Questions tagged [preview]
The main purpose of the {preview} package is the extraction of selected elements from a LaTeX source, like formulas or graphics, into separate pages of a DVI file.
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LyX preview environment doesn't work since I've updated lyx
Ever since I updated LyX to 2.4 from 2.3.7 I've had these problems:
whenever I open an older file (which was created before LyX 2.4) I get the following pop-up, and I don't know how to stop it from ...
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problems with LyX and TeXlive shell after updating to LyX 2.4
Ever since I updated LyX I've had 3 problems:
whenever I open an older file (which was created before LyX 2.4) I get the following pop-up, and I don't know how to stop it from happening, those files ...
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in lyx: preview of ert environment inside a table cell has weird bounds compared to the compiled output
In using the latest version of LyX (2.3.7) when I insert an ERT environment inside a preview, and all of that inside a table cell the output on the lyx file takes a huge part of the page length (I ...
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standalone & beamer, preview and crop
Following up on Using beamer tools in tikz, without creating slides:
The combination of standalone and beamer via preview option would be great if it did work, but even this simple example (from ...
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Is there a way to open multiple files under different tabs in the same window in texshop?
In TexShop everytime, I open a new file, it opens in a new window. A similar question has been asked before, but the solution is not there. I have attached a snapshot of TexStudio to illustrate the ...
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Stop preview-latex from overwriting file
Is there a way to prevent preview-latex (on emacs through AucTex) from overwriting the main pdf when I preview the whole document with C-c C-p C-d?
Edit:
So, for example, if I use C-c C-p C-d, the ...
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Circuitikz - Partway modifiers behave differently in Emacs Preview mode
This simplified version of my source code produces different results when simply run through LaTeX and when viewed using Emacs/Auctex Preview mode. My question is how to get around this problem with ...
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Using Latex-preview in Emacs with siunitx
Is there any way to get preview.el to display graphics for units expressed using the macros of siunitx? I have succeeded in getting equations and tikz drawings displayed in preview-latex, convincing ...
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Preview latex size not changing
I have found that the equation preview sizes with preview-latex don't work, despite changing preview-scale-function with the following, for example:
(custom-set-variables '(preview-scale-function 2.0))...
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LyX preview of child document in main document not working
This is a LyX specific question. I would like to work with a main document and insert different parts (e.g. chapters) into the main document as child documents. One can do this in LyX using
Insert >...
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Inserting linebreak between subfigures with active preview package
I would like to create subfigures with multiple rows with preview mode active. Positioning subfigures sidy by side works just fine:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{...
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how does photomath implement an instant latex preview? [closed]
how does photomath expert implement an instant latex preview? is there an app/software that does the same? i tried a lot of latex editors and they all need to be manually recompiled and much slower.
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Preview package error
I'm running into an error using the preview package. The output below is from SageMath.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\...
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mdframed creates small white lines around the content, how do I get rid of them?
I use mdframed to create a black background in a preview environment. Since I could not figure out how to color the preview border black as well, I set it to 0 and included a black line around the ...
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My legacy PSTricks code is not compilable anymore
The following code worked several years ago but it does not now. I lost my conscious and I might be in a generation gap. I attempted to compile with either lualatex or latex->dvips->ps2pdf ...
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Interesting behavior of preview
If you compile this code (note that \begin{document} is commented):
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
%\begin{document}
\...
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Skim not opening or updating on build with Sublime Text 4 and LaTeXTools on Mac
I am building a pdf from ST4 with LaTeXTools. The build is fine. ST4's console's shows this after the build:
Welcome to thread Thread-11 Running "latexmk -cd -f -pdf
-interaction=nonstopmode -...
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TexShop preview document-surround colour
I would like to change the colour of the TexShop preview window background surrounding a preview document, rather than behind document pages (see note).
I would like to change it from the default grey ...
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TeXWork not typesetting
I am new to TeXworks. I have a tex file and when I open it it shows fine but when I click on the Green arrow nothing happens and the Window > Go To Preview is greyed out. What am I doing wrong? As ...
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VSCode - LaTeX preview not working
When I try to preview any LaTeX document I write in VSCode, I get the error message
Cannot view file PDF file. File not found C:....
How can I fix this? It would be really convenient for me if I could ...
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How to get a page without white border?
It want a PDF (or PNG) output of a Latex document on one long page, trimmed without the white borders, in minimal runtime.
The preview and standalone packages have this built in in some way and I ...
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after TexShop update to 4.68, Preview window is blank gray: no text, nothing
I am using Mac OS 10.15.7; yesterday upgraded TexShop to 4.68; after the upgrade TexShop Preview window is blank gray, while there are no errors in the console. If I print this window to Mac OS ...
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Using the Boadilla theme in beamer, there are previews of text that will appear later in the current slide - how to disable?
The question is contained in the title. I am writing a presentation using Boadilla theme in beamer/LaTeX. When I have a slide which uses \onslide<1->{hello} follow by \onslide<2->{second ...
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pst-pdf and beamer conflict
Follow up to this question reporting conflict between [auto-]pst-pdf and hyperref. This is apparently due to the fact that pst-pdf uses preview internally, and preview is currently incompatible with ...
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Why did the math preview in vscode fail when including physics package?
My code is written as follows:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{esint}
\usepackage{...
