Questions tagged [filecontents]
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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?
...
2
votes
1answer
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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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votes
2answers
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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 ...
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\addbibresource doesn't work with file contents [duplicate]
I want to cite using the \filecontents command for the books.
But it doesn't recognize the books. It only shows the keyword in bold.
It says citation "elch" is undefined
\documentclass[12pt]{...
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A standard UN*X tool to pack a bunch of files in filecontents environment?
I was looking for something like:
filecontents *.sty | cat - main.tex > newmain.tex
It should be easy to write a script that iterating over its arguments, would wrap each in a filecontents ...
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2answers
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Why can't filecontents work in a macro
I am trying to output some text in a file. I use filecontents and it works nicely. However, if I put the filecontents environment inside a macro, it only ouputs the comments but not the text when the ...
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2answers
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Applying and doing math on two functions read from a file using pgf
I'm trying to read two functions of x from a file, and then get the result of f(8) / g(8) using pgfmathparse.
Here is a minimal (not) working example:
\begin{filecontents}{data.dat}
f(x) g(x)
x ...
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1answer
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Help LaTeX with Windows not flushing file cache in time when using filecontents.sty
Casually, I run into trouble while using the filecontents package: LaTeX complains that the data file created by the filecontents environment is not writeable:
LaTeX Warning: Overwriting file `./data....
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1answer
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Generate Tikz tree from filecontents
Is there an easy way to create tree nodes from data in a file? I need the tree to have nodes in the format 1,2,3,4 rather than 1,2,4,8 etc. I can't create the nodes in a loop as there would be two ...
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Concatenating files created with filecontents
I am creating a large number of data files "on the fly" using the filecontents package.
I need to be able to concatenate these files in various permutations
For example in the MWE below, I would ...
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1answer
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filecontents can't update my bibliography database
It seems that when I modify the content of filecontents, it will not update the corresponding files auotmatically by compiling. Here is an simplified example:
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage{...
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Deleted Main.bib using filecontents while trying to enter citation involving mathematical treatment [closed]
Ok. I feel pretty stupid but I was trying to find a solution to using mathematics in bibliography. I ended up using the following example in this forum that used filecontents.
Help with math symbols ...
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Enumerate pattern: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, … , etc
This is a follow-up question to answers sometimes in test, sometimes in answer file.
I went with what the best answer suggested and surrounded each question and answer by \begin{filecontents}{some ...
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2answers
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filecontents replaces tabs with spaces
filecontents package replaces tabs with spaces. Is there any solution to preserve tabs in the generated file without changing the following code?
\begin{filecontents*}{textWithTabs.txt}
Aa Bb ...
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1answer
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Make a “standalone” version of multiple files: all document in one .tex file
Disclaimer: this question is not related to the standalone package.
When writing an article, I split the content between several files, to ease the versionning notably.
At the time of writing, most ...
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1answer
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\end{filecontents} and \input{} on the same line
This code generates output that shows contents of excerpt1.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{document}
Pragraph is starting.
\begin{filecontents}{excerpt1.tex}
Part that ...
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0answers
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Biber, TeX Live 2013, and OS X 10.9 [duplicate]
This question is related to the question Tufte-Style Asides.
I downloaded caesar_example.tex from Github sources and complied it from TeXShop. The output file caesar_example.pdf does not contain the ...
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Inline Bibliography [duplicate]
I know how to use a .bib file to add BibTex and use that in the main document. Is there a way I can include the bib-file in my latex document and not use an external bib-file?
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Using filecontents inside of xparse
I'm trying to reproduce this using xparse:
\begin{filecontents}{sections/autogen/somefile.tex} % Line to auto-produce
\begin{myotherenvironment}
Do lots of stuff
\end{myotherenvironment}
...
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Filecontents and newenvironment issue
I need to write some inlined code on an external file, then load it with listings. I would like to define a new environment, but if I do, filecontents does not save the first line of code (see MWE):
\...
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1answer
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filecontents* cannot write to file in Windows
With the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents,hyperref,listings}
\begin{filecontents*}{script.bat}
@echo off
echo "Hello, World!"
pause
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{...
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Can filecontents write an external file in a parent directory?
Reading Are there any disadvantages of TeX being Turing complete? got me thinking about the potential of .tex files for harbouring malicious code.
The filecontents package is used to write external ...
