Questions tagged [packages]
{packages} is about packages in general, e.g. about choosing, installing or using packages. For questions about writing packages, choose {package-writing} instead. If your question concerns a specific package, choose its name as tag. For {document-classes} or {templates} use the respective tag.
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How to customize the heading of the table of content page
I am writing in the book class, and I want to underline the "CONTENTS" heading on the table of content page. However, as soon as I attempted to customize it in the following way -
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Remove extra space in abbreviated journal title with jabbrv?
I would like to abbreviate journal titles in my bibliography. One method employs the jabbrv package (https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/66821/293248), in particular with files from this Overleaf template ...
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Relative Path Issue when using nested usepackage
I have directory which contains different package files for different subjects. They are inter-dependent of each other and their dependence is a tree structure. For example, in math macros directory ...
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Who are the people behind the CTAN packages? [duplicate]
I am sorry for my naive question but the more I get acquaint with LaTeX packages, the more I wonder who are those people behind the packages. Some of them are very complex, with exhaustive 1000-pages ...
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! LaTeX Error: File `import.sty' not found
I'm importing the following packages in my LaTeX document
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{import}
\usepackage{listings}
\...
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How can I install a font from TexLive 2021 in 2022?
I am using Pandoc to convert from Markdown to LaTeX and then to PDF. I am using the Gentium font family. TeX is installed using TeXLive 2022, and I have installed the gentium-tug package package. ...
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Trying to install package for MikTex from CTAN but cannot find tpm file (dirtytalk)
I recently transferred a LaTex script I wrote in Overleaf to my PC to start working with MikTex instead.
In the process of trying to compile the file for the first time, there were several packages I ...
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How to display keyboard key combinations using LaTeX?
I have this document and I would like to have a similar way to represent keys in my document. What I mean is to have them as small rectangles just like in the picture below.
Is there a LaTeX package ...
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using latex package from github
Im new to latex, and i want to use a certain pacakage that I found on github:
https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV
for writing my resume.
I don't understand how should i install? where do i put the ...
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Problems with Lyx and bigints
I found online that a good package to write big integrals is bigints. Despite installing it, using TexLive Shell, Lyx doesn't show any changes in the commands (but if I press "latex info" it ...
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list of figures content goes beyond the page width latex
I have a problem with latex list of figures content going beyond the page content width. the sample is shown below figure, please let me know any solution.
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Want to install the soul.sty file in Texlive 2022
I tried using tlmgr but it does not work. Maybe because (for some reason I do not know) it is the 2021 version of tlmgr (at least that is what the GUI says). I have already downloaded soul.sty from ...
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Latex Exam Package: change the mark position for long questions for \pointstorightmargin
I am working on an exam papers and all is find except the position of the marks to long questions more than two lines.
I use the \pointstorightmarin to place the marks in certain position. It is ok ...
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LaTeX Error: File `shuffle.sty' not found
I tried to install the shuffle package - https://www.ctan.org/pkg/shuffle
After installation I cannot compile .tex file using the package. This is the error I get:
! LaTeX Error: File `shuffle.sty' ...
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Size Option in MIT Poker Package?
I'm using Poker MIT Package, and I already know that there is the command
\setkeys{poker}{option=value[,option=value]}
for setting up some options. In the package documentation, a "size" ...
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Unable to use physics2 package (Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS)
I installed LaTeX/texlive yesterday (say, day X) using apt. The exact command I've use was:
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
but now (day X+1) I'm having troubles when I try to use the physics2 ...
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Package fontspec Error: The font "CharisSIL-R" cannot be found
I have a package, suppose mydummypackage . When I compile the package I get the following errors:
Line 10: ! Package fontspec Error: The font "CharisSIL-R" cannot be found.
Line 12: ! ...
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error ! Package xkeyval Error: `A4' undefined in families `Gm'. while trying to compile a template of the JIS journal in latex
(UPDATE)
I am trying to compile the template of a journal. I'm new to Latex, this is my first project, I'm using TexMaker to compile and run my LaTex files, already downloaded MikTex to install ...
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problem with my texmaker.exe and miktex packages? doesn't compile
I started using latex back in 2016. Since then, I had to format my pc 2 times, so i had to redownload miktex and a compiler (I was using texmaker). BUT I can't useW it anymore, like there arent no ...
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Typing derivations in a specific style
How do I type such a derivation, with boxes around assumption, and vertical lines that "continue" those boxes from the left?
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Useful and unnecessary packages in the preamble [closed]
Whenever I find something new in XeLaTeX, I always add new packages in the preamble. As a result, it has become very heavy and slow.
Are there any packages in my preamble that are unnecessary, because ...
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How to find missing externals for a new package
I am currently trying to install packages glossaries and glossaries-extra. Everything is fine until I try to compile (using pdflatex) a .tex document. Each time the compiler requests that I add a new ...
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Show authors in acl template
I am working on an ACL paper using the acl package: \usepackage[review]{acl}. Doing this, the paper shows 'Anonymous ACL submission' in the author's block. My track is single-blinded so I should show ...
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LaTeX package for keeping track of content in paper preliminaries
In scientific writing, there is often a section called "preliminaries" in papers providing essential definitions that are used later in the paper but only very briefly explained because ...
