I want to have some text appear semi-transparent, but not in an overlay fashion (where it eventually becomes solid) just permanently semi-transparent. To complicate matters, the text in question is...

I have seen answers to this similar question which suggest using latexmk -c or pdflatex -aux-directory=/some/temp/dir <additional options>. I prefer the latter because you can create a subdir...

Is it possible to get a nicely formatted table from a pandas dataframe in ipython notebook when using nbconvert to latex & PDF? The default seems to be just a left-aligned block of numbers in ...

I know just the basic of latex, and I got an error inside the bibliography files iet.bst a bibliography file modified by IET and offered as latex files to write a paper to be published. The error i...

When I generate Doxygen documentation in PDF format, I get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. Is it possible to obtain a single PDF document, organized as a book, roughly as t...

I have installed my shiny server on Ubuntu. In addition I installed Texlive- full 2017 on the server as well. The problem is that downloading report from the shiny app on the server does not work (...

I got a new PC with Windows 10 Pro operating system several days ago and decided to install TeXstudio + MiKTeX. And I faced a problem compiling LaTeX file. The problem is when I try to add \usepack...

I am trying to build a package in R. I made the skeleton, and ran the command R CMD check package1. I got an an error described here. I followed the solution steps, and the results are: package ...

I am attempting to output a latex table using r markdown, kable, and kableExtra. I needed to use conditional logic to add colors to my table with cell_spec. But with the pdf output, it shows latex ...

If I want to have two footnotes cited next to one another, separated by a comma, what is the syntax for doing so? The Pandoc documentation doesn't seem to specify how. As an example of what I'm tr...

I'm creating some graphs for my thesis in a single .tex file using the TikZ package in LaTeX. I'm using the standalone document class so that my graphs are generated without whitespaces. How can ...

I was facing difficulty in converting dataframe to pdf file. I tried converting first to latex then to pdf, but the thing is I used latexify package to convert dataframe into latex format, but outp...

I use the extension Latex Workshop, however my preview does not auto update on save. I have to run pdflatex each time. I tried uninstalling and installing the extension, deleting the extensions f...

In the yaml of a quarto document I have: --- title: "Hey!" author: - name: Birdy Bird affiliations: - University of Birds - University of Hummingbirds format: pdf editor: visual --- ...

This has been an ongoing issue for me, as I would love to use Jupyter Notebook to write my research reports, but have found it very difficult to export my Jupyter Notebooks to PDF without code and ...

I have problem with running my .rnw (I am running Sweave) files in RStudio due to this error message: Writing to file test.tex Processing code chunks with options ... You can now run (pdf)latex on...

In my LaTeX document I've got a table of contents that is automatically generated by collecting everything that is of the form \chapter. However, I've got an acknowledgements chapter before the ta...

I am checking my package and this is actually the last remaining problem. The pdf file cannot be compiled and the logfile tells me 2015-10-15 14:17:47,430+0200 INFO pdflatex - running 'initexmf --...

When I use the render{rmarkdown} to produce pdf file from .Rmd file on my Mac, an error message says pandoc: pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output. Error: pandoc document conversio...

I am trying to add some tooltips to a matplotlib pdf file. To do this I am using pgf so I can add "pdfcomment" in the preamble. However, when I add pdfcomment to the preamble I get a blan...

Given a directory with several jpg files (photos), I would like to create a single pdf file with one photo per page. However, I would like the photos to be stored in the pdf file unchanged; i.e., I...

I have just upgraded my Macbook Pro OS to El Capitan (v10.11.4). My attempt to export a Markdown file (created using Sublime Text 2, v2.0.2, build 2221) to pdf using pandoc is now failing, and I r...

My company is using Sphinx to create the manuals for our products. Our products are shipped with PDF and HTML documentations. We are using Windows as a sole developer environment. A necessary requ...

I having the following issue when trying to check a package using the command line. First I get this very general error message: * checking PDF version of manual ... WARNING LaTeX errors when cr...

I'm very new to LaTeX and its distributions so this might be a very newbie question. I was following this tutorial and I'm not being able to compile the document. The code so far is very simple i...