Questions tagged [write-file]
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Runaway argument in \@writefile
I'm working with a source file I'll call"RE". It won't compile to PDF. Console says "(./ RE.aux)" "Runaway argument?" "{\contentsline ...ETC" "./RE.tex:5:File ended while scanning use of @writefile." ...
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DeclareTCBListing and write percent a file
I don't understand why the environment mytcblisting fails when writing the percentage symbol, I tried with verbatim ignore percent but it didn't work, I get the error:
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
&...
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How to replace a line in a file written by TeX' \write command
I try to write some content in an external file using TeX' \immediate\write command.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
\newwrite\tempfile
\immediate\openout\tempfile=lists.tex
\immediate\...
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create command to write with filecontents
What's the most efficient way to do this?
\begin{filecontents*}{./weekly/week07.tex}
% Week 7
\section{}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{./weekly/week08.tex}
% Week 8
\section{}
\end{...
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`\unexpand\expandafter` add spaces : how to append a text at the end of a file
I'd like to append code to a file containing latex code... So I tried the solution proposed here, but unfortunately it fails when there are backslash in the file: How can I open a file in "append&...
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! File ended while scanning use of \@writefile
I am getting below error when I am running the report to generate the PDF from GUI. I am using Texmaker 4.4.1. I also tried deleting aux files and other unwanted files. but, it is not helping me ...
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How to store multiple fragile definitions for re-importing later
I'm posting this in case it's useful to anyone; it's not actually a question.
Commands defined inside environments like enumerate are automatically fragile, and are lost outside the environment. ...
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How to use many \write to write text on just one line?
I have to use many write commands to write to the temporary file as follows
\newwrite\tempfile
\immediate\openout\tempfile=tempt.txt
\immediate\write\tempfile{data 1}
\immediate\write\tempfile{data 2}...
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I get this error even for the simplest code: I can't write on file `file.pdf'. \begin{document}
I have Texstudio and MiKTeX. Everything was working fine and suddenly it didn't. I tried undoing the recent changes and compiled it still no luck. Finally, I wrote a "hello world" code. It couldn't ...
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How to get relative position of text in a latex produced document
I am trying to write a custom command eins such that when you have
\eins{id}{text}
, it outputs the relative box position and depth and height of text in mm (or points) within the printed document ...
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\renewenvironment{document}
I would like to use \usepackage{filecontents} to write another version of my document to a file later with \write18 and compile it.
My question is: How do I create a custom \begin{document} to ...
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Polyglossia's babelshorthands spoils write-to-file command behavior and conflicts with graphviz
Example (run xelatex a.tex -shell-escape twice, or just xelatex a.tex if you don't have dot installed and then explore generated files manually):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdf]{graphviz}
\...
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Write special characters to (aux) file
I would like to print a special character to an aux file. In particular, I would like to write the line
\@input{file.aux}
So far, I have achieved the best result with
\write\@auxout{\unexpanded{\@...
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Runaway argument after Table error
I'm somewhat of a Tex beginner, but I've been running into this problem a lot lately, so I'm really hoping for some help.
I have a large table in the appendix of my file, and it caused me quite a bit ...
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PdfLaTeX's \write into file for cyrillic with utf8 gives unwanted \cyr
Thanks to egreg, I have a possibility to write authors names from \authblk to file for the follow usage.
\documentclass[twocolumn, oneside]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english, ...
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How to write authors of an article to the file?
I have a macro \writetitletofile which is write title of the article to the .dat file. How can I do the same with authors of an article. It should be noted that list of authors create with authblk ...
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Package morewrites kills tikz's opacity/transparancy [closed]
I made the strange observation that including the morewrites package removes opacity colours in tikzpicture.
(The code of this example is given below.)
As opacity problems with tikz package are ...
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Write reference of linenumber to file
I want to write the actual linenumbers that a \lineref command generates into an external file. The lines are referenced correctly (after 2 times compiling), but the writing to a file does not work. ...
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Token list with line breaks for writing multiple lines to file
I make use of a package (gnuplottex) that writes contents of an environment to a file, using the \verbatim@start/processline/end commands (by \immediate\write\FileHandle{\the\verbatim@line}). Now I ...
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Reading number from file into variable — How to put a number into my document that increments with every compilation?
I am not that much into TeX/LaTex programming ...
but what I want to do is the following:
How to put a number into my document that increments with every compilation
My ideas so far are:
use a ...
