Introduction:
When you use \renewcommand within another macro or environment, one needs to double up the ## to access the parameters of the inner macro. This serves as a way to distinguish the inner macros ##1 with the outer macros #1 (even if the outer macro does not have any parameters, it pr...
And now I am unable to chmod it back.. or use any of my other system programs. Luckily this is on a VM I've been toying with, but is there any way to resolve this? The system is Ubuntu Server 12.10.
I have attempted to restart into recovery mode, unfortunately now I am unable to boot into the s...
While this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
fi 10\%
\end{document}
produces ligatures, this:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
fi 10\%
\end{frame}
\end{document}
does no...
Contextual substition doesn't seem to work with LuaLateX, while it works fine with XeLateX. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\begin{document}
\textvbaraccent{i} fä f?
\end{document}
XeLaTeX
LuaLaTeX
...
Are there some differences between .ist and .mst files in the index personalization?
For example if I put an .ist file in the project folder and if I execute MakeIndex with this option:
makeindex -s istfilename
I have the personalization of the index, but also if I put an .mst file into the p...
The missing $ is probably caused by ≈. While it may be convenient to use direct Unicode input, not all symbols are defined, so you may incur in problems.
For instance, there's no definition for ≈ with the utf8 option for inputenc, while there is (as a math symbol) with the utf8x option (that I ...
I installed TeXLive 2012 for Windows yesterday (replacing a 2003 version I had), and there is no texmf.cnf file. (The error message I get when I try anything, such as running pdflatex or updating filename database, is
Warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found
And when I sea...
I am trying to insert a picture using \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}. I have that in my preamble, and then I'm attempting to insert a picture on a title page. I use the \includegraphics command. I have the picture saved as a PNG in the file the .tex file is saved in. however, when I try to com...
I installed MAC OS X 10.6.8 some weeks ago. Whenever I compile .tex file the following message turns up:
"Can't find required tool.
usr/textbin/pdflatex/simpdftex does not exist. Perhaps TeXLive was not installed or was removed during a system upgrade. If so, go to the TeXShop web site ...
I am a Linguistics PhD student at U.Florida, writing my dissertation. The LaTeX class from our editorial office conflicts with babel (among other packages). Is there a way to override the style sheet temporarily in order to use babel?
The template can be downloaded from http://helpdesk.ufl.edu/w...
I'm trying to use knitr while learning LaTeX but all my figures are placed at a seemingly random place.
It's driving me insane. Any ideas?
Example Input
PDF Output
I tried reinstalling TeX Live and R but nothing changed
EDIT : Ok, I solved more or less the problem by wrapping all chunk in \b...
I need to write an document with Arial. And have some math.
I almost do this in entire document with this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathspec}
\setmathsfont(Digits)[Numbers={Lining,Proportional}]{Arial}
\setmathsfont(Latin)[Numbers={Lining,Pr...
I have MiKTeX 2.9 and TeXstudio 2.5.2 installed on a Windows 7 64bit OS. I have downloaded a latex template from http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tetn20&page=instructions. I was given the error
"Font U/bbold/m/n/12=nullfont not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found...
I am having trouble getting Myanmar text to break at the end of lines properly.
The previous question How do I wrap text that doesn't use SPACE character to segment word would appear to solve my problem. However, it is not working for me.
I am on Linux Mint. XeTeX version is 0.9995.
Here is wha...
I would love to switch to XeTeX to make use of my professional Adobe fonts that were shipped with Creative Suite 6.
I use MikTeX on a Win 8 machine, and TeXniXcenter + XeTeX.
However, kerning seems to an issue, especially with special characters, in my case German Umlaute.
Spacing seems wrong,...
I have read the many posts on this topic already, but I have had zero success with all of the solutions. Just purchased a macbook (OSX 10.8.2) and used the mactex package to run the standard install. TeXShop opens up, but when I try to typeset a document, I get the error message :
"/usr/texb...
I recently removed (most of) my installation of latex due to problems with the hyperref package. I reinstalled texlive using
sudo apt-get texlive texlive-latex-extra
which gave these messages (among other things):
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may...
I am having trouble trying to use amsrefs together with the memoir class. Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{amsrefs}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\end{document}
LaTeX gives me the error LaTeX Error: Command \bibsection already defined.
Googling around, I found o...
I'm typesetting a document with XeTeX and makeindex. The commands are:
xetex adoc.tex
makeindex -s dnd.ist -o adoc.dnd adoc.ddx
makeindex -s und.ist -o adoc.und adoc.udx
makeindex -s chn.ist -o adoc.chn adoc.chk
xetex adoc.tex
Everything is fine until I add, to the end of the document, a comma...
