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Discussion about the TeX and LaTeX systems & macros.
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Pointing LaTeX to a BibTeX database
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I've got a set of BibTeX databases that I've built up to hold citation information, etc. Now I want to build a .bib file based on the citations of a current document being marked up. I gather LaTeX needs to be told where the BibTeX databases are located, but I've not been able to find of how to do it.... more »
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can I put files such as .cls, .bst and .sty in a sub-folder
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Hi All, I have some files such as IEEEtran.cls, IEEEtranS.bst in my working directory (i.e., the directory where the .tex files are located), and it is working well this way. But I want to put these files into a sub- directory of the current working directory, is it possible? How can I specify these files' paths in the preamble? The following example... more »
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CTAN update: xetex.def 0.94
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quoth the daemon: ...thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. ...as always, the catalogue will change, in a small way, overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team
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line breaks in boxes (or, "how do I get paragraph parsing in hbox/mbox?")
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I'm trying to put some text in an box, so that I can calculate the box dimensions, but hbox nor mbox seem to want to preform linebreaks, and parbox needs a width argument, which is actually what I want to compute so it's useless... I'm testing this with the following code: \documentclass{article} % set up a box for dimension testing purposes... more »
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Toby Cubitt's response
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Toby thanks Dan for his response; see bottom. Best, J. Hi Joris, Thanks very much for reporting this bug, and for the minimal example. Dan's reply is indeed very helpful - it would have taken me quite some time to figure out this subtle chain of events! To quote TeX-by-Topic: Counters 0–9 are scratch registers, like all registers with numbers... more »
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CTAN Update: mfpic
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Daniel Luecking submitted an update to the mfpic package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic/ Summary description: A package for creating pictures in TeX with the aid of MetaPost or Metafont. License type: lppl Announcement text: ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------... more »
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