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How to remove the warnings "Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available" and "Size substitutions with differences" in beamer?
Add \usepackage{anyfontsize} to your preamble.
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What does "overfull hbox" mean? (Why is there a black mark at the end of a line?)
Quoting Phil Miller answer, for completeness:
This message means that a line of your document is too long to fit within the horizontal space on the page, and TeX couldn't find a good way to break it ...
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pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (nam e{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored
As requested by the comments: Another way to solve it is to disable the pageanchors for the titlepage:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[pdfpagelabels]{hyperref}
\title{...
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filecontents: This package is obsolete
The filecontents package was an extension to the filecontents environment already present in the LaTeX kernel for many years. LaTeX's version of the environment didn't allow it to be used outside of ...
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What are underfull hboxes and how can I get rid of them?
Often, TeX outputs underfull hbox and vbox warnings when running and in the generated log file. What are these and how can I get rid of them?
That's just TeX alerting you that it was unable to ...
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Warning: a possible image without description
From the warning you quoted, I assume that you use the acmart document clss.
To quote from the manual of version 1.56:
2.6 Descriptions of images
Blockquote
Some readers of ACM ...
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'Generic hook <name> is deprecated' warning after update
Warnings of the form:
LaTeX hooks Warning: Generic hook 'file/after/<name>' is deprecated.
(hooks) Use hook 'file/<name>/after' instead.
are due to a recent change in the ...
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You have requested document class X but the document class provides Y warning
This stems from the fact that you have PhDThesisPSnPDF.cls inside a Classes subfolder. So, the way you normally include it is to use
\documentclass[..]{Classes/PhDThesisPSnPDF}
right? Well, there ...
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Multiple PDFs with page group included in a single page warning
Martin Schröder has done a wonderful job of explaining the underlying cause, so I won’t repeat that here. Other than telling pdfLaTeX to shut up, the solution would be to remove/strip the page groups ...
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Warning: "Using fall-back BibTeX(8) backend:(biblatex) functionality may be reduced/unavailable."
The warning is issued when using the BibTeX (or BibTeX8) back-ends as these are more restricted in their functionality than Biber is. As such, some biblatex features simply won't work unless Biber is ...
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Bad bibtex entries using InBook
The inbook entry type is designed for referring to a chapter of a book with a single author or set of authors. This is why you receive the warning in your first example: you can't have both an author ...
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Warning when adding package minted?
The fvextra package is loaded by minted, so you should load minted before csquotes.
Another thing you should do is loading hyperref last: very few packages should come later than this one and you are ...
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Why DON'T I get an "Overfull \hbox" warning here?
The overlay option means that the tikzpicture, or its bounding box at least, will have zero size, so as far as TeX is concerned, it doesn't stick out in the margin. However, the picture drawing ...
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“warning: Text page X contains only floats.” How to suppress this warning?
The problem is explained here http://aty.sdsu.edu/bibliog/latex/floats.html.
You may find that simply adding
\clearpage
before you begin with your figures will get rid of the warning.
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Biblatex authoryear style & giveninits options - conflicting options warning
The full warning message I get in the .log is
Package biblatex Warning: Conflicting options.
(biblatex) '<namepart>inits' conflicts with 'uniquename=full'.
(biblatex) ...
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Suppress warning by unicode-math regarding mathtools
As far as I can see the unicode-math documentation does not state explicitly which warnings are predefined. Searching the code for the string mathtools one finds the lines
\msg_new:nnn { unicode-math }...
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tcolorbox package returns "missing \pdf@unescapehex" warning
Using listingsutf8 with XeLaTeX is usually not a good idea.
The most option loads the tcolorbox libraries loaded by many together with
listingsutf8 external magazine vignette poster
and you ...
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Warning with footnotes: "name{Hfootnote.xx} has been referenced but does not exist"
I ran into a similar problem. Same warning, and same result (footnote links point always point to first page). Turns out, there’s some weird interaction between setspace and hyperref. The solution ...
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What, no warning when minipage overflows page?
This is "by design" the vertical size options of minipage and parbox are analogues (and share the code of) the horizontal size option of \makebox.
\makebox[0pt][l]{...}
hides the size of the ...
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Journal class shows 'Package hyperref Warning: Suppressing link with empty target on input line XXX'
The class stores the last page number as a reference using LastPage, written as part of \end{document} (comment added):
\renewcommand*\enddocument{%
\let\AtEndDocument\@firstofone
\@...
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How to ignore "Wrong length of dash may have been used." inside \cite and \newcite
for those that are looking for it just mark the line as checked
Example:
\draw[-Latex] (A) -- (B)% chktex 8
More info: How can I tell chktex that I have checked the next line?
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Undefined references warning for \AtEndDocument{\printbibliography}
biblatex does a lot of cleaning up (also with respect to .aux files and warnings) in the \AtEndDocument hook. You don't get the warning if you issue
\AtEndDocument{\printbibliography}
before loading ...
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Invalid ISBN in value of field 'isbn' (-1)
Biber does not only check the datamodel integrity, it also explicitly checks ISBNs for validity when in --validate_datamodel mode. As it turns out 978-92-807-3580-6 (9789280735806) as indicated on the ...
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\[ChkTeX\] 21: This command might not be intended. [21]
This is a perfect example of where -wall can bite you with ChkTeX. This warning is simply a check for any command which is doesn't start with a letter or a space. So ) counts as that. Personally, I ...
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how to throw a warning in latex?
LaTeX provides warnings, which are printed to the console/.log file, both with including the current line number and without.
A class has:
\ClassWarning{<class name>}{<message>}
\...
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Package caption Warning: Unsupported document class
In many cases, there are no problems in spite of the warning.
Since subfig.sty is older then captions.sty, using caption.sty is not bad choice.
If you want to understand why you get the warning, "5 ...
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How to make \PassOptionsToPackage add the option as the last option?
Use
\PassOptionsToPackage{main=english}{babel}
if you want English as the main language of your document or
\PassOptionsToPackage{english,main=brazil}{babel}
if you want Brazil to be the main ...
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Package amsthm Warning: The \qedhere command... in Documenta style
As mentioned in another answer, amsthm should be loaded after amsmath. As described in a comment on that answer, this warning is produced when amsthm is incorrectly loaded before amsmath.
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What to do when an actively maintained package requires an obsolete package?
Once you are reassured that the specific warning is innocuous and will be most likely fixed in the near future, you can silence the warning: add
\RequirePackage{silence}
\WarningFilter{remreset}{The ...
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