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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Help finding strange space
I have faked my way through writing a Swedish language file (see bottom) for fmtcount. It has served me well, but now I have started noticing strange spaces appearing before numbers. I am a bit out of ...
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How to control expansion order to define variables from a prefix and a command?
The following is a command that does basic arithmetic with nine variables.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xfp}
\newcommand\functesta[9]{
\edef\myvara{#1}
\edef\myvarb{#2}
\edef\...
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Why is tcolorbox preventing noindentafter from working properly?
I just discovered that the tcolorbox package prevents
noindentafter from doing its job:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{noindentafter}
\NoIndentAfterEnv{verbatim}
\usepackage{...
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Error when using LaTeX in Visual Studio Code: You don't have an extension for debugging LaTeX. Should we find a LaTeX extension in the Marketplace?
When I try to run a tex file in VS Code, I get the error 'You don't have an extension for debugging LaTeX. Should we find a LaTeX extension in the Marketplace?' and cannot run the file. But when I try ...
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Undefined control sequence but everything is defined
Minimal not working example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb,varwidth,xstring,environ}
\newsavebox{\tempbox} %Allows to use fbox in newenvironment
\makeatletter
\...
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Piping shell command output to another command
I'm trying to write a command that wraps \href with a QR code to the given URL. For this I need to generate a temp file and reuse it later, so I wrote a \mktemp command that wraps the mktemp utility:
%...
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Can I show the raw generated text from a command in my document?
I am trying to debug my code and I keep running into the same problem so I would like to see what the command that causes the problem is giving to the compiler.
I have looked for this and I can't seem ...
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Error: Argument of � has an extra }. marked in /newpage [duplicate]
I was given with the following template in LaTex and I got directly the error 'Argument of � has an extra }.' in line 43 (where the first /newpage is).
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ucs}
\...
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Latex Template Gets Stuck when generating PDF
I am working on my thesis and need to convert my paper to a different format. I'm new to using latex, only having started using it for this project, and am struggling to get the base version of this ...
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Paragraph ended before align* was complete - can't find the typo
This is the code in question
\end{align*}
These correspond to translations $z \mapsto z + \lambda$
\begin{align*}
M \text{ is elliptic } &\iff M \text{ has exactly 2 complex conjugate fixed ...
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Undefined control sequence errors in overleaf
I am getting " Undefined control sequence. " errors in 3-4 parts of my latex code when using overleaf. I have loaded amsmath in my preamble. I am unable to understand what is the cause or ...
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Main language not reselected correctly if previous section ends with other language and section title starts with other language
I have an issue with XeLaTeX with a document with two languages, Hebrew and English. I use a different font for Hebrew (here DejaVu Sans, but any font will do).
The problem is that when (1) a section ...
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ifcase eats up letters
I created a command that switches between GCD and LCM. However it has a side effect of erasing everything before the second visible character after the command. How can I fix this bug?
\documentclass{...
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Problem with the alignment in systeme package
When I type this:
\usepackage{systeme}
\begin{document}
\systeme[xyzt]{x-iy+3t=0,ix-z-(2-i)t=0,(1+i)x+(2-i)y+(3i-5)t=0,-ix+(1+i)y+z-it=0}
\end{document}
I'm ending up with this:
Which, as you see, ...
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Problem when extracting string from argument to call another function
In my program below, I defined a function \checklist that takes to optional arguments and one compulsory argument. The function works as expected.
Then, I would like to define another function \...
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The lua-visual-debug package documentation
The documentation is kind of lacking.
Could anyone explain the meaning of blue solid/dotted lines and red solid lines between words here?
How are they different from the dotted versions?
Looking ...
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Is it bad practice to use tabs to indicate indentation in LaTeX? [closed]
Should I make it a habit to use spaces instead of tabs when indenting? Casual use of tabs didn't cause problems but so far I experienced a few niche cases where using tabs leads to unexpected behavior....
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Duplicated glyphs (except last one) in clipboard when copying ligatures with Fira Code font (lualatex)
I tried to make Fira Code with minted copy-friendly, but it just doesn't work, and I don't know why. Other mono fonts like Ubuntu Mono and all regular non-mono fonts (that I have tried) are copying ...
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Incompatibility between `acmart` and `standalone`
I am trying to use the standalone class together with the acmart class (I am using v1.86).
I can use it fine with 1 tikzpicture but it outputs an extraneous glyph with 2 tikzpictures and it throws an ...
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Latex debugger? [duplicate]
Are there any debugging capabilities in latex or any gui editors? That is, is there a way I can view the value of variables, commands, memory etc during compiling and at the exact moment compilation ...
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Enumerate exhibits unexpected behavior when renamed
Enumerate exhibits unexpected behavior when renamed
In the example below I renamed enumerate to enum for brevity.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\newcommand{\enum}{\enumerate}
\title{...
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Debugging "Illegal unit of measure" evidently caused by hyperref
While compiling a large and complex document, I have suddenly started receiving this error:
) (./articles/mental-connections.tex
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
<to be read again>
...
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Latex code for table not working
I'm trying this table -
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\title{test}
\author{Ved}
\date{September 2022}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{...
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Strange extra space when \cref something defined with create-theorem with empty names
Consider the following example, where I copied some code from this answer.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\newskip\nonfill@parfillskip
\AtBeginDocument{%
\setlength{\...
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Problems in my Tex files when compiling tikzcircuit
I have been trying to compile my file that contains a tikzcircuit for few hours now (>6hours), on overleaf. The file compiles with no problem whatsoever when the circuitikz is commented. However, ...
