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Install using synaptic ignoring dependencies
I was trying to install texmaker a latex editor in my debian system from synaptic. It shows in the dependency list texlive-base, texlive-common. etc as dependencies. But I have already installed ...
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how to setup AucTex with LuaTex in Emacs
How can I add to the list LuaTeX when I type Ctrlc Ctrlc?
I was able to add Latexmk to the list by adding
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (lambda ()
(push
'("Latexmk" "latexmk -pdf %s" TeX-run-TeX ...
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latexmk with emacs only runs once instead of twice
I have latexmk setup to run through Auctex.
I hit crtl + c crtl + c and the option latexmk is present. When I run a file that has new bibliography items, it says after compiling that I need to run ...
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Printing Latex source with a2ps
When I try to print out latex source code with
a2ps somefile.tex
I get error messages from egrep like
egrep: Das Ende des angegebenen Intervalls ist nicht gültig
which translates to "the end of ...
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emacs auto indentation
I have Auctex and auto indentation set in my ~/.emacs but it doesn't work correctly for \end{enumerate}.
If I had the following, (below is what would happen if I hit tab on the \end{enumerate}
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text color settings in emacs
I just switched to emacs from Vim today so I have no idea what I am doing. How do I change the syntax coloring in Emacs? Everything is green or light green.
As you can see, latex tex is dark green ...
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Convert table in LaTeX
I copy the table from Calc (or Tracker)
In my research I know three ways:
1: Record a macro: @a0f cw & <ESC>;.;.I\hline <ESC>A \\ (the spaces count ;) )
And then VG:normal ...
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Shellscript to print a directory tree and files's contents with a nice presentation
I'm trying to write a shellscript which prints a tree-view for a specific directory and it's subdirs to pdf via latex, as well as the titles and contents of all scripts contained within that primary ...
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extracting and copying parts of tex files into new tex files
I have a bunch of tex files in different folders on my system. The goal is to create new tex files (using a template, that has the title page, packages, new commands,...) that combines all the ...
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Latex auto package loading
In Windows, TexWorks loads the missing sty packages itself. In Linux it doesn't: how is this sty loading managed in Linux?
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How to install listings package in Kubuntu for LaTeX?
I installed LaTeX on my Kubuntu with those commands:
sudo apt-get install abntex
sudo apt-get install texmaker
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended ...
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How to sort (by whatever key) BibTex entries in `.bib` file?
I work with LaTeX and do versioning with Git. For bibliography management I use Mendeley.
The problem is that each time Mendeley synchronizes it's .bib exports,
they are in different order, what ...
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yum require an older version of a package as dependency
I have installed TexLive 2012 via the official site and want to install epydoc which depends on an older version. However, when I try to install epydoc which depends on texlive, I get the below ...
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How do I get GrindEQ (Latex plugin for Word) to work with Word in Wine?
GrindEQ is a plugin for MS Word. It allows one to type LaTeX code into a Word document, then export that into Word's formatting (converts equations into Equation Editor equations, and takes care of ...
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Syntax highlighting of latex code blocks in ikiwiki
Is it possible to get syntax highlighting for LaTeX code blocks in ikiwiki (just something like it is automatically done in tex.sx)?
To avoid misunderstandings: I don't mean math output produced for ...
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vim latex: disable quickfix
How can I disable latex's quickfix feature when editing tex files (having vimlatex installed). But I want to keep it for any other language…
Pretty sure this is just a small flag, didn't find it ...
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Getting emacs to convert latex on the fly?
What's really nice about posting in the math stackexchange, and other forums, is that you can view the latex symbols right below as you're typing your post. Is there a way to do this in emacs? That ...
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TeXstudio: open file at line number n
I am creating a script to produce some .tex files with a lot of lines (a kind of automatic sample).
The script finishes with texstudio /home/$USER/foo.tex where foo.tex is the file created before.
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Problem opening .dvi files
I would like to know why my Lubuntu 11.10 does not open my .dvi files created with Latex.
Please, can anybody help me solve this problem?
When I use evince L1.dvi, in the terminal, the evince ...
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Deleting many files except one type [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Deleting all files in a folder except files X, Y, and Z
I am writing a script to compile many .tex files. After that, many auxiliaries files were created.
So, I would ...
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What is the native Gnome equivalent for Kile?
I was using Kile for editing Latex documents, but after latest package upgrade (I am running Debian Testing) all Kde applications are running reeeeaaaallllly slow - so I am looking for a temporary ...
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Installing Texlive on PC-BSD 8.2
How can I install TexLive on PC-BSD 8.2 and set all the environment variables?
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How to make a list and count LaTeX keywords in a source file?
I am a beginner, trying to make lists (and eventually count and make statistics) the LaTeX keywords appearing in some documents.
Basically a LaTeX "valid" keyword can be identified by:
The fact ...
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How to parse a file to extract 3 digits numbers kept in a “group number”
I am a beginner, and trying to write a shell script to parse a text file that is extracted from a standardization pdf file. I would like for each test group (identified by Group 0, Group 1... to get ...
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Compile all tex files in a directory
If I do pdflatex *.tex in a directory, only one tex file is compiled. Which syntax should I use that all *.tex files in the directory are compiled?
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Insert multiline text into several files via commandline
I want to insert some code into multiple tex files foo*.tex in a directory, one line after \documentclass{.*}. Note that the files have different document classes so the .* is just a symbolic ...
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Install pdflatex via SSH on Amazon EC2 instance
I need to install pdflatex on my Linux powered machine (Amazon EC2 instance, didn't decided yet which distribution would be the best so also feel free to give a hint) because I want to connect ...