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Can't download packages from MikTex
I'm using MikTex 2.9 version (32 bit) on windows 7, but it couldn't connect to sever even when I'm connected.
I'm tired of downloading package one by one from CTAN. I hope there is a solution.
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Package installation [duplicate]
Please help me install a package. I've tried and tried, but I don't know what the problem is.
I wanted to install the xcolor package, so I downloaded it from CTAN, unzipped it and opened the ins file ...
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error| TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=10000]
When trying to use a specific package (ling-macros) I get this error.
Never had it before. It wont compile most of the time.
Rarely it compiles,but then my macro (\lam{P}{s,t} in the example) wont ...
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Is there a package for calculating and displaying reading time per chapter?
I would like to display the reading time for a given chapter either in the header, or in the footnotes of a given chapter.
Is there a package for this?
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Error when attempting to change (set) package repository (new install)
Thanks to all for making this a great site. This is my first post ever because most questions are already answered here! Although I've used Latex for years, I still consider my technical competency to ...
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Minted: Using command for used language with inputminted
I have multiple different commands setup using \inputminted with different options but all are using the same language. Previously, i could feed all commands with a TeX primitive like so:
\def \...
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Will TeXLive Utility update a package if I manually updated it?
The mismath package v2.1 caused a conflict with \DeclarePairedDelimiter. The problem is resolved with mismath v2.2.
(See: mismath.sty bug?)
The new version of mismath has been posted to CTAN but ...
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mmacell shows a quotation mark instead of Input[1]:
Please help me with the following question. I would like to add Mathematica code to my latex file. I tried with the package \usepackage{mmacells} and followed the instruction as in the answer here. ...
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Using \ifdefined for a definition inside \DeclareOption
I'm checking for a command declared inside \DeclareOption but \ifdefined doesn't seem to work as expected. Here's a MWE:
% example23.sty
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{example23}[2023/01/01 ...
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mismath.sty bug?
With the mismath.sty package loaded, the following source causes error:
./mismath_paired_delim_bug.tex:14: Missing { inserted.
<to be read again>
\futurelet
l.14 $\eqclass{0}...
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How can I create a small "database" of objects in my LaTeX project and use different subsets of their properties at different places
Suppose you want to maintain a set of objects in a central place and render them differently (``views'') at various places in your LaTeX document, similar to glossaries but more generic.
For example, ...
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Latex's packages, how to import a particular command/macro instead of using all?
In many programming languages, e.g. Python, to use a function we should explicitly declare the function name and the package containing that function. However, in Latex when we use \usepackage{<...
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How to draw the flags of various countries in LaTeX [duplicate]
English:
For example say I like Korea!
can you make it?
Korean:
예를 들어 나는 한국이 좋다!
당신은 그것을 만들 수 있습니까?
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Install themes and packages [duplicate]
I couldn't find a good explanation(other than this How to install a new beamer theme on linux (texlive and texmaker) on how to save custom themes in a way, that you can use it from everywhere, for ...
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What is this font, please? [duplicate]
I found this note on the internet, does anyone know what the font is in it (and how to use it in latex), thanks
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Metapost in LaTeX (gmp package) - not working
I try to use metapost code inside LaTeX, and I only receive MP Icon insted of dediecated picture:
example of code which I want to produce:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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Array and latex- tools packages issues = File ended while scanning use of \@newenv. \RequirePackage
I am trying to use the MDPI journal latex template, however, I keep on having this error "File ended while scanning use of @newenv. \RequirePackage" regarding the package "array". ...
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Are there any useful packages for modyfing the way the chapter looks?
I have fairly minimal 'bits-and-pieces' knowledge of LaTeX; I've only used it to write theses and technical documents. I want to use it to write a book, too, and in Word I designed the following ...
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Table of contents with hyperlinks by using hyperref: ok in overleaf, ko in texmaker
I tried to use the package hyperref to insert hyperlinks in my ToC; it works in overleaf, but it doesn't work in Texmaker (I got a white page with the title index).
How can I fix it in Texmaker?
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Removing the colon from the \ref command with \label in latex
I'm writing my thesis using overleaf editor and I have some tables. When I \ref them I had colon in the default name. How can I remove this colons?
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Is there a package or a macro that allows to position the indices lower?
The position of the indices is in my opinion located by default too high with LaTeX.
I found on the French site how to position them lower, but it remains heavy to write.
\documentclass[11pt]{article} ...
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Nicematrix package conflicts with babel
I have the following code, inspired by this answer.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{NiceTabular}{cccc}[hvlines]
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Each new paragraph has it first letter or word in large size automatically
im using latex mainly for not taking and thought that if i could make each first word of each new paragraph in LARGE size would help me read through the notes later
so i'm thinking of creating new ...
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Alegreya SC in LaTeX
Does anyone know how to use the font Alegreya SC in LaTeX?
I am aware of the package Alegreya, but it does not seem to provide the right capitalization. Any ideas?
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Why do I get the Package caption Warning?
While compiling my document, I get the following warning:
Package caption Warning: Unknown document class (or package), standard defaults will be used. See the caption package documentation for ...
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Undefined (Opening, Encl, Subject) control sequence in template of scrartcl document
Hi I am using this overleaf template for a presentation letter based on the Classic thesis template by André Miede:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/carta-de-apresentacao-template/gpwkqmqwncsc
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