Questions tagged [filecontents]
This tag should be used for questions about the filecontents or filecontents* environment. If you only want to refer to the content of other files, use the external-files tag instead.
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Why This Code Eliminating Index Commas Works for \jobname.mst and Not for \jobname.ist
This post is an addendum to How to Universally Remove the Comma from Each Index Entry.
In the link, I was looking for a universal way to remove the comma in each index entry.
Werner advised to include ...
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Difference Between Filecontents and Filecontents* and When to Use One Instead of the Other
I have recently been experimenting with different ways to replace the comma in the Index with a different symbol. The following code replaces the said comma with a blank space.
\begin{filecontents}{\...
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Inserting Vertical Space Before Index Heading Items with Filecontents
I recently discovered a seemingly simple way to insert vertical space immediately before new index headings using filecontents---
Consider the code
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.mst}
item_0 "\n\\...
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Suppress filecontents warning if the file is defined before documentclass
I would like to define filecontents blocks before documentclass in my LaTeX document. Is there any way to suppress warning Writing or overwriting file ./filename?
My MWE is as follows:
\begin{...
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Put the content of a binary file within filecontents environment [duplicate]
I would like to include the content of a binary file within filecontents. Is there any way to do so?
My MWE is as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}{file.txt}
CPYA 4,3268 195 ...
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Filecontents is not recognized
I don't know how, but it seems that this file does not want to be compiled. Why? This is my mwe:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{default}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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filecontents cannot write my text
i want to save a text to a file using the filecontents package. Here is the source code:
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{test.lst}
Hello World!
\end{filecontents}
A file "test.lst" is ...
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Filecontents inside an environment
I'm trying to write in some external files using the filecontents environment of LaTeX. For this purpose, I created an environment which writes the contents and numbers the file with a counter.
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Metadata with more than one language
I want to use more than one language in the creation of my Metadata. I was looking at the pdfx package documentation. And as I understood it, that would be possible. Based on the information in ...
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How can the filecontents environment be used with a build directory?
Having updated an old template for a paper I wanted also to clean up the way the document gets built by having a dedicated build directory.
Using TexStudio it works (mostly) by changing:
pdflatex.exe -...
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Looping over table elements with pgfplots (beamer)?
I am working in beamer with pgfplotstable. I want to produce the following:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots,pgfplotstable,filecontents}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\...
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How can I use makefile to run typeset document with bibliorgaphy?
Recently I was introduced to typeset LaTeX documents with makefile, and I liked that idea. However, when come to the case where I have bibliography, things becomes complicated. First of all, I ...
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macros/commands inside a filecontents* environment does not expand
i would like to seek your help on the following.
Consider the following MWE1:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{document}
Hi
\begin{filecontents*}{dummy.tex}
some text and ...
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Set new filecontents-environment to overwrite globally
I recently updated my LaTeX-Distribution and found out afterwards that the filecontents and ltxtable combination was broken. Only one table was loaded multiple times in my document. Afterwards I found ...
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create command to write with filecontents
What's the most efficient way to do this?
\begin{filecontents*}{./weekly/week07.tex}
% Week 7
\section{}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{./weekly/week08.tex}
% Week 8
\section{}
\end{...
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Attendance list
In my last question, Reading a student class list, I asked how to read a list of students and create a class list. Everything works ok as @egreg had a wonderful answer. I am now attempting to create a ...
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Reading a student class list
Whenever I create a class list of my students, I use the format in MWE below. The problem I have is that I normally have to copy and paste a student name at a time and ensure the table is correct ...
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How to extend filecontents to append and count lines?
Here are two questions about filecontents environment:
is it possible to add content to a preexisting file or, at a minimum, to keep open the external file to append the content of several ...
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How to fix incompatibilities between etex package and new filecontents? [duplicate]
Since filecontents is usable into document (LaTeX2e <2019-10-01> patch level 3), the etex package breaks the filecontents new \write...
With TeXLive 2018, the following code is ok:
\documentclass{...
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\begin{filecontents}{tabelle.tex} will not overwrite existing file
The old environment (before 10/2019)
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{tabelle.tex}
... some text ...
\end{filecontents}`
will overwrite an existing file tabelle.tex.
After my ...
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filecontentsdef: How to save a file data in a macro without creating a physical file in the working directory?
Following the description of filecontentsdefmacro environment in the manual of filecontentsdef, I understood that it can be used to save some data in a macro without the need to create a physical file ...
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filecontents: This package is obsolete
Why does the following warning show up?
Package filecontents Warning: This package is obsolete. Disabling it and
(filecontents) passing control to the filecontents environment
(...
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latexmk unhappy with file that only contains filecontents block
Consider the file
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{stuff.txt}
Some stuff
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
latexmk is unhappy with this ...
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Merge filecontents and call data from only one file
i have 2 filecontent with different structure: test1.tex and test2.tex.
But i want to call data from only one file (ex:test.tex)
How can i build only one file test.tex that includes data of 2 file ...
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I can't change contentsname [duplicate]
Ths is my whole code
\documentclass[12pt,leqno, style=sailor,
display=slides,
paper=smartboard,
orient=landscape]{article}
% This works well.
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\...
