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LyX 2.0.0 beta 4 and LyX 1.6.9 released
The fourth beta version of LyX 2.0.0 has been released. This is probably the last beta version. Testers of of previous betas are encouraged to test the new version. The current stable release for any serious work remains 1.6., 1.6.9 … Continue reading
DANTE Frühjahrstagung 2021
The following text is in German because it’s about the German language user group meeting 2021. Im vergangenen Jahr sind leider beide DANTE-Tagungen wegen der Pandemie ausgefallen. Dieses Jahr wird die Frühjahrstagung stattfinden, jedoch wegen der Kontaktbeschränkungen komplett online. Anmelden … Continue reading
goLaTeX forum updated
Auch auf Deutsch / in German: TeX.co In April I did a pretty big software update on goLaTeX.de, and added more features since then. What’s new? For example: The display is automatically adjusted, so it’s much better readable on smart … Continue reading
LaTeX ebooks for $5
Also this year, Packt Publishing sells ebooks for just $5 each, during some days. This includes my two LaTeX books: The LaTeX Cookbook More than 90 hands-on recipes to easily cook a variety of LaTeX documents. Gallery of some examples: … Continue reading
Supporting users on LaTeX.org
I’m on a carribbean cruise for three weeks and don’t have so much time as before for answering questions on LaTeX.org. Especially since I actually do work here, on improving the WiFi onboard the cruise ship. It would be great … Continue reading
Netzwerk-Jobs in Hamburg und der ganzen Welt
Tl;dr: es gibt da ein paar Jobangebote. Nach meinem Mathestudium wollte ich ja erstmal in die Ferne und bin als IT Officer auf ein Kreuzfahrtschiff gestiegen. Leben und Arbeiten in der Besatzung mit der Technik war spannend und die Reisen … Continue reading
Förderung durch DANTE
DANTE, der Verein deutschsprachiger TeX-Anwender, fördert weiterhin TeX-Webseiten wie TeX-Internetforen und mehr. Installiert und betreut werden zwei Server von mir. Die finanzielle Unterstützung von DANTE deckt den kompletten Betrieb zweier Server ab, von Hardware-Miete und Gigabit-Internet-Anbindung bis hin zu Backup-Space … Continue reading
What happens on StackExchange
An intensive discussion is going on here: https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com. Let me summarize, what I read: TeX.SE got a new design There was a design discussion before, but no TeX user suggestion has been considered There are a lot of opinion and … Continue reading
LyX 2.3.0 released
LyX 2.3.0 has been released. I listed the quite a lot new features already here: LyX 2.3 release candidate with new features So I will be brief. 🙂 There’s no Windows (binary) version yet, I guess it will come soon. … Continue reading
Long time no see
The blog is not abandoned… I just used to post here recently: TeX talk TeXwelt blog (German) Probably you saw it in the TeXample blog aggregator. Who cares anyway 🙂 still I enjoy writing and sharing news.
LaTeX \pagecolor broken
With current LaTeX (TL 2017) \pagecolor{…} does not work. According to the tex-live mailing list, it can by fixed by \makeatletter \edef\GPT at pagecolortrue{\global\unexpanded\expandafter{\GPT at pagecolortrue}} \edef\GPT at pagecolorfalse{\global\unexpanded\expandafter{\GPT at pagecolorfalse}} \makeatother The \newif has been changed with an overlooked … Continue reading
TeX Live 2017 released
Today TeX Live 2017 has been released. Some of the changes: TeX Live manager (tlmgr): new shell mode, that allows scripting. Commands are like invoking tlmgr with options. For interactive use but especially useful for scripting. TEXMF tree structure: users … Continue reading
