LaTeX is a macro package implemented on Don Knuth's TeX programming language and is used primarily for creating high quality written documents. The underlying TeX system is Turing complete and LaTeX inherits this property, making it possible (but rarely advisable) to perform arbitrary computations ...
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Does standalone LaTeX exist?
Is there a standalone version of LaTeX that might run of say a USB stick? So a version that doesn't need installing. I a looking for something to run under Windows.
Best wishes,
Tom
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Slow vim / gvim startup when loading latex files (enabled latex-suite), how to trace down?
So, I have multiple plugins installed in my vim and using gvim mostly. I have two computers (workstation, laptop) both running Ubuntu 11.10. Both vim and gvim environments use the same setup! On the ...
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Updating LateX Packages in Ubuntu
I've just installed Kile through synaptic package manager on Ubuntu 10.04, and I'm having some difficulties updating packages. Kile doesn't appear to have anything integrated for updating packages, ...
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Amazon EC2 (Linux) + RDS (MySQL) + PHP + pdflatex = LaTeX to PDF online
I would like to have a website capable of converting LaTeX documents to PDF online. So for example user types in some raw LaTeX (document), I'm saving it into my MySQL database and I'm able to convert ...
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aspell - how to ignore references inside \citep{} and \citet{} references [closed]
I'm using aspell --version
International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)
to verify my tex files with the command:
aspell -d pt_PT --dont-tex-check-comments -c file0.tex
The ...
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Markdown to LaTeX conversion with a custom preamble using Pandoc
I know that I can use the -H or --include-in-header commands to include a custom preamble in the generated output. The problem is now that Pandoc includes my preamble but puts another preamble in ...
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Keep Latex, PDF and MS-Word in sync
My CV is written in Latex using moderncv. Whenever I need an updated copy, I convert it to PDF.
Unfortunately, some employers insist on Microsoft Word. This is a real pain, because I lose the ...
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How can I save a website as a vector graphic?
I'm looking for a solution to save a single web page or a section of it as a vector graphic in my latex document. Do you know a tool, trick or service which helps to do this?
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Powerpoint 2003: Including TOC on each slide (like Latex beamer)
Is there any way or template to make Powerpoint presentations that show the TOC showing the current progress on each slide?
I want to achieve something like what can be done using Beamer in LaTeX.
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Is there program LaTex to Word 2010?
I have a problem to convert directly equations from Mathematica *(copied as LaTex) in Word 2010. Is there any option?
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Which gnuplot terminal type should I use in org-babel-gnuplot with latex export
All gnuplot examples on http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-gnuplot.html use the png terminal. However, when exporting to latex I'd rather like to generate vector graphics. ...
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Type math formulas in LaTeX way in Microsoft Word?
I wonder if there is some free solutions for typing math formulas in LaTeX way in Microsoft word document (Office 2007)?
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Pdflatex only works as admin in OSX Lion
I installed MacTex on OSX Lion. The pdflatex command only works if I run
sudo pdflatex
whereas running it without sudo results in "command not found." How can I get at pdflatex without admin ...
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Windows PDF viewer that auto-refreshes PDF when compiling with pdflatex
I'm writing a LaTeX document and am using the command line to compile the LaTeX code into a PDF document. In Linux I would just open the PDF with Evince PDF Viewer, and whenever I recompiled the LaTeX ...
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Custom Shortcuts for Texmaker
I'm using Texmaker 3.1 to write Latex documents and wonder how I can define my own shortcuts. For example I need a shortcut (Strg + E) for \enquote{}. Are custom shortcuts an unsupported scenario?
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Is there any way to convert a LaTeX document to any Microsoft Word format, while retaining the document's structure?
I'm currently working on a developer's manual to go with an application I'm making for work. I wrote a simple script to go through all of my code, and parse all of my comments into a LaTeX document, ...
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AucTeX TOC with multifile document
I'm writing my PhD thesis with LaTeX-Sweave and I use EMACS with AucTex and ESS. I have a master file (master.tex) and some slave files and my question is about the use of the TOC in the slave files. ...
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How to cancel LaTeX compiling in Terminal?
When I compile a LaTeX document in the terminal like so:
latex document.tex
How do I then abort the process? Ctrl-C doesn't work.
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Why is Emacs Predictive Mode not working for LaTeX documents?
I have Emacs installed on a Windows 7 machine along with AUCTeX for creating and editing LaTeX documents. I recently installed Predictive Mode to enable auto-completion of LaTeX macro commands.
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Suggest a free tool for generating high quality 16x16 and 32x32 letter icons (A … Z)
Using other symbols would be nice, but I am primarily interested in capital letters A through Z. It is VERY important that these look good at 16x16 and 32x32. So far I tried IcoFx, but the text that ...
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Visio - how can I generate pdf?
How can I generate a PDF file in Visio?
I want to include this file as Figure in LaTeX, so I need only my diagram on pdf instead of entire page with diagram on it. How can I do that?
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Search special characters or short mathematical symbols in pdf files
I have Adobe Reader, Okular and Document Viewer as pdf readers. The papers I read are often texts with mathematical formulae, generated by LaTeX.
But it seems that searching special characters or ...
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BibTeX will not compile
I am trying to compile a bibliography that is externally linked but I get back an error saying
I couldn't open file name firstbibtex.aux
Here is the referencing code:
@article{greenwade93,
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Generating SVG from LaTeX (tikz)?
