I have a long text in pdf with lot of sub and super scripts and need to have it in LaTex.  Sorry I could not find something working in previous answers on converting pdf to latex. (OS Windows 7)  Now I found that both abiword and Writer2LaTeX works good with sub and superscripts. The confusion for me was how to use them starting from pdf. Sorry for everybody who spent time for my question and THANKs.
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I know that hardly any information is passed to the PDF when a .tex file is compiled.  But is there a tool that can convert a PDF document back to (La)TeX?
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I have some text in my document in primary font what is in LaTeX but I would like to get some text in font Times New Roman but just some text between primary text, as a local command (something as \textit{}, \textbf{} etc.), an example below.  My cat has black skin. % in primary font My second cat has white skin. % I would like to get in Times New Roman  Thanks for help.
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I'm writing a report, in LaTeX. And I need to include, as appendices, other latex documents I have written. I am currently doing this using pdfpages and it works. However, the inserted PDF has no page numbers and it overlays my base documents page numbering, resulting in no page numbers on the PDF pages. My questions:   How to solve the above problem. Is there a better way to do this.
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I have a LaTeX file for a book chapter, which may need to be converted to Word at some point, because that is what the publishers use (sigh). This article doesn't have any math in it, but I'm still using LaTeX, because even when not writing mathematics, it is better than the alternatives. Unfortunately, I'm making heavy use of characters that are only supposed to appear inside a math environment, notably the underscore character (_). I do use the math environment in a couple of places, but only very briefly.  So, my question is, can I tell LaTeX to make an exception for this specific character, and actually treat the underscore as a underscore? This would make later conversion to Word or some other word processing format easier. The alternative is to use \_ in lots of places. Bonus points if there is some way to still use underscore inside a math environment, not sure how that would work. To be clear, I'd like a general technique that would work with any of the special LaTex characters, though I suppose remapping most of the other ones would cause more trouble than it was worth.  I'm not sure what tags to use here, so please feel free to add. Thanks.  EDIT: It turns out this is a FAQ - .
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I just don't seem to get it. So I come from the german speaking part of Switzerland and naturally I need ä ü ö a lot when I write german texts. So in LaTeX I have the option to go via  "a "u "o  which isn't really comfortable, or I can use an additional package. So now the confusion starts. I can use either  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  or  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}  So now if I create a new document and save it as a latin-1 encoded .tex file it seems it doesn't matter which option I chose they both work. Now why should I pick one over the other or use both? Which problems could occur (Do they occur if I use the same .tex file on another OS depending on which option I have chosen?)?  If I save the .tex encoded as lets say the mac os latin then the first option compiles but shows the wrong characters for the ä ü ö's. Is it then like latex maps the ä according to the latin1 to a character and since the document is encoded as something different than latin1 then gets encoded to something different again?  So if the last 2 paragraphs have been confusing (mainly because I'm confused) the main question is: What does fontenc what inputenc doesn't do and vice versa?
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How to create tagged PDF such that they will be:   good enough for PDF/UA "reflowable" on smaller screens and ebook readers   Any syntax &amp; any engine are of interest, but I'm most interested in using LaTeX with [Xe|pdf]latex engines.
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Techinical question of this academic question:   I have an issue with my Supervisor: he likes to write papers on MS Word and I like to write in LaTeX. We have had issues with editing and formating since it is dificult to do it while working on different platforms.  I have tried the following to try to convert from LaTeX source code to MS Word format:   LATEX2RTF Pandoc  (PDF output from LaTeX)   But none of them give the desired output that I want:   Which is a 2-column IEEE format paper.  Does anyone has any advise on how to convert from LaTeX to Word efficiently?
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I'm trying to insert source code in LaTeX with using listings, but my code has accents and pdflatex gives me this error:  Unicode char \u8:�\expandafter not set up for use with LaTeX.   This is a code the reproduces the error.  example.tex  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[spanish]{babel}  \begin{document}  \lstinputlisting[language=C++]{code.cpp}  \end{document}   code.cpp  // Código con una tilde   What can I do to generate the PDF correctly?
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I'm interested in writing packages for TeX/LaTeX/XeLaTeX. I googled around, but all I found was guides or tutorials about how to prepare documents using LaTeX. I want to know how LaTeX works and how to change it or add new things to it.   Which book/guide/tutorial is the most useful source to learn LaTeX programming? Is there official documentations around LaTeX development? (I couldn't find development SCM on official site. is source code private?)
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I'd like to use LaTeX to typeset a novel. Could you recommend me any template?  What I mean is a template (some .tex file) where I can include my chapterN.tex files (mainly plain text) and get a pretty good design with zero work :)
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Assume I have many TeX files. For the sake of simplicity, also asssume they are in a single folder or directory.  I want to input all files from within my main LaTeX document. Actually I can create a list of those files using C# in advance.  To enrich my view about LaTeX or TeX, could you tell me whether or not this job can be done only by using pure TeX or LaTeX?
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I have some documents in LyX/Latex and I want them as a wordpress post. I have tried converting latex to HTML (with latex2html) and afterwards, pasting that code in the wordpress editor but everything looks ugly. Do you know a better approach?
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I want to use sub- and superscript together in text mode. I've found this macro to solve the problem  \def\textsubsuperscript#1#2{\rlap{\textsubscript{#1}}\textsuperscript{#2}}  But it doesn't works well when the subscript is long. In that case the subscript overlaps with the following character.  What could be the macro to  enable sub- and superscripting in all cases?
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Textual subscripts like in W_{total} should be typeset in an upright text font (so that code isn't good practice), as has been  in   . Now there are several ways to achieve this, and I'm somewhat confused which I should use:   W_{\rm total} is nice and short, and appears to work in all circumstances, but I expect LaTeX people will frown upon it :-) Is there any good reason against this? W_{\mathrm{total}} &ndash; is this the LaTeX equivalent of the \rm approach? W_{\textnormal{total}}  as total is text and not math&nbsp;... In , Ulrike Fischer suggests a more complicated approach. Even W_{\operatorname{total}} appears to work, but it seems inappropriate.   Note: I always assume here that amsmath is loaded.  I've already asked some questions above, but my main question is: which of these options is the best practice for textual subscripts?    Let me point out why I haven't mentioned \text, \textrm or \textup above. Those commands (mostly) keep the font of the context they're used in, e.g., in an italic context, \text and \textrm would give italic subscripts, and all three yield bold subscripts in a bold context.  Final note: This question is similar to, but not the same as all those  about the  between , , , ,  that have been asked before. Maybe it's still a duplicate&nbsp;...
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I need to copy a table from a pdf file to my LaTeX document. I know I have to do it by hand but still don't understand how to create a table with LaTeX.
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I wanted to type an equation in LaTeX. But it is too long to fit into one line. It involves big arrays with many columns so I cannot split it. I wanted to reduce the font size so that it can fit in one line. However, \small doesn't work in the equation environment.
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I'm in the process of writing a long document and need a List of abbreviations. I've been reading the LaTeX wiki book about this and have had a play with the packages  and . What package is the most straight forward for developing a List of abbreviations? Is there a package I've missed?