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Append unique characters read from filecontents to a string
I have a list of 2-character strings that is read from table, e.g.
\begin{filecontents*}{attributetools.dat}
Attribute
SL
SK
MC
SL
AA
PT
SK
UP
MC
\end{filecontents*}
I want to create a string that ...
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Creating a unique list from two tables read from filecontents
I have two tables.. one contains attributes with values e.g.
Name percentage
Atr1 80
Atr2 20
Atr3 50
and the other one contains tools for that attribute
Attribute Tool
Atr1 SK
Atr1 SL
...
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Select page number of print command of DTLforeach, filecontent?
My last post: filecontents: select rows of group to display
And @Werner wrote brilliant solution for me with command : "print"
His MWE code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\...
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What is the difference between storing table data by filecontents and pgfplotstableread?
In this MWE, the table data loaded from poles.dat is successfully parsed as shown in the left plot.
However, storing the same data inside a macro using \pgfplotstableread doesn't result in the same ...
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Pgfplots - Turn off Box when plotting a File
By default, pgfplots will draw a box around my plot. I am plotting a .dat-File with \draw table [...] {data.dat} and i want to turn that box off and just leave the x- and y-lines instead.
In the ...
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filecontents non repeating execution of commands
As requested by Merging multiple different tables records. // Splitting table records in tables.
I there is a command that I created (a varaint I found here).
\newcounter{magicrownumbers}
\...
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Not using optional argument makes environment break
I'm defining a wrapper environment for filecontents so that I can modify its behaviour.
Everything works fine for most of the test cases. For example, I define an environment testenv which takes one ...
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Remove warning "Tab has been converted to Blank Space."
I get this warning "Tab has been converted to Blank Space." how can I remove it, and why do I get it?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Gjør det mulig å ...
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Set PDF/A properties using filecontents package
I would like to provide the follwing class:
\ProvidesClass{pdfatest}[2018/04/12 V0.1 PDF/A Test]
\LoadClass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\newcommand{\cnumber}[1]{\def\@cnumber{#1}}
\newcommand{\cauthor}[1]...
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filecontents environment cannot change temporary files
\begin{filecontents}{exampleclass.cls}
\ProvidesClass{exampleclass}
\DeclareOption{testoption}{\PassOptionsToClass{a5paper}{article}}
\ProcessOptions\relax
\LoadClass{article}
\end{...
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How can I create a subfolder with filecontents?
As shown in this MWE
\RequirePackage{snapshot}
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{filecontents,biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{bib/\jobname.bib}
@misc{anything,
author={A. Anyone}}
\end{...
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Missing \endgroup error with ifs nested in foreach and pgf calculations
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots, pgfplotstable}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{multirow}
\...
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Use filecontents environment to write a binary file
In this answer of mine, I was trying to show how to embed an audio file into the pdf with the multimedia package. The resulting MWE does not stand on its own because it requires an example audio file.
...
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Overwriting file warning
Is it possible to suppress the warning generated by:
\begin{filecontents*}
Every time it outputs the warning: Overwriting file 'xxxx.xxx'.
Maybe to delete it before it creates a new one or something ...
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pgfplotstabel - create table with time column
I try to create a table with a column for date and time from a file data.txt. I can create a diagram but when I type \pgfplotstabletypeset for a table following error occurs:
! Package pgfplots ...
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Can the pdfx package use the document title and author?
The pdfx package documentation recommends to use a file \jobname.xmpdata to supply PDF metadata. This can be handled by using the filecontents environment. However, that makes macros useless, making ...
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Help with longtable renders extra field
So I have a problem because my longtable seems always render one extra field in my table.
Depending on where I put my \ it renders after it goes through the csv or before.
My code is:
\documentclass{...
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foreach LaTeX input file, output a PDF file
I have a bunch of tables saved in separate files and folders which I have compiled with a master file, commenting the name of each file in the master file one by one and tediously renaming the ...
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Identifying files that contain graphics
I have following code in my article for identifying files that contain graphics.
\begin{filecontents*}{example.eps}
How should I identify graphic files, if I have more than one of such files?
...
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lstlisting : how to remove unwanted header?
I have a listing that I use to display some code.
I use filecontents to specify the content and lstinputlisting to display it.
The resulting pdf looks ok (used PDFLaTex), but above my code I get:
%% ...
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Longtable with file contents not compiling
I am trying get a simple table like this:
I am using longtable as I have data in a .dat files.
Can you help me successfully generate the table using the importation of data from a file?
Here is ...
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Tikz plot divide by minimun
I want to normalize my plot by the y minimal value. So I want to divide y by y max. I have already done before in Gnuplot with a Perl sentence :
ymin1 = `perl -e 'print sort { $a<=>$b } <&...
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Using \input inside environment fails
I'm trying to use the filecontents package in combination with listings as suggested in How to define macro that only makes argument substitution? in order to produce a side-by-side view of LaTeX code ...
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longtable and filecontents inside a newenvironment
I'm trying to create a new environment for longtable enclosed by a filecontents environment. But I'm stuck and don't know exactly how to solve my problem.
\documentclass[a4paper,parskip]{scrartcl}
\...
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Does morewrites not support filecontents, and can I write body of environment using TeX primatives?
Is there an equivalent way to write the body of my environment to a file without filecontents using TeX primatives?
morewrites or filecontents limitation
I suspect a limitation that these packages ...
