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How do I find out which Linux package contains which (La)TeX package?
Most Linux distributions provide a tool to find out which distribution package contains which file. Some distributions provide a website as well.
Which file do I want?
For \usepackage{foo} (LaTeX ...
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Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?
I've just finished writing a new tool for checking spelling and grammar directly on LaTeX files, called TeXtidote:
https://sylvainhalle.github.io/textidote
The program can remove markup from the ...
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Auto Package download for TeXLive
texliveonfly
As mentioned in comments, there is a TeX Live package called texliveonfly which you can use with texliveonfly filename.tex, and it will automatically downloaded the right TeX Live ...
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LuaLaTeX not recognised as a VS Code tool
The issue was that I hadn't defined the tools lualatex and biber in the VS Code user settings file settings.json.
The following entries should be present in said file for things to work:
"latex-...
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How do I find out which Linux package contains which (La)TeX package?
Debian and Debian-related Linux distributions have apt-file to find the Linux package that contains a file, e.g.:
apt-file update
apt-file search extarticle.cls
should result in
texlive-latex-...
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Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
I made a web-based viewer which simply opens the slides and the notes on separate windows, keeping them in sync. The windows can be moved freely and expanded (F11) on another monitor like any window.
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How can one stop LaTeX compilation?
If you run pdflatex as
pdflatex -halt-on-error file.tex
it will stop after the first error.
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Algorithm.sty not found (TexMaker)
I was having the same issue and installing texlive-science package solved the issue:
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y texlive-science
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Where can I find LaTeX and its package installation guide in details?
The full TeXLive installation comes with the documentation of its packages, usually under the path /usr/local/texlive/2016/tex-dist/doc/.
The full installation takes about 4Gb, and is easiest done via ...
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How do I find out which Linux package contains which (La)TeX package?
For SuSE Linux it is a little bit more tricky, because searching in the file list of a package is only provided for already installed package.
zypper search provides searching for installed and not ...
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How can I see two tex-files in TeXstudio simultaneously?
Split screen is supported in TeXstudio since update hg 5927 (0ce664cc1a7e) in 2016-03.
You can split the screen by right clicking on the file tabs and selecting the appropriate options.
Editing ...
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How do I find out which Linux package contains which (La)TeX package?
Here's the Fedora way. First, we can use dnf list and list all packages matching the string query:
$ dnf list texlive-*
Last metadata expiration check: 0:43:39 ago on Fri Dec 22 09:17:10 2017.
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Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?
VIM-BASED SOLUTIONS
INTRODUCTION
LanguageTool is a blessing for the open-source community when it comes to spelling & grammar checking. As a bonus, it is a platform independent Java (.jar) ...
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How do I find out which Linux package contains which (La)TeX package?
Arch has two ways for doing this (well, two ways of which I'm aware, anyway):
With the package manager (pacman),
and with an add-on tool called pkgfile.
Pacman
First, update the database for files ...
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Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
As of September 2017 under opensuse, Leap 42.3, I googled again for a PDF viewer which allows to use the second screen option of beamer.
MuPDF doesn't support a second screen with notes at all. ...
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`pdflatex` in TeX Live 2024 stops compiling SIAM article template after `tlmgr update --self && tlmgr update --all` on 8 Nov. 2024
The class redefines the kernel commands \refstepcounter and \label and so destroys new additions to these commands in the kernel, the hyperref support and the fixes for cleveref.
\let\ORIlabel\label
\...
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Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?
For Visusal Studio code, the LTeX – LanguageTool grammar/spell checking plus does a great job for both LaTeX and Markdown files.
Note that this is a successor of the unmaintained original code.
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How to install todonotes.sty package on Linux CentOS 7?
First, you need to locate where exactly that package is, which you seem to have already done (well, by trying to install the standard bundles). Anyway, this is how you need to formally do it. Running
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Troubling glyphs
arabluatex gets it more or less right. For braces you should according to the documentation use \abraces, the ornamental parentheses are intentional not mirrored in Unicode:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Why is LuaLaTeX so slow and is there anything I can do about it?
In my case a big reason for slowness in LuaLaTeX is polyglossia. On my (Linux) machine, switching to babel makes compiling up to five times faster for small documents, and generally twice as fast for ...
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Where is TeXLive after i installed it via terminal ?
For some *nix systems, you could use whereis command:
whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
whereis latex
Output example:
latex: /usr/bin/latex /usr/share/man/...
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How can I see two tex-files in TeXstudio simultaneously?
None of the answer actually tell what to do:
View a file in parallel:
right click on tab -> "move to other view"
Change the split style:
right click on tab -> "split horizontally/vertically"
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Is there any way to run windows Texlive on WSL?
The only advantage of installing TL over WSL is the speed at compile times, I did the test installing using WSL 1.0 (version 2.0 is not yet available).
If you're looking to improve the compile times ...
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Get a list of all labels in a tex document?
All labels are written out to the .aux file in lines beginning \newlabel. The mechanism is described in this answer.
So looking for all instances of \newlabel in the .aux file will give you the ...
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Texlive-math-extra and texlive-latex-extra packages cannot be installed
It seems that in 2018 the package is now called texlive-science.
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How to set environment variables for TeX in Latexmk?
Just put
$ENV{max_print_line} = $log_wrap = 1000;
in the project's .latexmkrc file. The Perl variable $ENV{max_print_line} is equivalent to the corresponding environment variable for the OS, and it ...
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Why isn't my document compiling correctly?
The problem is that you are trying to process the file with pandoc instead of a LaTeX engine. So what you think the workflow is, is
LaTeX ⇒ PDF
but the actual workflow is
LaTeX ⇒ (pandoc internal ...
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Installing texlive without root permissions from the source files
The solution is to choose the option D and then to specify your user directory. Then you return to the main options with R and subsequently choose I to install.
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What makes up each TeX Live install-tl scheme?
Well, there always is the hard way:
Several schemes are available on TeXLive, e.g.
basic, context, full, and more
They are described in these files
https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/...
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How to putting the pipe | as a working command into a macro \newcommand
verbatim commands need to find the end string without expanding commands, so you can't hide it in a \ev command.
You can use fancyvrb to define short verbatim, see the documentation:
\documentclass{...
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