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I have read that it's supposed to be possible to write dates such as date={ca. 1975?} for approximate dates, but with biber 2.22 (running under Ubuntu) I get WARN - misc entry 'ShawSpecErrors' (pervasive.bib): Invalid format 'ca. 1975?' of date field 'date' - ignoring What am I doing wrong? submitted by /u/dalamb54 [link] [comments]

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This is just a quick follow-up on last week's post about finally getting my engine to compile modern LaTeX documents. In the video for that post, in addition to showing macro-profile flame graphs and other fun things, I made the claim that I had some fairly easy performance optimizations on the table. I wanted to make a brief video substantiating that claim, with a short update on the results of that performance tuning. In today's video, I run a few comparisons -- compiling a few-page document, a 7000-page document, and the smallest imaginable LaTeX document. That last one is basically just a "engine start-up time" stress test, which I am irrationally determined to get into the single-digit-millisecond range. This is the start of a little mini-series I'll try to put together on my engine architecture and what I'm doing differently from other engines to run a bit quicker). After that (based on a comment on the last post) I'm still planning on having a more reasoned discussion with my actual thoughts on Typst. But I couldn't resist adding a quick, probably unfair comparison in this video. Happy to answer any questions or hear your thoughts! submitted by /u/DanielSussman [link] [comments]

I have dragged local patches from document to document, and I would like to upstream some of them. I contacted three maintainers from three different packages/tools, but none of them replied. They seem to have been inactive for years now. What should I do? Are we condemned to locally stack patches until the end of time? Note: I also wish all the CTAN projects had a public git repository. submitted by /u/True_Dig_3638 [link] [comments]

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Sono un ricercatore inesperto che sta creando una teoria, finora ho pubblicato 4 articoli su Zenodo ma non sapendo scrivere in LaTeX mi sono rivolto all'IA. Sto cercando un individuo (preferibilmente che parli italiano) che sappia scrivere in LaTeX molto bene, non riuscendo a fare l'endorsnent su arxiv se avesse anche quello sarebbe ancora meglio. Ovviamente il nome dell'individuo verrà messo tra gli autori, per avere maggiori info sulla teoria mandare una e mail su [guidomori07@gmail.com](mailto:guidomori07@gmail.com) submitted by /u/Helpful-Ordinary3635 [link] [comments]

I've been using Texstudio, but it's now deprecated on homebrew (M silicon Mac). I've installed PyCharm and Texify, but I'm not already familiar with the Jetbrains ecosystem and am a bit overwhelmed. There don't seem to be a lot of resources for learning Texify. Should I try to learn Python in PyCharm in order to learn the IDE? submitted by /u/mekosmowski [link] [comments]

How does my teacher get the upright integral and the fraction too look like in display format? submitted by /u/chocolateisapro [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I’m a music theory teacher with a background in math and music. I mainly use Dorico for writing music, but for exams and worksheets, I really want to harness the power of LaTeX. In the past, I took PDF snapshots of my music and included them in my LaTeX files, but this workflow is really inefficient for exams. I know LilyPond is the answer, but I'm having trouble getting the setup right. I managed to follow this German guide using TeXstudio, but it still feels clunky. Right now, I have to typeset the music in Frescobaldi to generate a .ly file instead of writing the code directly in my document. My Dream Workflow: I want to be able to write text, drop in some LilyPond code, and continue with text—similar to how math environments work in LaTeX (like in this example). My Questions: How do I set this up? Can anyone provide easy, step-by-step instructions on how to get an inline LaTeX + LilyPond workflow running? (I installed LilyPond and Frescobaldi via Homebrew). What editor should I use? I mainly use Texmaker (and recently tried TeXstudio), but I'm on an M1 Pro Mac. Do you have any recommendations for a better editor for this specific workflow or in general? Thanks in advance for your help! submitted by /u/ConfidentMove6586 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone! I'm a beginner with LaTeX. I usually use it for taking notes during my classes. Sometimes, though, when I'm starting a new paragraph, I feel like the default vertical spacing isn't enough. I need more vertical space between paragraphs. Otherwise, I feel like the text is just too crowded. The extra space helps separate the end of a thought from the next. How do you guys go about that? If you do use extra vertical space, how do you do it? I usually use \\[xpt], except in special environments. Thanks! submitted by /u/That_Idiot_Genius [link] [comments]

