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This software is not related to LaTeX. It's a shell script . The example above runs on the bash shell , but can be used on other shells as well. It's for use at the command prompt, i.e. in a terminal window. On a Linux (or Unix system) or Mac OS X ist should run without further installations ...

With some experience one can know where a macro may be defined or can easily locate it.

Sometime it's hard though, in such cases I use a shell script

#!/bin/bash
# texgrep - searches for a text pattern contained in files
# located inside the texmf trees
# usage: texgrep pattern [extension ...

Macros are defined at different places. Those which are essential for every document are defined in the LaTeX kernel (files with suffix *.ltx). Macros like \figurename , which are more specific for different types of documents, are defined in the classes. Others for a specific purpose are define in ...

I am learning modifying the macro now. The problem is that I could not know the file where the definition of the macro is place. For example, I want to change the name for the graph, I could find the source online for help.
The code is:

\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}

With the code above, I ...

You can read about it in the beamer manual ( texdoc beamer or on CTAN), here for example in 12.3 Block Environments , Beamer-Color/-Font block title . \setbeamerfont is also explained somewhere, of course. I know that the manual is extensive, but beamer is feature rich. Sometimes it's quicker to ...

Hi,

that's easy to to, by just one line, such as

\setbeamerfont{block title}{size=\scriptsize}

With the Madrid theme this gives:

block.png

Stefan

Thanks for your reply. Can you tell me how you know the method to change how beamer looks? I want to know the method to do some modification ...

When I am creating a frame with the allowframebreaks option, I want to break the frame according to my will, how can I do this?

The reason why I want to do this is that when I am using allowframebreaks to create a long frame, the titles with numbers will be automatically created by LaTeX from the ...

Is it right that all of the .cls files contain the macro for "document class?"

(The meaning of this English sentence is a bit hard to understand...) If you would like to learn something about classes, have a look at the clsguide on CTAN or type texdoc clsguide at the command prompt.

Stefan ...

localghost wrote:

wcw wrote:[…] Can you also tell me the anme of the macro for "beamer?" […]

beamer is a document class. Find out its location in the TeX installation tree on the command line.

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kpsewhich beamer.cls

Is it right that all of the .cls files contain the macro for "document class?"

Hi,

while source2e is good for learning about LaTeX commands, there are TeX books and documentation which can be useful if you encounter TeX commands which don't belong to LaTeX.

Btw. don't overlook the @ in the command name. This special character is commonly used for internal commands to ...