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by SiemensGeek
Sat May 30, 2015 8:50 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Get the "LaTeX Beginner's Guide" ebook for free
Replies: 34
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Re: Get the "LaTeX Beginner's Guide" ebook for free

I found the book before I found this Forum. I am a regular on the Packt website and have downloaded several free e-books from their site as well as purchasing several e-books and printed books. Your book was just what I needed to discover LaTeX. I can't believe it was offered free. Every time I read ...
by SiemensGeek
Sat May 30, 2015 8:39 pm
Forum: New Members
Topic: Hello from the Texas panhandle
Replies: 4
Views: 3848

Re: Hello from the Texas panhandle

Thanks
I scanned the manuals for pgfplotstabel and pgfplots. I see some real possibilities for pgfplotstable.

I am currently using Matplotlib to generate plots in Pyhon and it has the ability to output to TeX. I did see that pgfplots supports polar axis so it may have some application too.

One of ...
by SiemensGeek
Sat May 30, 2015 4:35 pm
Forum: New Members
Topic: Hello from the Texas panhandle
Replies: 4
Views: 3848

Hello from the Texas panhandle

I am brand new to LaTeX. My introduction was the featured book "LaTeX Beginner's Guide". I have heard of LaTeX forever but have managed to ignore it up until now. I have always gotten by using Microsoft Word and really didn't see a need for LaTeX. Now that I have found it I don't know how I got by ...
by SiemensGeek
Sat May 30, 2015 3:16 am
Forum: Others
Topic: PdfLatex Command Line Arguments to Change Output File Path
Replies: 3
Views: 21763

Re: PdfLatex Command Line Arguments to Change Output File Pa

Close enough! The command that finally worked is:

subprocess.call(['C:\\texlive\\2014\\bin\\win32\\pdflatex.exe', '-output-directory', 'C:/Users/KEY0000G/Documents/TeXfiles', 'C:\\Users\\KEY0000G\\Documents\\TeXfiles\\TEST.tex'])

Thank you very much.
by SiemensGeek
Fri May 29, 2015 11:24 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: PdfLatex Command Line Arguments to Change Output File Path
Replies: 3
Views: 21763

PdfLatex Command Line Arguments to Change Output File Path

I have written a function in Python that generates a report in a .tex file. I want to pass this path and file to PdfLatex to generate a .pdf file and then display this file. I have a working version using the following code:
subprocess.call(['C:\\texlive\\2014\\bin\\win32\\pdflatex.exe', 'C:\\Users ...