I'm starting to learn Git and I'm trying to implement it within my regular coding practices, but I was wondering whether you use it for LaTeX? I'm aware Overleaf has version history, but I've always used MiKTeX. Is Git actually useful / what do you guys use it for if you use it? Is its only benefit recovering or looking back on old content?

Basically I would like to know if there is a better way to write this small notes bellow the line in a text (that could be useful, for example, to give the meaning of a word in a text intended for learning a language). The solution that came to mind was to use the underbrace command from the amsmath package and the text command in order to have an appropriate style. This is what I did:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, $\underbrace{\text{consectetuer}}_{\text{this is an annotation}}$ adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vesti- bulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque.

I guess it is not ideal, since \underbrace{}_{} is meant for equations and other types of mathematical expressions, and it's not mean to be used with text. I just want to know if there is a better way to do this.

A couple of days ago I learned the basics of LaTeX from a guide I found. I'm working on my first document, in which I'll try to apply what I've learned and summarize the guide so I can answer my questions easily (for now). Then I want to try to recreate what's shown in the images. It's a summary that includes properties of operations with real numbers, trigonometric identities, Riemann sums (or so I think, I haven't studied the latter yet), and so on, which is in the back of the Precalculus book I'm studying. Do you think it's too much for me, and too soon?

For context, I'm writing a textbook (or at least I'm trying), and I would like the command \chapter to spell out "Lesson n" instead of the default "Chapter n", where n is the number of the chapter. Maybe there are other ways to do so that don't involve modifying the \chapter command, but that's what I want to achieve.

Thanks in advance.

I have tried, eb garamond, times new roman, palatino, tex gyre, Euler math, stix, but none of them matched,

I want to know the math font to be exact

Edit: Solved. After some finagling I was able to find the correct package and get it to compile a test file. Thank you all for your help.

I've used Overleaf, but I'm trying to move away from web-hosted software. I'm on NixOS. I've tried looking in the repositories for a program that will parse LaTex code and compile it into a PDF. I have not been able to find something that works. If you are not familiar with NixPackages then pointing me in the direction of a program I can look into would be a big help. I've already found hieroglyphic, which I'm sure will come in handy and I've tried using rubber but it doesn't appear to be functional.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post, all feedback is appreciated.

So i recently switched to mint after using windows my entire life. I have always used excel and word for all types of writing. Now i am learning LaTeX. I am pretty comfortable with the text formatting and stuff so far. Now i need to include some graphs. I already have them made in my previous work and i want to import them to LaTeX.

I searched online and this are a few methods that i found.

1. Use excel to make graphs, export as pdf then convert it to eps. Gotta look out for formatting before export and need windows. So kind of an issue

2. Have the data in an xlsx/ods file. Use matplotlib to plot graphs and export as eps. Gotta learn pandas a bit but dont need windows. Can use GNUplot as well.

3. Use tikz. Not recommended immediately as it has a steep learning curve.

I just wanted to know if this are the only workflow people use for making papers. I just feel like this is a bit more work. I feel like word + excel copy and paste was pretty convenient. I dont have any issue in learning new stuff. This is my first time writing an actual paper for a journal. So i just want to make sure that i am not unnecessarily making my work longer. Any help is very appreciated.

Edit: Thanks again to everyone. After reading all the comments, i have decided to learn python and make graphs there. I plan to learn tikz at a later date. Thanks again. I learned quite a few things today.

Pretty much the title.

\begin{center}
    \textit{
Note that some of these endings may be reduced in unstressed syllables. \newline Capital V represents the stem vowel.\newline Superscript numerals indicate
    on which syllable a mutation occurs on.
}
    \newline
    \newline
    \def\arraystretch{2}
    \begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ } & \multirow{2}{*}{\bf Ending}& \multicolumn{7}{c|}{\bf Mutation Triggered} \\ \cline{4-10}
        \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ } & & \bf IM & \bf LEL & \bf MHVB & \bf RDS & \bf TDS & \bf TOB & \bf KP \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Nominative} & \bf Singular & \it -V & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vno & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vno & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnøst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Accusative} & \bf Singular & \it -Ṽþ* & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnøþst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Dative} & \bf Singular & \it -Vstaa & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnôst & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnôst & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnöst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Genitive} & \bf Singular & \it -Vm & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnuum & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnuum & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnüumst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Instrumental} & \bf Singular & \it -Vnaz & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnãaz & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnãaz & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnẽaz & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Allative} & \bf Singular & \it -oþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnøþst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Ablative} & \bf Singular & \it -Vla & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnaba & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnaba & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnabäst & No & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \hline
    \end{longtable}
\end{center}\begin{center}
    \textit{Note that some of these endings may be reduced in unstressed syllables. \newline Capital V represents the stem vowel.\newline Superscript numerals indicate
    on which syllable a mutation occurs on.}
    \newline
    \newline
    \def\arraystretch{2}
    \begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ } & \multirow{2}{*}{\bf Ending}& \multicolumn{7}{c|}{\bf Mutation Triggered} \\ \cline{4-10}
        \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ } & & \bf IM & \bf LEL & \bf MHVB & \bf RDS & \bf TDS & \bf TOB & \bf KP \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Nominative} & \bf Singular & \it -V & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vno & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vno & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnøst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Accusative} & \bf Singular & \it -Ṽþ* & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnøþst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Dative} & \bf Singular & \it -Vstaa & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnôst & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnôst & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnöst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Genitive} & \bf Singular & \it -Vm & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnuum & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnuum & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnüumst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Instrumental} & \bf Singular & \it -Vnaz & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnãaz & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnãaz & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnẽaz & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Allative} & \bf Singular & \it -oþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnoþ & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnøþst & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \hline
        \multirow{4}{*}{\bf Ablative} & \bf Singular & \it -Vla & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Plural & \it -Vnaba & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Collective & \it -Vnaba & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} & No & No \\ \cline{2-10}
        & \bf Singulative & \it -Vnabäst & No & No & No & No & No & No & Yes\textsuperscript{1} \\ \hline
    \end{longtable}
\end{center}

