Questions tagged [magic-comment]
Comments of the form % !TEX ... that can be used as directives in many tex editors
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Disable spell checking through magic comments
I use TeXstudio 2.11.2, and I want to know if there is a way to disable spell checking through magic comments. Something like this:
% !TeX spellcheck = disable
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When and why should I use % !Mode:: “TeX:UTF-8” directive?
I often see the following lines are included at the beginning of the tex files:
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !Mode:: "TeX:UTF-8"
Directives started with % !TEX are ...
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Texmaker magic comment
Is there any similar magic comment in Texmaker like those in Texstudio?
Example:% !TeX program = xelatex
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How to change the color of a magic comment
In TeXStudio you can have magic comments: % !TeX. I want to change their foreground color, but can't find that option in the Syntax Highlighting tab in the configuration options.
How can I change ...
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Tell TeXstudio to compile a particular document with LuaLaTeX
It is not hard to change the default compilation engine in TeXstudio from PDFLaTeX to LuaLaTeX (or any other engine for that matter). But if I only want to use LuaLaTeX for a single document, it gets ...
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Documentation of “%! TeX” codes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When and why should I use %!TEX TS-program and %!TEX encoding?
I want to create a list of "%! TeX" codes to a documentation file for my template and want it to be as complete, ...
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When and why should I use % !TEX TS-program and % !TEX encoding?
Occasionally, I see other people's documents starting with two lines like that:
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
It's clear to me that the first line declares the engine ...
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Bypass % !TEX TS-program =
Some LaTeX editors (TeXShop and TeXworks, for instance) allow a special comment line to define a default engine to use with a current document, like this :
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
It's really ...
