Questions tagged [versions]
About the versions package that allows optionally including/excluding {environments}.
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What pdflatex version and what arguments does overleaf use? [closed]
I have a code which works fine in overleaf but not on my local computer. Regardless of what is wrong with my code, What pdflatex version and what arguments does overleaf use?
I followed the log that ...
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Tex version and overfull boxes
I'm working on a paper with a collaborator and I've noticed that the number of overfull boxes is different whether I compile the document or he does. It's also not the same whether I compile it from ...
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Understanding CTAN versions, release dates and announcements
I am looking at https://ctan.org/pkg/sciposter where I see that the package version is 1.18 but the most recent announcement in the right sidebar is that of v1.17.
I am trying to understand how these ...
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Install LyX 2.3 through Cygwin on Windows
When I tried to open a document on my office's computer (Windows) that I had previously modified on my personal one (Ubuntu), I couldn't because the Ubuntu version of LyX was more recent (2.3.0 ...
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The same tex file working in old version is not running in latest version [duplicate]
A very old version of LaTeX was installed in my computer. Recently, I removed that old version and have installed the latest TeXstudio 2.12.8. But the files which were running in the old version ...
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Biblatex version too high (3.10) for biber version (2.7) [closed]
I am using TexMaker in High Sierra MacOS with mactex and TexLive installed and apparently updated. When I try to compile, I have the message that the versions of Biblatex (3.10) and Biber (2.7) are ...
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ShareLaTeX - Nested 'Main'
I'm trying to create the version / revision copies within the ShareLatex structure itself. I would like to know if there is a way to nest 'main' inside each folder and compile that folder alone. If ...
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how to update a versioned \RequirePackage
After an upgrade of Texlive from Debian/testing, the following no longer works:
\RequirePackage[ngerman=ngerman-x-2014-05-21]{hyphsubst}
How to update this command?
How to find out the date of the ...
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How can I use versions.sty to change a section header?
I am trying to have different section headers in different versions of a document using versions.sty (0.55). I get and error while compiling; here is a MWE :
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
%!TEX TS-...
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Need to point “pdflatex” etc. to the official install rather than Apt install
I have just installed the texlive-full 2016 using install-tl on Ubuntu 16.04. I then installed TeXMaker, which appears to have installed the basic texlive 2015 version over the top of the 2016 ...
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Latex optional text and footnotes
Sometimes I am writing for two audiences. I have a complete document with extra footnotes and perhaps extra background paragraphs for an ordinary reader. And another version that omits this background ...
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Reference to figures with conditional caption (depending on the version)
I use the versions package for conditional content. However it doesn't work for references with varying captions (i.e., which depend on the version). Here is a MWE
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{...
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Minted / xkeyval packages version issue? numberblanklines undefined
In a completely fresh and updated installation of MikTeX (minted v2.4 and xkeyval v2.7a) I run into a problem using the numberblanklines argument. I guess it is version issue because in an older ...
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Two versions from same tex file
I'm writing a LaTeX text, but I need two versions of the same text, one normal and one with some more comments inside the text. How can I write both the versions using the same TEX file?
To be more ...
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How to maintain LaTeX environment, packages, etc. between different machines?
I have several different computers that I work from; local workstations, remote servers, home personal machines, etc. How do you maintain some semblance of software version control across them so that ...
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How to use fixltx2e only when necessary
I've been using the fixltx2e package for a while, with a tweak described here on the site. Recently, this has gotten me the following error message:
Package fixltx2e Warning: fixltx2e is not ...
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Using latexdiff with TortoiseHg
I am using TortoiseHg to track my Thesis document, and latexdiff to track differences in the document. To avoid saving the previous versions, I would like to combine latexdiff with tortoise (...
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Am I using LaTex2e?
I am about to prepare a paper for a conference. In the template that given to me from the conference owner says " Only if you use \LaTeXe{} can hyperlinks be generated in the online version of your ...
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Package `Versions' Warning: Redefining environment
I am using the versions.sty package and would like to process some text twice (or more times) in a different version configuration, but within the same document. So I use \excludeversion and \...
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What does the output of TeX/LaTeX depend on (in the sense of version and distribution)
I knew in advance that the output of tex, pdftex, latex, pdflatex and so on, depends on the version of that given program. This, of course, makes a lot of sense. Until now, I have not given it a lot ...
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Multiple LaTeX installations [duplicate]
The first time I installed LaTeX was in /usr/share/texmf-texlive (~600MB).
Yesterday I installed TeX Live from apt-get, I simply don't know where it has been installed (~1GB).
Today I installed Tex ...
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Versions package producing unexpected behavior
I want to create a package for formatting problem sets. Also, I want an easy way to produce versions with the problem statement and the solutions and versions with only the problem statements. I have ...
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Automatic branching for versions and git
I am writing my PhD thesis and as I am not the least chaotic guy I also add notes for future reference. Surely, this means it is not production grade, or how you would like to call it.
There is a ...
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How to use an environment defined by the versions-package inside another environment
When I use the versions package to conditionally exclude content like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}% just as example
\usepackage[tracing]{versions}
\excludeversion{vers}% opposite ...
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marking conditional versions with line in margin
I have two versions of a document, which I have implemented using the versions package. So I can use \includeversion/\excludeversion to generate the different versions from the same source.
I would ...
