Questions tagged [auxiliary-files]
{auxiliary-files} is about files generated and read by LaTeX and packages which hold auxiliary information about the document.
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How listoftables creates lot file - aux file processing
I try to figure out how to create conditional list of tables without reading the counters or using packages like assoccnt and found an answer that uses
\IfFileExists{\jobname.lot}{%
\listoftables
}{
}
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Enabling latexmk -c feature in vscode
I'm using VSCode with LaTeX Workshop (which includes latexmk) and I don't want all the auxiliary files.
Normally I would just run latexmk with the -c flag, but I don't know how to do this in VSCode.
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expl3: l3file: \iow_now:Ne... doesn't expand tokens before writing to the stream?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\iow_new:N \g__test_iow
\iow_open:Nn \g__test_iow { test.pl }
\iow_now:Ne \g__test_iow { \# }
\iow_close:N \g__test_iow
\ExplSyntaxOff
\end{...
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LaTeX environment to write verbatim Python code to an external file
I’d like to have a solution environment that does the following:
It writes the contents of the environment to an external file \jobname.py. All the solutions should be in the same file \jobname.py.
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Create a sequence of all labels found in the .aux file [closed]
The closest thing I have found is this: David Carlisle’s answer in which a macro \lablist is used to typeset all labels found in the .aux file. Unfortunately, I can’t really wrap my head around the ...
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Looping inside longtable using \foreach loop with multicolumn
I am writing a class for generating syllabus book and a beginner. The class file link to github page is here. Here is the image of a sample syllabus expected to get generate.
The process flow is given ...
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Generation of .glstex file with bib2gls fails
while using the packages glossaries-extra and with the option bib2gls, the file mydocument.glstex is not generated. The file method has worked previously, but it currently only generates the following ...
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Reading and writing files consistently across TeX and Lua
Assume that I have an example LaTeX document named example document.tex with the following content:
\documentclass{standalone}
\ExplSyntaxOn
% Create file `\jobname.ext`.
\str_new:N
\...
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Texifier(Texpad) cross referencing with the xr package do not work
I downloaded a template of 'Cross referencing with the xr package' from Overleaf, but it doesn't run properly on Texifier. The result shows ??? in the output. Is there any way to make it display ...
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pgfplots luacontour files in different prefix
im trying to plot a graph that uses luaconour lines, they build some auxiliary files .dat``.lua and .table to draw the line but, i use a build dir on the latexmk and everytime i compile i get the ...
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Force \cref to use \ref for format?
Is there some way I can force \cref to just defer to \ref for certain counters? The idea is that I'd define \crefformat something like the following but with \ref{#1} (which is definitely wrong) ...
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Why does BibTeX not find my references?
I run
bibtex main.aux
and get the following output:
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2022)
The top-level auxiliary file: main.aux
The style file: apalike.bst
Database file #1: main.bib
Warning-...
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Moving build files to separate folder in org latex export
I have several folders full of Emacs org files, and I use lots of LaTeX packages in them so when I export to PDF my folders get cluttered with all manner of files with extensions like .toc, .bbl, ....
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Not all auxiliary files are deleted in LaTeX VSCode extension
I am using the VSCode extension for LaTeX for my work. I have several tex files and it makes it very hard to navigate the panel with all the auxiliary files laying around.
I have decided to delete the ...
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Why the \VerbatimInput of the .aux file is empty?
The following MCE shows that the .aux file, although found, produces an empty \VerbatimInput. Why?
\begin{filecontents}[noheader,force]{\jobname.txt}
\relax
\gdef \@abspage@last{1}
\end{filecontents}
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