Unanswered Questions
564 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Recommended practices when creating CTAN archives for packages for inclusion in multiple TeX distributions?
How can I adapt the archives I upload to CTAN to avoid problems in MikTeX, while adhering to CTAN requirements and TeX Live recommendations?
Judging by the issues tracker on GitHub, I am not the only ...
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Comfortably typesetting Extended Backus-Naur-Form
On this site I've found some solutions how to typeset Backus-Naur-Forms, e.g.:
How to type a Backus-Naur form in LaTeX
Which package can be used to write BNF grammars?
Unfortunately both solution are ...
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automatic todo list with priority hierarchy
I've been using the "easy-todo" package, and looked at the "todo" package, for making todo lists automatically. They allow you to write a \todo{<todo text>}command, which will both show in-text ...
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tracklang.sty missing in miktex
I use MiKTeX 2.9.5105 32bit with Texmaker or TechnicCenter and with both of these programs I get an error while compiling:
! LaTeX Error: File `tracklang.sty' not found. Type X to quit or
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Turn a LateX generated text into something animated
I would like to make videos about mathematics, where the formulas are written instead of just shown. The classical way of doing this is like khanAcademy.
The thing I don't like about this is the fact ...
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Producing (bibliometric) statistics on bibliography entries, how to do it in pure latex or with some packages but no external biblio management tools
I would like to produce statistics on a variety of stuff on my document's bibliography. I am using bibtex (in overleaf) and have little idea from where to start. What I want to obtain are these:
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Is the xassoccnt package still maintained?
The homepage listed on https://ctan.org/pkg/xassoccnt?lang=de is currently an empty webpage, when trying to reach the author via e-mail I only get the automated response "No LaTeX support any longer ...
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Chemical compound numbering in pdfLaTeX without `--shell-escape`?
The package chemscheme, included in chemstyle, allows for temporary text "tags" in .eps files to be replaced with designated chemical compound enumerations (A, B, C, ...; 1, 2, 3, ... ; etc.). This ...
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Christmas decoration package
With Christmas coming up, I wanted to do a Christmas themed document.
I did one in halloween using the package halloweenmath.
Is there something similar for Christmas?
For example trees, Santa's ...
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What are the available macros for algebra and calculus?
The polynom package can provide all the steps of a long division of polynomials if I just provide the polynomials:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polynom}
\begin{document}
\polylongdiv{x^4-3x^3-...
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Installation of own *.sty files in TeXstudio?
How do I have to include my own *.sty files in TeXstudio (with default setting, e.g. with PdfLaTeX)?
According to the log file TeXstudio uses TeX Live 2019 .
The *.sty files are organised in folders ...
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What are the best practices to avoid build breaking due to updating packages in LaTeX?
During the last month I had two occasions of build-breaking due to upgrade of some LaTeX packages. The first one was grffile.sty and then today xpatchcmd (no idea which library defined it before, but ...
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Is there a LaTeX package manager with CLI commands like npm for Javascript?
Finding, installing and updating packages for LaTeX is sometimes a pain in the neck. There are package managers for the so-called "modern" programming languages, like npm or yarn for Javascript, cargo ...
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Is there a way to measure demand/interest in a new package before releasing it?
I'm writing a play (specifically, a musical). Scripts have fairly complex and fairly specific formatting demands, so, as a professional LaTeX typesetter, writing it in LaTeX was a no-brainer. There ...
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witharrows.sty seems absent in the latest package witharrows on MikTeX
In CTAN, the latest version of the package witharrows (1.6, 2018-05-10) contains the files witharrows.ins and witharrows.dtx necessaries to extract the file witharrows.sty but, in the corresponding ...
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