Questions tagged [unix]
Operation of the TeX system within a general UNIX environment, rather than specifically Linux.
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Generate PDF with a relative path to a file
I usually include relative paths in my code (to print a figure, for example), which PDFLaTeX converts to absolute ones during compilation time. Now I need to generate a link in the produced PDF that ...
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How to make hollywood.cls available? [duplicate]
I attempted to create a document of class "hollywood", and was warned by LyX, that the class is not available -- and needs to be installed. When I try to preview the document, I get a LaTeX-...
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tlmgr cannot load TeX Live database
On freebsd 13 with the texlive-full port. When I trying to set up tlmgr and check the repository with tlmgr -repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet update --list I get tlmgr: Cannot ...
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Windows/Unix Xelatex font usage with fontspec and ttf fonts semi-bold weight
I'm trying to write a file, that compiles both on windows and unix (I'm using the alpine-tinytex image, but the answer should be portable across *nix). I would like to use the semi-bold fontface of ...
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pdflatex filename.tex - I can't write on file 'filename.log'
I installed these packages on my FreeBSD server: tex-formats texlive-texmf When I run the command pdflatex filename.tex I get this error: ! I can't write on file 'filename.log' (Press Enter to retry,...
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Compile a .tex file from a hard link in the original directory
I'm using LaTeX on Ubuntu 20.04 with the Tex Live distribution. Recently, I tried to create hard links to some LaTeX files and put them in a specific folder of my Linux computer, using the Unix ln ...
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Typeset a Unix Command Inline [duplicate]
Is there a standard and aesthetically pleasing way to typeset a unix command inline. For example, I may want to refer to 'ls' as I do in this sentence.
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Why LaTeX can't open a package without sudo permission?
Hello and thanks for passing by, I am new to Ubuntu in general and I have some problems with the LaTeX installation. Some background before all my barging: First, installing and making LaTeX work was ...
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Upgrade to 2019 gone wrong on a Debian System
I followed the advice at tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2018) and upgraded my TeX installation following the tutorial at https://www.tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html. When I ran ...
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Converting .tex file to pdf in Unix
I edited my resume online using Share latex and tried converting the tex file to pdf in my mac command line 'xelatex resume.tex' command using the instructions mentioned in the github project below ...
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Why does Error 256 (driver return code) yield an exit status of 0 (return code 0)?
I may have discovered a problem with xelatex. Unfortunately, I do not know how to reproduce Error 256 easily. What I know is that it occurs when running an automated script that iterates over many TeX ...
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Alter the quickbuild in texmaker?
Is is possible to alter the quickbuild in texmaker such that it performs these command, without i have to it manually everytime.. The issue here is the last command, being makeglossary. Commands i ...
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How to escape double quotes in \input
I'm trying to call shell commands that contain multiple (nested) quotation marks. This is, for instance, what I would write on the shell: $ python -c "print \"Hello World\"" which produces Hello ...
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Convert .tex file into PNG without ImageMagick
I'm noob in TeX. Would it be possible to convert a .tex file into PNG without installing ImageMagick? Is there a standalone method that I can use?
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To split a page from a LaTeX document by keeping the document as produced by xdvipdfmx?
This question evolved as a solution to the problem in old thread about Copy-paste support for documents between Mac and Linux/Windows. I have these pdf commands in OS X pdf180 pdfclose ...