Every now and then I read these articles about how one can write latex at warp speed using a bunch of clever configurations. Also, every now and then I read these comments about how LyX is for noobs or those with cli-phobia. It strikes me as funny. Maybe a bit elitist. I've been writing with latex for 30 years. I've also been writing with LyX for 30 years. I've also been programming for 30 years in terminal vim. Did I mention I've been using Linux since it was distributed on floppy disks? Okay, that takes care of "do you even latex" and "do you even cli". Onward. Those that write off LyX are missing out on the features this app offers. Those time-saving speedy custom configs are just standard features for LyX. Just thought I'd throw it out there ... View Math as Math I prefer to write and view math as math, not code. Instead of this: \[ X(\omega)=\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}x(t)e^{-i\omega t}\,dt \qquad x(t)=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}X(\omega)e^{i\omega t}\,d\omega \] I'd rather see and edit this: https://preview.redd.it/ioz3zbm12xph1.png?width=921&format=png&auto=webp&s=98d0d9dbfac9d35aa8200cdff476361e317920d9 Of course, you can use all the latex math commands like `\left(` and `\omega` to write your math, but there are shortcuts to make everything faster, like those custom configurations. Just built-in. If you have massive math macros, then set them up as LyX math macros. Same deal. View Pics as Pics Similarly ... https://preview.redd.it/6x1dzigqexph1.png?width=1894&format=png&auto=webp&s=045e4699b66dc8b818f8e36af856ddb4d56924f9 LaTeX as you Visual But you like programming your writing. You know, instead of writing your writing. You want to see the code. Then just see the code as you write: https://preview.redd.it/emsitpw24xph1.png?width=2586&format=png&auto=webp&s=c156d8fd24c7b348f5ea0808d5239c6142102817 Double Quote by Double Quoting You know those weirdos that "double quote" everything? You can do that too, but you don't have to ``double quote'' everything by single quoting everything twice. Just double quote. Same with all those other 99% strange ways to enter characters. You know, 99\% and \$25 and Tom \& Jerry and \backslash. Compose Key Actually Works Do you use the compose key? Then just use it. 0°C = 32°F instead of $0^\circ$C.Did you modify your .XCompose to assign custom compose keys to Greek letters? Then just use those for math. LyX converts automatically. WYWIWYW Some people complain that LyX is some alien mutant of the pure, unadulterated sweetness that is latex typesetting. It's not GUI WYSIWYG. Either write pure latex or use Word, they say. Wut. LyX does not do on-the-fly updates. Asking any editor to do as much is tantamount of asking for a latex reimplementation. What it gives you is what-you-write-is-what-you-write. You focus on content, not latex macros. What you get out is latex source and PDFs generated by that latex source compiled by a latex compiler. Mainstream LaTeX Code Some people complain that the latex generated is somehow polluted with LyX-isms. They have clearly not seen actual output. LyX-generated latex is some of the cleanest latex around. Probably cleaner than yours. It's properly formatted. It uses robust latex idioms and mainstream packages. It doesn't willy-nilly use any hot buzzword feature or crazy hack that you happened to see on tex.stackexchange.com or redefine a bunch of stuff for that one thing which you wanted to look a slightly different from the accepted norm. It generates latex code that everyone who understands latex will understand. Features Some people think that LyX only supports the most generic, basic latex features and that anything more ``serious'' or ``advanced'' is unsupported. It is a rare day when I find a typesetting need that LyX doesn't already fulfill. It might not be obvious that LyX supports it. LyX has a lot of features. Like subfigures. It's not obvious but it's there. You just insert a figure inside a figure. Of course, I'm not you and my needs are not the same as yours. Maybe you're trying to recreate the styling of a 16th century French Bible. I don't know. LyX probably won't do that out-of-box. Customization and Code Some people complain that LyX doesn't let them customize. You know, because any customization they do will be done so well with such nice code that it will be understood by everyone and is definitely way better than any LyX-isms. Yeah. That customization should've been the default anyway ... That one itch you need to scratch ... it must be scratched. Then, scratch it. Nothing prevents you from inserting any actual latex code in your document. LyX laughs at you and calls it ERT, evil red text. But you can do it. Other I can go on, but writing this post is getting boring. LyX is not and will never be full latex. I don't know any GUI app that can. What it does is make it easy and intuitive to use the 20% of the full latex capability that you probably use 99% of the time. And don't kid yourself, it's unlikely you use anymore than that of the full capability of latex. But if you do, LyX will cater to your customization as well as probably any GUI can. Write your code. Write your external TikZ figures. Write your chem equations. But it is an app on your computer. It is not online. It is not designed for online, simultaneous collaborative work. You will not have a good time there. Nor will it be trivial for you to satisfy arbitrary typesetting requirements by whatever journal you're submitting into. But you can do it. You'll have to look for instructions on how to add custom document classes and maybe write a configuration file. Back to the CLI. But if you're writing a document and you want the typesetting panacea that is latex, you owe it to yourself to try LyX and see if it will elevate your writing experience like it has for many. Fun fact: LyX was started by Matthias Ettrich, the same guy that started KDE. You use KDE, right? submitted by /u/Electronic_Hat449 [link] [comments]

