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Questions tagged [filecontents]

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This tag should be used for questions about the filecontents or filecontents* environment. If you only want to refer to the content of other files, use the tag instead.

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Why can't filecontents work in a macro

I am trying to output some text in a file. I use filecontents and it works nicely. However, if I put the filecontents environment inside a macro, it only ouputs the comments but not the text when the macro is called. Here is an…
Denis Cousineau
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filecontents replaces tabs with spaces

filecontents package replaces tabs with spaces. Is there any solution to preserve tabs in the generated file without changing the following code? \begin{filecontents*}{textWithTabs.txt} Aa Bb Cc 1 2 3 \end{filecontents*} Generated…
Kadir
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\begin{filecontents}{tabelle.tex} will not overwrite existing file

The old environment (before 10/2019) \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{filecontents}{tabelle.tex} ... some text ... \end{filecontents}` will overwrite an existing file tabelle.tex. After my update yesterday in debian sid, it does not work any…
Volker
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How to extend filecontents to append and count lines?

Here are two questions about filecontents environment: is it possible to add content to a preexisting file or, at a minimum, to keep open the external file to append the content of several filecontents environments to the same external file? is it…
Paul Gaborit
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Overwriting file warning

Is it possible to suppress the warning generated by: \begin{filecontents*} Every time it outputs the warning: Overwriting file 'xxxx.xxx'. Maybe to delete it before it creates a new one or something like that? Thank you
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\end{filecontents} and \input{} on the same line

This code generates output that shows contents of excerpt1.tex \documentclass{article} \usepackage{filecontents} \begin{document} Pragraph is starting. \begin{filecontents}{excerpt1.tex} Part that must be in two…
Kadir
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Reading a student class list

Whenever I create a class list of my students, I use the format in MWE below. The problem I have is that I normally have to copy and paste a student name at a time and ensure the table is correct every time. Is it possible to read the student names…
azetina
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File `data.csv' already exists on the system

Why does this Warning appear when using filecontents? : File `data.csv' already exists on the system. Does anyone know how i can remove this…
Haroun Al-Tayi
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filecontents environment cannot change temporary files

\begin{filecontents}{exampleclass.cls} \ProvidesClass{exampleclass} \DeclareOption{testoption}{\PassOptionsToClass{a5paper}{article}} \ProcessOptions\relax …
user157036
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How can I create a subfolder with filecontents?

As shown in this MWE \RequirePackage{snapshot} \documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage{filecontents,biblatex} \begin{filecontents}{bib/\jobname.bib} @misc{anything, author={A.…
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filecontents cannot write my text

i want to save a text to a file using the filecontents package. Here is the source code: \begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{test.lst} Hello World! \end{filecontents} A file "test.lst" is created, but it is empty. If I use the source code …
Soener
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Merge filecontents and call data from only one file

i have 2 filecontent with different structure: test1.tex and test2.tex. But i want to call data from only one file (ex:test.tex) How can i build only one file test.tex that includes data of 2 file test1.tex and test2.tex? My minimal code: …
latexforti
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A standard UN*X tool to pack a bunch of files in filecontents environment?

I was looking for something like: filecontents *.sty | cat - main.tex > newmain.tex It should be easy to write a script that iterating over its arguments, would wrap each in a filecontents environment. I wonder if there is a standard such…
Yossi Gil
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Put the content of a binary file within filecontents environment

I would like to include the content of a binary file within filecontents. Is there any way to do so? My MWE is as follows: \documentclass{article} \begin{filecontents}{file.txt} CPYA 4,3268 195 W64 # s ÷˙÷˙‰ Y Z*oG8#@ …
TobiR
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I can't change contentsname

Ths is my whole code \documentclass[12pt,leqno, style=sailor, display=slides, paper=smartboard, orient=landscape]{article} % This works…
Милош Вучковић
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