Questions tagged [document-configuration]

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What's the best way to arrange LaTeX documents?

I am very new to LaTeX. First question I have is can latex do this? I have ~1000 verses Each verse has its meaning in English and Sanskrit. three authors commentaries on each verse. When I finish typing, I want to be able to generate following…
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What is \DocumentMetadata? What key-value pairs does it take and when should I use it?

So, I stumbled across a document that began with, \DocumentMetadata{pdfversion=1.2} \nonstopmode\synctex=1 \documentclass{article} I have seen line 2 and 3 in the wild but I have never seen line 1 anywhere before. I am curious what is it, what does…
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Merging many tex-documents together?

I have a serie of publication papers that I would like to gather into one group of papers (or a collection). Is there some easy way for that without removing all headers such as \documentclass{article}...etc? I initially thought about just appending…
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Is there a good way to subdivide your tex document into subdocuments?

Like classes in java (if that means anything to anyone)? Can you have a document which handles all the graphing, another which handles the figures where you can call parts when you need them in your main document. The reason I ask is that one of…
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Follow up to "Whats the best way to arrange latex documents"

A follow up question What's the best way to arrange LaTeX documents? There are couples of characteristics to my data described in original question – Verse numbers are unique Authors name is unique For commentaries I created a unique…
Raama
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Embedded PDF viewer in Texmaker not working correctly

I am new to LaTeX world. I have set Texmaker (installed on windows 8.1) to show source editor and embedded pdf viewer on same window. Now whenever I Press "Run", the embedded PDF viewer window do not show the output PDF. It only display the output…
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A5-paper document with 55 letter on one line

Is it possible to write a document for A5-paper such that I can configure its margin widths and letter spacing such that a line contains at most roughly 55 letters?
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Why does "Temporary page!" error occur?

At the end my document, I get a new page that contains, Temporary page! LATEX was unable to guess the total number of pages correctly. As there was some unprocessed data that should have been added to the final page this extra page has been added…
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What Does A `.dtx` File Do?

Latex documents often come with a number of different files. What does a .dtx file usually specify? Please assume that the person reading your answer has next to no experience with using LaTeX. I don't care about the syntax used inside of a .dtx, or…
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How to use the volumes package?

I need to split a book in two volumes, the problem is that I need the table of contents and the index of the whole book in each volume. I already tried to use the package volumes but I can't make it work. \usepackage{volumes} \onlyvolume And…
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Is there a way to import content from a separate file?

I have the content in a separate text file. Is it possible to import that between the \begin{document} and \end{document}? Is there an include option in LaTeX? Thank you!
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Setup document such that one page contain 2400 keystrokes?

How do I format a page in LaTeX such that it will only contain 2400 keystrokes? Anyone who knows how the preamble should look like?
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Merging several papers

This link seems to have the answer. But what does he mean by "Create a new document as a frame"? Also whatever it is how do you create it in TeXnicCenter? Baz \documentclass{article} …
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how put introduction in table of content without count like chapter

The introduction doesn't appear in table of content. How I can do it in the following example. \documentclass{book} %\usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{tcolorbox} \usepackage{setspace} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.0} \title{Operation…