This might be a cool tool for you guys. It's basically a big lookup table of LaTeX commands. So let's say you need to search for how to do a table, you just search table and you should get a template. Or lets say you just want to search infinity, then it would come up with \infty. 🙂 There's also a daily challenge every day to practice your latex skills, also some tutorials and other features. submitted by /u/Jacob0501 [link] [comments]

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Hi, I am struggeling with citation in LaTeX. Im am using: - Zotero - LaTeX with Overleaf with the Integration von Zotero - Better BibTex I want to cite a document from the United Nations. In Zotero I wrote "United Nations" in the box "surename" and nothing for "first name". I can see the information to this document in Overleaf "references.bib", that has been automatically synchronized from Zotero. The problem: But in this case it just writes (Nations, 1948) instead of (United Nations, 1948). So Overleaf probably thinks of "United" as the first name and "Nations" as the surename. I want to have the citation (Author, Year), (United Nations, 1948). I found out, that it could help using {{}} instead of {} . author = {{United Nations}} . But I can not change the information in "references.bib" since it is automatically taking the information from Zotero. The information in references.bib: u/report{unitednationsUniversalDeclarationHuman1948, location = {Paris}, title = {Universal Declaration of Human Rights}, url = {https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf}, institution = {United Nations}, author = {United Nations}, urldate = {2026-06-26}, date = {1948-10-12}, Do you have any ideas how to solve this problem? submitted by /u/Ok-Evening-6894 [link] [comments]

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For some context, I am currently reading "A fast procedure for computing the distance between complex objects in three-dimensional space" by Gilbert, Johnson, and Keerthi. The first figure of the paper is attached below. I really like how this figure looks, but the only way I can think of making figures like these is to either hand-draw them, or use some sort of CAD software. Since the paper released in the late 80s, I'm not sure what type of software was available, leading to this post. I'm not really sure if this is the best place to ask this since I don't know if this was made with TeX or it's successors, but I'm curious as to how this figure could have been made. I'm fairly new to typesetting in general, and I have no clue how formal papers can generate figures such as the two below. I apologize if this is not the right place for this kind of question, but I would greatly appreciate any help. Figure from "Div, Grad, Curl, and All That" by Schey: https://preview.redd.it/arj2wcy0tmph1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d783eb88906b9b0c9ff33b89699528d9707170d Fig1: https://preview.redd.it/fv078sa9rmph1.png?width=588&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc6628ccda88bfdf82d335fca11fe6595350c5ca submitted by /u/Owl-Sweet [link] [comments]

