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There are two different commands to incorporate another file into the source of some document, \input and \include. When should I use one or the other? What are the differences between them? Are there ...

I feel really stupid for asking this, but how do you form more complex if conditionals in TeX? I'm looking for something like: \ifnum\x=1 OR \ifnum\x=14 {do this} \else {do that} \fi I don't ...

I'm currently using doxygen to generate some documentation for a project, and doxygen generate some LaTeX code that then can be used to generate a nice pdf. But let's say I would like to write ...

I'd like to concatenate several parts of math text into a single command, and i read a great solution here on this site, allowing me to create this working example of what i mean : \documentclass[...

I would like to define one variable containing some text that can be changed locally. The following code gives one example of the featuring I'm looking for. \documentclass{article} \newcommand{\...

First, what is the proper terminology for a "string" in TeX/LaTeX that is an argument for a macro? e.g., \macro{somestring} Obviously somestring is a token, set of tokens, string, argument, etc. I ...

How do I do a conditional 'if then else' statement, based on length of string being greater than (or less than, or equal) a specified value. For example, something Like \def\mystring{XYZ} \def\...

We all know filecontents.sty can do \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{document} Hello World \begin{filecontents}{dummy.txt} No one will read this if I don't use it ...

I have three chapters which I combine into a thesis using pdfpages: as shown in this link Merging several papers This gets me 95% of what I need the only thing I still need is a table of contents ...

Say I have a document structured as follows. main.tex + ch1 - ch.tex - s1.tex - s2.tex + ch2 - ch.tex - s1.tex - s2.tex Here, *.tex are LaTeX ...

I have a number of latex files section1.tex, section2.tex, etc. Each of them should be able to be compiled individually to give a normal LaTeX document. I would like to write a file master.tex that ...

I need to produce two document layouts using the same content. I'm going to be making heavy use of the input{} command to do this, but it is more complex than just this. I'm looking for suggestions ...

I'm currently working on an experiment that involves re-typesetting a digitized physical book from OCRed images. For various reasons involving the workflow, the resulting project architecture is a "...

I stumbled upon the following question: In the preamble of my main tex file for my thesis, I've included several other files with definitions for abbreviations which are in the same path as main.tex, ...

I have a somewhat large User's Guide for a code I've been working on with collaborators. Each chapter is in a subdirectory of the top directory, which includes the .tex file that grabs and stitches ...