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pdflatex is a command line utility used to create PDFs directly from LaTex source code.

pdflatex is a command line utility used to create PDF files directly from LaTeX source code.

There is a site dedicated to this: TeX - LaTeX

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Latex, TikZ and separate compilation of chapters and figures

I have fairly large Latex document with a lot of TikZ figures inside. I have a habit of frequent recompilation and it takes forever to compile it using pdflatex. Figures in TikZ take most of the time. My question is what is the best way to split…
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Use of Hyphen or Minus Sign in Matplotlib versus Compatibility with Latex

I am having the problem where a pgf created using matplotlib.pyplot outputs hyphens instead of minus signs, which Latex cannot interpret. I attempted to use the solution found here, but it changes numbers from integers to floats (i.e. 2000 becomes…
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could not start the command pdflatex - synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex error

I'm very new to LaTeX and its distributions so this might be a very newbie question. I was following this tutorial and I'm not being able to compile the document. The code so far is very simple i don't think there are any typos and also I did not…
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Creating reports in R

I've posted a similar question on Rstudio but I thought it would be useful to also ask stack users. My question is basically this: how do you create documents with embedded R graphics that others can easily comment on? In the past few months I've…
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Error running pdflatex from RStudio - can't compile pdfs since updating

I am trying to use knitr in RStudio to make a pdf (using pdflatex/MiKTeX). I'm on a Windows 10 machine. This was working fine until I updated R, RStudio, and MikTeX this month (Feb 2021). I'm getting an error that says, "Running pdflatex.exe on…
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What is the current state of the art in latex?

TeX and LaTeX really confuse me. I know that there is no official distribution, and that it's a bit like Linux in that there are many packagers and distributions. A lot of the distributions that people suggest to me seem to have lost their…
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Customize headers and footers in Latex using Sphinx

We are exploring the features of Sphinx in order to rebuild our legacy manuals. We already ported most of the former manual to Sphinx. Now I'm exploring the possibilities to adapt our company styles. Especially, we would like to change the…
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How to use a pdflatex child process to get a PDF as a stream in Node.js?

Here are my files: . ├── app.js ├── res.cls └── res.tex And here is the relevant contents of my app.js file: const { spawn } = require('child_process') const latex = spawn('pdflatex', ['res.tex']) Running this code successfully creates a res.pdf…
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Tikz externalize issue when using pdflatex with -output-directory

When using pdflatex with -output-directory I run into issues when externalizing tikz figures. While the .md5 files are created where I expect them the command creating the externalized picture files (.pdf, .log, .dpth) fails. My assumption is that…
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LaTeX in docker container using Alpine Linux (repository for Latex)

I planning to use LaTeX in a docker environment for server-based generation of PDF-reports. In the current test system environment I am playing around using this docker container from the hub which seems to work quite well. However, as stated the…
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Level 4 Heading issue in R Markdown

When I use #### for a level 4 heading, the output in pdf(latex) does not leave a line space before the paragraph begins. For example, #### Heading 4 Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the…
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How to get rid of navigation bars in beamer?

How can I remove the navigation bar of sections and subsections on the top of each slide generated from a beamer latex file? I'm using the package beamerthemesplit.
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Error when generating R package manual

I having the following issue when trying to check a package using the command line. First I get this very general error message: * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when creating PDF version. This typically indicates Rd…
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Setting up author or address string variables in LaTeX

LaTeX is a wonderful language for writing documents. With the hyperref package and pdflatex, you easily generate documents with metadata, a nice feature to get your documents referenced right on the web. I often use templates…
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How to create a highlighted calendar using LaTex?

I am not looking for a GANTT planning. I am looking for a calendar with the deadline on it. Do you know what is the best way to do that with LaTeX ? Thanks
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