Questions tagged [filesystem-access]
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Where is the spelling exception list that TeXShop uses?
Does someone know where this file is on a Mac? I would like to access this file in order to make a copy of it, just in case TeXShop looses it...
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LuaLaTeX: How to correctly resolve absolute path with \directlua on Windows
I need to resolve absolute path to fonts:
\setmainjfont[
Path = \currfileabsdir,
UprightFont = fonts/HGS_Mincho/HGRMB.ttc,
BoldFont = fonts/HGS_Mincho/HGRME.ttc
]{HGS ...
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make tex glossaries files accessible for all documents across system
I created some rather big glossaries files with symbols, acronyms, ...
Glossary_Acronyms.tex
Glossary_Glossary.tex
Glossary_Symbols.tex
for a programming project with multiple tex documents as their ...
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Different file opened by \openin (was: between 2017 and 2018)
Short version:
It seems that some trivial behavior of file opening (\openin) changed between TeX Live 2017 and 2018 differs between environment. Only Overleaf one behaves differently. I did not see ...
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Include standalone files in subdirectories which read other files
I want to use package standalone together with PGFPlots and TikZ to generate figures.
In particular, I want figures to be generated only if missing, using buildmissing package option for standalone ...
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File name not handled correctly in /foreach loop
For some reason when I try to specify a file name for \includegraphics in a loop, either using \foreach or using \clist, I get a file not found error. The error displays a valid path for the file, and ...
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LaTeX Fonts with fontspec-package
Today i figured out how to use system-installed-fonts with the fontspec-package and LuaLaTeX. But i can't figure out how to use fonts, that are installed in my texmf-tree!
The fontspec-Manual says (...
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Write to a file outside of the current folder
Is it possible with TeX to write somewhere else than in the current folder?
The following does not work:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\newwrite\tempfile
\openout\tempfile=/Users/colas/...
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Save data from all my .tex files to a global file
I want to keep track of some info of my .tex files.
More precisely, I give an id (an integer) to my math exercises and would like to keep somewhere the maximal id already given (and maybe other info)....
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Shared MikTex install on windows server 2012 to generate PDF from IIS
I'm trying to install a shared MikTex on a Windows server 2012, so my web application (Perl CGI / IIS 8) can generate PDF files on the fly through pdflatex, and send them to the user.
I managed to ...
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Export code samples AND display verbatim
I'd like to write a LaTeX document with code samples in a verbatim environment. I'd also like to export those code samples to named files so that they can be built and run. This allows me to easily ...
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morewrites: Failure to Compile, “Bad Number”
I have a project for which I have needed to resort to the morewrites package due to getting a No room for new \write. Up until a few months ago (which was when I last worked on it), this worked quite ...
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Where does TeXworks hide temporary files?
I am running TeXWorks under Windows 10.
If I've made some changes to a .tex file, but have not yet saved those changes, then there surely must be a temporary file someplace where TeXworks keeps the ...
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Proper way of passing parametric filenames to \openin using xstring
I would like to open a file programmatically within latex depending on its filename. For example, if the filenames begin with '0' I know the path is in some folder, if it starts with '1' in another ...
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Read a file and store its contents in a variable
I am trying to implement single sourcing such that same document can be conditionally typeset for number of purposes. This is what I would like to do.
\IfFileExists{../DecMaker.txt}{
var x = ...
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Compiling issues with minted: I can't write on file `thesis.pyg' [closed]
In my thesis I am using minted
for listings and lots of short inline references.
I'm running TeXLive on Windows with python 3.6.
I am also using the cache, kpsewhich and outputdir options:
\...
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includepdf and file with comma
How can I use filenames with commas with pdfpages?
The grffile package didn't help, the \detokenize command didn't help either
Also the \string command doesn't work. For ex.
\includepdf{\string"C:/...
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How to delete a file in latex code?
How to delete a file in latex code with normal complie tex. I create temporary files and when i finish using them I want to delete them. It not delete by bash or editor.
Thankyou!
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! I can't find file `tikzlibraryshape.code.tex'
I am using LaTeX and do not know how to fix this error
! I can't find file `tikzlibraryshape.code.tex'.
<argument> ...nput tikzlibrary\pgf@temp .code.tex
\catcode `\@ =\csname tikz...
l.5 \...
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List all files in a folder [duplicate]
Does anybody know how I can read all the files in a specific folder and use the filenames in my LaTeX document?
I want to automatically create a seating chart with the fotos in a folder.
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tlmgr installs files outside /usr/local during update --all in TL2016
texlive 2016 was installed locally in /usr/local/texlive/2016/ on a gentoo Linux system by the install-tl -gui installer.
An update with tlmgr returns:
/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux# ./...
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How do I copy the contents of a file with a given prefix to another file in restricted write18 enabled mode?
I know the prefix of a file - and I also know that there exists exactly 1 file with that prefix.
I am running pdftex in restricted write18 enabled mode.
I want to copy the contents of that file to a ...
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Are open \newwriter files closed when LaTeX exits prematurely with errors?
I am writing a package that needs to write at various times to an external file. For that I am using the \newwrite\mywriter and \immediate\openout\mywriter method. I know to use \closeout when done ...
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What are the naming rules for \newwrites in TeX? Can \newwrites be created dynamically?
I can create a \newwrite like this:
\newwrite\filehandle
\immediate\openout\filehandle=\jobname-semantically_useful_suffix.txt
\immediate\closeout\filehandle
Let's say I have languages stored in a ...
