Questions tagged [tools]
{tools} is about the complementary tools needed to produce particular jobs. Note that it may not refer to any particular tool in a standard TeX bundle.
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Authors with abbreviated and full first names - how to deal with the mess in biblatex?
I am quite sure someone has come across this madness, just not sure how to ask uncle google. When downloading citations to either Zotero or JabRef or whatever citation manager, some journals will only ...
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LyX: Move or remove bottommost toolbar
In LyX there's the bottommost toolbar that displays various bits of useful information.
In order to save space on my screen, can I remove this toolbar?
Or if I can't, can I maybe move it next to ...
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Converting Wikipedia citations to BibTeX
I wrote a Wikipedia page with over 20 references. Now, I want to summarize this page for the Related Work section in some paper I write. The problem is that the references in that page are in ...
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Coding non-trivial algorithms within TeX
This is kind of a hard question to formulate correctly, so forgive me if I have to clarify this question later.
I want to draw a lot of somewhat complex TikZ diagrams, which to be done effectively ...
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Tool to automatically convert handle into bib entry
There are on-line tools e.g., to convert isbn into a bib entry, or from doi to bib entry.
I could not find any tool (on-line or off-line) to convert automatically http://hdl.handle.net/ links into bib....
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Spell checking LaTeX documents in Windows
I'm looking for a spell checking software for LaTeX in Windows. I know that such questions have been asked before but more than a decade has passed. Hopefully, there are better solutions out now. ...
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Tikz learning: easy tools to help
Is there any app/site that can help/teach about Tikz? I am using Mathpix for mathematical formulas, I would like to have something similar.
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What is Texlive?
I’ve looked on the internet for multiple hours, but I can’t get my head around it.
How to install new packages in the Texlive distribution?
I figured out that there was a package manager for this &...
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LaTeX code in legend table in Qti-Plot
I want to use LaTeX code in the legend table of a plot in the qti-plot software. Does anyone know how one could e.g. write $4\cdot 10^{-5}$?
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A program for quick and easy typesetting of formulas in latex
Is there an additional toolbox for a simpler set of formulas in latex? After all, it is difficult and not visual to type this using symbols. Also interested in the same for creating tables. It ...
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Merging multiple tex files into one standalone tex file [duplicate]
Suppose I have two tex files, document.tex and content.tex
document.tex:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
This is some content.
\input{content.tex}
\end{document}
content.tex:
This is ...
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Do exists a tool from unicode to LaTeX? [duplicate]
I am currently looking for a tool that converts a Unicode code to TeX/LaTeX. Actually I have not found anything.
There are many tools on the web that transform a symbol from LaTeX to Unicode but not ...
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A long text done with mdframed overlapped on the gray rectangle done with Mathcha
I have this code,
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[framemethod=Tikz]{mdframed}
\begin{document}
\tikzset{every picture/.style=...
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Given this TEX file of a book with typos, how might I produce a corrected version. What tools and supporting packages are necessary or useful?
I am not very experienced with the details of processing TEX. I just use it for mathjax, and a few short missives, from time to time.
The book is Space—Time—Matter, by Hermann Weyl, found here in ...
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How to make accessible pdfs with ConTeXt/LuaTeX and open-source tools
I recently watched this talk about PDF accessibility in LaTeX, and I was wondering how well it was supported by ConTeXt/LuaTeX. From what I've gathered, LuaTeX makes it easier by using UTF8 and TTF ...
