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I have a hankering to try ConTeXt again. I am normally a MikTeX user — its on all my computers, except the linux ones (which generally use whatever is the the package manager). Last time I used...
View ArticleWeird bodegraph output [closed]
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I recently switched from Texmaker to TeXstudio (version 2.10.8). In Texmaker, I used to compile my document with Latexmk. In TeXstudio, however, the default Latexmk command returns an error message. I...
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on my two computers, one laptop one desktop, I keep my home directories synced. My texlive installation resides in my home directory and could thus be synced as well, currently it is excluded. Right...
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I have installed basic TeX distribution (basictex-20150613.pkg) on my OS X 10.11.4. Now I want to install the lollipop package with TeX Live Utility. There is two options (I annotate them with red...
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