Questions tagged [latex]
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Texlive Install Broken Arch
I can usually just install texlive-most and be done with it.
However, I've built a new system today and the install seems to be failing with these messages:
:: Processing package changes...
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On Linux Mint, how can I install the font Antiqua for XeLaTeX?
In Linux Mint, how can I install the font "Book Antiqua" to my system. Namely, I have the following LaTeX document:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\title{\textbf{Gummi 0.8.0}}
\author{...
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{\LaTeX} symbol in groff
Is there a way to print the {\LaTeX} original symbol in groff?
I would like to use the typography every time the word LaTeX appears in a document made with groff.
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Xournal++ does not change the color of LaTex equation
Xournal++ is a very sofisticated program for digital pen/table, but have a bug with colour of Latex equations. It is like in the imagem below. It doesn't matter you make, the color is the same. Look, ...
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Import named destinations in PDF file
I know we can export named PDF destinations (hypertargets of external links, like we can reference them in LaTeX with \href{myfile.pdf#page.42}{link text}) in Linux with the command line pdfinfo -...
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Uninstall a latex version if two are installed
I have two version of latex installed, see here:
josef@josef-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-3:~$ whereis latex
latex: /usr/bin/latex /home/josef/bin/latex /usr/share/man/man1/latex.1.gz
I want to uninstall the one ...
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Why does Texstudio installation require texlive packages when texlive is already installed from the mirror?
I have TexLive already installed in my system. I installed it using the install-tl.zip as detailed on their website.
Now I'm trying to install TexStudio via the PPA as detailed HERE. However, when I'...
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Latex on Amazon Linux 2
I'm trying to get up and running with latex on Amazon Linux 2. I have done
sudo yum install texlive-pdftex
When I run pdftex I get:
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the ...
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Is it possible to output LaTeX in a shell prompt?
There are several "lambda" prompts (i.e., shell prompts which use the $\lambda$ symbol). While these look nice in theory, many fonts do not use the lambda symbol that I like: $\lambdaup$. I'...
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Flatpak: Install a Flatpak app without installing some of its dependencies
How do I install a Flatpak app without installing one of its dependencies which is not really required?
For instance, if you wanted to install the TexStudio App (org.texstudio.TeXstudio), Flatpak ...
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Venturis ADF on Debian - should a system font be provided by texlive-fonts-extra?
I have some previous SVG files that I'm trying to edit with Inkscape that use Venturis ADF. This font is not installed as a "system font" on my current computer, but I understand it should ...
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How to make latex write to stdout
I'm trying to create a shell script which converts latex-formulas to svgs. I want to use latex and dvisvgm.
But I want to use as few tempfiles as possible.
Is there a way to make latex write the dvi ...
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Markdown to PDF Converstion with Pandoc: Make pages a specific size, in inches
So I know you can use pagesize and geometry to set the page size of the PDFs Pandoc makes to presets (like a5, b5, etc), but is there a way to set a precise pair of dimensions? I'm going to be using ...
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How to find a string occuring between two other strings on other lines
How would I search for a certain string that is preceded by another string, in most cases several lines up, and followed by another string, i.e. contained in a certain environment?
\begin{quote}
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PDF reader for latex sublime text on arch
i am using manjaro ,
i already downloaded sublime-text,and Tex-live .
on windows i used to run sumatra as pdf reader and it as great .
no i cannot find a repository for sumatra pdf for arch so any ...
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problem installing mathpix snip
I'm trying to install mathpix snip to convert an equation from a pdf to LaTeX code following the instructions on the website
https://mathpix.com/docs/snip/linux-overview
and when I try to run the ...
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TeXStudio Dependancy issues - Ubuntu
I was trying to install tex studio using
sudo apt install texstudio
But some dependencies are missing here. I understand that they are primarily the Qt libraries. I tried to install from qt website ...
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How to substitute text from latex file preambles with sed?
I wrote the following sed code that I haven't found the way to make it work...
sed -is 's/documentclass\{standalone\}/documentclass\[class\=memoir\]\{standalone\}/gp' *.tex
Am I using escape ...
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search for a line that contains unmatched delimiters
When running pdflatex and it crashes, my .aux file contains lines like
\@writefile{toc}{\contentsline {section}{\numberline {B
The only way I can think of to identify such lines is to count if the ...
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Package tikz Error: I did not find the tikz library 'crypto.symbols'
I'm trying to compile a LaTex script on Debian 10 and would like to include the package "crypto.symbols" via
\usetikzlibrary{crypto.symbols}
Unfortunately, I always end up with the ...
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How prevent to auto-compilation loop with fswatch upon changes in Texmaker?
After inspecting this question and the unaccepted answer, I tried to test it. First I tested the recommended command with:
fswatch -o report.tex | xargs -n1 -I{} pdflatex report.tex
Which led to an ...
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Texmaker open file interface garbled
I have a problem when using Texmaker. When I use Texmaker to open a file, its user interfaces garbled.
My OS is archlinux. I have tried system update and software reinstallation. It doesn't help.
I ...
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Why this 'useless use of cat' with `detex` is 10x faster than the alternative?
I'm counting words in LaTeX files and intuitively used the command:
$ cat *tex | detex | wc -w
I then immediately noticed he useless use of cat, and did the task again with:
$ detex *tex | wc -w
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How to replace special characters in BibTeX (e.g. {\'{o}} = ó) within a shell script?
Does anyone know of any utilities or have experience converting special characters in a BibTeX file to its proper unicode equivalent in a bash script? Trouble is I can't even find a full list of the ...
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TLPDB error during Vanilla Install of TeXLive 2020
I'm trying to install TeXLive 2020 onto iSh (which uses Alpine Linux) and have extracted all files in the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from the TUG webpage. However, when I execute ./install-tl from ...
