View user guide of a specific packages

Visit the TeX and LaTeX documentation lookup system

  • add the site as a custom search engine http://texdoc.org/serve/%s/0
  • lookup documentation on texdoc.org

Run a command in a terminal

texdoc ⟨package name⟩
  • a LaTeX suite like TeX Live must be installed

Visit the The Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN)

Highlight overfull conflicts

Enable draft mode in the preamble

\documentclass[draft]{article}

Only check syntax

  • by suppressing the PDF creation in the preamble
  • Dependency: syntonly
\syntaxonly

Throw an error for a specific package

\PackageError {⟨package name⟩} {⟨error text⟩} {}

Further cheat sheets and resources


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LaTeX - Typeset mathematical and scientific notation, handle cross-referencing and citations, and position images according to defined placement rules