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LuaTeX readline encoding
Must LuaTeX's \readline use latin-1 encoding?
In the example below, I first store é in a file (well, and ^^J) which works well. Then I read it back in, using \readline and get two characters é (and ...
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add lines into tex file
I have this tex file coming from matlab.
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[%
width=\figurewidth,
height=\figureheight,
scale only axis,
xmin=1,
xmax=5,
ymin=2,
ymax=10
]
\addplot [color=red,line width=...
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Creating my own \tableofcontents in plain TeX
I'd like to define my own table of contents in TeX (not LaTeX, so without packages) to have a fine control on what goes there, how the numbers are displayed, etc. Basically what I would like is to ...
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How to write Russian text in a file?
I am writing Russian text in a file but it gives the error.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amscd}
\usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage[...
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Encoding of written out files
I have a tex file with:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
The file calls a macro that saves the content between and \begin{something} and \end{something} to a file. But the encoding of the file is not ...
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How to actually close a write-stream
I don't know too much about writing and reading to and from files. But I managed to create a nice command for me where I need to write something into a text-file and later-on read it again.
\...
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How to output environment content to a file while enclosing content by a box?
This is the source:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{obj}{name-of-obj}
This is a test code.
\begin{equation}
a < b
\end{equation}
\end{obj}
\end{document}
I want to enclose the ...
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Writing environment content verbatim to file, calling Graphviz and including source/image
Based on Write environment body verbatim to a file I try to write the content of a environment verbatim to a file, call an external tool (in my case the awesome Graphviz) and include the source code ...
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How to read a character one by one from an external file, modify it, and save it back to another external file?
The purpose of this question is to learn how to read character by character of a fetched line of characters, modify it and save back to another file.
For the sake of simplicity, let's take a simple ...
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Listings WriteFile adds additional line if content contains two spaces between words
I use the listings latex package to write/read the environment body to a file. But if in the environment are two spaces between some words, there is an additional linebreak added at the beginning (I ...
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Space after command with \write
I did not see this question yet, correct me if there is.
It's not the usual problem of adding a space after a command. It's more specifically when writing to a file. For some reason the same method ...
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How to copy contents of one file to another?
So I have a .txt-file and I need to import the data line per line. That works like it should. I need however to adapt the contents loaded into a command an write it to another .txt file that later ...
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Accent characters incorrectly written external file
I tried to write some strings in an external file for use in a special type of index, but using utf8 accented characters appear wrong.
In my external file, those characters appear in the same way as ...
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listing's lst@BeginWrite gobbles '->' and '=>' from input [closed]
I'm trying to write a package that takes verbatim input and appends it to several files. My current approach is based of off an answer by Martin Scharrer to a similar problem. The difficulty arises in ...
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Help wanted on \openout, \write and \closeout
Is there a way to test if a token is already associated with a writer? Something like this:
\def\do@write#1{%
\immediate\write\mywriter{something: #1}%
}
\def\@writesomething#1{%
{\if@isopen\...
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Write environment body verbatim to a file
How can one write the body of an environment verbatim to an external file. I tried the following but get problems if the body contains undefined macros (error) or e.g. a % (disappears in the output).
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How can I write % into a file?
How can I write % into an auxiliary file? % will not work, because LaTeX thinks that I start a comment with it (in the main file, not in the auxiliary file!), and \% will write \% into the file. How ...
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Is it possible to change jobname from within the input file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to influence the name of the pdf file created with pdfLaTeX (from within the source code)?
I have a template as follows.
% template.tex
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How to append data to a temporary file?
I want to create a new temporary file (named main-temp.tex), append data to it multiple times, and import the contents later. I haven't learnt how to use TeX file operation, both reading and writing. ...
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How to automatically increase the number of \write registers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Making efficient use of \writes
I am trying to compile a document that heavily uses PGF/TikZ externalization as well as a table of contents, list of figures, etc. I am ...
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Could you give me a working, dangerous LaTeX input file to test the vulnerability of my server?
I have an IIS web server on which I installed Miktex distribution.
I host a site that allows users to submit LaTeX input codes. The server then compiles the input using pdflatex.exe to produce a pdf ...
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How to write the \columnwidth to an external file
Some figures in my LaTeX document I am generating with Python. Normally I manually check how wide my picture can be with \showthe\columnwidth and adjust the image width accordingly. (This whole is ...
