I'm new to Latex and I was wondering if it is possible to look up the documentation of tex packages in the terminal like with man pages? I find myself frequently having to look up stuff online that I think is very basic, like for the titlepage environment. I would ideally love to have a &quot;man&quot; page for this open while working on the document.  Any help is appreciated.
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Where could I find the  Tikz Manual version 3.0.1a as a PDF file ?  More generally, how do I find the documentation for a package.
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Helpful members of the community just solved my problem with \newcommand:    But in trying to solve it, I got an error message referring to p. 192 of "the manual". I would like to look up the error myself.  I am compiling under Windows using the command:  latexmk -pdf file.tex   I cannot find a link to a manual on latex-project.org. There are links to books which are published commercially, but surely that is not what the error messages refer to?  The not-so-short guide has fewer than 192 pages, so that's obviously not it.
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Upon the risk of being down voted as no MWE is present, but at the moment just trying to get some pointers. I updated my MiKTeX installation to the newest available version at the moment (MiKTeX-pdfTeX 4.1 (MiKTeX 20.12)) and now I get an error while building my documentation: Appendix D. (../html/examples/group/latex/refman_doc.tex (../html/examples/group/latex//gro up__group1.tex) [243] ! I can't write on file `../html/examples/group/latex//group__group2.aux'. \@include ...mmediate \openout \@partaux &quot;#1.aux&quot;                                                   \immediate \write \@partau... l.3 \include{group__group2}  Please type another output file name ! Emergency stop. \@include ...mmediate \openout \@partaux &quot;#1.aux&quot;                                                   \immediate \write \@partau... l.3 \include{group__group2}  *** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode)  some small background:  Started normally with pdflatex doxygen_manual.tex in here is the statement: \subinputfrom{../html/examples/group/latex/}{refman_doc} and in this file again: \include{group__group2} as far as I know the disk is not full and the protections of the files and directories are OK as well  It looks like that now an attempt is made to write to the directory ../html/examples/group/latex/ whilst in the past the file was written to the current directory. I already tried -shell-escape and -enable-write18 (as well as --shell-escape and --enable-write18) but to no avail.  Any known changes in respect to writing the aux file? Any hints  edit I asked another question () with the details and MWE but that was closed with the reason that it was a duplicate of this one ... So I'm adding the information now here: In the question  asked about the problems I encountered due to an update of my MiKTeX distribution, but didn't take the time (at that moment) to create a MWE, so it didn't attract much response. I have the directory structure:  main  manual.tex   group  group__group2.tex refman_doc.tex    manual.tex \documentclass{book} \usepackage{import} \usepackage{hyperref}  \begin{document} \subinputfrom{../group}{refman_doc} \end{document}  group__group2.tex \hypertarget{group__group2}{}{The Second Group}  refman_doc.tex {Module Documentation} \include{group__group2}  When running in the directory main the command pdflatex manual.tex I get the error: ... (../group/../group/refman_doc.tex [1{C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdf tex/config/pdftex.map}] ! I can't write on file `../group//group__group2.aux'. \@include ...mmediate \openout \@partaux &quot;#1.aux&quot;                                                   \immediate \write \@partau... l.2 \include{group__group2}  Please type another output file name:  but in a non interactive mode (the usual way to run. i.e. with \batchmode) one doesn't get an opportunity to specify the file and the generation crashes. As written in the original question adding options like -shell-escape and / or -enable-write18 didn't help.  Is there a solution for this problem?  edit 2 I did some further test. I replaced the \subinputfrom with an \input statement, although this worked for the limited example above it didn't work for my larger codebase as here (again just a limited view) we have in the refman_doc.tex {Module Documentation} \input{group__group1} \include{group__group2}  with the contents of group_group1.tex similar to group__group2.tex and the file is also parallel to group__group2.tex. This results in the error: (manual.out) (manual.out) (../group/refman_doc.tex  ! LaTeX Error: File `group__group1.tex' not found.  Type X to quit or &lt;RETURN&gt; to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: tex)  Enter file name: ! Emergency stop. &lt;read *&gt;  l.2 \input{group__group1}  !  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
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Is there any way to include Python code in a LaTeX file and automatically color its syntax? Is it possible to do syntax coloring with any other language? If yes what packages can I use to do that?
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Is there any tool that can convert Latex documents to HTML documents, so that all math is presented with ?  (Obviously, it is fairly easy to hack together a quick Perl script that is able to do a crude conversion, but I am interested in a bit more robust solutions — at least it should get all cross-references right automatically.)