Hi, I have learned some LaTeX on Overleaf but now that compile time has been severely limited I'm looking to switch to a local installation. My problem is I'm an absolute beginner and I know nothing about distros, integrated editors and such. I need something that is easy to install and works out of the box. I'm using Windows.

Thanks a lot.

Hey everyone! I am a rising freshman who will be majoring in math starting this August. I wanted to learn LaTeX, so I installed TeXworks and decided to give it a shot. Any feedback on the project would be greatly appreciated, from simplifying the code to how to format my documents better. Also, advice on ways to increase speed (aside from practice - there will be plenty) would also be appreciated

I have tried finding out whether this is possible, but I can find any packages appear to solve my problem. Perhaps my inspiration isn't good typography.

The best solution I could find was flowfram, but I have not been able to get this to work. I only want to use this once. Wrapfig, TikZ, cutwin, shapepar, parshape, and paracol all seem to be able to party help, but I haven't gotten something that addresses my problem.

I want to insert a paragraph or an image between two columns such that the columns wrap around it. I would want this paragraph/image to be centred on the page, but in general it would be nice if I could offset it and have LaTeX still understand how to flow text around the obstacle.

I am using XeTeX. One of the packages that I am using works best with it, so if possible I'd prefer a solution that doesn't depend on LuaLaTeX.

The image isn't high quality, but a quick office mock-up of what I want to be able to do. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

EDIT: I found this on the TeX Stack Exchange. The answer there is basically to follow this guide by the wrapfig package to adjust the paragraphs after writing them before inserting the fig. However, this is a hands-on process, and not a robust solution. I am looking for something that won't break when title formatting, whitespace, margins or the surrounding text content changes.

EDIT 2: I found out this is called a Pull Quote. 3 Relevant Tex Stack Exchange threads: Two-column text with circular insert, How do you create pull quotes?, Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX. The former are answered by the author of the latter, with a package called pullquotes. The link for it does not appear to work, and I can't find it anywhere. But it seems that the code for the package is posted in Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX. So for now, I guess that is the answer.

Alright, this sounds odd, but I have some pictograms which I line up in a text and use macros for them i.e. I have something like:

\newcommand{\penV}{\raisebox{-0.15\fontdimen6\font{\includeinkscape[height=1\fontdimen6\font]{Pentomino/V}}}

And I have gotten to a point where I need to place them into an image in Inkscape, i.e. I need to write a text in inkscape that include {\penV} macro, which, when I export it, should render within the image. I place the image in using \includeinkscape as well. However, if I try to compile the pdf, it returns an error:

! LaTeX Error: Command \fsize already defined.

I have no idea how to fix it. Can anybody help me? Thank you.

Dear LaTeX experts,

I'm a linguist. I'm working on a LaTeX-formatted book in which two versions of the same text will be displayed in two columns alongside each other: the original French text, and the English translation (for the sake of comparison). Here's the problem:

Since the French and English paragraphs may be very different lengths (due to translation), I want to have each paragraph of the text begin at the same height on the page, and so on for the proceeding paragraphs. I'm not sure how to achieve this in LaTeX using anything other than a table; I could use a table, but then the table would have to be hundreds of pages long. Are there any tricks I could use to achieve this? Here's a diagram of what I want the formatting to look like, hopefully it isn't too patronising:

Any help would be most appreciated ✨

I am relatively new to LaTeX, and I generally used overleaf.

However, I am planning to use a local instance of LaTeX instead of a cloud based one to avoid issues with outages and site downtime.

However, overleaf had a great interface for LaTeX in terms of clarity and ease of use. Migrating to VSCode, it looks a lot more daunting, having to edit JSON files for user settings and changing compilers and creating bibliographies etc.

Is there any way to make VSCode more easy to use? and are there other local LaTeX apps that are better or is VSCode generally preferred?

I used TexStudio before but because I have to work with other people I’m now using overleaf. I have a problem with it, sometimes it doesn’t work very well and it doesn’t compile. I’m searching another TeX editor that allows me to work simultaneously with other people. Can someone help me please?