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Figure and its environment only appears when added in certain chapters or sections
This is the weirdest behavior I have ever had.
The figure file is inside of a folder called "fig", which is set with \graphicspath{{./fig/}}. My document consists of a main .tex document ...
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begin/end form makes textfield inputs unfillable
I noticed a weird behavior on Latex using Overleaf. The below code produces this result, according to overleaf output:
But if I download and open the pdf using acrobat reader I see that some ...
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cleveref conflicts with polyglossia when required in a class
When I run the following MWE (with xelatex):
% File myclass.cls
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{myclass}
\LoadClass[12pt]{article}
\RequirePackage{polyglossia}
\RequirePackage{cleveref}
% ...
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concmath-OTF and eulervm lead to problems in math mode
I'm trying to use the recently-released concmath-otf package in a combination with eulervm, instead of the concrete package. My goal was to replace concrete roman with the more modern opentype version,...
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Lyx with \graphicspath BAD, identical LaTeX with \graphicspath GOOD. Possible bug?
Consider the following MWE: I have
a LyX file /home/user/latex_files/main.lyx, where I have used \graphicspath{{./img/}} to set the (relative) path for all my images that I want to include in my file
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Latex Equals Symbols Greyed Out... Bug?
Every equals (=) symbol looks like a minus (-) because the lower half is greyed out. Does anyone know why this happens? Very confusing to look at and have no idea why it's doing this?
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Debug LaTeX in Visual Studio Code (with LaTeX-Workshop)
Visual Studio Code seems to be very useful with LaTeX-Workshop plugin. In comparison to TeXStudio, TeXMaker, etc. it is able to autoformat code. It is very useful when I search for an unmatched ...
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LuaLaTeX 64 bit does not finish compilation
Setup: Windows 11, all updates, texlive 2021, all updates, win64 from CTAN.
The files that were previously compiling flawlessly with LuaLaTeX stopped compiling now (I cannot check when exactly, as I ...
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Equivalent to Source Maps or Providing Source Location Hints to Compiler
I'm using Pandoc and LuaLaTeX and have organized my project into several dozen LaTeX embedded Markdown documents into a final output document. Effectively, each chapter is a document and combined with ...
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Show definition of \NewDocumentEnvironment
xparse provides \GetDocumentEnvironmentArgSpec to examine the argument specification of a defined environment (and similarly for commands and showing on the terminal).
However, I would like to be able ...
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How to debug and fix error: Use of \label@optarg doesn't match its definition
I've been having a very bad time lately with the errors produced by this main.tex MWE:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{ctable}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{hyperref}...
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How to exit from a latexmk build?
In the following example, I don't know how to exit from the build process:
? ! Interruption.
^Cl.1917347403
? ! Interruption.
^Cl.1931472264
? x
! Interruption.
^Cl....
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Error `Display math should end with $$. $$$\backslash` [Bibliography]
While adding references in my thesis paper, I copied the following bibtex from google scholar:
@article{bhattacharya2017fuzzy,
title={Fuzzy independent topological spaces generated by fuzzy $$$\...
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Error `Missing \endcsname inserted` (Bibliography, bibtex)
While adding references in my thesis paper, I copied the following BibTex from google scholar:
@article{aygunoǧlu2009introduction,
title={Introduction to fuzzy soft groups},
author={Ayg{\"...
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Automatically bisect latex file for debugging
If I have hard to interpret error messages in a latex file, I comment out half of the file, compile, see if it works or not and so on and find the problematic part by successive bisections.
Is there ...
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Print macros call stack [duplicate]
Can one print call stack of latex macros?
I want to know from where my macro is called.
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Strange ```tableofcontents```error in XeTeX
I am currently typesetting a book with XeTeX and there's a strange error in overleaf:
\alloc@ ...else \errmessage {No room for a new #2}
\fi \fi
l.41 ...
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Conflict between microtype and syntax packages
While using the syntax package together with microtype, I stumbled on a strange error:
Missing font identifier.<to be read again>\chardef <TEST> ::= `
Missing number, treated as zero.<...
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Why does my pdf image cause a bug only after printing the document?
So I have a page that looks normal on screen.
It looks like this on the screen;
Near the top of that page a figure is displayed. This figure is a pdf, created in inkscape.
In the .tex the figure ...
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Why does this Tikz-picture lead into an infinite loop? [closed]
Somehow the following Latex-Code does not finish compiling in TexStudio, at least on my PC. (It leads to an infinite building-process, I hope it is clear what I mean.) Could you please explain me what ...
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Overleaf, where to find missing { or output.gls?
I am working on a document in LaTex with overleaf when I noticed this error:
<to be read again>
\let
l.21 ...entrycounter[]{page}\glsnumberformat{18}}}
...
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Tikz: Showing all node names (for debugging)?
Is there an easy way to show the name of all nodes, say, in a scope? Without having to assign explicit styles to the nodes? (Context: complex figure, broken down in lots of subcommands, not feasible ...
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Texstudio failure to view TikZ output compiled by XeLaTeX
Texsudio successfully shows the result of the following MWE compiled by pdfLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.
\documentclass[tikz, border = 3pt]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[draw] (...
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Cannot make the columns evenly distributed. What's the reason?
Dear experienced friends,
I met a strange bug when I tried to draw a table. As shown in the picture, I wish I can make all the columns 4,5,6,1,2,3 evenly distributed. However, the width of 6 is always ...
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afterpage package and verse environment cause troubleshooting
I use both afterpage package and verse environment in my document.
So, when a verse environment comes just after an \afterpage command rendering, an unwanted linebreak occurs after the first verse.
As ...
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