The following code fails to compile. It can be made to compile by any of the following changes
Removing \usepackage{siunitx}
Removing the S from from the tabular column specifiers
Replacing the d in ...
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Chasing a non-deterministic bug in LaTeX
I have a latex file that when processed repeated times (like a thousand times) -- in a very small number of the runs (1 or 2) xelatex will drop a very specific character \emptyset from the PDF file, ...
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Force line return with \message
I am trying to use \message to debug my code; in particular, to print information to the console. For some reason it is not adding line returns after each invocation (see example below). How can I ...
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Error message in align environment not showing line number
Is it possible to get more specific information such as the line number in case of an error in an align* environment? It is very annoying if you have to manually pinpoint an error in a 10 line align* ...
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Beamer won't let me add an algorithm environment
I am writing a beamer presentation and I keep trying to add an algorithm to it with no success.
I have:
\begin{frame}{Proposed Solutions}{Curve Projection}
\begin{block}{}
Ellipses are implicit ...
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How to debug BibTeX?
How do I debug BibTeX code? I would like to know how to:
step through execution,
step into and out of function calls,
set breakpoints,
visualize the stack,
watch ...
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Overfull \hbox (124.69516pt too wide) in paragraph in a table
I'm making a table with the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\title{Answer}
\author{That's me}
\date{March 2018}
\setlength{\parindent}{...
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Command \itab overlapping
I'm trying to edit a CV Template to my own specifications. However, I am having some weird behavior with command \itab.
The section in question:
\begin{rSection}{Technologies}
\itab{\textbf{...
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Why does this produce “missing \endcsname” error? [duplicate]
I need to dynamically create the name of a macro, where part of the name is based on the argument which needs to be capitalized beforehand. The following MWE illustrates my intention:
\documentclass{...
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Correct reference but wrong hyperlinks with tcolorbox and thmtools
After spending several hours tracking down an issue with wrong hyperlinks in my thesis, I managed to cook up the following MWE:
%!TEX program = pdflatex
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{hyperref,...
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“beelines” solution — texlive 2017
This beelines text gradient solution worked until I updated to texlive 2017. Sadly it no longer seems to work.
Beelines Solution
The MWE below depends on two LuaTex files:
Files created by Philipp ...
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how to see content of a tikz style?
I'm creating a tikz style to do some complicated linear transformation on the coordinates, computed in terms of variables. To give an idea, here's what the style declaration looks like now:
\tikzset{...
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index not appearing after using the right commands
So I am currently writing my thesis.
I used the following snippet
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
Blah
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{theindex}
\index{Blah}
\...
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Overfull \vbox with a document containing no images
[I updated the text so it includes a Overfull \vbox of 5.37814pt now]
My document has more like this, but this is an example of a overfull \vbox (I hope I got it right)
\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\...
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What's wrong with my PDFs?
I'm generating PDFs (like this for example) using LaTeX, and suddenly code that has worked for years is generating PDFs that either fail to display or crash normal PDF readers (even PDF Expert).
The ...
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Fontspec and Adforn
I keep getting a strange error when I load adforn with my documents. It boils down to fontspec changing the encoding from U to TU, and then it throws me an error and automatically updated the encoding ...
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Creating macro cross references
Is there any tool that allows me to analyze/see/display macro dependencies?
To be clear: After
\def\a{\b\c}
\def\b{\x\c}
I'd like to get that \a uses \b and \c and that \b uses \x and \c, best ...
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Q: Loop over all tokens in the body of a macro
I am looking for TeX-code that loops over all tokens in a macro definition.
\meaning transforms everything to "other" (catcode 12) characters and is thus not directly suited (with or without \@strip@...
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Is there posibility to “debug” tikz/pgf? [closed]
Everybody knows that paintings with tikz/pgf is utter pain because you have to remember each dot coordinates by heart, is not there some debug or tool/tip to make life with it easier? Otherwise I ...
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Tikz + breqn: Compiling never finishes with |-Symbol
I just occurred a strange error in tikz. The following MWE never finishes on my machine (MikTeX, breqn Version 0.98e, tikz Version 3.0.1a):
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Why is reinsertion in multicol different than usual?
I've recently been having an issue with multicol and dblfnote. The solution to the issue was to change the definition in multicol of \reinsert@footnote from
\ifvoid\footins\else\insert\footins{}\fi
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How to trace all changes to a box
I'm currently knee-deep in debugging a mysterious bug in my daily usage of TeX. I have a fairly substantial list of packages that I use all at the same time, and I can't seem to track down the cause ...
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Why is Latex hyphenating some words automatically, but others dont?
On this example, the word usando is not being hyphenated, but the word Comandos is. If I force a hyphen on the first word usan-do, it is hyphenated correctly:
\documentclass[10pt,openright,twoside,...
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`Undefined control sequence` error when trying to write the value of a \csname…\endcsname control-sequence to the log file
In reading the source-code of pgf's object-oriented programming module in <pgf/tikz install dir>/modules/pgfmoduleoo.code.tex, I wrote the following plain TeX manuscript to experiment with the ...
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How to save a box to a file so it can be viewed later for debugging purposes?
I'm trying to analyze complicated TeX code that I did not write. The code creates many boxes, some of which are nested inside others. How can I save a certain (nested) box to a file, so I can view it ...
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Why doesn't Tex have a proper debugger? [duplicate]
Why doesn't TeX have a debugger? And by 'debugger' I mean a dedicated application in which you can set breakpoints and watch the values of registers, macros, etc. as they change in real time, maybe ...
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How to make the LuaLaTex logfile more readable, or filter it?
I use Latexmk to compile lualatex to PDF.
The resulting .log file is very hard to read.
I already added the silent switches to the .latexmk configuration file
# make it less verbose
$...
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{cases} argument not running, rather says fraction has an extra '}'?
What is wrong with this piece of code in Latex?
$$\begin{displaystyle}
C =\begin{cases}
\frac{4}{3}, &(\text{for color singlet configuration}) \\
-\frac{1}{6}, &(\text{for color octet ...
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Does Lyx have the facility to compare two document and to search for for pieces of text or code within mathsmode
(1)Does Lyx have the facility using the find command to search for certain symbols or pieces of text within sections of maths-code,
(2)In addition where can one find the tracking changing facility
, ...
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Specific compilation Error “ Dimension too large!” [duplicate]
When I compile the following document, I get the error
! Dimension too large.
<to be read again>
\relax
l.22 ...le[arc=l,size=0.30 cm, font=\tiny](m',O,m)
?
When I ...
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Unexpected and probably wrong “Too deeply nested” error with De Gruyter template
I'm using the De Gruyter template for the PETS conference, here is a direct link (ZIP). I'm getting a "Too deeply nested" error, and relevant searches only led to "reasonable" reasons why I could get ...
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Overfull problem with an url
I am trying to compile a whole document (the thesis), but when compiling, the console returns:
Overfull \hbox (10.57799pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 40--43
\OT1/cmtt/m/n/12 informacion-[]para-[]...