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TexStudio inline preview problem
I use texstudio as my editor and on one of my computer where I have reinstalled miketex and Texstudio, with the attached preview settings. But I get the following error message when doing inline ...
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How to obtain a tight diagram with standaloneframe?
In order to avoid writing the following code, I need to use overlays provided by beamer.
Unpleasant Code
\documentclass[pstricks]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-node}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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A problem with instant preview in Lyx
I have started using XYmatrix. it was recommended to me to enable instant preview. it worked great but now I see that it started to warp my previews. it "shrunk" them.
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preview:
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multiline equation preview sublime
The preview works just fine for any single line equation.
However, it does not work for multiline equations.
Is there any solutions or work around?
I am writing math derivation so having the preview ...
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Proper toolchain for pdfLaTeX and psfrag including hyperref
I am writing a comprehensive scientific thesis. In December 2020, my toolchain stopped working, which combined pdfLaTeX, pstool to apply psfrag, and hyperref.
I reported the issue here pdfLaTeX fails ...
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problem with online preview latex
Hello,
everything was fine with my projects on Latex online, until today. The only difference I made is to add New command, after that I receive the following preview for all my previous projects, ...
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How to preview a DVI (rather than a PDF) in TeXstudio
TeXstudio is very slow when compiling and previewing a 400-page book. I was told that previewing a DVI is faster than PDF, so I want to preview a DVI instead. How do I do that in TeXstudio? By ...
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Redefine commands / Remove left spacing for equations in LaTeX Preview (also in Emacs AUCTeX)
When I run
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[active, tightpage, displaymath]{preview}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
1+2 = 3
\end{equation*}
\end{document}
I get the ...
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LaTeX Sublime Text Equation Preview
I recently installed Sublime Text 3 and am attempting to produce a pdf document with some complex math. However, my equation previewer is not functioning correctly for math environments. When I change ...
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Background color for documents generated by the preview package
My question is very simple: is it possible to use \pagecolor from xcolor (or related packages) to change the background color of a document generated by the preview package?
I've tried to add \...
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Hide the displayed part of a linked page when hovering over the link in ToC
I'm using the hyperref package and when I hover over an entry in the table of contents (which points to a section) I get a glimpse of the beginning of that section. I've searched some options in the ...
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TeXstudio 3.0.0 equations do not preview, even though I have the option enabled [closed]
This is similar to the issue Roland Salz had, but I have already followed the advice in that post, and toggled that setting, and restarted, but it doesn't seem to change anything.
It seems like me ...
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double flash in texshop preview
I am using Texshop 4.44 on a Mac running El Capitan, and I use
an external editor. When I preview a .tex file using pdftex,
the screen image shows a double flash before settling down
and working ...
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auctex preview-latex does not take into account newcommands
I have slightly complex symbols that I do not want to re-type in latex so I define \newcommands that abbreviate them. For example
\begin{document}
blah blah
\newcommand{\ds}[1]{\Delta\{#1\}}
\[
\{...
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latexmk and xpdf previewing
I'm trying to use continuous updating with a combination of latexmk and xpdf. I set up my config file exactly as outlined in the latexmk documentation
$pdf_previewer = "start xpdf -remote %R %O %S";
$...
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Export and view with lyx
I have control + R for previewing pdf by command "buffer-view". I use Alt+ R to "buffer-export". I would like to export and view by combining thes two commands. I tried short-cuts CTR+R: buffer-view; ...
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Change colour of highlighting of preview search results (TeXShop)?
[enter image description here][2][![enter image description here][3]][3]Is it possible to change the highlight colour of search results in the document in the preview window (not in list of search ...
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Remove space above displaymath at start of preview environment
Here is a minimal code example.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\begin{preview}%\setlength{\baselineskip}{0pt}
\[a=b=c\]
\end{preview}
\end{document}
I get the ...
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Environment preview and \hfill command
Here is a minimal code example.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\begin{document}
\begin{preview}
$a=b$
\[ b=c \]
\hfill $c=d$
\end{preview}
\end{document}
This is ...
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TikZ and AUCTeX: Different results
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[thick,fill=yellow!50] (0,0) circle (3);
\draw[thick,fill=orange!50] (0,0) ...
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Sublime text Math preview opens console window on every change in math fields
I am using latex in Sublime Text 3. The package Math Preview is certainly smart, but it opens up a console window on top of sublime on every change and this steals focus in about 3s, and the math ...
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PDF Preview in Visual Studio Code
In this question, the setup of LaTeX in VS Code is explained in one of the answers. I followed the instructions, and am indeed able to compile a LaTeX document in VS Code, with the PDF output as ...
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Unexpected outputs from standalone class with preview and crop options
I am designing a logo composed of two letters and am using the standalone class. I would expect the newer crop option to give me a "tighter" PDF output than the older preview option, but the reverse ...
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Disable preview-latex
Just started using Emacs for editing my .tex documents after a long time away. I am rusty.
I installed auctex and setup my environment nicely. Most things are working, but the fly in the ointment is ...
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cooltooltips with Preview on Mac
When I try to use the 'cooltooltips' package for adding notes to my PDFs and I try to view them with Preview (10.1) on Mac it does not work. When I hover over 'This text' nothing happens. Does anyone ...
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