Questions tagged [filesystem-access]
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What is "% !TEX TS-program = lualatex" and "who" cares? [duplicate]
In this community I was recently presented with a preamble beginning with% !TEX TS-program = lualatex which I vaguely recall having the generic designation of "magic". A bash file typically ...
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How tex engines encode file names internally on windows?
This question concerns how file names are written to the .synctex files. On unix, these file names seem UTF8 material for any engine used. On windows what is the exact situation for each engine (...
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Error "pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex" in Texmaker 5.1.4 with MikTex 4.11 on Windows 10 - how to resolve?
I am using my university laptop (I am a member of staff) Windows 10 system. I am a pretty much a computing noob, with no tech knowledge. I have got the administrator to install Texmaker 5.1.4 - ...
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Printing file's full path only on the first page and below the header
I am using Windows and want to print (right aligned) the full path of the running file only on the first page right below the right header as shown in the following screenshot. Minimal Working ...
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Having a file outside of the latex project update whenever I recompile the latex project
So right now I have a bunch folders for all the work I do in Latex organized by subject matter. Each one of these consists of the various latex projects I have for each subject. The folder that holds ...
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Include a file path (.bib) containing spaces & special characters
I have this path "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Sync/160329_3DPP.bib". I cannot change that since the .bib file is synced through iCloud and updated frequently. I read that ...
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Creating a clickable link to a local file only in source code
The following situation: I use a program for my data analysis. The program creates a project file. From this file I export the graphics I'm including as figures in the TeX code. Is there a way to ...
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How to input folders into latex?
I'm trying to compile my PhD thesis which contains three chapters. The relevant preamble I'm using is \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage{titling} \usepackage{graphicx} \graphicspath{ {figures/} }...
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Clean project from unnecessary files not needed for compilation [duplicate]
I was wondering whether there's an automated way to detect unnecessary files (not auxiliary files) that are not needed for compilation of a LaTeX document, perhaps during or after compilation? For ...
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\ShellEscape fails in certain cases with lualatex
This question stems from my question here about minted and lualatex, with similar issues reported by another user here. I think I've isolated the issue to the following. minted relies on \ShellEscape ...
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Nested Include Loop Acting Strangely
I'm trying to implement filesystem based file includes for a paper I'm writing and have previously asked a question on this topic. The accepted answer seems to work in the case that I only have a ...
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Struggling to Implement FileSystem Based Includes
I'm trying to follow along with this answer to automagically include files based on the filesystem hierarchy. My file structure looks like: article.tex sections/ |-- 00-introductions.tex |-- 10-data....
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Put file contents as PDF comment (respecting UTF-8)
I want to have file contents rendered as comment in a PDF file. I decided for pdfcomment, which works. pdfcomment requires newlines being typeset as \textCR\textLF. Which leas me to the following ...
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Getting input filename in lualatex
As in title; I know status.filename gets the name of the exact file being currently compiled, but I want to know the one given as argument to lualatex. \jobname is also unhelpful because it may be ...
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TeXLive 2022 tries to use /root/.texlive2022 directory for an ordinary user
I installed TeXLive 2022 on Linux Slackware 15.0 PC. The installation was done as root. Then I added a script texlive.sh to /etc/profile dir: #!/bin/bash export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/...
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