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Automatically detect acronyms without \ac or \gls around them
My Situation:
I am using glossaries package to manage my acronyms.
They are all neatly defined in one file with a list generated automatically.
But I have to confess: I was very inconsistent in using \...
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Scaling tables between page sizes, and filling the page
I'm a teacher, and this is a design pattern I hope to use a lot. I have some information that I want to present as 1) a poster (a1), and 2) a handout (a4). What I would like to be able to do is set ...
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[arara]: Reuse compiled preamble with pdflatex and mylatexformat.ltx
When running pdflatex more than once successively, is it possible to:
• Compile your preamble packages
• Snapshot this moment in compilation
• Continue running through the rest of the pdflatex ...
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Print some document's statistics in preamble (eg. nb. of pages for each section)?
I'm searching for a way to get then print some statistics of my PhD thesis pdfLaTeX document in order to give some practical data to my supervisors on my writing progress (and also to help me get a ...
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Automatically generating pdf files from multiple latex files
I generate 50 similar latex files through python. Now I need all these files as pdfs. Is there a way to do this automatically in some way? The file names are Version 1, ..., Version 50.
Example file:
\...
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Sanitize U+301 infection and others in references
Too often I messed with bad formated BibTeX files from references databases that are infected with active characters as % or & (usually in the abstract, that is not printed but produce an error ...
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How to make work macros work as values in parameters of psbarcode?
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Works
\psbarcode{NODATA}{height=0.33 width=1.6 includecheck includetext}{code128}
But "parametrized", does not work as expected (produces big transparent output)
\def\h{0.33}
\def\w{1.6}
\...
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Command sequence to reliably terminate LaTeX in batchmode
I'm looking for a command sequence that will terminate a running instance of
pdflatex --interaction batchmode
regardless of its state and prior input. I don't care about the output or error ...
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LaTeX: precompile document to reuse inside a C++ program [duplicate]
I've made a C++ program with uses a LaTeX template for creating PDF documents. I open the file, replace some placeholders written inside the .tex document with values of a DB, and then, I compile the ...
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How to automate typeset proceess? [duplicate]
I am currently using Texworks + Linux.
To compile the PDF I hit pdflatex + bibtex + pdflatex + pdflatex.
Is there a way so that I create a new typeset that does that in one click?
Found the easy ...
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is there an unlog.sh script for pdflatex?
I'm tired of manually creating the tarfiles I need for uploading articles to the arxiv.
The process involves creating a tarfile of all the (non-standard) source files. So naturally it needs the .tex ...
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