Yup. My university, like most of Polish universities, requires my BEng Thesis to be written using M$ Word. I can't even imagine writing something longer than 3 pages with this tool. Is there any reliable transpiler from *.tex file to DOCX? I have tested Pandoc some time ago. Are there any pitfalls or potential problems with Pandoc, which I should be aware of? I've never used Pandoc for longer documents. submitted by /u/lasek0110 [link] [comments]

Another quick update on the C++ hobby engine that I've been working on and posting about every few weeks here. To keep things brief: I recently hit the unreasonably satisfying milestone of getting my engine to compile its first document using the modern LaTeX format! This meant not only implementing the e-TeX extensions and the L3 kernel utility primitives, but also figuring out a few janky workarounds relating to engine impersonation. In the latest video, I demonstrate this working, and then dive into one of the questions that originally inspired this project: why does LaTeX feel so slow compared to plain TeX? This topic often gets discussed, but distinguishing in-principle reasons from implementation details is not so simple! Thinking through this question, I go through a few performance comparisons across different TeX engines and different TeX formats. I also instrumented my engine to generate JSON and callgrind-style output files of the sort used to do different flavors of profiling, but targeted to see where LaTeX is spending its time during the macro expansion loops. "Come for the rambling video, stay for the flame graphs", if you like! As always, happy to hear your thoughts and answer any questions! submitted by /u/DanielSussman [link] [comments]

I've never used Overleaf/LaTex before and this report is due in 2 days. I'm scanning through the tutorial and trying to wrap my head around where and how to make changes to the packages and preamble to fix the font and formatting, and I'm not getting it. The two main things I want to do are: 1) Change the entire document to a sans-serif font; 2) Change the text from justified to left-aligned. Here's what's currently set up -- can anyone look this over and suggest what I should add or change to achieve those two goals? \documentclass[13pt]{extarticle} % -------------------- Packages ------------------------------- \usepackage[letterpaper,margin=0.82in,headheight=15pt]{geometry} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{array} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{titlesec} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage{lastpage} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{caption} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{ragged2e} \usepackage{parskip} \usepackage{placeins} \usepackage{needspace} submitted by /u/victoria_jam [link] [comments]

That screenshot is from the table of contents of a spanish book about Homer. As you can se, it is divided in "parts" (partes), and inside each part there are the chapters: inside the "parte quinta" (fifth part) there are the chapters 9 to 11, and in the "parte sexta" (sixth part) there are the chapters 12 and 13. Is there a package to group chapters in this or a similar way? submitted by /u/Ordinary-Dinner5453 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I’m having a problem with chemfig and \chemmove when compiling with XeTeX. The anchors I define in my chemical structures are becoming completely disorganized: their positions seem to shift or no longer correspond correctly to the atoms/bonds where they were defined. The same code behaves differently depending on the compiler, and I’m specifically having this issue with XeTeX. Has anyone experienced this problem with \chemmove and XeTeX? Is there a recommended way to keep the anchors properly positioned, or a workaround to make them behave consistently? Any help would be greatly appreciated! submitted by /u/Warm_Ad1115 [link] [comments]

i study linguistics and need to make x bar structures. a 15 year old post here recommended q trees and a senior of mine suggested forest. which is better and are there any others i should look into? submitted by /u/AncientSaviour [link] [comments]

This is a thread for content created in some manner by AI. Any AI-generated content posted outside of this mega thread will be removed. Minor AI assistance should be disclosed in posts outside of this mega thread. submitted by /u/SonusDrums [link] [comments]

Not a mod. But I was hoping to raise awareness that if you post a question that gets an answer then other people also benefit from that exchange. We've all googled a LaTeX question and found an old answer, and been glad it is there. Some people lurk here, picking things up over time. I'm not sure why so many people delete exchanges. There are good reasons to delete things sometimes, but asking for a clarification on a technical point does not seem, at least to me, to be one of them. The only other thing I can think is that those folks think that their question is clogging up the stream. I was hoping with this post to convince them that they are mistaken, and to leave it in place. In particular, if the answerer spends 15 mins on that answer and you delete the question, then you've been not too kind back to the person who was kind to you. submitted by /u/JimH10 [link] [comments]