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Eeebuntu 3.0 Base edition released
Just seen on twitter/eeebuntu, as announced there 1 hour ago Eeebuntu 3.0 Base Edition has been released now. Torrents are up, mirrors are established. If you’re waiting for Eeebuntu 3.0 like me or just interested visit the Eeebuntu homepage, the … Continue reading
News Cooperation of LaTeX-Community.org with TeXblog
From today on the (La)TeX related news posted in the TeXblog will be available also on the LaTeX-Community.org front page and news section. LaTeX-Community.org is a community platform for LaTeX users all around the world, maintained by the Sven Wiegand, … Continue reading
Kile and TeX Live 2008 on Ubuntu Linux
Though the installation of TeX Live 2008 could be done easily also on Ubuntu Linux the installation of the very recommendable LaTeX editor Kile could raise a problem because Kile depends on the package texlive-latex-base of Ubuntu/ Debian Linux. There’s … Continue reading
TexMakerX 1.8.1 available
The second version of TexMakerX v1.8.1 has been released as the author Benito van der Zander announced on mrunix.de today. TexMakerX is a fork of the LaTeX editor Texmaker, also licensed under the GPL and running on Windows, Unix/Linux, BSD … Continue reading
Just another mirror for LaTeX Hypertext Help
Sometimes when I’m posting advice and code in LaTeX forums I’m linking used commands to a LaTeX reference site. Then there’s no need to explain a command and its syntax further because the reader could just click on it to … Continue reading
Talk: Creation of extensive documents ready for printing with TeX/LaTeX
Tomorrow on April 29th, 2009, the author Dr. Herbert Voss will give a talk in the specialist bookshop Lehmanns in Hamburg, Kurze Muehren 6. This talk will be held in German and it’s called “Erstellung grosser, druckreifer Dokumente mit TeX/LaTeX“. … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” released
Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, Server and Netbook editions have been released today. The new version is starting faster, is now supporting the ext4 file system and comes with a lot of software updates. Regarding its new features features have a look … Continue reading
LaTeX news of the past few days
New packages on CTAN: alterqcm – a LaTeX2e package for making Multiple Choices Questionnaires in a table with two columns diagmac2 – John Reynolds’s diagram macros modified to allow arbitrary line slopes, requiring pict2e texdirflatten – a Perl script parsing … Continue reading
Eeebuntu / Ubuntu Linux on the Asus Eee PC S101
Last weekend I’ve got an Eee PC S101, now I’ve got time to test it: I’m writing some notes here sharing the first experience with the S101 and useful links for installation. After delivery I’ve upgraded the netbook to 2 … Continue reading
New package totcount: final counter values
If you need for instance to display page numbers in a way like “page X of Y”, there are packages like totpages and lastpage helping to achieve that. The today released package totcount allows to use the last (usually maximal) … Continue reading
Full Justification: pdfLaTeX vs. LaTeX
Once in a while there are discussions if pdfLaTeX would be preferable to LaTeX. There are some reasons, here I will just point out the effect of the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX, in particular font expansion and character protrusion. Using … Continue reading
LaTeX Community Know How Contest finished
On January 22nd I’ve informed about the LaTeX Community know how article contest. On April 5th the winner has been announced: Thiago S. Mosqueiro from Brazil has got the award for for his brief and concise description of RevTeX 4 … Continue reading
