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What is the correct way to check for if one is running in pdflatex vs latex vs. an html processor such as tex4ht?
Suppose I have some latex code that I only want to show up in html, and not show up in pdf and not show up in .ps.
Since tex4ht works in latex mode, then if I try this:
\ifpdf
% ...
@tohecz My main problem with vim is that the only vi command I know is :wq and I've used emacs virtually every day since 1987 so most things seem rather more natural in emacs.
I have found that when saving and later using boxes the box with index 10 behaves differently to all other.
Here is simple demo that shows different behaviour. In preamble I define this commands:
\usepackage{forloop}
\newcounter{BoxCount}
\newcommand{\numberedBox}[1]{%
\stepcounter{BoxCount}...
General opinion here seems to be that Pandoc is worth to try, if you, for some reason, want to convert Latex documents to MS Word. When I open pandoc.exe file I get a black window with a blinking grey line. This seems not to be DOS environment, as paste commands seem not to work here.
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General opinion here seems to be that Pandoc is worth to try, if you, for some reason, want to convert Latex documents to MS Word. When I open pandoc.exe file I get a black window with a blinking grey line. This seems not to be DOS environment, as paste commands seem not to work here.
According ...
@Timebandit No need to feel sorry! :) It means original poster, that is, the guy who originally posted the question. We have quite a bunch of acronyms around here. Just ask. :)
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General opinion here seems to be that Pandoc is worth to try, if you, for some reason, want to convert Latex documents to MS Word. When I open pandoc.exe file I get a black window with a blinking grey line. This seems not to be DOS environment, as paste commands seem not to work here.
According ...
@JosephWright It's a tricky case. To the extent that pandoc counts as a TeX related tool, this particular question might be on topic. OTOH if most pandoc users are using it for other types of conversion there might be a larger user base on StackOverflow or elsewhere, but I don't know.
@AlanMunn The problem for me is that the tool is simply being misused: like TeX, it's command line but the questionner seems to be expecting some form of GUI
@JosephWright Well that doesn't make it a bad question, just a seriously misguided user :) It seems like it might be helpful to the user to just add an answer that says "Here's how you convert a simple TeX document using pandoc. (Not having used it, it's not going to be me, though.)
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@AlanMunn Possibly, but that is not a TeX problem per se (the same would be true if he were trying to use say convert to deal with a TIFF image and tried to run the program without a command-line argument).
@AlanMunn There is an example for a .tex file on the Pandoc help page:
@JosephWright Yes, you're right. I think more and more Mac users have some experience with using Terminal, though. There's lots of stuff on the regular Mac sites that use it, more so than for Windows, I think.