Questions tagged [options]
Options can be specified in order to influence the behavior of packages and classes, e.g. allowing for features or disabling others.
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Package keyval Error: letter undefined
I have no idea what's causing this, I have about 1800 lines of code, and no idea where the problem is. Could someone explain what the keyval package is, and what this error could possibly mean?
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Conditionally set bibliography title
I am writing a class and would like to offer the option of changing the bibliography title as a class option. If no title was given I would like to just use the default one. Unfortunately I can't seem ...
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Multiple options for Pseudonyms
I'm looking for something fairly similar to this problem, of defining macros to print pseudonyms for people, but I'm not sure how to modify it (or if it is actually the right approach for what I'm ...
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Problem with stored values, macro options, and interaction with other package
Apologies for the rather general title, while trying to sort out a very specific problem:
I'm trying to enhance the framework that Alan Munn provided here
to represent naturally occurring discourse (...
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How to detect whether the option citecounter was enabled on biblatex?
I think this is the definition of the citecounter option on the biblatex package:
\DeclareBibliographyOption[boolean]{citecounter}[true]{%
\ifcsdef{blx@opt@citecounter@#1}
{\csuse{blx@opt@...
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How to detect whether \PassOptionsToPackage was already called?
If I call:
\PassOptionsToPackage{backend=biber,style=numeric,backref=false}{biblatex}
% And later someone else call again
\PassOptionsToPackage{style=abnt,backend=biber}{biblatex}
What will happen?
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Commands vs keys/values for setting up a document: what an own document class should provide?
This question somehow extends the question "Package option vs setup command".
I'm currently writing a class dedicated to students reports for both academic projects and internships. This class ...
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Lyx: Choose option from .cls file
I would like to use the sigconf style from acmart.cls.
I have already downloaded the acmart.cls file into the latex folder, run texhash and copied a minimal .layout file:
#% Do not delete the line ...
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Incompatibility between kvoptions and babel
I'm using kvoptions in my document class and it's worked nicely so far, but after a major rewrite I started getting strange errors that I was able to trace back to the babel package.
MWE:
%% myclass....
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Query beamer document class option aspectratio in a .sty file
I am writing my own latex beamer style. I want to use different background graphics depending on the aspect ratio chosen in the documentclass in the main file, like
\documentclass[12pt, aspectratio=...
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help: looking for a generic (and elegant) array (variable) map syntax to keep stuff
My apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere, but if it was I couldn't find it.
I am the author of a template for academic thesis for my university, but I'm definitely not a TeX expert. In this ...
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The option header=false does not work to consider first row containing symbolic name in data text file with pgfplots
I want to do something simple. I have the following data in a text file called example.txt:
a 1.254
b 0.995
c 2.782
d 5.722
I want to plot all the data with a, b, c and on X axis but pgfplots ...
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xwatermark causing issues with \includegraphics options
I'm currently having issues using xwatermark and the clip and trim={} options of \includegraphics for graphics that are completely unrelated to the watermark produced by xwatermark. Here's a MWE that ...
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More Formats & Options in LyX
In the “File > Export in” there is a paragraph More Formats & Opnions. Show me please how to enter the option. There, where “Send exported file to command” for example, you can enter? Where in the ...
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How to set global options / parameters in Circuitikz?
I use Circuitikz quite often with modified sizing as styles as follows:
\begin{circuitikz}[line width=0.7pt, line join=round]
\draw (0,0)
...
to [/tikz/circuitikz/bipoles/length=22pt, L] (1,0)
\end{...
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Custom command with addressable arguments
I know about \newcommand[<arg_num>]{#1 ... #n} to define a simple macro with up to nine arguments. (More if you link multiple newcommands together)
I recently started to look at xparse for ...
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Why do I have green vertical bars in the left margin of TeXstudio?
I've come to using TeXstudio having written most of my chapters in WinEDT. I'm now adding more writing in the document. I'm using the MacOS version of TeXstudio, coming from using WinEDT in the ...
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Unused global option(s): [language=english]
This is a follow up question to Options in custom class. It seems that I still did not understand how global options work. Consider the following code:
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{...
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How to make a yes/no option to control the shown text, using beamer, latex [duplicate]
I am making template for presentation slides using beamer class.
I want to let the user choose if this file is confidential or not. If yes, then shown it is yes; if not, then show it is no.
The ...
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Can pgfkeys be used to create nested key hierarchies
I currently have the following following setup (but with many more keys), which works, but isn't as clean as I'd like it.
\pgfkeys {
/title/.is family, /title,
first/.estore in = \title@first,...
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Disabling changes and todonotes packages: Text is still being coloured
The problem arose after the solution of : Colouring text doen't work in newcommand definition
I am trying to define a new \note command based on todonotes and changes packages but I'm having ...
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New .bib-field fullauthor to be used instead of author
In an extremely long bibliography it can be quite annoying to have the same author with a somewhat different name in each entry, especially if the publications appear as a list under the name of the ...
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How(where) to change the default directory where WinEdt save new files?
How (where) to change the default directory where WinEdt save new files?
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The TikZ pipeline: A path's 'draw' option has no effect on a 'behind path' node
Still trying to figure out the TikZ pipeline (i.e. the sequence of low-level actions that a TikZ path is converted to as it is being "executed") by analysing the source code, specifically <tex ...
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Compiling thesis returns non-specific “Unused Global Option(s)” Error
I'm compiling my thesis, and the same error is constantly returned:
It's frustrating as in all the other forum posts I have found, the error has referred to a specific thing (such as: Unused global ...