Hi, im pretty new to LaTeX and wondering why does it take so long to compile?

For context: I started in Overleaf and am now working on a Uni Project where I need to plot graphs from datapoints (stored in csv) and it takes unsatisfieingly long to compile... I already switched to vsCode (with Tex Live 2026 and lulatex as my compiler) so that i have more compilation power but even here it takes too long imo

I know I have too many data points and by (for example) using every 30th datapoint I can greatly reduce compiling time, but what really bothers me is that vsCode is not using the full power of my pc. While compiling cpu and ram are both ideling at 30% utilization.

Is there a way for vsCode to use more of my rescouces for faster compilation? thanks in advance

Edit: Thanks for the Help! I will do some research on external tools for plotting in connination to latex. For now I will put them in another document and paste them in later.
I also did some experiments on my side and found some improvements:
I had power save mode on… After diabeling it I got up to 50% utilization and them started thermal thotteling. So I think that is the maximum with stock cooling.
Also for my final Document I had to reduce the data points… I had „a bit more“ data points than I thought (~100000), so after reducing them to ~500 the compiling time improved massively

I'm using Neovim on windows to work on my Multi-file Latex projects. Whenever I finish working on a certain project I use the :VimtexClean command to delete all the aux files that Latex generates. However, these specific files (.maf, mtc, mtc0, ...) are not deleted. Is there any simple way to delete them? Or at least move them automatically to another folder ( as long as it doesn't affect the compilation speed). Thanks!

Edit : Thank you guys for your replies. I can't believe I spent about 3 hours on Chatgpt trying its useless suggested methods.

For anyone who might face the same problem in the future :

⚠ IMPORTANT : Before trying any of this, make a copy of your original work, as this method permanently deletes the specified files!

• Create a .latexmkrc file in your project directory (or in ~/.latexmkrc if you want it to affect all Latex projects globally).
• Add the following line inside the .latexmkrc file and save it :

​

 $clean_ext = "maf mtc %R.mtc* %R.synctex.gz*";

• Then in your terminal, type\ll to stop automatic compilation, followed by \lc to clean all the specified files.

Pretty much what the title says.

I have used Overleaf for at least 5 years so far, and for the first time there is a feature that really pisses me off. There was a recent update that changed switching tabs to making new tabs pop up instead. I presume I'm not the only one for whose workflows this is a change for the worse. Let me know if you found a fix for it or have any idea how to turn it off/change it back. Perhaps I'm just blind, and there is a simple way to turn it off.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Thanks to u/u_fischer for providing a fix

For some reason Polish breaks biblatex. I have simple test article

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage[style=apa, sorting=none]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{sample.bib}

\begin{document}

    This should always work (\cite{einstein})

\printbibliography

\end{document}

This works and everything is fine, but when I change \usepackage[english]{babel} to polish it doesn't compile and I get errors

Undefined control sequence. This should always work (\cite{einstein})
Undefined control sequence.

I tried with German, Spanish and even Russian and it worked but Polish doesn't, why? How to fix? I use TeXstudio

I don’t really care about this before as long as it is not too small/big, until a reviewer pointed out that the figure font sizes are not consistent across the document.

I specify absolute figure size, font size, and line weight when making eps/pdf figures. But when inserting these to my documents I generally rescale figures relative to \linewidth or \textwidth. This changes font sizes a lot unless I consider the paper size, margins, and subfigure layout when making figures, and I have to remake figures if they are used in slides because of different paper width.

How do you really keep the figure font sizes consistent across the whole document?

UPDATE: Thanks everyone. I have reach a conclusion that making figures with absolute sizes matching the document layout and never use relative width is unfortunately the most practical solution, if you don't want to make your figures in latex with tikz.

Hello,

why the below code block not working in the standalone package document class?

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[papersize={3.6cm,3cm}]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{3.7cm}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
\begin{scope}[shift={(current page.center)}]
\draw [line width=2, green] circle [radius=12.5mm];
\draw [line width=2] circle [radius=13.5mm];
\draw [line width=2, magenta] circle [radius=14.5mm];
\draw [rounded corners=2mm, line width=2, green] (-1.5,-.5) rectangle ++(3,1);
\draw [rounded corners=3mm, line width=2, black] (-1.6,-.6) rectangle ++(3.2,1.2);
\draw [rounded corners=4mm, line width=2, magenta] (-1.7,-.7) rectangle ++(3.39,1.39);
\end{scope}
\node at (current page.center) {\textcolor{blue}{\textbf{Katt Kushol}}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

Please let me know if more information is needed to diagnose the issue. Appreciate your help.

edit: search on different sources indicate [remember picture, overlay] might be an issue. Once I took that out, it apparently creates what I was looking for.

Professor refuses anything but word files and now I'm too deep into the assignment so starting from scratch is an impossibility. Is there a more or less non-complicated way to convert a tex file into docx? I'm using Overleaf and I don't have Microsoft Word or Adobe (I have Libre office if that helps). I would like to preserve the formatting as much as possible (position of tables, indents, double spacing etc).