Questions tagged [tex-general]
Aspects of TeX as it relates to the larger world of software or typesetting, or aspects of its general functioning or nature. This is not a default tag for questions that do not admit an obvious more specific classification; it specifically concerns TeX in general.
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Understanding TeX terminology
I'm new to TeX and want to make sure I understand some of the terminology. If I understand correctly,
you have a .tex file, which is just plain text, like .txt. The extension .tex signifies that the ...
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Addressing the elephant in the room, why the way of writing $\cong$ and $\equiv$ is flipped?
I have been a user of latex for the lest 10 years, and I have always wondered why to write $\equiv$ we use "equiv" if the symbol that appears is usually referred to as the congruence symbol, ...
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A guide through the modern jungle of TeX
I have been a LaTeX user for about two decades now, with a basic knowledge of the internal mechanisms and quirks of TeX. If at the beginning of my learning curve things didn’t appear too complicated, ...
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Transferring the concepts "string" and "character" into TeX/LaTeX
(Looking at packages like l3string, xstring and stringstrings tempted me to post the following: )
The concepts "string" and "character" to me seem not well defined in (La)TeX.
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TeX compiler with written privacy policy
I have a weird question: I am working at a public high school in New Hampshire, and I can't have any software installed on my school laptop unless the tech office determines that it does not violate ...
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How to create a LaTeX setup that updates as I type?
I was wondering if there was some program or collection of programs that could make it so I can type in LaTeX, and as soon as it sees a valid command, it updates the pdf, so I don't have to manually ...
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Is there any possibility to print a single tex file from a multifile project using a LaTeX compiler?
I would like to retain the multifile structure of my LaTeX projects, but journals usually require a single .tex file. Is there any way to print such a combined document as a 'cached' file with the ...
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What is LaTeX3 correcting in LaTeX2e? And, updates 2021 on LaTeX implementation on small mobiles OS? [duplicate]
There are so many things wrong with LaTeX2e according to the latest discussion, Why is LaTeX3 taking so long to come out?, from documentation to speed, inflexible kernel, etc. We are perhaps waiting ...
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How to deal with relative paths in input files?
Say I have a a file File1.tex that I input in a file like Foo.tex:
folder1/File1.tex:
\begin{frame}
This is file 1.
\end{frame}
Foo.tex:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{...
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Is it legal to use LaTeX for restoring old books? [closed]
I wonder if it's legal to use LaTeX for restoring / digitizing of old books?
Let say some old books (from 1950-1980), which have been published in paper only, and can be accessed only in the library ...
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Strange behavior when using \f@size in an argument [closed]
I spotted this behaviour when pasting InkScape-generated LaTeX source directly into a LaTeX document. This source includes among other definitions the TeX command \f@size, surrounded by \makeatletter ...
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A TikZ graph to teach LaTeX-related extensions
This question is a follow up and complementary question to File extensions related to LaTeX, etc
Which is the main answer to some duplicates: Use of different output files in LaTeX (pdflatex) [...
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`LaTeX` documentation and reference guide [duplicate]
Is there anything such as LaTeX documentation? When I am looking for some syntax on google, I only get to forums, but never a site with actual documentation, such as when looking for the meaning of \...
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How exactly should I use LaTeX instead of word?
I know that this is not a typical question for this website but I guess the answers can be helpful for a lot of new users of Latex.
I'm a PhD student in Chemistry. For the last couple of months I've ...
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What does the name “muglue” mean?
I'm wondering what muglue means in LaTeX and what it is an abbreviation/acronym of: m/u/glue. I have some idea though what glue in LaTeX means.
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