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Which TeX editors are able to compile just a snippet of a .tex file?
Amazingly enough, TeXShop does in fact have such a facility. The problem is that long-time users of it like myself are probably unaware of it.
It can be found under the Edit Menu -> Experiment
This ...
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Which TeX editors are able to compile just a snippet of a .tex file?
With Emacs and AUCTeX, it is as simple as highlighting the portion of the text you want to compile and then hitting C-c C-r (or M-x TeX-command-region).
The command tries to be 'smart' about it, so ...
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I need to cite a classical author
If you have an entry whose author field currently reads
author = "Plinio el viejo",
BibTeX and biblatex (biber) will interpret "el" as the "von" component of the person's full name, and therefore ...
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Which TeX editors are able to compile just a snippet of a .tex file?
Kile has this feature. It is called QuickPreview. I've never used it before, but I tested it in a minimal example and it seems to work.
I tested with my answer to another question:
\documentclass[...
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How Can I compile my tex file in PDFLatex, using TexShop on MAC?
When TeXShop is active, there is a Typeset menu, in which you should mark the pdftex option (see also the Typesetting panel of TeXShop's Preferences to make this choice permanent).
Once this is done,...
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Increasing font size in TexShop 4.3
I'd say this is a “hidden feature”. In version 4.23 the behavior is the same: when pressing ⌘=, nothing happens unless the first character in the document is selected (with any number of following ...
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Sudden error in TeXShop: "I found no \bibdata" and "I found no \bibstyle"
This happened to me. Turned out I had updated the figure PDFs and one of them was corrupt. Since the compiler got stuck here, it wouldn't read some of the commands including the bibliography ones.
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TeXShop and Mac preview crashing when opening latex/beamer built pdfs
To solve, remove the PDF file from the source folder. Then open the source in TeXShop. Check the header. Did you \usepackage{pstricks}? Comment out this line and typeset again. (Or, leave the line and ...
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Vertical Spacing Before and After "Cases" Environment
That's the normal \abovedisplayskip used by amsart, which is about 41% of the value used in the standard classes, 4.9pt against 12pt. The difference is really noticeable, but it's the AMS house style.
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Why does the autocompletion in TeXShop put •?
That’s traditional.
In the late 80’s the best editor for TeX (plain, AMS-TeX, LaTeX) on the Mac was, at least in my opinion, AlphaTcl, that offered interactive compilation via Command-T, switching to ...
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Getting started with Greek and Hebrew in LuaLaTeX
As of 2021, definitely it’s up to the task. Here is an example with babel, which switches the font based on the script:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[bidi=basic, english]{babel}
\babelprovide[...
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Shortcut for making pdf in Texshop
Typeset: CmdT
New to LaTeX myself, so I was surprised that converting to a PDF (or another document) is called "Typeset".
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How do I run Biber on TeXShop?
Assuming you have the .bib file place the line
% !TEX TS–program = pdflatexmk
at the top of your .tex file. Then typeset using Typeset->Typeset (Cmd-T). That will automatically run biber when ...
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Is there a suggestion feature command for label names in TeXShop?
When typing in TeXShop, you can get a list of existing labels for various things using F5. For example, if you have the following document, and you start typing \eqref{ (minimally including the ...
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Why does hyperref refer to the wrong place when I define a new theorem?
If the structure is always
\section{Title}
Text for the section
\clearpage
\section*{Problems}
Problems
then you can just define problem as numbered within sections.
\documentclass{amsart}
\...
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How to combine multirow and multicolumn in simplest example?
Probably one of the following suggestion helps:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{R} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{C} \\ \...
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Editing the Templates menu in TeXShop
From the Finder
The reason you didn't find the ~/Library folder using the Go menu was that you left out the ~. This symbol denotes your "home" folder, whereas without it (what you typed /Library is ...
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How do I add a .sty file to my MacTeX/TeXShop installation?
If you're using mactex, just follow the instruction you have provided in the description, move the relevant file into the directory, e.g., move *.sty file to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/...
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hide console window in texshop
Currently I use macOS Mojave, v. 10.14. As addressed by @layman, the currently accepted answer no longer works (at least it did not work for me). The workaround I've used is the following:
Open ...
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How to install the simpsons package on MacOSX?
On a mac you have to first create the texmf-tree under ~/Library (Alan Munn has a nice little script for that: https://www.msu.edu/~amunn/latex/make-local-texmf.zip).
Then you have to create the ...
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Export TeXShop macros
To move all of the macros copy the ~/Library/TeXShop/Macros folder from one computer and replace the one on the other system with that folder. Note: ~/Library is the Library folder in your HOME folder....
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Which versions of TeX do I need?
If you install a full MacTeX installation, a number of very useful GUI programs are also installed. They take up very little space, so it's not very worthwhile to delete them anyway, but mainly you ...
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How can I align this system of equations?
With cases:
\[ \begin{cases} 2x-5y-z=2\\ 2x^2=y \end{cases} \]
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How can I align without spaces
You want to use alignat, but with the right spacing.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{alignat*}{3}
A &= (2n-1)^2 + {} && 2(2n-1)k \\
B &= ...
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TexShop does not save my file when compiling
I am the author of TeXShop. TeXShop always saves the source before typesetting, whether you use Auto Save or not. The "dirty file" indicator is unreliable in recent systems, and seems to have been ...
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no border around hyperlinks with hyperref
To simply resolve this problem put this in your document
after the "\usepackage"es
\hypersetup{pdfborder = {0 0 0}}
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texshop 3.62 sync not working with Mac OSX 10.11.5
"Alternatively, adding a line
\synctex=1
in the preamble of a tex file triggers the synchronization with SyncTeX, not only with pdflatex, but with other TeX commands too."
(http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/...
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Mac Texshop - How to Use Arara (Potential Bug)
Although this is conceivably a bug, its cause is quite clear: you have created a filename that is almost guaranteed to confuse most command line programs, since you have multiple . and spaces.
If you ...
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Texshop: Jump back to the editor after compiling
Under the Typesetting tab of TeXShop->Preferences choose Continue Editing in the After Typesetting section.
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How to get source code on texshop?
A simple my-file.tex file in TeXShop will generate the following five files:
my-file.tex
my-file.aux
my-file.log
my-file.pdf
my-file.synctex.gz
The source file is my-file.tex. You can probably ...
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