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Kpfonts 2.3 released
The version 2.3 of the font package kpfonts has been released on CTAN as announced today over the ctan-ann mailing list. Kpfonts provide an extensive set of fonts for LaTeX including roman, sans-serif, monospaced and math symbol fonts in regular … Continue reading
Paper sizes with pdfTeX
I’m frequently noticing questions regarding problems with paper size and pdfLaTeX, for instance Bug 215561 and Bug 244043 on Launchpad, yesterday on mrunix.de and also yesterday on matheplanet.com. If you manually change \paperwidth or \paperheight or use the landscape option … Continue reading
TeX Live 2008 released
TeX Live 2008 is now officially released. This information was posted by Karl Berry to comp.text.tex yesterday, though it’s been available for download since some days already. In this version the underlying package infrastructure has been redesigned and reimplemented, it … Continue reading
TikZ: shaded cube
With just a few lines of code you can create a drawing of a cube with a 3D impression, though if it’s not really perspective or raytraced: \begin{tikzpicture}[on grid] \shade[yslant=-0.5,right color=gray!10, left color=black!50] (0,0) rectangle +(3,3); \draw[yslant=-0.5] (0,0) grid (3,3); … Continue reading
pgf/TikZ 3D drawings
Today Tomek posted very impressive 3D drawings made with pgf/TikZ in the LaTeX Community Forum. Here’s one of the drawings showing a cylindrical projection: More examples and their complete sourcecode by Tomasz M. Trzeciak can be found in the corresponding … Continue reading
Jpgfdraw example
Here’s an example illustration made with Jpgfdraw following a drawing in Singer/Thorpe Lecture Notes in Elementary Topology and Geometry, I made freehand it to illustrate homotopy of paths in my notes. Screenshot: Output in pdf format: homotopy.pdf Jpgfdraw binary file: … Continue reading
Jpgfdraw 0.5b released
The vector graphics application for LaTeX users Jpgfdraw beta version 0.5b has been released today. The author Nicola Talbot announced: Jpgfdraw is a graphics application written in Java. You can use Jpgfdraw to: Construct shapes using lines, moves and cubic … Continue reading
Around the Bend
Recently Michael Downes collection of TeX challenges “Around the Bend“, originally in ASCII format, has been typeset in pdf format by Peter Wilson and has now been released on CTAN. The document contains exercises posing a problem and one or … Continue reading
New package: stampinclude
The stampinclude package v1.0 has been released. It replaces includeonly and will select the files for inclusion by inspecting the time stamp of the .aux files. Files will be selected for inclusion if the .aux file doesn’t yet exist or … Continue reading
New LaTeX course released
A new beamer class based presentation introducing LaTeX has been released these days. The author Dr. Engelbert Buxbaum created this presentation for a LaTeX course at the Biochemistry faculty at RUSM and released it for use under GNU Copyleft. It’s … Continue reading
Speed up the work by shell scripts II
In addition to the shell scripts mentioned in this post I wrote another small script: #!/bin/bash # texcd – change into the directory # corresponding to a certain tex related file if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo 1>&2 … Continue reading
Adobe Reader: unwanted color change
If you include a picture within a pdf document and view it with the Adobe Reader you may notice a change of color under certain circumstances. Let’s test this png file: This short example will be enough to produce a … Continue reading
