Questions tagged [pdftex]
pdfTeX is an extension of TeX which is capable of directly generating PDF output. Use this tag if the used engine – pdftex/pdflatex – is significant to your question.
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How to avoid hyphenations in important paragraphs like Funding Statements in a double-column format document (IEEE papers)?
For a new paper I am writing to IEEE journals (double-column formats), many important paragraphs suffer from the default hyphenation in LaTeX. Especially, I don't like the hyphenations given in the ...
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I am typsetting my thesis in late overleaf and I need help [closed]
I am typesetting my thesis in latex overleaf.
I am struggling with one issue.
I want to highlight my section with blue rectangular background with white color for heading as can be seen in picture.
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Universally usable macro definitions with literal UTF-8 content
Since UTF-8 is the default input encoding, it should be straigthforward to use literal Unicode characters
in macro arguments,e.g.
\newcommand*{\regards}{Grüße}
This fails, if the macro is defined in ...
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error with \MakeUppercase (arg 1) after update to ubuntu 23.10
I'm facing an issue with a document that, in the previous version of Ubuntu (23.04), compiled without any errors. However, after updating to version 23.10, it's throwing a series of errors related to !...
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How to check what I'm using in my environment
I use VS code with the Latex workshop on Mac and it works perfectly fine when writing a paper. But I don't understand "pdflatex", "mactex", "texlive" or something other ...
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Automatically converting XeLaTeX document to work with pdflatex
I've got a Literate Agda document, which contains a large number of unicode characters. It builds nicely with XeLaTeX and life is good.
The problem is that arxiv only supports pdflatex, and I'd like ...
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Latex acronym \acl(*) hanging compilation with pdflatex
While writing a Latex document using the acronym package for my glossary I encountered some problems with the \acl & \acl* commands (also \acf) & compilation. On a clean tree without any .aux ...
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Alternative to Latexdiff
I need to compare two versions of the latex file of my research papers. I ran latexdiff command as follows:
latexdiff old_file.tex new_file.tex > diff_file.tex
When I compile the diff_file.tex it ...
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Editing my CV from a template
I am creating a CV in latex using a template and now I want some help redesigning my CV, I paste the code here:
Firstly I want the word "Curriculum Vitae" in bold and larger text size maybe ...
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Why do these ways to stretch an item of a list for the purpose of avoiding a horizontal overfull produce different results, and which way is proper™?
Consider the file mwe1.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\newcommand{\myStretch}{1.02em}%%% try out .99em to see the difference in the first item.
\hyphenation{longlong}
\...
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Trying to use Latex in Inkspace with CircuiTikz/Tikz [closed]
I downloaded MacTeX to my Mac so I could use it with inkspace latex.But when I tried to save my latex code it gives this error: "
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023)
(...
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Inkscape TexText ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble
I am trying to run this code in inkscape with textext:
\documentclass[preview]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\textbf{a.}
\begin{...
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Latex ignore subheaders
Is there a way to get latex to ignore subsection headers below a certain level without commenting them out?
When I am drafting and editing documents, I like to put subsection headings down to the ...
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How to perfectly simulate typewriter style?
I want to simulate typewriter style typesetted math articles. There are a few major requirements:
All characters in all environments be tt style and of the same size and width (including super and ...
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Why doesn't my beamer function work well?
I have already tried {ctexbeamer}/{beamer}+{ctex} , {amssymb}.
The function works well in my ctexart environment. Why won't it work in beamer?
My code:
% 中文ppt
\documentclass[10.5pt,UTF8]{beamer}
\...
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Does anyone know how to reference other subifles in LaTex?
So far what I have is this
\PassOptionsToPackage{unicode}{hyperref}
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\item\href{\%202021-05-26-vqas-challenges\%20\%\%7D}{VQAs -- ...
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Question regarding microtype package
I am using the inofficial thesis template from my university.
However, when I compile I get several warnings in the manner of
Package microtype Warning: tracking amount list `output.tex/85' will ...
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.eps files not working with pdfLaTeX
As the title suggests, I'm trying to use .eps files for my figures but pdfLaTeX can't seem to find the converted PDFs.
Package pdftex.def: File `Figures/fragment 1ab-eps-converted-to.pdf' not found: ...
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Why does my font seem so thin? [duplicate]
My text in my PDF export just doesn't look right. This image is the best example. At 150% zoom on my PDF export, the left bracket does not look quite right. It's oddly thin.
My preamble is as follows
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how to include a title frame that does not go with the theme?
I am working on a presentation on beamer and i used the theme Madrid but i am obliged to use the title page ppt template given by my institution, how do i have the first page as the template and the ...
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Pdf preview not working with Lyx 2.3.7 on Windows 11
I have installed Lyx 2.3.7 and SumatraPdf and followed the instructions provided in LyX 2.3 - How can I successfully set up the forward and inverse search?
My Texlive version is 2023 and works without ...
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own \maketitle with multiple authors
I would like to create a latex template and define "\makefile" myself. Everything works until I define several authors with "\and". How can I change this?
\renewcommand{\maketitle}{...
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environment with pdfcomment
pdfcomment with environment is not working and it's working fine with only paragraph text.
My MWE is :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm,xcolor}
\usepackage[subject={Top1},author={Daisy Duck},...
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LaTeX Error: Unknown option `some' for package `background'
I have a LaTeX file. It builds fine on Linux and Windows. It also has built on a Mac.
Minimum reproducible example:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[pages=some]{background}
\backgroundsetup{...
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How do I add various indicators to different links in my document?
