Questions tagged [texshop]
TeXShop is an integrated text editor and PDF previewer for the Mac designed for editing all kinds of TeX documents.
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Left Align Text within multirow cell table
I am trying to properly align to the left a few variables names in a latex table. These variables names are within a multirowcell as the table is big (16 columns+).
I have tried with \shortstack[l] ...
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Vertical Spacing Before and After “Cases” Environment
I'm using TexShop on macOS and I'm hoping someone could tell me how to increase the spacing before and after the cases environment as below:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,reqno]{amsart}
\usepackage{...
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TexShop not compiling for all users on a machine using Big Sur 11.1
After installing MacOS 11.1 Big Sur, I upgraded TeXShop and MacTex (Basic is not sufficient). There are 3 tex users on this machine and TeXShop works well for two of them. For the 3rd, TeXShop opens ...
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Can TexShop be configured to open the last file I was working on?
Solved! See below.
When I open TS, it gives me a blank (new) doc. I would prefer that it opens with the last doc I was working on, so I can continue working.
Now I can open via "recents" but ...
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I can't find the format file `XeLaTeX.fmt'! when compiling with bash script
Im very new to tex and I am using it to help me with my cover letter.
I installed MacTex and I've been using the TexShop editor.
I have found that I like the XeLaTeX the best so I've been using that.
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Full disk access for TeXShop on a Mac
On my Mac running OS Big Sur, I cannot save or compile TexShop files
unless I assign Full Disk Access to TeXShop in my system preferences;
is there a way around this?
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How do I get the length (number of digits) of a number [closed]
In answer to another question, I reported that the square of a string of all ones would yield a number with digits that ascend to the number of original ones and then descend to one again.
For ...
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How can I get TeXShop to work again
I had to wipe and restore my Macbook Pro after an OS upgrade always froze on sign-in. I formatted my drive and restored everything with a recent Time Machine backup. Then, running TeXShop, the console ...
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Thesis V3.bbl: 72: Package inputenc Error: Invalid UTF-8 byte sequence
I am writing my thesis and the preamble looks as the following:
\documentclass[11pt,a5paper,footinclude=true,headinclude=true]{scrbook} % KOMA-Script book
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{...
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Texshop jump to source code not working
Just installed newest version of TeXShop on new MacBook Pro. I cannot seem to get the editor to jump between the source and the .pdf it created. This feature is essential to me. I have tried every ...
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I installed TeXLive 2020, but when I try to latex a file with TexShop, it doesn't do anything [closed]
Correct location for tex live: /usr/local/texlive/2020
Correct location for TexShop: /applications/TeX
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How to let my TeXShop see new packages?
I am using TeXShop on macOS, where I want to use the package pgfornament. I downloaded the zip file from:
https://ctan.org/pkg/pgfornament?lang=en
From there I didn't really know where to go, as it ...
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How can I control the fonts in the Ogrekit find panel in TeXShop
I'm using TeXShop 4.57 with the Ogrekit find panel on a Mojave Mac. The other day my find panel began display as in this pic:
This is disconcerting. I would like the same font in both panels, but I ...
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Configuring TeXShop spell check to ignore citation?
I am using TeXShop on MacOS. I have configured the spell check to ignore latex commands following this advice: How to get TeXShop to ignore LaTeX commands when spell checking
But I want spell check to ...
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Change Keyboard Shortcut on Texshop
In Texshop on Mac Big Sur, the following shortcut appear (see the red rectangle in the following picture). This shortcut is in conflict with an other Macro shortcut. Is there any possibility to remove ...
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TeXShop 4.57 window and menu are invisible after updating to macOS 11.1. Any ideas why?
TeXShop 4.57 repeatedly crashes and window and menus are invisible, only their outline is visible.
The problem report lists:
Crashing on exception: The window has been marked as needing another ...
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New download of TeXShop does nothing in console window
I had a problem with upgrading from OSX 10.15.7 to the new recommended OS. My mac would freeze on sign-in. I had to wipe and completely restore from a TimeMachine backup. Everything was back to normal ...
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TeXShop one window mode not working after update to version 4.54
I have macOS Catalina Version 10.15.7. On uploading TeXShop version 4.54, "one
window" mode stopped working, a blank page appears on the source side of the window.
I have tried recompiling ...
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Do I need to re-install Latex or is there another problem?
I've been writing a math paper for a couple of years using TexShop on a Mac. The Mac told me I should upgrade from OS 10.15.7 to 11.something and I permitted it. Then, the User account I use froze ...
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Texshop find all missing in ogrekit panel
I have a new version of Tex Shop and surprisingly the "Find all" is missing in the Ogrekit panel (see the picture below. It is in french but I guess you can see what is happening). Does ...
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Pythontex in TeXShop
I use TeXShop version 4.51 on macOS Catalina version 10.15.7.
Followed the README.pdf titled "The Pythontex engine by Richard Koch"
Downloaded anaconda from https://www.anaconda.com/...
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Biber does not work anymore in TeXShop 4.50
This is a new problem, which I did not have a week ago. I think it is due to me updating TeXShop, but I am not completely sure.
My problem is that any file with biber as the backend for BibLaTeX does ...
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Is there a way to make $ and & have different colors in the TeXShop editor?
I'm using a lot of equations in a tabular environment, and it's hard to tell apart the $ math mode symbols from the & alignment symbols because they're both orange. In TeXShop -> Preferences -&...
