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How do I enter Unicode characters in LaTeX? What packages do I need to install and what escape sequence do I type to specify Unicode characters in an ASCII source file?
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I followed the advice of izx on how to install TexLive 2012 using the texlive-backports PPA. Before I started I removed all TexLive-related packages. The installation finished and everything seems to work fine. The only thing I noticed are some warnings in the output of the installer. Here is an excerpt…
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Is there a way to get some text to appear only when the [draft] option is active.
For example, when the draft option is active, I want some text to appear between my title and abstract: "draft: do not cite without permission" or some such.
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How can I replace all occurrence of user defined latex macros with their definitions?
For example, given this file
old.tex
\newcommand{\blah}[2]{#1 \to #2}
...
foo \blah{egg}{spam} bar
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how to generate the file below in an automatic way
new.tex
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foo egg \to spam bar
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maybe is a noob question but i can't find the solution in the web, i need to write C++ in Latex.
I write C$++$ but the result is like crap, the signs are too big and there is too much space between C and the first plus sign.
Previously i needed to write the sharp symbol for C#....c$\sharp$ it also…
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I have a clean CentOS 5.5 machine with tetex installed. Next, I installed PGF/TikZ:
wget http://media.texample.net/pgf/builds/pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip
unzip pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip
\cp -r tex /usr/share/texmf
texhash
I'm trying to compile a simple document and this is what I'm getting:
$ latex…
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You can use Java APIs not only to help translate characters, strings, and text streams to other languages, but also to convert Unicode character sets to non-Unicode and vice versa.
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I started by trying to store strings in sqlite using python, and got the message:
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must
not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you
use a text_factory that can interpret
8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory =
str). It is highly recommended that
you instead just…
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I started by trying to store strings in sqlite using python, and got the message:
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must
not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you
use a text_factory that can interpret
8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory =
str). It is highly recommended that
you instead just…
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Hi,
I have a Microsoft Notepad flate file with data and Vertical Bar as column delimiter.
I get following message: cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types
It seems it is my nvarchar(max) that creates my problem.
I changed to varchar(max); but still the same problem.
How…
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On Windows 7, dir or tree can't show unicode characters, even starting cmd with cmd /U
So I would press Window Key + R to run something, and type in cmd /U so that the content might handle Unicode.
And then using dir or tree /F, the content in Unicode won't show as Unicode. (in Window Explorer…
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