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How to cause TikZ's 'sharp/rounded corners' options to apply immediately?
Consider the following LaTeX manuscript (the TikZ code is copied from the first example on p. 146 of the TikZ & PGF Manual for Version 3.0.1a):
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\...
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How can I auto-equalize the width of columns whose contents are similar?
Assume that we have a table and we want LaTeX to automatically determine its columns' width provided that column widths are equal. Such a problem can be solved by defining a new column type as follows:...
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Discussion on several options for the document
I have the boon and bane of the freedom on choosing between several options, sometimes just for the printed version of my generated document. As I already googled around, there are many opposed ...
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How to unset option to Verbatim environment
I am using the fancyvrb package to be able to have formatting (e.g., bold, color, etc.) in my verbatim environments.
This is easy enough to do by giving the commandchars option as seen in this MWE:
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Allow for leading space in use of pgfkeys
pgfkeys seems to have no problem with leading spaces. For instance, adapting the solution from How to create a command with key values?, I can define a key text= as follows:
\pgfkeys{ % <-- NOTE: ...
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How to set the options for the endfloat package, when you have to put several packages together in one usepackage{…}?
I tried something like this: Move tables to appendix
to move tables and figures to the appendix.
However, longtables remain before the appendix. I solved this, following the manual ftp://ftp.rrzn....
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Why are tags missing in alignment sublevels?
I would like to have integer tags all the way on the right hand side of each equation line.
I also need multiple alignment(horizontal) levels.
Attempt 01: Michelle Krummel's Lists tutorial
\begin{...
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csvsimple - import only certain columns
\begin{figure}
\csvautobooktabular[]{csvs/some-ttests.csv}
\end{figure}
This produces way too large a table (cut off on the left side), so I want to split it up into multiple tabulars, one for ...
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Including different sections of text based on different configuration
I'm writing a document in which will eventually be broken into different versions of different length. Most of the differences will just be which material is included in different versions. Is there ...
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Not inserting missing $ [duplicate]
Quite often, when making simple mistakes (like using underscore outside of math mode), LaTeX (or rather tex?) attempts to insert missing math mode delimiters.
e.g. in
\documentclass{standalone}
\...
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Declare bibliography option ending on biblatex
Greetings from the Swiss Alps,
I would like to submit the following problem:
My intention is to create a new bibliography option which I can toggle at wish while loading the package biblatex-swiss-...
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How to set options for specific packages in LyX? Or, what does \geometry{} mean?
There have been a few questions here on how to pass options to packages in LyX, especially those loaded automagically.
Lyx: How to add option to package automatically load
Can I change options of ...
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Declare option other than documentclass
I I have a usrdefn.tex file in which I defined some commends/environments used a lot, also there are two version of theorem environments based on the language (english/chinese). Then I want to pass an ...
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Multiple Environment Options
How does the tikzpicture environment support multiple options, e.g. \begin{tikzpicture}[red, thick] ... \end{tikzpicture}?
According to some LaTeX documentation, multiple options are not permissible ...
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Is it necessary to use nonstopmode in ConTeXt? [closed]
Is it necessary to use --nonstopmode in ConTeXt or using --once is enough ?
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TeXMaker - automatically show structure fully opened in PDF
When i use the "PDFLaTeX"-tool and click "show PDF", TeXMaker always shows me the structure where i only see the chapters. Is there a way of setting a preference to open all chapters, sections and ...
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Changing biblatex's sorting within the document
I am using multiple refsections in my document and I need to sort the respective bibliographies differently. E.g., let's say I want one refsection to be as
\usepackage[backend=biber,bibencoding=utf8,...
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\newcommand with options
My question is about declaring a "newcommand" with an option.
I have defined
\newcommand{\bforall}[2]{\forall #1\, (#2)}
so that $\bforall{x}{x \in A}$ writes $\forall x (x \in A)$.
I would like ...
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TexCount: Error using envir in an external options file
I am struggling with adding parsing rules to TexCount in an external options file.
I am running TexCount as follows:
texcount -sub -html -stat -inc -v3 -opt=tcrules master.tex > count.html
The ...
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Global option to turn on/off section numbering [duplicate]
Suppose I want to change from numbering my \sections, \subsections, and so on to not numbering them.
As far as I know, the only way is to manually change (e.g.) \section{Foo} to \section*{Foo} and so ...
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gnuplottex not recognizing options
I want to use gnuplottex to draw graphs in a LaTeX document.
The problem is, gnuplottex doesn't accept any options.
A mwe would be like
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,titlepage,twoside,openright,toc=...
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Label in \frame options, disable allowframebreaks in beamer
The \includeonlyframe{...} does not work, when allowframebreaks is used together with label in \frame options. When removing label, it works fine. See MWE:
\documentclass{beamer}
\includeonlyframes{...
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How to \DeclareOption with a variable? [duplicate]
I know \DeclareOption{option name}{option content} but how is this used to pass a variable number into the package? for example, \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} passes 1in to the margin option of ...
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feynmp-auto and --output-directory=build not possible?
I really like the automisation by feynmp-auto, but I also want to keep my working directory clean, especially in git repos.
So I always use --output-directory=build when compiling documents. However ...
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Remember an class option with newcommand and CurrentOption
I'm trying to make a class but it needs to remember its arguments
I'm using the file
\documentclass[x]{test}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
With the class
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{...
