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LaTeX: Handing in

This page was translated from German with AI. It has not been checked by a native speaker. Original page in German

Before handing in you check the paper and finish the PDF: no more warnings, bookmarks in the sidebar, clickable references and title and author in the properties of the PDF.
📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German) 📝 Übungsdatei (.tex) 🖼 Bild zum Einbinden (.png) 📚 Quellen-Datei (.bib)

The video

In the video you see TeXstudio under Linux. The orange frame always shows the spot in question. Under Windows and macOS TeXstudio looks exactly the same. The practice file above is the state at the start of the video – so you can follow along with each part separately.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:16 Checklist
  3. 0:31 Finding warnings
  4. 1:16 Bookmarks and links
  5. 2:01 What you hand in
  6. 2:25 Done

The most important points

The checklist before handing in.
The checklist before handing in.

Finding warnings

A typo in a reference (\ref{fig:aufbu}) does not stop anything – the PDF shows only two question marks. So after every compile look at the Log tab at the bottom: it lists all errors and warnings with line numbers. Correct and recompile until the list is empty.

In the log: “Reference … undefined” with line 64. Bottom right: the spell check works with German.
In the log: “Reference … undefined” with line 64. Bottom right: the spell check works with German.

As the last package \usepackage[hidelinks,pdftitle={Das Fadenpendel},pdfauthor={Alex Beispiel}]{hyperref} goes into the preamble; hidelinks prevents coloured boxes around the links. Then compile twice.

Bookmarks from the headings, clickable references, title and author in the properties.
Bookmarks from the headings, clickable references, title and author in the properties.
Your work is .tex, .bib and picture – back them up. What is handed in is the PDF, named according to your school's requirements. The auxiliary files are created anew when compiling.
Your work is .tex, .bib and picture – back them up. What is handed in is the PDF, named according to your school's requirements. The auxiliary files are created anew when compiling.

The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). You download the practice files above and work in your own editor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German)

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Try it yourself

Task

The PDF says “siehe Abbildung ??”. But the PDF was created. What is going on, and how do you find the place?

Show solution

The reference points to a label that does not exist – usually a typo in the name, or it was compiled only once. In the Log tab there is the warning “Reference … undefined” with the line number. Compare the names in \ref and \label, correct them, compile twice.

Keep learning with a language model

Here is the content of my LaTeX log after compiling my Facharbeit: [insert warnings]. Explain each warning to me in one sentence and tell me which line I have to look at. Do not correct my text yourself.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in TeXstudio under Linux, which checked the finished PDF after every step: are margins, font, numbers and references right, are there warnings? The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.