How can I generate an SVG image from a LaTeX file - more precisely, a tikz diagram? I'm working in Windows.
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Xetex problem with setmainfont
I am trying to write my cv using the Latex template on this page: http://www.cv-templates.info/2009/03/professional-cv-latex/
I use xelatex command to generate pdf file, but it fails and complains ...
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emacs ORG-mode “headless” export-as commands?
When I use org-export-as-latex or org-export-as-html orgmode turns my buffer into a .tex file or .html file. But I don't want all the extra junk that it adds to the file: I want to handle the ...
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Windows Live Writer and LaTeX
I am looking for a way to integrate a WordPress latex plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latex/
and Windows Live Writer, so that LaTeX would render in real time in Windows Live Writer.
Any ...
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Converting Open Office (odt) files to Latex
How do you convert Open Office (ODT) documents to tex files?
I have made a report using libre office. Now I wish to continue editing the document using lyx (latex front end). So the ODT file needs to ...
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How can I ensure the whole paragraph is in one page in Microsoft Word?
I have a document that is consists of many smaller portions, say paragraphs. What I want is, each of the paragraphs will be in just one page. It will not be broken in two consequent pages. In that ...
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Manually loading package from Vim-LaTeX in Vim (because auto detection is not always helpful)
General question
How you can manually load a particular package from Vim-LaTeX in Vim and how it can be automated for every LaTeX file?
I am not interested in copying relevant parts from scripts of ...
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LaTeX - how to change intra-document link format?
I love LaTeX but can't figure out how to change the red box around linked items (TOC to document detail, glossary entries used within the document) to the standard blue underline that you see most ...
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MiKTeX-Repo offline - how to build a custom repo?
I tried to download some additional packages for miktex, but it seems that the website has problems (it's running IIS...).
The miktex package manager can't connect to online-repo. I tried to reach the ...
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updating TeX on linux
I am trying to compile some LaTeX code which uses the algorithmicx environemt for producing pseudocode. It won't compile and someone told me that from the log file that the packages for these needed ...
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How to install Type 1 fonts in MikTeX 2.9?
Can anyone supply the complete sequence for installing a Type 1 font on MikTeX 2.9?
I'm interested in particular in Day Roman (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/DayRoman/).
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What is LaTeX and How Can I Get Started Using It?
For physics and math classes, it would be very useful to be able to type out equations with symbols and such. I believe that LaTeX allows you to do this, but I am not sure. So, what is LaTeX exactly ...
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Tools or templates for building nice looking cheat sheet documents
I want to make some pdf cheat sheet documents. I don't have much experience in design and publishing.
I wonder if there are any tools that can simplify producing cheat sheets with a standard but ...
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Emacs Auctex: How do I open the pdf in evince at the current cursor position
I use emacs auctex to write latex files. Since the text is pretty long, and I tend to change things in different places, I would like emacs to open the pdf so that the position in the text is shown ...
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How should one safely background a “daemon” process when started manually?
I once used emacsclient as my editor from the command line, but it bothered me that it would hang the terminal window while I was working in emacs. I tried backgrounding the process by running ...
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server software
A professor at the university asked me if I could install some software for him on his laptop that runs SLES 11. I'm not familiar with SUSE (I typically work with debian based machines) so I'm having ...
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Display invisible characters in vim
When I compile my source with Latex, I get the following error message
Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX.
Now I suspect that this is due to an invisible character. The command ...
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How can I link to a local file in a LaTeX document typeset with PDFlatex on Mac OS X?
When I try to embed a link to a local file in a LaTeX document via \href{file://./path-to-file}{filename} it's typeset as a remote link, so http:// is prepended. How can I link to a local file, with ...
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Which Ubuntu 10.10 package provides the LaTeX class res.cls?
I am trying to find res.cls! I've been looking for quite a while for res.cls but have not found it.
All signs point to it being in texlive-latex-extra, but as far as I can tell it wasn't provided.
I ...
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Create new tool for Gedit LaTeX plugin
I would like to create a new tool for the Gedit LaTeX Plugin, but I run into two problems.
First, I cannot select "New" from Edit / Preferences / Plugins / LaTeX Plugin 0.2 / Configure Plugin / ...
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Vim Format Latex, issues with line breaks
I use vim's source code formatting features (the = key will format your selection and pressing gg=G will format the entire source code).
However, it seems to not format correctly when it encounters ...
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Latexmk on OS X
Does anyone use latexmk on OS X with either Preview or another PDF, dvi, or PS reader?
I've recently switched from Linux and installed MacTex to use Latex. I am used to using Vim to edit the source ...
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LaTeX — specify font point size?
I want to use a font size other than the standard LaTeX list of tiny, huge, etc. How can I do that?
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LatexIt alternative for Windows
I use a program in MacOS called latexit to create small pdf files of math text, that I can then put on presentations or open in Illustrator to modify. Is there a program that does this for Windows?
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Miktex: Wrong DVI mode driver option `dvips'
I'm using MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 7, and when I want to create my pdf file I get:
! Package hyperref Error: Wrong DVI mode driver option `dvips',
(hyperref) because pdfTeX or LuaTeX is ...
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LaTeX vs Powerpoint for presentations
I had been wondering what are the advantages of using LaTeX (specifically the presentation packages: beamer or texpower) over powerpoint for presentations. The advantages which I have seen on the web ...