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Is there a simple way to add todo notes to LaTeX documents ?  I would like to have these notes in red in the generated pdf and a simple syntax to write them.
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How do I tell man to show me a list of all the 'manuals' installed on my Ubuntu 10.10 system?  Also, is there a specific directory where the manual pages are installed?
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I'm a novice in the world of LaTeX, and I'm struggling to find a simple tutorial on how to to setup  as part of TeX Live 2011 in any LaTeX editor.   Is there anyone out there who's got texliveonfly setup on their computer, who could provide a simple step-by-step guide?
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I am writing a program, and I want it to do different things depending on which LaTeX packages have been installed.  My current solution is to automatically generate simple .tex files that \usepackage the packages I care about and then automatically check if pdflatex can compile them or not.  This solution seems slow and fragile.  What is a better solution?  Edit: The program I am writing is in Python.
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I noticed that there are a lot of "beginner" resources for LaTeX, lots of novice friendly tutorials etc.  Are there similar resources available for Plain TeX that are geared towards beginners?    Please note, prior to answering, that this question only relates to "Plain TeX".     To the best of my research, all of the TeX.SE existing answers setting out beginner resources deal only with "LaTeX".  The answer:   is great for people who want to learn LaTeX.  It does not however address those people (including me) who want to get started on learning Plain TeX.  The answers given so far are well thought out "Plain TeX" beginner resources.  Related:   Related:
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I'm writing a technical documentation and I want to explain step-by-step how to go through various menus.  For example I used to write Open with &gt; VLC media player.  That's how it looks in Windows 8:     What I want in Latex should looks similar to this: light grey box, dark grey border and black windows-like font.    I've seen , suggesting the package  - but it looks very old fashioned - are there any more modern approaches?
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Today I tried to learn more about the several interaction modes for tex/latex/pdflatex etc. The manpages turned out to be not very helpful:  $ man tex      ...     -interaction mode         Sets  the interaction mode.  The mode can be either batchmode,         nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode. The meaning of these         modes is the same as that of the corresponding \commands.     ...   While Google quickly helped me to learn what I wanted to know, I was suprised that I wasn't able to find useful and official documentation about this topic. After turning the whole documentation of my TeXLive distribution upside down I am asking now, if someone can please point me to the official and detailed documenation (if it exists) concerning the interaction modes and maybe the default values to some of the other commandline options.
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I'm getting some cryptic (for me) errors and warnings when I compile.  On the advice of darn near every internet resource I could find, I dug into the .log file.  The trouble is, I don't know how to interpret what I see.  I don't want to take up people's time so, where can I find a Reading LaTex .log Files for Beginners document?
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Does anyone have any tricks and tips for finding information in man pages?
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I have a fresh install of a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. They live in separate partitions of the hard drive, invisible (unmounted...) to eachother, but have a common data partition which they can both reach.  Now, I want to be able to use LaTeX regardless of which OS I've booted. I've previoulsy used MiKTeX and TeXWorks on Windows, and been pretty satisfied with it, but I'm new to LaTeX on Ubuntu, so I have no prejudice on editors etc for this half. What I liked most about TeXWorks was the ability to compile the document without leaving the program, and the split view (source code on one half of the screen, output from latest compile run on the other), so if that's available in an Ubuntu IDE that's a plus.  The most important thing is that they share a package repository. In MiKTeX, packages I hadn't used before were automatically downloaded from CTAN when used the first time, which made things a lot simpler. I also had my own little collection of packages, in a separate root folder. Any setup that doesn't share all packages between the two operative systems, makes my life harder than it has to be =)  How do I best set up this? On which OS should I install what, and how? Does the installation order matter?  Any tips are welcome!
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What are the general differences between the various table environments that exist for LaTeX? By this I mean: What are their basic purposes? Which ones are the most important ones for new users? Which ones are more advanced and should only be used by advanced LaTeX users? Are there differences in terms of the appearance of the table? How does the booktabs package play into this?  In short, where will you use each of them and what are merits and disadvantages of each of them. This question is especially useful to LaTeX newcomers, for whom the number of options can seem overwhelming.
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I've been using LaTeX for about 3 months, and I'm hooked. My background is programming, so for the basic, google is sufficient. I did some research on amazon.com and found these two books with many positive feedback:    However, most of people said they are more like references than a real book. And if they really are, then I think I'd rather look up at CTAN. What I'm looking for is a book that can teach me how to program in LaTeX, for example:   Write my own package   Create animation  Create and using macro in LaTeX ....   I know there are many options around, however to pick the right one is not an easy task. Any advice or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.