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Arara Error: Unable to access jarfile
I am trying to compile a LaTeX document using arara on the command line, but I get a Error: Unable to access jarfile notification.This happens even when I do only arara -V for the version. Strangely ...
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Plot with Gnuplot directly from TeXshop
I would like to plot with Gnuplot directly in a Texshop document.
I have Gnuplot installed, TeXLive2020 on Macbook. I use TeXShop and render the PDF with PDFlatex.
When I take a sample code, say the &...
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“This document could not be autosaved”
I am editing some latex documents from my university's online repository, and when I modify them and try to compile the message "This document could not be autosaved" appears and the changes ...
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Bug in Apple's pdfKit triggered with xelatex, not with pdflatex
This seems to be a bug in Apple's pdfKit. However, as this problem only occurs if xelatex is used (works fine with pdflatex), I am hoping that someone here can help with some sort of workaround that ...
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texshop knitr -> XeLaTeX engine
In TeXShop, my current knitr engine is
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin
Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$1')"
latexmk -pdf "${1%.*}"
My current XeLaTeX ...
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All Tex files appear as Chinese symbols when opened wit TexShop
I had the bad surprise today, when I opened a tex file with TexShop (on MacOs Catalina) to see the text as, what it seems to be Chinese Symbols .... The compilation works fine, and the PDF is ok. I ...
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ASCII encoding option in texshop
I need my bib file to be ASCII encoded so that it works when Lyx invokes Bibtex for my bibliography and referencing. However within TeXShop on my mac I can't find the option to encode in ASCII. UTF-8 ...
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How can I align this system of equations?
I am trying to solve this problem since two days and I wasn't able to find anything that could fix it.
I wan this two equations in the system to be both aligned to the left and well ordered, without ...
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How to cite a book in LaTeX using TexShop?
I am new to Latex and trying to cite a book in Latex. Using the previous answers here, I built a .bib file and saved it in the same directory. The file has been saved as bibDesk.I am trying to cite ...
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Which versions of TeX do I need?
I currently have all of the following installed on my mac. I want to get back into using TeX for some math papers but think I have some redundant installations of engines (is that what i have below?) ...
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Wrong margins for 2-side printing [closed]
A paper I wrote for 2-sided 3-hole-punch handouts had, on page 1, a wider margin on the right than on the left and, on page two, the left margin was the wider one.
The handout is actually a compact ...
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Template, How to locate text
Hey guys I am trying to write my thesis using latex. In a folder, I have the main file which I got from a template, as well as my chapter files. When I print, the thesis outputs on the cover "...
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Highlighting math mode in TeXShop
Is there anyway to highlight the content of mathmode in TeXShop? Right now only the $ sign is in a different colour. I would want the text content inside the $ $ to be highlighted.
Like, for example, ...
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Prevent TeXShop from creating xml tags for frames
TeXshop has the somewhat handy feature of automatically creating XML tags for each subsection, which greatly simplifies navigation in large latex documents. However, I am currently writing lecture ...
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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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Texshop incorrectly states that a figure reference is multiply defined
in TexShop the log file shows the warning
label 'fig:InfExp' multiply defined
but in my .tex file this label appears exactly 3 times-- twice in \cite commands and, between these, once as a label ...
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TeXShop can't find “required tool” pdflatex
When I attempt to typeset LaTeX I get the dialogue box pop up "Can't find required tool" and I copy and paste here the rest: "/Library/TeX/texbin
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python....
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Can you tell TeXShop to compile a certain way without using a shebang?
I have a custom class that has a bibliography option. If I am not using that option, I would prefer to compile with pdflatex; if I am using that option, however, I would like to use pdflatexmk. This ...
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Recover macros from previous MacTeX distribution
I recently upgraded my MacTex distribution from 2019 to 2020. I had lots of predefined macros created with the Macro Editor in TexShop that I can now no longer access.
Does anyone know where Macro ...
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Can I make a URL wrap in a bibliography?
I'm writing math paper using TeXShop and, in the bibliography, I have two clickable links that extend into the border. Is there a way to make the links wrap at column 80 or something? (Elipses ... ...
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TeXShop GUI in Dark Mode hard to read
I just installed TeXShop 4.44 on my Mac (running Mojave) and saw that the LaTeX button is really hard to read. I played around with the Preferences/Themes but was not able to set the font or the ...
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Multiple editions under one author in bibliography
I am using TexShop. The document class is scrbook. In the bibliography, there are a few texts under one author. For some unknown reason, since yesterday the author's name gets repeated and some texts ...
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I can't print the bibliography in Texshop
I see that there have been similar questions in the past, but nome of them work for me.
I am utilising Texshop, and I want to print the bibliography at the end. I created a very simple bibliography ...
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'Enter name file\ error on TexShop
so I just installed TexShop on my Mac, and I'm trying to execute a simple code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{physics}
\begin{document}
\end{document}
And I keep getting this
I'm not quite sure ...
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TeXshop (4.44) Index not generated
Have attached the screenshot below:
But the Index entry was not created, if I do manually like makeindex a-course-in-surgery-theory-pup-symbols then it works properly.
What will be the reason for ...
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strange behavior from textshop
Strange behavior from my Texshop: The code is perfectly compilable, I tested it on overleaf.But my Texshop is having a fist and gave me this weird output:
Can anyone tell me what is going on here?
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How do I set font size default for the TeXShop editing window?
I edit several .tex documents I'm working on in TeXShop and every time I open them, I see Helvetica 12. Even with reading glasses it's hard for me to see so I select all, type Command-K, and set the ...