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How to obtain absolute path of Latex file, regadless if it standalone or combined
I need to find the absolute path of a latex file, as it sits on file system. Seems like a simple task, but it turns out to be harder than I thought.
Here is a MWE. I have this tree
/media/data/latex/...
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How can I remove trailing \par when reading a file and writing the output to the log?
I put together a macro to write the contents of an external file to the log output. Unfortunately, I always read out the trailing \par that LaTeX adds when reading files. How do I test for this and ...
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Find files in subdirectories to use with \input
Is there a way to have TeX find all files ending on .tex in subdirectories of a certain directory to be used as \input?
In my document I would like to include a large number of files from a directory-...
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Read a text file by delimiter not by line break
I would like to populate a table, which I created in my LaTeX document, using iterating over cells of a text file.
In order to read the text file I use this code.
\newread\data
\openin\data = data
\...
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What's Happening With My Path After Upgrade to El Capitan?
I've tried everything I could find (within good reason) regarding how I should proceed in making my TeX files compile again and nothing works. After hunting it down in the computer, I have found that ...
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How avoid “\T1\ss ” as output from \immediate\write and get ß?
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
...
\newwrite\outfile
\immediate\openout\outfile=\jobname.txt
% aßbc is a replacement for a long german text-block, ...
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LuaLaTeX : write latex “commands” to file
I made a randomly chosen quiz machine using LuaLaTeX and beamer for audience part that produce a pdf containning one frame per question, one slide per second to show the count down: it make a pdf with ...
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File keeps reverting to previous version
To prevent all of my files from having a lot of \usepackage{...}'s and such in the top of the document, I've made my own .sty file.
I've placed the file in the /Program Files (x86)/Texmaker/...
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Install LaTeX on Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) [closed]
How do I install MacTex or another LaTeX distribution?
Even after installation, LaTeX commands like latex, pdftex or lualatex are not found, and /usr/texbin/ doesn't exist.
Even worse, commands ...
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Slow compilation without sudo [closed]
With any *.tex file, even with almost empty template, tex, latex, pdflatex commands takes ages to compile it. strace shows excessive amount of stat calls to all the files in my home directory, which ...
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\graphicpath and FAT system [duplicate]
Well, for some reason that I will try to find out later, my TeX Live under Linux doesn't work anymore and I had to go through windows emulated system.
The file I work with include a \graphicspath ...
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SASweave and Sweave.sty
I recently installed SASweave on a linux machine (RHEL 6 to be exact) for a group of developers, but they currently must copy a file called SasWeave.sty to their current project directory in order for ...
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Compiling tex file using pdflatex and cmd - strange behavior [duplicate]
I'm have a really strange problem here. I have a tex file which I compile to a pdf file using the pdflatex.exe which comes with MikTeX. The Problem is now that it seems a problem when the tex-file ...
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Can LaTeX automatically search directories and \include discovered files?
I have a master document that has a lot of entries like the following:
\include{entries/20141212-some-article/entry}
\include{entries/20141215-another-article/entry}
\include{entries/20141225-...
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How to deal with/escape whitespace in file path for bibtex?
I am passing a file path to bibtex via the command
\bibliography{/Users/MyName/Dropbox/Bibliography Both/bibo}
However, with that whitespace in place (that one's silly just for demo purposes), ...
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How to 'robustly' use file contents in command arguments?
I have the following code which sets up a XeLaTeX document (to be run with --enable-write18) and defines two commands, \showme and \prRaise:
\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage{...
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Copying one file to another, while “expanding” some variables.
The use case is that I have a template LaTeX file, which I would like to be copied several times while replacing variables in it to some other variables.
Here is an example of how such a template ...
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Read number from file
I have a file called _runs.ini. Depending on its content, the document is compiled differently. I tried to read the content and executed a \ifthenelse-command without success.
Here's my MWE:
\...
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Is it possible to compile hidden files?
(This question may make sense only in Linux.)
I have the following simple file called .main.tex. Note that it is a "hidden" file because of its name.
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{document}
...
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Referencing BibTeX file on network drive (UNC)
Hello fellow typesetters.
I've messed with bibliographies before, creating a bibliography file for every folder where there were .tex files that needed them. Recently though, I ventured to create a ...
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Warning about writing .cls files in texpad [closed]
I'm using texpad to typeset my documents. Everytime texpad compiles a document, a popup warning about denied writing permissions on the .cls file appears.
Since I'm new to LaTeX, I do not know how ...
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Command to flush log file
For the tikzDevice, I want to communicate with a LaTeX process by sending input (generated LaTeX code) to its stdin and parsing output that is written using \immediate\write. In some cases I need also ...
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copy file using \write18 that works on both Windows and Unix
I would like to make an exact copy of a file during a TeX run. It is important that the copy be exact, since I am also comparing files and taking action depending on whether they have exactly the same ...
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Patched version of pdftex does not see what kpsewhich sees
I have TeX Live version 2013.30973-7 running on ArchLinux. I want to use a patched version of pdftex to create valid PDF/A-1b documents.
I have an issue using the patched version after compilation. ...
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Read strings from file that contains the special character #
I need to read some values from data files as given in the sample code.
The problem arises when the files contain # character.
Then I get " ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \@xs@call " ...
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Is there a ConTeXt command to print the path of the file in which it is evoked?
I would like to put a URL-link in the output PDF of a ConTeXt file. It should point to the directory in which the ConTeXt file and its output PDF reside.
Currently, I am using a shell script in my ...
