Questions tagged [external-files]
{external-files} is about external files included in a document, e.g., pictures via \includegraphics, or parts of a document via \input or \include. For questions about files automatically generated by LaTeX (.aux, .log, .out, .toc, ...) use {auxiliary-files}.
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Extract some sections from a external tex?
I have a large source tex, structured by sections, and I need to extract a lot of them to a new file. The goal is doing the same as the function \input, but only with some selected sections, not the ...
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How to add a link to the local audio file in pdf via latex?
For example,
if I use \url{https://tex.stackexchange.com/}, it can open the website when I click it.
But if I use \url{D:/文件/1.m4a}, it don't have a reaction when I click it on the PDF and the Chinese ...
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Latex: Add pdf page without split the text content
I want to add a pdf page to my current latex pdf file, but i got a problem. When i use \includepdf, then the position where i put this command will auto add a pagebreak, like the image below.
This is ...
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How can I input external files by using a list of names?
My code is the following:
\documentclass[ngerman,german,14pt,twoside,openany]{scrbook}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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fill values of a Push button from a file
In a beamer, I want to have a button which will gave a random value of a list when clicked upon.
Here's an example of a start
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{ocgx2}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{...
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How to include same library/bibtex citations in externally linked document with different numbering schemes?
I have a table that was moved from a main document and into a supporting information document, which is linked by externaldocument
I want the citation, for example, Su2018, to be included in both the ...
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Check if a file has been modified since last compile in Overleaf
I have an if-statement that I call in my .tex document in Overleaf
\IfFileExists{mypdf.pdf}
{\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth}{mypdf.pdf}}
{\includestandalone[width=1\...
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How to read from external file and compare to given string [duplicate]
I am trying to extract text from an external file (someexternalfile.txt) and compare it with a given string (sometext) but it is saying that the external text and the given string are not the same (...
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How to include minted file with "[ ]" in filename
I use bash to generate list of files and make sections
git ls-files *js |
while read i; do
name=${i//\/\\/ }
name=${name//_/\\_}
echo "\newpage" &...
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Can I use an image located on the web specifically in Overleaf?
This question isn't a duplicate of Can I use an image located on the web in a LaTeX document? but a more specific version of it for Overleaf, since none of the answers given there work on that E.g. ...
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Control file details from master
Good morning
I have many latex file added in a master with the \input command.
I want to choose some details (for example a color for some table cells) from the master in order to write it only once ...
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How \externaldocument into xr-hyper works?
I am using xr-hyper for referencing to an external document on my pc and I elaborated the following code.
\documentclass[10pt]{report}
\usepackage{xr-hyper}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{...
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Consistent numbering of linguex-examples across chapters
I am using a template for my thesis, which imports separate .tex files for each chapter into the main.tex.
Using linguex, my examples start to renumber from (1) each chapter and I cannot seem to ...
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Problems with currfiledir, pgfplotsstable and compilation from a section file
My project
File tree
- section
- mysection.tex
- tools
- mystandalone_data.csv
- mystandalone.tex
main.tex
MWE
main.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[mode=buildmissing]{standalone}
\...
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Export all minted code fragments to files
I would like to export all the code fragments of a lectures book I wrote in a ordered tree structure as <chapter>/<section>/<some name or number>.<ext>. the code is in variuous ...
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Compile LaTeX code in verbatim/lstlisting
For a presentation (in beamer) with the topic How to use LaTeX for your thesis at my university, I wanted to add lots of LaTeX code snippets and compile them. At the moment, I have a separate .tex ...
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graphicspath and OneDrive
I am trying to move my files to OneDrive and have had problem using graphicspath. I have used it successfully before but when I use it to specify a folder on OneDrive, I cannot get it to work. The ...
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Shorttitles after included external file
I have included an external pdf document with literature references in my TeX document. Afterwards, I have to cite one of the cited books again later in my normal TeX document. My problem: I work with ...
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Using \input for command arguments
I'm making an rpg system. I want to separate the contents of the spell from the formatting of the spell to, for example, be able to format the spells differently for character sheets vs a dedicated ...
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\Include working on mac, but not on windows
I am working on a big LaTeX document (thesis), that's broken down into multiple .tex files, and I thus have only a thesismain.tex file to compile that uses \include.
On a MacBook, compilation goes ...
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Cite a reference with the possibility of opening an internal pdf file at the right page number
I want to cite a reference in my document with the possibility of opening this reference, which is stored as a pdf file in my directory, on the right page.
It should look something like this:
[1, ...
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How to find the directory for my LaTeX document
I am very new to LaTeX and not very good with computers to begin with.
I am using TeXworks. I want to add an image to my document, but I do not know where to place the image file in order for the ...
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Using expl3 to load geometry parameters from a file
expl3 has defeated me again so I'm relying on the kindness of strangers again.
I think the underlying problem is more about splitting input rather than the file reading.
Context:
I want to load the ...
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Automatic distribution of data onto groupplots with violinplots
I am rather new to latex and pgfplots, but have to plot a rather complicated plot. I need a set of (120+) violinplots and it would be great if I could provide the data from a file (in any format, ...
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Include a file path (.bib) containing spaces & special characters
I have this path "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Sync/160329_3DPP.bib". I cannot change that since the .bib file is synced through iCloud and updated frequently. I read that ...