Using Overleaf, I have a project that I'm working on. I have the following links in the file:
Hyperlinks to websites
Links to a list of abbreviations at the start of the document using
\usepackage[...
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Titlepage package shows \author as "presented by" - how to change that to "author"?
if I use the following code to create a titlepage for example. The author given as \author{} is shown in the compiled PDF under the headline "presented by". How can I change that to "...
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How to remove the white spaces from the beginning of Abstract title?
I am using \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{article} for my document. I want to remove the small space just before the "Abstract." title. How to remove that small space? I want to strat ...
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How to format a table with many Mathematical or text entries in a double-column document?
I am working on a table with many mathematical or text entries in a double-column document. I can generate some output but the look is not good. I need your help to kindly improve the formatting of ...
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Inserting R code chunks in Rmarkdown making an error
My little demo code borrows from here is given as follows (test.rmd):
---
documentclass: article
output:
pdf_document:
number_sections: yes
keep_tex: no
geometry: "left = 2.5cm, right = ...
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Tex Live does not show section title
Here is a very simple latex example I copied online.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}% For the equation* environment ...
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How can I use morewrites and memoize?
Consider the following MNWE, which I'm compiling with pdfTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{morewrites}
\usepackage{memoize}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikz}
\draw (0,0) -| (1,1)...
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TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping levels=255] latex-studio
I'm currently writing an important paper. I'm trying out LaTeX for the first Time and I keep encountering this issue seemingly random:
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping levels=255]
Sometimes, if ...
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invalid PDF page link targets generated with pageref in seminar environment [duplicate]
In a document that looks like this:
\AtBeginDocument[seminar]{%
\pdfhorigin=1sp
\pdfvorigin=1sp
\paperwidth=297truemm
\paperheight=210truemm
}
\documentclass[article]{seminar}
\usepackage[...
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"Missing '$' inserted" error for \left[
I have the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\title{4\textsuperscript{th} Article}
\date{2023-11-03}
\author{Tejas Garhewal}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\...
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The dimension of the page is correct
I need to create a figure in latex, which I want to extract as a PNG.
My latex code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{svg}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage[papersize={1000px,...
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Cancel header macro command
I made two original commands:
\newcommand{\headremark}[1]{%
\newpage
\lhead{#1}
}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\chapter}{
\if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi
\global\@topnum\z@
\...
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Critical Package xeCJK Error: The xeCJK package requires XeTeX to function
Trying to render Japanese Kanji:
\documentclass[a4paper,svgnames,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont[BoldFont=STHeiti,ItalicFont=...
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True type font with pdftex
I want to use true type font (ttf) with pdftex. This has been discussed for latin fonts and it seems that's the problem is solved. My problem is with arabic font, for example Amiri. I learned that i ...
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Biblatex: a question about the bibliography style for my thesis, specific bibliography format
I am currently working on my PhD thesis and have problems in bibliography style. I want to have a style as:
Geerlings, P., F. De Proft and W. Langenaeker, “Conceptual Density Functional Theory”,
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How to \immediate\write multiple lines produced using \newline and \StrSubstitute
Why this does not work when the lines are produced using \newline (instead of ^^J) and \StrSubstitute as follows? Thanks
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}
\begin{document}
\def\mystrings{\...
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Space vs "\ " in TeX
On page 5 of the book The TeXbook, there is
If your keyboard does not contain a left-quote symbol, you can type \lq, followed by a space if the next character is a letter, or followed by a \ if the ...
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"({\tt \\/}) to make the" will cause an error of an extra "}" in TeX
On the page 27 of the book TeX for the Impatient, there is
({\tt \\/}) to make the
When I input these into the tex file and then run with TeX, there is an error:
! Argument of \\ has an extra }.
<...
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How to retrieve coordinates of the bounding boxes from rendered latex that may contain math expressions?
I'm wondering if there is a path to retrieve bounding boxes of the rendered glyphs (text, math symbols, etc) from latex. pdftotext supports partially of that but won't cover non-text glyphs like \frac{...
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Building pfdlatex from source with TeX Live
I am trying to build pdflatex as part of TeX Live from source. Due to a variety of reasons that are not important, I need to build all these tools from scratch.
I have been able to build TeX Live from ...
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How to include, and colour, an SVG image?
I would like to use some icons that are not available in Font Awesome 5. The template I'm using uses \color to apply a colour to a font awesome icon, and it would be nice if the same command could be ...
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How to change colour of graphic in a generic way?
I'm working with a LaTeX template that uses Font Awesome 5 to render icons. Unfortunately, not all brand icons I would like exist in the Font Awesome set.
I have this PNG file:
And I am rendering it ...
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How to read a file line by regular expression and extract and evaluate the number contained in the matching line?
Can this be generalized to use some kind of regular expression, not just index, and then extract and evaluate the numbers at the beginning or end of the selected line, using some modifiable arbitrary ...
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How to crop half the page of an existing PDF?
I have a PDF document that was improperly scanned, so that the content (images) only occupies the top half of the portrait page.
I'd like to crop all the pages, to remove the empty bottom half, and ...
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Export-import a value produced in one tex file and use it in another tex file efficiently
Based on here, the following should work but does not. Why? All I want to do is to copy one or two values from one .tex file to another: copy 12 from A.tex to B.tex. Is there a simple way to get this ...
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Bug: color with pdflatex in RTL mode
I have this problem in right to left colored text.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LAE]{fontenc}
\usepackage[arabic]{babel}
\begin{document}
$...
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