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LuaLaTeX, TeXLive 2016, standalone: undefined control sequence
The fix is easy: add \RequirePackage{luatex85} as the very first line, a temporary workaround until standalone is updated. It should do no harm even after the update.
\RequirePackage{luatex85}
\...
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What's the benefit of using {standalone} instead of {article}?
The main advantages, in my opinion, are:
You can readily compile your figure and make modifications without compiling the whole document.
You can include the standalone .tex file using the \...
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Multiple pages with standalone
What I use is
\documentclass[multi=my,crop]{standalone}
After this, wrap every figure into \begin{my}…\end{my}.
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Installing latex standalone in ubuntu for humans
The standalone latex package is included in the Ubuntu package texlive-latex-extra. You can install it through the terminal with the command:
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
or with any ...
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The PNG image of a TikZ picture that is generated by the standalone document class has the wrong dimensions
Conceptually bitmaps do not have a size, they just have a number of pixels. As documented in the standalone manual the class tells convert to assume 300dpi which makes a high resolution image for ...
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Standalone: class vs package
The standalone class is designed to create individual snippets of content whose size adapts to the content itself. This is implemented with the [crop=true] option, which is enabled by default. The [...
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How does standalone crop?
Never read the documentation. Bad things happen. --- David Carlisle
Edit: [26/03/18]
Martin Scharrer just uploaded version 1.3 of standalone.cls to CTAN, which has the correct order of the border ...
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What is best practice to set up Multi-file tex documents?
I think that the multifile howto is pretty easy, but as commented, it depends on what you want to achieve or how you organize your contents in the hard disk. Also, you must be aware that some package ...
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Is my current workflow worth using or idiotic?
So as promised in the comments, here is my current setup for image-heavy documents using TikZ and similar (the below uses TikZ, circuitikz, includes SVGs, plots created with Python and possibly other ...
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LuaLaTeX, TeXLive 2016, standalone: undefined control sequence
The easiest way is to load luatex85 package. You probably will need to load it before documentclass, using RequirePackage
The longer story is that luatex now no longer defines many primitives with ...
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How to control padding around standaloneframe content?
The standalone package by default crops the page to its contents. There is also a border option (also called margin, which I think is a better name) that allows you to put a white space margin around ...
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Centering standalone tikz picture
Detecting the problem
By adding a \frame around the tikzpicture, you'll get a tight frame around the image that will show you what is really happening and where is the additional space; adding a ...
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Standalone: document size
As the TeX Book says (p. 63)
From TeX's viewpoint, a single character from a font is a box [...]
The character shape need not fit inside the boundaries of its box.
Here we have such a situation: ...
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Doesn't the verbatim environment work with the standalone class?
Try
\documentclass[preview]{standalone}% <-- added option "preview"
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
Ciao
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
This should work ...
Edit: Also work with option ...
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Image shifts when removing percent (%) signs with standalone class
This is a specific problem of standalone. You can look at What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines? for understanding what follows.
By default, standalone typesets the text in the ...
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Tikz image of normalizing flow
To nest figures, I use savebox as shown in this answer.
Update 1: Improved dash pattern closure around the circle with dash pattern.
Value found by do-it-yourself, and trial-and-error.
\draw[dash ...
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Tikz image of normalizing flow
With the great help from @AndréC, this is what I ended up with:
\documentclass[border=1cm,tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\newcommand{\distro}[4][40]{
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=.8]
...
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The PNG image of a TikZ picture that is generated by the standalone document class has the wrong dimensions
No. It does not. It depends how you measure it.
Measuring in MS Word:
Three different resolution images placed in Word:
When printed:
Measuring in LaTeX:
The Code:
\documentclass[]{...
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TikZ in standalone not centering
It's the end of line after the \tikzstyle declaration. Move it before \begin{document}.
By the way, \tikzstyle is deprecated and I changed it to the currently preferred format.
\documentclass{...
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How to ensure two standalone documents have same dimensions
The reason can be seen from this example:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw [line width=1cm] (0,0) -- (1,0);
\draw [red] (0,0) -- (1,0);
\...
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How to use standalone with multiple files?
You have to enclose each “page” in an environment:
\documentclass[multi,crop,border=2]{standalone}
\standaloneenv{my}
\begin{document}
\begin{my}
Test1
\end{my}
\begin{my}
Test2
\end{my}
\end{...
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Find the coordinates of a point in a TikZ picture, with respect to the borders drawn by standalone package
The coordinate of the center of the node (at (0,0)) will stay the same. But you can extract the coordinates of the bounding box (which is identical with the output format if you use the standalone ...
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Errors using standalone package to create a table
I think the key here is to add the [varwidth=\maxdimen] class option to the preamble. It's similar to using minipage. I removed all the unnecessary clutter to keep it clear and simple, but you can add ...
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tikz with standalone has border at left
This happens because there are paragraphs and other whitespace before the actual image.
If you move the \begin{document} to be right before \begin{tikzpicture}, the problem disappears because ...
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Conversion by standalone fails when compiling using lualatex
That's because standalone is still using \write18 for shell escape. Just don't use standalone, it's broken in too many places (in my opinion).
You can trick standalone into thinking that traditional ...
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LaTeX Table to Standalone?
I don't think that using a tabularx environment with two equally wide columns and some ensuing line-breaks in the first column generates a good layout. I'd go with a basic tabular environment, use l ...
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Support for typesetting a table as stand-alone PDF
The abstract of documentation for package standalone notes:
The standalone bundle allows users to easily place picture environments
or other material in own source files and compile these on ...
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chessboard + standalone
You can enlarge the right margin of the board (the default value is 1em):
\documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage{chessboard}
\usepackage{moreenum}
\begin{document}
\chessboard[%
setwhite={Qa1,...
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Using standalone to combine multiple .tex into a single file
Use this master:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{standalone}
\title{My Book}
\author{Me}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\input{Section1.tex}
\end{document}
and this Section1
\documentclass{article}...
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