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Advice for file structure
I made a customized document class called note and since I added a lot of additional features (e.g., fonts, tikz) so I feel that my file structure needs some modifications/improvements and I'd like ...
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Get verbatim file content into exif data trought hyperref
The goal
I have the following external main.bib file containing:
@book{fauve2023TheSuperBook,
title = {The Super Book},
author = {Fauve},
publisher = {MadPublisher},
year = {3 June 2023}
}
I ...
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On TEXINPUTS, input@path, graphicspath, l_file_search_path_seq etc
There appears to be multiple methods to customize the locations where (La)TeX search for files, as well as packages like import etc.
What are they/how to use them?
Why were they introduced? Why are ...
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Cross-referencing to a static set of labels
I need to cross reference from the file new.tex to the file master.tex.
I have read the question Cross-referencing between different files and tried the xr package.
It works, but the way it handles ...
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Writing a for loop that iterates through filenames in a text file
I would like to create beamer slides where each slide contains an image. I have a file that contains a list of all the image locations.
This is my code:
\documentclass{beamer}
% Import necessary ...
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Creating a clickable link to a local file only in source code
The following situation:
I use a program for my data analysis. The program creates a project file. From this file I export the graphics I'm including as figures in the TeX code.
Is there a way to ...
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Externalizing arbitrary stuff
I find that working with tikzexteralize can become quite complicated. I am therefore wondering if tikzexternalize is really the best approach. I guess I am thinking something like:
Can we externalize ...
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Import a picture in LaTeX? [duplicate]
I just started writing in LaTeX.
I want to import a picture but failing.
The picture is .png format.
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\input function doesn't work: trying to include contents of external text file
I want to include the contents of an external text file into my LaTeX document. I've tried \input{./message}, but all I get is an error containing the very last line of the text file:
(./message.txt
! ...
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"! Undefined control sequence." when I use "\def"
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{extbook}
\usepackage{xspace}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newcommand\foo[1]{%
\def\tempfoo{#1}%
#1%
}
\newcommand\separation[1]{%
[\the\numexpr #1\relax ]%...
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How do I persuade (La)TeX(3) to read a file character by character?
I'm doing the Advent of Code (2022) in LaTeX3 (no, really I am). Each challenge involves some input, which for Day 6 consists of a single line which is very long (4096 characters). This line needs ...
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Struggling to Implement FileSystem Based Includes
I'm trying to follow along with this answer to automagically include files based on the filesystem hierarchy.
My file structure looks like:
article.tex
sections/
|-- 00-introductions.tex
|-- 10-data....
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Read and process file content line by line with expl3
In a multi-file project organized as:
mainfile.tex
subfile1/subfile1.tex
subfile2/subfile2.tex
...
in order to make every subfile compilable on its own and make possible of referencing between ...
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Why \read adds extra space to the end of content? [duplicate]
I have file foo.txt with a single byte inside: x. Here is my code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\newread\foo
\immediate\openin\foo=foo.txt
\read\foo to \content
\immediate\closein\foo
\...
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Is it possible to get the value of --output-directory programmatically from LaTeX code? [duplicate]
I'm trying to save a file first, using \VerbatimOut. Then, I'm using this file in \ShellEscape, where I need to know its absolute path name. Everything works well, until --output-directory is changed ...
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Is it possible to \typeout the content of a file?
I'm trying to do something like this (\read is a pseudo command):
\typeout{The content of the file a.tex is: \read{a.tex}}
Is it at all possible?
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Accurately display pixel image from data
I am working in image de-noising and therefore want to display an image as accurately as possible (e.g. before and after de-noising).
I have my grayscale image represented in a file with 256^2 = 65536 ...
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Reduce file size of imported graphics and their fonts
I am looking to reduce the file size of the final version of my thesis as much as possible without real hassle and any loss of quality. At the moment it is around 7 MB. I read much about it (...
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How to check if different file path refer to the same file
A file may be accessed by different paths. For example,
- subpath/myfile.tex
- ./subpath/myfile.tex
- ../current path/subpath/myfile.tex,
- /d/.../current path/subpath/myfile.tex
They refer to ...
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How to obtain absolute path of a file
Many languages provide functions to obtain the absolute path of a file. I wonder if Tex/LaTex has also such macros.
In the following example, given a file name, test if this file really exists. Then, ...
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Wrong file location by \IfFileExists
The following code is the content of my main.tex.
The file a.tex is in the subdirectory tmp under the directory where main.tex is, that is to say: ./main.tex and ./tmp/a.tex.
The problem of my code is:...
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How to test if files have been input before by \input
I wonder if there are methods to test if a file(or files) has been input by \input before to avoid multiple inputting which may cause LaTeX Error: Command ... already defined.
Example
\...
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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:
-2022
-07
-01
-note.tex
-file1.pdf
-differentfilename....
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BibLaTeX - addbibresource not working
I am using a self-hosted instance of Overleaf/ShareLaTeX, and I cannot get BibLaTeX to work. My preamble looks like this:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{...
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Including a file with absolute path
I have a python script which compiles a tex file on my D drive. I would like to include a data file into my tex file. This data file is located on the following directory on Windows:
\\filesrv\xxx-sc\...
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