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Is there a way to create Tex Live or LaTeX virtual environment?
You can use TeX Live's user mode for that purpose. As you have already mentioned in the comments, you can create a new user tree (allowing multiple trees) using
$ tlmgr init-usertree --usertree ~/...
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What do these commands specifically do?
You provide several interpretations of what various commands do.
\makeatletter and \makeatother are just necessary for redefining macros or something.
Not quite. By default, the character @ is ...
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How to suitably configure the TEXINPUTS variable in latexmkrc for detecting the sty and cls files present in a custom folder in the project directory?
Latexmk actually has a subroutine for adding items to search paths. You can write
ensure_path( 'TEXINPUTS', './custom_cls_sty_files//' );
This takes care of using the correct operating-system-...
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Draw a car with TikZ
Update:
To add arrows and others, You can do it as if they were nodes, obviously you have to define a specific point to leave and arrive, in this case in the drawing of the Texla car I added a point ...
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Add gaps to lines with TikZ
Using @AboAmmar MWE, preaction can be used in the simple case:
\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[> = latex]
\node [draw, thick, minimum ...
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How to include graphics with spaces in their path?
In the LaTeX2e 2019-10-01 Patch Level 2 release that should be arriving in distributions any day soon, you can use
\includegraphics[...]{A file with spaces}
just using the core graphicx package, no ...
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Add gaps to lines with TikZ
These gaps at line crossings can be achieved with a thick white-colored line drawn the same way as your crossing line. Here is an example:
\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How to escape percent sign (%) in \path or \texttt environment?
\path of package url directly supports percent characters, unless it is used inside arguments of other macros. \path (or \url) changes the category codes of special characters before and for reading ...
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Is there a way to draw the rest of a path by mirroring the existing part?
It can be done with spath3
\documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{spath3}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\path[spath/save=apath] (0, 0) -- ++(-9, 0) -- ++(5, 3) -- ++(2, 7) ...
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Tex Live installation, and a problem of getting evince to show dvi files
Add the lines
export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
export MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH
export INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/doc/info:...
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Draw a car with TikZ
A command \mzncar is defined. It takes 2 arguments. The first argument is a coordinate used to shift the car. This argument is optional with default value (0,0). The second argument is the color.
\...
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How to draw and label vertices of a polygon?
You can see the explanation why it is not working in the Heiko Oberdiek's answer.
To overcome this you can replace node[position] (n) {n} by coordinate[label=position:n] (n). Here is the full code:
\...
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After a completed TeX Live installation on Linux: how can I run just the "Create symlinks to standard directories" option?
From all the comments to the question and my experience after using them I write up an answer:
If you want to create symlinks to standard directories after the install, do not try to run the install ...
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! Use of \@x next doesn't match its definition, using memoir class, toc, chapter and begin{figure}
that is a known bug https://github.com/latex3/babel/issues/51 which will resolved when babel is updated is a few days
As a work-around:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[british, ngerman]{babel}
\...
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How to draw and label vertices of a polygon?
That happens because your (1), (2), (3), etc. nodes are the labels, not the points.
Here a possible solution using \coordinate:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\...
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How to specify absolute paths
Just specify the path, eg
\input{/users/someone/inputs/inp.txt}
if you want to use ~ use \string~ otherwise it means nobreak space.
\input{\string~/inputs/inp.txt}
(added after edit to question) ...
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What is the easiest way to set path of updated(new version) texlive installation?
Open your .bashrc script and write the following lines at the end:
PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH; export PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH; export ...
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TiKz Path Exclusion - Compound Shapes (pathfinder functionality)
Here is a possibility using the spath3 TikZ library and following the steps from Andrew Stacey's excellent answer here. The code is not so short but is repetitive and easy to understand (I hope). We ...
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Draw a car with TikZ
You can always create a \pic based of some part of your code which makes it easy to reuse it:
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{
pics/my car/.style={
code=...
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Draw additional parallel paths in TikZ
I just found the nfold library from 2023 by Jonathan Schulz. It can do exactly that - also for Bézier curves and closed curves.
\documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{nfold}
\...
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How to mention local drive path inside Latex?
I would strongly advise you to either use \verb or the url package.
The \verb command is designed for typesetting entities that include characters that are special in LaTeX and it respects spaces in ...
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How to draw and label vertices of a polygon?
The lines (3) -- (4) and (1) -- (2) connect the nodes, the center point of the nodes:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\path[...
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Place text along a path
Several changes.
You should use \tikzset instead of \tikzstyle. See the code below for the syntax.
Use anchor= to measure spacing from the edge of the node instead of the center.
Use the decorations....
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How can I define a custom TikZ path operation?
How feasible is it to define my own path operations, similar to --, to, rectangle, or parabola in TikZ?
Depends on
your input syntax
If you need \path (1,1) myshape (3,3); you will need to hook
into ...
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%!TEX root = to parent directory
Although this is an old question, it seems still actual. I stepped over the same problem and
../thesis.tex
did not do it for me. Since I am using Windows, I tried a backslash instead:
..\thesis....
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