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How to install LaTeX the right way from the start
As a quick background to the question, years ago I installed LaTeX on a Linux Mint computer just using the package manager. Worked for a long time. Then I needed to install a package that tlmgr ...
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How do I compile vim with +clientserver on arch linux?
I am trying to use vim to edit TeX files with vimtex. I would like to be able to do backwards search from compiled PDFs. The vimtex documentation says the following:
|+clientserver| is necessary for ...
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Is it possible to install a specific .sty (for texstudio) using apt?
For some purpose I need to have `fontawesome.sty'. This .sty is a part of texlive-fonts-extra package which can be installed using apt. But I don't want to install whole texlive-fonts-extra package.
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Configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables - while installing dvipng
I'm stuck on installing the dvipng package. As I encounter the problem of not finding libkpathsea even after I have installed it, I tried to followed in the instruction (http://www.nongnu.org/dvipng/...
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Vim re-indent file, hardcode some indents
I'm having some difficulty with the vim reindent files (with gg=G).
When I have a larger file (not that large, maybe less than 400 lines of code) I think Vim is having trouble to indent some lines ...
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Replace even and odd recurrences of string with different strings
I'm aware sed is a way to do this, but I can't get it to work. I have a Latex file which contains mathematical expressions highlighted with $. I would like to convert this into MathJax code. This ...
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Cannot install miktex on Ubuntu 18
Ultimately the final goal is to convert HTML to PDF. I saw this solution:
https://github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-wkhtmltopdf
but the above solution seems to require headless chrome in order to run....
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How to configure inverse and forward search in Kile (LaTeX editor)
That is it. There is not much to that question.
Inverse and forward search is basically to be able to do some kind of Ctrl+Click in a line of the *.tex file, and automatically be sent to the PDF ...
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Cannot open MiKTeX, error “File is empty”. Cannot uninstall
I am using KDE neon.
After I installed MiKTeX, I updated everything from it, downloaded the "standard package" and then tried to install TeXStudio... a message appeared "installation failed". But ...
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Bash: How to set the current working directory to the current directory in a loop?
My script loops through all subsubdirectories and calls pdflatex command on all .tex files:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
shopt -s globstar
for d in ./*/**/*.tex; do
echo pdflatex "$d"
done
My question
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Bash: Loop through all subsubdirectories and execute command on certain files
My folder structure looks like this
Main
├── Sub1
| ├── Subsub1
| | | ├── file1.tex
| | | ├── file2.tex
| ├── Subsub2
| | | ├── file1.tex
| | | ├── file2.tex
├── Sub2
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Transform bibliographic references for use with Latex
I was given a long word document which I have to port to Latex. In the document all citations appear in the classic form with author and year. Something like
Lorem ipsum dolor (Sit, 1998) amet, ...
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Updating TLMGR on Linux Mint (Debian)
I want to install a Latex package, so I run:
(env) mvh:~$ tlmgr install verbatim
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2019)
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Fonts installed by the `texlive-fonts-extra` package on Debian are not recognized
I've installed all of TeX Live via texlive-full from the latest Debian Sid distribution. I'm using LyX as my editor, and selected XeTeX for typesetting Unicode characters with non-TeX fonts.
The ...
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Generate tex file containing all filenames in a directory
I have a folder containing 95 tex files. I need to create a tex file all.tex that contains the following code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\input{file1.tex}
\input{file2.tex}
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Evince garbles pdflatex output on some zoom levels
I use pdflatex to generate PDFs but one of them produces garbled text in evince on certain zoom levels, while at others it looks perfectly normal. Is this a problem with the .tex file or with Evince ...
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How can I install texlive-humanities to Ubuntu 19.04
I tried to install texlive-humanitiesto Ubuntu 19.04 but it looks like there is problems with broken packages. How can I solve this issue?
(base) jaakko@jaakko-GL553VW:~/Desktop$ sudo apt install ...
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How to install LaTeX package linguex to Ubuntu?
I would like to write a latex document that contains numbered sentences. I was suggested to use package linguex at https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/504304. How can I install it to Ubuntu?
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Website Template Like (As) Math StackExchange for Linux?
I recently had this question deleted in Math StackExchange. I was mainly using it as a "note to self" in LaTeX, but answers would have been nice.
Is there a webpage I can install on my Ubuntu Linux ...
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Makefile run bibtex command only when tex file has bibliography
I want to have a folder full of any number of .tex files where I will have a single Makefile, which will generate a .pdf file for each .tex file when make is run. The constraint I have is that some, ...
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How do i remove a specific pattern from a specific lines using bash
I want to remove a pattern \textcolor{red}{ and replace }} by } from list of specific lines using bash
Let say i have a file
cat A.txt
\ParallelLText{\jverse{5}\textcolor{red}{“Ahut isi inut chili ...
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How to install TeXLive on Alpine Linux?
Is it possible to install texlive with tlmgr utility (from tug.org)? same question for installing texmaker (or texstudio) latex editors from sources (rather than AppImage, flatpack or snap packages). ...
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Installing LaTeX into Google's Debian8 docker image
I'm trying to figure out how to install LaTeX (specifically, this texlive package) into Google's Debian8 Docker image, which is called gcr.io/google-appengine/debian8. I wish I could provide a link to ...
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An error when I write apt update in the terminal
This question is about an error of a sign of MikTeX in my computer with Debian. This error is
E: El repositorio «http://miktex.org/download/debian stretch InRelease» no está firmado.
This means that:...
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TexLive 2018, after installation Debian "updates" some files and breaks it
After I install the newest version of TexLive through the official installer (this one), if I run a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get finds a series of packages to ...
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